When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.
C.S. ForesterStichwörter: drinking mothers alcohol argument gin
I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.'
That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing...
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
C.S. ForesterStichwörter: funny
His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.
C.S. ForesterClairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.
C.S. ForesterThe material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
C.S. ForesterThe cork was in the bottle. He and the Atropos were trapped.
C.S. ForesterStichwörter: poetic metaphor trapped imagery nautical bottle forester hornblower
Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth.
C.S. ForesterStichwörter: hornblower c-s-forester horatio-hornblower lieutenant-hornblower
Bush put both arms round Hornblower’s shoulders and walked with dragging feet. It did not matter that his feet dragged and his legs would not function while he had this support; Hornblower was the best man in the world and Bush could announce it by singing ‘For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow’ while lurching along the alleyway.
C.S. ForesterStichwörter: bush hornblower horatio-hornblower william-bush
Hornblower bowed to Lady This and Lady That, to Lord Somebody and to Sir John Somebody-else. Bold eyes and bare arms, exquisite clothes and blue Garter-ribbons, were all the impressions Hornblower received.
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