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Examples
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On a Wednesday morning in July 1841, three men in a sailing-boat saw a body in the water off Castle Point, Hoboken.
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He slipped past us in his sailing-boat; I do not remember if he got a cheer.
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Yes; I thought I saw a sailing-boat that was steering inland.
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Yes; I thought I saw a sailing-boat that was steering inland.
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The President resembles the helmsman of a sailing-boat who has to be ready at every moment for a sudden change of the wind and even for a hurricane.
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The lake is like blue crystal, on which we have a five-ton sailing-boat; the sky without a cloud; the weather like May.
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A good-sized open sailing-boat took me across to the mouth of the Palembang river where, at a fishing village, a rowing-boat was hired to take me up to Palembang — a distance of nearly a hundred miles by water.
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At the New Villa they burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by
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And the nerves of one individual of the party have thrilled at the thought of a sailing-boat ever since!
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Westminster he took it in a small sailing-boat, so small that it passed much of its time as a rowing-boat.
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