"Stowaway" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Men, originally lived in the East. They were at first far from hardy—wretched travelers, hating changes of climate. But when England began trading with the Orient, the cockroach grew venturesome, and began putting to sea as a stowaway. It was ...
— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.
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... Oh Elise dear, We don't want you to go away; But if you will, Keep with you still This merry little stowaway. ...
— Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells
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... death. One passenger, named Burstall, crawled out on a boom, from which the waves swept him high on to the rocks. A following wave put him out of danger, but left him considerably bruised. Out of thirty-seven on board, sixteen were saved, one a stowaway, who, it was said, walked out of the hole made in the ship's hull ...
— Reminiscences of Queensland - 1862-1869 • William Henry Corfield
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... stowaway in the Archimandrite's cutter. A French spy when he's at home, I fancy. What do you know ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
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... was still young, and within ten miles there was the best of ports in a storm, and hundreds of holds for the humble stowaway to choose from. But I didn't want to go further than Genoa, for by this time my Italian would wash, so I chose the old Norddeutscher Lloyd, and had an excellent voyage in one of the boats slung in-board over the bridge. That's better ...
— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung
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