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The moment I told him who I was, he exclaimed, ‘Ha! Matt, my old fellow cruizer, still afloat!’
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We anchored in five fathoms about 1,200 yards off shore, in company with some fifteen craft, large and small, including a neat despatch cruizer, built after the
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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His health not permitting him to be left on shore, he required a cruizer to convey him from place to place, and to preserve his store of presents and provisions.
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Hoskins, after being reported by a chief, whom her captain had kicked, to a trader at the river mouth, and by him to the cruizer.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Consulate of Sao Paulo de Loanda, but the distance appears too great for consul or cruizer.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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Whenever a British cruizer shall receive positive and bona fide orders to search native craft, and to sell as prizes all that have slaves on board, the trade will receive a death-blow.
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The Boreas, being fully equipped for the Leeward Islands, as a cruizer on the peace establishment, Captain Nelson sailed from Spithead about the middle of May 1784; carrying out Lady Hughes and her family, to
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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They left us, however, without betraying any particular anxiety, and made a very circuitous passage home, in order to avoid the Recife cruizer, which was looking out for straggling boats or vessels of any description belonging to the patriots.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 Maria Graham
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De Wilton might have been made to seek and watch his adversary, from some moody feeling of patient revenge; and it certainly would not have been difficult to discover motives which might have induced both Clara and the Abbess to follow and relieve him, without dragging them into his presence by the clumsy hands of a cruizer from
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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After remaining a few days at Smyrna I sailed on a cruizer leaving the
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
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