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  • 'Ohe la goelette!' sang out the doctor, with his best voice.

    The Ebb-Tide Lloyd Osbourne 1907

  • PERON and FREYCINET, Voyage de decouvertes aux Terre Australes, execute par ordre de sa majeste l'Empereur et Roi, sur les corvettes Le Geographe et Le Naturaliste et la goelette Le Casuarina, pendant les annees 1800,

    Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

  • On the day after the arrival of the Dieppe goelette bringing the news of peace, Bigot sat before his desk reading his despatches and letters from

    The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

  • A swift-sailing goelette of Dieppe brought the tidings to New France, and in the early nights of November, from Quebec to Montreal.

    The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

  • Hamelin of Le Naturaliste reported when he reached Paris, that, as he left King Island, he met and spoke to "an English goelette on her way to

    Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

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