You fight, work, sweat, nearly kill yourself, sometimes do kill yourself, trying to accomplish something—and you can't.
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never saw her again... Pass the bottle.
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Then to us: ‘A sailor has no business with a wife—I say. There I was, out of the ship. Well, no harm done this time. Let’s go and look at what that fool of a steamer smashed.’
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sixty-year-old. Just imagine that old fellow saving heroically in his arms that old woman—the woman of his life
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floating about the dock in that mizzly cold rain for nearly an hour. I was never so surprised in my life
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Then somebody was heard saying, ‘All clear, sir.’... ‘Are you all right?’ asked the gruff voice. I had jumped
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fore-end of a steamer loomed up close. I shouted down the cabin, ‘Come up, quick!’ and then heard a startled voice saying afar in the dark, ‘Stop her, sir.’ A bell jingled. Another
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took sixteen days in all to get from London to the Tyne! When
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‘This means another month in this beastly hole,’ said Mahon to me, as we peered with lamps about the splintered bulwarks and broken braces. ‘But where’s the captain?’
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heavy crash as the steamer struck a glancing blow with the bluff of her bow about our fore-rigging. There