As for the wounded man, whether he did live or die, Tom Cringle does not know.
Oh, had you but known him, Mr Cringle had you but known him in his boyhood, before bad company had corrupted him!
Cringle there will fight, but he will have 'Palmam qui meruit ferat' for his motto yet, take my word for it.
Beg pardon, Mr Splinter, but if you will spare Mr Cringle on the forecastle for an hour until the moon rises.
Stop, tell Mr Cringle also to get ready to go in the gig.
I say, why won't you allow Mr Cringle here to go over to Spanish Town with me for a couple of days, eh?
Tom Cringle who thinks and says that I am a man likely to profess to believe what he knows in his heart to be a lie?
My dear Maria, Mr Cringle has no objection to wait on you; but after your severe attack this morning, I don't think it will be wise.
Tom Cringle is eloquent on the same subject, but with less scientific knowledge.
When the foot is out taut make the pendant fast; then take a short piece of rope and pass it round the boom and pendant just at the cringle and through that hole.
And we may add that had any man composed ten times as loosely as Cringle sometimes chose to do, whilst still retaining Cringle's power to make us see and feel with him, that man had still remained a most remarkable writer.
The sail flapped and jerked at the restraining sheet and down-haul while Nickerson and the gang hove down the tack-cringle with tugs and oaths.
If a large cringle is needed, count an extra number of lays--5, 7, etc.
In working a cringle in a piece of rope the only difference is there are no eyelet holes, therefore the strand is tucked under two strands of the rope it is to be worked in.
Cringle and Cross-Tree; or, The Sea Swashes of a Sailor.
A rope attached to the cringle of a sail, by which it is bent or reefed.
Make fast the head and reef-earings to their cringles, passing the end of each reef-earing through the cringle above its own and making it fast by a bowline to its own part.
Pass the end of the earing through the cringle next above its own, and make it fast slack to its own part by a bowline knot.
Also, a rope rove through the cringleof a sail which has a bonnet to it, for hauling in, so as to lace on the bonnet.
A hole made in a sail for a cringle or roband to go through.
Get the studdingsail clear, bend the outer halyards to the yard, and the inner halyards to the inner cringle at the head of the sail.
At St Jago de Cuba he became acquainted with the original of Don Ricardo Campana, the Spanish Scotchman who accompanied Cringle and Captain Transom on their memorable expedition into the interior of the island.
A rope rove through the cringleof a sail, for hauling in, so as to lace on a bonnet.
A tackle with two hooks, one to hitch into a cringle of the main or fore sail in the bolt-rope, and the other to hitch into a strap spliced to the chess-tree.
The use of the cringle is generally to hold the end of some rope, which is fastened thereto for the purpose of drawing up the sail to its yard, or extending the skirts or leech by means of bowline bridles, to stand upon a side-wind.
We never, however, saw, as Tom Cringle did, a Negro carrying a burden on his chin.
