Stowaway

Definition and stakes

Richard M. Elam,  Young Stowaways in Space

“ But, saying nothing further, the captain turned and began walking toward the outer door of the gym.
Then he seemed to think of something else and came back. The boys held their breath hopefully. Would he mention adoption now?
“There’s something else they told me that I thought you’d want to know,” the captain said. “I told them the story of your being stowaways accidentally, just as you told me.
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Source: Gutenberg

H. Thornhill Timmins,  Nooks and Corners of Shropshire

“ However that may have been, we now lay our course for Stow, a tiny hamlet nestling in a wild rocky cirque called Ragged Kingdom. Our route lies over Stow Hill, whose summit is marked by the blackened cairn of the 'Diamond Jubilee' bonfire.
But lusty appetites, begotten of fresh air and hours of steady tramping, now demand instant satisfaction. So down we sit, and, whilst feasting our eyes on the beauties of the landscape, we regale the inner man on more material fare: the pile of sandwiches becoming 'small by degrees, and beautifully less,' as the moments flit by.
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Source: Gutenberg

Portrait of Martha Foote Crow Martha Foote Crow,  Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography for girls (1913)

“ It was not like the five-course banquet we have to-day. The bread was that black compound of rye and Indian meal which the economy of New England made the common form because it could be most easily raised on a hard and stony soil; but Mrs. Stowe in later life informed all whom it might concern that rye and Indian bread, smoking hot, together with savory sausage, pork and beans formed a breakfast fit for a king, if the king had earned it by getting up in a cold room, washing in ice-water, tumbling through snow-drifts and foddering cattle. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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