But, as I walk through here, the mud that is caked and the flotsam and jetsam. |
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For mainstream media, the plentiful underachievers are customarily the rough equivalent of flotsam and jetsam. |
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Inggs has for some time been collecting detritus and flotsam from an area a short distance from Cape Town where he spends a lot of time. |
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Huge eddies pulled the waves into massive waterspouts that devoured the flotsam and survivors on the river. |
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I never thought I would care about the difference between creek and brook, sea-marks and flotsam, guzzles and gutters. |
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The glorious mix of water, blood, flotsam, and jetsam crackles resoundingly with a new life. |
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The probability is that the remnants of a once proud fleet will end up as broken flotsam, landfill at the council dump. |
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I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations. |
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A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects. |
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It has the habit of swimming in small shoals around patches of flotsam, or floating logs, and is attracted by rafts or drifting boats. |
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Even with a limited skill set, he should have enough left in the tank to handle the flotsam that occupies the middle ranks of the division. |
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It perforated the sheer fabric of her chemise, ran through her body and whipped up the flotsam in her heart. |
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The tidal shoreline swamps of Piscataway Creek and the shore of Potomac River often have much large woody debris and flotsam from floods. |
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The vision of her body, flotsam on the water, is at once both corpse-like and strangely beautiful. |
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She and her little piece of flotsam were going to be smashed to bits on the rocks! |
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In fact, among all the detritus, flotsam, and muck, this movie could serve as a strategically tossed life preserver. |
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The hideous roses were flotsam and she was cast away on a tide of detritus. |
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I'm back to work tomorrow, at my clinic dealing with whatever post-long-weekend flotsam washes up in my walk-in box. |
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What flotsam does this send floating through the mind, just below the surface? |
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Harmonization was one of those words I thought I'd seen the end of, but here it is again, surfacing among the flotsam and jetsam at City Hall. |
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But being seen in the shimmering waters, when you're but a speck of flotsam to a passing ship, was never a sure bet. |
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Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck. |
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The first day was clear of contacts, but we saw a lot of flotsam, tree trunks, containers washed off ships, etc. |
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Insects and worms hitchhike the ocean on bits of flotsam, coming ashore wherever the winds and currents take them. |
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They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam, etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects. |
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. |
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Memories were surfacing in his mind, like flotsam from a shipwreck, drawn upwards from the deep. |
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The dive-site looks a tip as well, because blocks of granite of various sizes line the shore, along with flotsam and junk. |
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After a few more shops all the geegaws bled together and I could take no more fabulous flotsam. |
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It is as if the novel's intellectual and ideological muddle is merely a superficial layer of flotsam bobbing on a boiling sea of emotion. |
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They were modernist, Marxist and anti-Stalinist, despised by communists and ignored by conservatives, the international flotsam and jetsam of the Age of Ideology. |
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Now the region was strewn with floating wreckage, the sort of flotsam that cried out to any Sentient that battle had raged across the Void a scant time previous. |
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But unknown to Iphigenia, he was no ordinary fisherman, but a sea wizard, one who lived from the flotsam which washed up upon the beaches and shores of the world. |
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For all the flotsam and jetsam of colourful costumes and props and clownishness, this production lacks the emotional and mythic dimensions of Beaumont's vision. |
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Typical examples of materials found include visitor waste, flotsam and jetsam, off-shore fishing waste and articles such as cotton buds and materials washed down toilets. |
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It's finding a shell or bit of interesting flotsam washed up during the last high tide or a few oysters that can be opened and washed down with a glass of wine back home. |
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This is just flotsam and jetsam on the big scheme of things. |
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I certainly don't have the time to write such mundanities or the stomach for having the flotsam and jetsam of my life zapping around the globe, courtesy of the Web. |
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And his audiences react in this way because MacLennan's ideas sometimes seem a mishmash, an arbitrary collection of the lost and found, flotsam and jetsam. |
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The bright new paintwork on the ship's funnel and wheelhouse stand proud against the murky grey waters of the River Clyde, like a symbol of hope amidst the flotsam and jetsam. |
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The victims are no more than flotsam, beached by the receding tide of one of Africa's cruelest rebellions. |
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These little flotsam are important to inspire random, lateral thinking, bringing you to newer and better understandings. |
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They will be known as collateral damage, unavoidable flotsam and jetsam from the mighty tides of war. |
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Forgotten debris, dormant flotsam and jetsam, Bleu nature uses driftwood, a raw material that does not deplete the Earth's natural resources. |
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French, top class scuba-diver, specialised in underwater flotsam and jetsam researches. |
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For those sweet souls out there whose minds have remained unsullied by the flotsam and jetsam of the fashion world, I shall explain. |
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So how does a suburb like Edmonton turn into the kind of post-industrial flotsam that residents of Rochdale and Byker might also recognise? |
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On the second day of the search, flotsam from the aircraft was found in the area. |
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Certainly with inadequate economic attitudes, a country can feel like flotsam in the great tide of global economic change. |
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It included furniture, wooden boxes and even garages, and all manner of flotsam or driftwood. |
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The PistenBully can collect this dangerous flotsam and transport it away before the dangerous fermentation process takes place. |
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Even if mounting on the aft beam was possible, it would still leave the auxiliary rudder completely exposed to flotsam. |
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It catered to off duty bartenders, night owls, and the flotsam of the dark. |
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Waves were funneled upslope carving out sides of paths and larger pieces of flotsam focussed wave scour on the duneface. |
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With all those heads twizzling by and all manner of human flotsam and jetsam floating by it is often impossible to keep your finger on the pulse of things. |
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I love how when you look up flotsam in the dictionary it says jetsam. |
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Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts. |
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Once the sand was plowed back onto the beaches, volunteers scoured it for any flotsam that got through the sifting machines. |
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Once there he meets the flotsam and jetsam who congregate at a roadhouse belonging to a white-suited gent nicknamed Panama because of his romantic tales of foreign adventure. |
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We ran and we danced among the flotsam and jetsum of out digital lives, scattering bon mots like candies to the poor and needy children around us. |
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The flat verges were littered with seaweed and plastic flotsam. |
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You are encouraged to help identify flotsam sources, get involved in local beach clean-ups and campaign for responsible disposal of waste by marine industries. |
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Twitter channels are a cascade of information in a flotsam of fluff and often I feel like a grizzly trying to fish for salmon even using hashtag filters. |
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Heavy metals, residues of many plant and insect venoms and plastic waste flotsam are not biodegradable. |
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The desk in Tony Kitchener's office is cluttered with technical drawings, completed prototypes of air compressor parts and the general flotsam and jetsam of any working desk. |
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Masters swimmers range from the late 20's to the much more refined ages where the accumulated flotsam and jetsom of life may have left their mark. |
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Here and there, you will find decorative flotsam. |
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The « oldest » champagne of the world has just been fished out by divers in a great flotsam in the depths of the Baltic Sea: 200 years spent off the Finn coast seem not to have altered its quality. |
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And if isn't the flotsam and jetsam, it's the smell. |
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The streets were filled with flotsam and jetsam. |
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The other Sargasso is the flotsam and jetsam of the past. |
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Aside from the main salvage operation of Napoli, a local salvage firm was appointed to clear up the beach and remove the containers and flotsam. |
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Others claimed that removing the flotsam contributed to the cleanup of Branscombe beach. |
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Many animals that live on or in the sea consume flotsam by mistake, as it often looks similar to their natural prey. |
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They aggregate in considerable numbers around objects such as drifting flotsam, rafts, jellyfish and floating seaweed. |
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One study, off Florida, found 54 species from 23 families living in flotsam from Sargassum mats. |
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Ingestion of plastic flotsam is another problem, one faced by many seabirds. |
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It is amazing, however, how much jetsam and flotsam we find. |
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Look for a mermaid's purse along the strand line, among the flotsam and jetsam left behind by the waves at low tide. |
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Jetsam and flotsam became her treasure trove. |
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They are more than interactive flotsam and jetsam. |
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Browne flipped a 1-ounce jig through matted grass, including milfoil and eelgrass as well as rafts of flotsam blown against trees. |
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The story of the Art Metropole Collection begins sometime in the late sixties when a group of artists known as General Idea began collecting the flotsam and jetsam that passed through their lives and studios. |
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Dune erosion was greatest where walking paths crossed the dune to the beach or where larger pieces of flotsam had been deposited against the dune face. |
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It remains as flotsam from deceased whales, and is sought by beachcombers. |
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A common broom closet where we can all dump our data flotsam. |
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Where they are sympatric, Arctic foxes may also escape competition by feeding on lemmings and flotsam, rather than voles, as favoured by red foxes. |
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The challenge for Sleiman in the wake of the logjam is to ensure that the leftover flotsam is not allowed to re-congeal and paralyze the machinery of government again. |
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In the United Kingdom under the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, jetsam, flotsam, lagan and all other cargo and wreckage remain the property of their original owners. |
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