| Arctic discovery - 1799 - 424 sider
...from the wash of the sea by whatever they could find; and some endeavoured to obtain a little sleep. Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that among forty-one persons not one repining word should have... | |
| William Henry Giles Kingston - 1873 - 622 sider
...find, and some •HIM ARCTIC EXPLORING VESSELS AMONG ICEBERGS. endeavoured to obtain a little sleep. Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet 348 THE "FURY" ABANDONED. I did not believe it possible that among forty-one persons not one repining... | |
| Thomas Frost - 1874 - 366 sider
...all probability soon appear before our Maker, to enter His presence as men resigned to their fate. Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my ship, when all hope of life had left us. The officers sat about wherever they oould find shelter from... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1875 - 466 sider
...from the wash of the sea by whatever they could find, and some endeavoured to obtain a little sleep. Never perhaps was witnessed a finer scene than on...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that among forty-one persons not one repining word should have... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1875 - 358 sider
...probability, soon appear before our Maker, to enter His presence as men resigned to their fate. . . . Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that among forty-one persons no one repining word should have... | |
| Frederick Whymper - 1877 - 364 sider
...from the wash of the sea by whatever we could find, many of us endeavoured to obtain a little sleep. Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that among forty-one persons not one repining word should have... | |
| Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 sider
...probability soon appear before our Maker, to enter His presence as men resigned to their fate. . . . Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that among fortyone persons not one repining word should have... | |
| Richard Perry - 1882 - 856 sider
...exhausted nature will snatch repose, even when in the very jaws of death. "Never perhaps," continues Lyon, "was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible, that among forty-one persons not one repining word should... | |
| Richard Perry - 1883 - 866 sider
...nature will snatch repose, even when in the very jaws of death. "Never perhaps,™ continues Lyon, "was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my...sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible, that among forty-one persons not one repining word should... | |
| Richard Perry - 1883 - 852 sider
...exhausted nature will snatch repose, even when in the very jaws of death. "Never perhaps," continues Lyon, "was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my...left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor i« always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible, that among forty-one... | |
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