Then, catching sight of them, as it were, he held them in front of his eyes, cursing and blaspheming and bewailing his misfortune and his helplessness, till Niclaus quieted him down.
"But it was his mind that planned out the affair and it was his spirit which carried the other two on.

Neither of them was of the bold buccaneer type; and Fector, especially, had never in his adventurous life used other weapons than slander and lies.
"That very evening they departed on a visit to Bamtz in Niclaus's prau, which had been lying, emptied of her cargo of cocoanuts, for a day or two under the canal bridge.

They must have crossed the bows of the anchored _Sissie_, and no doubt looked at her with interest as the scene of their future exploit, the great haul, _le grand coup_! "Davidson's wife, to his great surprise, sulked with him for several days before he left.

I don't know whether it occurred to him that, for all her angelic profile, she was a very stupidly obstinate girl.

She didn't like the tropics.