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.

"Trees," repeated the steersman to Sonia Turgeinov.

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.

Every hand seemed paralyzed; the vessel without a steersman at the helmwithout a sailor to haul down a shroud, was cleaving the ocean at the mercy of the winds and the waves!

There was the half-caste Chaseland, whose mother was an Australian "gin," and who was acknowledged to be the most dexterous and best-tempered steersman in New Zealandwhen sober.

But Claude de Chauxville accomplished steersman through the shoals of human nature, especially through those very pronounced shoals who call themselves women of the worldClaude de Chauxville knew the value of the slightest change of manner, should that change manifest itself more than once.

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

He clutched the kanaka steersman with his other hand; and just at that moment the schooner flung down to starboard.

Upon this prow, in a small compartment of which the roof, as well as the walls, was of hardened glass, stood the steersman amid his wheels.