 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 494 pages
...persevere. ' Leave off action ! ' he cried ; ' now d me if I do ! You know, Foley ' — and here he turned to his Captain — » I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes ;' and then, putting the glass up to his blind 1 Life of Horne Toolte, by A. Stephens, vol. ii. p.... | |
 | Henry William Dulcken - 1880 - 858 pages
...repeated the words " leave off action " — " No, d— n me if I do ! You know, Foley," said he to the Captain, " I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes. — D — n the signal ! hoist mine for closer battle ; that is the way I answer such signalsNail mine... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1881 - 348 pages
...shoulders, he repeated the words, ' Leave off action ! Now, me if I do ! You know, Foley,' turning to the captain, ' I have only one eye,— I have a right to be blind sometimes,' and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with Riou Killed. 223... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...peerage or Westminster Abbey." put his blind eye to the glass, saying, " I really do not see the signal. I have only one eye : I have a right to be blind sometimes." The firing continued, and resulted in a victory. "He had won the day," says Southey, his biographer,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Admirals - 1883 - 316 pages
...he repeated the words, " Leave off action ? Now, damn me if I do ! You know, Foley," turning to the Captain, " I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes :" and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness,... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1883 - 500 pages
...leaving off action, and, shrugging his shoulders, turned to the captain, and said : " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes," and then putting his glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness, he... | |
 | Charles Wilkins - Wales - 1884 - 606 pages
...he repeated the words — ' Leave off action ? Now, dn me if I do ! You know, Foley,' turning to the captain, ' I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes ;' and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports with bitterness,... | |
 | Charles Duke Yonge - Admirals - 1884 - 306 pages
...Yes, my Lord." " Mind you keep it so ; " and turning to Captain Foley, he added, " You know, Foley, I have only one eye ; I have a right to be blind sometimes ; " and, putting his glass to his blind eye, " I really do not see the signal." Riou with his frigates... | |
 | Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1890 - 424 pages
...repeated the words — " Leave off action ? Now, damn me if I do ! You know, Foley," turning to the captain, " I have only one eye, — I have a right to be blind some10 times : " — and then, putting the glass to his blind eye, in that mood of mind which sports... | |
 | George Lathom Browne - Admirals - 1891 - 576 pages
...then added with a shrug, ' Now, damn me if I do !' He also observed, I believe, to Captain Foley, ' I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes,' and then with an archness peculiar to his character, putting the glasses to his blind eye, he exclaimed,... | |
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I have only one eye — I have a right to be blind sometimes... 
