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Word: aboord (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight thus beginning at three of the clock, continued very terrible all that evening. The great San Philip becalmed his sailes, so huge was the Spanish ship. Who after layd the Revenge aboord. But having received the lower tire of the Revenge, shifted her selfe with all diligence, utterly misliking her first entertainement. Yet alwayes others came, so that ere the morning there had fifteene severall Armadas assayled her by eight hundred shotte of great Artillerie and the multitudes of their armed soulders, but by the Revenge were foure great Spanish shippes sunke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Elizabethan Epic | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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