No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

“[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[Captain Aubrey] "…”

“Stephen's heart was big to bursting with the violence of his grief, yet even as…”

“there is here a striving, avid and worldly civilisation, of course; these huge …”

“Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner…”