| 1843 - 320 pagina’s
...repeated the words — " Leave off action ? Now, damn me if I do ! You know, Foley," turning to the captain, " I have only one eye, — I have a right...bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal !" Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal. Keep mine for closer battle flying ! That's the way 1... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 882 pagina’s
...and meeting Captain Foley, said, "What think you, Foley, the admiral has hung out No. 39.f You know I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes :" and then putting the glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed, " I really don't see the signal. Keep mine for closer battle still flying. That's the... | |
| Paul Harris Nicolas - 1845 - 438 pagina’s
...commanderin-chief, he exclaimed, " Leave off action ? No, dn me if 1 do! You know, Foley," turning to the captain, " I have only one eye : I have a right to...be blind sometimes," and then putting the glass to the blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really do not see... | |
| Horatio Nelson Nelson (Viscount), Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1845 - 604 pagina’s
...a shrug, ' Now, damn me if I do.' He also observed, I believe, to Captain Foley, ' You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes ;' and then with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed, ' I really... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 594 pagina’s
...a shrug, ' Now, damn me if I do.' He also observed, I believe, to Captain Foley, ' You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes ;' and then with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed, ' I really... | |
| Horatio Nelson (1st visct.) - 1845 - 586 pagina’s
...a ahrug, ' Now, damn me if I do.' He also observed, I believe, to Captain Foley, ' You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes ;' and then with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed, ' I really... | |
| 1847 - 202 pagina’s
...that was, Nelson replied in haste, "What? Why to leave off action. I wont, I wont, Foley, you know I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind sometimes ; " and then with an archness peculiar to his character, he put his glass to his blind eye and exclaimed, " I really... | |
| Thomas W. Redhead - 1848 - 1038 pagina’s
...captain on the quarter-deck as he paced uneasily up and down, he exclaimed to him, ' You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind...sometimes ;' and then putting the glass to his blind eye, he added, ' I really see no signal ; keep mine for close battle flying ; nail it to the mast ! ' He... | |
| Hugh James Rose - 1848 - 530 pagina’s
...captain Foley that he exclaimed, " Leave off the action ! You know, Foley, I have only one eye, and have a right to be blind sometimes ;" and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, observed, " I really do not see the signal." In October, 1807, captain Foley was appointed a colonel... | |
| Thomas W. Redhead - 1848 - 340 pagina’s
...quarter-deck as he paced uneasily up and down, he exclaimed to him,' You know, Foley, I have only one eye—I have a right to be blind sometimes;' and then putting the glass to his blind eye, he added,' I really see no signal; keep mine for close battle flying; nail it to the mast!' He thus... | |
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