acquaintance-sake

Updated: May 16, 2025

John Cox, the "true-hearted dissembling New-England Man," whom Sharp "meerly for old Acquaintance-sake" had promoted to be captain, was "the Main Promoter of their Design." When the consult was over, the pirates came on board, clapped Mr Sharp in irons, put him down on the ballast, and voted an old pirate named John Watling, "a stout seaman," to be captain in his stead.

John Masefield - On the Spanish Main: Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.