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The spectacle of a trim-built craft such as ordinarily belongs to the sea skimming over that barren expanse where not a drop of water ever falls might well alarm less superstitious persons.

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The warriors — particularly the officers — were lovely to look at, they were so trim-built and so graceful and so handsomely uniformed.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity.

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

Dozens of these trim-built and picturesque-looking craft have lately accumulated here to give the princes a proper reception.

In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

"Farewell, my trim-built wherry" -- he is in the same boat only to capsise you.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Various

No blustering liner, no fussy tug, no squattering steamer, she; but a bluff-bowed, smartly painted, trim-built sailing barge, plying chiefly from the lower reaches of the

Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff

Richard Carvel — Volume 05 Winston Churchill 1909

But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off

Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

But at length we came to a trim-built bark lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her stern.

Richard Carvel Churchill, Winston, 1871-1947 1899