aan dek blijven en met ontzag de reusachtige golven gadeslaan. Hij zou ze niet vreezen: hij kent ze van zijn jeugd af; hij zou zich even veilig voelen als thuis in zijn woonkamer.
1. Difference between fervent, ardent, and fiery.
2. Difference between voyage and journey, to voyage and to journey. — On.
3. More literary: highly improbable.
4. This wish sounds more natural in English than that wish, because it has only just been mentioned.
5. Decide. Difference between to resolve and to conclude. — Would be obliged.
6. Say good-bye to cannot be used here. — Since; as.
8. Office of postmaster.
9. Perform.
10. Within himself; not by himself.
11. Difference between he had better and he had rather. — In his native country.
12. Even apart.
14. jteottHnduce.
19. Difference between vividly and lively.
20. For hours; for many hours at a stretch. — Difference between to gaze and to stare.
26. At last.
27. His leave. — Not from.
28. Difference between to become a sailor and to turn sailor.
33. Difference between mate and steersman.
38 By preference.
39. Seaside resorts; watering-places.
44. Sociably; socially.
46. Not by or with.
48 From.
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