 | Charles Welsh - Battles - 1904 - 488 pages
...damn me if I do!" Captain Foley stood near: Nelson turned towards him. " Foley," said he, " you know I have only one eye: I have a right to be blind sometimes." He levelled his telescope, and applying his blind eye, said : " I really do not see the signal." It... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - Conduct of life - 1905 - 358 pages
...order, but, calming himself with an effort, he turned to his captain and said, '' You know, Foley, I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes." Then with a grim smile he put his telescope to his blind eye and exclaimed, " I really do not see the... | |
 | Edward Latham - Quotations - 1906 - 434 pages
...blind eye. Preceded by : " 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." (Southey, Life of Nelson, ed. 1888, p. 279). I regret nothing, but am sorry that I am about to leave... | |
 | Canada - 1911 - 762 pages
...and Bronte"." 'When the signal came from Admiral Parker, Nelson said to his captain, "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 exclaimed, I really do not see the signal." It was therefore... | |
 | Sydney Marow Eardley-Wilmot - Great Britain - 1911 - 522 pages
...commander-in-chief has No. 39, the signal to leave off action ? Now, damn me if I do ! You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes." On saying this, he humorously put his spy glass to the blind eye, adding, " I do not really see the... | |
 | Logan Marshall - Europe - 1914 - 478 pages
...out, "Now damn me if I do!" Turning to Captain Foley, who stood near him, he said: "Foley, you know I have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes." He raised his telescope, applied it to his blind eye, and said: "I really do not see the signal." On... | |
 | Charles Morris - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1914 - 406 pages
...out, "Now damn me if I do!" Turning to Captain Foley, who stood near him, he said: "Foley, you know I have only one eye; I have a right to be blind sometimes." He raised his telescope, applied it to his blind eye, and said: "I really do not see the signal." On... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - Naval battles - 1919 - 406 pages
...action ! " he said ; " Now damn me if I do." Then he said to his flag captain : " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes " — and putting the glass to his blind eye he remarked, " I really do not see the signal." So the... | |
 | William Oliver Stevens, Allan Ferguson Westcott - HISTORY - 1920 - 854 pages
...time, continues the story as follows: "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,... | |
 | George Macaulay Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1922 - 474 pages
...a shrug, " Now damn me if I do I " 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... | |
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I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
