While under Oakes's command she recaptured the " Sedulous " on 9 February 1813 . " Sedulous ", Mills, master, had been sailing from Cephalonia to Hull when a French privateer had taken her . " Sedulous " reached Portsmouth on 10 February.
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While under Oakes's command she recaptured the " Sedulous " on 9 February 1813 . " Sedulous ", Mills, master, had been sailing from Cephalonia to Hull when a French privateer had taken her . " Sedulous " reached Portsmouth on 10 February.
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One of the pleasures of older usage books is the perspective they offer on the issue of cliches : In the 1957 Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, Bergen and Cornelia Evans denounce the sedulous ape, you can see it with half an eye, durance vile, and Mrs . Grundy, all dead or dying of natural causes.
