 | James Anthony Froude - History - 1870 - 744 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....slung, displaying a small, delicate, but long and sinewyhand. When at sea he wore a scarlet cap with a gold band, and was exacting in the respect with... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1870 - 698 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....with which he required to be treated by his crew. Such was Francis Drake when he stood on the deck of the Pelican in Plymouth harbour, in November, 1577.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - History - 1870 - 744 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....gold band, and was exacting in the respect with which lie required to be treated by his crew. Such was Francis Drake when he stood on the deck of the Pelican... | |
 | Thomas Wadleigh Harvey - Readers - 1875 - 348 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible, and fierce. 2. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....displaying a small, delicate, but long and sinewy hand. 3. When at sea he wore a scarlet cap with a gold band, and was exacting in the respect with which he... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 328 pages
...and beard, but hard, inflexible, and fierce. e. His dress, as he appears in one of his portraits, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....plaited cord with a ring attached to it, in which one of his fingers is slung, displaying a small, delicate, but long and sinewy hand. When at sea he... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1881 - 716 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....which, as if the attitude was familiar, one of his ringers is slung, displaying a small, delicate, but long and sinewy hand. When at sea he wore a scarlet... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1882 - 408 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible, and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose, dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....with which he required to be treated by his crew." Francis Drake was born near Tavistock, in Devonshire, in 1541. His father, Edmund Drake, was a tenant... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - Will - 1885 - 232 pages
...was necessary to be able to command men as well as to be an accomplished sailor and a fearless man. "When at sea he wore a scarlet cap with a gold band,...with which he required to be treated by his crew." Like Columbus, he found he must be a master of men ; and each of these daring navigators was respected,... | |
 | Sir Geoffrey Arthur Romaine Callender - Ocean in literature, English - 1921 - 444 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce. His dress, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....with which he required to be treated by his crew. History of England. APPENDIX CHARLES SHADWELL flor. I7IO I72O BRUTAL AND FINICAL [SCENE — Deal. COMMODORE... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1870 - 712 pages
...moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible, and fierce. His drt->s, as he appears in his portrait, is a loose dark .seaman's shirt, belted at the waist....with which he required to be treated by his crew.' — Vol. xi., p. '¿7'2. Events now seemed to portend a rupture, and the longthreatened conflict between... | |
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... thirty-two years old, of middle height, with crisp brown hair, a broad high forehead ; grey steady eyes, unusually long ; small ears, tight to the head ; the mouth and chin slightly concealed by the moustache and beard, but hard, inflexible and fierce.... 
