Donna, however, is unable to sell it because the fish wasn't caught on a commercial vessel.
Then his mother said that might very likely not be a good thing to do, and that he ought to take a holy-water vessel with him, and drop some boiling water on their faces.
Then again they were in great peril, but the tailor, who was not idle, took his wondrous needle, and with a few stitches sewed the planks together and they seated themselves upon them, and collected together all the fragments of the vessel.
It so happened, while they were sailing onwards over the deep sea, that faithful John, who was sitting on the fore part of the vessel, making music, saw three ravens in the air, which came flying towards them.
They traveled hy steamship and by sailing vessel ; the flea performed his tricks, and so they got a free passage on the way and arrived at the wild country.
At last the little fish spied a long dark streak away down, and made his way toward it, but it was neither fish nor cable: it was the gunwale of a sunken vessel, which above and below the deck was broken in two by the force of the sea.
Every one of its feathers shone like gold: one feather drifted down on the great merchant vessel that, with all sail set, was sailing away.
" These words would aptly describe the vessel from Spain, for here was the same luxury, and the same parting thought naturally arose: "God grant that we once more may meet In sweet unclouded peace and joy.
He went to sea in a wretched vessel, and sat at the helm, while the skipper sat over the grog-can.
Every man's mind was to him as a vessel in which something was concocting; every land a kind of mental kitchen.
It was a terrible storm, great waves arose, darkly heaving and tossing the vessel to and fro.
We reached it toward evening; but the little sailing vessel had to wait for the mail, which didn't arrive until night.
"He is too big," they all said, and the turkey cock, who had been born into the world with spurs, and fancied himself really an emperor, puffed himself out like a vessel in full sail, and flew at the duckling, and became quite red in the head with passion, so that the poor little thing did not know where to go, and was quite miserable because he was so ugly and laughed at by the whole farmyard.
Presently she moved again—she stumbled: the earthen vessel fell from her head, and broke on the marble steps.
They had more beautiful voices than any human being could have; and before the approach of a storm, and when they expected a ship would be lost, they swam before the vessel, and sang sweetly of the delights to be found in the depths of the sea, and begging the sailors not to fear if they sank to the bottom.
