American Literature Survey: The American romantics, 1800-1860Milton R. Stern, Seymour L. Gross Viking Press, 1968 - Fiction |
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Page 387
... Sailor " of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies . With no perceptible trace of the vain- glorious about him , rather with the off - hand unaffectedness of natural regality , he ... SAILOR • 387 Billy Budd, Sailor,
... Sailor " of the less prosaic time alike of the military and merchant navies . With no perceptible trace of the vain- glorious about him , rather with the off - hand unaffectedness of natural regality , he ... SAILOR • 387 Billy Budd, Sailor,
Page 425
... sailor was ready to ascribe them to almost anybody but the man who , to use Billy's own expression , " always had a ... sailor ? And the old - fashioned sailor , the veritable man - before - the - mast , the sailor from boyhood up , he ...
... sailor was ready to ascribe them to almost anybody but the man who , to use Billy's own expression , " always had a ... sailor ? And the old - fashioned sailor , the veritable man - before - the - mast , the sailor from boyhood up , he ...
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... sailors of Billy's time . Then , too , certain things which apply to all sailors , do more pointedly operate here and there , upon the junior one . Every sailor , too , is accustomed to obey orders with- out debating them ; his life ...
... sailors of Billy's time . Then , too , certain things which apply to all sailors , do more pointedly operate here and there , upon the junior one . Every sailor , too , is accustomed to obey orders with- out debating them ; his life ...
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