I was thinking of asking leave, Captain Cuffe, to take one of the cutters and pull up to the lugger's anchorage and see if anything can be found of her wreck.

The ship will hardly get under way until the westerly wind comes." "No; probably not.

I will order my gig manned, and we'll go together.
Poor Winchester must keep house awhile; so there is no use in asking him.

I saw no necessity for putting Nelson into a passion by saying anything about the exact amount of our loss in that boat scrape, Griffin." "I agree with you, sir, that it is best as it is.

'Some loss' covers everything--it means 'more or less.'" "That was just my notion.