If a continent lies before the pole, it must stop before the continent; but if, on the contrary, the pole is washed by open sea, it will go even to the pole."
It is possible, if the sea exists at the South Pole, that it may be covered; and, consequently, we shall be unable to come to the surface."
Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the
pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.
Here was I, alone in a punt, without a pole, drifting helplessly down mid-stream - possibly towards a weir.
I explained the matter to them when I got nearer, and they caught me and lent me a pole. The weir was just fifty yards below.
Sancho fell upon his knees devoutly appealing to heaven to deliver him from such imminent peril; which it did by the activity and quickness of the millers, who, pushing against the boat with their
poles, stopped it, not, however, without upsetting and throwing Don Quixote and Sancho into the water; and lucky it was for Don Quixote that he could swim like a goose, though the weight of his armour carried him twice to the bottom; and had it not been for the millers, who plunged in and hoisted them both out, it would have been Troy town with the pair of them.
I played with Lena and Prince, I played with the Pole, I went buggy-riding with the old colonel, who had taken a fancy to me and used to talk to me about Lena and the `great beauties' he had known in his youth.
On the table beside her there was a basket of early summer flowers which the Pole had left after he heard of the accident.
The party consisted of the
Pole, a wretched looking clerk with a spotty face and a greasy coat, who had not a word to say for himself, and smelt abominably, a deaf and almost blind old man who had once been in the post office and who had been from immemorial ages maintained by someone at Amalia Ivanovna's.
Once more the trick river reversed its current, but this time the Scarecrow was on guard and used the
pole to push the raft toward a big rock which lay in the water.
Ten minutes he maka da machine - one barrel, one wheel-hub, two
poles, justa like dat."
They intimated that there was some band in the neighborhood, and probably a hunting party, as they had lodge
poles for an encampment.