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With great shouting and song, the pretty teak-built yacht was towed in by the long canoes and beached close to where Jerry lay just beyond the confines of the coral-stone walls.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along.
JERRY OF THE ISLANDS 2010
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The corvette that took the ground, so luckily for you, when half of your hands were aboard the prize, is the Blonde, teak-built, and only launched last year.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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A sound, teak-built, staunch, ship-rigged vessel of 1200 tons register, and classed A1 at
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While stationed at Kiukiang I possessed a teak-built four-oared gig which, being heavy and strong, I rigged with a jib and mainsail, besides adding six inches to her keel, when she proved to be a handy and seaworthy little craft.
Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready
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With great shouting and song, the pretty teak-built yacht was towed in by the long canoes and beached close to where Jerry lay just beyond the confines of the coral-stone walls.
Chapter 12 1917
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It, was, I believe, one of J.H. Allan's teak-built craft, a forgotten line -- the _Rajah of Cochin_, the
London River 1915
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The Minota was a teak-built, Australian yacht, ketch-rigged, long and lean, with a deep fin-keel, and designed for harbour racing rather than for recruiting blacks.
Chapter 15 1913
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The Minota was a teak-built, Australian yacht, ketch-rigged, long and lean, with a deep fin-keel, and designed for harbour racing rather than for recruiting blacks.
Chapter 15 1911
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But Smoots Beste never bought a farm with the price of the oxen and the high-bulwarked, teak-built, waterproof-canvas tilted waggon that had cost such a good round sum.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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