| Lipids were extracted according to the method of Bligh and Dyer, followed by methylation with ethereal diazomethane. |
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| Some of the Internationals might be experienced soldiers, Bligh noted, but their age weighed against them for work like this. |
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| After a few minutes the wagon jolted and moved on the track and then there was a sudden thud that almost made Bligh cry out in fright. |
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| The crew mutinied soon after leaving Tahiti, casting Bligh and 18 of the crew adrift in a small boat with little food and water. |
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| Pitcairn was the final landing place for the mutineers from the Bounty who had rebelled against Captain Bligh. |
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| Bligh felt bemused, standing in this trench with its perfectly revetted walls and neat dug-out bunkers. |
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| As the jugs of wine were passed round and the atmosphere grew more ribald, Bligh wondered if this was just going to be some kind of orgy. |
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| Once they had passed, Bligh scrambled down the bank and stopped as the wagons rumbled past within inches of his face. |
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| Bligh pressed his head against the wall, cooling himself, steadying his pulse. |
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| He showed his cupped hands to Bligh and they were full of engraved tinder boxes, rings, broken teeth capped with gold. |
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| Bligh orders the ship's doctor, a dying man, to stand on deck despite his illness. |
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| After a trial, Johnston was cashiered and the charges against Bligh rejected. |
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| Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening. |
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| Dillinger is the country boy gone wrong, and Hoover is another prissy remake of Captain Bligh as delivered by Charles Laughton. |
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| He joined the navy as a midshipman when he was 16, and two years later sailed with Captain Bligh on the expedition to carry breadfruit plants from Tahiti to the West Indies. |
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| The well-known breadfruit tree brought to the island by Captain Bligh in 1793 was first planted here, and its descendants are still to be found in the gardens. |
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| Then they passed over a brick bridge that must have been more than a mile long and Bligh knew that they could no longer be retracing their route from the capital. |
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| Bligh closed his eyes in fear as one of them squatted next to him. |
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| It felt as if they took most of the night to reach the little green stream in the cleft of the valley, but Bligh knew it was no more than twenty minutes. |
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| Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year. |
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| The urn has never been the official trophy of the Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh. |
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| The crew of the Bounty mutinied because of the harsh discipline of Captain Bligh. |
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| In 1800, a survey of Dublin Bay conducted by Captain William Bligh recommended the construction of the Bull Wall. |
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| Bath Botanical Gardens was the site for planting breadfruit, brought to Jamaica from the Pacific by Captain William Bligh. |
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| In 1984, he starred opposite Mel Gibson in The Bounty as William Bligh, captain of the Royal Navy ship the HMS Bounty, in a retelling of the mutiny on the Bounty. |
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| Bligh was presented with an urn that contained some ashes, which have variously been said to be of a bail, ball or even a woman's veil and so The Ashes was born. |
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| Pitt organised a third major descent, under the command of Thomas Bligh. |
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| A more detailed account of how the Ashes were given to Ivo Bligh was outlined by his wife, the Countess of Darnley, in 1930 during a speech at a cricket luncheon. |
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| The tardiness of Bligh in moving his forces allowed a French force of 10,000 from Brest to catch up with him and open fire on the reembarkation troops. |
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| Well, if ever a man was born bad in his temper, 'twas Captain Bligh.... They made an Admiral of him in the end, but they never cured his cussedness. |
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