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But these apparently adverse storms proved, by God's great mercy, the very means of the hallowed barque's deliverance from the enemy.
The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous
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Page and the light of the crimson sunset all ablaze behind the London smoke, throwing a glow of Bengal light upon the barque's spars, faded away from the Hope Reach.
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Around and above him the frosty sky flashed with innumerable stars, and over the barque's masts, behind the long chine of the eastern hill, a soft radiance heralded the rising moon.
Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The sun, already working around to the south, gilded the barque's top-gallant masts and yards, and flung a stream of gold along the raft already finished and moored in midstream.
Shining Ferry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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She wore a black gown, of course, but not a widow's cap: and, though in fact a widow of twenty-five, had very much more the appearance of a maid of nineteen as she looked down over the barque's side.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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"The skipper has his wife on board," remarked another; and the light of the crimson sunset all ablaze behind the London smoke, throwing a glow of Bengal light upon the barque's spars, faded away from the Hope Reach.
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Along the barque's side ran a narrow line of blue paint, signifying that the vessel was in mourning, that somebody belonging to captain or owner was lately dead.
The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The daylight which entered by the open hatch overhead spread a carpet of light at the foot of the ladder, which slid upon the deck to the heave and fall of the old barque's blunt bows, and left in shadow the double row of bunks and the chests on which the men sat.
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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Men who speak of the islands of Diego Ramirez as the "Daggarammarines" are not likely to deal faithfully with a narrie that rings delicately like guitar strings, and Dan observed that their mention of the barque's destination had no effect upon the
Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Perceval Gibbon 1902
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He took him into his cabin, and entertained him with lavish hospitality, when he persuaded his guest to sleep aboard the barque, urging that he could not possibly escape with his ship, for the cutter was lying close by and he would show a lantern from the barque's peak all night, all of which the marshal understood, and retired to sleep.
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894
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