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Usage examples of abernethy.

Cleggett and Captain Abernethy decided that the vessel, which was stepped for two masts, should be rigged as a schooner.

CHAPTER XII THE SECOND OBLONG BOX When Cleggett returned to the ship he found Captain Abernethy in conversation with a young man of deprecating manner whom the Captain introduced as the Rev.

From the starboard bow Captain Abernethy shrilled a cry of warning, and the heavy, bellowing voice of Loge shouted an answer of challenge and ferocity.

But, in a community where nearly everyone knows a little about boats, I believe that Abernethy is remarkable for an indisposition to venture far from shore.

And Captain Abernethy and George the Greek bore into the cabin a third oblong box, exactly similar in appearance to the box of Reginald Maltravers and the box which contained the evidence against Logan Black, and set it on the floor.

Cleggett, the three detectives, Jefferson the genial coachman, and Washington Artillery Lamb, the janitor and butler of the house boat Annabel Lee, a negro as large and black as Jefferson himself, took a two-hour trick with the spades and then lay down and slept while Abernethy, Kuroki, Elmer, Calthrop, George the Greek, and Farnsworth dug for an equal length of time.

Sir Alexander Abernethy still professed allegiance to the deposed John Balliol, and bitterly resented Bruce assuming the Scottish crown.

Big, bullheaded, and ruddy, Abernethy arrived in a belligerent mood, barging ahead of Lorn as Mercurius admitted them and then retired.

John Macdougall of Lorn and Sir Alexander Abernethy, together with their followings, were in the vanguard.

Ordering their men to keep under cover, Lorn and Abernethy drew their swords before approaching the low stone cottage.

Lorn, who tilted it closer to the lamplight as Abernethy peered over his shoulder.

Flora Abernethy lived in a basement flat on a rundown street near the center of Edinburgh.

Maggie had insisted that Miss Abernethy would be mortally insulted by a food basket.

I took it with me when I called on Flora Abernethy at her flat the following day.

If you wish to enjoy health--live at Pimlico--take a run in the parks--and read Abernethy on constitutional origin.