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  • The C.M.A. and the Department of Trade became mere annexes to munitions, at a time when Davies 'bacon clamoured for ship-room needed by Flavelle munitions.

    The Masques of Ottawa Domino

  • Then the pilgrim spoke of the long and weary journey he had yet to go, begging his way from village to village (for his scrip was empty) till he could prevail on some good mariner to give him ship-room and carry him to the green isle of home, far away on the edge of sunset.

    A Child's Book of Saints William Canton 1909

  • Four, however, are beyond repair; so Aeneas, seeing he no longer has ship-room for all his force, allows the Trojans most anxious to rest to settle in

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • They sat there a month, till at length a chapman put in at Fareys, bound for Iceland, and they took passage with him, Eric paying the other half of his gold ring for ship-room.

    Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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