" Marilla was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland, and was firmly convinced that one should be tacked on to every remark made to a child who was being brought up.
Her father had tacked on the Jane by way of civilising it, and the whole connection got out of the difficulty by nicknaming her Doss.
She locked the house and tacked a note for the milkman on the door: NOBODY HOME.
The blood ran down the faster, to be sure, but I was my own master again and only tacked to the mast by my coat and shirt.
Later in the day a wind came up, but it was against us; we tacked back and forth, and at last were lucky enough to reach Korsr by a little past eleven that night, having spent twenty-two hours to go sixteen miles!
