Sentences with phrase «heaped golden vessels»

Temeraire could disagree, very vehemently, but when Iskierka had chivvied a few of her crew — newly brought on in Madras — into bringing up the sea - chests from below, and throwing open the lids to let the sunlight in upon the heaped golden vessels, and even one small casket of beautifully cut gemstones, he found his arguments did ring a little hollow.