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Examples
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The men holding the hatch-cover seemed perplexed, puzzled no doubt by the briefness of the ceremony.
Chapter 3 2010
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They elevated the end of the hatch-cover with pitiful haste, and, like a dog flung overside, the dead man slid feet first into the sea.
Chapter 3 2010
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We sewed him up in the blankets in which he died and laid him on a hatch-cover for'ard of the main-hatch on the port side.
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He stepped up to the hatch-cover, and all caps came off.
Chapter 3 2010
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So I called to the Kanaka to come to me, and proceeded to share the hatch-cover with him.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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As I learned afterward, he had got the hatch-cover first, and, after some time, encountering Captain Oudouse, had offered to share it with him, and had been kicked off for his pains.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Thick rain was driving at the time, and it was the merest chance that flung me and the hatch-cover together.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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Not twenty feet away from me, on another hatch-cover, were Captain Oudouse and the Heathen.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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We elevated one end of the hatch-cover, and the Bricklayer plunged outboard and was gone.
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Captain Oudouse must have succumbed to exhaustion, for several days later his hatch-cover drifted ashore without him.
THE HEATHEN 2010
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