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  • The bawley was his property, and he used to cruise in it a great deal, but his father knew little of the companions that he had upon these trips.

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  • It was impossible that Marston should have taken part in the murders at my house; he would have been down with the bawley at the entrance to the harbour mouth.

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  • The girl had been introduced by Marston at a later date to help him in some business connected with the bawley; I could well imagine that it was a job that called for company of some description.

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  • From the set of her one-pole mast she might have been a Thames bawley of about fifty tons, or she might have been like the smacks that I have seen in Rotterdam.

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  • We decided to lie off and head a little to the north, aiming to pass within signal distance of the Eddystone and to pass the bawley some two miles to the north.

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  • It was a secret enterprise, conceived by Ormsby and carried out by young Marston in his bawley, whose object was to place a Conservative Government in power in England for the next five years.

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  • Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us.

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  • Over a mile away we saw the bawley come up to the wind shiver in irons for a moment, and lay off on the other tack.

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  • It could not be fixed upon the people drowned in the wreck of the bawley, as neither Stenning nor I, nor anyone, could give more than presumptive evidence that the bawley we had come upon not far from the Eddystone had anything to do with the affair.

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  • That took me well clear of the Skerries Bank and all the broken water that we should find there; whatever our quarry in the bawley might be going through, I had no fancy to get into any further trouble than we could avoid.

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