planet-populating

Updated: May 21, 2025

For effrontery of possessiveness is there anything that can exceed the nest-making, planet-populating, female, human woman? Come and see the chickens! Oh, well, the sailors for'ard may be hard-bitten, but I can promise Miss West that here, aft, is one male passenger, unmarried and never married, who is an equally hard-bitten adventurer on the sea of matrimony.

Jack London - The Mutiny of the Elsinore