Vulgar words in Washed Ashore - The Tower of Stormount Bay (Page 1)
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Nothing could have been better done, and the two smugglers would have been made prisoners, but at the same moment a dozen stout fellows, who had been sleeping round the cavern, and had sprang to their feet at the noise of the falling door, came round them; the muzzles of the pistols were knocked up, Tom's going off and the bullet flattening against the roof of the cavern, and they found their arms pinioned, and instead of capturing others were themselves made captives.
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The men who held him were frequently changed, as if they too were knocked up with their work.