Chapter

 1 1      |   secured with copper, her decks being of teak, and the base of
 2 1      |         with all their fittings, being of iron. She is registered
 3 II     |            has the reputation of being an experienced navigator
 4 III    |       the utmost care, each bale being pressed into its proper
 5 IV     |       movements I could not help being struck with his physical
 6 IV     |         uninteresting companion, being overwhelmed with a sense
 7 VI     |    remaining below; but I prefer being on deck notwithstanding
 8 VIII   |           the Captain apparently being bent upon some purpose,
 9 XI     |        myself with fury, and not being endowed with Curtis’s reticence
10 XII    |     overlooked the fact of there being thirty pounds of combustible
11 XII    |       devoured by flames, and at being so powerless to save her.”
12 XIII   |        with the idea that he was being scorched by the most excruciating
13 XIV    |           Picrate, picrate!” and being thus for the first time
14 XV     |    Chancellor” may be exposed by being cast upon an unknown reef,
15 XV     |      hopes seem in a fair way of being fulfilled. Already the raging
16 XVI    |        the broken mizen-mast was being washed against the vessel,
17 XVI    |         Silas Huntly, who, after being carried overboard with the
18 XVI    |          their ordinary quarters being absolutely uninhabitable.~
19 XVI    |          submerged, none of them being visible except the cluster
20 XVIII  |          of doubt as to the rock being of purely volcanic origin,
21 XVIII  |         whole mass the effect of being one gigantic crystal; and
22 XX     |     south; while, to prevent her being carried back on to the reef,
23 XX     |         the event of the attempt being unsuccessful, it would be
24 XX     |       Andre, Falsten, and myself being at the starboard bar. Curtis
25 XXI    |          on the reef, instead of being thrown into the sea.~Picric
26 XXI    |          Just as the picrate was being introduced into the aperture,
27 XXI    |   insured her from any danger of being injured by the explosion,
28 XXI    |        of the depth of the mine, being muffled, and much less noisy
29 XXI    |          little channel, already being filled by the rising tide,
30 XXI    |          be reckoned as far from being the least happy of their
31 XXII   |         out of order, the valves being choked up by the ashes and
32 XXIV   |          first attempt at mutiny being thus happily suppressed,
33 XXIV   |          us; and the prospect of being swallowed by the devouring
34 XXIV   |       hand, the rest of the crew being ordered to continue their
35 XXV    |   elevated position, in spite of being told that if the wind were
36 XXVI   |           which were continually being loosened and broken away
37 XXVI   |    Curtis insisted upon the raft being made with proper care to
38 XXVI   |         biscuit, each individual being also allowed half a glass
39 XXIX   |        vessel to prevent it from being swallowed up in the eddying
40 XXXII  |          almost sure that we are being carried along by a westerly
41 XXXII  |      from the incessant dread of being carried down with a foundering
42 XXXIII |        not run the risk of their being carried overboard, an accident
43 XXXIII |     grave anxiety, the young man being weakened by attacks of intermittent
44 XXXIII |      little keg of brandy. Is it being kept for the porpoises or
45 XXXIV  |          may use the expression, being “round,” rather than rolling.
46 XXXIV  |     recognized, all too well, as being the rebound produced by
47 XXXV   |        The raft itself, however, being so nearly level with the
48 XXXVI  |       was that prevented me from being carried away by a second
49 XXXVIII|       realized the fact of there being actually nothing until on
50 XL     |         he has the appearance of being singularly exempt from the
51 XL     |         whether the hypocrite is being sustained, by some secret
52 XLIII  |        suffer on.~At the risk of being devoured by the sharks,
53 XLIII  |       think of any cries of ours being overheard; but Curtis gave
54 XLIII  |      Miss Herbey’s red shawl, as being of a colour most distinguishable
55 XLIV   |      appearance, if he could, of being something alive and moving.
56 XLV    |     aggravated by the atmosphere being somewhat stormy. Heavy vapours
57 XLV    |      presented the appearance of being charged with electricity.
58 XLV    |    breathed afresh, and my whole being seemed revived with a strange
59 XLVII  |       The idea of my proceedings being exposed by him was quite
60 L      |         of our sighting land, or being picked up by a passing vessel,
61 L      |     bodily is reduced; her whole being seems absorbed into her
62 LII    |        would not run the risk of being persuaded to wait until
63 LIV    | Letourneur was no longer a human being in the eyes of the famished