But there is nothing so tedious as sitting by when two old shipmates are calling out, ‘Do you remember the three days’ blow in the Mona Passage? – Do you remember Wilkins and his timenoguy?’

The Marines today launched a major offensive.

They looked on the common law as a study that could not be brought into a scheme , nor formed into a rational science , by reason of the indigestedness of it , and the multiplicity of the cases in it

A “Tantony pig” is the smallest of a litter, a detail that might recall Antonio's description of himself in Shakespeare's play as the “tainted wether of the flock".