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  • The style had been popular among ship-builders a generation earlier, but had grown passé among the inner worlds and survived here among the thrice-used ships at the edge of civilized space.

    April 5th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country! how much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!

    Friendship and Complex Interdependencies in Markets 2008

  • How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country! how much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • The colonists were small farmers, mechanics, ship-builders, and fishermen.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

  • How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country! how much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country! how much commerce and navigation in particular, how many ship-builders, sailors, sail-makers, rope-makers, must have been employed in order to bring together the different drugs made use of by the dyer, which often come from the remotest corners of the world!

    Imports are always a good, by definition 2006

  • The timber employed in it confirms this opinion, being such as is seldom used by ally but ship-builders.

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • This place was called Crump Island, and here lived, and had lived for many years, an old gentleman, a native of Bermuda, whose business it had been to buy up cedar wood and sell it to the ship-builders at Hamilton.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • "If we tell the ship-builders now to hold back for another three or six months, this is going to have very serious repercussions."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "If we tell the ship-builders now to hold back for another three or six months, this is going to have very serious repercussions."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

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