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1. · Oral wills are permitted only in three cases: member of the armed forces in action, a mariner at sea whose ship is going under, and a Muslim
2. Dressed in my soiled and tatty towel and shirt, I guessed that I must look like a comic book version of a shipwrecked mariner
3. The title was a bit long, true; The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner; Who lived Eight and Twenty years, all alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, having been Cast on Shore by shipwreck, wherein all men perished but Himself
4. But this hardly daunted Father -- he was an expert mariner with a keen knowledge of the stars
5. This first whaling voyage was the stepping stone for Jon to become a master mariner and illustrious skipper
6. Before Porge could pry more information from the ancient mariner, he crawled into his wooden box
7. It was a sound that every old mariner knew—the keel had just shattered in half, which meant there was nothing stabilizing the Calamity against the waves and the ship would flip over in seconds
8. “Like a mariner upon the sea, the airman relies upon his compass, but the instrument has one failing
9. In an instant, he was off on the Viking and Mariner spacecrafts, leaving the ladies and me confused
10. Hold your judgment, so that you might in the end tell what is entertainment and what is reality, the words of an ancient mariner or those of a soothsayer
11. Derek was reminded of the Ancient Mariner rhyme as he
12. slake his thirst; I’ll rewrite the Ancient Mariner when I find
13. I should break it up for firewood rather than burden a true mariner with its manifold faults
14. The most impressionable time in a child’s life are the first ten years and Vati was a mariner then, rarely home
15. occupied as a mariner, his Creative Mind would find the answers for him
16. from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
17. The Mariner hath his will
18. [The Mariner tells how the ship sailed southward with a good wind and fair weather, till it reached the Line
19. [The Wedding-Guest heareth the bridal music; but the Mariner continueth his tale
20. "God save thee, ancient Mariner!
21. [His shipmates cry out against the ancient Mariner, for killing the bird of good luck
22. [The shipmates, in their sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird round his neck
23. could walk the streets of Lunenburg and persuade himself that he was a mariner
24. Ride out these waves, you Piscador, you sailor, you fisher of men, and remember that a calm sea doesn't make for an experienced mariner
25. John Lewis – Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1999: Mariner Books)
26. "That's the man--the Ancient Mariner
27. Like the mariner in the old story, the winds and streams had driven him within the influence of the Loadstone Rock, and it was drawing him to itself, and he must go
28. See blank tee what domestic animal? Tee dash ar most courageous mariner
29. She put an arm round the little mariner and coaxed winningly:
30. " Danglars felt as much overcome with joy as the miser who finds a lost treasure, or as the shipwrecked mariner who feels himself on solid ground instead of in the abyss which he expected would swallow him up
31. On the other hand he might be only bluffing, a pardonable weakness because meeting unmistakable mugs, Dublin residents, like those jarvies waiting news from abroad would tempt any ancient mariner who sailed the ocean seas to draw the long bow about the schooner Hesperus and etcetera
32. Nothing further passed between the mariner and Hester Prynne
33. Pursuing a zigzag course across the market-place, the child returned to her mother, and communicated what the mariner had said
34. Mariner, Viking, Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity, just to name a few, had all been born in this one room
35. A discussion of the role farm prices played in the Depression can be found in Piers Brendon’s The Dark Valley (87) and also in Timothy Egan’s The Worst Hard Time (Boston: Mariner, 2006), 79
36. Like many schoolboys of his era, he had read Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner
37. Like the ancient mariner, Louie and Phil had found the doldrums, the eerie pause of wind and water that lingers around the equator
38. I went over and read, "Edward Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April, 1854, age 30
39. The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner
40. Taking advantage of his one evening off, the grandduke, a notorious womanizer infamous as a seducer of chorus girls for one-night stands, attends a musical at the Coconut Girl theatre and is immediately charmed by a beautiful American understudy, Elsie Mariner (Monroe)
41. Murdock may have known that the last desperate thought of the gray mariner was to get upon his bridge and die in command
42. THE danger of collision with icebergs has always been one of the most deadly that confront the mariner
43. Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn
44. Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner
45. First: The mariner, when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties; but under precisely similar circumstances, let him be called from his hammock to view his ship sailing through a midnight sea of milky whiteness—as if from encircling headlands shoals of combed white bears were swimming round him, then he feels a silent, superstitious dread; the shrouded phantom of the whitened waters is horrible to him as a real ghost; in vain the lead assures him he is still off soundings; heart and helm they both go down; he never rests till blue water is under him again
46. Yet where is the mariner who will tell thee, "Sir, it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me?"
47. But when, after spending his uniform interval there for several successive nights without uttering a single sound; when, after all this silence, his unearthly voice was heard announcing that silvery, moon-lit jet, every reclining mariner started to his feet as if some winged spirit had lighted in the rigging, and hailed the mortal crew
48. Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any
49. Yet was this Nantucketer a man with some good-hearted traits; and this Lakeman, a mariner, who though a sort of devil indeed, might yet by inflexible firmness, only tempered by that common decency of human recognition which is the meanest slave's right; thus treated, this Steelkilt had long been retained harmless and docile
50. There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes
