Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 234
monster. That short mass on wheelsmoves hke a bilhard-ball, rolls with the rolling of theship, plunges with the pitching, goes, comes, stops,seems to meditate, starts on its course again, shootslike an arrow, from one end of the vessel to the other,whirls around, slips away, dodges, rears, bangs,… … 204 A Book of Sea Stories slave was avenging itself; it seems as if the total de-pravity concealed in what we call inanimate things hadescaped, and burst forth all of a sudden; it appears tolose patience, and to take a strange mysterious revenge;nothing more relentless than this wrath of the…
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