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  • Answered the boat-master, To such a place, where he fetched

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Naitachal held up a large silver coin, and the boat-master paused, as if considering.

    Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • The gray-haired boat-master seemed as fit as a man of thirty, despite his ancient, wrinkled face.

    Prison Of Souls Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • Billy, the deck-hand, John, my Chinese cook, and Peterson, the boat-master, were at the time out of sight, as well as Cal Davidson, who had her under charter.

    The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Emerson Hough 1890

  • Now the boat-master knew all this just as well as Elias.

    Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

  • But "yon laddie" [6] who had taught the boat-master how to build his boats so cunningly _below_ the water-line -- _above_ the water-line he had had to use his native wits, and they were scant enough -- must surely have been there beforehand, and bidden him both sell it cheaply, so that

    Weird Tales from Northern Seas Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

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