In my time we had fifty men as good, and made no fuss about them." "And you not the last of them, captain, I dare say.

Though I do love to hear of the Lord's Lord Nelson, as the people call him.

If ever a man fought his own way up--" "Madam, I know him, and respect him well.

He would walk up to the devil, with a sword between his teeth, and a boarder's pistol in each hand.
Madam, I leaped, in that condition, a depth of six fathoms and a half into the starboard mizzen-chains of the French line-of-battle ship Peace and Thunder." "Oh, Captain Carroway, how dreadful! What had you to lay hold with ?" "At such times a man must not lay hold.

My business was to lay about; and I did it to some purpose.