a shooting pain in my leg

They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

the personal and domiciliary rights of the citizen were scrupulously guarded

The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes.