blood-and-beef

Updated: May 1, 2025

"'Tis pity!" says he, shaking his head. "Aye, 'tis pity, for I do like you more and more, such a fine blood-and-beef, dare-and-be-damned, gibbet-like figure of a rogue, shipmate, as would grace a cross-roads better than most, which is one reason I was drawn to ye, d'ye see, I being a quiet soul " "And a pirate, like as not!" "Easy, shipmate, easy. Passion is an ill word to steer by.

Jeffery Farnol - Black Bartlemy's Treasure