item: #1 of 6 id: 13148 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 date: None words: 226264 flesch: 78 summary: You will go in the boat with Mr O'Brien, and take care that none of the men slip away from it, and get drunk at the tap. 'Mr O'Brien, since you have perched yourself on that gun to please yourself, you will now continue there for two hours to please me. keywords: admiral; bed; board; boat; brig; cabin; captain; captain o'brien; celeste; chapter; close; company; continued; course; day; days; dear; deck; dinner; door; duty; eyes; family; father; fire; french; frigate; general; gentleman; good; great; gun; half; hand; hawkins; head; home; hour; house; ladies; lady; leave; left; letter; lieutenant; life; look; lord; lordship; man; master; men; midshipman; mind; miss; money; morning; mother; mr o'brien; mr simple; mrs; night; o'brien; observed; officer; orders; people; peter; pickersgill; place; poor; quarter; ready; room; round; sail; sea; service; ship; shore; sir; swinburne; thought; time; trotter; uncle; vessel; water; way; wind; wish; woman; yes; young cache: 13148.txt plain text: 13148.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 16911 author: Runciman, James title: The Romance of the Coast date: None words: 52692 flesch: 83 summary: Old men of eighty, who remembered him when he was a bright young fellow in George the Third's time, went and stood round his grave. Ellington was not more of a coward than other men. keywords: boat; captain; come; dark; day; desborough; ellington; end; face; feet; fine; fishermen; girl; good; half; home; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moor; morning; night; north; people; place; round; sea; ship; squire; things; thought; time; tommy; vessel; village; water; way; wind; women; work; years; young cache: 16911.txt plain text: 16911.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 19899 author: Russell, William Clark title: The Honour of the Flag date: None words: 41334 flesch: 79 summary: How many years will they have been asleep under water, think ye, Mr. Small? All a hundred, sir, said I. Ay, says he, I've seen many prints of old ships, and I'll allow that it's all a hundred, as you say, since she and the likes of she was afloat. The horizon astern was broken by the moving bodies of many ships in full sail, and the sky low down was hung with the smoke of vanished steamers as though the stuff was cobwebs black with dust. keywords: barque; boat; brig; cabin; captain; close; day; deck; eyes; face; good; half; hand; head; ice; joe; lay; like; look; man; mate; men; round; saw; sea; second; ship; sight; sloper; small; sort; sweers; time; vessel; water; way; white; wind cache: 19899.txt plain text: 19899.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 23378 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Tales of the Sea, and of Our Jack Tars date: None words: 74584 flesch: 82 summary: It was now impossible to indulge in it, and I was compelled once more to seek for a berth on board ship. There were several men we could see on the deck of the lugger. keywords: board; boat; boz; brig; captain; clem; course; crew; day; days; deck; good; hand; harry; head; home; jack; length; life; look; looking; man; mate; men; night; old; people; rest; round; sail; sea; ship; shore; sir; thought; time; tom; uncle; vessel; water; way; wind; work cache: 23378.txt plain text: 23378.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 43186 author: Noyes, Alfred title: Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others date: None words: 61280 flesch: 85 summary: As a fact, you know, we invented the electric telegraph and the submarine, and a lot of little things that you fellows have been stealing from us. This picturesque display seemed to belong to a bygone age; it was quite unrelated to this war of chemists and spectacled old men who disbelieved in chivalry, laughed at right and wrong, and had killed the happiness of the entire world. keywords: big; black; boat; british; captain; day; deck; door; evening; eyes; face; feet; garden; german; good; half; hand; head; help; house; kind; life; look; man; margaret; men; mimika; moment; morning; neilsen; new; night; old; peter; red; room; round; roy; saw; sea; ship; sir; things; think; thought; time; voice; war; water; way; white; work; world cache: 43186.txt plain text: 43186.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 6041 author: None title: Stories by English Authors: The Sea date: None words: 33610 flesch: 84 summary: Right and left, all day long, the men fell one after the other; day after day more men fell, more men died. I called to the watch to trim sail, and in a few moments the decks were busy with the figures of men pulling and hauling and surging out at the ropes in sulky, slumberous growlings. keywords: anderson; bernard; boat; captain; course; day; deck; doctor; eyes; girl; good; half; hands; hindhaugh; island; life; look; looking; lucy; man; melissa; men; mind; night; round; sea; ship; sir; think; thought; time; water; way; work cache: 6041.txt plain text: 6041.txt