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schooner-rigged

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  • The slave ships, on the other hand, “were generally small handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The slave ships, on the other hand, “were generally small handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The slave ships, on the other hand, “were generally small handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • The slave ships, on the other hand, “were generally small handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails.”

    Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

  • For an endless period, as it seemed to me, I lay with my head on the thwart watching the schooner (she was a little ship, schooner-rigged fore and aft) come up out of the sea.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • She was a powerful schooner-rigged vessel of three hundred tons, as strong as wood and iron could make her; she was handled by a sailing-master who thoroughly understood his work, and she behaved nobly.

    Armadale 2003

  • He looked rather glum, however, half an hour afterwards, when the same voice bawled that she was a bull-dog looking craft, schooner-rigged, and pierced for sixteen guns.

    Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

  • Her foremast carried square sails; her main and mizzen masts were schooner-rigged.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • We now had nearly two hundred prisoners on board, and thought it prudent to retrace our steps to Port Royal, when on the following morning we fell in with two more schooner-rigged privateers.

    A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman

  • The slavers were generally small, handy craft; fast, of course; usually schooner-rigged, and carrying flying topsails and forecourse.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

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