 | Book - 1874 - 174 pages
..."No, never while an enemy's flag is flying." He also observed 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,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - World history - 1876 - 514 pages
...think you, Foley, the admiral has hung out No. 39 [the signal for discontinuing action]. You know 1 have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes;' and then putting th<i glass to his blind eye, he exclaimed, ' I really don't see the signal. Keep mine... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1877 - 410 pages
...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 to be blind sometimes : " — and then putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness,... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1877 - 558 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1878 - 306 pages
...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 to be blind sometimes :" and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness,... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle - Canada - 1878 - 716 pages
...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 pages
...persevere. ' 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 to be blind sometimes ;' and then, putting the glass up to his blind 1 Life of Horne Toolte, by A. Stephens, vol. ii. p.... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...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 pages
...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 to be blind sometimes,' and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with Riou Killed. 223... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...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,... | |
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I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
