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  • He was using for his purpose a small trading-vessel, manned by a crew of Moors, Greeks and Negroes.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Cato, getting into a small trading-vessel, with only two of his friends and three servants, set sail from Thessalonica, and having very narrowly escaped drowning, he arrived at Aenus just as Caepio expired.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • I propose embarking on board a private trading-vessel in these seas in a mercantile capacity, to make my way, if I can, for myself.

    No Name 2003

  • I shall buy a trading-vessel and go to sea, I will not stay with you.

    The Birds 2000

  • EUELPIDES I shall buy a trading-vessel and go to sea, I will not stay with you.

    The Birds 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • The party is at last rescued by a trading-vessel on its way to discover new lands in the Antarctic Ocean.

    A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

  • True, he was no longer drowsing on the settle, but as he swung along under the soft spring sky, he saw himself the hero of a hundred fantastic tales -- the captain of a trading-vessel bound for the

    The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country Elma Ehrlich Levinger

  • The crew of a Portuguese trading-vessel with a genial narrator on board might conceivably be

    Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

  • We traveled far enough south to secure passage upon a trading-vessel bound for civilized shores.

    Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane

  • The governors of Cartagena and St. Jago de Cuba, pretending that they feared being punished for allowing trade, had forbidden English frigates to come into their ports, and refused them provisions and water; and the Governor of Campeache had detained money, plate and negroes taken out of an English trading-vessel, to the value of 12,000 pieces of eight.

    The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

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