Hamlet vocabulary

And indeed I think I may say this of the main of the observations in that treatise that the clear satisfaction I had about them and how much I might rely upon them was a great ease to my mind during this vexatious voyage; wherein the ignorance, and obstinacy withal, of some under me, occasioned me a great deal of trouble: though they found all along, and were often forced to acknowledge it, that I was seldom out in my conjectures when I told them usually beforehand what winds, etc. we should meet with at such or such particular places we should come at.

William Dampier. A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699

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accent— all the while dreadfully twitching, shivering, smirking, but withal talking in a curiously detached and even amiable manner:

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita