 | Voyages and travels - 1843 - 378 pages
...sheathing-copper. It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had to Jist the sail with bare hands. No one could trust himself...obliged to leave off altogether, and take to beating our hands upon the sail, to keep them from freezing. After some time, which seemed for ever, we got... | |
 | Gift books - 1843 - 346 pages
...sheathing-copper. It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had to _ftst the sail with bare hands. No one could trust himself...obliged to leave off altogether, and take to beating our hands upon the sail, to keep them from freezing. After some time, which seemed for ever, we got... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 586 pages
...and hard as a piece of leather hose, and the sail itself about as pliable as though it had been made of sheathing copper. It blew a perfect hurricane,...obliged to leave off altogether and take to beating our hands upon the sail to keep them from freezing. After some time — which seemed forever — we... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1899 - 544 pages
...and hard as a piece of leather hose, and the sail itself about as pliable as though it had been made of sheathing copper. It blew a perfect hurricane,...obliged to leave off altogether and take to beating our hands upon the sail to keep them from freezing. After some time — which seemed forever — we... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - History - 2003 - 588 pages
...sheathing copper. It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had no fist the sail with bare hands. No one could trust...obliged to leave off altogether and take to beating our hands upon the sail to keep them from freezing. After some time—which seemed forever—we got... | |
 | Helen Whybrow - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 580 pages
...sheathing copper. It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had no fist the sail with bare hands. No one could trust...obliged to leave off altogether and take to beating our hands upon the sail to keep them from freezing. After some time—which seemed forever—we got... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 434 pages
...copper. It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had to fiat the sail with bare hands. No one could trust himself...men to lie over the yard to pass each turn of the gasket, and when they were passed, it was almost impossible to knot them so that they would hold. Frequently... | |
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It blew a perfect hurricane, with alternate blasts of snow, hail, and rain. We had to fist the sail with bare hands. No one could trust himself to mittens, for if he slipped he was a gone man. All the boats were hoisted in on deck, and there was nothing... 