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Sailor in sentence

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So the sailor from time to time broke off branches which might be easily recognized.
Even the couroucous were invisible, and it was probable that the sailor would be obliged to return to the marshy part of the forest, in which he had so happily performed his grouse fishing.
"Have patience," replied the sailor, "it isn't the game which will be wanting on our return."
The sailor and Herbert had followed Neb.
But the sailor had not gone fifty paces when he stopped, and again uttering a tremendous hurrah, pointed towards the angle of the cliff,--"Herbert!
The sailor could scarcely believe his eyes, and he was so amazed that he did not think of questioning the engineer.
The sailor considered the apparatus; then he gazed at the engineer without saying a word, only a look plainly expressed his opinion that if Cyrus Harding was not a magician, he was certainly no ordinary man.
"Have they legs and chops?" asked the sailor.
While the sailor was preparing his hearth with stones which he put to this use, Neb and Herbert occupied themselves with getting a supply of fuel.
Even Pencroft, who possessed a marvelous power of sight, saw nothing; and certainly if there had been land at the horizon, if it appeared only as an indistinct vapor, the sailor would undoubtedly have found it out, for nature had placed regular telescopes under his eyebrows.
"As for me," said the sailor, "if I ever grumble at work, my name's not Jack Pencroft, and if you like, captain, we will make a little America of this island!
Harding could not help smiling, and the sailor's idea was adopted.
"Indeed," said the sailor, "already it is something to be able to say where one is going, and where one has come from.
"Good! as for the others, that will be easy," returned the sailor, who was in high spirits.
"What will be the good of that?" thought the sailor.
Moreover, the sailor thought of simply asking the engineer to manufacture some powder and one or two fowling-pieces; he supposed there would be no difficulty in that.
Herbert and Pencroft--the one young and the other very boyish--were enchanted, and while walking, the sailor said,"Hey, Herbert! how capital it sounds!
Cyrus Harding expected to reach, without incident, the course of the creek, which he supposed flowed under the trees at the border of the plain, when he saw Herbert running hastily back, while Neb and the sailor were hiding behind the rocks.
"Stewed," replied the reporter, "their flesh is equal to the best venison!--"Gideon Spilett had not finished this exciting sentence when the sailor, followed by Neb and Herbert, darted on the kangaroos tracks.
"Faith, that's true, Mr. Spilett," replied the sailor, "and I always speak too quickly.
"Herbert," replied the sailor sententiously, "there is only one species of kangaroos to me, that is 'kangaroo on the spit,' and it's just the one we haven't got this evening!"
The honest sailor did not hide his regret at being reduced for dinner to the singing pheasants, but fortune once more showed itself obliging to him.
The fire was lighted, and Neb and Pencroft, on whom the functions of cooks naturally devolved, to the one in his quality of Negro, to the other in that of sailor, quickly prepared some broiled agouti, to which they did great justice.
"No," replied the reporter; "but if there is a lack of food for want of instruments for the chase?""Ah, if we only had a knife!" cried the sailor.
Two hurrahs from the sailor was the reply.
On this day, the engineer, seeing a plant belonging to the wormwood genus, the principal species of which are absinthe, balm-mint, tarragon, etc., gathered several tufts, and, presenting them to the sailor, said,--"Here, Pencroft, this will please you."
And without waiting for a reply to this proposal, knowing that it would be approved of, the sailor and Neb detached a quantity of the molluscs.
This led the sailor to repeat to the engineer,--"You see, captain, so long as we have not one or two fowling-pieces, we shall never get anything!"
"What you say is true, my boy," replied the sailor.
"I would rather be here than in the hands of the Southerners," cried the sailor, "especially since the captain has been kind enough to come and join us again."
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