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... in place and fumbled awkwardly for his money clip to tip the valet as his red Corvette pulled up. "Good," Taranto muttered to himself. He hadn't l... ...g Cox got into a white Taurus sedan that another valet had parked behind Cox's Corvette. Cox sloppily slid into the red sports car, adjusted his se... ...ng Cox's condition, he figured he wouldn't have to wait long. He was right. The Corvette pulled into the driveway and almost immediately, the garage... ...unable to see that the in­ terior garage light was off. Cox stumbled out of the Corvette, and negotiated his way by the light of a street lamp locat...

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...ntly attractive the females of the species would fancy him and he could settle down to a year of nuzzling and nesting.‖ —―When I got my Corvet...

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...d on the 7th July the “Belle Poule” frigate, in company with “La Favorite” corvette, quitted Toulon harbor. A couple of steamers, the “Trident” and th...

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...he sky. She was riding to her anchor in the bay, and proved to be a French corvette. This pleased our captain exceedingly, and, coming on deck, he exa... ...tion was not to let go an anchor; but, counting upon the assistance of the corvette in case of any difficulty, he now changed his mind, and anchored a... ...ashing his hat upon deck, he was about to plunge overboard and swim to the corvette for a cutter, when Captain Guy made his appearance and begged him ... ...rs, pricking them with the points of their long spears, the party from the corvette menacing them in flank with their naked cutlasses. The bonus of a ... ... possible, several English sailors, who, according to the commander of the corvette, had recently gone ashore there from an American whaler, and were ...

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...n- gitude and latitude too well to allow himself to be captured by a young corvette, one fine morning Paris drawing-rooms heard the news of the marria...

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... maid, the Baron de Listomere, who expected to be included as captain of a corvette in a coming promotion lately announced by the minister of the Navy...

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...ouis XVI, in 1785, on a voyage of circumnaviga- tion. They embarked in the corvettes Boussole and the Astrolabe, neither of which were again heard of.... ...rudent, would steer his vessel into that pass where Dumont d’Urville’s two corvettes touched; when, swerving again, and cut- ting straight through to ...

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... is like you!” “You flatter her!” “A firm figure, the tapering figure of a corvette built for speed, which rushes down upon the merchant vessel with F...

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...a sovereign power in treaty with his own king, and the captain of a German corvette orders him to quit his guests. But there was worse to come. I gath...

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... harbour, sternly eyeing out of its stern portholes a saucy little English corvette beside, began playing sounding marches as a crowd of boats came pa...

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...ud partira; en nauf (that’s an old French word for skiff, vessel, felucca, corvette, any- thing you like) errera—” Dutocq. “What a tissue of absurditi...

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...s of T roil the scientific mission of MM. Gaimard and Robert on the French corvette La Recherche,* and lately the observations of scientific men who c...

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...ng about first. I came here some nine months before you; I had had one crop before you 209 Charles Dickens came. I chose this place, because, having ...

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...d been cruising in the Mediterranean, commanding the Ariadne, the smartest corvette in the service. He had, it was widely made known, met his marquise... ...worn by the climate, and immedi- ately obtained the command of the Ariadne corvette, which had been some time in commission in the Mediterranean, whit...

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...the place you may select have a small harbor, creek, or bay, into which my corvette can enter and remain at anchor. She draws only fifteen feet. She m... ... possess the advantages desired, purchase it at once in your own name. The corvette must now, I think, be on her way to Fecamp, must she not?” “Certai...

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...erestedness equal to 250 Balzac her other charms, which allowed this weak corvette to attach its grapnels securely to the larger vessel. Nevertheless...

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...igible as ever, will assuredly persist in regarding the married woman as a corvette duly autho- rized by her flag and papers to go on her own course, ...

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... Company, sailed, as he asserts, directly among them. In 1794, the Spanish corvette Atrevida went with the determination of ascertaining their precise... ...year 1809, the following language is used respecting this expedition: “The corvette Atrevida practised, in their immediate vicinity, from the twenty-f...

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...st it. Is it possible that Mon- sieur Hugo thinks they ceased to steer the corvette while the gun was loose? Of the chapter in which Lantenac and Halm...

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...six on an easy bowline. The next day, about three P. M., passed a large corvette built ship, close upon the wind, with royals and skysails set fo...