Usage examples:
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"
I
thank
you
for
my
own
part,"
replied
I; "
but
in
conscience
could
you
have
abandoned
us,
after
taking
away
our
horses,
and
making
us
go
on
board
the
xebec
whether
we
would
or
not?"
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton in "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte".
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Perree
was
on
board
the
xebec
'Cerf'.
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton in "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte".
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Our
fugitive,
with
eighteen
other
white
slaves,
was
put
on
board
a
xebec
carrying
eight
six-
pounders
and
sixty
men,
which,
on
the
coast
of
Malta,
encountered
an
armed
vessel
belonging
to
Genoa,
and,
after
much
bloodshed,
was
taken
sword
in
hand.
Charles Sumner in "White Slavery in the Barbary States".
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The
shallowness
of
the
river
near
Cairo
obliged
us
to
leave
the
xebec
and
get
on
board
a
djerm.
Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton in "The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte".