"Footless" Quotes from Famous Books
... on board ship, at twelve o'clock, the ordinary grog-time; and, punctually at that hour every day, in the wet season or dry, he never failed to come up to the house for his allowance, bringing with him the footless wine-glass to receive the grateful liquor. His appearance, consequently, was an unfailing token that the sun had crossed the zenith and that it was time to "make it ... — The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson |