...renewed violence of the gusts. At this critical instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazingin the direction in which the little cloud of canvas...deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope, and the fatal snapping of the wood instantly followed. For a moment the towering maze tottered,...

...instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvass had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted,...deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope, and the fatal snapping of the wood instantly followed. For a moment, the towering maze...

...Caroline to drive onward before the the tempest, as if nothing had occurred to impede its progress. " ' Lie down !' he shouted fearfully through his trumpet...backstays ; down for your lives; every man of you, down!' i,' A mute and eloquent pause succeeded this disaster. It appeared as if the elements themselves were...

...sailing in the air ahead of the ship, as though sustained on the wings of an eagle. The vessel rose on i sluggish wave—.the lingering remains of the former...deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted aftci rope, and the fatal snapping of the wood instantly followed. For a moment, the towering maze...

...instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvass had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted...backstays ; down for your lives ; every man of you, down !" Each cord, lanyard, or stay snapped, when it received the strain of its new position, as though...

...lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the ears of Wilder. " Lie down ! " he shouted wildly through his trumpet ; " down by the backstays; down...lives; every man of you, down!" A solitary individual profited by the warning, gliding to the deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope,...

...gusts. At this critical instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the...deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope, and the fatal snapping of the wood instantly followed. For a moment the towering; maze...

...lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the care of Wilder. "Lie down !" he shouted wildly through his trumpet; "down by the backstays; down...lives; every man of you, down!" A solitary individual profited by the warning, gliding to the deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope,...

...heavily over the rolling surge, borne down alike by its own weight and the renewed violence of^the gusts. At this critical instant, while the seamen...instantly followed. For a moment, the towering maze totter ?d, and seemed to wave towards every quarter of the heavens ; and then, yielding to the movements...

...lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the ears of Wilder. "Lie down ! " he shouted wildly through his trumpet; "down by the backstays; down...; every man of you, down ! " A solitary individual profited by the warning, gliding to the deck with the velocity of the wind. But rope parted after rope,...