How To Use Barge In A Sentence
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Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
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But one day he disturbed her privacy and barged into her room, presumably to force more work on her, while she had it out.
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There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge.
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On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet.
The U-boat hunters
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Two Doggett Coat and Badge-winners, both watermen resident in Greenwich, came to blows over which should row the Royal Barge.
COFFIN ON THE WATER
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At the end of the time he was out of money but was befriended by the captain of a luxury tourist canal barge who offered him a two month job as a deckhand.
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They sank the barge by making a hole in the bottom.
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That bridges and barges were being destroyed to impede their progress.
Man of Honour
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They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
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The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
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Ropes were cast off and stevedores moved in with bargepoles to keep the hull clear of the wharf.
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Transport now includes harbour ferries, and ferries or barges on rivers or lakes.
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The towrope slid along the ground, grew taut, and slowly pulled the barge along the bank.
The Mistaken Wife
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This barge is a floating hotel, or "flotel," set up by BP and several subcontractors to accommodate more than 500 workers hired to clean up the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Home
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He just looked backwards and barged in to the goalkeeper.
Times, Sunday Times
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The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
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A network of subsidized cargo barges and water taxis would be introduced on the city's canals to compensate.
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Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges.
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It is not known how many scows, barges, and other vessels were involved in transporting brownstone.
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Many Indian and Arab traders (and after them the Europeans) chose to land their products at Mergui and use barges to travel upriver to Tenasserim and then have their good portaged the rest of the way.
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At whose arriuall there, as I do perceiue, the Captaine would not accomplish his bargen to take them, but saith, hee hath no need of them; such is the constancie of all men in the countrey, with whomsoeuer you shal bargen.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Syrens whooped, steam whistles shrieked hoarsely; the raucous voices of fog-horns proclaimed the whereabouts of scores of craft, passing up and down the river; but the trim-built barge slid noiselessly along, ghost-like, in the dun-colored "smother," giving no intimation of her proximity.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers
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Agents in black suits stood on the steps of the Capitol building to make sure the mass of malcontent demonstrators didn't barge inside.
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I learnt to revere the skill and knowledge of the coastal bargemen, like Jack Spitty the master of the Edith May in the 60s.
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Visit the observation decks at four area lock and dams to watch barges and riverboats pass through.
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In fact, the term weblog had just recently been coined by one * Jorn Barger* www. robotwisdom.com the previous year.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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Corunna, which is about five Leagues from this Place by Water, in a barge of fourteen Oars, but the Weather proved so boisterous, that it was impossible to go.
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 December 1779
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When you sit down to eat tonight, may armed men not barge into your house and search your wife's underwear drawer.
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It is a near-miracle that so little of the building above the storefront has been changed, like the mock half-timbering, the little turret and the perforated bargeboard.
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And anyway, he knew better than to barge into my room uninvited.
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His eyes were bulging when he barged into me.
The Sun
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While the Ambre project emphasized the use of covered barges to minimize land-dwellers' exposure to coal dust for moving coal down to St. Helens each year, Kinder Morgan representatives said they were aware that their even-larger project dependent on rail cars would require quite a bit of community input.
Coal Fuels a Fight in Oregon
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They said a gang called the "Asian Invasion" was behind a campaign of bullying at the school, and demanded security guards to protect pupils. "and that" Patrick said a fight had been arranged after Henry "barged" into a group of Asian boys in a school corridor.
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A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward.
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Another barge swept past, downstream.
IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
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This was swung up on the derrick, the barge closed up, the piece deposited in it.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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The goods were trucked south to the city, or carried on barges.
Crocodiles, snakes are danger in flooded Australia
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Enzo Barretta, owner of Ottava Isola, or "Eighth Island," a floating barge with sand on the floor and gourmet food, will pick you up directly from your boat to dine at his restaurant.
The Subdued Side of Sardinia
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Seven hitmen barge into an apartment used by a top Indian mafia boss.
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There was every kind from little boats to huge cargo ships, from dilapidated sailboats to magnificent barges.
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Her walk down the barge may be one of the most memorable shots in film history.
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The company traces its origins to a transport business formed in 1884 that moved goods by barge along the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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It would be considered somewhat rude to barge into your boss's house,’ he stammered.
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“It refers to the dissipation of your fortune to the advantage of a certain Madame Jeanrenaud, the widow of a bargemaster — or rather, to that of her son, Colonel Jeanrenaud, for whom you are said to have procured an appointment, to have exhausted your influence with the King, and at last to have extended such protection as secures him a good marriage.
The Commission in Lunacy
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Yet another lodge, this one with high gables containing carved bargeboards, was sold in the mid-1990s for around £28,000 and then resold a couple of years later for about £100,000.
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Elisabeth stopped at the old peat barge, the single landmark on an otherwise featureless wilderness.
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And then this evening, throwing off her melancholy, she had barged him without warning and jinked away with a cheeky backward glance, rolling a couple of the cubs onto their backs as she ran.
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As soon as the verdict was announced he leaped up, barged past four security guards and bolted from the dock.
The Sun
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Nobody can barge into my house uninvited and manhandle me.
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Yvon's Paris" offers dozens of glorious photographs, many filling two pages -- flat paper magically alive with moments stolen from time: flower sellers, bargemen, weary blinkered horses, a boating party in the Bois de Boulogne.
Graham Robb's "Parisians" and Yvon's Paris, photos of Pierre Yves Petit
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To navigate safely through the waterways of Europe you will need to know CEVNI - the Waterway Code - whose rules, signs and signals are understood by bargemasters of all nationalities.
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A barge was about a hundred yards away, waiting to return seaward.
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But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage while her narrow-boat's broken propeller-shaft is repaired.
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The cutlers of Solingen destroyed foundries that made cheap, cast-iron implements, the Rhine bargemen attacked the steamships that were stealing their trade, and Rhineland peasants surged into the forests to cut wood.
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The man still holding on to the tail, and the dog paddling bravely, the craft was quickly brought alongside the oar, which the bargeman seized and took on board.
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Radio won't touch me with a bargepole, for some reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having lightened its load, crews hoped to float the barge out to sea Tuesday.
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The dredger and the barges are close to the beach.
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He eventually settled on an unconverted 23m barge costing £28,000.
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MSSecond instalment of Timothy Spall's barge-borne circumnavigation of Britain.
TV highlights 17/08/2011
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This would hamper the use of large hopper dredges and large transport barges.
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One firm sent its lighters, the London County Council dispatched its hopper barges, and the Port of London nine of its tugs which towed Thames sailing barges behind them.
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I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
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You can, of course, walk through the trees to watch the pleasure boats and barges negotiate the lock, but you might just prefer to stay tucked away by your tent listening to the soothing splish of the river slipping over the weir and gazing out over Oxfordshire fields.
The 10 best secluded campsites
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There were some boats and barges astrand in the mud, and these enabled us to come within a few yards of her without being seen.
David Copperfield
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The United States is a very attractive market, easy to access by ocean-going vessels and river barges.
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Each year, thousands of tourist flock to Robertstown to enjoy the natural amenities in the area, with most visitors taking in a trip on the barge along the Grand Canal.
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Now, the barge will ply the canal again, as it once did in the 1940s.
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Fire baskets or cressets mounted at the prows of the fishing barges seem to attract prey for the cormorants.
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Its bed and estuary scoured and sunken, was now a canal of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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The message from them is that anyone can barge into your home at any time and you must keep quiet, watch and must not protect your property or even yourselves, as Tony Martin did.
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An armed gang barged onto the train and began hacking and shooting anyone in sight.
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The smallest barge had a capacity vastly greater than the sturdiest packhorse.
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On 'baith balinger and barge' the marginal note is 'ship', explaining two vessels with one gloss.
The Times Literary Supplement
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We finned through the old barge, past fans of black coral, and circled the wheelhouse, joined by schools of barracuda.
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I didn't want to barge into his home like this and shove two girls down his throat, but I had no other choice.
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We barged past him and ran outside on to the street.
The Sun
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At the time I told her the truth - we'd made a raft and when we fell off, we were rescued by a man on a barge and taken to a wedding reception where someone gave me orangeade.
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The head gardener's house is decorated with barge boards and finials, and has been carefully restored.
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So morning warms to broad noon, and hunger makes it dinner-time, and the young kinsmen who have strolled abroad come home, one of them with his hand bound up in a white rag that has drops of blood on it, for he has picked a quarrel in the street and steel has been out, as usual, though no one has been killed, because the 'bargello' and his men were in sight, down there near the Orsini's theatre-fortress.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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The tug and barge had been plying a steady route between the Persian Gulf and Iraq's Khawr Abd Allah waterway for weeks.
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Minister O'Donoghue also spoke of the town as a popular boating centre and a base for the pleasure barges on the Barrow.
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The term weblog is most commonly traced to Jorn Barger who referred to his iconic site Robot Wisdom as a weblog in 1997.
Blogging Archaeology and the Archaeology of Blogging - The Weblog. History and Taxonomy
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Many people say this and that about a queen and a king, but I think a king comes more natural to us English folks; and this good gentleman goes as often down by water to Greenwich, and employs as many of the barge-men and water-men of all kinds; and maintains, in his royal grace, John Taylor, the water-poet, who keeps both a sculler and a pair of oars.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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He knew the smacks, bawleys and barges, and had sailed aboard most boats suited to the tidal waters.
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During the flight, the wingman broke away to investigate a barge, and notified Cdr. Jack E. Keller, the pilot of the other A6A, that he was having an ordinance malfunction and was proceeding to Hon Mat Island, less than 15 miles away, so that he could dump the remainder of his bombload safely.
Austin, Ellis E.
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After disrobing to his underwear, shoes and socks, Chen barged into the station master's office to demand an explanation for why he could not buy a ticket after being third in a long line.
'Naked' Chinese man a folk hero after being denied train ticket
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ON A rain-lashed November day two years ago, a pleasure barge sailing up the River Hull clipped a large object, hidden beneath the murky waters.
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The mines were found by his ship's company concealed below decks in a barge.
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His father, Simon Farber, a former bargeman in Poland, had immigrated to America in the late nineteenth century and worked in an insurance agency.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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Don't touch it with a barge pole.
Times, Sunday Times
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This reluctance to accept the hassle of dealing with the drowned was not confined to bargees.
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bargemen" of the borough seem to have already existed before the
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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The river was near at hand, still wearing its Parisian aspect, filled with chains, bathing establishments, great barges, and multitudes of little, skiffs, with a layer of coaldust on their pretentious, freshly-painted names, tied to the pier and rocking to the slightest motion of the water.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Cable tenders, who worked the tow lines for barges and other equipment, were to be cut from $5.60 to $4; and motormen and brakemen from $5.60 to $5.
Colossus
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The car must be capacious but not such a barge that parking becomes tricky.
Times, Sunday Times
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They barge into the house and demand money and gold.
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A little before six o'clock, we were casting plugs about a mile above St. Anthony Falls when the Patrick Gannaway, a towboat, came chugging upriver with two barges.
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Set in 1950s Glasgow, Young Adam begins when two bargemen fish the body of a naked woman from the river, an event which precipitates an affair between the young deckhand and his boss's wife.
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The royal barge could sink.
Times, Sunday Times
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That figure had been calculated on the assumption that Jan de Nul could make 9 barge trips a day at a certain daily cost.
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At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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You would have to trans-ship the sheep from the large ship that they're on now, to barges.
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Take Fish, Fritz & Saltz down to one of the Benson bubblers (or some activists should do a press conference there at one with the Willamette and barge or ship traffic in the background) -- or invite him to quaff an un-unfiltered Hefeweitzen at Widmers 'Gasthaus with the people (fundraiser for May?) -- for a safe drinking water refresher course .... but no matter what, don't ever let them drink Randy's Kuul-Ayde!
Wednesday showdown brewing over Portland water (Jack Bog's Blog)
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The greater the angle made between the quant and the barge or punt, the greater the turning angle.
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With Frogface's help it took about six minutes to straighten put the bargemaster and the committee of bigwigs waiting with him.
Shadow Games
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Farmers throughout the Midwest and southern states ship their produce on barges down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, where they are loaded onto ocean-going vessels.
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The barge slowed as it approached the quay, and the rowers shipped their oars.
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Then they are airfreighted to Broughton and by barge to Toulouse in France.
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A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two Hungarian students.
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Another barge also had to be hoisted by crane on to a low loader.
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The barge would be busy for two days or more, ferrying the remainder of the troops across.
TREASON KEEP
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The company traces its origins to a transport business formed in 1884 that moved goods by barge along the Thames.
Times, Sunday Times
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The centre was involved again for his team's third when a sweeping move which started in the Naas twenty two criss-crossed the pitch and finished in the hands of Barry Walsh, who barged into the try area.
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(He had been one of the hardest livers and hardest readers of his time at Oxbridge, where the name of Stunning Warrington was yet famous for beating bargemen, pulling matches, winning prizes, and drinking milk-punch.)
The History of Pendennis
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The night before, Fritz had gave me my birthday gifts: a reproduction brass Victorian-era turn bell for my front door, a t-shirt that says "Check out my Blog" and gives the URL, and a tea cozy he'd made for my new tea pot in a handsome bargello pattern done in several shades of blue and white.
Archive 2006-06-01
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The barge was loaded up with coal.
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Why Mr. Macguire was telling me of a bargee he knew who had a woman in pretty much every major town along his route!
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Then he'd take out his bargee 's clasp knife and cut more bread into chunks.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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One man survived the blast and dragged himself into the hopper barge.
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Comparatively few sophisticated clients will touch licensed dealers with a bargepole.
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'europop', and there is someof it that I would not touch with a bargepole (Sardou par example) but I always found a lot to enjoy as well.
Skuds' Sister's Brother
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From walking so much along the river we knew many of the bargees.
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David & Charles, 1969 pp.291, b/w illustrations, ‘from the days of the early engineers, the flashlocks, and the bargemasters at war with the mill owners for right of passage, down to the present day.’
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When he is at home, he likes to waltz and tango and enjoys barge holidays with the family.
Times, Sunday Times
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They sank the barge by making a hole in the bottom.
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At the sort, wood is bucked to length, trimmed and scaled before being barged to Howe Sound, just north of Vancouver.
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When he is at home, he likes to waltz and tango and enjoys barge holidays with the family.
Times, Sunday Times
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The person who barges in most often these days is my highly conservative, self-proclaimed fundamentalist Christian roommate, who tries his damnedest to stop my heathen ways.
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You don't mean that old shandrydan of a caravan that passed along there two or three days ago?" and bargee jerked his thumb in the direction of the hilly tract sloping up from the canal course, through which a narrow road, little better than a sheep track, wound its circuitous way.
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls
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He used to lead the horses that drew the barges along the canal for the bargees from Dublin.
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Below Idon, while we waited to find a bargemaster with guts enough to take us south, I had Murgen plant the standard.
Shadow Games
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More than 400,000 gallons of thick industrial fuel oil spilled just upriver from the Crescent City Connection in the collision early Wednesday morning between a tanker and a barge being pulled by a tugboat.
Oil Spill on the Mississippi « Skid Roche
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In Bordeaux, barges must carry chunks of the fuselage up the Garonne River under an 18 th-century bridge that offers scant clearance.
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Two coralline pillars shoulder their way up from the deep and barge through throngs of fish to emerge swathed in surf, snarling in the face of the currents that dominate this coast.
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Mrs Claydon left the town's primary school at 14 to work as a housemaid and later married her next door neighbour Alfred-John, who was a bargeman.
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Work & Family Mailbox Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions After their parents' deaths about 20 years ago, the two brothers disagreed on who would get a Norwegian broom and brass dustpan hand-crafted by their grandfather.
Happy (Awkward) Holidays
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When this Lorde had well banqueted them, hee presently called for his barge, and did accompany the said galley to the Lorde general the Earle of Essex, who then did ride with his ship a good distance off: and there they being in like maner most honorably receiued, and intertained, the
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The sand was loaded into horse-drawn wagons and carried to the barges lying in the basin.
Exploring Britain's Canals
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There are some sick and twisted individuals out there who shouldn't be touched with a barge pole.
The Sun
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Suddenly the serenity is broken as a giant bird, recalling the mythological roc, barges through the brush, creating a momentary panic among the dawn horses.
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The worst that befell me on my stag weekend, held in the sedate surrounds of a barge boat, was a hard-boiled egg eating competition.
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At least three cruise liners with hotel rooms will be anchored in disused docks on the Thames, alongside many smaller boats and barges offering accommodation.
Times, Sunday Times
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I didn't see who it was that barged into my dressing room but I told them to get out – and that may be a euphemism for what I actually said.
Leicester City 2-2 Middlesbrough | Championship match report
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He took a glass of water till the Home Guard barged in and waved a muckle pistol in his face.
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They shouldn't touch him with a bargepole.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Ian seems knocked out cold, as the campers and Carrie all barge into the room.
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In front of his desk sits a scale model of the animal that barged its way onstage during his rampageous 2007 production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros; next to it is a memento from Jerusalem.
Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
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With the aid of a mudlark -- a mere barge boy, who probably had no more right on the barge than Jules himself -- Racksole had won his game.
The Grand Babylon Hotel
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There's a chance they won't rerig the barges immediately.
The Magic Engineer
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Anatomy of a Scene: The Explosive Bridge Chase Scene — A dissection of the sequence when Bourne narrowly avoids a train coming down the tracks to leap from a bridge onto a barge underneath.
THE BOURNE IDENTITY/THE BOURNE SUPREMACY Blu-Ray/DVD Flipper Disc Reviews – Collider.com
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Burning barges were being towed out to sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two barge cranes from Rotterdam will lift the containers into other vessels.
The Sun
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But asked whether he believed whether the former aide lied, Harshbarger avoided the question.
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We tied up alongside a barge.
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Elizas father, Jonathan Makepeace, was born in London in 1866 to a penniless Thames bargeman and his wife.
The Forgotten Garden
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The real town of Anogi inched closer as the ferrymen plied the big oarsa free-moving ferry, this, the Hisei being too big and too trafficked to be crossed with ropesa kind of barge that described a crescent-shaped course from shore to shore, a compromise with the current, while larger and smaller craft bound downriver went straight courses past, fishing boats and cargo boats and such.
2005
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That bridges and barges were being destroyed to impede their progress.
Man of Honour
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The nearer of the two barges was perhaps a mile away.
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One old bargee described the Institute as the happiest, blessedest little place in Brentford.
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As the France international defender pulled up to allow the ball to run out of play, Beattie first barged his opponent and then butted him in the back of the head.
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That could have been avoided to a significant extent, if not entirely, by cutting and loading the clay directly into barges in some areas and by restricting the period during which overspill was allowed to continue in others.
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I wouldn't touch investment bonds with a bargepole.
Times, Sunday Times
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pole barges on the river
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The work will allow boats and barges to land cargo in bad weather because the planned site is sheltered by the reef.
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There rode ships from France, England, Holland, China and Japan, while innumerable boats and gilded barges rowed by sixty men plied to and fro.
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I didn't barge into your apartment without warning.
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The ferry barges across the seafront for its dock with categoric straightness, welcome after the shambles and indirection of Portsmouth.
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While I moped around Cho'n Delor One-Eye found a southern bargemaster willing to carry us all the way to Trogo Taglios.
Shadow Games
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Yet only 3,000 tonnes have been moved by barge in or out of the park since construction began two years ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wouldn't touch it with a paper bargepole.
The Sun
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This last, he says, other researchers had 'avoided with a bargepole'.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I came out of my cubicle and crossed to the washbasin, the mother barged me out of the way as she went to catch up with Nana.
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We all embarked in the barge and crossed over the firth, which is in this place nearly a mile broad, to Castro Pol, the first town in the Asturias.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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Earning their stripes: Home captain Scott Thomson tries to dig the ball out for Dunfermline as Partick Thistle's Jamie Mitchell attempts to barge him out of the way at East End Park yesterday.
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Its liveaboard package to the Barents Sea in January left 22 divers ice-bound for four months in a guano barge.
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But they say that the measures do not address the real problem of the bridge itself and have painted nightmare scenarios of fully laden petrol barges sheering off mudbanks close by and ploughing into it.
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One of the most charming moments in the show comes from Mary Jane Herber, local historian and genealogist at the Brown County Library, recalling the wintry day in 1975 when Tank Cottage was moved on a Fox River barge from Green Bay to Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Allouez.
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Envision remotely controlled party barges bombing down the highway while we eat and drink in merriment entertained by tv, movies, internet, music and my personal crack of choice “information”.
Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Cellphones, Driving, and “Inattention Blindness”
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I'm sorry to barge in like this, but I have a problem I hope you can solve.
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He watched with little interest as the bargemen on the Canal du Midi lashed their p-niches to double moorings, or even to the bases of the lime trees that lined the bank.
Sepulchre
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The Saram was riddled with shallows and waterfalls above Derm, but from that point south river barges could ferry them down the lower Saram, Morvan, and Bellwater to the Bay of Kolvania.
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Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans (an Oriental boat propelled by a sail or oars), whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats.
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An eager Year 7 barged in front of them to sign up for trampoline club.
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I would not touch this with a bargepole.
Times, Sunday Times
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We came over in the barge to the Hall with his Excellency, the ladies and the officers.
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Bargeman: Sure. My assistant will accompany you to go to the tank.
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However, this is a canal basin with a few barges on it, not a yachting marina where you berth a boat ready to sail.
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Two minutes later, a group of braying guest list pillocks barged their way in, and stood in front of the kids.
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If river levels sink too low, barges could be grounded and agriculture thrown into chaos.
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Three barges, smothered in floury dust, were being unloaded of their cargoes of powdered felspar by a multitude of coughing men, each guiding a little truck; the dust filled the place with a choking mist, and turned the electric glare yellow.
When the Sleeper Wakes
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I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
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No one had been injured in the rockfall the night before, I learned - a huge relief, especially for Barger, who was now zipping around the course in a black helicopter.
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On the Lower Ohio and the Mississippi there were about twenty barges, which averaged 100 tons burden, and more than three months was occupied in ascending from Orleans to Louisville with West India produce, the crew being obliged to poll or _cordelle_ the whole distance.
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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Horses pulled barges from the towpath before boat engines were used.
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The Bargello stitch was also a popular canvaswork style since the Renaissance era until the early XVIIth century.
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She said she and the electrocardiogram technician argued regularly because the technician would often barge into her consulting room while Langley was seeing patients.
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Suitable types might include sailing barges, historic tugboats, a wartime landing craft, steam motor yachts, or even a retired lightship, submarine, or hydrofoil.
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Paired with the Labors of Adam and Eve in the British Library and Huntington Library Speculum books is an image of Noah's ark, a bargelike vessel with a basilican superstructure beneath a dove with outstretched wings.
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Many are from the East Coast, such as barges, bawleys and smacks.
