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As there was no alternative save death, the survivors surrendered and a moment later were taken aboard the Amoz, the name that I could now see printed in large letters upon the felucca's bow, and which no one in that whole world could read except Perry and I.
Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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And the mystery of our felucca's disappearance had to be discussed.
It Happened in Egypt 1889
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About this time, too, Fidd, with three or four of his best men, were on the right side of the bulwarks; and in another minute the entire party, or at least all those who were not killed or desperately wounded, were on the felucca's deck, and settling down to their work in grim earnest.
The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886
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"There, that will do; we are far enough away now, I think," he muttered, stepping lightly off the felucca's low rail to the deck.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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The felucca's canvas was then loosed, her anchor was roused up to her bows, and we got under weigh.
The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886
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To this arrangement we had no objection whatever to make, as Carera assured us there was nothing in the least likely to interest us on shore -- nothing whatever, in fact, that we could not just as well see from the felucca's deck with the aid of a telescope.
The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886
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I had a conviction that the felucca's seams were opening, through the violent straining of her in the heavy sea and through the tremendous pressure of the wind upon her sail; and I felt tolerably confident that, if I could succeed in keeping her afloat until the gale had blown itself out, all would be well.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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The air, too, was full of spindrift, to perhaps double the height of the felucca's mast, and that too was luminous with a faint, green, misty light that imparted a weird, unreal aspect to everything it shone upon; an effect which was further heightened by the unearthly screaming and howling of the gale.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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Presently Caesar swung himself over the felucca's bulwarks and down into the canoe, when he at once seized me by the shoulders, and, calling upon his friend Peter to lend him a hand, proceeded to pass me up over the felucca's rail to the three Spanish-speaking individuals who stood on deck stretching out their arms to receive me.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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Caesar climbed over the felucca's low bulwarks, and I heard his bare feet pattering along the deck until, as I supposed, he reached the companion, when the sounds became muffled, and were presently lost.
A Pirate of the Caribbees Harry Collingwood 1886
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