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Download or read book The Gentleman written by Alfred Ollivant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea A mortar hard by boomed the sea splashed the sloop scudded seaward, laughing; and the dreamer awoke. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book The Beach of Dreams written by Henry De Vere Stacpoole and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beach of Dreams: A Romance Harbutt and Raft seated on a chest, Harbutt patching a pair of trousers, Raft smoking. Raft was a big red-headed man with eyes that seemed always roving over great distances as though in search of something. He was thirty-two years of age and he had used the sea since twelve - twenty years. His past was a long succession of fo'c'sles, bar-rooms, blazing suns, storms and sea happen ings so run together that all sequence was lost. Beyond them lay a dismal blotch, his childhood. He had entered the world and literally and figuratively had been laid at the door of a work house; of his childhood he remembered little, of his parentage he knew nothing. In drink he was quiet, but most dangerous under certain provocations. It was as though deep in his being lay a blazing hatred born of injustice through ages and only coming to light when upborne by balloon-juice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Sea Farers written by Mary Gray Morrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sea-Farers: A Romance of a New England Coast Town Opened on their street floors and the squalid poor crowded the rooms above. Beyond the busy wharves the harbor shores, dressed in the faded green of the late fall, stretched out protectingly. A brig at anchor was hoisting its sails, the great folds flapping loosely as they climbed the masts. A ship from the east was slowly moving up the bay. Beyond its three masts, beyond the harbor arms, was the sea. A haze was upon it, and the sky line was dim. The old mystery waited there, leading the senses away. The ear heard no longer the oaths and clatter on the wharves; the smell of cinnamon and musk mingling with the saltness from the brine was forgotten. As though in ah swer to a call the mind flew from the land-locked present, out to the ancient sea, there hovered, dipping now and then, or swinging up and down with the wave. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book The Rescue written by Joseph Conrad and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows Misunderstood and traduocd in life, the glory of his achievement has vindicated the purity of his motives. He belongs to history. But there were others - obscure ad venturers who had not his advantages of birth, position and intelligence; who had only his sympathy with the people of forests and sea he understood and loved so well. They can not be said to be forgotten since they have not been known at all. They were lost in the common crowd of seamen-traders of the Archipelago, and if they emerged from their obscurity it was only to be condemned as law-breakers. Their lives were thrown away for a cause that had no right to exist in the face of an irresistible and orderly progress - their thought less lives guided by a simple feeling. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Download or read book From the Unsounded Sea written by Nellie K. Blissett and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From the Unsounded Sea: A RomanceThe moon had not risen, but the sky was brilliant with stars. Their keen, pale light showed the dark outlines of those pine-covered hills which fringed the shores of the Southern Sea, and the red, bare rocks jutting out into the water. In the curve of the bay, the windows of a villa glittered like tiny candles among the black shadows of the pines, and the grey and graceful ghosts of the mimosa trees.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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