“A Gallic-nosed fellow, slight with silver-shot dark curls and dark eyes, brushed rudely past them just as Jack returned from the top of the plank. He reeked of vertiver and musk; Jack’s nose wrinkled as he passed, and he half-smiled at himself to realize how accustomed he’d become to the Puritan cleanliness of American colonials, and their aversion to heavy perfumes.”
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“Another small victory. Pile enough of them together and they became like bricks in the wall.”
“His laugh came forth as a voiceless sob.”
“Who would have thought three separate peaces so irreconcilable?”