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  • But now, as if to answer the doubts of the brigantine's people,

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • He gasped and gazed in awe at a tongue of fire that snaked up the brigantine's side, twisted about the fore rigging and roared about the tall masts of pine.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • The brigantine's stern was awfully close to the edge of the bar, in spite of the swift action of Vandersee, who, in leaving the wheel and before going down to his boat, let go the big mainsail and took the after pressure off the vessel.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • The appointed day arrived, and my smoking semaphores announced the brigantine's approach to Sugarei, three miles from Cape Mount.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • "Got it, hey?" he remarked, nodding with approval as Blunt's boat hauled the great anchor dripping between his boat and Rolfe's, where the mate's crew made it fast, swinging on both gunwales by a baulk of timber laid across, ready to be either let go again, or taken under the brigantine's bows and hove up with the windlass.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • A cry of helpless apprehension burst from the brigantine's company as one of those suspicious logs stirred into reptilian life.

    Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

  • The other members of the ship's company, all unmindful of the battle that at another time would have commanded their undivided attention, stood with eyes glued upon the wild channel toward which the brigantine's nose was pointed.

    The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • About half the crew were in a liquorish stupor from which the trump itself could scarce have aroused them; the rest responded with savage oaths, swore that they would boil their suppers in the blood of the brigantine's men and give their corpses to the sea.

    Richard Carvel — Volume 03 Winston Churchill 1909

  • About half the crew were in a liquorish stupor from which the trump itself could scarce have aroused them; the rest responded with savage oaths, swore that they would boil their suppers in the blood of the brigantine's men and give their corpses to the sea.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • I was picked up and thrown into the brigantine's long-boat with a head and stomach full of salt water, and a heart as light as spray with the joy of it all.

    Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

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