Jack swimming with seals

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As he watched the falcon's heavier but still rapid flight he heard eight bells strike aboard, followed by the remote pipe of all hands to breakfast and the much more emphatic roar of the hungry seamen: a moment later he saw Jack Aubrey, mother-naked, plunge from the taffrail and swim out towards Old Scratch, his long yellow hair streaming behind him. When he was half way across two seals joined him, those intensely curious animals, sometimes diving and coming up ahead to gaze into his face almost within hand's reach.
'I give you joy of your seals, brother,' said Stephen, as Jack waded ashore on the little golden strand, where the skiff now lay high, dry and immovable. 'It is the universal opinion of the good and the wise that there is nothing more fortunate than the company of seals.'
'I have always liked them,' said Jack, sitting on the gunwale and dripping all over. 'If they could speak, I am sure they would say something amiable, but Stephen, have you forgot breakfast?'
'I have not. My mind has been toying with thoughts of coffee, stirabout, white pudding, bacon, toast, marmalade and more coffee, for some considerable time.'
'Yet you would never have had it until well after dinner, you know, because your boat is stranded and I doubt you could swim so far.'
'The sea has receded!' cried Stephen. 'I am amazed.'
'They tell me it does so twice a day in these parts,' said Jack. 'It is technically known as the tide.'

(chapter five)

Take off some of these splendid garments

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chapter seven

That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look:

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he prized statements of this kind in Jack.

(chapter seven)

'You mean to play, Stephen?' Jack murmured in his ear.

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(chapter three)

'I love a good blow,' said Jack

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(chapter 14)

'Unless you are in the mood for something more aggressive...'

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the movie

Jack's year of birth

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Jack was taller than Queenie and far more than twice as heavy; and having been in the wars for a great while and much battered, he now looked older. He was in fact seven years her junior, and there had been a time when he was a very little boy whose ears she boxed for impertinence, uncleanliness and greed, and whose frequent nightmares she would soothe by taking him into her bed.

(chapter one)
Queenie is Hester Maria Elphinstone, Viscountess Keith, born in 1764.

Pray tell me when you are inclined to sit down quietly

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and talk about the less physical aspects of our affair.'
Jack looked at him thoughtfully, revolving the less physical aspects

(chapter six)

'My buttocks are a grief to me.'

[heather_mist]

The Hundred Days

Chapter Five

'Pray take off your breeches and bend over that locker,' said Stephen

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(chapter one)

HINAPUS

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Like it says on the icon:

"'Then be damned to you for a hard ill-natured and pitiless unforgiving shrew,' he said, anger rising at last, and he walked out leaving (Sophie) bowed over the miserable letters, utterly appalled by his words and her own."

The Yellow Admiral The final words of Ch 6

Which became too long winded to say in general discussion, and so became a word in its own right: 'hinapus!'

On Lovely Bodies

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"'She has a lovely body still, in spite of these children.' said Diana. 'But what is the use of a lovely body if neither you nor anyone else enjoys it?'"

Diana to Stephen about Sophie

The Yellow Admiral Chapter Eight