初二年级英语作文：生日派对（热门20篇）

I got up early this morning and had breakfast quickly.Then my mother and I took the bus to my grandmother`s home.My grandmother was glad to see me again.She gave me candies and a cup of milk.She was really kind to me.At noon,we had lunch,There were lofts of people.After that,I talked with my grandmother.She laughed again and again.Then I played with my brother and my little sister.Finally ,I said "see you " to each other.

In spite of the flood disaster, a good harvest is still in sight.

Yesterday we went to a nearby village to help the peasants get in the crops. We left our school early in the morning. It took us half an hour to reach the village. As soon as we got there, we joined the peasants in their harvesting work. They taught us how to cut rice, and how to tie it. It was in the fields that we had our lunch. After lunch, we had a short rest. We were fascinated by the beautiful scenery of the countryside. It got dark when we returned home. We were very tired, but we felt very happy.

Smoke has something for people in poor health, nicotine.

Nicotine in a cigarette can kill a mouse, 25 g of nicotine in cigarettes can kill a few cows, 40 to 60 mg of pure nicotine can kill a person.

The dangers of nicotine is also quite big, it can cause stomach or other stomach disease; Also can make the person causes heart disease cause rhythm of the heart is not straight; The outbreak of serious still can cause cancer.

Cigarettes are hidden in the invisible killer, around us are all should be vigilant.

According to scientists, the chemical composition of tobacco contains hundreds of complex, most harmful to human body, including tar, nicotine, phenols, alcohols, acids, aldehyde is 40 kinds of toxic and carcinogenic substance. Smoke after the fire, smoke, contains the chemical composition of tobacco in all, at the same time than the tobacco itself and added some harmful substances, such as carbon monoxide, tobacco tar and so on. This is because in addition to the tobacco itself, in the process of cigarette made, to add some cocoa in raw materials, liquorice, sugar, glycerin, such as ethylene glycol, moist, taste fragrance and combustion-supporting material. Although these additive itself is harmless, but changed in the process of combustion. For example, in the back of the rat with cocoa after burning smoke oil, can grow skin tumor. Glycyrrhizic acid in glycyrrhiza after burning, with other ingredients, can generate have carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Sugar increased after combustion with tobacco tar, and the product of sugar after combustion is an important carcinogens in tobacco. Glycerin and glycol after the burning of the material, not only can make smokers bladder cancer, and the acrolein inhibits the trachea and cilia secretion from the lungs, thereby increase the chances of suffering from bronchitis and emphysema, and make people with both became seriously ill.

Smoke harm to people is how great! So we cant smoke. Stop smoking, the benefit of future generations.

烟里有一种对人身体不好的东西——尼古丁。

一枝香烟中的尼古丁可以毒死一只小白鼠，25g的香烟里的尼古丁可 毒死几头牛，40至60毫克纯尼古丁可以毒死一个人。

尼古丁的危害也是相当的大，它可以引起胃痛或其它胃病;还会使人引起心律不正诱发心脏病;严重的还可能引起癌症的爆发。

香烟是隐藏在我们身边的隐形杀手，是大家所应警惕的。

据科学家测定，烟草中含有数百种复杂的化学成分，大部分对人体有害，其中焦油、尼古丁、酚类、醇类、酸类、醛类等40种是有毒和有致癌作用的物质。烟在点燃后，所产生的烟雾，包含了烟草中所有的化学成分，同时比烟草本身又增加了一些有害物质，如一氧化碳和烟焦油等。这是因为除烟草本身外，在制成卷烟的过程中，要在原料中加入一些可可、甘草、糖、甘油、乙二醇等调味、湿润、产香、助燃物质。这些添加剂虽然本身无害，但在燃烧过程中却起了变化。例如，在鼠背涂上可可燃烧后产生的烟油，可长出皮肤瘤。甘草中的甘草酸在燃烧后，与其他成分化合，可生成有致癌作用的多环芳烃。糖与烟草一起燃烧后增加了焦油量，而糖燃烧后的产物是烟中的一个重要致癌物。甘油和乙二醇在燃烧后的物质，不但可能使吸烟者患膀胱癌，而且所产生的丙烯醛可抑制气管和纤毛分泌物从肺内排出，从而增加患气管炎和肺气肿的机会，并使患有这两种病的人病情加重。

烟对人的危害是多么大啊!所以我们不能吸烟。杜绝吸烟，造福后人。

Today is my grandmas birthday . She is 60 years old . The day before my grandmas birthday . I went to changshan to buy a cake for my grandma .

In the morning , I got up , then I went to her home to eat noodles. I helped my mother to clean the floor . In the lunch , I ate some delicious food and drank juce . Then my sister gave my grandma , but I was not . We cuted that cake , It cost me 328 yuan . It was so nice , but it was expensive . My grandma was very happy when she cuted that cake . We were very happy too .

[My grandmas birthday外婆的生日初中生英语作文

Miss you so much, the spring is in my heart! I call you in the winter, the flowers and plants of the earth know... my heart...   How could the end of the cold shut my love for you, eager to spring scenery covered my heart. Your smile is like a song, moistens my love for you! Your figure is like a river, moistens my love. Sunset star out, year after year, usher in the dawn each were shining brilliantly, and off the innumerable cloud all the evening, but remained motionless, I wait for you a winter love is!   You are like a ray of sunshine in the winter, stroking my face and heart; You wake up the sleeping already a long time of the earth, and makes the whole world is full of angry; You blow quietly, heart is blended in among them...   The rain silently, mingled with underground, dripping on the land, to give the earth a little moist, make the earth vitality; You let leaves fully absorb the nature to give him the rain, the lake was filar silk itch means...   he birds are singing in the branches back, as if to pour out your arrival; Grass in the wind dancing to music performed by you, as if in a welcome meeting for you. Through the window, I saw the wonderful world of rain, see you in the rain. Proverb says: "the spring rain your such as oil", it is no wonder that after the trees and flowers in the spring rain is issued with a yellow leaves sprout!   Let us with a touching embrace spring, put the dreams of the spring into their full of lofty sentiments, sprinkle with sweat infiltration in the spring of faith, to the autumn harvest fruitful hope!

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Miss you so much, the spring is in my heart! I call you inwinter, the flowers and plants of the earth know my heart.

How could the end of the cold shut my love for you, eager to spring scenery covered my heart. Your smile is like asong, moistens my love for you! Your figure is like a river,moistens my love. Sun sets, stars out, year after year, usherin the dawn each were shining brilliantly, and off theinnumerable cloud all the evening, but remained motionless, I wait for you a winter love is!

You are like a ray of sunshine in winter, stroking my face and heart. You wake up the sleeping earth, and make thewhole world full of energy.

The rain silently, mingled with underground, dripping on the land, to give the earth a little moist, make the earth vitality.You let leaves fully absorb the rain which nature gives.

The birds are singing in the branches back, as if to pour out your arrival. Grass in the wind dancing to music performed by you, as if in a welcome meeting for you. Through the windblow, I saw the wonderful rain, see you in the rain. Proverb says: "Rain in spring is as precious as oil". It is no wonderthat the flowers begin to bloom after the spring rain.

Let us embrace the touching spring, put the dreams of the spring into their full lofty sentiments, and sprinkle with sweatinfiltration in the spring of faith, to the autumn harvest fruitful hope!

I get up at seven o’clock in the morning every day. After I brush my teeth

and wash face, I eat my breakfast. My mother makes the breakfast for me. I go to

school at 7:30am, and come back from school at 6 pm. Before I go to bed I will

do some homework. I usually go to sleep at 10 pm. On the weekend, I will go to

play football with my friends, in the summer we like to go swimming. These are

my daily life.

Every thing in the world has a beautiful birthday of its own. People often say that every year had the most happy, happy day, not just during the Spring Festival, but in the birthday, because on that day received many birthday gifts and hear a long short message, that his birthday, everyone will follow their own, feeling really good, so everyone want to come to the birthday. At the same time, no one would have thought that when the birthday arrived, the time had passed for a year. How did we get there in this year? Is it hard struggle or rafting? To a birthday, also lost a year of life, the years of precious, but there are a lot of people do not consider this problem, just hope to better birthday faster, and I hope to the birthday of late, so that I can have more time to struggle, however, this hopes of · · · · · ·

My personal idea is “ time, can prove everything, dont lose to know regret! ” maybe there are a lot of people like my idea. Although life is very hard, every one of them is going forward to death every day after the growth of the ground. I am not afraid of death, but he did not pay on the road of life, so it has no meaning, I live is just the space occupied by a dead-alive person, so I have to struggle, cherish every minute, time waits for no one, money can not buy time, only hard, life will become sense, the results of their efforts only belong to oneself, cant steal Laoguo.

I once thought, can always rely on parents, wasting a day time, grow up to understand, what must be a waste of time, on their own, · · · is a traitor through the ages; · · ·

Maybe you have to grow up to understand other things that you dont understand now. In my eyes, birthday, play, is a very happy thing, but no significance, a blink of an eye, is the past, so that when my birthday, I will do many meaningful things, let your birthday become more memorable and meaningful way in order to make the birthday, becomes valuable, really memorable.

It is really happy to be happy when you work hard; playing it is just a moment of feeling. After that, you cant find that moment of happiness again!

Wish all the people in the world to be happy forever! But please cherish time and strive hard. Life is not about playing, but in giving and giving. It is meaningful and meaningful to live, so it will be more happy when birthday comes.

相信大家看到这个题目，会以为我过生日了，其实no，no，不是我过生日，而是曾可馨。

但星期天放学之后，出人意料的事发生了，曾可馨竟然邀请我参加她的生日会，我精心制作了一个小贺卡，买了一个精致但不贵的小本子，就去生日会了。到那儿我看见她也邀请了容琪棱、李宏益、桂正熹、谭傲晨、钱依依、林秘米、侯烨欣，还有两个他们的妹妹。生日桌上摆着一些帽子，这些帽子有趣极了！凹凸不平的图案，五颜六色的颜色。在生日会中有许多有趣的小游戏，如“猜猜这是什么”，“老鹰捉小鸡”，“松鼠和大树”，“摸瞎子”，“抢椅子”……（室外活动）。但令我记忆最深的是“摸瞎子”和“松鼠和大树”。

“啊！”松鼠和大树的游戏开始了。“松鼠动！”裁判员大喊道几个是“松鼠”的同学，如见到魔鬼一样也不知往哪儿跑，见到“大树”就往里跑，还挤呢！一轮又一轮，每一轮都会有一人淘汰，直到我们都淘汰，我们才换下一个游戏。

这个游戏是“摸瞎子”。重点人物要数班里的搞笑王李宏益了，每一轮他当“瞎子”，我们东蹿西躲，李宏益摸了半天，连一个人都摸不到，但几个大胆的男生总靠近他，偏在他旁边，“啊！”一声尖叫，“桂老爷”耸着肩，嘴巴都可以装一个鸡蛋，似乎眼睛都快掉了，原来他被抓到了，他该当“瞎子”了。可一轮又一轮过去，李宏益已当了十几次“瞎子”了，每回他都张嘴吃惊地看着大家，似乎想：我的运气真差，早知道我就不碰“瞎子”了！啊，啊！

大家还想知道一些关于生日会的事吗？我下次再讲哦！

In everyones life, the path of the may not always smooth, each person will encounter difficulties and setbacks. When you face difficulty and setback, you dont fear, never retreat, must be brave to face them, to find a way to overcome, and overcome, so that you beat yourself.

I also have such an experience.

In a day, our teacher let us do a teacher himself out of the test paper, a few questions before I finished it easily, but alone has baffled me to the last question, I want to left again, method let me call back later, I want to right again, method and let me call back later, I left no stone unturned, racking their brains, think along while also didnt think out the solution to this problem. Ten minutes passed, and 20 Zhong Guo, thirty minutes passed, 35 minutes passed...... there are still five minutes seemed close examination paper, how to do? In the last few minutes, I suddenly shine at the moment, find the problem solving methods to the problem. Then I thought: this method is not in front of my eyes? Why cant I didnt see it? as luck would have it, I have just finished the question, the teacher will submit to us, after down, I know "everything be afraid and they were afraid that the word" seriously.

In this question, I know a truth, no matter what happens, as long as serious, you will overcome the present difficulties, wont let him give avenue, and extend to a more difficult way.

The classmates, please believe that, although the road ahead even more dangerous and more bumpy, but as long as you seriously and carefully to do every thing, begin with careful, ends in earnest, there would be no bad thing you do, as long as they have "serious" 2 words, then you can overcome all difficulties, overcome all difficulties, beat off all the obstacle on the road of life, make your life more meaningful!

在每个人的一生中，走的路不可能总是平坦的，每个人一定会遇到困难和挫折。当你面对困难和挫折时，你千万不要胆怯，千万不能退缩，一定要勇敢的面对它们，想办法战胜，并且克服，这样你就等于战胜了你自己。

我也有一次这样的经历。

在一天，我们老师让我们做一张老师自己出的考卷，前几道题我轻轻松松的就做完了，可是惟独有最后一道题把我给难住了，我左想一遍，方法让我给打回去了，我右想一遍，方法又让我给打回去了，我想尽了一切方法，绞尽脑汁，想了半天也没把这道题的解法想出来。十分钟过去了、二十分钟过去了、三十分钟过去了、三十五分钟过去了······眼看还有五分钟就要收卷子了，怎么办呢?在最后的几分钟里，我忽然眼前一亮，找到着这道题的解题方法。当时我想：‘这方法不就在我的眼前么?我怎么就没看见呢?’说来也巧，我刚刚做完了那一道题，老师就要我们交卷，下去以后，我知道了“世上万物怕就怕这认真二字”。

在这次做题中，我知道了一个道理，无论做什么事，只要认真，你一定会克服眼前的困难，不会让他给大道，并且向更艰难的路走去。

同学们，请相信，虽然前面的路更加艰险，更加坎坷不平，但是只要你认真地对待和认真地去做每一件事，以细心开头，以认真结尾，就没有你做不好的事，只要自己拥有“认真”二字，那么你就可以战胜一切困难，克服一切困难，打退一切人生路上的拦路虎，使你的一生更加有意义!

I have many friends, but Jim is one of my best friends. He is not handsome,

but kind-hearted. We know each other at primary school. He was the tallest in

our class at that time. He is good at study and playing basketball, while bad at

playing table tennis. Everytime he has delicious food, he will give it to me.

Moreover, whenever I feel sad, he will play with me and comfort me. However, he

is not spoilt me. For example, everytime I meet difficulties in study, I would

like to copy his, but no matter what I say, he never give his homework to me to

copy. Instead he teaches how to do it. All in all, no matter what difficulties I

meet, he will help me. It is him make me realize that a friend in need is a

friend indeed.

My birthday is on July 15th. I usually on my summer holiday at that time.

So I often have a brithday party with my friends. We sing songs, play games, eat birthday cakes.

Then we usually go to the park. We go boating and climb the moutains.

Of course well have a good time.

There are different kinds of noodles in our country. In Shanxi, the most famous noodle is sliced noodles, in Guangdong, it has dry fried noodles; in Si chuan, people love spicy hot noodles very much. Born in Beijing and live in Beijing, I love fried bean paste noodles the best.

在我国，有各种各样的面条。在山西，最著名的面食是刀削面;在广东，最著名的是伊面;在四川，人们最爱的则是麻辣面。作为一个土生土长的北京人，我最爱炸酱面。

The fired bean paste noodles is very easy to cook. First of it, you should slice the cucumber into pieces, cook the soy bean and green bean for about ten minutes, then put these material in a bowl. Second, stir-frying the paste. Mix the minced meat, ginger and green onion, and then put them in the pan, keep frying the paste until you can smell the aroma. Last, put the paste onto the noodles you have prepare and add the cucumber, soy bean and green bean to the noodles. The fried bean paste noodles are done.

炸酱面很容易烹饪。首先，你先把黄瓜切丝，把黄豆和青豆用沸水煮上十分钟，然后把这些材料装进碗里面备用。其次，烹制炸酱。把肉末、洋葱和葱花混合在一起，不停地翻炒，直到你闻到肉香。最后，把肉酱淋在煮好的面条上，再放上黄瓜丝、黄豆和青豆，炸酱面就算做好了。

If you have time, you can try this, I sure you will love it.

如果你有时间，你一定要试试。我保证你会爱上炸酱面的。

Parents to our love is meticulous, their love always with us. Now, we want to use the grateful heart to repay their parents.

Parents and nurturing since childhood to the big us, about how much love we pour! Dont we should thank them? Perhaps some people think its no big deal, if this understanding is wrong. In a word, I think parents love is beyond expression. And some let us listen to bother "nag", also contain the parents of our deep love. As they were leaving the mother a charge: "be careful on the road!" , "the road slowly!" Infinite embodies the parents of our caring. On one occasion, my mother said to me he when I rode a bike to school, heart in her throat. Visible parents about how much we care!

Aging parents day by day, but we are growing up day by day. We cannot to parents "winter is warm, summer is part of the morning is province, faint is." At the very least ought to be "parents call, do not delay, parents life, do not lazy, parents teach, must respect, parents, must be suitable bearing. The will, the will face." We must learn to understand, to understand the world parents heart! We should be doing little things for parents, even washing dishes, a tow, wipe the table, poured a glass of water for the parents... Help your parents. To the best of our filial piety.

Parents are our parents, are our partners, and take care of us and raising us. We should thank our parents for us the care and support. You did wrong, parents sometimes harsh rebuke. See the exam is, parents will be criticism, even beat and scold! Dont think their parents what is bad, that is hate iron not to produce! We dont wrong about the hardest thing in the world who love us!

Now, let us learn to Thanksgiving! Have a grateful heart, people become more noble, the world will become more beautiful!

父母对我们的爱是无微不至的，他们的爱时时伴随着我们。现在，我们要用感恩的心来回报父母。

父母把我们从小养育大，对我们倾注了多少爱呀!难道我们不应该感恩他们吗?或许有些人认为这没什么大不了的，如果这样理解就错了。总之，我觉得父母的爱是无法用语言来表达的。又是一些让我们听着烦的"唠叨",也包含着父母对我们深深的爱。临出门时母亲一句嘱咐："路上小心!"，"路上慢点儿!"都体现着父母对我们的无限牵挂。有一次，妈妈对我说他每当我骑着自行车去学校的时候，心都提到了嗓子眼儿。可见父母对我们是多么的牵挂啊!

父母一天一天的衰老了，而我们却一天一天的长大了。我们对父母虽不能"冬则温，夏则凊，晨则省，昏则定。"最起码应该"父母呼，行勿缓，父母命，行勿懒，父母教，须敬听，父母责，须顺承。出必告，反必面。"我们要学会懂事，明白天下父母心!我们应该为父母做一些小事，哪怕是洗一洗碗，拖一拖地，擦一擦桌子，为父母倒一杯水……帮一下父母。尽一下我们的孝心。

父母是我们的家长，是我们的伙伴，也是照顾我们和养育我们的人。我们应该感谢父母对我们的照顾和养育之恩。自己做错了，父母有时会严厉的责备。看是考砸了，父母会批评，甚至打骂!不要认为自己的父母是怎样的不好，那是恨铁不成钢啊!我们不要错怪这世上最疼爱我们的人啊!

现在，让我们学会感恩吧!有了感恩的心，人会变得更高尚，人间也会变得更加美好!

During the 15 days from New Year’s Eve to Lantern Festival, Beijing was

affected by smog for more than half the time, because of which people suffered a

lot. On the road people drove slowly because they could not see clearly. People

also suffered from many illnesses caused by smog.

The smog in Beijing has been caused by many factors, in which the increase

of cars in the city area plays an important role. The carssend off a lot of

poisonous gases, which in turn adds to the already seriousair pollution.

In my opinion, the number of cars should be limited.We should call on the

people to use more public transport. Only in this way canwe expect to have more

sunny days.

Canton Tower,as a new landmark,located in the new CBD and the Pearl River landscape axis,lying in the geometric center of Guangzhou city.Canton Tower is 125 meters away from the south bank of Pearl River,facing the Haixinsha Island and Zhujiang New Town.In the year 2004,Information Based Architecture won the international competition,in which 13 of the worlds largest architectural offices participated,with a stunning and challenging design.IBA collaborated with Arup,the global design and business consulting firm developed the concept design.In later stages,IBA cooperated mainly with the local Chinese offices of Arup and a Local Design Institute.

My hobby

My hobby is lisetening to music.I like listening to music best.Because listening to music makes me relaxed.When I am tired,I will listening some quiet music,that makes me fall asleep very quickly.My favorite music is the music that has good lyrics.Good lyrics can also make me learn Chinese or English well.

I love listening to music.I will keep this hobby forever.

Panda is one of the scarcest animals.

People in the world like it very much. There used to be many pandas in China long ago. As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, pandas became less.

But at present, the number of pandas is increasing year by year.

There are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them. Nowadays, the biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan.

There is a research centre for nature and wild life there.

Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.

My fiat is made up of eight rooms：one hall，one bathroom，one kitchen，one dining room，one living room， two bedrooms and one toilet。The hall faces the front door。 When you come into my flat，you will first see the hall。The bathroom is on the right，and the toilet is on the left。In front of you，there are two doors。The left one leads to one of the bedrooms，and the right one leads to the living room。When you come into the living room， you will see two doors again。The left one leads to another bedroom，and the right one to the kitchen。The kitchen goes straight to the dining room。Besides，there is also a balcony next to the living room and one of the bedrooms。

我的房子有八个房间：一个客厅，一个卫生间，一个厨房，一个餐厅，一个客厅，两间卧室和一个卫生间。客厅面对大门。当你进入我的房子时，你首先会看到客厅。右侧是浴室，厕所在左边。在你的面前，有两个门。左边一个通向一间卧室，右侧的门通向起居室。当你进入客厅，你又看见两个门。左一个通向另一间卧室，右边的可以去厨房。厨房直奔餐厅。此外，还有一个客厅的阳台和一间卧室的阳台。

我今天起得特别早，因为，今天是我的生日。妈妈说，要给我开生日派对呢!

一起床，我就打电话给我的小伙伴们，邀请她们来参加我的生日。不一会，门被敲响了，我开了门，只见门口站着大大小小的小朋友，都拿着大大小小的礼物。我数了数，贝贝、琪琪、佳佳、诺诺，一二三四，呀，都到齐了。

我们先去买了蛋糕，再一起去吃必胜客。必胜客可好吃了，我和小伙伴们都吃得津津有味。吃完必胜客，我们也就回家了。在家里，我们唱啊跳啊，我还和小伙伴们玩了一种叫“寻宝”的游戏。我把我的宝贝们藏在一个个地方，小伙伴们找。我们都很喜欢玩这个游戏，玩得很开心。最后，贝贝第一名，佳佳第二名，琪琪第三名，诺诺第四名。

玩好了，我们开始吃蛋糕。小朋友们给我唱了生日歌，我许了愿，大家吃了蛋糕，好开心呀!

我美好的一天结束了。今天，真是我最开心的一天了。

Today, I look out of the window, outside a snow-white, the original snow, this is the first snow in this winter! My back bags, walking in the street, the street of snow covered with footprints, big and small... The roadside small branch has some snow, like a winter grandpa to saplings on a white coat! Winter grandpa covered wheat with a thick layer of the quilt. Come to campus, Holly leaf, full of snow, the campus pine as hits the Christmas tree, very pretty. The a piece of white on the playground behind the teaching building, there are many small classmate snowball, the snowball fight there, who is already a big snowman.

The first snow in this winter is beautiful!

今天，我起来往窗外一看，外边一片雪白，原来下雪了，这可是今年冬天里下的第一场雪啊!我背上书包，走在大街上，大街上的雪上面都印着脚印，有大的，有小的……路边的小树杈上有一些雪，好像冬爷爷给小树披上了一件白色的大衣呢!冬爷爷给小麦盖上了一层厚厚的棉被。来到校园里，冬青叶子上积满了雪，校园里的松树就像一棵棵圣诞树，非常好看。教学楼后面的操场上一片雪白，有好多小同学在那儿滚雪球、打雪仗，不知是谁已经堆了一个大大的雪人了。

今年冬天里的第一场雪真美啊!

Between the darkness of earth and heaven she was burning fiercely upon a

disc of purple sea shot by the blood-red play of gleams; upon a disc of water

glittering and sinister. A high, clear flame, an immense and lonely flame,

ascended from the ocean, and from its summit the black smoke poured continuously

at the sky. She burned furiously, mournful and imposing like a funeral pile

kindled in the night, surround-ed by the sea, watched over by the stars.

A magnificent death had come like a grace, like a gift, like a reward to

that old ship at the end of her laborious days. The surrender of her weary ghost

to the keeping of stars and sea was stirring like the sight of a glorious

triumph. The masts fell just before daybreak, and for a moment there was a burst

and turmoil of sparks that seemed to fill with flying fire the night patient and

watchful, the vast night lying silent upon the sea.