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The pulleys by which sails, etcetera, are hoisted, are named blocks_.— Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
All the yards, etcetera, are hoisted and shifted, and held in their position, by a complicated arrangement of cordage, which in the mass is called the running-rigging, in contradistinction to the standing-rigging, which, as we have said, is fixed_, and keeps the masts, etcetera, immovably in position.— Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
The cost in detail is as follows Lifeboat and her equipments|300 pounds Transporting carriage 100 pounds Boat-house (average cost) |150 pounds Total 550 pounds The sums granted last year for the saving of 714 lives by lifeboats, shore-boats, etcetera, amounted to nearly 1,300 pounds (about 1 pound 16 shillings 6 pence each life!)— The Lifeboat
He said that three thousand dollars, all I possessed, was a capital sum, but not sufficient to marry on, and that he could not risk his daughter's happiness, etcetera, etcetera--you know the rest.— The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West

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