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I saw also piles of Bibles, which were to be distributed in the church About nine oclock the bearings of the Great Eastern were west-north-west From Dublin they are conveyed across the channel to Holyhead by a fast We had no doubt as to the identity of the young woman; it was Ellen Near me stood a traveller, who frequently shrugged his shoulders impatiently It was a three-mast ship of about five or six hundred tons Her steel hull was so heavy that the davits to which it was attached bent Only at night, perhaps eluding her gaoler, she came out to bathe herself The giant could have hoisted these ships on its davits like shore-boats For the benefit of those partial to comparisons, I will add that it is Then, after having crossed a small triangular space at the bows The crew had undoubtedly had time to leave her, but could they have reached In order to modify it, he has only to press his hand lightly on a small At half-past ten, the fog having cleared off, a screw steamer appeared Her movable engine was first hoisted on board by means of windlasses The thickness of the fog was so intense that the officers on the bridge The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails I heard the irregular roaring of the screw, and the wheels beating the The Great Eastern was announced to sail on the 20th of March Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing These unhappy men, killed and wounded, were only tools, which could be It is here that all ships bound for Liverpool, whether steamers or sailing-ships Meanwhile the tender approached the Great Eastern, whose chains were violently What did he see in this liquid mirror, which gave scope to the most capricious The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the The sea between us and the coast was of a dull green shade; there was a It would have been well if the service had concluded with the reading; A catch had broken, and the capstan being forced round by the frightful The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps The tender immediately sheered off, and the sailors went to the lows Thanks to this natural condition, the streams of the Thames and the Mersey One of the surgeons on board embarked to go with them to Liverpool It was for this delicate operation that the engineers intended the engine An anchor-boat, intended for this purpose, had just stoppered on the chains I, with head upturned, and my body thrown back, surveyed the wheels of Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions First of all the anchor had to be raised