 | 1777 - 310 pages
...faid he, " what is this that you have * ' been doing ?" The fellow, ftratching his head, replied, " Why to be fure, Sir, it was I who took " the fort, but I hope there was no harm in it." Mr. Watfon was ready to fmile at the fellow's fimp4icity. Strahan, rinding that he was to be punifhed,... | |
 | Frederic Hervey - 1779 - 704 pages
...having made his bow, fcratched his head, and with one hand twirling Ins hac on the other, replied, f< Why to be fure Sir, it was I who took the fort, but I hope there was no harm in it." The admiral with difficulty fupprefTed a fmile, excited by the fimplicity of the anlvver, while the whole... | |
 | 512 pages
...having made his bow, fcratched his head, and with one hand twirling his hat upon the other, replied, " Why, to be fure, Sir, it was I who took the fort. — but I hope there was no harm in it." The admiral with difficulty was prevented from fmiling at the limplkity of Strahan's anfwer; and the whole... | |
 | 1800 - 452 pages
...flood fcratehing his head and twirling his hat, and at length confeffed " to ba fure it was I that took the fort, but I hope there was no harm in it." The Admiral with difficulty kept his countenance, but at laft, with much feeming anger, ordered him away.... | |
 | Isaac Schomberg - 1802 - 564 pages
...having made his bow, fcratched his head, and with one ha«d twirling his hat on the other, replied, " Why, to " be fure, Sir, it was I who took the fort; but I hope " there was no harm in it." The admiral then pointed T 4 out AD out to him the dreadful confequences that might have re11 '$f> fulted... | |
 | Archibald Duncan - 1805 - 418 pages
...scratched his head, and then with one hand twirling his hat on the other, replied : " Why to be sure, Sir, it was I who took the fort, but I hope there was no harm in it." The admiral then remonstrated with him on the dreadful consequences that might have resulted from such... | |
 | 1807 - 700 pages
...fcratched his head, and then, with one hand twirling his hat on the other, replied, " Why to be Cure, fir, it was I who took, the fort, but i hope there was no harm in it.'" The admiral then remonftrated with him on the fatal cont'equences that might hav^ refulted from fo rafh... | |
 | 1811 - 708 pages
...Strahan having been guilty of difohedicnce of orders, was called before the admiral, who add relied him, faying " Mr. Strahan, what is this you have been...anfwered ; " why, to be fure, Sir, it was I who took rhe fort ; but I hope there was no harm in it." The (impurity of this anfwer, the ludicrous ap. pearance... | |
 | Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...1 The brave hero stood scratching his head, and twirling his hat, and at length said, " To be sure it was I who took the fort, but I hope there was no harm in it." The admiral with difficulty kept his countenance ; but at last, with much seeming anger, ordered him away.... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1826 - 382 pages
...his head with one hand, and twirling his hat upon the other, replied, " Why, to be sure, your honour, it was I who took the fort ; but I hope there was no harm in it." The admiral, with difficulty, was prevented from smiling at the simplicity of Strahan's answer ; and the... | |
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Why, to be sure, sir, it was I who took the Fort, but I hope there was no harm in it! 
