“ If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. ”
Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869). copy citation
Author | Mark Twain |
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Source | The Innocents Abroad |
Topic | sea stomach |
Date | 1869 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3176/3176-h/3176-h.htm |
Context
“One’s safest course that day was to clasp a railing and hang on; walking was too precarious a pastime.
By some happy fortune I was not seasick.—That was a thing to be proud of. I had not always escaped before. If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick. Soon a venerable fossil, shawled to the chin and bandaged like a mummy, appeared at the door of the after deck-house, and the next lurch of the ship shot him into my arms. I said:
“Good-morning, Sir.”
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