"Hawsepipe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... though, that no chance is yet afforded in our service in the present day, as used to be the case in the past, when many an admiral 'crept through the hawsehole,' as the saying was, for respectable young fellows of good education and bright abilities to look any higher; but, it is to be hoped that the day will come, as father's old friend Captain Mordaunt said only the other day when talking to us both under ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson |
