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"Don't appear to be any night-hawk on the jack-staff -- it's the Amaranth, dead sure!"— The Gilded Age A tale of today
Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.— Life on the Mississippi
That night a fog rolled up from the swamps, and in the morning jack-staff was hid from pilot-house.— The Crisis — Volume 07
Already he had made out the double stars in the bunting at the jack-staff.— Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila
She turned away and looked out beyond the jack-staff as radiantly as if she had just alighted on the planet.— Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
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