Each schœne, comprising 60 stades, is equal to 19,636 English feet, or 12,000 Oriental cubits.

The grayish and the flea-bitten differ from the rubican, in that the white hairs which form these markings are sufficiently numerous to change, locally, the nature of the base of the coat.

Merchant vessels usually hoist a little on the halyards, so as to clear the sail from the top, then belay them and get the lee sheet chock home; then haul home the weather sheet, shivering the sail by the braces to help it home, and hoist on the halyards until the leaches are well taut, taking a turn with the braces, if the wind is fresh, and slacking them as the yard goes up.

And when he goes to greet his mother the surreality of it all stares him in the face: in two years she's turned into a little old lady.