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"Well, they have two watches on board ship, which are called the larbord and the starbord watches.
Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway Oliver Optic 1859
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Bourdeaux Lighthouse in Sight, over our larbord Bow.
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The Bourdeaux lighthouse, was in Sight over our larbord Bow.
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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Wheneber dey am on de larbord, you look for long-nose on de starbord.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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On the larbord hand there will be a great mass of reefs: and these it is necessary to follow at the distance of two or three miles, steering mostly W.S. W., and gradually more southward as they are found to trend.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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On boring into the second futtock timbers from the main hold, close under the beams of the lower deck on the larbord side, we find one sound and two rotten; and on the other side, one sound and one rotten.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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We had the wind at N.W. in the morning, and steered close to it on the larbord tack, until noon; when the hill on the outer north-east island, bore S. 89½° W., nine or ten miles.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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When the Cato struck the reef, it was upon the point of a rock, under the larbord chess tree; and she fell over to windward, with her decks exposed to the waves.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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We were steering north-west, at the rate of six knots, when new reefs were discovered, from ahead to abaft the larbord beam; upon which we clapped upon a wind to the southward, and just weathered them, passing through rippling water in 30 fathoms.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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On boring into one timber of a side from the bread room, one is sound; but on the larbord side it is rotten.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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