half-imperative

Updated: June 20, 2025

A minute had scarcely elapsed, when one of the lieutenants came down, in a half-friendly, half-imperative manner, to acquaint me that I must come up immediately. The scene that ensued how can I sufficiently describe it? Had I not been sustained by the impudence of desperation, I should have jumped overboard directly I had got on deck.

Edward Howard - Rattlin the Reefer