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We watched swells break on the point and come around into the anchorage with curling graybeard tops.
Fog has caused many losses around the islands as vessels tried to reach a safe anchorage.
The dreamy peace of a quiet anchorage took possession of us, deepened by the languor of the tropics.
The results show that lateral roots play an important role in anchorage, and that co-operation between roots may be the most significant factor.
I watched quietly as the other boats in the anchorage swung on their moorings.
Eleusis Bay, a floating anchorage of laid-up ships near Athens, is gradually being cleared of ships that no longer have a cruising future.
Many of the shipwrecks in Palau waters were later salvaged, with the exception of three to four shipwrecks in the anchorage areas.
The operation was carried out as strong winds battered Scotland, tearing a cargo ship from its anchorage in the Orkney islands.
Inside, the luggage area has six anchorage points for securing smaller items of luggage to stop them sliding around during travel.
If the floor slab is not thick enough to handle these loads, alternate anchorage must be provided.
Studies have shown that reinforcing rods driven into the ground do not provide sufficient anchorage.
The answer lies at least in part in a quest for anchorage, for attachment to others and a sense of continuity.
Where drainage is not adequate rooting development is restricted leading to poor tree growth and insufficient anchorage.
This application is also designed to exploit partial ordering information provided by anchorage of clones to a genetic map.
I remember the first time I realised how much trouble I was going to have with this business of mental anchorage.
In addition, wall anchorage to satisfy earthquake loading conditions must resist very high loads.
Both provide anchorage to a person who might otherwise get lost in meditation or in crusade.
In a hatchback or estate car, a cage can be attached to anchorage points in the boot.
You don't even have to be a sophisticated analyst to see what they are doing with the visual rhetoric and verbal anchorage.
An intricate support structure of stainless-steel wires, bamboo poles and fishing nets provides anchorage for the fabric cladding.
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There ought to have been a tranquil bark in such an anchorage, and there was.
It pushed its way to the water at her very feet, and chose that as its anchorage.
She lay white, and as if suspended, in the crepuscular atmosphere of sunset mingling with the ashy gleam of the vast anchorage.
A demi-culverin shot may reach the castle from the anchorage, and the castle is of no strength.
Proceeding on eastwardly from this anchorage you come to Wasp Bay, at the head of the harbour.
It concerns the anchorage of rods by the embedment of a few inches of their length in concrete.
Next we put in to Sendai bay, a commodious anchorage, but very much exposed seaward from its broad and unprotected mouth.
From Kumaishi to kudo numerous reefs extend out at sea, and small headlands afford a safe anchorage to junks.
I was ordered to take a surf boat and investigate for a landing and an anchorage.
The whole of the fleet had lain for days at their anchorage behind Tenedos.
The Portuguese pay anchorage at machan according to the beam and length of their ships, and whether they enter light or laden.
They have chosen their anchorage at the foot of the bay, near the harbor of Vannes.
On the night of the 22d of September a violent storm drove the Centurion from her anchorage, sundering her cables like packthread.
The yacht had gone off to her anchorage, and we had to wait some time for a boat.
The anchorage is protected from all winds except those from the south-east.
The chinampa, at its anchorage, swung lightly, like an Indian cradle pendulous in the air.
Why else should she move from her anchorage thus in the dead of night?
After dark, any time he's around, change your anchorage and douse your riding light.
He and his men had had days of weary sailing and had sought in vain for shallow water in which they might come to an anchorage.
All these strings intertwining made Pancks a very cable of anchorage that night.
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