Unmarked6698
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
"No fear, sir," called the Captain over the bulwark-rail, with a steady shake of the head and a smile that merely ran his mouth higher into his cheek. "I've set my 'eart upon making him a lawyer. He shall end like old Mr Greyquill, as rich and as comfortable; and when he's old he'll hang out a white head of hair like a flag of truce, to let the world understand he don't want any more quarrelling." "I should like," said the Admiral, "to have met Nelson. In all my going a-fishing I never fell in his way." He bent forward to grasp the hand which Billy raised slowly, thereby dodging a stone ink-bottle hurled by Maurice Keeler. At it was the bottle struck the blackboard and broke, deluging the teacher's face with a sable spray..
453 people found this
review helpful
kez_ h (Kez_h)
- Flag inappropriate
- Show review history
"You will tell me, sir," said Lucy, addressing the surgeon, "what I am to do, and I will do it. Where is he wounded?"I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
"Hence the value of being able to make a leg in your opinion, madam," said General Groves.
658 people found this
review helpful
Conrad
"Gosh!" whispered Billy. "I should say so; they're right onto us," and almost with the words the old gun roared again and again. "Kin any boy in this here class tell me why Christ walked on the sea of Galilee?" he now asked. "That's all. Jest Walter Watland." Lucy walked on to High Street, into which she turned, and from nearly every person that she passed, she received a respectful salute or a ducking curtsy; and for all she had a kindly word and a smile as lovely as a fine May day, and sometimes she would stop and speak to a child, on which occasions she generally took a penny from her pocket..
298 people found this
review helpful