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“At last an area five feet square of the sail was fothered, lines were rove through the grommets, and the working party hurried forward to work the sail under the brig and drag it aft to the hole.”

Mr. Midshipman Easy

“When the Battalion was gone and the other spectators had gawped at the remains, a working party lowered the coffins into the graves.”

Sharpe's Eagle

“In ordinary conditions a working party of two or three hundred men from the Indefatigable would have made short work of getting in the cargo from the lighters, but now it had to be done by the longboat's complement of eighteen.”

Mr. Midshipman Easy

“Ramseur's division, which had remained behind for a short time to protect a working party engaged in destroying the railroad bridge, was detained for a time in driving off a party of cavalry which had been following from Maryland Heights, and did not get up until one o'clock at night.”

Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,

“The battened-down hatch cover was domed upwards curiously and significantly; as the wedges were knocked out one plank tore loose at one end with a crash, pointing diagonally upwards, and as the working party lifted off the cover a brown form followed it upwards — a bag of rice, forced out by the underlying pressure until it jammed in the hatchway.”

Mr. Midshipman Easy

“The Lieutenant smiled, opened the door, and beckoned Sharpe into the courtyard, where the Lieutenant’s working party was standing by a string of pack mules.”

Sharpe's Eagle