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He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking.
CHAPTER XXXVIII 2010
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“It is selfish, I know, — but doing what, doing what?” cried the young fisherman, in complete despair, and stamping his sea-boot on the ground.
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His heart quite failed him again when he had come round to that, and he once more beat his sea-boot softly on the floor.
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“It is selfish, I know, — but doing what, doing what?” cried the young fisherman, in complete despair, and stamping his sea-boot on the ground.
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His heart quite failed him again when he had come round to that, and he once more beat his sea-boot softly on the floor.
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I grasped something damp and greasy, there was tugging and hard breathing, and I was left clasping a big sea-boot, whose owner I heard jump on to the sand and run.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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Mrs Barrable leaned forward again and, through that same round porthole by the mast, caught a glimpse of a rubber sea-boot on the foredeck.
Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934
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Then Marah would heave a sea-boot at him, and tell him to hold his jaw; and the old man would mutter over his quid and say that we should see.
Jim Davis John Masefield 1922
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He was sitting on the couch, white-faced, one sea-boot in his hands, and I could have sworn his hands were shaking.
Chapter 38 1914
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One burly fisherman solemnly took off his huge oily sea-boot, placed a grimy forefinger on his heel, and remarked sententiously that the doctor "must sound him right there."
Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911
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