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  • Travel agents often gull tourists into trips like the one Barack Obama just took; nine countries in nine days; each stop just long enough to snap a few pictures, ask a few questions and lose your lugg ...

    Bill Curry: How to Sell A Transformation 2008

  • Travel agents often gull tourists into trips like the one Barack Obama just took; nine countries in nine days; each stop just long enough to snap a few pictures, ask a few questions and lose your lugg ...

    Bill Curry: How to Sell A Transformation 2008

  • Pratt lugg a Cart load of Books into Court to prove a Point as clear as the Sun.

    John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961

  • Whose reverence even the head-lugg’d9 bear would lick,

    Act IV. Scene II 1909

  • Betts had the ship's launch, which carried two lugg-sails, his progress was both easy and rapid, and he actually got in sight of the Reef before midnight.

    The Crater James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • There was no time or place to pause, but on the little craft was dragged almost gunwale to, the breeze coming against the lugg in puffs that threatened to take the mast out of her.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • There were a mast and a lugg-sail in the boat, and we stepped the former and set the last, as soon as far enough from the Speedy to be certain we could not be seen.

    Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The yawl carried a lugg, as is usually the case with boats at sea, and the first blast of the breeze upon it satisfied Spike that his present enterprise was one of the most dangerous of any in which he had ever been engaged.

    Jack Tier James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • A second glance showed us she was an English frigate, and we doused our lugg as soon as possible.

    Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • All the morning we continued running to the northward and eastward, under our single lugg reefed, only keeping clear of the seas that chased us, by dint of good management.

    Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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