Starboard and port: the "Nettie" along shore (1876)
Hepworth, George H. (George Hughes), 1833-1902 · New York : Harper & brothers · leaf 39
-toms whatever. We did our utmost to be cheerful,but there was very evidently a serious cast to all ourthoughts. When the soup was spilled in some oneslap as the Nettie rolled, no one laughed ; and if you hadlooked into our eyes at that moment you would havediscovered a certain vacancy, as though… … sui generis, and must be experienced to be understood.No description can do it justice. It rolls the boat inthe direction of the starboard, reserving a faint lurch toward the lar-board ; then, revers-ing the motion, itrolls the boat to-ward the larboardquarter, giving it atthe same time alurch…
