 | Thomas Dibdin - 1822 - 80 pages
...•.-- -, •. :. ' Up with tie black flagv. ';'. ,' i . Down with the blue; Fire on the main top, Fire on the bow. Fire on the gun deck, Fire down below. [:Bunce and Bri$e go off towards the end^Jit, flyui th*. Sce.m closes. A loud and heavy rqin hea$c$... | |
 | Edwin Guest - 1838 - 346 pages
...ro|ver To's | gallant crew|, Up | with the black | flag Down | with the blue|, Fire | on the main| -top, Fire | on the bow|, Fire | on the gun | -deck, Fire | down below|. W. Scott. When the verse increases in length, the energy' with which it begins soon dies away into... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1879 - 392 pages
..." Robin Rover said to his crew, Up with the black flag, Down with the blue ; Fire on the main top, Fire on the bow ; Fire on the gun deck, Fire down below." '—Oh. xxxvii. he seems out of place among such desperate villains as the rest. Scott evidently wishes... | |
 | 1891 - 842 pages
...the Flying Dutchman, To windward he came. His hull was all of hell-fire, His sails were all of flame, Fire in the maintop, Fire on the bow, Fire on the gun -deck, Fire down below. Four and twenty dead men, Those were the crew, The devil in the bowsprit Fiddled as she flew. We gave... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1858 - 786 pages
...BOOBIES, AND NODDIES. ' Robin Rover Said to his crew, Up with the black flag, Down with the blue ! Fire on the maintop, Fire on the bow, Fire on the gun- deck, Fire down below.' ГТШЕ Man-of-War Bird P •*• Aye, it is even eo ; but 'Robin Rover,' or ' The Pirate Bird,' would... | |
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Rover said to his crew, Up with the black flag, Down with the blue ; Fire on the main top, Fire on the bow ; Fire on the gun deck, Fire down below. 