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title: Sir Humphrey Gilbert. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees
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# Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

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Sir Humphrey Gilbert. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 20 sentences and 279 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/1/) — More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a brave man whose name was Sir Humphrey Gil-bert.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/2/) — At that time there were no white people in this country of ours.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/3/) — The land was covered with forests; and where there are now great cities and fine farms there were only trees and swamps among which roamed wild In-di-ans and wild beasts.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/4/) — Sir Hum-phrey Gilbert was one of the first men who tried to make a set-tle-ment in A-mer-i-ca.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/5/) — Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail, and sail back for England.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/6/) — The second time, he was on a little ship called the "Squirrel."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/7/) — Another ship, called the "Golden Hind," was not far away.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/8/) — When they were three days from land, the wind failed, and the ships lay floating on the waves.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/9/) — Then at night the air grew very cold.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/10/) — A breeze sprang up from the east.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/11/) — Great white ice-bergs came drifting around them.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/12/) — In the morning the little ships were almost lost among the floating mountains of ice.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/13/) — The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "Squirrel" with an open book in his hand.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/14/) — He called to them and said,--
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/15/) — "Be brave, my friends!
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/16/) — We are as near heaven on the sea as on the land."
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/17/) — Night came again.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/18/) — It was a stormy night, with mist and rain.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/19/) — All at once the men on the "Hind" saw the lights on board of the "Squirrel" go out.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/19/20/) — The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, was swal-lowed up by the waves.

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