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Examples
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Certainly, among my many new trades, I shone least as a sail-maker.
Chapter 38 2010
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This champion yachtsman and sail-maker in Bowness-on-Windermere is used to capricious air currents speeding down from the fells.
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By the dim light of a sea-lantern I saw the old steward, on hands and knees, coughing and gasping, the while he shook awake Yatsuda, the first sail-maker.
CHAPTER XLIX 2010
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When I talked with the sail-maker, he complained that his injured hand was hurting him and that he would be glad when he could get to the surgeons in Seattle.
CHAPTER XXXI 2010
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Tom Spink and the second sail-maker, Uchino, sprang to Henry's side.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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Uchino, the second sail-maker, still strangled in his sleep.
CHAPTER XLIX 2010
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Yes -- and I noted the delicate-handed cook, and Yatsuda, the sail-maker, pulling with his one unparalysed hand.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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I was always aching to get my hands on the sail-maker that made it.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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He's as clever a sail-maker as you'll find at sea.
CHAPTER XV 2010
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The rest of our retainers have knives and clubs, although Yatsuda, the first sail-maker, carries a hand-axe, and Uchino, the second sail-maker, sleeping or waking, never parts from a claw-hammer.
CHAPTER XLIV 2010
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