1 I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile.
2 "Next best thing to tell the truth," muttered Captain Smollett.
3 I began to see that here was one of the best of possible shipmates.
4 Well, gentlemen," said the captain, "the best that I can say is not much.
5 And John would touch his forelock with a solemn way he had that made me think he was the best of men.
6 You found out the plot; you found Ben Gunn--the best deed that ever you did, or will do, though you live to ninety.
7 Do as you pleased, she always made more leeway than anything else, and turning round and round was the manoeuvre she was best at.
8 Mr. Trelawney, you are the best shot--you and Gray will take this long north side, with the five loopholes; it's there the danger is.
9 Soon, however, he saw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Gunn, being fleet of foot, had been dispatched in front to do his best alone.
10 WE made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer.
11 There's been blows too, and I reckon your friends has had the best of it; and here they are ashore in the old stockade, as was made years and years ago by Flint.
12 He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.
13 He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.
14 For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.
15 It was already candle-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows; but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter.