Just you glue your eye to that compass, or I'll show you round the vessel at the butt-end of my boot." Or suppose a hand to linger aft, whither he had perhaps been summoned not a minute before.

"Mr.Daniells, will you oblige me by stepping clear of that main-sheet ?" the captain might begin, with truculent courtesy.
"Thank you.

And perhaps you'll be so kind as to tell me what the hell you're doing on my quarter-deck?
I want no dirt of your sort here.

Is there nothing for you to do?
Where's the mate?
Don't you set ME to find work for you, or I'll find you some that will keep you on your back a fortnight." Such allocutions, conceived with a perfect knowledge of his audience, so that every insult carried home, were delivered with a mien so menacing, and an eye so fiercely cruel, that his unhappy subordinates shrank and quailed.

Too often violence followed; too often I have heard and seen and boiled at the cowardly aggression; and the victim, his hands bound by law, has risen again from deck and crawled forward stupefied--I know not what passion of revenge in his wronged heart.
It seems strange I should have grown to like this tyrant.