Charles Reade
The Merchantman and the Pirate
Summary
Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire in the sunbeams.
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H. G. Wells
G. K. Chesterton
Herman Melville
Victor Hugo
Brothers Grimm
Oscar Wilde
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