"Nautically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... indigestible, that it might please Providence to send. One thing, at least, is to their credit: never any of these poor masks, with their deep silent remembrances, have been detected through murmuring, or what is nautically understood by "skulking." So, for once, M. Michelet has an erratum to enter upon the fly-leaf of his book ...
— The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc • Thomas de Quincey |
