When I first heard of it I was thrown up in the wind with all aback.

I give you my word that I lost my bearings more completely than ever since I strapped a middy's dirk to my belt.

You see, friend, I know something of shipwreck or battle or whatever may come upon the waters, but the shoals in the City of London on which my poor boy has struck are clean beyond me.

Pearson had been my pilot there, and now I know him to be a rogue.

But I've taken my bearings now, and I see my course right before me." "What then, Admiral ?" "Oh, I have one or two little plans.