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Perhaps his occupation may have had something to do with this; for he was apprenticed to a shipwright, and delighted in his work.— Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess
He pondered it as he went in an indignant bewilderment; it was strange that others should find him so different when he knew himself to be the same as ever The Scottish foreman-shipwright in the yard office looked up from his standing-desk, lifting, to the light of the open door a red monkey-face comically fringed with coppery whiskers, and stared at him ferociously with little stone-blue eyes.— Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories
You will remember his labouring as a shipwright in England not many years since, to gain a knowledge of ship-building He is now constructing a large fleet, and he is anxious to secure the services of a number of active and intelligent officers like yourself.— John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea

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