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... heart, not on my head; Not deck'd with diamonds, and Indian stones, Nor to be seen. My crown is ...

— The Herd Boy and His Hermit • Charlotte M. Yonge

... this young robber is offended that he hath not time to deck himself out in his last stolen gold chain, to ...

— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge

... possible an adequate protection of the exposed parts of the ship and providing for the combination in maximum proportions of armored protection and heavy guns for offence. On the "Destroyer" the means of defence consisted simply in a light deflecting deck armor forward, the vessel being intended to fight bows on and depending on her means of offence rather than defence, which were made ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

... bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture deck'd, Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. Their name, their years, spelt by the unletter'd Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply, And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... coffee-warehouse district for New York. In 1921, the New York Dock Company alone had 159 bonded warehouses with a storage capacity of some 65,000,000 cubic feet; and 34 piers, the longest measuring 1,193 feet and containing more than 175,000 square feet. These piers have a total deck space of sixty-one and a half acres. The wharfage distance is more than nine and a third miles. More than twenty steamship lines berth their vessels there regularly, and many of them are coffee ships. The warehouses have direct connections with all the principal railway trunk lines running into ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

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