bugeye

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  • He climbed up then, gripping the safety basket, and finally landing in a crouch beside the anchor-chain winches The bugeye was big for that type of vessel, well over a hundred feet, and she was shipshape, well made. —  097 - The All-White Elf
  • This bugeye type schooner--it was not genuine bugeye, in that the hull was not made of logs--was of flat-bottomed, streamlined shape, so that it probably had as much speed as could be built into a craft without putting on a special modern hydroplane hull Now and then a wave hit the bow planking with the noise of a shotgun. —  097 - The All-White Elf
  • It was built to look like a graceful sailing bugeye, most picturesque of American ship designs. —  097 - The All-White Elf
  • The bugeye was warping up alongside the steamer The Isle Royal had come to a complete stop. —  097 - The All-White Elf
  • The bugeye was making for this As the bugeye came alongside the landing stage, a man leaped the gap to the stage, carrying a light line. —  097 - The All-White Elf
 

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