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Eventually Elizabeth's fleet ran out of ammunition and withdrew to the narrows of the Channel.
Huge waves were breaking on the barrier reef and the narrows at the eastern entrance of the channel were like a boiling cauldron.
We continue, without rest, for several identical pitches, through the narrows, to the first apron above the cliffs.
The fort is situated at the southern end of Lake Champlain where the narrows lead into Lake George.
Since the Gorge is a tidal waterway, the current from the narrows shoots crews out.
This broad and undulating ridge gradually narrows and eventually sharpens to a knife edge just below the rocky summit slopes.
The dentary narrows posterior to the coronoid, and forms a short but robust condylar process that terminates in a large, broad condyle.
In many specimens the anterior petals are delicate and the anterior poriferous zone narrows markedly towards the apical system.
Throughout, he narrows his eyes behind bushy eyebrows and slips coins from hand to hand, as if fondling a rosary.
The moon had finally moved far enough over the high walls of the pass to cast some of its gaunt white light down into the narrows below.
Our view of the blogosphere gradually narrows, becoming parochial and staid.
It limits our horizons, narrows our imaginations, and encourages an obsessive preoccupation on the personal and petty aspects of our lives.
Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
Any further exposure narrows the bronchial tubes and brings on the symptoms of asthma.
At the underside of the sixth floor, the atrium narrows to a small opening encircled by polished granite voussoirs.
The normally oval spinal canal enlarges slightly by bending forward and narrows with standing and leaning back.
Here the soft tissue lining the inner ear narrows to form a vessel, the perilymphatic duct.
Since caffeine is usually a vasal constrictor, as the caffeine that the body is so used to wears out of the system, it narrows the blood vessels.
This too has been a cause of congestion as Market Street narrows towards its southern end.
As the spectral distribution narrows with depth, the angular distribution of the downwelling light broadens.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Sarrail with his six divisions behind him could open the narrows in no time.
But I had sculled through the narrows of the passage before he could reach it.
And between ourselves what dupery there is in science, how it narrows our horizon!
For six miles in the narrows it is too shallow for a submarine to submerge.
Here he found himself above the lower narrows and defiles of the latter river, and in an open and level country.
Eventually we found ourselves through the narrows of Obidos and reached the town of Manaos.
This transpontine restriction undoubtedly narrows the life and interests of Julfa.
They are sure they will have the whip hand of the narrows by to-morrow.
The sternum is widest at the second legs and narrows to a point behind.
After a while the batteries along the narrows slipped into view.
Where this narrows to a point there issues a streamer of smoke.
Now to get from there to the Linnhe Loch, the straight course was through the narrows of the Sound of Mull.
We must, then, make a push, and if the Indians or Frenchers are in the narrows, run the gauntlet through these toppling mountains.
The fairway narrows sharply at the bottom of the horseshoe en route to a long, narrow and well-mounded green.
If you can say definitely, for example, that some murder has been done by a man who was smoking an Indian lunkah, it obviously narrows your field of search.
Renfrew narrows that definition to the earliest traces of human societies.
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