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Examples
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But the captain inhospitably kept him perched on the lowest gang-way step, shivering miserably and with his feet dangling in the water, till we, out of very pity, rowed in from the darkness and took him off.
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And the Public Receiver would follow up the gang-way.
Talking Ampol Sarel 1979
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I had not been long below before an officer from Neptune came to me, and demanded me, in his name to appear before him at the starboard gang-way, whose summons must not be disobeyed.
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On my arrival at the gang-way, the usual questions were asked me, whether I had been that way before?
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The boys could hear the drip of water and the purring of the current as it crept into a lower gang-way, but that was all.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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First he alluded to the fact that we had gone supperless to bed the night before; then he buttoned up his mackintosh, had a brief interview with the captain, shouted down the gang-way for the cook, and finally disappeared in the forecastle.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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She and Heyl descended the gang-way, and stood at the dock's edge, looking rather foolish and uncertain, as people do at such times.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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We parted at the gang-way of the River Queen about noon of March 28th, and I never saw him again.
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She and Heyl descended the gang-way, and stood at the dock's edge, looking rather foolish and uncertain, as people do at such times.
Fanny Herself 1917
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There was a hoarse shouting at the gang-way behind me, and the eyes looked past me, over my shoulder.
The Holladay Case A Tale Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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