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"Even in such an excellent crew sea-lawyers were not lacking, and they spread the tale that the officers' commissions were lost with the ship, and that their authority now therefore lapsed on land -- that every man was free to do as he chose."

"Peter sat before his open book, refreshing his powerful mind with beef."

King Ælla tries to defeat a prophecy about the death of his nephew by shutting him up in a tower ("No, really, it's for your own good!") but, as Eleanor Parker describes it, "his nephew escapes by jumping out of the tower, using two shields as makeshift wings."

"by the twelfth century it was already common to attribute any rupture or unexplained gap in the early history of a particular church or community to an attack by the Vikings"

"He was not an extremely amorous man: hours or even days might pass without his thinking of women at all."

'If the expedition had done nothing else, it had at least produced a crew of ready-reckoners: men who before could barely count to ten, nor tell the time upon a clock, could now without a moment's hesitation convert 793,000 pieces of eight into guineas and then work out a 173rd share of it'

'Ah, dear Lord,' exclaimed Peter with a sigh, as the Centurion gathered way, 'how glad I am to have a deck under my feet. I was all at sea when you marooned me on the island.'

on Juan Fernandez: 'This is a wonderful place,' murmured Peter, with his eyes closed. 'I wish we could stay here for ever. Sean, this is the Tir na 'nOg, no doubt.' [...] 'What are you talking about?' asked Keppel, 'with your Tir Mc Thing?' 'Why, it is an island, you know,' said Peter, 'that comes floating off the coast of our country every few years or so, and if you can reach it you stay young for ever'

"'you would not wish the Admiral to see the deck all covered knee-deep with filth, sir, would you now? With remarks passed through all the fleet?'

The filth was not discernable to a landsman's eye, unless it were for a very slight dusting of little pieces of worn tow fallen from the rigging and gathered under the lee of the rail, but Stephen and the parson were chivvied off the poop to the quarterdeck."

word of the day: óminnishegri "heron of un-memory"