Do you mean to fight with her?''I mean to sink, take, burn or destroy her,' said Jack, a smile flashing across his face.
But Mrs Dockray was not going to be told her duty by any young puppy without so much as an epaulette to his name and did I think a post-captain’s wife with nine years’ seniority was going to ruin her...
As far as Stephen could see they were tolerably shipshape already. The bare little rooms had been sanded and scrubbed; various neat lockers economized space; a complication of white cordage in the cor...
And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees – why, there might be owls.
And then, sir,' he added, 'you would oblige me infinitely by marrying us, if you have the leisure.'Captain Broke paused for a moment: was this a strangely-timed pleasantry? Judging from the Doctor's d...
Ah,' said Loder, meaning by this that he regretted the turtle and the geese, that he thought Fox's refusal for his colleagues an abuse of authority, and that he for one dissociated himself from the ba...
A possible explanation may be this: in addition to professional competence, cheerful resignation, an excellent liver, natural authority and a hundred other virtues, there must be the far rarer quality...
«È tempo di andare, signore», disse Parker, con Pullings e Rossall pronti a sollevare il loro comandante fuoribordo.«Andate», disse Jack. «Io vi seguirò.» Esitarono; poi, colta la nota appassionata ne...
There never was a ship that fought well without she was a happy ship.
And I warn you that at the least attempt you will find yourself incarcerated at Bitche. At Bitche, sir, and incarcerated.'Jack felt that he was on the verge of a flashing piece of repartee, of one of...
All that wretched schoolmastering.’ ‘On some it acts like a poison, making them unfit for the society of grown men.
Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly.I do.'Which would you choose?'There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of cur...
This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called watches? Where, heu, heu, is the connection?'Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of c...
Stephen's intense irritation lasted all the time he was climbing into the maintop, and this so took away from his dread and his habitual caution that Jack said, 'What a fellow you are, Stephen. When y...
Oh, I shall plead guilty at once,’ said Stephen. ‘And I shall add that I was sitting in the powder-magazine with a naked light at the time, imagining the death of the King, wasting my medical stores,...
Not so hellfire unpoetical as all that, brother,' said Jack. 'Rowan came out with as fine a thing as ever I heard only this very morning, just before we rigged church. He and the second mate were look...
Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.
It was his sea-chest that gave him most trouble: it had two trays and a little inner chest or till, and time and again he filled the whole and forced down the lid, only to find that one of these three...
I wonder you can speak with such levity about my daughter. I have always treated yours with proper respect.’ ‘You called them a pair of turnip-headed swabs once, when they were still in long clothes.’...
But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.