Wordie: Luff: Comments

Comment by chained_bear, 8 months ago

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:51:26 +0000

"He would not even stop long enough to take in fresh supplies from the bum-boats that came round the ship, observing in his decided manner 'that they were not here to blow out their kites with lobscouse, nor to choke their luffs with figgy-dowdy, but to convey the Catalan troops to Santandero without a moment's loss of time...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 287

luff up a little

Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:30:17 +0000

Comment by brtom, about 1 year ago

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:25:42 +0000

"hey were, says Mr Stephen, and the end was that the men of the island, seeing no help was toward as the ungrate women were all of one mind, made a wherry raft, loaded themselves and their bundles of chattels on shipboard, set all masts erect, manned the yards, sprang their luff, heaved to, spread three sheets in the wind, put her head between wind and water, weighed anchor, ported her helm, ran up the jolly Roger, gave three times three, let the bullgine run, pushed off in their bumboat and put to sea to recover the main of America."
Jooyce, Ulysses, 14

Comment by brandelion, about 1 year ago

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 16:48:57 +0000

"love" - luff you with two ff's...