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...not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster... ...ed or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; A.S. Walw ian, to roll, to wallow.” Richards... ...how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets he... ...ked fangs.” Montgomery’s Pelican Island. “Io! Paean! Io! sing, To the finny people’s king. Not a mightier whale than this In the vast Atlantic is; Not ... ...t me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off — then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I... ...d deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don’t know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping. And when it comes to slee... ...hiff.) A row a’low, and a row aloft — Gods and men — both brawlers! Humph! Belfast sailor. A row! arrah a row! The Virgin be blessed, a row! Plunge in...

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...WAS the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a ... ...e bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land, and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ... ...everything denoting an ill state of affairs aboard. The four boats hanging from her sides proclaimed her a whaler. Leaning carelessly over the bulwark... ...ence gathered, however, I learned to my surprise that, in some things, the people of Hivarhoo, though of the same group of islands, differed considera... ...slands, where we were going to refit, abounding with delicious fruits, and peopled by a race almost wholly unsophisticated by in- tercourse with stran... ...he was altogether too good-natured. Say what they will about easy-tempered people, it is far better, on some accounts, to have the temper of a wolf. W... ...nd it’s shipping yer after, my jewels, is it?” cried a curly- pated little Belfast sailor, coming up to us, “thin arrah! my livelies, jist be after sa...

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...ned room, one ankle crossed above the other, tongue pressed into palate, wondering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two years return to the arena, but for the present he must go across the water and do no work whatever. He accepted the terms. It was capitulation; but th...

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...doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee . . . ... ...ndering whether the next brain-surge of prickly fires would drive his soul from all anchorages. At last they gave judgment. With care he might in two ... ...palate. An hour later he said: “Sophie, I feel sorry about taking you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on Go... ...ng you away from everything like this. I—I suppose we’re the two loneliest people on God’s earth to-night.” Said Sophie his wife, and kissed him: “Isn... ...e of the place.” “I give it up,” said George one night in their own room. “People don’t seem to matter in this country compared to the places they liv... ...h my uncle.” “How small the world is!” Sophie cried. “Why, all my mother’s people come from Veering Hollow. There must be some there still—the Lashmar... ...ot trust yourself to so-called “rigid” guide-bars J. D. ARDAGH, BELFAST AND TURIN ACCESSORIES AND SPARES CHRISTIAN WRIGHT & ...

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...nack of mine which happens to amuse the British public distracts attention from my character; but the character is there none the less, solid as brick... ...it. But my con- science is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on mak... ...love and must accordingly marry or perish at the end of the play, or about people whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marria... ...ction. That is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriou... ...rama with which the experienced popular author instinctively saves himself from failure. But what did you want? Owing to your unfortunate habit—you no... ...out of date for you and for me; and if there are millions of less literate people who are still in the eighteenth century, have they not Moliere and M... ... Nothing has been right since that speech that Profes- sor Tyndall made at Belfast. TANNER. Yes: life is more complicated than we used to think. But w...

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...er; and, to the rag ing, struggling multitude here and elsewhere, solemnly, from hour to hour, with preparatory blast of cow horn, emit hisH¨ oret ih... ...umult and gold ornaments; also many a scene that looks desert and rock bound from the distance, will unfold itself, when visited, into rare valleys. N... ...and then, by quite foreign suggestion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly of thi... ...fables, and Laplace’s M´ ecanique C´ eleste, down to Robinson Crusoe and the Belfast Town and Country Almanack, are familiar to him,—we shall say noth... ... or natural grotto: but for Decoration he must have Clothes. Nay, among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to Clothes. The first spi... ...nal sat isfying, they resolved, as in such circumstances charitable prudent people needs must, on nursing it, though with spoon meat, into whiteness,... ...ething of the partiality with which I have ever since regarded that singular people. Towgood was not without an eye, could he have come at any light. ...