disrate

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As they're not sailors, I mean to disrate them to boys at five dollars a month.

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“I appreciate your feeling, my lad,” he answered; “but even if he does return I won’t disrate you, and I will see how we can best manage to get you an outfit.”

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Snakes an’ alligators, I’ll disrate ye—I’ll send ye forrud; I’ll—I’ll—” “I vas not means no harms, cap’n,” apologised the other, on the skipper stopping in his outburst for want of breath, the words appearing to be choking in his mouth, coming out too quick for utterance, so that they all got jumbled together.

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Must be minded, or it’s rank mutiny, and a disrate.

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I don’t mind your knocking the lad down, and I daresay Leigh would forgive you for that, too; but what I am indignant at is the fact of your telling such a gross lie about the transaction, and allowing me to take an unjust view of the quarrel—making me disrate the young fellow, and punish him as I did, under a false, impression of what his conduct had been, all of which a word from you might have altered!

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