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Alf explained his difficulty in few words, and demanded, as the privilege of a stranger in a strange land, that the lieutenant put him aboard in the police-boat.
In Yeddo Bay 2010
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It was the police-boat, and to Alf it was given to enjoy the excited conversation that ensued.
In Yeddo Bay 2010
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Soon after the police-boat comes out and delivers his clothes.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .” 2008
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With eager, skilful fingers, Henry adjusted his instrument and began to flash out the call for the police-boat.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss
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Yard, past factories and offices and great rows of tenements, the little police-boat sped on.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss
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The shop-keepers do not make so much money as before, when the men were wild and drunk in the daytime, and had plenty to spend when the police-boat did not catch them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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Tarbert-men would run down the police-boat some dark night.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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And at this entrance proper precautions were taken by stationing a civil force in the speaker's gardens; while in the river, such regulations were strengthened by the parties on board the Thames police-boat, and a gun-brig moored off this point in the course of Wednesday.
Coronation Anecdotes Giles Gossip
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In another, the little party emerged from the house and started pell-mell down the hill in a mad race to reach the landing before the police-boat got there.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss
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Slowly the little police-boat finished her circuit, nosing into every dark nook and spying out every black corner; but blacker than either the night or the water was the gloom in the hearts of Captain Hardy and his fellow members of the wireless patrol.
The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol Lewis E. Theiss
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