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It is not to be seen open from where we lay, one point shutting in another; and before any small ship or vessel pretends to venture into the harbour, they ought [Page 270] to send in their boats at low water, and fix poles or buoys on the ends of the shoals, which, in a manner, block up the passage.
In April 1726, that commander was sent with a strong fleet into the Spanish West Indies to block up the galleons in the port of that country, or, should they presume to come out, to seize and carry them to England: he accordingly arrived at Bastimentos, near Porto-Bello; but, being employed rather to overawe than attack the Spaniards, with whom it was probably not our interest to go to war, he continued long inactive on this station.
Pickle assured him, he had nothing to fear from the two sailors, who could have no cause of resentment against him; or, if they had, would not venture to take any step, which they knew must block up all the avenues to that reconcilement, about which they were so anxious; and, moreover, give such offence to the governor of the place as would infallibly induce him to expel them both from his territories.
If this is not a book to interest I have disappointed myself: If it is, thou wilt doubtless think it the more so for conducting thee hastily through the stops and demurs with which authors are too apt to block up their catastrophe.
O Pisa! scandal of the nations! since thy neighbours are so slow to punish thee, may the very islands tear themselves up from their roots in the sea, and come and block up the mouth of thy river, and drown every soul within thee.
But I intend to whistle all these cogitations into the sea, where I hope they will breed storms violent enough to block up all exit from Russia.
He then takes a pinch of snuff, winks at the other pupils as much as to say, "See me tackle him, now;" and replies, "The gallery door of Covent Garden on Boxing-night." "Now, come, be serious for once, Mr. Manhug," continues the teacher; "what else is likely to answer the purpose?" "I think a run up Holborn-hill, with two Ely-place knockers on your arm, and three policemen on your heels, might have a good effect," answers Mr. Manhug. "Do you ever think you will pass the Hall, if you go on at this rate?" observes the teacher, in a tone of mild reproach. "Not a doubt of it, sir," returns the imperturbable Manhug. "I've passed it twenty times within this last month, and did not find any very great difficulty about it; neither do I expect to, unless they block up Union-street and Water-lane." The grinder gives Mr. Manhug up as a hopeless case, and goes on to the next. "Mr. Rapp, they will be very likely to ask you the composition of the _compound gamboge pill_: what is it made of?" Mr. Rapp hasn't the least idea. "Remember, then, it is composed of cambogia, aloes, ginger, and soap--C, A, G, S,--_cags_.
Here the river seems to issue from a cavern, the rocks having fallen from above so as to block up the channel and bar further progress.
At first they had kept open some ways of communication with the surface, but afterwards they must, for what reasons the Professor could not guess, have ordered their conquered foes to block up every passage; and those inferior frogs, bringing earth and stones from a neighbouring hill till they had taken it nearly all away, succeeded in carrying out the wishes of the inimitable Croäxaxicans and confining them below.
What self-respecting nymph can haunt a well into which children and pigs are for ever flopping?" He laughed; but before I could join him he was angry again. "Why should I block up an historic well, that is an ornament to the garden, because a pack of fools can't keep a gate shut? Want to block up the ole o' the road, eh? In revenge, Tawhaki and Urutonga block up all the holes of the house to make the Ponaturi think that it is still night.
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