Wing one or two, and the rest will let you be.

With a gun I could keep all Sark from landing on L'Etat." "Suppose they come in the night?
How many landing-places are there ?" "There's another at the end nighest Guernsey, but it's not easy.

And it's only low tide and half-ebb that lets you ashore here at all." "How about your boat ?" "She's riding to a line.

Tide's running up that way, but I'd better be off." They stumbled through the darkness and the sleeping gulls, which woke in fright, and volubly accused one another of nightmares and riotous behaviour--and Bernel hauled in his boat, and handed Gard the tin dipper and three good-sized bream.
"If you can't eat them all at once, split them open and dry them in the sun," he said.

"They'll keep for a week that way." "Tell Nance I think of her every hour of the day, and I pray God the truth may come out soon." "I'll tell her.