sow-vess

Updated: May 12, 2025

"Le Polisson corsair Francois what you load, eh?" "Sugar and coffee, with cochineal, and a few other articles." "Peste! Vere you boun', Monsieur, s'il vous plait." "Hamburg." "Diable! zis is non ze chemin. How you come her, sair, viz ze vin' at sow-vess?" "We are going in to Brest, being in need of a little succour." "You vish salvage, eh! Parbleu, we can do you zat mosh good, as veil as anodair."

James Fenimore Cooper - Miles Wallingford: Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"