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At that moment, to his great annoyance, his oar stuck fast in the oar-lock, and he straightway did that very unsailorly thing known as catching a crab.
For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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"Silver, if you like," cried the squire; "but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English."
Treasure Island 1883
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"Silver, if you like," cried the squire, "but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English."
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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