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352fbd0 Come all you thoughtless young men, a warning take by me And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea. sea-shanty aubreyad master-and-commander the-far-side-of-the-world Patrick O'Brian
2274cc1 Since the sheets were half-flown the sails instantly split at the seams, the maintopsail shaking so furiously that the masthead must have gone had not Mowett, the bosun, Bonden, Warley the captain of the maintop and three of his men gone aloft, laid out on the ice-coated yard and cut the sail away close to the reefs. Warley was on the lee yardarm when the footrope gave way under him and he fell, plunging far clear of the side and instantly vanishing in the terrible sea. will-warley aubreyad master-and-commander the-far-side-of-the-world Patrick O'Brian
9ba78a5 "It was an operation that Dr. Maturin had carried out at sea before, always in the fullest possible light and therefore on deck, and many of them had seen him do so. barret-bonden jack-aubrey joe-plaice aubreyad master-and-commander the-far-side-of-the-world stephen-maturin Patrick O'Brian
46f5ea6 Hollom was going forward along the larboard gangway: Nagel, an able seamen but one of the most sullen, bloody-minded and argumentative of the Defenders, was coming aft on the same narrow passage. They were abreast of one another; and Nagel walked straight on without the slightest acknowledgement other than a look of elaborate unconcern. aubreyad hollom master-and-commander nagel the-far-side-of-the-world Patrick O'Brian