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Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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Well, I catched my breath and most fainted. Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that! But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering. We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves. So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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The act or process of breathing.
From this reading “Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.”
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
From this reading “We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.”
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
From this reading “So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.”
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
The act or process of breathing.
From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading But it warn’t no time to be sentimentering.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading We’d got to find that boat now—had to have it for ourselves.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Well, I catched my breath and most fainted.
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
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From this reading So we went a-quaking and shaking down the stabboard side, and slow work it was, too—seemed a week before we got to the stern.
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From this reading Shut up on a wreck with such a gang as that!
