Ofttimes he drew his sleeve across his face, but there was no damming that trickle.
Ah, envy not Hook.
There came to him a presentiment of his early dissolution [death].

It was as if Peter's terrible oath had boarded the ship.

Hook felt a gloomy desire to make his dying speech, lest presently there should be no time for it.
"Better for Hook," he cried, "if he had had less ambition!" It was in his darkest hours only that he referred to himself in the third person.
"No little children to love me!" Strange that he should think of this, which had never troubled him before; perhaps the sewing machine brought it to his mind.

For long he muttered to himself, staring at Smee, who was hemming placidly, under the conviction that all children feared him.
Feared him! Feared Smee! There was not a child on board the brig that night who did not already love him.

He had said horrid things to them and hit them with the palm of his hand, because he could not hit with his fist, but they had only clung to him the more.