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The Wife is an old Coquet, that is always hankering after the Diversions of the Town; the Husband a morose
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The Wife is an old Coquet, that is always hankering after the
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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"I have been; and can tell you something more of the Coquet which is interesting."
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The screw steamer "Coquet" left a little port on the north coast early one October.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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The "Coquet" got into a very bad quarter indeed, and the captain soon saw that it was useless to try running her.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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The "Coquet" got away down Channel and struck for Ushant without any mishap; but when she got well into the Bay the sky began to look ominous.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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"Coquet" was built under the eye of a critic who did not suffer champagne to bias his ideas of solid workmanship.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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Once, when the mate dodged aft and clambered to the bridge, the "Coquet" took a long rush down, after she had reared on end like a horse.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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A blinding scuffle of cross-seas came and the "Coquet" was smothered for a while; the captain heard a crashing sound, and when he looked round the starboard boat was smashed and hanging in splinters, while the port boat was torn clean away.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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The master of the "Coquet" had been seventy-two hours on the bridge, and he was nearly asleep as he walked.
The Romance of the Coast James Runciman 1871
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