battle-noise

Updated: June 9, 2025

There was no such incident as that which stirred us on another voyage the taking of a carving knife to the purser by a drunkard. On the other hand there was no unusual battle-noise of spiritual combat such as may have quickened the pulses of one or two of the boats the year of the English Mission. We were middling, and dull at that, on the "Sluys Castle," till we reached Madeira.

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales