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Word: seabirds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with all sails set, delicate and trim. "Niggers," said Parton; and he told how he had brought his ship full of black men to show the people o!' Portsmouth that Merchant Greer was a "Nigger-trader." Eliphalet Greer put on his beaver hat. He turned from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proud Rogues* | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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