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I asked the Lord to take home some times cause I feel like a failor so much.
Solid Ground Belinda 2007
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Speedy preplacement of all of you will be the result ... even the "Baby face" which until now continous to spread his stupid comments and assesments of his failor to win the election will have to leave its high noon Mr. Vigenin ....
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We received a bahar (four hundred and ten pounds) for a few yards of ribband, and a hundred pounds weight for a few fmall chains, of brais, which only cofl a marcel * • jAnd as every failor was anxious to carry to Spain as much as he could, every one bar*. rtered his property for cloves.
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It feems that fome haAy words I had juft befoi'e ufed to the failor, which he thought refie&ed on his courage, was the caufe of this odd fancy in him; and the old gunner finding a point of honour flarted, thought he could not well avoid taking a part in it.
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The Swallow being a bad failor, oh - the night of the 21 ft, but after a fe -
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries [microform]: From ... 1796
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A pVivate failor, Rationed in the fore-top, Iiad a leg Qioi* on* 'fjut, with a heart like a lion, he let bimfelf down, hand under hand, *
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It is fome confolation, that the laborious clafles are too wealthy to covet the pit - tance of the foldier, or too independent to court the dangers of the failor.
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding ... 1794
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To fay nothing of fuch complicated ma - chines as the fhip of the failor, the mill of the fuller, or even the loom of the weaver, let us confider only what a variety of labour is rcquifite in order to form that very fimple mia - chine, tiie Ihears with which the fhepherd clips the wool.
An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations 1793
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The juilice of my remark every failor or waterman will confirm.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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We have more than one inftance of a common labouring tinner, after he has many years worked under - ground, becoming fo compleat a failor, as to be entrufted with the command of a large vefTel to the Baltic, the Levant,, or any other part
An Attempt to Promote the Commercial Interests of Great Britain William Langworthy 1793
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