 | 1842 - 650 pages
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed of, the Pirate resumed his voyage,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1842 - 148 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden,... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...triumphant laugh of his pursuers, when he resorted to the following bold, but not very humane manoeuvre. "And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water !" Hildebrand and his followers having been thus summarily disposed of, the Pirate resumed his voyage,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 570 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! "As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! « As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 500 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fust, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! " As with his wings aslant, Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden,... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 112 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh...Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water ! Sails the fierce cormorant, Seeking some rocky haunt, With his prey laden, So toward the open main,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping...with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her hlack hulk did reel Through the black water ! As with his wings aslant Sails the fierce cormorant,... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - 1851 - 110 pages
...a reed eaeh mast, Yet we were gaining fiu-t, When Cie wind i'aiied us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us, " And as to catch the gale Koimd veered the napping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter 1 Mid-ships,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...like a reed each mast, Yet we were gaining fast, When the wind failed us ; And with a sudden flaw Came round the gusty Skaw, So that our foe we saw Laugh as he hailed us. " And as to catch the gale Hound veered the flapping sail, Death ! was the helmsman's hail, Death without quarter ! Mid-ships... | |
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And as to catch the gale Round veered the flapping sail, 'Death !' was the helmsman's hail, 'Death without quarter!' Mid-ships with iron keel Struck we her ribs of steel ; Down her black hulk did reel Through the black water! 
