| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1883 - 316 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,... | |
| Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1883 - 500 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1884 - 606 pages
...he repeated the words — ' Leave off action ? Now, dn 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 Duke Yonge - Admirals - 1884 - 306 pages
...Yes, my Lord." " Mind you keep it so ; " and turning to Captain Foley, he added, " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes ; " and, putting his glass to his blind eye, " I really do not see the signal." Riou with his frigates... | |
| 1889 - 1016 pages
...when the English fleet took up its position and commenced the action, the firing of the Danish guas was so incessant — unslackened even after three...results, of all those he had gone through. Apl. 4th, 1801. MY DEAR TROUBRIDGE : The job is done, and the State of Denmark is convinced we can fight a little... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1890 - 424 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 some10 times : " — and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports... | |
| George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...then added with a shrug, ' Now, damn me if I do !' He also observed, I believe, to Captain 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 glasses to his blind eye, he exclaimed,... | |
| Archibald Forbes - Battles - 1896 - 822 pages
...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... | |
| Robert Southey - Admirals - 1896 - 378 pages
...repeated the words — « Leave off action ! Now damn Death 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,... | |
| England - 1897 - 790 pages
...repeated. "Now, damn me if I do!" Then, turning to his Captain (Foley), he exclaimed, "You know, Foley, I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes," and putting the spyglass to his blind eye he exclaimed, " I really do not see the signal." There can... | |
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