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... look - out man forward cried sharply , " Breakers a - head ! " an appalling sound under any circumstances , and particularly awful when heard in a crippled vessel , situated as we were . The excitement of nearing the land , the violent ...
... look - out man forward cried sharply , " Breakers a - head ! " an appalling sound under any circumstances , and particularly awful when heard in a crippled vessel , situated as we were . The excitement of nearing the land , the violent ...
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... look- out - man orders had been issued to brail up the main - trysail , clear away the fore - staysail and fore - topmast - staysail ; the helm was put up ; and it was hoped there would yet be time and space allowed us to wear ship ...
... look- out - man orders had been issued to brail up the main - trysail , clear away the fore - staysail and fore - topmast - staysail ; the helm was put up ; and it was hoped there would yet be time and space allowed us to wear ship ...
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... look back to the gaols and houses of correction of the nineteenth century , as the great architectural monuments of the age , in this our land ; and in our own day , so long as such goodly structures are raised and such care is taken in ...
... look back to the gaols and houses of correction of the nineteenth century , as the great architectural monuments of the age , in this our land ; and in our own day , so long as such goodly structures are raised and such care is taken in ...
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... look chiefly , perhaps , to the terrors of punishment to check crime in the great majority of men . It is not my purpose to discuss this question . I shall only observe that both are valuable in their way ; that as different physical ...
... look chiefly , perhaps , to the terrors of punishment to check crime in the great majority of men . It is not my purpose to discuss this question . I shall only observe that both are valuable in their way ; that as different physical ...
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... look at me , nor to render the slightest mark of respect to the governor of the establishment , who accompanied me . Puzzled and interested by what I saw , I asked if this diligence , this perfect silence and decorum , were of every day ...
... look at me , nor to render the slightest mark of respect to the governor of the establishment , who accompanied me . Puzzled and interested by what I saw , I asked if this diligence , this perfect silence and decorum , were of every day ...
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