"Marline" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... truth," answered Bill Marline, "seein' he started so arly on the sea he can't tell ...
— The Sea-Witch - or, The African Quadroon A Story of the Slave Coast • Maturin Murray
... cutlass unbuckled and laid on the sand, and sleeves rolled up, began his work as if he had a chafing-mat to make for the dead-eyes of the frigate's lower shrouds, and, though in a hurry, still intended to make a neat job of it. He had a small and rather sharp-pointed marline-spike, too, which he wore habitually, like a talisman, round his neck, and which stood him in hand in the ...
— Captain Brand of the "Centipede" • H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise |
