"'Can't do it,' says Noah, 'we've got a good steersman and safe navigators on board already.'

The steersman kept the small island between them and the vessel Captain Parson had discovered.

In principle it consisted of two barge-like vessels placed side by side, a platform being laid on the top, for the engine, passengers, and steersman; the latter, as in all American steam-vessels, of whatever size, being perched in an elevated round-house on deck.

He licenseth not his weakness to wear fate, but knowing reason to be no idle gift of nature, he is the steersman of his own destiny.

Such a canoe-steersman as Rupe never was known before or since: he knew every rock in every rapid from the Ottawa to the Columbia.

The decks, a foot deep in snow, were deserted save by Z and the steersman, whose silhouettes stood out black and distinct against the starlit sky as they paced the rickety-looking little bridge flanked by red and green lights.

Ideas are related to feelingto quote a comparison from John Stuart Mill's valuable treatise Auguste Comte and Positivism, 3d ed., 1882, a work of which we have made considerable useas the steersman who directs the ship is to the steam which drives it forward.

If a lands-*man may be permitted to make an observation on a nautical point, I would say that our steersman kept the peak of the Corbiére exactly on a level with the adjacent precipices, till we were directly abreast of the headland, and then stood abruptly in-shore till within a few fathoms of the cliffs, under the shadow of which he afterwards held a steady course till we opened the bay of St. Aubin.

She should herself learn how to do this; there was often a delicious feeling in floating along alone upon the water, one's own ferryman and steersman.

Towing is the operation of drawing a vessel forward by means of long lines, &c. Timoneer, from the French timonnier, is a name given, on particular occasions, to the steersman of a ship.

So saying, the captain took aim and fired at the steersman of the largest boat, which pulled towards the stern.

he shouted to the steersman. "Don't you see yon ice closing in on us?

The government was at that time drifting about, without compass or steersman, from the hands of Madame de Prie to those of Paris-Duverney.

"But, one of these fine days," says the steersman, Bolton, "one fine day that dog will come and ask us how we are heading; if the wind is to the west-north-west-half-north, and we will have to answer him!

His fingers stiffened to the oars; but there was life in them still, and still he did his work, and never turned to see how the steersman was doing his.

Land was conspicuous by its absence, and with a groan he turned and looked about himat the white scrubbed deck, the snowy canvas towering aloft on lazily creaking spars, and the steersman leaning against the wheel regarding the officer who stood near by.

" The second officer gazed at him, limp with astonishment, and then turned to the steersman, as though unable to believe his ears.

The steersman pointed in front of him, and the other gave a cry of surprise and rage as he saw another tatterdemalion coming with uncertain steps toward him.

Men superabound Men stalwart, vigilant, patient, bold; The stokehole's heat and the crow's-nest's cold, The choking dusk of the noisome mine, The northern blast o'er the beating brine, With dogged valour they coolly brave; So on rattling rail, or on wind-scourged wave, At engine lever, at furnace front, Or steersman's wheel, they must bear the brunt Of lonely vigil or lengthened strain.

In the bows of each sat a company of people singing as they pulled at the long oars; and in the stern of each, divided from the rowers by the cargobut what that cargo was could not yet be distinguishedstood a solitary steersman.

" The old steersman shook his head.

" "If she've a message for Miss Sally" answered the old steersman after a pause.

The old steersman turned his head.

And so, counting the baby and the two children and the old steersman, whom they all addressed as "Father," and omitting 'Dolph and the sheep, they were twelve on board.

These were of the sons and daughters of the old steersman, with others of whom Tilda had not yet learnt the names.