I've a-fired off my ramrod!" "Then you'm a lost man." "Will it--will it have killed any person, d'ee think ?" Oke's teeth rattled like a box of dice as he peered out over the dark and agitated crowd of boats.
"Shouldn' wonder at all." "I didn' mean to kill any person, Mr.Spettigew!" "'Tis the sort of accident, Oke, that might happen to anyone in war.
At the worst they'll recommend 'ee to mercy.

The mistake was your tellin' me." "You won't inform upon me, Mr.Spettigew?
Don't say you'll inform upon me!" "No, I won't; not if I can help it.

But dang it! first of all you swaller the fuse, and next you fire off your ramrod." "E-everything must have a beginning, Mr.Spettigew." Uncle Issy shook his head.

"I doubt you'll never make a sojer, William Oke.

You'm too frolicsome wi' the materials.