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I'm not strong on religion like Chauncey Delarouse there, but I have some primitive ideas; and my concept of hell is an illimitable coconut plantation, stocked with cases of square-face and populated by ship-wrecked mariners.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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It was contrary to all their preconceptions of mid - ocean rescue of ship-wrecked mariners from the open boat.
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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Simply put I suppose if I was ship-wrecked on a desert island I would probably choose 9 out of 10 sci-fi books to take with me (and no the 10th would not be the bible)!
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If I ever end up ship-wrecked on a desert island and had to work with a class, I'd take my low level class.
Magical thinking doyle 2009
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British import Stephan Hogan is wonderful as the singing fascist Sky Marshall Anoke, who finally finds God…although “the wrong one,” according to ship-wrecked born-again space stewardess Holly Little Marnette Patterson who also turns in a bravura comic performance.
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(Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.
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(Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.
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Remembering what prisoners and ship-wrecked mariners have done to exercise their minds in solitude, I repeat the multiplication table, the pence table, and the shilling table: which are all the tables I happen to know.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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He was ship-wrecked in an open boat at sea, and having lost his clothes, had no other covering than an old sail; and yet a creeping hand, tracing outside all the other pockets of the dress he actually wore, for papers, and finding none answer its touch, warned him to rouse himself.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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(Soundbite of "Watina") Mr. ANDY PALACIO (Singer): (Singing in foreign language) EYRE: The Garifuna are - go back to the literally the 1700s when African slaves escaped from a ship-wrecked and swam to the island of Saint Vincent.
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