… The old kingfisher lighted, and seizing our captain, who had been active in breaking the egg, in one of her claws, flew with him above a mile high…
J. B. Clark, from The surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Rudolf Erich Raspe, London, 1895.
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(Many things do) but these kind of remind me of One Piece. The seaside subject matter definitely influences those...
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