The ships came close aboard to pass messages.

The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.

What's her name? Lalage. She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather. She murmured, I know it is strange.

The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by it’s course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean.