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  • Music:seth lakeman ...because this afternoon we went down to Strawberry Hill House in west London for a private viewing of the artist Anne Sudworth's latest exhibition.

    May 5th, 2008 2008

  • Rarely did the lakeman trouble his old bones with climbing all those stairs.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • The old lakeman went on, as the children finished stowing the catboat's gear, about how the men with Mindrell had been an untrustworthy-looking lot, and how he never would have allowed them past had they not been with the rhymer.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • The lakeman gave a last short wave as Avender sculled the catboat out under the iron gate at the entrance to the little harbor and into the bright sunshine beyond.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • Avender and Reiffen worked the boat out from the tangle of other craft while Ferris apologized to the lakeman for being in such a hurry.

    Reiffeins Choice 2006

  • Now, gentlemen, in square - sail brigs and three-masted ships, well-nigh as large and stout as any that ever sailed out of your old Callao to far manilla; this lakeman, in the land-locked heart of our America, had yet been nurtured by all those agrarian freebooting impressions popularly connected with the open ocean.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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