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  • "Talk to me of bein 'seafarin' with that crowd of jays you've got round you!

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • Grand Manan, an seafarin men say that they've got a fog mill down thar, whar they grind out all the fog for the Bay of Fundy.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • "I feel kine o 'safer with a kile o' rope, -- bein a seafarin man," he remarked.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • The sou-wester is the one wind that seafarin men dread in the Bay of Fundy.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • "I've heerd tell o 'several seafarin men that's got adrift, an lit on that thar isle," said Bennie, solemnly.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • The magic of it, its mystery, its romance and its wonders; all phases of the sea and seafarin 'charmed me.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • I wouldn't be at all surprised as how that's my brother Sam I haven't heerd on for this many a year, or seed, although he's a seafarin 'man like myself, an' I oughter to 'ave run across his jib afore now.

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • I'm the man for Mount Desert, an Quoddy Head, an Grand Manan, an all other places that air ticklish to the ginrality of seafarin men.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

  • I was set apart from other Silts, who had all been seafarin 'men since the beginnin' of time.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • I don't remember when I felt so depressed, cept last May -- time I had to go off in the Antelope with taters, arter I thought I'd done with seafarin for the rest of my life.

    Lost in the Fog James De Mille

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