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  • Gisela's teenage daughters were flirting with Trina Cox's teenage sons, who were frankly pretty fine.†   (source)
  • Pafko throws smartly to Cox.†   (source)
  • First Mate Cox had told her about it, probably hoping to frighten her because he was that sort of person.†   (source)
  • As she lay dying, her worst curses were not for the men who had raped her, nor the monster who devoured her living flesh, but for Ser Quincy Cox, who barred his gates when the outlaws entered the town and sat safe behind stone walls as his people screamed and died.†   (source)
  • Cox.†   (source)
  • His close friend, the lawyer Cox Sproule, was a different matter.†   (source)
  • Casimir, level three, finks out and betrays Charlie and Cox in his cell, Baker above him, and Donald, Dan, and Dick in subcell—which isolates Egbert, Edward, and Elmer. and everybody under them.†   (source)
  • Is that you, cox'n?†   (source)
  • All to myself, or is it Box and Cox?†   (source)
  • Benjamin Pump was invariably the coxswain and net caster of Richard's boat...   (source)
  • Thomas Jones, Captain Cox, the Garrett sons, and many more were seized and taken to prison.†   (source)
  • If Captain Cox's word was true, it was safe to doze off until then.†   (source)
  • "Tom, I had visitors about four o'clock this morning," Cox revealed.†   (source)
  • Cox poked his head out from a secondstory window and asked, "Who's there?"†   (source)
  • Jones saddled up and accompanied young Cox to his father's farm.†   (source)
  • At Jones's farm, the Cox boy told Jones his father wished to see him at once.†   (source)
  • Jones told Herold that Cox had sent him, and that he was a friend.†   (source)
  • Cox finally blurted out, "Tom, we must get those men who were here this morning across the river."†   (source)
  • Captain Cox told Thomas Jones that Booth and Herold had spent the night in the pine thicket.†   (source)
  • For now, it was too dangerous for Booth and Herold to remain at Cox's farm.†   (source)
  • Suspicious, Cox opened the door and looked over the worn-out, crazy-eyed man standing before him.†   (source)
  • At the Cox house, Herold dismounted and knocked.†   (source)
  • Cox swung open the door and invited the fugitives into his home.†   (source)
  • In great pain, he pleaded with Cox for help.†   (source)
  • Unlike Cox, Vere had no profession to focus whatever talents he had.†   (source)
  • Cox to bury some files," the Gasman reminded me.†   (source)
  • Amazingly, Cox went to the services willingly and joined in and paid attention.†   (source)
  • The younger of Trina Cox's two boys approached me.†   (source)
  • Cox peers out from under his cap and snaps the ball sidearm to Robinson.†   (source)
  • "Tell me, Mr. Cox, can you speak the language of your new subjects?" she asked sweetly.†   (source)
  • Cox was charming when sober and brilliant when drunk.†   (source)
  • Mau's arm shot out, hurling the handful of sand into Cox's eyes.†   (source)
  • Cox shot things because they were alive, but to him that was just killing time.†   (source)
  • But Polegrave said something about Cox having cannibal chums.†   (source)
  • "I've got you now, my little chappie," said the voice of Cox.†   (source)
  • She'd seen gun drill on the Judy, and even Cox handled them with care.†   (source)
  • Even Daphne, mouth open to object, turned to look— But Cox was quicker than all of them.†   (source)
  • Cox and his chums were herded into the ship's boat with food, water, and a compass.†   (source)
  • Cox had shot at the man, and had hit him.†   (source)
  • There was a fury about him that even Cox took note of, Cookie had told her.†   (source)
  • The other fact was that Cox had now loaded his pistol.†   (source)
  • "And how did you become a king, Mr. Cox?" said Daphne.†   (source)
  • "No fight yet!" he said to Cox in broken English, and turned to Daphne.†   (source)
  • Cox was jumping up and down, making the tree rock.†   (source)
  • Ten feet away, Cox had laid down his guns only after a lot of argument.†   (source)
  • "Y' know, I'm really disappointed in those cannibal johnnies," said Cox, right overhead.†   (source)
  • No one moved for several seconds, and then Cox said, slowly and carefully, "Ah, is this your beau?†   (source)
  • He nodded and headed back to his fellows, who had clustered around Cox.†   (source)
  • It was as if Cox was fascinated by the captain.†   (source)
  • First Mate Cox said he'd seen grown men do it.†   (source)
  • But Cox wants them all to fight, and they know they should obey him.†   (source)
  • And the next day Cox shot the old man in the canoe.†   (source)
  • "I'm not telling you anything, Mr. Cox."†   (source)
  • When he had nothing else to do, Cox shot at things.†   (source)
  • Sadly, there had been no one there to set Cox's feet on the right path and his fingers in plaster.†   (source)
  • "And will we be joined by Mr. Cox?" she asked, trying to hold on to the smile.†   (source)
  • A heavy hand landed on Daphne's shoulder too, and Cox said, "Missie?†   (source)
  • No. The Raiders ran as soon as Cox went down," said Daphne.†   (source)
  • I could shoot you, Cox, whatever you say!†   (source)
  • He looked down at the beach again and saw Cox, towering over the Raiders.†   (source)
  • "They are here and armed, Mr. Cox," Daphne said.†   (source)
  • First Mate Cox had a choice, every day, and had chosen to be First Mate Cox.†   (source)
  • Raiders clustered around Cox, who was swearing at them.†   (source)
  • It had not been a happy voyage after First Mate Cox had come aboard.†   (source)
  • According to First Mate Cox, the man made a rude gesture.†   (source)
  • "Amazin' resemblance, ain't it?" said Cox, as if he'd been reading her thoughts.†   (source)
  • Cox was a big, heavy man, and water would drag at his clothes.†   (source)
  • Cox had his supporters, and the captain had staunch allies of his own.†   (source)
  • Using "separate but equal" language that previewed the Court's infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson twenty years later, the Court unanimously upheld Alabama's restrictions on interracial sex and marriage and affirmed the prison terms imposed on Tony Pace and Mary Cox.†   (source)
  • The navy coxswain was still exerting himself, cursing and ramming the throttle back and forth, to free the landing craft from the reef.†   (source)
  • Thorny wanted Owen to cox the varsity crew; Owen was the perfect size for a coxswain, and—after all—he'd grown up on the Squamscott.†   (source)
  • Cox gave Jones the whistle code — a set of three notes — and cautioned him to approach the fugitives carefully.†   (source)
  • Once he arrived, Captain Cox and Thomas Jones spoke casually for a few minutes until Cox could avoid the subject no longer.†   (source)
  • Back at the farm, Captain Cox had to find out whether his friend would actually help Booth and Herold.†   (source)
  • Jones felt it in his bones: Captain Cox wanted to see him about something connected to the assassination!†   (source)
  • It was there, by brilliant moonlight, that Cox saw the initials J.W.B. tattooed on the hand of the injured stranger.†   (source)
  • Booth and Herold ate the food Cox offered them, saddled up for the ride to the pine thicket, and rode off with Cox's overseer as their guide.†   (source)
  • Cox's farm was several miles further southwest, and from there they would be close to the Potomac River.†   (source)
  • Before he died in 1883, he confessed to Samuel Cox Jr. that he had known all along that the injured stranger at his door was John Wilkes Booth.†   (source)
  • He guided them safely through the Zekiah swamp, with its muck, snakes, and wild, overgrown vegetation, to the doorstep of Captain Samuel Cox.†   (source)
  • But with no eyewitnesses who could place him with Booth, and him not volunteering anything, he was eventually released, as was Captain Cox.†   (source)
  • Mudd gave Booth the names of two trustworthy local Confederate operatives, William Burtles and Captain Samuel Cox.†   (source)
  • Yes, Jones replied, telling Cox about what he had learned about the assassination from the Union soldiers.†   (source)
  • Precisely what Booth told Cox on the front porch and during the next few hours they spent together in the house — remains a mystery.†   (source)
  • No one would search for them there, Cox reassured them, and it was unlikely any locals would happen to see them there.†   (source)
  • They were fortunate to come upon a local man, Oswell Swann, half black, half Piscataway, who, for seven dollars, agreed to take them directly to Captain Cox's place.†   (source)
  • Given the unusual things Cox and his son were about to do for Booth, given Booth's state of mind, there is little doubt that Booth confessed all to his hosts.†   (source)
  • By bad luck Edmund is under Cox, so he also passes it laterally, through Enwright…. and that gets it past burned-out part and it goes up through Dover, Chambers, and Beeswax, to Adam, front office…. who replies down other side of pyramid, with lateral pass on E-for-easy level from Esther to Egbert and on to Ezra and Edmund.†   (source)
  • Cox sighed right outside the file room.†   (source)
  • He sees Cox bang a shot past third.†   (source)
  • Even Cox Sproule joined him for six months when he was jailed for helping three German spies escape from the country.†   (source)
  • "Yeah, you look after us, missie, an' we'll look after you when Cox's cannibal chums come for a picnic!" said Polegrave.†   (source)
  • Then when the captain said the story was not meant to be taken literally, Cox gave him a smart salute and said: "Then what is, Cap'n?"†   (source)
  • Of course, Cox was not like a shark.†   (source)
  • Cox ate and drank mischief, and if you couldn't work out what he was up to, then it was the really dark stuff.†   (source)
  • Mau dived, but Cox had expected that.†   (source)
  • First Mate Cox came toward them, smiling like someone greeting a long-lost friend who owed him money.†   (source)
  • He would have to surface again, because Cox was probably even more dangerous when you couldn't see where he was.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure the captain was right when he said Cox will take over any vessel that finds him, like an disease.†   (source)
  • Ermintrude did not know if this was true, but when she'd looked into First Mate Cox's eyes, she'd seen something much worse than any monkey could be.†   (source)
  • Cox shot it so neatly that there were just two wings left, and then he gave Daphne a wink, as if he'd done something clever.†   (source)
  • Mau whispered to her and she added, "If you raise a weapon in the Kahana circle, they will kill you, Mr. Cox.†   (source)
  • And Cox had found the Raiders, had he?†   (source)
  • Then he peered around the canoe to find Cox—and he was right there on the shoreline, already sighting on him.†   (source)
  • And that was a strange choice, because if evil was a disease, then First Mate Cox would have been in an isolation ward on a bleak island somewhere.†   (source)
  • As for Captain Roberts—he might have wanted to save Cox's soul from the Fires of Perdition, but he hated the man himself and didn't mind showing it.†   (source)
  • "Did I get you that time?" said Cox.†   (source)
  • "Are they indeed?" said Cox cheerfully.†   (source)
  • She remembered First Mate Cox shooting at monkeys with his pistol when they had moored in that river mouth in the Sea of Ceramis.†   (source)
  • And there was Cox, running, running along the spit of old coral that led from the shore around to Little Nation and the new gap.†   (source)
  • No. The man I kill—the dead man would have done that, but I think Cox just killed the old man because he couldn't see anything else to shoot at."†   (source)
  • The man with the big bleeding nose will tell Cox that we are an island of invalids and children and no trousermen.†   (source)
  • Cox looked at the watchers, and bowed and waved like a musician who had just played a very difficult piano concerto.†   (source)
  • Some bits were a little blurred, but the tree and the axe and the death of Cox were as clear to him as the little gecko watching from the ceiling with upside-down eyes.†   (source)
  • Where is Cox now, do you think?†   (source)
  • She told them about First Mate Cox, and the mutiny and the man in the canoe… …who had been brown and, like Mrs. Gurgle, looked as if he'd been made out of old leather.†   (source)
  • Five bullets left, and Cox was losing his temper: he fired again (four bullets left; a fact), and Cox was right above him, searching for movement in the tangle of floating greenery.†   (source)
  • But Cookie said that in his opinion Roberts knew all about Cox and had been filled with missionary zeal at the chance to save such a big ripe sinner from the Pit of Damnation.†   (source)
  • But I can't let Cox shoot Milo.†   (source)
  • We're bloody bleeding," said Cox.†   (source)
  • You didn't hire First Mate Cox.†   (source)
  • What have we got to lose, Mr. Cox?†   (source)
  • He didn't hear what Cox shouted, but four bullets splashed into the water high above him, left trails of bubbles for a few moments, and then just tumbled away in the current.†   (source)
  • Hah, Foxlip said he killed Cox.†   (source)
  • No one was ever sure who taught the bird its first swear word, although the wobbling finger of suspicion pointed at Cox, but by then the whole crew was ill at ease.†   (source)
  • It began with Cox sitting up straight during the prayer meetings and shouting "Halleluja" or "Amen" every time the captain finished a sentence, and clapping loudly.†   (source)
  • And there were even a few who held that one old man more or less didn't matter, but Cox and his cronies had been shooting at dolphins, too, and that was cruel and unlucky.†   (source)
  • Like crocodiles and sharks, Cox always had a grin for people, especially when he had them at his mercy, or at least where his mercy would be if he had any.†   (source)
  • Cox is the prawn of the devil!†   (source)
  • He winked his horrible wink, and Daphne, who had vowed not to rise to this sort of thing, heard herself say: "The archbishop of Canterbury, Mr. Cox, is not a cannibal!"†   (source)
  • And if you were an innocent man, you accepted all the glowing references of the other captains without wondering why they would be so happy to see Cox on someone else's ship.†   (source)
  • She could make out the character of Captain Roberts, heavy and pompous, and surely the one who sidled around was Polegrave, and the one who stamped and roared was Cox.†   (source)
  • He straightened up with his arms folded and a grim little smile on his face, and Cox just stood there, looking puzzled, and then every single loyal crewman pointed a pistol at his head.†   (source)
  • Cox was, in fact, contagious.†   (source)
  • It was aimed at Cox's heart.†   (source)
  • His look now was a plea for help, so she stood close to him and found the right place: "Once again Cox and his cronies have been discharging their pistols at the dolphins, against all decency and the common laws of the sea.†   (source)
  • This did not sit well with Cox, but shooting captains always caused a bit too much of a stir, so, Cookie said, he must have decided to beat the captain on the man's own ground, or water, destroying him from the inside.†   (source)
  • And maybe Cox, when he found himself working for a captain who held compulsory prayer meetings three times a day, was filled with a different kind of zeal, which would have been black with flames around the edges.†   (source)
  • It blocked the light of the sun, it made the stars come out, it caused thunderstorms and strange sunsets around the world (or so Pilu said later on)—and as time came back at double speed, the axe hit Cox in the chest and he went backward off the log.†   (source)
  • In the end the guns were left for them on a little island a mile away, despite Captain Roberts declaring that in his opinion, any pirate or slaver who ran into Cox and his men would have a new captain in very short order indeed.†   (source)
  • The two of them tended to hang around with Cox in a way that was hard to understand until you found out that there are fish that swim alongside a shark, or even in its mouth, where they are safe from other fish and never get eaten.†   (source)
  • And then she told him everything else—about the way the moon shone over the lagoon, and how bright the stars were, and the mutiny, and poor Captain Roberts, and the parrot, and the red crabs, and the pantaloon birds, and the tree-climbing octopi and First Mate Cox, while the gods looked down.†   (source)
  • No, Cox would have to reload.†   (source)
  • The captain had the look in his eye of the Almighty confronting a particularly wicked city, and maybe Cox was just sane enough to recognize that here was someone who might be even madder than he was, at least for the time it took to turn Cox and those around him into much smaller lumps.†   (source)
  • The captain had told her that if Cox's men won, she should fire the pistol into the barrel "to save her honor," though she was uncertain how much a saved honor would be worth when it was falling out of the sky in tiny pieces, along with the rest of the cabin.†   (source)
  • Every seaman, even a madman like Cox, knew that there was no point in upsetting the cook, who had all kinds of little opportunities to get his own back, as you might find out one night when it was you hanging over the rail, trying to throw up your own stomach.†   (source)
  • Cox was reloading.†   (source)
  • Cox snarled.†   (source)
  • You never saw Cox frown.†   (source)
  • And here comes Cox.†   (source)
  • Everyone knew about Cox.†   (source)
  • To be like Cox, I think.†   (source)
  • Cox grinned at him.†   (source)
  • Cox would.†   (source)
  • And Cox grinned.†   (source)
  • Cox laughed.†   (source)
  • Cox looked astonished.†   (source)
  • I voted for Cox, I voted for Al Smith, and I voted for Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • " Cox was the handyman, an old wino in a slap-happy painter's cap that looked like an Italian officer's lid.†   (source)
  • Wonder if he's going to make me his coxswain.†   (source)
  • "He's no common man, Barbecue," said the coxswain to me.†   (source)
  • "Oh, I know'd Dick was square," returned the voice of the coxswain, Israel Hands.†   (source)
  • One I recognized for the coxswain's, Israel Hands, that had been Flint's gunner in former days.†   (source)
  • "Well, I don't say no, do I?" growled the coxswain.†   (source)
  • "John," cries the coxswain, "you're a man!"†   (source)
  • The Coxes were wondering last night whether she would get into any great family.†   (source)
  • Cox and Greenwood; but the Major being in Madras at the time, had no particular call for coals.†   (source)
  • The gig was already lowered, and in it were four oarsmen and a coxswain.†   (source)
  • Miss Nash thinks either of the Coxes would be very glad to marry him.†   (source)
  • Go out and tell Winthrop not to go to Cox's, but wait for me.†   (source)
  • Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller.†   (source)
  • She meant to be impertinently curious, just as such an Anne Cox should be.†   (source)
  • They talked a great deal about him, especially Anne Cox.†   (source)
  • And there will be the two Gilberts, young Cox, my father, and myself, besides Mr. Knightley.†   (source)
  • The archway from the ante-room was crowded with punkah-pullers, sweepers, police peons, the coxswain and crew of the harbour steam-launch, all craning their necks and almost climbing on each other's backs.†   (source)
  • Mr. Carey asked if Philip had behaved properly; and Mrs. Carey remarked that Mrs. Wigram had a new mantle, Mr. Cox was not in church, and somebody thought that Miss Phillips was engaged.†   (source)
  • But now, when the boat swept under the merchantman's stern, and officer and oarsmen were noting—some bitterly and others with a grin,—the name emblazoned there; just then it was that the new recruit jumped up from the bow where the coxswain had directed him to sit, and waving his hat to his silent shipmates sorrowfully looking over at him from the taffrail, bade the lads a genial good-bye.†   (source)
  • They did not fall alone; with a choked cry, the coxswain loosed his grasp upon the shrouds and plunged head first into the water.†   (source)
  • Now, the coxswain's hesitation seemed to be unnatural, and as for the notion of his preferring wine to brandy, I entirely disbelieved it.†   (source)
  • The coxswain told me how to lay the ship to; after a good many trials I succeeded, and we both sat in silence over another meal.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the squire and the captain stayed on deck, and the latter hailed the coxswain, who was the principal man aboard.†   (source)
  • So near were we, indeed, that my head came against the coxswain's foot with a crack that made my teeth rattle.†   (source)
  • The excitement of these last manoeuvres had somewhat interfered with the watch I had kept hitherto, sharply enough, upon the coxswain.†   (source)
  • I should, I think, have had nothing left me to desire but for the eyes of the coxswain as they followed me derisively about the deck and the odd smile that appeared continually on his face.†   (source)
  • With these I came on deck, put down my own stock behind the rudder head and well out of the coxswain's reach, went forward to the water-breaker, and had a good deep drink of water, and then, and not till then, gave Hands the brandy.†   (source)
  • The dirk, where it had pinned my shoulder to the mast, seemed to burn like a hot iron; yet it was not so much these real sufferings that distressed me, for these, it seemed to me, I could bear without a murmur; it was the horror I had upon my mind of falling from the cross-trees into that still green water, beside the body of the coxswain.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Pump was invariably the coxswain and net caster of Richard's boat, unless the sheriff saw fit to preside in person: and, on the present occasion, Billy Kirby, and a youth of about half his strength, were assigned to the oars.†   (source)
  • At all events, the Lord High Admiral couldn't command a yawl with dignity, if he consulted the cockswain every time he wished to go ashore.†   (source)
  • The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.†   (source)
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