What is "sophies"

Usage examples of "sophies".

It was the launch and it was filled with liberty-men: there were still one or two merry souls among them, but on the whole the Sophies who could walk were quite unlike those who had gone ashore - they had no money left, for one thing, and they were grey, drooping and mumchance for another.

Jack and his lieutenant exchanged a glance: it had not been bad the foretopgallantsail had taken its time, because of a misunderstanding as to how newcomer should be defined and whether the six restored Sophies were to be considered in that injurious light, which had led to a furious, silent squabble on the yard.

There had been a good deal of trampling to and fro, with Mr Watt and his mates roaring and piping like fury, but the Sophies were better hands with a sail than a gun, and quite soon Jack could cry, 'Square mains'l.

These men belonged to the two prize-crews and they had been allowed to stay ashore, whereas the other Sophies were still aboard.

The Sophies themselves, indulged with a further advance of prize-money, had behaved badly.

The Sophies stood silently gazing at the woman: they licked their lips and swallowed.

The Sophies cheered to a man and stood tense and eager by their treble-shotted guns.

With an enormous shrieking cheer fore and aft the Sophies leapt up the frigate's side.

A confused milling round the frigate's bell, cries of every kind, the blackened Sophies cheering like madmen as they joined their friends, shots, the clash of arms, a trampling huddled retreat, all the Spaniards in the waist hampered, crowded in upon, unable to strike.

The Sophies backed away from the packed mob in the waist and the men there threw down their weapons, suddenly dispirited, frightened, cold and betrayed.

The Sophies stared at Jack: they knew very well what was in his mind, but they also had a pretty clear notion of what was in his orders too - this was not a cruise but a piece of strict convoy-work.

He told the Sophies that both they and the Hannibals were to be exchanged - that they should be in Gibraltar for dinner - dried peas and salt horse for dinner, no more of these foreign messes - and although he smiled and waved his hat at the roaring cheers that greeted his news, there was a black shadow in the back of his mind.

On deck the Clomers and the Sophies were gazing at one another's vessels with profound satisfaction, as at their own mirror-images: at first the Sophies had felt that the resemblance was something of a liberty on the part of the Danes, but they came round when their own yeoman of the sheets and their own shipmate Anderssen called out over the water to their fellow-countrymen, talking foreign as easy as kiss my hand, to the silent admiration of all beholders.

When he began to speak perhaps half the Sophies were gazing at him with uncomplicated pleasurable excitement.

Forward, under the fo'c'sle, the sheer weight and number of the three hundred Spaniards, now half recovered from their surprise, was pushing the Sophies back, driving a solid wedge between his band and Dillon's in the bows.