freightboat

Updated: May 26, 2025

We had all sorts of testimony to that. The trawlers and freightboat captains brought it in. He staged his piracies to a theatrical frightfulness. 'Old England! he would say, when he climbed up out of the sea onto the deck of a British ship and looked about him at the sailors, 'Old, is right, old and rotten! Then he would smite his big chest and quote the diatribes of Treitschke.

Melville Davisson Post - The Sleuth of St. James's Square