The hurry of the times, the loading and discharging organization of the docks, the use of hoisting machinery which works quickly and will not wait, the cry for prompt despatch, the very size of his ship, stand nowadays between the modern seaman and the
thorough knowledge of his craft.
At length did cross an Albatross:
Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name.
And when I saw my devil, I found him serious,
thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity--through him all things fall.
He was faithful, punctual, industrious,
thorough. N.
I guess no, I think you are right about being
thorough, for I used to understand a great deal better when papa taught me a few lessons than when Miss Power hurried me through so many.
"The Germans," she said, "are too
thorough, and this is all very well sometimes, but at other times it does not do."
But you must be a
thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery; like the Solomon islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.
Pinocchio became very thoughtful and, forgetting his good manners altogether, he pulled a hand out of his pocket and gave his head a
thorough scratching.
I let him take the helm, while the rest began a
thorough search, all keeping abreast, with lanterns.
Johnson, planning a far more
thorough work, contracted to do it for L1575--scanty pay for himself and his copyists, the more so that the task occupied more than twice as much time as he had expected, over seven years.
"Well," he said, "I thought I was pretty quick, and our John quicker still, but you do beat all I ever saw for being quick and
thorough at the same time."
"It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most
thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.