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  • Accordingly, on the return of the latter, he was informed of the shipowner's tempting offer.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • But if making a ship liable for accidents happening to a seaman does not take the shipowner's property without due process of law, then rendering a factory liable for accidents happening to a factory hand does not lake the factory owner's property without due process of law.

    The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

  • He still could remember the horrified expression on one shipowner's face just before his ship broke to bits under him.

    The Players Everett B. Cole

  • It lay outside the shipowner's pale of thought -- beyond the limitations of his mind.

    Swirling Waters Max Rittenberg

  • No sooner did the news of the great shipowner's decision reach the ears of the captain of the

    The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

  • Carrying cargo was the least of a shipowner's business; he was more often hiring out vessels and crews to warring kings, to Portuguese who carried on a slave trade, or to fight pirates, the dread of the Mediterranean.

    Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

  • The subsequent expenditure in the port is said not to flow from that sacrifice, but from the necessity of completing the voyage, and is incurred in performance of the shipowner's obligation under his contract.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

  • Court of the United States has decided that such a law does not take the shipowner's property without due process of law.

    The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

  • Accordingly, on the return of the latter, he was informed of the shipowner's tempting offer.

    The Grand Old Man Richard B. Cook

  • But, the shipowner's face did not look as if he brought any pleasing news; and, after one brief glance at his countenance, the widow's fell in sympathy.

    Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

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