 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 428 pages
...objectionable. The qualities of a well constructed paragraph are exemplified in the 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, and "the mourners go... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...objectionable. The qualities of a well constructed paragraph are exemplified in the 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, and "the mourners go... | |
 | Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) - Sailors - 1907 - 496 pages
...that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made towards the vessel. 31 Death is all times solemn, but never so much so as at sea....a 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 Sears Baldwin - English language - 1909 - 392 pages
...poor did not envy the splendour of the rich. — MACAULAY, History of England, end of Chapter iii. IV 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 realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1909 - 402 pages
...did not envy the splendour of the rich. — MACAULAY, History of England, end of Chapter iii. * . IV 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 realizing it, which give to it an air of awful mystery.... | |
 | Charles Sears Baldwin - English language - 1911 - 392 pages
...not envy the splendour of the rich. — MACAULAY, History of England, end of Chapter iii. IV Death^is at all times solemn, but^ never so much so as at sea....a 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.... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - Ocean in literature, English - 1921 - 444 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 as at sea. When a man falls overboard at sea and is lost there is a suddenness in the event, and a difficulty... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...ourselves that we must give him up. At length we turned the boat's head and made toso wards the brig. Death is at all times solemn, but never so much so..."the mourners go about the streets;" but when a man believers in their way; though their falls overboard at sea and is lost, there notions and opinions... | |
 | James O'Donnell Bennett - Books and reading - 1928 - 488 pages
...quiet, vivid, seeming effortless, yet very poignant : "Death is at all times solemn, but never so much as at sea. A man dies on shore; his body remains with...a 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.... | |
 | F. H. Hinsley - History - 1967 - 742 pages
...specific spot of land, an ambivalence he submerged into a fascination with the vast anonymity of the sea: A man dies on shore; his body remains with his...a 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.... | |
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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... 
