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  • Plenty musket he stop, plenty powder, plenty tomahawk, plenty knife-fee, plenty porpoise teeth, plenty tobacco, plenty calico -- my word, too much plenty everything we take 'm along whale-boat, washee {5} like hell, sun he come up we long way too much.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Not a soul was visible under her awnings, and he saw the whale-boat was missing from alongside.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • I hope you won't attempt anything like it again, that's all -- except that I shall be only too happy any time to extend to you the courtesy of my whale-boat.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • Boucher came down regularly in his whale-boat to pass Sunday.

    Chapter 26 2010

  • He used to come down in his whale-boat to visit Hughie and me.

    Chapter 7 2010

  • Somewhere out there, Sheldon reflected, was Joan Lackland, the girl who had not grown up, the woman good to look upon, with only a boy's mind and a boy's desires, leaving Berande amid storm and conflict in much the same manner that she had first arrived, in the stern-sheets of her whale-boat, Adamu Adam steering, her savage crew bending to the oars.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • This was a most necessary precaution, for the blacks were in a funk, and a whale-boat left lying on the beach in the evening meant a loss of twenty blacks by morning.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • They were unable to classify it, and, being scientific men, they climbed into the whale-boat alongside and went ashore to see.

    LOVE OF LIFE 2010

  • Look 'm tree; look' m ground belong tree; look 'm all fella bridge; look' m copra-house; look 'm grass-land; look' m river; look 'm whale-boat -- my word, plenty big fella look' m too much.

    Chapter 12 2010

  • Tell 'm that fella Ornfiri make' m kai-kai take along whale-boat.

    Chapter 16 2010

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