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DiGriz is tasked to discover who the ship-builder is.
Reading Challenge #5 – The Stainless Steel Rat, Harry Harrison « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2009
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He also has information about ship-builder Courtney who was also on the Peninsula and who I had failed to find anything out about myself when I wrote 'Greenwich Marsh'.
Notes and queries M 2009
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He also has information about ship-builder Courtney who was also on the Peninsula and who I had failed to find anything out about myself when I wrote 'Greenwich Marsh'.
Archive 2009-04-01 M 2009
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Palmer was the son of a ship-builder in Stonington, Connecticut.
Palmer, Nathaniel 2009
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He hated England, as a loyal Dutchman, for generations, was compelled to do; and he held that a Dutchman was a better sailor, a better ship-builder, and a better fighter than the very best Englishman ever born.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Qwilleran had believed her to be descended from a wealthy ship-builder on Purple Point, but - no thanks to Thornton Haggis - he now suspected a less respectable heritage.
The Cat Who Sang For The Birds Braun, Lilian Jackson 1998
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He sought to join some ship; but not being able to find one, he apprenticed himself to a ship-builder, with whom he thoroughly learnt his trade, acquiring the arts of reading and writing during his leisure hours.
How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon
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The principles which regulate the rapid movements of fish through water is one thing; and the attempt to imitate these principles by the ship-builder is quite another thing.
A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education James Gall
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A ship-builder was once asked what he thought of him.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828 Various
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Indian corn, the old stocking-foot was at last filled, all the little odd bits, poured out and counted up, came to enough to speak to the ship-builder.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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