Ships and sailors, ancient and modern, by C.C. Cotterill and E.D. Littleand Halliday, 1868 - 350 頁 |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 31 筆
第 15 頁
... turned their attention . In B.C. 429 , during the Peloponnesian war , the Athenians and Peloponnesians had carried their hostilities to the western coasts of Greece , where the Athenians were supporting a people , called the Acarnanians ...
... turned their attention . In B.C. 429 , during the Peloponnesian war , the Athenians and Peloponnesians had carried their hostilities to the western coasts of Greece , where the Athenians were supporting a people , called the Acarnanians ...
第 23 頁
... turned their attention more to the construction of destructive engines than to the improvement of their vessels , which remained very like the old Greek galley to the fall of the Empire , and have descended in the form of the galley of ...
... turned their attention more to the construction of destructive engines than to the improvement of their vessels , which remained very like the old Greek galley to the fall of the Empire , and have descended in the form of the galley of ...
第 29 頁
... turned southward , followed by sixty Egyptian sail . ' The lover's soul , ' says Plutarch , ' lives in the bodily presence of his mistress ; ' and when Antony caught sight of the spreading sails , forgetting the friends who were bravely ...
... turned southward , followed by sixty Egyptian sail . ' The lover's soul , ' says Plutarch , ' lives in the bodily presence of his mistress ; ' and when Antony caught sight of the spreading sails , forgetting the friends who were bravely ...
第 60 頁
... turned to Bordeaux . Witness the lands nigh unto the Seine ; for since we have begun to be a people never was such destruction heard of in these terri- tories . For more remains than the wisest chronicler could tell of ; and I have ...
... turned to Bordeaux . Witness the lands nigh unto the Seine ; for since we have begun to be a people never was such destruction heard of in these terri- tories . For more remains than the wisest chronicler could tell of ; and I have ...
第 61 頁
... turned away and wept . France had good reason to weep , and Eng- land too . But we , in looking back on those evil days , need not forget how much we owe to our partial descent from the Vikings , humanised and Christianised , - to the ...
... turned away and wept . France had good reason to weep , and Eng- land too . But we , in looking back on those evil days , need not forget how much we owe to our partial descent from the Vikings , humanised and Christianised , - to the ...
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熱門章節
第 1 頁 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
第 345 頁 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the" world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
第 179 頁 - Revenge, and asked Sir Richard what he would command him, being but one of the victuallers and of small force : Sir Richard bid him save himself and leave him to his fortune.
第 257 頁 - The moment arrived in which the word was to be given for the vessel to move. My friends were in groups on the deck. There was anxiety mixed with fear among them. They were silent, and sad, and weary.
第 180 頁 - All the powder of the Revenge, to the last barrel, was now spent, all her pikes broken, forty of her best men slain, and the most part of the rest hurt. In the beginning of the fight she had but one hundred free from sickness, and...
第 181 頁 - Master-gunner, whom he knew to be a most resolute man, to split and sink the ship; that thereby nothing might remain of glory or victory to the Spaniards, seeing in so many hours' fight, and with so great a navy they were not able to take her, having had fifteen hours...
第 181 頁 - England, and the better sort to pay such reasonable ransom as their estate would bear, and in the mean season to be free from galley or imprisonment. To this he so...
第 180 頁 - But as the day increased, so our men decreased, and as the light grew more and more, by so much more grew our discomforts. For none appeared in sight but enemies, saving one small ship called the Pilgrim...
第 181 頁 - ... as she could never be removed out of the place. ' And as the matter was thus in dispute, and Sir Richard refusing to hearken to any of those reasons, the master of the Revenge...
第 232 頁 - Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh upon the masts and spars, Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves, Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent, A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining, Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors, The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw, Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling...