But it was, in our case, more than a little.

The truth is, we were all womanish fellows about a height; and I have myself been put, more than once, _hors de combat_ by a less affair than the rock of Edinburgh Castle.
We discussed it in the dark and between the passage of the rounds; and it was impossible for any body of men to show a less adventurous spirit.

I am sure some of us, and myself first among the number, regretted Goguelat.

Some were persuaded it was safe, and could prove the same by argument; but if they had good reasons why some one else should make the trial, they had better still why it should not be themselves.

Others, again, condemned the whole idea as insane; among these, as ill-luck would have it, a seaman of the fleet; who was the most dispiriting of all.