Our sands hold fast without nipping, as you know, like a well-bred sheep-dog, and the White Pig is the toughest of all of them.
She may stay there till the equinox, without much mischief, if the present light airs continue.

But the worst job will be with the prisoners; they are the plague of all these affairs, and we can't imitate Boney by poisoning them.

On the whole, it had better not have happened, perhaps.

Though you must not tell Honyman that I said so.

It was a very gallant action, very skilful, very beautiful; and I hope he will get a fine lift for it; and you too, my dear Blyth, for you must have fought well." "But, Admiral, surely you would have been grieved if so many of your tenants, and their boats as well, had been swept away into a French harbour.