Captain Phoebus

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Princess Anne had missed for several days some conspicuous citizens, such as Daniel Custis and wife, Captain Phoebus, Levin Dennis, and the free negro Samson -- large components of a small town; but it had also gained what everybody admitted to be the most beautiful woman in the place except Mrs. Vesta Milburn -- the brown-eyed, tall, roguish niece of

The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
The goat would dance, play cards, and perform those tricks of magic familiar to the readers of Victor Hugo's beautiful story of the "Hunchback of Notre Dame," and finally knock down and overthrow the designing seducer, Captain Phoebus.

Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869