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  • There and then they laid hand to that ship which is called the Seamew, and they ran her down over the Rollers into the waves, and leapt aboard and hoisted sail, and ran out the oars and put to sea; and a little wind was blowing seaward from the gates of the mountains behind them.

    The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men William Morris 1865

  • Fedden is Chief Constable in my part of the world; a quiet, youngish man of fifty, who cruises in a little yawl Seamew, ex - Happy Day.

    Movie Night 2010

  • They all pretend to me that he is gone away in the Seamew; and he or they had his name published as one of the passengers.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • It was the announcement, in a Liverpool paper, of the departure of the Seamew, bound for Melbourne; and among the passengers were reported, “Dudley Ruthyn, Equire, of Bartram-H., and Mrs.D. Ruthyn.”

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Ruthyn, Esq., and Mrs.D. Ruthyn, were now skimming the blue waves on the wings of the Seamew, and every morning widened the distance between us, which was to go on increasing until it measured a point on the antipodes.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • The Liverpool paper containing this golden line was carefully preserved in my room; and like the gentleman who, when much tried by the shrewish heiress whom he had married, used to retire to his closet and read over his marriage settlement, I used, when blue devils haunted me, to unfold my newspaper and read the paragraph concerning the Seamew.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • Tygris and Seamew the British Government admits that satisfaction is due.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Honolulu Bay, with its beautiful shores and white houses with red roofs, faded out behind the _Seamew_ one sunny morning, and the two boys, up in the chart house with the captain, began to see wild visions of what lay before them.

    The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney

  • The _Seamew_ had passed through Balabac Strait and was standing out into the reef-strewn South China Sea, on the last leg of her course, when it happened.

    The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney

  • September, 1886, that the inspiration of one of the most beautiful bird-poems in our language came to its author -- the ode "To a Seamew" of

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

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