blockade-runner

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• True, he'd been a brave soldier for the Confederacy, a blockade runner, and a gunner in Lee's Army, and he'd given most of his dirty money to the Confederate cause.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In the middle years, he acted as a blockade runner and even repurchased the Eastern Wharves and three-quarters interest in the flour mill from his father.

  Academic text (2009)

• - But you are a blockade runner? - For profit, and profit only.

  Gone with the Wind (1939)

• Two days later, the Advance, a blockade-runner flying the colors of the South, entered the harbor.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The Southern response to the blockade was the blockade runner.

  Academic text (2011)

• Rivington is on the railroad up from Wilmington; maybe a blockade runner brought it in there rather than something more truly useful to our cause.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Their mother had disobeyed her husband for one of the few times in her life when Rhett began the dangerous life of a blockade runner through the Union fleet and into Charleston Harbor.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Sandecker lounged behind the immense desk made from the refinished hatch cover salvaged from a sunken Confederate blockade runner.

  Fiction book (1999)

• We have with us tonight, that most daring of all blockade runners... ...whose fleet schooners, slipping past the Yankee guns... ...have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight.

  Gone with the Wind (1939)

• During the war, the blockade runner successfully delivered essential supplies to the besieged city.

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