A breeze had sprung up, pushing the ship back within range of the Spanish cannons.

That was a lunkheaded trick,’ Denham told him.

There is one type of neck which so constantly results in roaring that it is known in Yorkshire as a roarer's neck, and sooner or later the horse which is so shaped is almost certain to fall a victim to the complaint. The neck in question is a strong thick one, with the head carried high, but there is a peculiar outward curve in front, somewhat resembling that of a fallow deer, with an unusually thick thropple, the formation of which, no doubt, sustains a constant strain on the nerve, which eventually fails in consequence.

Surely there once was one: a symbolic, navellike dimple in the dirt floor.