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Below us, at a distance of forty feet, the screw was beating the water Would not the good Yorrick have done the same? I looked at Dean Pitferge; At this moment numerous groups appeared at the doors of the cabins The sea was magnificent and resplendent beneath the first rays of a spring With what force must these wooden paddles strike the waves which are now The fore-masts and the main-masts carry the schooner-sails, the top-sails One might have thought oneself in the worst part of Upper Thames Street Beside the Great Eastern, these three-mast ships looked like barges; their The officer on watch had ordered the sails to be taken in After each verse the congregation murmured the one following; the shrill Seen from the side, these wheels looked narrow and contracted Freed from their broken rope-bands, the capstan-bars flew in all directions About fifty workmen were scattered on the metallic skylights The Great Eastern draws 30 feet of water with a cargo of 28,500 tons I thought myself very fortunate that the screw was allowed to continue Had this steam-ship been abandoned by her crew? This was now the prevailing And now for the first time the Great Eastern was to be steered by steam At the base they measure 43 inches in diameter, and the largest (the main-mast) A merchant-vessel or a man-of-war would have had no hesitation in manning The tender had disembarked her crew; I stepped on to the fluted iron steps First of all the anchor had to be raised All these good people seemed to have hats and boots of a dazzling brightness I did not understand at first for what it was intended, but it appeared On Wednesday night the weather was very bad, my balance was strangely There was a piercing wind, and about ten oclock the deck was powdered by As the clock in Victoria Tower struck seven, the tender left her moorings Here between the last small deck cabin and the enormous gratings of the An anchor-boat, intended for this purpose, had just stoppered on the chains The lines of the Great Eastern are very elongated; her straight stem is On the spacious mastheads of the second and third masts a band of soldiers One would have taken her for a small island, hardly discernible in the The steersman standing on the bridge between the signal apparatus of the The Great Eastern turned in time to avoid her, thanks to the promptitude The Captain and the first officer set the example, and with new gloves