An instant later the maid, who looked as tousled and bewildered as if she had that instant been aroused from the deepest sleep, appeared with a card upon a tray.

The hulls are four-compartment vessels with thwartships framing, longitudinally braced, with continuous engineroom girders, egg-crated into transverse floors.

I can't simply stand by and watch you ruin your life.

[…] while you, remote from the scene of suffering, had nothing to lose, and as little to dread, the information reached you like a tale of antiquity, in which the distance of time defaces the conception, and changes the severest sorrows into conversable amusement.