1 Then I experimented with the sail.
2 After breakfast I had another unenviable experience.
3 All your experience of men and things is worthless here.
4 I had not the experience to steer at the gait we were going on a quartering course.
5 In this connection I cannot forbear relating my first experience with a boarding sea.
6 Our experience warranted this state of mind, and we went about our work with anxiety always upon us.
7 You little thought when you trusted yourself to me that I had had no experience whatever with small boats.
8 But I shall be a different women for the experience, as well as a stronger woman," she answered; "and, I hope a better woman.
9 Out of my experience with stewards on the Atlantic liners at the end of the voyage, I could have sworn he was waiting for his tip.
10 I proceeded to experiment, lashing and wedging the steering-oar until the boat held on fairly well by the wind without my assistance.
11 I remembered hazily the physics of my school days, while the last few months had given me practical experience with mechanical purchases.
12 Then, in desperation, I abandoned the attempt to reef the mainsail and resolved to try the experiment of heaving to under the close-reefed foresail.
13 But as I was without experience, and as every detail was an experiment and every successful detail an invention, the day was well gone before her shelter was an accomplished fact.
14 But as I was without experience, and as every detail was an experiment and every successful detail an invention, the day was well gone before her shelter was an accomplished fact.
15 Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellow-men.
16 Three hours more were required to gasket the mainsail and jib, and at two in the morning, nearly dead, the life almost buffeted and worked out of me, I had barely sufficient consciousness to know the experiment was a success.
17 I, who had lived my life in quiet places, only to enter at the age of thirty-five upon a course of the most irrational adventure I could have imagined, never had more incident and excitement crammed into any forty hours of my experience.
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