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  • As he was now it would be like Wally Cox taking on Boom Boom Mancini.†  (source)
  • Captain Cox told Thomas Jones that Booth and Herold had spent the night in the pine thicket.†  (source)
  • In the 1880s, a few years before lynching became the standard response to interracial romance and a century before Walter and Karen Kelly began their affair, Tony Pace, an African American man, and Mary Cox, a white woman, fell in love in Alabama.†  (source)
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  • 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)
  • Wonder if he's going to make me his coxswain.†  (source)
  • The homesteads here were old and productive ones—the Andreasons, the Olsens, the McCullys, the Coxes; oxen had been used to cultivate their fields, descendants of the oxen brought to San Piedro in the old, log-skidding days.†  (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)
  • Mort Janklow built a law firm from scratch in the 1960s, then put together one of the very earliest cable television franchises and sold it for a fortune to Cox Broadcasting.†  (source)
  • Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller.†  (source)
  • The Coxes were wondering last night whether she would get into any great family.†  (source)
  • At this time we were in the road of Bengal, where, going on shore with the supercargo one day, in the evening, as I was preparing to go on board, one of the men came to me, and told me, I need not trouble myself to come to the boat, for that the cockswain and others had ordered him not to carry me on board any more.†  (source)
  • I made my way up the aisle, wedging myself three to a seat beside Jane Todd and Guylinda Cox, already dozing.†  (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)
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