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  • With great shouting and song, the pretty teak-built yacht was towed in by the long canoes and beached close to where Jerry lay just beyond the confines of the coral-stone walls.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • I sailed in the teak-built ketch, the Minota, on a blackbirding cruise to Malaita, and I took my wife along.

    JERRY OF THE ISLANDS 2010

  • The corvette that took the ground, so luckily for you, when half of your hands were aboard the prize, is the Blonde, teak-built, and only launched last year.

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • A sound, teak-built, staunch, ship-rigged vessel of 1200 tons register, and classed A1 at

    The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

  • While stationed at Kiukiang I possessed a teak-built four-oared gig which, being heavy and strong, I rigged with a jib and mainsail, besides adding six inches to her keel, when she proved to be a handy and seaworthy little craft.

    Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

  • With great shouting and song, the pretty teak-built yacht was towed in by the long canoes and beached close to where Jerry lay just beyond the confines of the coral-stone walls.

    Chapter 12 1917

  • It, was, I believe, one of J.H. Allan's teak-built craft, a forgotten line -- the _Rajah of Cochin_, the

    London River 1915

  • The Minota was a teak-built, Australian yacht, ketch-rigged, long and lean, with a deep fin-keel, and designed for harbour racing rather than for recruiting blacks.

    Chapter 15 1913

  • The Minota was a teak-built, Australian yacht, ketch-rigged, long and lean, with a deep fin-keel, and designed for harbour racing rather than for recruiting blacks.

    Chapter 15 1911

  • But Smoots Beste never bought a farm with the price of the oxen and the high-bulwarked, teak-built, waterproof-canvas tilted waggon that had cost such a good round sum.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

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