This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!

Writing a memorandum to the chief does not constitute completed staff work, but writing a memorandum for the chief to send to someone else does.

Heave they did, all unopposed, and tumbled arselong when the bar came about. Even as they rolled and cursed, the whistling petered; …

a line that declines from straightness