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Tell me, sir, do you know of any banker that really understands his business? Some modern Fugger?' 'Oh, Stephen, if you please,' cried Jack.

Tell me, sir, do you know of any banker that...

Patrick O'Brian The Thirteen-Gun...
he was hungry; and he was cross with his wife, who had said in her clear ringing voice, 'I will tell you what, Maturin, if this baby of ours has anything like the discontented, bilious, liverish expression you have brought down from town, it shall be changed out of hand for something more cheerful from the Foundling Hospital.

he was hungry; and he was cross with his wife, who...

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Ah,' said Loder, meaning by this that he regretted the turtle and the geese, that he thought Fox's refusal for his colleagues an abuse of authority, and that he for one dissociated himself from the barbarous incivility: a considerable burden for a single 'ah', but one that it bore easily.

Ah,' said Loder, meaning by this that he regretted...

Patrick O'Brian The Thirteen-Gun...
There is a proverb in Ireland,' said Stephen, 'to the effect that there is good to be found even in an Englishman – is minic Gall maith. It is not often used, however.

There is a proverb in Ireland,' said Stephen, 'to...

Patrick O'Brian Desolation...
Good heavens,' cried Mr White. 'To fire great iron balls at people you have never even spoken to – barbarity is come again.

Good heavens,' cried Mr White. 'To fire great iron...

Patrick O'Brian HMS Surprise
Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy has never failed the English middle class in any latitude, and they flung them in plenty with delighted, shocked abandon – rocks, boulders, limited in size only by fear for their husband's advancement. Conciliating discretion had never been among Mrs Villiers's qualities, and if subjects for malignant gossip had been wanting she would have provided them by the elephant-load.

Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy...

Patrick O'Brian HMS Surprise
Oh yes, they assured him, with grave, anxious faces; they were in horrid danger of foundering, broaching-to, running violently into Australia; but there was a hope, just a very slight hope, of their meeting with a mountain of ice and clambering on to it – as many as half a dozen men might be saved.

Oh yes, they assured him, with grave, anxious...

Patrick O'Brian HMS Surprise
Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all was doubtful: she loved them, of course, and had 'sacrificed everything for them', but there was not much room in her composition for liking – it was too much taken up with being right

Whether Mrs Williams liked her daughters at all...

Patrick O'Brian Post Captain
Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it. 'That's for the post. Is the Doctor ready?''Ready and waiting these fourteen minutes,' said Stephen in a loud, sour voice. 'What a wretched tedious slow hand you are with a pen, upon my soul. Scratch-scratch, gasp-gasp. You might have written the Iliad in half the time, and a commentary upon it, too.

Killick,' he cried, folding and sealing it....

Patrick O'Brian Post Captain
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