Dr Guppy was fortunate in reaching North Keeling Island, where a landing is only possible during the calmest weather.
Reading a list of possible trampoline dangers can make the calmest of parents a bit antsy.
While the prisoner defended himself with the calmest dignity and self-possession, Coke burst into the bitterest invective, brutally addressing the great courtier as if he had been a servant, in the phrase, long remembered for its insolence and its utter injustice - "Thou hast an English face, but a 'Spanish heart!"