To tell the truth, sir, I believe I had rather sit in the shelter for a while. The cabbage seems to have turned my inward parts to water.’Nonsense,’ said Stephen, ‘it is the most wholesome cabbage I h...
Jack prese la lettera, borbottò uno «scusami» e si ritirò. Tornò poco dopo, più alto, più dritto nella persona, il volto raggiante. «Signore Iddio, Stephen, è la lettera più bella che io abbia mai ric...
It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living...
Good morning, Doctor, cried Jack, appearing behind him. 'I did not know you were inthe hotel.''Good morning, sir,' said Stephen. 'I was not. I slept with a friend.''Oh, I see,' said Jack. He was pleas...
Wet the swab,
What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?Everything, since he has a command and I have not.
Sallee rover.
Jack, you have debauched my sloth.
Jack and Stephen were neither of them human until the first pot of coffee was down, hot and strong.
HE WHO DARES NOTHING
Ukase.
Glottis
[Babbington] What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?[Captain Aubrey] Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for mor...
Valuable and ingenious he might be, thought Jack, fixing him with his glass, but false he was too, and perjured. He had voluntarily sworn to have no truck with vampires, and here, attached to his boso...
On and on she sailed, in warmer seas but void, as though they alone had survived Deucalion’s flood; as though all land had vanished from the earth; and once again the ship’s routine dislocated time an...
Tergiversation
Then a small vessel in the lower left-hand corner caught his eye, something in the nature of a pink; she was beating up for the harbour, but it was obvious from the direction of the lady’s clothes tha...
The nymphs in green? Delightful girls.’ ‘It is clear you have been a great while at sea, to call those sandy-haired coarse-featured pimply short-necked thick-fingered vulgar-minded lubricious blockhea...
Stephen observed, ‘I have seen many examples of the seaman’s volatility, but none equal to this. When you recall the last week, culminating in the events of yesterday – no longer ago than yesterday it...
Stephen and Higgins began bleeding all hands. They only took eight ounces from each, but this, bowl after bowl, amounted to nine good buckets with foam of an extraordinary beauty: but they had rather...