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1  It became plain to me that nobody was steering.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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2  Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud.
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3  But it was plain that they meant nothing should delay their shot.
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4  But they were not only tipsy; it was plain that they were furiously angry.
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5  It was plain from every line of his body that our new hand was worth his salt.
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6  Well, sir," said the captain, "better speak plain, I believe, even at the risk of offence.
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7  He wanted me to leave the deck--so much was plain; but with what purpose I could in no way imagine.
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8  I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off.
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9  It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring.
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10  I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain.
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11  It was plain, therefore, that the attack would be developed from the north and that on the other three sides we were only to be annoyed by a show of hostilities.
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12  If six men were left by Silver, it was plain our party could not take and fight the ship; and since only six were left, it was equally plain that the cabin party had no present need of my assistance.
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13  By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.
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14  A full moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste, for it was plain, before we came forth again, that all would be as bright as day, and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers.
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15  He was not only useless as an officer and a bad influence amongst the men, but it was plain that at this rate he must soon kill himself outright, so nobody was much surprised, nor very sorry, when one dark night, with a head sea, he disappeared entirely and was seen no more.
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16  They spoke together for a little, and though none of them started, or raised his voice, or so much as whistled, it was plain enough that Dr. Livesey had communicated my request, for the next thing that I heard was the captain giving an order to Job Anderson, and all hands were piped on deck.
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17  And now I began to feel that I was neglecting my business, that since I had been so foolhardy as to come ashore with these desperadoes, the least I could do was to overhear them at their councils, and that my plain and obvious duty was to draw as close as I could manage, under the favourable ambush of the crouching trees.
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