Found 37 results for "Aubrey, jack (fictitious character), fiction"
by Patrick O'Brian
THE MUSIC-ROOM IN the Governor's House at Port Mahon, a tall, handsome, pillared octagon, was filled with the triumphant...
by Patrick O'Brian
At first dawn the swathes of rain drifting eastwards across the Channel parted long enough to show that the chase had al...
by Patrick O'Brian, Richard Snow
STEPHEN MATURIN squared up to his writing-desk once more: he had been called away to attend to one of the ship's boys wh...
by Patrick O'Brian
But I put it to you, my lord, that prize-money is of essential importance to the Navy.
by Patrick O'Brian
Captain Aubrey of the Royal Navy lived in a part of Hampshire well supplied with sea-officers, some of whom had reached ...
by Patrick O'Brian
Thick weather in the chops of the Channel and a dirty night, with the strong north-east wind bringing rain from the low ...
by Patrick O'Brian
The sudden rearmament that followed Napoleon''s escape from Elba had done little to thin the ranks of unemployed sea-off...
by Patrick O'Brian
The long harbour of Halifax in Nova Scotia on a long, long summer's day, and two frigates gliding in on the tide of floo...
by Patrick O'Brian, Graham Roberts
A hundred and fifty-seven castaways on a desert island in the South China Sea, the survivors of the wreck of HMS Diane, ...
by Patrick O'Brian
A gentle breeze from the north-east after a night of rain, and the washed sky over Malta had a particular quality in its...
by Patrick O'Brian
'PASS THE WORD for Captain Aubrey, pass the word for Captain Aubrey,' cried a sequence of voices, at first dim and muffl...
by Patrick O'Brian
The warm monsoon blew gently from the east, wafting HMS Leopard into the bay of Pulo Batang.
by Patrick O'Brian
The breakfast-parlour was the most cheerful room in Ashgrove Cottage, and although the builders had ruined the garden wi...
by Patrick O'Brian
Ever since Jack Aubrey had been dismissed from the service, ever since his name, with its now meaningless seniority, had...
by Patrick O'Brian
Marriage was once represented as a field of battle rather than a bed of roses, and perhaps there are some who may still ...
by Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Ob4brian
The West Indies squadron lay off Bridgetown, sheltered from the north-east tradewind and basking in the brilliant sun.
by Patrick O'Brian
A purple ocean, vast under the sky and devoid of all visible life apart from two minute ships racing across its immensit...