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Jack always wore on his little
Our sixth article was a brass ring which Jack always wore on his little finger.
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

just above where our hero lay
Meantime Captain Morgan, with the Sieur Simon, who had followed him upon deck, stood just above where our hero lay behind the shelter of the bulwark.
— from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main by Howard Pyle

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