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Examples
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How many terrorist plots coming from PACIFISTS can you point to billy-boy?
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Keep hangin yourself there, billy-boy. eventually even the dummies who watch his show will catch on if he keeps up this level of dystardia.
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An elderly seaman came to the gate and paused irresolute, then, seeing all was quiet, stole cautiously on to the jetty, and stood for some time gazing curiously down on to the deck of the billy-boy PSYCHE lying alongside.
Many Cargoes 1903
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To his dismay he found when he awoke in the morning that what little wind there was had dropped in the night, and the billy-boy was just rising and falling lazily on the water in a fashion most objectionable to an empty stomach.
Many Cargoes 1903
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If it was required to "tack" ship, there was no formal parade and preparation for the manoeuvre, not even as much as would be made in a Goole billy-boy.
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886
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They are shut in behind that billy-boy just now; but -- Ah, here they come! "
The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886
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Life on the Ocean Wave, "whilst behind her again appeared a clumsy but picturesque-looking" billy-boy "or galliot from the Humber -- the _Saucy
The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific Harry Collingwood 1886
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