The Dog Fiend; Or, Snarleyyow, Volumen183G. Routledge, 1856 - 309 páginas |
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... body . It had evidently seen much service , was battered , and the black Japan worn off in most parts of it . As we have said before , Mr. Vanslyperken walked his quarter - deck . He was in a brown study , yet looked blue . Six strides ...
... body . It had evidently seen much service , was battered , and the black Japan worn off in most parts of it . As we have said before , Mr. Vanslyperken walked his quarter - deck . He was in a brown study , yet looked blue . Six strides ...
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... body . " The skipper's out o ' sorts again this morning , " said Oba- diah after a time . 66 I heard him muttering about the woman at the Lust Haus . " 66 66 Then , by Got , we will have de breeze , " replied Jansen , who was a Dutch ...
... body . " The skipper's out o ' sorts again this morning , " said Oba- diah after a time . 66 I heard him muttering about the woman at the Lust Haus . " 66 66 Then , by Got , we will have de breeze , " replied Jansen , who was a Dutch ...
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... body was cased in a blue jacket , with leaden buttons , stamped with the rampant lion , with a little tail behind , which was shoved up in the air by the protuber- ance of the parts . Having gained the deck , he walked to Vanslyperken ...
... body was cased in a blue jacket , with leaden buttons , stamped with the rampant lion , with a little tail behind , which was shoved up in the air by the protuber- ance of the parts . Having gained the deck , he walked to Vanslyperken ...
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... body , but not more than eighteen inches from the hip to the heel ; and he consequently waddled about a very ridiculous figure , for he was like a man razéed or cut down . Put him on an eminence of a couple of feet , and not see his ...
... body , but not more than eighteen inches from the hip to the heel ; and he consequently waddled about a very ridiculous figure , for he was like a man razéed or cut down . Put him on an eminence of a couple of feet , and not see his ...
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... body downwards like a base viol , for he always played it in that way , and that he occasionally fingered the strings , pinching them as you do a guitar , so as to send the sound of it aft , that Mr. Vanslyperken might suppose that they ...
... body downwards like a base viol , for he always played it in that way , and that he occasionally fingered the strings , pinching them as you do a guitar , so as to send the sound of it aft , that Mr. Vanslyperken might suppose that they ...
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appeared arms arrived Babette Bill Spurey boat cabin cave Cherbourg Cornbury Corporal Van Spitter corporal's crew cried Vanslyperken cutter dear despatches devil Dick Short door exclaimed Vanslyperken eyes Fiddler's Green forecastle Frau Vandersloosh gold Gott gunwale hand head heard Jacobite Jansen Jemmy Ducks keel-hauling King William knocked leave letters lieutenant Lilly looked Lord Lord Albemarle Lust Haus majesty marines master Mein Gott mind Mistress Moggy morning mother Mynheer Krause Mynheer Vanslyperken Nancy Corbett never night observed old woman party perceived perken poral Port Admiral Portsmouth pulled Ramsay received replied Jemmy replied Short replied Smallbones replied the corporal replied Vanslyperken Robert Barclay round sail ship's company Sir Robert slyperken smugglers Snarley Snarleyyow soon syndic taffrail tail tell thought took traitor turned tyfel Vansly vessel waited walked widow Vandersloosh Wilhelmina wish Yungfrau
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