Isle of Shoals boat

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a sailing boat formerly used in Ipswich Bay, Massachusetts, rigged with two spritsails or gaff sails.

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Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

My captain on the boat, Brazakka, he wanted me to do this Hemingway bit, with the white stubble, and he wanted the hero angle.
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The last time there was a raid of this scale was in 2001, when 52 men were arrested on Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile.
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The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
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We happily hoist our egg nog in the air, embrace each other, and raise our out-of-tune voices in song.
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Hoosier hurried on board the boat, and followed Dick's instructions to the letter.
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But, as the keel of the boats touched bottom, each boat-load dashed into the water and then into the enemy's fire.
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The Comet started on her first trip up the Arkansas, being the first steam boat that ascended that river.
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That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
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Many of them were wounded and the worst of these were put into a picket boat which had just that moment come along.
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