Key Note-Billy Budd
Publisher: Random House Reference
Published: December 12, 1986
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780394744766
First sentence: IN THE TIME before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-of-war's men or merchant sailors in holiday attire, ashore on liberty.