Yes, I've had some adventures in my time; and, do you know, Mistress Blythe, I still lust after 'em.

Yes, old and useless as I be, there's an awful longing sweeps over me at times to sail out--out--out there--forever and ever." "Like Ulysses, you would 'Sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars until you die,'" said Anne dreamily.
"Ulysses?
I've read of him.

Yes, that's just how I feel--jest how all us old sailors feel, I reckon.

I'll die on land after all, I s'pose.
Well, what is to be will be.

There was old William Ford at the Glen who never went on the water in his life, 'cause he was afraid of being drowned.