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Examples of Reed-like
And then the dapper little craft's lateen sails filled again as her helm was put down, and she flow away from the _Muscadine_, sailing on a bowline, and heeling over to the wind so as to display half her keel as she topped the waves, just as if the other vessel had been lying still in the water, although she was going a good eight knots by the log in the same direction.
The felucca was barely a cable's length off now, and in another minute she passed underneath the _Muscadine's_ stern so closely that they could have chucked a biscuit on board her. "Schooner ahoy!" hailed Mr Tompkins.
For these people are a little jaded, and have a constant desire for a subdued and delicate excitement, to warm their creeping fancy a little.
Its merits are those of the old,-grace and finish, perfect in minute detail.
Then he looked at her and remembered.
He had not reflected that Justine would be in her nurse's dress; and the sight of the dark blue uniform and small white cap, in which he had never seen her since their first meeting in the Hope Hospital, obliterated all bitter and unhappy memories, and gave him the illusion of passing back at once into the clear air of their early friendship.