Shortlands

Dag Daughtry, after he had compassed his fourth bottle, confided in monologue to the Shortlands planter that night just before bedtime.

CHAPTER VIII 2010

Once in five weeks the steamer Makambo made Tulagi its port of call on the way from New Guinea and the Shortlands to

CHAPTER 1 2010

News, as usual, Christian Young brought -- news of the drinking at Guvutu, where the men boasted that they drank between drinks; news of the new rifles adrift on Ysabel, of the latest murders on Malaita, of Tom Butler's sickness on Santa Ana; and last and most important, news that the Matambo had gone on a reef in the Shortlands and would be laid off one run for repairs.

Chapter 16 2010

At the moment the steward made his faint lip-noise -- so faint that he could not hear it himself and was almost for wondering whether or not he had made it; so faint that the Shortlands planter did not dream that he was making it.

CHAPTER VII 2010

"The most playful-minded dog, without being silly, I ever saw," was Dag Daughtry's verdict to the Shortlands planter, to whom he had just sold one of his turtle-shell combs.

CHAPTER VII 2010

Shortlands planter, observing it, wondered what the captain had been rowing him about.

CHAPTER IX 2010

Kennan's sleeping-cot on the slant deck of the Ariel, as that trim craft, the Shortlands astern and New Guinea dead ahead, heeled her scuppers a-whisper and garrulous to the sea-welter alongside as she logged her eleven knots under the press of the freshening trades.

CHAPTER III 2010

Shortlands planter did not hear nor guess; and Michael bounded to his feet and to his lord's side.

CHAPTER VII 2010

The island and the nearby Shortlands were defended by about 27,000 troops and contained several large airfields.

Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002

Besides, there was a doctor at Shortlands already; though now close on seventy, and unwilling to turn out at night.

Ultima Thule 2003