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Usage examples of clegg.

By reason of the many services you have done for me, and for the fact that the name of Captain Clegg is known and trembled at over the seven seas, I rest your humble servant.

Fearing lest this vessel should also fall a victim to Clegg, they armed her with a brass cannon, and painted up poor Gog into a fighting uniform, so that the brig might seem to be a man-o'-war.

Besides, these tales are all told of Clegg in family circles from Maine to the Carolinas.

Would you credit the tales of Captain Clegg if you knew you were hearing them first-hand?

He talked about his own exploits as though performed by another, for since everyone coming from America spoke of Captain Clegg, it would have seemed strange if he was not full of his yarns too.

No one ever thought of connecting the mysterious Clegg with the sad young parson who, against all advice, had gone out into the unknown in an attempt to save the savage Indians, for that same young saint had long ago been included by his American acquaintances as but another victim of the tomahawk and scalping knife.

Unlike his contemporaries, Clegg took little pleasure in roaring debauches, although when it suited his purpose he would roar and sing with the wildest, in order that he might perhaps pick up in the drunken conversation some clue as to the whereabouts of his enemy.

Although all his crew respected and feared him, there was one man, the ship's carpenter, who genuinely loved Captain Clegg, and to this man Syn unfolded his plan.

They was arguing about Clegg, you see, and the captain said he'd seen him.

Had him pointed out to him in a tavern in San Juan, and then, if you please, he starts describing him as tall, thin, handsome and elegant, till I come all over in a cold sweat and said: 'Well, that weren't Clegg, sir,' I says, 'and your informant didn't know what he was talking about.

But it was not the tall, thin, elegant Clegg of reality, but the 'barrel of a man' that he described.

Captain Clegg himself, tall and elegant, holding his wild crew by the magic of his own daring.

She went on: “It was Mipps who talked to me about Clegg the other day.

Syn recognised the description as his old enemy, Nick Tappitt, but he only sighed and said: “Ah, so the red velvet reminded you of Clegg, eh?

Merry, who gave them full details of the doctor's miraculous preservation from the wreck, was in favour of a public accusation against him as Clegg, but to this the colonel would not consent.