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Ramage's Mutiny by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1978-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

cheekbones, eyes that laughed - or, when she was angry, stabbed. Aunt Gianna was slim with an imperious body and jutting breasts that made the ship and the sea fade ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
Ramage's Devil by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1983-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

been damaged. Suddenly his head came level with the deck and a moment later he was through the entryport, standing on the deck itself and staring into the muzzle of ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
The Ramage Touch by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1980-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Everybody is dead," he added vaguely. "I feed them both. Very hungry we are, too; it has been a long walk." The innkeeper understood his customer better than Ramage, and ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
Man of War by Allan Mallinson
epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

XII A MARRIAGE KNOT Hertfordshire, 2 May 1828 ‘Hervey, I am ever more delighted by your English countryside,’ declared Fairbrother, looking out of the chaise window at the rippling fields ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
Ramage's Diamond by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

tacks will give him more confidence.' 'He's going to need it,' Southwick said grimly. 'If he arrives five minutes late it might be all up with us!' 'And if we ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
Galleon by Dudley Pope
epub |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Chapter Ten Ned did not think four men in a boat could take so long to get alongside theGriffin and board. Yes, Julio could not rush back because if any ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
The Phantom Ship (Volume 3) by Frederick Marryat
epub |eng | 2012-01-13 | Author:Frederick Marryat [Marryat, Frederick]

Chapter XIX It appeared as if their misfortunes were to cease, after the tragical death of the two commanders. In a few days, the Dort had passed through the Straits ...
( Category: Sea Stories January 16,2015 )
Rendezvous - South Atlantic by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

Dancy nodded, relieved and saddened at the same time. He could imagine what Stannard had in mind. And he thought of his own house. The Christmas decorations, his mother complaining ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 16,2015 )
Prayer for the Ship by Douglas Reeman
epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Douglas Reeman [Reeman, Douglas]

I’m so very sorry about the way I treated you when we last met, but I now know that we both understand. If you still want to see me, I ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
Newton Forster or the Merchant Service by Frederick Marryat
epub |eng | 1864-11-30 | Author:Frederick Marryat [Marryat, Frederick]

* * * Volume Two--Chapter Thirteen. Poor short-lived things! what plane we lay! Ah! why forsake our native home, To distant climates speed away. For self sticks close, where’er we ...
( Category: Linguistics January 16,2015 )
An Act of Courage by Allan Mallinson
epub |eng | 2004-12-31 | Author:Allan Mallinson [Mallinson, Allan]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE NIGHT HORSE Talavera, late evening, 27 July 1809 ‘Stand down one in three, off-saddle and feed by half-sections.’ Sir Edward Lankester, pleased with what he saw at ...
( Category: Historical January 16,2015 )
King, Ship, and Sword by Dewey Lambdin
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT They got beyond Montdidier by farm roads as the unhappy Fleury family, then the Plumbs altered their disguises to those of a pair of old crones, Sir Pulteney ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 16,2015 )
Ramage & the Freebooters by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

Every captain--and master too--making the Atlantic crossing had one fear about making his landfall: that he'd be a few miles ahead of his reckoning so that in the darkness the ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
Ramage's Signal by Dudley Pope
epub, mobi |eng | 1981-01-01 | Author:Dudley Pope [Pope, Dudley]

He had searched the fo'c'sle and found half aparmigiano of an age, size and hardness, so Stafford claimed, making it suitable for repairing the stonework of St Paul's Cathedral. Certainly ...
( Category: Military January 16,2015 )
The Kings Privateer by Dewey Lambdin
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Dewey Lambdin [Lambdin, Dewey]

"Yon visitor aboard La Malouine" Ayscough continued, sounding hoarse as a bear with a head cold. "Seen him before, have you?" "No, sir." "Well, Mister Hogue informs us he departed ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense January 16,2015 )

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