item: #1 of 5 id: 18062 author: London, Jack title: Stories of Ships and the Sea date: None words: 15343 flesch: 86 summary: He didn't look so wild or bearish after all--very much like other men, Bub concluded, and the sailors were much the same as all other man-of-war's men he had ever known. The Russians were in nowise different from other men. keywords: alf; boat; bub; cable; captain; car; chris; deck; hand; head; jerry; man; men; pay; schooner; sea; water; wind cache: 18062.txt plain text: 18062.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 23539 author: Robertson, Morgan title: "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea date: None words: 70786 flesch: 81 summary: Behind him in the passage were other men, equally unkempt, their eyes wide open with excitement and anticipation. Both were large men, and held their positions by reason of special knowledge and a certain magnetic mastery of soul which dominated the others against their rules; for in this social democracy captains and bosses were forbidden. keywords: anchor; beach; black; boat; brig; captain; craft; crew; day; deck; elisha; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; flag; forecastle; good; guns; half; hands; head; inch; johnson; left; life; line; main; man; mate; men; near; new; officers; poop; port; rail; right; sea; seldom; ship; shot; sir; steamer; stern; steward; swarth; time; todd; voice; watch; water; way; wheel; white; wind; work cache: 23539.txt plain text: 23539.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 26862 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 87423 flesch: 75 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; black; blackbeard; boat; buccaneers; captain; captain morgan; chist; crew; day; dead; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; house; illustration; jonathan; left; levi; lieutenant; life; like; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; set; ship; sir; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white; world cache: 26862.txt plain text: 26862.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 60811 author: Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) title: In Great Waters: Four Stories date: None words: 47783 flesch: 83 summary: When he was on land he spent little time in his own home: of which, and of the baby motherless, his mother had taken charge. What it has done for us fishermen you can see when the spring tides bare it and show black scraps of old boats wrecked there, and sometimes a gleam of sand-whitened bones. keywords: boat; close; day; eyes; father; geert; good; heart; jan; krelis; like; look; love; major; maltham; man; marretje; mother; old; sea; set; suh; tess; thought; time; ulrica; water; way; wind cache: 60811.txt plain text: 60811.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 973 author: Pyle, Howard title: Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main date: None words: 73876 flesch: 76 summary: There were other men down, all about the deck. Thus coming to it, our hero could see that it was a large yawl boat manned with half a score of black men for rowers, and there were two lanterns in the stern sheets, and three or four iron shovels. keywords: aboard; away; barnaby; blackbeard; boat; cabin; captain; chist; crew; day; eyes; face; good; half; hand; harbor; head; hero; hiram; left; levi; lieutenant; life; mainwaring; man; master; men; moment; money; morgan; new; night; old; pirates; place; sand; saw; sea; ship; sir; spaniards; spanish; tell; time; tom; town; treasure; true; vessel; voice; water; west; white cache: 973.txt plain text: 973.txt