Decisively, there was the prospect of getting my hands on a slice of that petroleum fund.

The hands were now actively employed in endeavouring to keep the sea from breaking into the gun-room, which at every send-aft came in, in alarming quantities; which, however, was materially prevented by slinging gratings covered with tarpawlings, and applying them externally to the helm-port, with laniards somewhat similar to those of a ballast port, to confine them.

elliptic function

The bullet didn't go deep—one muscle, vastus externus, was grazed.