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Examples
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As soon as day dawned she seated herself on the royal throne and sent for the ship-master, who came into the presence and kissed the ground before her.
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When she heard talk of sparrow-olives her heart longed for them and she said to the ship-master, “How much of olives hast thou?”
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Session where the principal fact to be ascertained was, whether a ship-master, who used to frequent the Western Highlands and Isles, was drowned in one particular year, or in the year after.
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A Newcastle ship-master, who happened to be in the house, intruded himself upon us.
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One of them, a very respectable chieftain, who told me a story of second sight, which I have not mentioned, but which I too implicitly believed, had in this case, previous to this publick examination, not only said, but attested under his hand, that he had seen the ship-master in the year subsequent to that in which the court was finally satisfied he was drowned.
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At this point the ship-master not only gave up the marriage but gave out considerable property to his rival.
'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2003
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The dame of course regretted his absence; but he was down, she said, at Deptford, to settle with a Dutch ship-master.
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Now, if to this consideration you super-add the official supremacy of a ship-master, then, by inference, you will derive the cause of that peculiarity of sea-life just mentioned.
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The Lost Sailor, by the wharf, is a good bet, or the King's Oyster" "He saw Raederle, then, mounted behind the ship-master, and took a step toward her.
Heir of Sea and Fire McKillip, Patricia A. 1977
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Your ship-master told me who you are, and that you are travelling together under peculiar circumstances.
Heir of Sea and Fire McKillip, Patricia A. 1977
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