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| The place was packed as full of smells as a bale is of cotton. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order - never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| "Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?" | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| "That's the way we all begin," said Tom Platt. "The boys they make believe all the time till they've cheated 'emselves into bein' men, an' so till they die - pretendin' an' pretendin' " | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| . . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . . | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| "Prize, oh! Haul!" shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| "I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man." | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |
| Every one wanted to say so much that no one said anything in particular. | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous |  |