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It took me two and a half months to struggle round the first 500 miles from Mizen Head in the south to Ireland's most northerly point, Malin Head.
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But it took only two and a half weeks to paddle the second 500 from Malin down the east coast back to the Mizen.
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IIRC Knox was killed trying to protect his brother from a passing nutter, Mizen by a nutter in a bakery queue and Kinsella was trying to flee a fight.
OPEN THREAD. 2009
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She fired upon Us, and one of her shot went thro our Mizen
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When Mizen and the two men reached the stable yard on Buck's Row, Constable John Neil had come across the body and was alerting other police in the area by calling out and flashing his bull's-eye lantern.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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That Thomas Baker Cutt down the Foremast and Mizen Mast of the Pink when she run on shoar.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Ball or Bundle and hoist him at the Mizenpeek, the Mizen being furled.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Close-quarters, _&c. _ at the Mizen-mast, Shot-lockers and Shot in their proper Station; Pluggs for Shot-holes; and every thing that I could think of: and gave particular Orders to my Gunner, Carpenter, and
Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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Forecastle, a Puncheon fill'd with Water in the Main-top, a Hogshead in the Fore-top, and a Barrel in the Mizen-top, all fill'd with Water:
Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897
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Chetwood says he was excellent as Marplot in "The Busy Body," Beau Maiden in "Tunbridge Walks," Beau Mizen in "The Fair Quaker of Deal," &c.: "indeed Nature seem'd to mean him for those Sort of Characters."
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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