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  • Embarked in two of those antiquated craft whose high poops and tub-like proportions are preserved in the old engravings of De Bry, they sailed from Havre on the eighteenth of February, 1562.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • Such slender equipment, plus the tub-like little caravels, would not have invited many men to try unknown waters, unless such men had

    Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

  • Along the docks of the mighty river were many kinds of boats and ships, from stately ocean-liners to the tub-like barges used to float down from Bolivia great cargoes of raw rubber.

    Around the World in Ten Days Chelsea Curtis Fraser

  • _Inverashiel's_ tub-like shape was reflected and beautifully distorted in the water, which broke in long low waves from her bows as she swerved round to come alongside the pier.

    The Ashiel mystery A Detective Story Charles Bryce

  • Slim squinted critically down his nose at his tub-like form.

    The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos 1924

  • Everything being ready on the morning of the 17th instant, we left Brompton Square in very rainy and stormy weather, and drove down to the Custom-house wharf and went on board our destined steamer, the William Joliffe, a dirty, black-looking, tub-like thing, about as large but not half so neat as a North River wood-sloop.

    Letters and Journals 02] Morse, Samuel F B 1914

  • Wabigoon stood panting and dripping wet, and in the moonlight his face was as white as the tub-like spot of foam out in the center of the maelstrom.

    The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds James Oliver Curwood 1903

  • The sun was just rising as the small tub-like steamer, or, to be more correct, steam-barge, the Bulldog, steamed past the sleeping town of

    Many Cargoes 1903

  • A select few, by signs, winks, and natural instinct, were drawn towards this convivial circle; but, notwithstanding all her efforts to make herself understood, Mrs. Manly was sadly hampered by the presence of a tub-like old lady who, with a small boy, was seeking a _vis-à-vis.

    Muslin 1892

  • "No," said I: and I did not like to look at the tiny dingey which lay on the cabin-top, squat and tub-like, or the small ducking skiff that here on deck was half full of water from the breaking seas.

    The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890

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