 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 1160 pages
...of the great waves. A half-dressed boatman, standing next me, pointed with his bare arm (a tattoo'd arrow on it, pointing in the same direction) to the...moment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable -i- beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were even then being made, to cut this portion... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1850 - 736 pages
...rolled and beat—which she did without a moment's pawe, and with a violence quite inconceivable—beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts...away; for, as the ship, which was broadside on, turned tomtit us in her rolling, I plainly descried her people at work with ases, especially one active figure... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 570 pages
...deck, and lay over i side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging ; and all that ruin, as the ship roJ and beat — which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence qu<e conceivable — beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were even thente•' made,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 410 pages
...entangled in a maze of sail and rigging ; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat, — which she did with a violence quite inconceivable, — beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were being made to cut this portion of the wreck away ; for as the ship, which was broadside on, turned... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 92 pages
...entangled in a maze of sail and rigging ; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat, — which she did with a violence quite inconceivable, — beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were being in ado to cut this portion of the wreck away ; for as the ship, which was broadside on, turned... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 384 pages
...from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat — which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence qnite»inconceivable — beat the side as if it wonld stave it iu. Some efforts were even then being... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pages
...entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and all that ruin, as Ihe ship rolled and beat, — which she did with a violence quite inconceivable, — beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some etforts were being made to cut this portion of the wreck away ; for as the ship, which was broadside... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1873 - 348 pages
...from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sale and rigging; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat — which she did without...away; for, as the ship, which was broadside on, turned toward us in her rolling, I plainly descried her people at work with axes, especially one active figure... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1878 - 564 pages
...from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a mane of tail and rigging ; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat — which she did without...as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were even thea being made, to cut this portion of the wreck away ; for, as the ship, which was broadside on,... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...rolled and beat—which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable—beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts...made, to cut this portion of the wreck away; for, as tho ship, which was broadside on, turned towards us in her rolling, I plainly descried her people at... | |
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I saw it, close in upon us ! One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging ; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat — which she did... 
