The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter.
All of us in the islands of the North Atlantic should recognise new alignments are necessary and we should be prepared to sacrifice for the new shared future .
It is unlikely that anyone with significant knowledge of the Army or the late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia, upon reading these two sentences, would respond other than with a scatological barnyard expletive or some more genteel utterance representing the same level of acceptance.
How'd you like a nice swift kick?