prize-courts

Many a coasting-vessel was sent to Halifax to swell the coffers of the British prize-courts, or, after being set on fire, was left to lie charred and ruined upon the rocky shore, as a warning to all who violated the blockade.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

Now, Rodney, there are two pounds in every hundred due to me when the prize-courts have done with them.

Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Now, Rodney, there are two pounds in every hundred due to me when the prize-courts have done with them.

Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at

Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Now, Rodney, there are two pounds in every hundred due to me when the prize-courts have done with them.

Rodney Stone Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong's, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter's was for the Army, or Ibbetson's for the Church of England.

Rodney Stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896

Yet while prize-courts procrastinated, or there was a chance of an appointment by showing their sunburned faces at the Admiralty, so long they would continue to pace with their quarter-deck strut down Whitehall, or to gather of an evening to discuss the events of the last war or the chances of the next at Fladong's, in Oxford Street, which was reserved as entirely for the Navy as Slaughter's was for the Army, or Ibbetson's for the Church of England.

Rodney stone Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1896