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Sailing
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She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.
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― The Golden Compass
― The Golden Compass
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With this idea, being a man with long experience of the sea (and they certainly have a great advantage over other men in any sort of task)...
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― Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
― Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
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