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  • Napoleon, a great floating tree stump, with all its roots, was caught on the buckets of the "labboard" wheel -- "like a cur on a cow's horn," said

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • Unbrokenly green, yes, forever the one same green, were the low willow and cottonwood jungles of the creeping shores; but while the "labboard" shore was still Louisiana the "stabboard" was now her own native

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • He would speak of the 'labboard' side of a horse in an easy, natural way that would make one wish he was dead.

    Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872

  • He would speak of the 'labboard' side of a horse in an easy, natural way that would make one wish he was dead.

    Life on the Mississippi, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

  • He would speak of the 'labboard' side of a horse in an easy, natural way that would make one wish he was dead.

    Life on the Mississippi 1870

  • She faced him up-stream, her mother on his "stabboard," as she said, herself on his "labboard," and Hugh on her left, "labboardest of all."

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • I'll hunt the labboard side, you hunt the stabboard.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

  • We went sneaking down the slope of it to labboard, in the dark, towards the texas, feeling our way slow with our feet, and spreading our hands out to fend off the guys, for it was so dark we couldn't see no sign of them.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 11 to 15 Mark Twain 1872

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