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This was a full-bowed vessel, of quaint rig, heavy sheer, and extraordinary build — a foreigner clearly, and an ancient one.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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It is tenderly restored to its hiding-place, and the graceful form is full-bowed now.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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This was a full-bowed vessel, of quaint rig, heavy sheer, and extraordinary build -- a foreigner clearly, and an ancient one.
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On account of this risk, however, there was now no cause of apprehension, the full-bowed, kettle-bottomed Montauk being exempt from the danger; though Captain Truck intimated his doubts whether the corvette would like to brave the course he had himself adopted.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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