I can see the glint of the scabbard which he carries on his larboard side.

I think we shall have more wind soon.

With a breeze we can show our heels to anything in French waters, but a galley or an armed boat would overhaul us now." De Catinat, who, though he could speak little English, had learned in America to understand it pretty well, looked anxiously at Amos Green.
"I fear that we shall bring trouble on this good captain," said he, "and that the loss of his cargo and ship may be his reward for having befriended us.

Ask him whether he would not prefer to land us on the north bank.

With our money we might make our way into the Lowlands." Ephraim Savage looked at his passenger with eyes which had lost something of their sternness.