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  • There was no sign of life where Parlay's big house perched on the sand.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • The rest of them followed his example, pausing once to watch one of Parlay's shell sheds go down in ruin.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • He turned to the steersman: "Tai-Hotauri, what about old Parlay's pearls?"

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • Ashore, where Parlay's house had been, was no vestige of any house.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • "All his ribs are smashed," the supercargo said, feeling along Parlay's side.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • The grass-sheds had disappeared, and Parlay's house rocked drunkenly.

    THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010

  • The wind comes as Parlay predicted; barometer dropping in the growing darkness, wind blowing away one of Parlay's copra-sheds, waves buffeting the lagoon, taut-stretched halyards beating a tattoo against the masts of the schooners as they slid away in the boiling surf and all the rigging, as if smote by some mighty hand, set up a wild thrumming.

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • An islander who manages to climb aboard Grief's schooner reports that Narii Herring of the Nuhiva, "an English Jew half-caste .... the nerviest and most conscienceless scoundrel in the Paumotus," tried to steal Parlay's pearls and that Parlay is up in a tree, Herring in another.

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • The grass-sheds had disappeared, and Parlay's house rocked drunkenly.

    The Pearls of Parlay 1912

  • "All his ribs are smashed," the supercargo said, feeling along Parlay's side.

    The Pearls of Parlay 1912

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