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Five Years Before the Mast choose

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[US] J.A. Hazen Five Years before the Mast 29: ‘We can safely say, [...] we have slept in a big-bug bed!’ ‘Yes! replied he laughing, ‘and lodged in a big-bug house, too.’.
at bughouse, n.
[US] J.A. Hazen Five Years before the Mast 247: Some of the men, finding themselves, as yet, only ‘half seas over,’ inquired for liquor at the bar.
at half seas over, adj.
[US] J.A. Hazen Five Years before the Mast 61: Part of my supper’s lost, and I’s come to lay in a fresh cargo.
at lose, v.
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