White-Jacket, or the World in a Man-Of-War. With an introduction by Stanton Garner (Classics of Naval Literature)

So, with many odds and ends of patches—old socks, old trowser-legs, and the like—I bedarned and bequilted the inside of my jacket, till it became, all over, stiff and padded, as King James’s cotton-stuffed and dagger-proof doublet; and no buckram or steel hauberk stood up more stoutly.
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