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The scaffolding from a building that was being repaired from Ivan was sheered off and tossed into a nearby visitor center.
It resulted from a sheered steering cable allowing the single outboard to swing with the torque of the prop, turning the boat suddenly and tossing us all into the water.
A short time later, the Stellanova sheered towards the centre of the channel.
The vessel sheered towards Steveston Jetty but her movement was stopped by the bridge team using propulsion, steering, and anchor.
Sometimes the hackled wave raised, drew back its lip, sheered its teeth, coughed its raw guttural.
The pilot had the conduct of the vessel and executed the necessary speed changes and course orders until the vessel sheered initially to port.
The master noted on the rudder position indicator that the rudder was hard to starboard, while the Evan Richard sheered to starboard.
L'Acadien II soon5 sheered to port and went on a track approximately 60º off the centreline of the CCGS Sir William Alexander.
As both vessels came within sight of one another, the Stellanova sheered a second time, this time to starboard.
Starboard bow thrust was reportedly requested by the pilot of the Jo Spirit when the Jo Spirit sheered to port, but was not applied.
This didn't stop them from moving into hymn-singing mode, though, which made sure that any nocturnal wild camels that might have got within range swiftly sheered off.
For an instant it looked as if the keel had sheered off and the ship would go down like a lump of lead.
The helmsman maintained that course for over 15 minutes, until the vessel struck bottom and sheered to starboard.
Within the next few seconds, the Stellanova sheered to port.
The vessel sheered, lost its momentum, swung to starboard and steadied with her bow pointing upstream, in the opposite direction to the outbound course.
Let yourself go in an unforgettable festival of emotions, tingles and delights, and discover high mountains from its sheered rocks to its eternal snow.
Soon all of us had snake sticks, their ends sheered off by beavers.
It picked up her trailer and dashed it into the woods at some unthinkable speed, with the same wind that snapped the trees in half and sheered off the bark.
Even without that groundwork, my sense is that there was a window for additional action in the fall of 2009, and that the administration sheered off from even trying.
The engine was stopped, and a few minutes later the vessel struck the northern limit of the channel, sheered some 3 to port, and then came to a standstill.
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The helm was eased a little, and the ship sheered nearer to le foudroyant.
He sheered at the moment my hands should have landed on his nose, but his sandpaper hide scraped the skin off one arm from elbow to shoulder.
He sheered off, then turned with a rush, broadside on, with his sail up.
The fish sheered to and fro, and would not come into shallower water.
Mebbe he's seen us peeking out and thinks it's time he sheered off?
Sometimes he sheered off the subject, or turned the conversation by pretending not to understand, but generally he answered all I asked most frankly.
He got so frightened about his plaguy soul, that he shrinked and sheered away from whales, for fear of after-claps in case he got stove and went to Davy Jones.
He sheered off, and on inquiry was told that it was leprosy.
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