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  • I came to the following evening, in a water-front lodging-house.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • Now the politicians were too wise to leave the town filled with drunks from the water-front of Oakland.

    Chapter 14 2010

  • My infatuation for the Oakland water-front was quite dead.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • She was of my own kind and friendship of the old time on the water-front.

    Chapter 18 2010

  • In the morning, early, I heard wild cries from the Reindeer, and tumbled out in the chill grey to see a spectacle that made the water-front laugh for days.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • Oakland water-front, and the noise of our revels attracted friends.

    Chapter 11 2010

  • As we sailed up the San Francisco water-front, the moment the port doctors passed us, the boarding-house runners were alongside in whitehall boats.

    Chapter 17 2010

  • And -- oh, yes -- a water-front comrade of earlier years drifted along one day with a dress suit wrapped in newspapers.

    Chapter 25 2010

  • And yet, when I laid eyes on those fishing arks lying in the water-front tules, without debate, on the instant, I put down my tiller, came in on the sheet, and headed for the shore.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Such was the tale of his recklessness they spread, that no one on the water-front would go out with Nelson.

    Chapter 11 2010

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