"But when I went over the side of the New York I felt like kneeling down on her deck and begging every jackey to kick me."
"Suppose Bess were to address you thus: 'Well you parish bull prig, are you for lushing jackey, or pattering in the hum box?'"
"I learned that putting the top on the jackey layer avoids that weird thing where a one-pixel line appears between top and bottom no matter what you did to the actual texture while making it."