 Sandies, not daring to build a vessel " with more than three nails or bolts in it," made ship building very economical, besides rendering their fleets not worth nailing or bolting with.  The Comic Guide to the Isle of Man - Pagina 54door Oscar Harrison - 1881 - 119 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Matthew Glover, Suetonius M. Tod - 1868 - 290 pagina’s
...considerable part of the province of Leinster. The Scots also he so intimidated that they dared not build a vessel with more than three nails or bolts in it. He died in the sixteenth year of his reign, in the Island of Isla, on his way to resist an invasion... | |
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