marmaiden

Updated: May 19, 2025

"Eh! ye villains, ye roogs, what do ye want staling poor folks' boats by night like this?" The whole party recoiled in terror, and one turned to run up the beach, shouting at the top of his voice, "'Tis a marmaiden a marmaiden asleep in Willy Passmore's boat!"

Charles Kingsley - Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth