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Beyond the Great South Wall - The Street of the Antarctic Frank MacKenzie Savile No preview available - 2011 |
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Page 40 - we are not in the sixteenth century. I can conceive a rampant adventurer like Sir Walter Raleigh, let us say — a man with the heart of a lion and the brains of a...
Page 57 - ... think we should have a look at the thing •which has been at the bottom of all the excitement? It's among the boxes which have been deposited here, Mr. Crum.
Page 241 - By the evening of the second day we had progressed about two hundred and fifty yards, and the worst was still to come. We had expended enough perspiration to float the boat, and had just paused to shove in the wedges behind the rollers while we rested. We did this carelessly. They slithered on the smooth stone, the rollers revolved smartly, and before we could arrest her progress with levers, the wretched cutter was half-way back to the bottom again, bumping and straining her timbers viciously.
Page 263 - Lessaution's fingers, and with a curse he dropped it. The fall of the darkness upon that brief but all too vivid glimpse of horror unmanned us all. With a gasp we turned and fled recklessly into the darkness of the waterway without waiting for a light, paddling and splashing through the pools, tripping each other up, reeling, wrestling, smiting and bruising our limbs against the rocks. Finally with bleeding fingers, and wet with perspiration and...
Page 164 - I accoutre myself" — and he pointed with pride to the armory that swayed about him, "and I follow with great speed. Let me offer my comradeship in this expedition. Give me my part in your perils," and he flung out his arms entreatingly. How could one refuse a request so touchingly put forth? We welcomed him to our company with effusion, though with inward annoyance. We felt that our progress would of necessity be a great deal tardier in consequence, but in mere charity and courtesy nothing else...
Page 8 - Gwen was going out of my life, going away from me as fast as breeze and steam would take her. And the thing that might have stayed our separation — have given her to me — was a week — nay, only a day — too late. I could have smitten my head against the wall in my agony of disappointment. And yet I had resigned Gwen as fatalistically as any son of Islam. I had schooled myself to think of her as already belonging to another. I had bidden her good-bye without a quiver.
Page 189 - Gerry stood silent, their faces as white as the ice-splits beside them, but Lessaution's color was returning, and his show of bravado increased. He strode a pace or two nearer the swinging head, and began to look up at it inquisitively, waving his hand and strutting as if he stood before a class. "You see, my friends, you see," he expatiated with a platform manner, "this is of the supposedly extinct race of the Dinosauria.
Page 104 - But this was no time for sentimental musings, and we hurried on deck to see what had betided to the others. Eight men had been hauled by main force from the tumbling boat, which had reeled more and more tempestuously as her living ballast lightened, and the last poor fellow, with no restraining hand on the far end of the line, had been bumped fearfully against the bulge of the hull as we rolled back. But bruises were the worst that any man had received, and we hustled them into the smoke-room unceremoniously.