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Updated: May 2, 2025
They caught up two unfortunate vessels a large West Indiaman and a man-of-war's tender and bore them triumphantly towards the fatal Rock. It seemed as though the waves regarded these as representative vessels, and meant thus to cast the royal and the merchant navies on the Eddystone, by way, as it were, of throwing down the gauntlet to presumptuous Man.
He wore the picturesque blue jacket, wide trousers, and straw hat of a man-of-war's man; and exposed a large amount of brown chest beneath his blue flannel shirt, the broad collar of which was turned well over. Going straight to the inn of the village, he begged for a night's food and lodging.
Orders were, therefore, received to send a squadron of man-of-war's boats to accompany the Phlegethon, carrying between two and three hundred soldiers and about a hundred bluejackets; and I had the luck to go with them. "Leaving Rangoon, the Phlegethon steamed away with the boats in tow, like a comet with its tail out.
That sort of put it up to our national pride there was six or seven American fishermen in the place and we waded in, and the French man-of-war's men, they waded in, and it was one fine battle for maybe ten minutes, with nothing in the way of empty bottles, or full ones either, being overlooked.
No sooner was the sloop-of-war's helm put up than that vessel passed close along the brigantine's weather side, and kept off across her stern on her course. As she did this the canvas was fluttering aboard her, in the process of making sail, and Mull held a short discourse with Spike. "Is anything the matter aloft?" demanded the man-of-war's man.
His wife had passed a terrible time, while the conflagration was raging, and it was evident that the populace had risen, and were undoubtedly murdering as well as burning and plundering; and her delight was indeed great when she saw her husband, with others, approaching in a man-of-war's boat. The fact that one arm was in a sling was scarcely noticed, in her joy at his return, alive.
Still, I did my best, but could get him no higher than the gunwale. "Well done, youngster! Hold fast, and we'll help you," I heard a voice sing out, and presently a man-of-war's boat dashing up, two of her crew springing into the wherry quickly hauled the man on board.
What applies to the relation in which the marine and sailor stand toward each other the mutual repulsion implied by a system of checks will, in degree, apply to nearly the entire interior of a man-of-war's discipline.
He was the dead image of the sun in old woodcuts, his hair and whiskers answering for rays all around him. Resplendent in the bow of the boat, he was a shining sight, with a man-of-war's man's shirt on or off, according to opinion and his arms and breast tattooed all sorts of patterns. Lobley seemed to take it easily, and so did Mr.
He can but hang one, and that would be better than leading a dog's life on board this ship." "He might flog you round the fleet, which would be something worse than hanging," observed an old man-of-war's man, who had overheard Ben. "You wouldn't like that. I've a notion, mate, that it's wiser to grin and bear it, and hope for better times."
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