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  • Now you git up, and walk along easy to the focsle - it's that way - an 'give your callin' card to Mr Fitzgibbon, who's the mate, an 'he'll show you to your stateroom.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The focsle gang were a hard-bitten crowd, Scowegians and Germans, mostly, but I was big and strong enough to be let alone, and I didn't encourage conversation.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • "Old shipmates, sir!" barks he, glaring as though I were a focsle rat.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Now you git up, and walk along easy to the focsle - it's that way - an 'give your callin' card to Mr Fitzgibbon, who's the mate, an 'he'll show you to your stateroom.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "Old shipmates, sir!" barks he, glaring as though I were a focsle rat.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • The focsle gang were a hard-bitten crowd, Scowegians and Germans, mostly, but I was big and strong enough to be let alone, and I didn't encourage conversation.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • The focsle gang were a hard-bitten crowd, Scowegians and Germans, mostly, but I was big and strong enough to be let alone, and I didn't encourage conversation.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Now you git up, and walk along easy to the focsle - it's that way - an 'give your callin' card to Mr Fitzgibbon, who's the mate, an 'he'll show you to your stateroom.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • "Old shipmates, sir!" barks he, glaring as though I were a focsle rat.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • 'Yer focsle mainsle blast Shivver timbers wayard wind At last yer've come at last.'

    A Spaniard In The Works Lennon, John, 1940-1980 1965

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