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1 VI | fifty or sixty miles an hour. Although the “Chancellor”
2 VII | eight o’clock, and after an hour’s reading by the light of
3 VII | less than eleven knots an hour.~Shortly afterwards M. Letourneur
4 VII | island.~At the breakfast hour M. Letourneur and Andre
5 XV | In about a quarter of an hour he returned to the poop.~“
6 XVI | our spirits.~In another hour the mists had totally disappeared,
7 XVII | conversations; I also devote an hour or two to my diary. Falsten
8 XVIII | been vouchsafed us in our hour of need.~The more we examined
9 XVIII | behind. A quarter of an hour sufficed to bring us to
10 XVIII | After remaining nearly an hour in our newly-discovered
11 XVIII | thankful to escape even for an hour from her capricious mistress,
12 XVIII | I am sure that when the hour of departure arrives we
13 XXI | been able to work for an hour at low water and that four
14 XXV | course, may change at any hour. One thing, however, is
15 XXV | adrift for more than an hour.~The crew were frantic at
16 XXVI | and sky. In less than an hour afterwards I saw Huntly
17 XXVI | remained for a quarter of an hour, then after silently pressing
18 XXIX | efforts, it was fully an hour,—an hour which seemed to
19 XXIX | it was fully an hour,—an hour which seemed to us, waiting
20 XXXII | of three or four miles an hour. If they are not mistaken,
21 XXXII | have seen him sit for an hour at a time, with his hand
22 XXXIII | occurred to-day. For nearly an hour Owen, Flaypole, Burke, and
23 XXXIV | they pleased for fully an hour.~Meantime the sky was becoming
24 XXXV | ring.~For about half an hour the meteoric shower continued
25 XXXVI | others.”~At the regular hour each person received his
26 XXXVII | two and a half knots an hour. A new rudder, formed of
27 XXXVII | which every quarter of an hour she moistened the parched
28 XXXVIII| hearts, and day after day, hour after hour were our eyes
29 XXXVIII| day after day, hour after hour were our eyes strained towards
30 XXXVIII| the following morning the hour came round for the distribution
31 XLIII | fluttered in the wind.~For an hour our feelings alternated
32 XLIII | the result of the coming hour!~At half-past twelve the
33 XLIII | gained only three miles in an hour and a half, and it was doubtful
34 XLIV | fathoms, but for half an hour or more not a shark could
35 L | of about three miles an hour.~Curtis and Falsten are
36 LII | no wind, and for half an hour longer the fog hung heavily
37 LII | me, and I felt that the hour had come when I must cease
38 LV | appeared, and as the shocking hour of execution drew near,
39 LV | would not forestall the hour, he was determined not to
40 LVII | long to wait. Before an hour had passed Curtis, leaped
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