10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERNWORKS»
Discover the use of
sternworks in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sternworks and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
The laggard Dutch ; a People apt to be heavy in the sternworks. They are quite
languid about Pragmatic Sanction, these Dutch; they answer his Britannic
Majesty's enthusiasm with an obese torpidity; and hop? always they will drift
through, ...
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, 1862
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Westward ho! Or, The voyages and adventures of sir Amyas Leigh
His ordnance crash through the sternworks of the Spaniard ; and then he sails
onward, while her balls go humming harmlessly through his rigging. Half-an-hour
has passed of wild noise and fury ; three THE GREAT ARMADA. 325.
3
The Works of Thomas Carlyle
... ardour in our little Hercules-Atlas ! But there lie such enormous difficulties on
the threshold; especially these Two, which are insuperable or nearly so. Difficulty
First, is that of the laggard Dutch ; a People apt to be heavy in the sternworks.
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill, 2010
4
Delphi Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
She did resemble asampan, especiallyabout the sternworks. At these remarks
Inaturally threw myself on 'is bosom, sofar as Serviceconditions permitted, and
revealedhim all, mentioning that thecar was yours. You know his wayof working
his ...
5
A Brutal Bloody Business
The glimpses that I was able to get of the destruction, showed that most of the
sternworks had gone and that each consequent discharge was now eating
further and further through the interior of the ship; after all, we were at very close
range, ...
6
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Kingsley (Illustrated):
His ordnance crash through the sternworks of the Spaniard; he sails and then
onward, while herballs go humming harmlessly through his rigging. Halfanhour
has passedofwild noiseand fury; three timeshas the Vengeance, as a dolphin
might, ...
His ordnance crash through the sternworks of the Spaniard; and then he sails
onward, while her balls go humming harmlessly through his rigging. Half-an-hour
has passed of wild noise and fury; three times has the Vengeance, as a dolphin ...
8
The Complete Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, ...
I watched him, half prepared to feel offended, until he had satisfied his mirth; and
then, 'You must have no pity on these animals,' said he; and, pluckingaswitch
outofathicket, he began to lace Modestine about the sternworks, uttering a cry.
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2014
9
A Handbook of Greek Mythology
Theythen rowed between them, and got through with a little damage to the
sternworks of the Argo. After this theyhadno adventures of any importance in
thePontos; but landinginthe country ofthe Mariandynoi, whose king, Lykos,
receivedthem ...
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Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
Did you— Iforget— did you have a kick atthe sternworks of that melancholy
puppyand humbugDaniel Deronda himself? — the Princeof Prigs;the literary
abomination of desolation in the way of manhood; atype which is enough to
make a man ...
Robert Louis Stevenson, 2013
