White-Jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-warG. P. Putnam's sons, 1892 - 374 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Admiral aloft American Navy arms Articles Articles of War ashore auctioneer berth-deck board the Neversink boat boatswain's cabin Callao called Cape Horn capstan Captain Claret carronade Chaplain CHAPTER command Commodore Commodore's cook crew cried cruise Cuticle deck dunderfunk duty fellows flogging forecastle frigate gale gangway gentlemen going grog gun-deck gunner guns hammock hands harbour head heart honour Jack Chase jacket lash Lemsford Lieutenant look Lord Mad Jack main-deck main-mast man-of man-of-war man-of-war's-men marine mast master-at-arms mates mess midshipmen monkey jackets morning naval never Neversink night noble officers once poop port-holes punishment Purser Purser's Steward quarter-deck quarter-master quarters ropes round sail sailors scourge seamen seemed Selvagee sentries sheet-anchor-man ship ship's company shipmates shot side sight stand station Surgeon tars things thought tion top-man touching trowsers turn vessel ward-room watch White-Jacket whole yard
Popular passages
Page 189 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 135 - And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned...
Page 144 - Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. Seventy years ago we escaped from thrall; and, besides our first birthright — embracing one continent of earth — God has given to us, for a future inheritance, the broad domains of the political pagans, that shall yet come and lie down under the shade of our ark, without bloody hands being lifted.
Page 144 - Escaped from the house of bondage, Israel of old did not follow after the ways of the Egyptians. To her was given an express dispensation ; to her were given new things under the sun. And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people — the Israel of our time ; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
Page 64 - Hearts of oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men, We always are ready : Steady, boys, steady : We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.
Page 275 - If any person in the navy shall make or attempt to make any mutinous assembly, he shall on conviction thereof by a court martial, suffer death; and if any person as aforesaid shall utter any seditious or mutinous words, or shall conceal or connive at any mutinous or seditious practices, or shall treat with contempt his superior, being in the execution of his office; or being witness to any mutiny or sedition, shall not...
Page 144 - We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours.
Page 148 - Haereticorum — and concluded by a Sanscrit invocation. He was particularly hard upon the Gnostics and Marcionites of the second century of the Christian era ; but he never, in the remotest manner, attacked the everyday vices of the nineteenth century, as eminently illustrated in our man-of-war world. Concerning drunkenness, fighting, flogging, and oppression — things expressly or impliedly prohibited by Christianity — he never said aught. But the most mighty commodore and captain sat before...
Page 75 - I am of a meditative humour," he wrote much later, "and at sea used often to mount aloft at night, and, seating myself in one of the upper yards, tuck my jacket about me and give loose to reflection.
Page 367 - Having reeved the line through all the inferior blocks, I went out with it to the end of the weather-top-gallant-yardarm, and was in the act of leaning over and passing it through the suspended jewel-block there, when the ship gave a plunge in the sudden swells of the calm sea, and pitching me still further over the yard, threw the heavy skirts of my jacket right over my head, completely muffling me. Somehow I thought it was the sail that had...