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There was one huge lanky fellow, that looked like a soldier, and had a halberd; another was habited in a sailor's costume, with a fascinating patch over one eye; and a third, who seemed the leader of the gang, was a stout man in a sailor's frock and a horseman's jack-boots, whom one might fancy, if he were anything, to be a horse-marine. Of one of these worthies, Mrs.
"No, no, Tom Sawyer," I remember hearing one of the latter observe, "you shall not have little Ben to turn into a horse-marine on no account. He is our'n and cut out for a blue-jacket, and a blue-jacket he will be till the end of his days." Still the Jollies were in no way disposed to give up their share of me, to which they considered they had a right.
Jorrocks, rising from the ground, "I owes you a debt of gratitude that I can never wipe off you'll be in the day-book and ledger of my memory for ever and a year." "Who are you?" inquired Nimrod, becoming more and more puzzled, as he contrasted his dialect with his dress. "Who am I? Why, I'm Mister Jorrocks." "Jorrocks, by Jove! Who'd have thought it! I declare I took you for a horse-marine.
Either reason holds good, or both, according to the character of the officers and crew. It must be evident that the man-of-war's-man casts but an evil eye on a marine. To call a man a "horse-marine," is, among seamen, one of the greatest terms of contempt.
She was frequently a sort of magnificent horse-marine who bounced herself into the presence of prominent individuals, thrusting her venomed points on those who had been flattered into listening; at other times she was feline in her methods. Talleyrand and Fouché made use of this latter phase of her character to serve their own ends.
For James and his history Cooper had unbounded contempt. This horse-doctor, as he termed him, he looked upon as being as well fitted to describe a naval engagement as the proverbial horse-marine would be to take part in one.
"'Can you make her out? sais he; that's another sea tarm he has picked up; he will talk like a horse-marine at last. "'Yes, sais you, 'she is a Quang-Tonger. "'A Quang-Tonger? sais the gall, and before the old coon has disgested that hard word, she asks, 'what in natur is that?
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