Comrades of the Mist, and Other Rhymes of the Grand FleetG. Sully, 1919 - 90 páginas |
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Comrades of the Mist, and Other Rhymes of the Grand Fleet Eugene Edward Wilson Visualização integral - 1919 |
Comrades of the Mist, and Other Rhymes of the Grand Fleet Eugene Edward Wilson Visualização integral - 1919 |
Comrades of the Mist: And Other Rhymes of the Grand Fleet (Classic Reprint) Eugene E. Wilson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2018 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
aboard ARKANSAS ARKLIGHT ARMISTICE NIGHT Ask a British beam blinkin boat Bos'n British Naval Officer bunch of boots CAPTAIN censor CHAPLAIN S. W. Cheer-O CLINKER Comrades craft cruised Dead Line deck detonate Division then begins ENSIGN HUTCHISON fight flash floating FLYING-BLOKE Fritzie funny gleam glowing GOES TO SEA Good-Bye-e-e-e GRAND FLEET GOES grey H-Boat H. E. CRESSMAN hard Heck Huns keen destroyer LIEUTENANT M. A. Limey little submarines Mail-O mate mighty MIST Mth Division naught neath never North Sea Officer to tell Peggy periscope Pier platitudes Like sudden POOR FISH put to sea rain rhyme roaring RUBAIYAT sail sailor SAILOR'S LUCK Sans Souci Scapa Flow scud SEA-GOING MOTHER GOOSE searchlight siren SKY GUN smoke speed spray squadron stand stay inside steam story the Coxswain swing Thiaucourt thing towering turning turret Twas whale Yankee ships yeoman yeo ZEUS
Passagens conhecidas
Página 39 - Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it.
Página 19 - They say it now when e're we meet, Till smilingly we all repeat, Cheer-O! They say it when they take a drink — Cheer-O! They say it in their sleep, I think — Cheer-O! They'll say it when they meet the Hun, They'll fire it with the opening gun, They'll sing it when the battle's won — Cheer-O 1 HERE AND THERE While "Over Here...
Página 59 - Yes ! Daddy knows right well, my lad, The story of the fleet That met the Huns off Coney Isle In Hipper's great defeat. I served a twelve-inch gun, my lad, Upon the gallant ARK, And fought the fight without respite From early dawn till dark. We left our base the year before, And steamed at forty knots, Until we heard the cry of "smoke
Página 34 - The rising moon that looks for us again — How oft hereafter shall she wax and wane; How oft hereafter look for us Through this same garden — and for one in vain.
Página 30 - Die Wacht Am Rhine"; When feathers are found upon frogs When the mule is blessed with a voice divine, And humming birds prey upon hogs ; When submarines swim through the air at night; When powder won't burn in our guns — Then maybe our allies will give up the fight And the world will be ruled by the Huns.
Página 30 - When eau de cologne comes from limberger cheese, When the jelly fish swallows the whale; When kangaroos roost on gooseberry trees And grasshoppers feed upon quail; When the laws of gravity cease to exist And the rivers all run up hill; When young Americans no more enlist To shoot at "All Highest Bill...
Página 44 - Your cause is just — guard well your trust, As only real men can. Stand fast for right throughout your fight To keep the ocean free ; . • We stand or fall, we stake our all, When the Grand Fleet goes to sea.
Página 48 - A flash, a roar, the turrets whip, The mighty guns recoil; The quivering ship sags drunkenly, The nearby waters boil; The guns spring back "to battery.
Página 86 - And hangs as a listless pall: Black standards drape like funeral crepe And death lies over all. The silent guns of the sullen Huns No more their voices use; Yet mute, acclaim the burning shame Of the High Sea Fleet's last cruise.
Página 9 - ARKANSAS at a time when she was attached to the Sixth Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet. This squadron was under the command of Rear Admiral Hugh Rodman, USN, familiarly known as "Old AC6" (Admiral Commanding Sixth Battle Squadron) , who flew his flag on the NEW YORK.