"'...they flung down the top-maul, which very nearly did him in, together with anything else they could lay their hands on. And they kept roaring out that they would not leave the ship.'
"'I did hear the bosun call them goddam sods, but it never occurred to me that he could mean Sarah and Emily.'" --Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 318
"'...they flung down the top-maul, which very nearly did him in, together with anything else they could lay their hands on. And they kept roaring out that they would not leave the ship.'
"'I did hear the bosun call them goddam sods, but it never occurred to me that he could mean Sarah and Emily.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 318