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They were clumsy, home-made boats, put together by men who were not boat-builders, out of planks they had sawed by hand from green spruce trees.
THE MEAT 2010
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The ruinous legislation never generated enough revenue to pay for collecting it, let alone to replace lost payroll and corporate income tax from boat-builders.
Think Progress » U.S. Companies To Pay 10% More For Health Benefits in 2006 2005
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The forests that then existed have long been cut down; the Aguillans, charcoal-burners and boat-builders, are the natural enemies of anything green that looks like growing big.
On the nightstand (under the pillow, in the knapsack, etc.) M-mv 2005
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The forests that then existed have long been cut down; the Aguillans, charcoal-burners and boat-builders, are the natural enemies of anything green that looks like growing big.
Archive 2005-08-01 M-mv 2005
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They are still maritime in their habits, and very competent practical sailors and boat-builders; but though for centuries they divided with the Arabs the carrying trade between Eastern and
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004
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The men are good boat-builders, and they make a regular trade of it and seem to be very well off.
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The boat-builders had been concerned to save weight.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Lord Glengall, in order to avoid the misery of passing through crowded streets, and of being every moment impeded in his course, engaged apartments in Lambeth, at Godfrey and Jule's, the boat-builders, where he slept the night preceding.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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On the coasts there are good boat-builders and sailors.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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Everything is suggestive of boat-builders, of Robinson
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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