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  • Commodore Trunnion, or of one of those many gallant Admirals of the stage, who have all ample fortunes, gout, thick sticks, tempers, wards, and nephews.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • This sudden immersion into an element of which Trunnion was properly a native, in all probability helped to recruit the exhausted spirits of his rider, at his landing on the other side gave some tokens of sensation, by hallooing aloud for assistance, which he could not possibly receive, because his horse still maintained the advantage he had gained, and would not allow himself to be overtaken.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Trunnion was offended at her indifference and want of faith and believing that she refined too much in her discernment, swore that

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • In short, the company began to understand one another; Mr. Pickle seemed to relish the entertainment, and a correspondence immediately commenced between him and Trunnion, who shook him by the hand, drank to further acquaintance, and even invited him to a mess of pork and pease in the garrison.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Trunnion no sooner heard him mention the cause of her disorder, than his morosity recurring, he burst out into a violent fit of cursing, and forthwith betook himself again to his hammock, where he lay, uttering, in a low growling tone of voice, a repetition of oaths and imprecations, for the space of four-and-twenty hours, without ceasing.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • The Commodore being in some cases restive, his Lady has recourse to Artifice in the Establishment of her Throne — She exhibits Symptoms of Pregnancy, to the unspeakable joy of Trunnion, who, nevertheless, is balked in his expectation.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Divers Stratagems are invented and put in practice, in order to overcome the obstinacy of Trunnion, who, at length, is teased and tortured into the Noose of Wedlock.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Trunnion was thunderstruck at this piece of intelligence: the ring dropped front his hand, and shivered into a thousand pieces; his eye glistened like that of a rattle-snake; and some minutes elapsed before he could pronounce, “Avast! overhaul that article again!”

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Trunnion is enraged at the conduct of Pickle — Peregrine resents the Injustice of his Mother, to whom he explains his Sentiments in a Letter – Is entered at the University of Oxford, where he signalizes himself as a Youth of an enterprising Genius.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • No wonder then that Trunnion was disturbed by a supposed visit of this demon, which, in his opinion, foreboded some dreadful calamity.

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

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