Caribbees
Britishplural noun
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He was the rebel son of a prosperous English cotton-broker father, and he shipped to the Far East as a deck hand at 17 after reading O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees.
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The Moon of the Caribbees and some of his worst, e.g.,
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Scholars will remember them mainly as sea sketches, with The Moon of the Caribbees the major representative.
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According to tales that went around the Caribbees, he'd pulled together a band of some dozen runaway indentures and one night somehow managed to sail a small shallop into the harbor at Santo Domingo.
From Caribbee by Hoover, Thomas
From Europe's shores or from the Caribbees, Homeward returning annually they bring The richest produce of the various climes.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Freneau, Philip
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