Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.

The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.

Most ship-to-ship engagements are skirmishes between patrol vessels of cruiser weight and below, with dreadnoughts and carriers only deployed in full-scale fleet actions. Battles in open space are short and often inconclusive, as the weaker opponent generally disengages.

His father would come into the bedroom randomly during the day, leaving the saloon to come home and see about him and to try and get his mother to take a break.