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  • 'You there in the fisherboat,' a voice, magnified artificially, roared down at me.

    Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967

  • Hollander, laden with merchandise, furled their sails in that deserted harbor, where now scarcely a fisherboat is seen; for on Crail, as on all its sister towns along the coast, fell surely and heavily the terrible blight of 1707, and now it is hastening rapidly to insignificance and decay.

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • Once in the strait they saw a brown-sailed fisherboat, and the helm swerved enough to bring her within hail.

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

  • The fleet of the Greeks — a fisherboat had told him — was swinging inactive at Delos well to the north and westward, and he could fairly consider himself in waters dominated by the king.

    A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903

  • Then under the hill, and beyond the border tower, is the blue sea itself, the waves flowing in over the sand in long curved lines, slowly; shadows of cloud and gleams of shallow water on white sand alternating -- miles away; but no sail is visible, not one fisherboat on the beach, not one dark speck on the quiet horizon.

    The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

  • The 15th day of may I embarked in a fisherboat to go for peerce Island, which is 6 score leagues off Quebecq, being there arrived the 7th of may.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

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