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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Lank, pass aft that backstay [the trace] and belay; no, not there! Belay to that little yard-arm [whiffle-tree]. Got it through the lazy-jack [trace-bearer]? Now reeve your jib-sheets [lines] through them dead-eyes [hame rings] and pass 'em aft. Now where in Tophet does thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what I call real ship-shape, declared Captain Bean, viewing the result." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Got any more notions, Lank?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Strikes me we ought to ship a mast so's we could rig a sprit-sail in case the old ho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ahoy there, Lank! shouted the bridegroom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't we do better'n this? Ain't hardly got steerage-way on her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can't budge him, Cap'n. Hadn't we better shake-out the sprit-sail; wind's fair abeam...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whoa, whoa! Stop him, Captain, stop him! He'll smash us all to pieces!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Set right still, Stashia, an' trim ship. I've got the helm," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead, sir!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see 'em, Lank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think we can come about, Cap'n?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't goin to try, Lank. I'm layin' a straight course for home. Stand by to bail." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Grand Hippodrome Races," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ug-g-g-gh! Oh! Oh! H-h-h-elp!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit down!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "W-w-w-we'll all b-b-be d-d-drowned, drowned!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much we won't, Stashia. We're all right now, and we ain't g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "commented the Captain, as he and Lank steadied the bride's dripping bulk down the step-ladder," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "grumbled the ranch boss as the lot was turned into a corral." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But that black fellow'd make a rustler's mouth water, eh, Lefty?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll brand 'em in the mornin'," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Bellair folks will beat us 'oller; every one o' their blooming hentries is as fit as fiddles." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ain't we worked on 'im for four mortal hours? demanded another." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, blarst you, we'll see if you're goin' to go to heverlastin' smash in the ring. Tommy, dig out a pair o' them burrs." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't I have him, Jerry? He'll be such a perfect cross-mate for Topsy. Please, now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said Hawkins warningly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, isn't he a beauty, Dan! squealed Mrs. Jerry delightedly, as Bonfire danced up to the curb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't he?" } ]
19824
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keb, sir! Have a keb, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's your carriage, my man?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good frame you have there; got the parts all numbered?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where shall it be; home, sir?" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars Clayton. This" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mars Clayton had ridden Pasha once, had ridden him as he rode his big, ugly, hard-bitted roan hunter, and Pasha had not enjoyed the ride. Still, Miss Lou and Pasha often rode out with" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's simply wonderful!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some time, if he is needed badly, you may have Pasha, but not now, Miss Lou had said. And then she had hidden her face in his cream-white mane and sobbed. Just what the trouble was Pasha did not understand, but he was certain" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mars" } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm very sorry, he heard" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mars Clayton say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you'll take good care of him, won't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes; o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now what on earth was that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mars" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pasha! Pasha!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, boy! Come, boy!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come here, Pasha, old fellow. For God's sake, come here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, boy. Come, Pasha," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Pasha, said Mr. Dave," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come, boy. Come, Pasha," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Easy now, boy; steady! Pasha heard him say. Mr. Dave was dragging himself along the ground to Pasha's side." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Steady now, Pasha; steady, boy! He felt Mr. Dave's hand on the pommel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So-o-o, boy;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must tell Lou--er--my wife, you know, what you have said. Yes, that was Pasha. He saved my neck at Brandy Station. He was one-half Arab, Pasha was, and the other half, sir, was human." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maze of Crystal" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must be getting old," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Gretchen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good morning, Ma'm, Gretchen's mechanical voice agreed tonelessly. The robot-maid continued monotonously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The day will be clear and sunny, with a high of 79 degrees Fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning, Aunt Abby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good morning, Linda, Abby replied, smiling at the girl's energy. It reminded her of when she was seventeen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't rush your breakfast, dear, you've plenty of time to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank goodness for Linda, she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it weren't for her...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old-Time Commercial" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the man continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Linda!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I'll be back down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like to see you right now, please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who was that boy, dear? I don't think I know him." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's very nice, Abby admitted, but she wondered how in this age of intense specialization a future astronautical engineer had managed to enroll in a plastics class to waste his time making pseudo-roses. Despite her wish to the contrary, she found herself briefly admiring the you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry, Aunt Abby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's all right, child, I understand how you feel, Abby said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, you go along up and take a shower and get yourself ready for supper, and maybe we'll talk about it la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All ready, dear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How was the field trip, dear?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, Linda answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Venusian amoeba is very much like our own, the man said. It even reproduces itself by division." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel like an amoeba sometimes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes I wish you were, dear, Abby said, feeling strangely annoyed by the statement." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, eat your steak before it gets cold." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw him at the zoo today," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You did? Abby said, relieved, and then she thought of her dream of the zoo and of Linda standing there and Dr. Gower beside the girl. Could she be psychic? No, there was a simpler explanation." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm going in to see Dr. Gower, dear, she told Linda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, don't rush your food." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Abby, how are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, thank you, Tom, Abby said." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you don't mind, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd like to bring up Linda in my own way. The courts made me legal guardian of Linda until she's twenty-one, and I intend to protect her until then to the best of my ability." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know if I should tell you this; it might help, and it might not. He paused again uncertainly and then went on in a decisive tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Linda's your own child, Abby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course. The courts--...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what happened in your blank spot, Abby, Dr. Gower went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ran away from home when you were twenty-one, because your mother was too strict, because she acted just like you're acting with Linda. Before she could find you again...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No. He was lying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He never lied before," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You--heard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid, dear, that Dr. Gower is like all men. When he couldn't have what he wanted-- her fac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's not true, she told herself again, a desperate urgency to her voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got to get away from these thoughts. Got to get away. Got--to--escape." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it's a dream, she murmured," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know why you wanted to come here, Abby, the man was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll see enough of these creatures on Venus." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This one is special, the woman said slowly, tasting the words like some unfa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Commander von Ludwig, I take it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know. I imagine I did!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Him heap strong. Long time" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Annie" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Godfrey wishes to speak to you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For that it shall be beyond thy reach--and mine!" } ]
12939
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wanted: young men to enlist in Uncle Sam's submarine fleet for service in European waters." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your country needs you _now_!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The only way to win the war is to carry it right home to the foe!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't delay a moment---while you hesitate your country waits!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dixie on the mandolin. The strains came down to the youth on the campus through the giant oak trees that half obscured the facade of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Over on the athletic field a bunch of freshmen" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of the scho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There you are! Hip, hurrah!" } ]
12939
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were lined up before the gymnasium to withstand the attack of the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all the grand shebang about this time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going---I'm not going to wait another minute---all the other fellows are going---my grandfather fought through the Civil War---it's me for the submarine fleet---I'm off this very-----" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't suppose there is much to be said here, concluded Ted's father after listening to the son's impassioned appeal for parental sanction." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You seem to have decided that you owe allegiance to your country above all other interests. I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All I want to make sure of, ventured Jack," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I reckon Uncle Sam might be able to fix it for you, chuckled the bronzed veteran." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's fitting out a great submarine fleet to get right in after the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fair Brighton" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Makes a fellow feel kinda chokey, don't it, chum?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fair Brighton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come on, chum, let's hurry," }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-by, mother; good-by, dad, the boys shouted in unison as the wheels began to turn and the train drew out of the train shed. A throng filled the station, and everyone in the crowd seemed to be waving farewell to some one on the train. The Winchester Harmonic Band had turned o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here we are at last, chum!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You boys will be distributed at once among the vessels now in the yard to make up the necessary complement of crews. The department is very anxious to put some of you aboard the submarine fleet now fitting out here, and if there are any in the crowd who would prefer service in t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am Executive Officer Binns, of the _Dewey_. If you boys are ready we will go right aboard. We expect to go down the bay on some maneuvers this afternoon and want to get you fellows to your places as quickly as possible." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Looks like a long narrow turtle with a hump on its back, doesn't it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something like the folding telescope we have at home to look at pictures," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What they saw was the forward deck of the _Dewey_, the guns in position, other vessels moored nearby and the blue expanse of water stretching out into the harbor ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glad to meet you, mates," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep your eyes and ears wide open all the time; remember what you are told and you'll soon catch on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're off, boy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is what I call great!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say, old boy, this beats drilling out on the campus at Brighton with the school battalion, eh? what?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm just as happy as I can be," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All hands below---we are going to submerge!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pump three hundred pounds into No. 1, was the command given by Binns. One of the levers was thrown over, and immediately could be heard the swirling of water. The boys were unable to grasp the full meaning of what was going on until Bill Witt shuffled up and said:" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you know about that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you feel like, chum?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I've been up in the tower of the Woolworth Building and down in a coal mine and up in a Ferris wheel and once I had a ride with Uncle Jim in the cab of a locomotive---but this beats anything I ever had...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do they steer the vessel down here under the sea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the gyrocompass, answered Bill Witt, pointing to where Executive Officer Binns and Commander McClure stood in the conning tower." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roosey for Colonel Roosevelt, the gun aft was dubbed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Big Bob in honor of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fighting Bob Evans of Spanish-American War fame, while the anti-aircraft guns became" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Looks like we are going away from here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a guess I've been making myself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess it's 'so long U.S.A.' this time," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gee, I'm glad we're off! answered Ted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only hope we are going over there with the rest of the boys." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Going to fight the U-boat snakes with made-in-America snakes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you suppose we will go all the way over under our own power, or will we be towed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't the least doubt but that we'll stand on our own sea legs, replied Jack." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you remember how we ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Periscope two points off the starboard!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All hands below!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There she is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "U-boat driving straight ahead at the smoke curtain. Port the helm!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roosey." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fire on that periscope," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bang!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A little short, boys, he called." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Elevate just a little more---you've nearly got the range." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hurry, boys! he sees us now and is beginning to submerge!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No doubt of it, boys; you ripped off that periscope," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who said the Yanks couldn't stop their pesky undersea wasps? chattered Bill Witt joyously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If they just let us loose long enough we'll show 'em how to kill poison with poison." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just like a gra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Union Jack and French tricolor look pretty good; but none of them makes a fellow's blood tingle like the Stars and Stripes; eh, chum?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "---as the British destroyers are known in the slang of the sea---slipped off silently into the twiligh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was before we got over here, said Bill Witt with a show of irony as he read the meager dispatch in the London Times." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait till we Yanks meet up with the Huns!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "German raider!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Little Mack," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll lie right here and watch him awhile, he told his executive officer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty soon he'll be close enough for us to ge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reckon he'll be dead off our bow in a minute or so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, we ought to get a line on him soon enough now," } ]