Word: trunnion
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...nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than most men and better off. Such a man was Commodore Trunnion...
Next, fearing that he would leave his wealth to Perry Pickle, the stepchild of Mrs. Trunnion's sister-in-law, Mrs. Trunnion robbed the Commodore and assured him that any legal steps he might make she would frustrate by having him locked up as a lunatic...
...that," said Commodore Trunnion. "Why not?" asked his wife. "Because I'm not mad," said the Commodore. "Prove it," said Mrs. Trunnion. And this he could not do. Instead, he put her off his ship, made her walk the plank in fact, and went back to his old way of living with Hatchways, his mate, and Fawcett, an able seaman...
...special respect, to know the antiquity of a part of their dress so valuable to them as the pantaloon. Pelontier, in his Hist. Celt., L. 2, c. 6, and Cluvenius, in his Germ. Antiq., L. 1, c. 16, plainly describe it; but not to trouble them with what Commodore Trunnion calls outlandish lingos, I extract the following passage from the valuable history of Dr. Henry, the authenticity of which on the most minute as well as the most important topics was universally admitted three quarters of a century...