"Avast" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the end of the week—for Sunday is the fit conclusion of an ill-spent week, and not the fresh and brave beginning of a new one—with this one other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout with thundering voice, "Pause! Avast! Why so seeming ...
— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau
... "Avast yelpin', you swabs!" bellowed Coke. "D'ye want to let every bally sojer on the island know where you are? We're makin' for the creek. Will that please you? Now, ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... stormy and cold. What whetted our desire for a sail was that Captain Mugford would not even show us the boat. We would tease him, and guess at every mast we saw in the bay; but the Captain only laughed, and put us off with such remarks as "Keep your powder dry, my young hearties!" "Avast heaving! the ...
— Captain Mugford - Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors • W.H.G. Kingston
... 'Avast, belay, when I appear, By fear they're overtook; Nought's left upon your bones when you Have ...
— Peter and Wendy • James Matthew Barrie
... "Avast your jaw! will ye? You'll have enough to look out for your own gullet, my lad, without mindin' any body else's; so turn to and say your prayers afore eight bells is struck, because there's sharks ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise |
