What is "okes"

Usage examples of "okes".

Lieutenant Okes said carefully, 'I have often read of your exploits in the Gazette, sir.

If Okes had been officer-of-the-watch he might have panicked and raised an almighty row which even Pomfret, half sodden with drink in his bunk, would have heard.

But when Herrick had relieved Lieutenant Okes at four o'clock Okes had whispered quickly that Bolitho had been on deck for most of the night.

It should have been Okes on the starboard side, but perhaps he was already dead, like so many of the others.

He thought, too, of Herrick's face when he had told him he was taking Lieutenant Okes with him in the lugger.

Should he be killed before the raid was finished, how would Okes manage?

Cradled on his knees was a half-eaten pie, and even as Okes staggered to a halt Rennie glanced up at him and dabbed at his: mouth with a handkerchief.

He caught Okes up around the curve in the road and gasped, 'Where's Mr.

As the musket smoke drifted clear Okes saw the soldiers falling back, leaving others screaming and kicking in a low gorse.

It seemed to Okes that another age passed before all his men were aboard and the last of the marines were falling back along the pier.

No, Herrick frowned as he tried to relive exactly the moment Okes had stepped aboard, unmoved was not the proper description.

Herrick had gone to question him, but Vibart had summoned Okes to the quarterdeck where he had been brooding in silence since the landing party had left for the shore.

So far, although he had been in command since Bolitho's loss, Okes stood in the best position to gain full credit for past successes against the enemy.

He caught sight of Okes standing at the lee rail, and found himself wondering why Vibart had not chosen him for the cutting-out expedition.

The fact that Farquhar had made neither comment nor complaint must be all the more worrying for Okes, Bolitho thought grimly.