Let us have dinner, Mrs.Cloam, in twenty minutes, if possible.

For we stand in real need of it." Concerning that there could be no doubt.

Glory, as all English officers know, is no durable stay for the stomach.

The urgency of mankind for victuals may roughly be gauged by the length of the jaw.

Captain Stubbard had jaws of tremendous length, and always carried a bag of captain's biscuits, to which he was obliged to have recourse in the height of the hottest engagement.