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  • The one is a ship completely rigged and fitted to bear herself nobly and safely over the surging surface of a stormy sea, the other, a floating hulk; mastless, sailorless, only waiting to be cast upon some desert shore to rot.

    Life and Labors of Elder John Kline the Martyr Missionary Kline, John 1900

  • The one is a ship completely rigged and fitted to bear herself nobly and safely over the surging surface of a stormy sea, the other, a floating hulk; mastless, sailorless, only waiting to be cast upon some desert shore to rot.

    Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk John Kline 1830

  • The harbours of the desolate sea-ports of the west of Ireland were filled with vessels of all sizes, from the man of war to the small fishers 'boat, which lay sailorless, and rotting on the lazy deep.

    II.9 1826

  • The harbours of the desolate sea-ports of the west of Ireland were filled with vessels of all sizes, from the man of war to the small fishers 'boat, which lay sailorless, and rotting on the lazy deep.

    The Last Man 1826

  • The harbours of the desolate sea-ports of the west of Ireland were filled with vessels of all sizes, from the man of war to the small fishers 'boat, which lay sailorless, and rotting on the lazy deep.

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • The harbours of the desolate sea-ports of the west of Ireland were filled with vessels of all sizes, from the man of war to the small fishers’ boat, which lay sailorless, and rotting on the lazy deep.

    The Last Man 2003

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