garrington

Updated: May 23, 2025

'What are your losses, sir? asked the lieutenant of Captain Garrington. 'Two killed, three rather badly wounded. 'You got off lightly. There don't seem to be many Turks left. 'Only nine alive, and of those four are wounded. 'Are the launch's engines all right? 'Nothing wrong with them, answered the captain, 'so Williams tells me. 'Well, it's getting late and very thick.

T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges - On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles

Of the schoolmistress, who taught him to read and whose name was Garrington, he has drawn a pleasing picture in his verses entitled Childhood. At about six years of age he began to learn writing, arithmetic, and French, from the Rev. John Blanchard; and when out of school was employed in carrying about the butcher's basket.

Henry Francis Cary - Lives of the English Poets: From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of: Johnson's Lives