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ago, and undergoing many vicissitudes, she should, like an old weather-beaten sailor, end her days almost at the threshold of her own home." Bell built...

resolute smuggler, leaning out of a porthole’) and Looking In (‘a weather-beaten sailor, in a similar position, reading the Naval Gazette) would become...

past Cape Deceit with its stony peaks, about three o'clock doubled the weather-beaten Cape Horn. The evening was calm and bright, and we enjoyed a fine view...

and beaten by the people. The sailors gather to make a final farewell and praise Vakulinchuk as a hero. The people of Odessa welcome the sailors, but...

circumnavigation from 2008 to 2016. Although previously well known as an offshore sailor, Joyon's real leap to international prominence came in February 2004 when...

retrieved March 21, 2008. Reza, H.G. (January 9, 1993). "Homosexual Sailor Beaten to Death, Navy Confirms : Crime: Gay-bashing may be motive, activists...

between White and Black sailors, many of whom had been demobilized. After a Black sailor had been stabbed by two White sailors in a pub for refusing to...

18th century drawing depicting Wolraad Woltemade's rescue of 14 sailors...

novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. It contains...

September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the...

tacking. over the barrel Adult sailors were flogged on the back or shoulders while tied to a grating, but boys were beaten instead on the posterior (often...

effect that Mickey finds undesirable. However, when the robot is being beaten in the match, Minnie uses a horn to motivate the robot to win. Other appearances:...

anchoring near a wreck, and then swimming back to shore—a job which the other sailors were too afraid to do. In one anecdote, he competed with a Newfoundland...

majority of seats some shade on a blinding afternoon. It is believed that sailors, with their background in sailmaking and rigging were employed to build...

contracted smallpox and one died. In transit, Northup implored a sympathetic sailor to send a letter to his family. The letter arrived safely, but, lacking...

only to have them beaten by another sailor, so the paper hit upon the idea of a sponsored race, which would cover all the sailors setting off that year...

to his amazing vault, Mike makes a high-stakes gamble. Driving off the beaten path, the guys run across a quirky artist with a wacky sense of humor and...

anger and showing his fist, intending to hit her. The hornpipe mimics a sailor in Royal Navy doing work aboard ship: hauling rope, sliding on the rollicking...

Holloway 18 July 2010 (2010-07-18) 6.25 A new resident to Aidensfield is found beaten to death in her kitchen, shortly after announcing her intentions to marry...

brutal, fanatic and falling in a state of madness or imbecility. A slave/sailor of the militia, who was consulting the affairs of the state, said « I am...