 | American essays - 1875 - 782 pages
...sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward - bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding and swearing with more than usual emphasis;... | |
 | 1875 - 786 pages
...sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every outward - bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding and swearing with more than usual emphasis;... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1982 - 1190 pages
...ascending columns of coal-black smoke; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every...at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding and swearing with more than usual emphasis;... | |
 | Mark Twain - Travel - 1985 - 452 pages
...outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding...these frantic things, hoping to reach the forecastle companion way alive, but having their doubts about it; women with reticules and bandboxes were trying... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 2009 - 404 pages
...ascending columns of coal-black smoke; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city. Every...at the jackstaff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding and swearing with more than usual emphasis;... | |
 | 1875 - 786 pages
...outward - bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern. Two or three miles of mates were commanding...countless processions of freight barrels and boxes were spinaing down the slant of the levee and flying aboard the stage-planks; belated passengers were dodging... | |
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From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke ; a colonnade which supported... 