I don't at all think by the look of the sky that we are going to have a blow.

The glass would have altered more if we were, but one never can tell.

I would not risk the loss of a spar for anything." "I should think that you might put a couple of reefs in the mainsail, Hawkins." "Well, perhaps it would be the best, sir; for a puff that one thinks nothing of, one way or the other, when a craft has way; will take her over wonderfully when it catches her becalmed." Just as he had finished his dinner, the captain came down and asked Frank to come on deck.
"There is a steamer bearing down on us.

I can see both her side lights, and as she is coming in from the west she may not notice our starboard light.

It is burning all right, but one never can see these green lights.