She must have had some fifteen or twenty miles the start, and the French have been compelled to double Cape la Hogue and Alderney, before they could even look this way.

If coming down channel at all, they are fully fifty miles to the eastward; and should our van stretch far enough by morning to head them off, it will bring us handsomely to windward.

Sir Gervaise never set a better trap, than he has done this very day.

The Elizabeth has her hands full, boy, and the wind seems to be getting scant for her.

If it knock her off much more, it will bring the flood on her weather-bow, and compel her to tack.