Get the plank ready." They were only boys, and they went white as they saw Jukes and Cecco preparing the fatal plank.

But they tried to look brave when Wendy was brought up.
No words of mine can tell you how Wendy despised those pirates.

To the boys there was at least some glamour in the pirate calling; but all that she saw was that the ship had not been tidied for years.

There was not a porthole on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger "Dirty pig"; and she had already written it on several.

But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.
"So, my beauty," said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, "you are to see your children walk the plank." Fine gentlemen though he was, the intensity of his communings had soiled his ruff, and suddenly he knew that she was gazing at it.