 | John Jacob Anderson - 1877 - 558 pagina’s
...What think you, Foley, the admiral has hung out No. 39 [the signal for discontinuing action]. 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, 4 1 really don't see the signal. Keep mine for closer battle still flying. That's the... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1878 - 306 pagina’s
...he 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...mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I do not really see the signal ! " Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal ! Keep mine for closer battle... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - 1878 - 716 pagina’s
...the signal was reported,, but, instead of obeying it, he remarked to one of his captains, "You know I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes." Then putting the srlass to his blind eye, he added, " I really don't see the signal. Keep mine for... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 494 pagina’s
...Leave off action ! ' he cried ; ' now d me if I do ! You know, Foley ' — and here he turned to his Captain — » I have only one eye ; I have a right...be blind sometimes ;' and then, putting the glass up to his blind 1 Life of Horne Toolte, by A. Stephens, vol. ii. p. 263. eye, he added bitterly, '... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1879 - 392 pagina’s
...action ! Now, dam'me, if I do ! You know, Foley,' turning to the captain, ' I have only one eye, and have a right to be blind sometimes,' and then putting the glass to his right eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, ' I really do not see the... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pagina’s
...repeated the words " leave off action " — " No, d— n me if I do ! You know, Foley," said he to the Captain, " I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes. — D — n the signal ! hoist mine for closer battle ; that is the way I answer such signalsNail mine... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1881 - 348 pagina’s
...shoulders, he repeated the words, ' Leave off action ! Now, me if I do ! You know, Foley,' turning to the captain, ' I have only one eye,— I have a right...blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with Riou Killed. 223 bitterness, he exclaimed, ' I really do not see the signal ! ' Presently he exclaimed,... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pagina’s
...peerage or Westminster Abbey." put his blind eye to the glass, saying, " I really do not see the signal. I have only one eye : I have a right to be blind sometimes." The firing continued, and resulted in a victory. "He had won the day," says Southey, his biographer,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1883 - 316 pagina’s
...he 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...mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I do not really see the signal ! " Presently he exclaimed, " Damn the signal ! Keep mine for closer battle... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1883 - 500 pagina’s
...leaving off action, and, shrugging his shoulders, turned to the captain, and said : " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes," and then putting his glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he exclaimed, " I really... | |
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