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* {{quote-book, year=1892, author=Herman Melville, title=White Jacket, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=These are ponderous flat stones with long ropes at each end, by which the stones are slidden about, to and fro, over the wet and sanded decks; a most wearisome, dog-like, galley-slave employment. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Marshall Mather, title=Lancashire Idylls (1898), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In a minute more the spell of silence broke, and a roar, louder than before, told that the little one had touched earth without injury, save hands all raw from friction with the rope along which she had slidden . }}