stiff as a board

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.

The Spaniards captured two schooners, having on board 22 officers and 30 men, all of whom were hanged or sent to the mines.

She had just left the wharf at Cincinnati for Louisville, with 225 passengers on board, of whom but 124 were saved.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.

The patache was never seen again, and there is not much doubt that it was lost with all hands on board.