Dufraisse, lieutenant of
marines, and Rodamel, naval ensign, and with these were a sergeant and seven soldiers.
'Oh, hang your taboo,' says the nautical sportsman; 'talk taboo to the
marines'; and bang went the piece again, and down came another victim.
I was aboard of one of Rodney’s fleet, dye see, about the time we licked De Grasse, Mounsheer Lor Quaw’s countryman, there; and the wind was here at the south’ard and east'ard; and I was below, mixing a toothful of hot stuff for the captain of
marines, who dined, dye see, in the cabin, that there very same day; and I suppose he wanted to put out the captain’s fire with a gun-room ingyne; and so, just as I got it to my own liking, after tasting pretty often, for the soldier was difficult to please, slap came the foresail agin’ the mast, whiz went the ship round on her heel, like a whirligig.
"I hear the Admiralty are going to take over the whole thing within the next few days, and are sending
Marines down.
"Before he entered the merchant service, had he ever served in the
marines?"
"You mean the retired sergeant of
Marines," said Sherlock Holmes.
For in their succorless emptyhandedness, they, in the heathenish sharked waters, and by the beaches of unrecorded, javelin islands, battled with virgin wonders and terrors that Cooke with all his
marines and muskets would not willingly have dared.
"After examining one by one the different theories, rejecting all other suggestions, it becomes necessary to admit the existence of a
marine animal of enormous power.
But how often do we see along the bases of retreating cliffs rounded boulders, all thickly clothed by
marine productions, showing how little they are abraded and how seldom they are rolled about!
-Volcanic Summit.- Extinguished Crater.-
Marine Shells.- Encampment on a Prairie.
They are, perhaps, of a rather less size than the
marine species; but several of them weighed between ten and fifteen pounds.
Don't you see, then, that for these extra risks the
Marine Insurance companies have extra guarantees?