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Examples
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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
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And so I told a tearful tale of my life on the hell-ship Glenmore.
Confession 2010
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The Pilgrim savoured not in any way of a hell-ship.
A CLASSIC OF THE SEA 2010
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As it is forward and in the galley, so it is in the steerage and aft, on this veritable hell-ship.
Chapter 11 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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“I wish I had never come back to this hell-ship, at Brisbane!”
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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"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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