"'I wonder—I have my own reasons for wondering—that a man of your I might almost say wealth, and of your standing, a member of Parliament, high on the post-captain's list, and well at court, cannot or rather will not afford himself a piece of rosin.'
'You are to consider that I am a family man... with a boy to educate and daughters to provide a dowry for... Tippets. When you come to worry about Brigid's fortune, and Brigid's tippets, you too may economize on rosin.'" --P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 264
"'I wonder—I have my own reasons for wondering—that a man of your I might almost say wealth, and of your standing, a member of Parliament, high on the post-captain's list, and well at court, cannot or rather will not afford himself a piece of rosin.'
'You are to consider that I am a family man... with a boy to educate and daughters to provide a dowry for... Tippets. When you come to worry about Brigid's fortune, and Brigid's tippets, you too may economize on rosin.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 264
"...and Sophie was to buy herself a new pelisse, a fine new tippet..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 297