To Charlie, the function of a house was to keep the dew off your swag at night and shade the waterbag and tuckerboxes during the day.

appear + -ance → appearance

To die like a man of honour, Sir Hargrave, you must have lived like one. You should be sure of your cause. But these pistols are too ready a mischief. Were I to meet you in your own way, Sir Hargrave, I should not expect, that a man so enraged would fire his over my head, as I should be willing to do mine over his. Life I would not put upon the perhaps involuntary twitch of a finger.

The land shoots into a promontory.