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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: standing on end against the breast of billows.
The TRENTON at daylight still maintained her position in the neck
of the bottle. But five of the remaining ships tossed, already
close to the bottom, in a perilous and helpless crowd; threatening
ruin to each other as they tossed; threatened with a common and
imminent destruction on the reefs. Three had been already in
collision: the OLGA was injured in the quarter, the ADLER had lost
her bowsprit; the NIPSIC had lost her smoke-stack, and was making
steam with difficulty, maintaining her fire with barrels of pork,
and the smoke and sparks pouring along the level of the deck. For
the seventh war-ship the day had come too late; the EBER had
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