#1 – “It was Silver’s voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.”
#2 – “You’re either my ship’s cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap’n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!”
#3 – “Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”
#4 – “There’s never been a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day afterward.”
#5 – “Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.”
#6 – “If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!”
#7 – “Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder. laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”
#8 – “We must go on, because we can’t turn back.”
#9 – “It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache.”
#10 – “And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.”
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