I thought it was a myth of that stranded ancient mariner's imagination.

Mariner's "Tonga Islands," ii. 137.

The age was still dark; the mariner's compass had not been invented, chimneys had not been introduced, the comforts of life were few.

Who invented the mariner's compass?

A new style was needed, at least as a supplement of the old,as lances and shields were giving place to fire-arms, and the line and the plummet for the mariner's compass; as a new civilization was creating new wants and developing the material necessities of man.

It caught a glimpse of the path which leads to maritime supremacy when it made, at a period equally remote, the discovery of the mariner's compass.

The mariner's compass has produced nothing better than the coasting junk.

The application of the modern theory of the solar system, the desire for exploration, the use of the mariner's compass, the invention and spread of printing, were more effects of the new movement than its causes.

The mariner's compass, which wrought this revolution on the map of the world, is only one of many discoveries made by the ancient Chinese, which, unfruitful in their native land, have, after a change of climate, transformed the face of the globe.

Profiting by her absence, Mr. Hardy leaned towards Miss Nugent, and in a low voice expressed his sorrow at the mishap to her father and his firm conviction that everything that could be thought of for that unfortunate mariner's comfort would be done.

"Signor Gaetano," he said, using a mariner's freedom in the address, "there are nobles in Genoa that might better knock at the door of your palace than I; and there are those, too, in the city that would gossip, were it known that you received such guests.

Hey, you look good in a Mariner's hat.

Another reference to this wheel, or mariner's box, was in the shape of the temples which were built in his honor as god of the winds.

Hence idiots, stupid people, foolish people, all who are or who demean themselves below the dignity of man, grin rather than smile; and so the Mariner's companions, their muscles stiffened by drought, could show their gladness only by the contortions of a grin, not by a natural smile of joy.

" "The epithet may be due either to the gush of love that has filled the Mariner's heart, or to his noticing the buckets, long useless, frail, now filled with water" (Sykes); very likely to both together.

The Mariner's Guide across the Deep.

" =250.= THE MARINER'S GUIDE ACROSS THE DEEP.

THE MARINER'S WRONGS.

The latter then beckoned Wilder apart, and, after a little further preliminary discourse, the terms of the young mariner's engagement were finally settled.

The valve, A, is operated automatically by the following arrangement: A mariner's compass, P, placed in the head of the torpedo has its needle connected to one pole of a powerful battery, D. A dial of non-magnetic material marked with the points of the compass is capable of being rotated by the connections shown.

Most certainly this cannot imply that Madoc was acquainted with the mariner's compass.

In Mariner's book on the Tongans (Chap.

In Mariner's description (I., 130) of a chief's wedding occurs this sentence: "The dancing being over, one of the old matabooles (nobles) addressed the company, making a moral discourse on the subject of chastityadvising the young men to respect, in all cases, the wives of their neighbors, and never to take liberties even with an unmarried woman against her free consent.

The captain knew that the rest of his party had gone away in a great hurry, but to his orderly mariner's mind it seemed strange that they should have left things in such disorder.

With a mariner's skill he worked, and when his job was finished, it would have been difficult for a drop of water to have found its way into the dome, no matter if it rose high above it.