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  • Upon my word, I heard the mutter of Almayer's name faintly at midnight, while making my way aft from the bridge to look at the patent taffrail-log tinkling its quarter - miles in the great silence of the sea.

    A Personal Record 1919

  • The taffrail-log marked eighteen miles and three-quarters, and four iron belaying-pins were missing round the mainmast.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • The taffrail-log marked eighteen miles and three-quarters, and four iron belaying-pins were missing round the mainmast.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • The taffrail-log marked eighteen miles and three-quarters, and four iron belaying-pins were missing round the mainmast.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Almayer's name faintly at midnight, while making my way aft from the bridge to look at the patent taffrail-log tinkling its quarter-miles in the great silence of the sea.

    Some Reminiscences Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Upon my word, I heard the mutter of Almayer's name faintly at midnight, while making my way aft from the bridge to look at the patent taffrail-log tinkling its quarter miles in the great silence of the sea.

    A Personal Record Joseph Conrad 1890

  • One fine afternoon I was sitting on the main-hatch, overhauling the clock-work of the taffrail-log, which hadn't been registering very well of late, and I had got the cook to bring me a coffee-cup to hold the small screws as I took them out, and a saucer for the sperm-oil I was going to use.

    Man Overboard! 1881

  • I set down the taffrail-log on the bit of canvas I had put under it, and looked at the doctor.

    Man Overboard! 1881

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