What is "hornblower"

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I swear that I will breathe no word of what I know concerning Chloe Hornblower to any living soul, so long as the Hornblower family do us no harm.

Wilberforce’s, whose politics he admired, and had that famous correspondence with the Reverend Silas Hornblower, on the Ashantee Mission.

Hornblower thought of two thousand Spanish and French prisoners battened down below decks in the hulk.

Headsail sheets and bowlines were handled, with Hornblower watching the behaviour of the ship like a tiger stalking its prey.

Hands went to the braces as the helm was put up while Hornblower scanned the shore warily.

After those three days Hornblower warped Atropos out into the harbour again and set about his repairs with his own resources and with his own men, keeping them labouring under the sun, and deriving some little satisfaction from the fact that Captain Ford's troubles — he had Nightingale over at the careenage — were even worse than his own.

The dreamlike city of Palermo turns its back upon the sea, and Hornblower turned his back upon Palermo, until Aquila was working her way out round Monte Pellegrino, and then he stood aft, by the taffrail, looking back at Atropos lying there, and Nightingale at the careenage, and the palaces of Palermo beyond.

After those three days Hornblower warped Atropos out into the harbour again and set about his repairs with his own resources and with his own men, keeping them labouring under the sun, and deriving some little satisfaction from the fact that Captain Ford's troubles - he had Nightingale over at the careenage - were even worse than his own.

The gig was uncomfortably crowded but it served, with four hands at the oars, Hornblower and Leadbitter in the stern — Hornblower felt he could not possibly endure not taking part in this first essay — and the Ceylonese crowded into the bows.

The gig was uncomfortably crowded but it served, with four hands at the oars, Hornblower and Leadbitter in the stern - Hornblower felt he could not possibly endure not taking part in this first essay - and the Ceylonese crowded into the bows.

Hornblower was like a man released from a sentence of death when he trod the Lydia's deck once more and allowed his eye to rove contentedly upward and ever upward through the aspiring rigging, with the clangour of the pumps which had echoed in his ears during the last fortnight's cruise completely stilled, happy in the consciousness of a staunch ship under his feet, comfortable in the knowledge that there would be no more campaigns to plan until he reached England.

For Hornblower there was not merely the passive pleasure of a fortnight's picnic, but there was the far more active one of the comradeliness of it all.

Two hundred four‑pound loaves — Hornblower could taste the crustiness of them in his watering mouth when he merely looked at them.

Gerard had a couple of parties standing by with spars to try to bear the Pluto off — not that they could have achieved much against her three thousand tons deadweight — and the bight of an old sail filled with hammocks as a fend-off, and there was wild activity on the forecastle of the Pluto as well, but at the very last moment, with blasphemy crackling all round, the dismasted ship suddenly sheered off and everyone breathed again more freely, except Hornblower.

The admiral's barge had sheered off and the Hotspur's boat took its place, with Hornblower not too seasick and nervous to worry about the way it was handled, in case it did not reflect credit on his ship.