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  • Act I, Air No. 10, 1729, where it is entitled "Coal Black Jo also printed the music, call it simply" Black Joke, "or" Black

    Black Joke 1745

  • You Rakes and Bullies and comical fops you say that we sent you away with the pox with our Black Joke and belly so white.

    Black Joke (4) 1998

  • The _Black Joke_ schooner had a career befitting its romantic name, being in turn a slaver, a Royal Navy tender, and an opium smuggler in the China Seas.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • One of them, an oldish man named Kirk, had been a slaver all his days, and had served on the notorious _Black Joke_; [12] he wouldn't have shipped on any other kind of vessel.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • The _Black Joke_ schooner had a career befitting its romantic name, being in turn a slaver, a Royal Navy tender, and an opium smuggler in the China Seas.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • One of them, an oldish man named Kirk, had been a slaver all his days, and had served on the notorious _Black Joke_; [12] he wouldn't have shipped on any other kind of vessel.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • _Black Joke_ became so great amongst the East Indiamen homeward bound that they used to make up convoys at St. Helena before heading north.

    The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919

  • _Nonesuch_ for Guernsey, where the _Black Joke_ was to meet him in case of accident, he had two minds to play fair after all.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Moreover, Tummels had never sailed for years past but in the _Black Joke_, and the _Black Joke_ was taken and her crew in prison or in hiding.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Guernsey, where he well knew the _Black Joke_ would be waiting, he stood over towards the French coast, and there dodged forth and back, under pretence of picking her up as she came out of Roscoff.

    Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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