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He subsequently stole a beautiful octoroon slave, Cassy, sold her under a false name, assisted her subsequent evasion, and with the proceeds of the sale fled with her across the ice-floes of the Ohio river, pursued by slave-catchers who shot him in the buttock; however, he succeeded in effecting his escape, and Cassy's, with the timely assistance of the then Congress-man Abraham Lincoln.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

I can't say it's none of my biznai, because it was once: in my time, I've raided blacks from the Dahomey Coast, shipped 'em across the Middle Passage, driven them on a plantation - and run them to freedom on the Underground Railroad and across the Ohio ice-floes with a bullet in my rump, to say nothing of abetting J. B.'s lunatic scheme of establishing a black republic - in Virginia, of all places.

THE NUMBERS 2010

The extension of the plan -- the far more imminent battle with the ice-floes of the South -- was still undreamt of by the majority of the ship's company.

The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

He established his workshop in the chart-house, and there the machine hummed incessantly through the tropics, the west wind belt, and the ice-floes too; for, quick as our sailmaker was with his fingers, the orders poured in even more quickly.

The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

Our passage through the pack had been a four days 'pleasure trip, and I have a suspicion that several among us looked back with secret regret to the cruise in smooth water through the ice-floes when the swell of the open Ross Sea gave the Fram another chance of showing her rolling capabilities.

The South Pole~ From Madeira to the Barrier 2009

Land was discovered, but the thick ice-floes prevented the expedition from landing.

The South Pole~ The History of the South Pole 2009

I'm building cabanas next to the pool and pointing out the schools of dolphins, and, of course, fitting the prow with steel to cut through those troublesome, unexpected mid-Atlantic ice-floes.

Novel Drafts 2006

I'm building cabanas next to the pool and pointing out the schools of dolphins, and, of course, fitting the prow with steel to cut through those troublesome, unexpected mid-Atlantic ice-floes.

SeeLight: 2006

Instead, as Steve M. pointed out, they accrete drifting ice-floes at their seaward edge.

Ellesmere Island Ice Shelves « Climate Audit 2007

He's just one more in the endless file of soap-star intellects, preening starlets, sitcom revenants, small-screen action heroes and full-bore Hollywood poseurs who, over the years, have given an ounce of their time to drop by the ice-floes, park in front of a whitecoat, do the caring press conference and go back to whatever it was they were doing when they were not saving seals.

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