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They would have made but sorry man-o'-war's-men had they entertained the gang in any other way.
Here were the high and the humble, hardi vlon and hardi biaou the ugly and the beautiful, the dwarfed and the tall, the dandy and the dowdy, the miser and the spendthrift; young ladies gay in silks, laces, and scarfs from Spain, and gentlemen with powdered wigs from Paris; sailors with red tunics from the Mediterranean, and fishermen with blue and purple blouses from Brazil; man-o'-war's-men with Greek petticoats, Turkish fezzes, and Portuguese espadras.
Here were the high and the humble, hardi vlon and hardi biaou the ugly and the beautiful, the dwarfed and the tall, the dandy and the dowdy, the miser and the spendthrift; young ladies gay in silks, laces, and scarfs from Spain, and gentlemen with powdered wigs from Paris; sailors with red tunics from the Mediterranean, and fishermen with blue and purple blouses from Brazil; man-o'-war's-men with Greek petticoats, Turkish fezzes, and Portuguese espadras.
"To rake," which is applied to spars, is from the Saxon racian, to incline; "to steeve," which is applied to the bowsprit, and often pronounced "stave," is from the Italian stivare. A ship in ballast comes from the Baltic, a vessel and cargo from the Bay of Biscay. Sailors must eat; but there is a significant distinction between merchant-seamen and man-o'-war's-men.
With all this he was a hardy, long-lived, lusty fellow, and as his numbers were never thinned by that active corrector of an excessive birth-rate, the press-gang, he speedily overstocked the town. They accordingly issued orders for an early raid to be made upon that promising nursery of man-o'-war's-men.
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