Word: frees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WHEN free from love I looked above...
...Free from changing scenes of clime...
...Free from winter's bitter chill...
...free from summer's scorching wind...
...glorious carnival of free rum was immediately declared, the natural consequence of which was that all these estimable gentlemen got very drunk. Scarcely had we got to Sandy Hook before the prize director had informed the prize first officer (whom it is needless to say was also drunk), a discharged servant of Secretary Robeson, the burning and shining light of the Navy Department, that "he was a - (what you please), and did not understand his business"; which was true, but unpleasant. The other replied, in the chaste language of the forecastle, to the purport that then great director "lied under...