And sometimes hours of peace, I own, / Upon some fairer leaves have shown, / White as the snowings of that heaven / By which those hours of peace were given.

Found that the cause of the ship's having drifted on the night of the 19th, was from the bight of the chain span (used to fish the anchor,) having slipped between the shank and upper fluke, thereby preventing the lower fluke from opening […]

Wasn't Mr. Sipperley pretty shirty when he came to and found that you had been soaking him with putters?

The Indian Sub-continent was partitioned in August 1947 to create two independent, sovereign dominiums, India and Pakistan.