You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.

The name will suggest, to those who have some winelore, no less a vintage than Château Yquem.

Gunboats and other vessels with shallow drafts that could navigate inland waterways were part of the Civil War's brown-water navies.

They dragged themselves from the swamp singly, and in twos and threes, more dead than alive, mere perambulating skeletons, until at last there were thirty of us.