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Resorting daily to this her sad exercise, and continuing there her complaints, unseene by any of the Marriners, or whosoever else: there arrived suddenly a Galley of Pyrates, who seazing on the small Barke, carried it and all the rest in it away with them.
The Decameron 2004
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And being unable to guesse, what was become of the men and Marriners, seeing the Ship also driven on the sands, and filled with water, she began with them to lament most greevously: and now it was about the houre of mid day, before they could descry any person on the shore, or any els to pity them in so urgent a necessity.
The Decameron 2004
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The Marriners reported to vs that it had this propertie, that if it should happen to haue lighted on any part of the shippe, that it would rent and wreth sayles, mast, shroudes and shippe and all in manner like a wyth: on the land, trees, houses, in whatsoeuer else it lighteth on, it would rent and wreth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Deuonshire, to the number of fiue and twentie saile of ships and pinnaces, and hauing assembled of Souldiours and Marriners to the number of two thousand and three hundred in the vvhole, embarqued them and himselfe at Plimmouth aforesaid, the twelfth day of September 1585. being accompanied vvith these men of name and charge, vvhich hereafter followe.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage Walter Bigges
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Marriners had the reputation of making less honourable profits, and that was why Lord Woodruff was so anxious to get rid of them.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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[62] Marriners say, we were overtaken and dispersed by a great storm of
The Isle Of Pines (1668) and An Essay in Bibliography by Worthington Chauncey Ford Henry Neville
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"In case any inquiry was made about it from Marriners 'Laundry."
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Voyage from St. Malo, the said Captain Pienoir applyed for and obtained from the proper Officer at the Court of France a Commission which gave Authority to the said Captain with the Marriners and
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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And the said Philip further saith that he had also on Board his said Schooner one Mate or Pilot and six Marriners to navigate the said Schooner who were all likewise
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Bourdett, John Wyld and the Negro taken in the prize as Marriners.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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