"'Girls take after their mother, Evangeline. Men take after the Devil.'" (The Binnacle Boy, Chap. 1, p. 4)

"There was no sign of scurvy, no shortage of food. When the ship was boarded the crew was discovered to be lying about the decks as if hexed, with no witness to bear the tale to the living. None, that is, except the Binnacle Boy." (The Binnacle Boy, Chap. 2, p. 5)

"'Men,' she'd summed up, 'are a stench in God's nostrils.'" (The Binnacle Boy, chap. 3, p. 11)

"Words did not come easily to her, so she spoke instead and the language at hand - the language of nutmegs and cornmeal and cloves." (Saint Crispin's Follower, chap. 2, p. 34)

"'Why, that sulphur-tongued spinster would snatch up a suitor quick as a frog would a fly. And yet our master is still accumulating the courage to speak his heart her, and has been ever...