 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1751 - 418 pagini
...the Hollanders, that were wont to ride before Dunkirk with the Wind at North-weft, making a Lee-more in all Weathers : For true it is, that the Length...the Life of the Ship in all Extremities ; and the Reafon is, becaufe it makes fo many Bendings and Waves, as the Ship riding at that Length is not able... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 710 pagini
...the Hollanders, who were wont to ride before Dunkirk with the wind at nortb-west, making a leeshore in all weathers. For true it is, that the length of...many bendings and waves, as the ship, riding at that leugth, is not able to stretch it, and nothing breaks that is not stretched. In extremity, we carry... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - 1829 - 714 pagini
...weathers. For true it ii, that the length of the cable is the life of tlic ship in all extremitiei ; and the reason is, because it makes so many bendings...as the ship, riding at that length, is not able to stretch it, and nothing breaks that is not stretched. In extremity, we carry onr ordnance better than... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pagini
...the Hollanders, that were wont to ride before Dunkirk with the wind at north-west, making a lee-shore in all weathers ; for true it is, that the length of the cable is the Hfe of the ship in all extremities ; and the reason is, because it makes so many bendings and waves,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 436 pagini
...holding anchor lost, And half our sailon swallowed in the flood, Yet lives our pilot still. Shalupcare. The length of the cable is the life of the ship in all extremities , ami the reason is, because it makes so many bendings and waves, as the ship, riding at that length,... | |
 | Andrew Murray - 1861 - 262 pagini
...the Hollanders that were wont to ride before Dunkirke with the wind at north-west, making a lee-shore in all weathers ; for true it is that the length of...waves as the ship riding at that length is not able to stretch it, and nothing breaks that is not stretched. In extremity, we carry our ordnance better than... | |
 | Stephen Bleecker Luce - 1866 - 874 pagini
...consideration of the length of cables, and by it we resist the malice of the greatest winds that can blow ; for, true it is, that the length of the cable is the life of the ship in aU extremities, and the reason is, because it makes so many bendings and waves as the ship riding at... | |
 | Stephen Bleecker Luce - 1868 - 916 pagini
...consideration of the length of cables, and by it we resist the malice of the greatest winds that can blow ; for, true it is, that the length of the cable is the...waves as the ship riding at that length is not able to stretch it, and nothing breaks that is not stretched." If tliis was true of the hemp cables then in... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 666 pagini
...consideration of the length of cables, and by it we resist the malice of the greatest winds that can blow. For true it is, that the length of the cable is the...of the ship in all extremities ; and the reason is, that it makes so many bendings and waves, as the ship riding at that length is not able to stretch... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 336 pagini
...is, that the length of the cable is the life of the ship in all extremities ; and the reason is, that it makes so many bendings and waves, as the ship riding at that length is not able to stretch it, and nothing breaks that is not stretched."* These and other improvements appear to have... | |
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Dunkirk with the wind at north-west, making a leeshore in all weathers; for true it is that the length of the cable is the life of the ship in all extremities; and the reason is because it makes so many bendings and waves, as the ship riding at that length... 
