Curacoa

This would not have been worth mentioning had not a letter from on board the 'Curacoa' spoken of chastising a village for attacking a Missionary.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

'On Mr. Brooke's return, Takua and Dikea were furbishing up old guns which some incautious person on board the "Curacoa" had given them, and they were disappointed to find that there could be no attack on the vessel.'

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

There were 300 white inhabitants in the latter at the time of the visit of the 'Curacoa' in 1865.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

As a matter of fact, as his letters soon proved, he was not only not in company with the 'Curacoa' at the time, but had no knowledge either of the outrage or the chastisement, till Sir William Wiseman mentioned it to him when they were together at Sydney.

Life of John Coleridge Patteson Yonge, Charlotte M 1873

Suppose Brutus had a footman, who came and told him that the butler drank the Curacoa, which of these servants would you dismiss? — the butler, perhaps, but the footman certainly.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Indies, where he engaged with our ship, as before related; but his conscience upbraiding him for serving the one enemies of his country, he quitted the ship at the same place where he first listed, and got to Curacoa in a Dutch vessel; there he bargained with a skipper, bound to Europe, to work for his passage to

The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

He had asked for a light, wherewith to burn the glass of Curacoa which he intended to take, foreign fashion, in his coffee.

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

His whole attention was now concentrated upon Fenwick, who presently tilted his glass of Curacoa dexterously into his coffee cup, and then stretched out his hand for the silver match box by his side.

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

Against the ill-success of these expeditions, the solitary capture of the Dutch colony of Curacoa only can be recorded: this island surrendered, on the

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Benedictine, Grenadine, Apricot Brandy, Curacoa, and Dantzig Eau de Vie arc usually served without additions or ice.

How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Lillian B. Lansdown