Fools and pig-dogs, they had the game in their hands and they flung it away.

We could have raised a fire that would have burned the English into the sea, and for lack of fuel they let it die down.

Then they try to fan it when the ashes are cold.' He rolled a paper pellet and flicked it into the air.

'That is what I think of your idiot general,' he said, 'and of all you Dutch.

As slow as a fat vrouw and as greedy as an aasvogel.' We looked very glum and sullen.
'A pair of dumb dogs,' he cried.