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Hat in hand, the sailors stood deferentially in a semicircle before him, while the captain held the ship-papers in his hand, and one by one called their names; and in mellow bank notes -- beautiful sight!
Redburn. His First Voyage Herman Melville 1855
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Lennox bethought himself for a few seconds, for he at once saw the peril of his situation, and the difficulty there would be in reconciling his connexion with Argyleshire and the fictitious name he had assumed, and by which he was rated in the ship-papers of the vessel by which he had arrived.
Drawing-Room Tales. The Stout Gentleman; The Deserter; and The Broken Heart 1830
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