Fish Yarns; And Other Salt Water Tales (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... A MYSTERY OF NEW YORK BAY. The night of January 5, 1893, made fierce winter weather for the city of New York. It had been snowing steadily and heavily all day. At dusk the northwest wind increased, and at eight o'clock a gale tore through the streets, whirling before it huge snow spouts high as house tops. The few pedestrians who were abroad labored waist deep in drifts and held fast to railings and lampposts; cabs and cars were stalled, to be buried in white mounds before morning; sidewalks and stoop lines were obliterated; front doors were hidden behind jagged inclines of sleet and snow; and still the flakes came steadily from the black sky, and still the storm increased. If it was a wild night where there was the light from the shop windows and dwellings, down on the deserted East River front, where only the poor glimmer from ice-sheeted portholes of ships showed here and there through the gloom, nothing seemed left of the whole world but storm. It swept whistling among spectral masts and spars; the air trembled and hummed from the blowing of it; in invisible black pits of docks the jamming ice floes groaned and swinging craft made hawsers and timbers complain; on phantom bowsprits that pointed high over the street the sheet ice rattled, and every cable was huge with sleet and snow; in avalanches, impelled by sudden blasts, great mounds of it came thundering from the roofs of warehouses. Two men, holding to each other and floundering heavily in the drifts, scrambled into a doorway just as a great mass of snow came hurtling down. They remained huddled together for a while after the danger had passed, fighting for breath. Then they shouldered their way against the storm again, struggling forward by inches. So they worked their way down to Pier 3 and along ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1904 Excerpt: ... A MYSTERY OF NEW YORK BAY. The night of January 5, 1893, made fierce winter weather for the city of New York. It had been snowing steadily and heavily all day. At dusk the northwest wind increased, and at eight o'clock a gale tore through the streets, whirling before it huge snow spouts high as house tops. The few pedestrians who were abroad labored waist deep in drifts and held fast to railings and lampposts; cabs and cars were stalled, to be buried in white mounds before morning; sidewalks and stoop lines were obliterated; front doors were hidden behind jagged inclines of sleet and snow; and still the flakes came steadily from the black sky, and still the storm increased. If it was a wild night where there was the light from the shop windows and dwellings, down on the deserted East River front, where only the poor glimmer from ice-sheeted portholes of ships showed here and there through the gloom, nothing seemed left of the whole world but storm. It swept whistling among spectral masts and spars; the air trembled and hummed from the blowing of it; in invisible black pits of docks the jamming ice floes groaned and swinging craft made hawsers and timbers complain; on phantom bowsprits that pointed high over the street the sheet ice rattled, and every cable was huge with sleet and snow; in avalanches, impelled by sudden blasts, great mounds of it came thundering from the roofs of warehouses. Two men, holding to each other and floundering heavily in the drifts, scrambled into a doorway just as a great mass of snow came hurtling down. They remained huddled together for a while after the danger had passed, fighting for breath. Then they shouldered their way against the storm again, struggling forward by inches. So they worked their way down to Pier 3 and along ...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

Release date

February 2012

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First published

February 2012

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

34

ISBN-13

978-1-151-39314-2

Barcode

9781151393142

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1-151-39314-2



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