Stephen Decatur
"Do you think dar is any Angler-Saxun blood in dese veins?"
Fulton's Clermont, the first steamboat
As near perfection as a girl of sixteen can be
[That smile and that eternal stare disconcerted the British officer]
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"You surrender easily,"
He sat down on a broken mast
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[He saw Captain Bones and his lieutenant trying to hide behind a barrel]
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It soon became evident that he did not intend to drown her