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"Here I be, sir, my helm hard a-starboard, studden sails set, and all a-drawing alow and aloft, but making bad weather on it on account o 'these here furrers and this here jury-mast o' mine, but I'll fetch up alongside in a couple o 'tacks."
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Here I be, Cap'n!" he bellowed, "studden sails set an 'drawing, tho' obleeged to haul my wind, d'ye see, on account o 'this here spar o' mine a-running foul o 'the furrers."
The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Its studden soa long wol aw think it must ha 'takken rooit," sed Joa.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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When he turned aght next mornin to goa see th 'superintendent, he luked like a gate-post' at's studden in a rookery for six months.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Aw've studden a gooid deeal sin aw wor wed to thee, an aw expect aw'st ha to stand a lot moor; but one thing aw willn't put up wi, an that is, sittin an listenin to thee, an havin to keep mi tongue still.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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But whether aw'm as gooid as aw should be or net, aw'm sure tha'rt a gooid-for-nowt, an th 'sooiner tha taks thi hook aght o' this haase an 'th' better, for aw've studden thy nonsense woll aw'm fair staled.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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-- Aw've just studden this sooart o 'thing as long as awm gooin to.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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The stranger, which had apparently been beating down Channel, now put up her helm, and setting studden sails stood to the eastward before the wind.
From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The studden-sails must come in, at all events; it won't do to be carrying on at night as if we had fifty hands in a watch instead of five.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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One after another the studden-sails, which had been extended beyond the yard-arms came flying down like huge white birds from their lofty perches, the moment the halyards and sheets were let go, and, as they bulged out, they looked as if they were about to sail off before the wind ahead of the vessel.
The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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