It takes a brave man to fight a duel with a chap who may be only half as big as he is, but who can shoot like the devil.

So you see, Captain Trigger, the cat-o'-nine-tails has no terror for me." Mr.Mott regarded the young man with wide-open, somewhat incredulous eyes.
"You don't look like a fire-eating, swashbuckling party to me," he said.
"I am the most peaceable chap you've ever seen, Mr.Mott.You needn't be alarmed.

I'm not going to bite a hole in the ship and scuttle her.
Moreover, I am a very meek and lowly individual on board this ship.
There's a lot of difference between being in supreme command with all kinds of authority to bolster you up and being a rat in a trap as I am now.

Up in Copperhead Camp I was a nabob, here I'm a nobody.

Up there I was the absolute boss of five or six hundred men,--I won't say I could boss the women,--and I made 'em all walk chalk without once losing step.