 | 1846 - 586 pages
...the ' mourners go about the streets ; ' but when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing...awful mystery. A man dies on shore — you follow his body to the grave, and a stone marks the spot. You are often prepared for the event. There is always... | |
 | Tales - 1847 - 336 pages
...describes the effect of a sudden death by drowning on a crew : " Death is at all times solemn, hut never so much so as at sea. A man dies on shore ;...man falls overboard at sea, and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | John BECHERVAISE - Seafaring life - 1847 - 118 pages
...spoken on earth. It operated powerfully on my mind, and it was a long time before I could overcome it. Death is at all times solemn ; but never so much so as at a moment like this. A man dies ashore ; his friends, his wife, his children, watch his latter days,... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 624 pages
...turned the boat's head and made toward the vessel. " Death is at all times solemn, but never so much «o as at sea. A man dies on shore ; his body remains...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing jt, which give to it an air of awful mystJry.... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...around. RH DANA, JR. 1815-. (Manual, p. 504.) From " Two Years before the Mast." 182. A DEATH AT SEA. DEATH is at all times solemn, but never so much so...man falls overboard at sea, and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - French - 1880 - 422 pages
...the Mast," a passage describing the effect produced by the sad spectacle of a man overboard : — " Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...remains with his friends, and ' the mourners go about tho streets ;' but when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a sud denness in the event,... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1880 - 280 pages
...wise and the unwise must suffer. WRITTEN FORM. Exercises. Parse the conjunctions in the following : 1. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. — Dana. 2. But the recorded experience and wisdom of others may be of the greatest aid and benefit... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 268 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realising it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana - Seafaring life - 1895 - 488 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the brig. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so...his friends, and " the mourners go about the streets " ; Imt when a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...following: (The theme): Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. (First illustration): A man dies on shore: his body remains with his friends,...a man falls overboard at sea and is lost, there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty in realizing it, which gives to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
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Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea. A man dies on shore ; his body remains with his friends, and " the mourners go about the streets... 
