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  • For the Ghost, so far as the seamen were concerned, was a hell-ship of the worst description.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • And so I told a tearful tale of my life on the hell-ship Glenmore.

    Confession 2010

  • The Pilgrim savoured not in any way of a hell-ship.

    A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010

  • As it is forward and in the galley, so it is in the steerage and aft, on this veritable hell-ship.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • This was the mad villain who'd kidnapped me to the Slave Coast on his hell-ship in '48 (on my own father-in-law's orders, too), and perforce I'd run black ivory with him, and fled from she-devil Amazons, and been hunted the length of the Mississippi, and lied truth out of Louisiana to keep both our necks out of a noose.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • This was the mad villain who'd kidnapped me to the Slave Coast on his hell-ship in '48 (on my own father-in-law's orders, too), and perforce I'd run black ivory with him, and fled from she-devil Amazons, and been hunted the length of the Mississippi, and lied truth out of Louisiana to keep both our necks out of a noose.

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

  • This was the mad villain who'd kidnapped me to the Slave Coast on his hell-ship in '48 (on my own father-in-law's orders, too), and perforce I'd run black ivory with him, and fled from she-devil Amazons, and been hunted the length of the Mississippi, and lied truth out of Louisiana to keep both our necks out of a noose.

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

  • From that minute, I lived with just two things in my mind: to get her away from that hell-ship, and to keep my knife sharp.

    Spice and the Devil's Cave 1930

  • “I wish I had never come back to this hell-ship, at Brisbane!”

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • "I wish I had never come back to this hell-ship, at Brisbane!"

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

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