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We also saw this one book that had the best tagline ever - "He was the most virile lighthouse-keeper she had ever laid eyes upon."
meli Diary Entry meli 2000
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I came at last, however, to the conviction, that, marked as was the distinction gained by this good actor in parts such as these, and as the lighthouse-keeper -- the character originally sustained in private by Charles Dickens -- in Wilkie
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Logan, but that the generous lighthouse-keeper put into the sailor's bundle which he was carrying for him.
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No man likes to see a valuable thing destroyed, and it may safely be said that the lighthouse-keeper experienced a most exquisite pleasure as he felt that he had been the means of preventing a terrible catastrophe.
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The post of the Longstone lighthouse-keeper was a very dangerous one; and only such men as had proved their integrity, powers of endurance, and fidelity to duty, were ever appointed to that position.
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He was the first real lighthouse-keeper I had met.
Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall
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We read stories of the lighthouse-keeper; but little is written on the modern man of this species.
Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall
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Now the great fort figures as a picture of desolation and is slowly falling to decay, deserted save by the memories of the great conflict, a lighthouse-keeper, and a guard.
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Lots of people seem to forget that the lighthouse-keeper is not the coast-guard or the head of the crew of a life-saving station.
Some Naval Yarns Mordaunt Hall
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The colour came into the captain's face, and an angry light into his eyes, and he immediately began pouring upon the lighthouse-keeper a volley of abuse.
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