 Fire!" shove off, and take it as truth, that before you have reached your own ship, the blaze is licking the topsails of the doomed ship. We witness to-day for the first time the hauling down of the Stars and Stripes — to those of us who served in the...  Two Years on the Alabama - Page 16by Arthur Sinclair - 1895 - 344 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Brian Thomsen - 2003 - 464 pages
...seems to be. We have many more to send "where the woodbine twineth"; so listen to the modus operandi (though we were not put to the trouble with this whaler...wrench and sad retrospect. To men who in days gone 198 by had stood on the quarter-deck, with the doff of cap, and amid the glitter of uniforms, presenting... | |
 | Brian Thomsen, Brian M. Thomsen - 2004 - 450 pages
...the splinters and straw. pour on top the lard and butter. One pile in cabin. the other in forecasde. Get your men in the boats. all but the incendiaries....hands. carrying with it many a cruel wrench and sad retrosjiect. To men who in days gone 198 by had stood on the quarter-deck. with the doff of cap. and... | |
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