While the rest of the hands, under Polson and Tudsbery, were going systematically to work upon the overhauling process I set the cook and steward to work to take careful stock of the contents of the lazarette, with the object of ensuring that there should be a sufficiency of provisions to last us through the voyage.
— from Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship by Harry Collingwood
The fiery and ungovernable temper of Peter is said to have been the cause of this.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 08 (of 15), Russian by Charles Morris
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