She looks as if she had been rubbing against a rock." "Not quite so bad as that, Messer Polani.

She has been grinding against a Genoese galley." "Against a Genoese galley!" the merchant repeated in surprise, stopping in his passage up the rope ladder, which had been lowered for him.
"Why, how is that?
But never mind that now.

First tell me what is the news from the fleet ?" "There is great news," Francis replied.

"The admiral fell in with Fieschi off Antium.

There were nine ships on each side, and the battle took place in a storm.