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Sailor in sentence

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However, Pencroft, accustomed with his sailor eyes to piece through the gloom, was almost certain that he could clearly distinguish in the west confused masses which indicated an elevated coast.
The sailor nodded; besides, his eyes could not deceive him.
While the gaze of the reporter and Neb were cast upon the ocean, the sailor and Herbert looked eagerly for the coast in the west.
"There is some good and some bad, as in everything," replied the sailor.
Chapter 4All at once the reporter sprang up, and telling the sailor that he would rejoin them at that same place, he climbed the cliff in the direction which the Negro Neb had taken a few hours before.
"Stop here, my boy," said the sailor; "we have to prepare an encampment, and to try and find rather better grub than these shell-fish.
"All right," said the sailor; "that will do.
cried the sailor; "these will do instead of eggs!""They are not mussels," replied Herbert, who was attentively examining the molluscs attached to the rocks; "they are lithodomes."
The sailor could rely upon Herbert; the young boy was well up in natural history, and always had had quite a passion for the science.
The sailor ascertained that at this time--that is to say, at low tide, when the rising floods did not reach it--it was sweet.
However, the sailor thought that by stopping-up some of the openings with a mixture of stones and sand, the Chimneys could be rendered habitable.
"So we can, my boy," replied the sailor, "and these Chimneys will serve our turn.
The sailor then thought that they could utilize this ebb and flow for the transport of heavy objects.
After having walked for a quarter of an hour, the sailor and the boy arrived at the angle which the river made in turning towards the left.
"Well, my boy," replied the sailor, "there must be some way of carrying this wood; there is always a way of doing everything.
"We shall be all right if we wait till it ebbs," replied the sailor, "and then we will trust it to carry our fuel to the Chimneys.
The sailor, followed by Herbert, directed his steps towards the river.
In a kind of little bay, created by a point of the shore which broke the current, the sailor and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood, which they had fastened together with dry creepers.
Herbert and the sailor began their ascent; thanks to the vigor of their muscles they reached the summit in a few minutes; and proceeded to the point above the mouth of the river.
The sailor shook his head sadly.
At the point where the sailor had left his raft of wood, it began to run between the two high granite walls; but if on the left bank the wall remained clear and abrupt, on the right bank, on the contrary, it sank gradually, the massive sides changed to isolated rocks, the rocks to stones, the stones to shingle running to the extremity of the point.
"Are we on an island?" murmured the sailor.
"But what will you make your omelet in?" asked Herbert; "in your hat?""Well!" replied the sailor, "I am not quite conjuror enough for that; we must come down to eggs in the shell, my boy, and I will undertake to despatch the hardest!"Pencroft and Herbert attentively examined the cavities in the granite, and they really found eggs in some of the hollows.
A few dozen being collected, were packed in the sailor's handkerchief, and as the time when the tide would be full was approaching, Pencroft and Herbert began to redescend towards the watercourse.
But a sailor is never at a loss when there is a question of cables or ropes, and Pencroft rapidly twisted a cord, a few fathoms long, made of dry creepers.
This vegetable cable was fastened to the after-part of the raft, and the sailor held it in his hand while Herbert, pushing off the raft with a long pole, kept it in the current.
"God forbid!" replied the sailor.
Their wood was stowed away in one of the rooms, and the sailor laid in the fireplace some logs and brushwood.
The sailor rushed out, followed by the boy.
"Pencroft," asked Herbert, "didn't you throw it out of the car?""I knew better than that," replied the sailor; "but such a small article could easily disappear in the tumbling about we have gone through.
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