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" ... key-stone of an ill-cemented arch. The canvas broke from its fastenings with a loud explosion, and, for an instant, it was seen sailing in the air ahead of the ship, as if it were sustained on wings. The vessel rose on a sluggish wave— the lingering... "
The Red Rover: A Tale - Page 269
by James Fenimore Cooper - 1843
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 22

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1828 - 606 pages
...an eagle. The vessel rose 011 a sluggish wave — the lingering remains of the former breeze — and then settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne...gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvass had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted, with a crack that even reached the...
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The London Magazine

English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...an eagle. The vessel rose on a sluggish wave — the lingering remains of the former breeze — and then settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne...critical instant, while the seamen aloft were still gazingin the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...eagle. Tlie vessel rose on a sluggish wave — the lingering remains of the forraer breeze — and then settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne...aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted, with a crack that even reached...
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Works ....

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 540 pages
...rose on a sluggish wave — the lingering remains of the former breeze — and settled heavily oyer the rolling surge, borne down alike by its own weight...gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvass had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the care...
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 366 pages
...on wings. The vessel rose on a sluggish wave — the lingering remains of the former breeze — and settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne down...lanyard of the lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the ears of Wilder. "Lie down!" he shouted wildly through his trumpet; " down by the backstays;...
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James Fenimore Cooper: Sea Tales (LOA #54): The Pilot / Red Rover

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...sustained on wings. The vessel rose on a sluggish wave, the lingering remains of the former breeze, and settled heavily over the rolling surge, borne down...gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvass had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted, with a crack that reached the ears...
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