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“And the detail which in retrospect seemed to him especially interesting — the detail he had noted in passing at the time but had so far not returned to ponder on — was the exact quality of the reaction he had seen in the fat man's flabby bandit face when the Coroner had announced the name Simon Templar.”
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chained_bear Of sealing, said when one's ship and crew are in the midst of the main herd of seals. "Burned down in the fat" was said of the old steamships when a ship was "parked" in the main herd.
"Father gave me a sign this evening that there's plenty of swiles over there just as I said."
"Yah! Looks like they're burned down in the fat, Cap'n."
--Cassie Brown with Harold Horwood, Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, Doubleday Canada, 1972. Dec 10, 2007