an advance on the prime cost of goods

It consisted of a helmet with a pointed visor decorated with plumes along the crest, an ornate breastplate with a stomacher, a tonnelet covered with two different rows of bullion, and ankleboots.

[…] the vessel, uncasting the hawser which had detained it, instantly left the ice […]

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