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Captain Margaret
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
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A story of adventure among the buccaneers on the Spanish Main, and of five people on whom the weeks on the board the 'Broken Heart' have such strong effects.
Captain Margaret
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
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Captain Margaret
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
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Captain Margaret
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-02
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Excerpt from Captain Margaret: A Romance The short summer night was over; the stars were paling; there was a faint light above the hills. The flame in the ships lantern felt the day beginning. A cock in the hen-coop crowed, flapping his wings. The hour was full of mystery. Though it was still, it was full of the suggestion of noise. There was a rustle, a murmur, a sense of preparation. Already, in the farms ashore, the pails went clanking to the byres. Very faintly, from time to time, one heard the lowing of a cow, or the song of some fisherman, as he put out, in the twilight, to his lobster-pots, sculling with one oar. Dew had fallen during the night. The decks of the Broken Hearty lying at anchor there, with the lantern burning: at her peak, were wet with dew. Dew dripped from her running rigging; the gleam of wetness was upon her guns, upon her rails, upon the bell in the poop belfry. She seemed august, lying there in the twilight. Her sailors, asleep on her deck, in the shadow, below the break of the quarter-deck, were unlike earthly sleepers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Captain Margaret
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Author : John Masefield
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date :
Captain Margaret written by John Masefield and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The short summer night was over; the stars were paling; there was a faint light above the hills. The flame in the shipÕs lantern felt the day beginning. A cock in the hen-coop crowed, flapping his wings. The hour was full of mystery. Though it was still, it was full of the suggestion of noise. There was a rustle, a murmur, a sense of preparation. Already, in the farms ashore, the pails went clanking to the byres. Very faintly, from time to time, one heard the lowing of a cow, or the song of some fisherman, as he put out, in the twilight, to his lobster-pots, sculling with one oar. Dew had fallen during the night. The decks of the Broken Heart, lying at anchor there, with the lantern burning at her peak, were wet with dew. Dew dripped from her running rigging; the gleam of wetness was upon her guns, upon her rails, upon the bell in the poop belfry. She seemed august, lying there in the twilight. Her sailors, asleep on her deck, in the shadow, below the break of the quarter-deck, were unlike earthly sleepers. The old boatswain, in the blue boat-cloak, standing at the gangway watching the dawn, was august, sphinx-like, symbolic. The two men who stood above him on the quarter-deck spoke quietly, in hushed voices, as though the hour awed them. Even the boy by the lantern, far aft, stood silently, moved by the beauty of the time. Over the water, by Salcombe, the fishersÕ boats got under way for the sea. The noise of the halliards creaked, voices called in the dusk, blocks piped, coils of rope rattled on the planks. The flower of the day was slowly opening in the east, the rose of the day was bursting. It was the dim time, the holy time, the moment of beauty, which would soon pass, was even now passing, as the sea gleamed, brightening, lighting up into colour. Slowly the light grew: it came in rosy colour upon the ship; it burned like a flame upon the spire-top. The fishers in their boats, moving over the talking water, watched the fabric as they passed. She loomed large in the growing light; she caught the light and gleamed; the tide went by her with a gurgle. The dim light made her larger than she was, it gave her the beauty of all half-seen things. The dim light was like the veil upon a womanÕs face. She was a small ship (only five hundred tons), built of aromatic cedar, and like all wooden ships she would have looked ungainly, had not her great beam, and the height of her after-works, given her a majesty, something of the royal look which all ships have in some proportion. The virtue of man had been busy about her. An artistÕs heart, hungry for beauty, had seen the idea of her in dream; she had her counterpart in the kingdom of vision. There was a spirit in her, as there is in all things fashioned by the soul of man; not a spirit of beauty, not a spirit of strength, but the spirit of her builder, a Peruvian Spaniard. She had the impress of her builder in her, a mournful state, a kind of battered grandeur, a likeness to a type of manhood. There was in her a beauty not quite achieved, as though, in the husk of the man, the butterflyÕs wings were not quite free. There was in her a strength that was clumsy; almost the strength of one vehement from fear. She came from a manÕs soul, stamped with his defects. Standing on her deck, one could see the man laid bareÑmelancholy, noble, and wantingÑtill one felt pity for the ship which carried his image about the world. Seamen had lived in her, seamen had died in her; she had housed many wandering spirits. She was, in herself, the house of her makerÕs spirit, as all made things are, and wherever her sad beauty voyaged, his image, his living memory voyaged, infinitely mournful, because imperfect, unapprehended. Some of those who had sailed in her had noticed that the caryatides of the rails, the caryatides of the quarter-gallery, and the figurehead which watched over the sea, were all carven portraits of the one woman. But of those who noticed, none knew that they touched the bloody heart of a man, that before them was the builderÕs secret, the key to his soul. The men who sailed in the Broken Heart were not given to thoughts about her builder. When they lay in port, among all the ships of the world, among the flags and clamour, they took no thought of beauty. They would have laughed had a man told them that all that array of ships, so proud, so beautiful, came from the brain of man because a womanÕs lips were red. It is a proud thing to be a man, and to feel the stir of beauty; but it is more wonderful to be a woman, and to have, or to be, the touch calling beauty into life.
The Captain Of St Margaret S
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Author : Ferenc Molnár
language : en
Publisher: New York, Duell
Release Date : 1945
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The Anatalian Throne
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Author : Rebecca Mikkelson
language : en
Publisher: Authors 4 Authors Publishing
Release Date : 2022-12-11
The Anatalian Throne written by Rebecca Mikkelson and has been published by Authors 4 Authors Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-11 with Fiction categories.
Margaret has returned to the capital in the hopes of officially gaining her father's title and returning to their lands, where she can live in peace—but King Sorren has other plans for her. There is no escaping him, unless she can find someone's protection to fall under. Liam, unable to follow her to the capital to keep her safe, retreats to the only place he knows that Anatalian soldiers are not welcome: Salatia. There, he finds work and may finally hope to find happiness. Authors 4 Authors Content Rating This title has been rated S, appropriate adults, and contains: -intense sex -intense sexual violence -rape -domestic abuse -strong language -frequent alcohol use -child death For more information on our rating system, please, visit Authors4AuthorsPublishing.com/books/ratings
Blood Sisters
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Author : Sarah Gristwood
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2014-03-04
Blood Sisters written by Sarah Gristwood and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-04 with History categories.
"[A] gem of a book . . . enlivened by incisive analysis, exquisite detail and an elegant and witty style." -- Alison Weir The Wars of the Roses, which tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in fifteenth-century England, was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since. But as acclaimed historian Sarah Gristwood reveals, while the events of this turbulent time are usually described in terms of the men who fought and died seeking the throne, a handful of powerful women would prove just as decisive as their kinfolks' clashing armies. A richly drawn, absorbing epic, Blood Sisters reveals how women helped to end the Wars of the Roses, paving the way for the Tudor age -- and the creation of modern England.
A Game Of Chance
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Author : Andrea Kirkpatrick
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2023
A Game Of Chance written by Andrea Kirkpatrick and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
It’s almost impossible to imagine spending eight months at sea “without once putting foot on land.” But that’s exactly what whalers experienced when playing the dangerous “game of chance,” hunting down leviathans for oil and bone—all for a “lay,” or share, of the vessel’s spoils. A Game of Chance is the first comprehensive, in-depth study of British North American South Seas whaling. Author Andrea Kirkpatrick takes readers on a series of fascinating and sometimes fantastical journeys as she chronicles in great detail the story of a largely forgotten industry that operated out of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports from the 1760s to 1850. Kirkpatrick plumbed the depths of myriad logbooks and journals to piece together the often-murky tales of an astonishing number of ships. In this treatise covering a century of whaling, she shares details such as ownership, tonnage, voyages, captains’ pedigrees, and names of crewmen, including nascent whaler Herman Melville, author of Moby-Dick. Hoping for “greasy luck,” the men who manned these ships found both camaraderie and competition as they hunted the world’s whaling grounds from Cape Horn to Kamchatka, many circumnavigating the globe during their careers. They battled squalls and high seas, scurvy and venereal disease, heartbreak and homesickness—and sometimes each other. Many never returned home, their bodies committed to the deep or buried on foreign land. Written in two parts—landward and seaward—Kirkpatrick’s clear prose and adoption of whaling lingua franca brings this high-risk venture to the fore with authenticity, newly revealed facts, and remarkable stories of adventure.
A Horrid Girl By The Author Of Margaret S Engagement C
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Author : Catherine Simpson Wynne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
A Horrid Girl By The Author Of Margaret S Engagement C written by Catherine Simpson Wynne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with categories.