taffrail

Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left be- hind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.

I remember nothing about what Ham said except for the punch line, which (I now know) came from one of Mark Twain's Alta California letters: "Found my old girl setting in her old place by the taffrail, sighing and pensive, just as she always is, ...

There is a Scotrail, maybe a Taffrail, but our system demonstrates how our land is run.

Isaiah, Ezra, their lamentations, insufficient o in the madness, and me with my tall can of iced beer leaning at the railing outside my door, like at the taffrail of a ship, but instead of the big turbines thrumming on blackoil, now only the small throats of the air conditioners gagging and moaning.

Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.

And, some of the details are simply delightful, such as the continuous wood taffrail running round the sides of the cabin," he added.

"It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.

Some two years ago, the defendants, owners of the Taffrail Tavern ("Tavern"), issued these orders to their bartenders: You are instructed to observe the following ...

Your article 'Shock and Oar' in the April issue makes the suggestion that the Mary Rose sank because moving her guns aft actually forced her taffrail under water.

The new recruit jumped up from the bow where the coxswain had directed him to sit, and waving his hat to his silent shipmates sorrowfully looking over at him from the taffrail, bade the lads a genial goodbye.

I stand at the taffrail and think to myself, taffrail, enjoying the union of a thing and its word.

In quiet moments I stood often at the taffrail and gazed, as into a cold fire, at the churned glass flowing from the stern day upon day for weeks, reflecting there upon the great size of the world and the smallness, brevity and loneliness of our place in it.

Walking to the taffrail, I was in time to make out, on the very edge of a darkness thrown by a towering black mass like the very gateway of Erebus--yes, I was in time to catch an evanescent glimpse of my white hat left behind to mark the spot where the secret sharer of my cabin and of my thoughts, as though he were my second self, had lowered himself into the water to take his punishment: a free man, a proud swimmer striking out for a new destiny.

Dunlop won with Taffrail last year and his five-year-old can come good again here.