French Shore
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It was not the first interview he had had with the skipper and clerk of the Black Eagle since that trim craft had returned from the French Shore trade.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
I refer to White Bay, a remote district on the so-called French Shore of Newfoundland.
From Extracts from a Journal of a Voyage of Visitation in the "Hawk," 1859 by Feild, Edward
We wound up our Newfoundland cruise with St. George's Bay, the last on the French Shore, and the only point at which any difficulty was raised about the exercise of our rights.
From Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
There might––there ought to be––good profit in a cash-trading voyage in a small schooner to the harbours of White Bay and the French Shore.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
The Black Eagle was to be loaded with salt-cod from the French Shore stages in haste and at any cost.
From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman
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