The three boys were now hard at it; and quite a knocking and hammering arose, in which Granser babbled on unnoticed.
But there was not much chance to think over the matter, for Captain Peleg was now all alive.
The idea people seemed to have here was that the Martians were simply formidable human beings, who might attack and sack the town, to be certainly destroyed in the end.
No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea.
I believe I have broken a finger here against his cursed jaw ain’t those mincing knives down in the forecastle there, men?
Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club, whom no incident could surprise, as unvarying as the ship's chronometers, and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck.