How To Use Fleet In A Sentence
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In the near rocks zone, a battle airship firmly adsorb to a great meteorolite, an eye warrior watch with scout far places of Flolamp fleets, soundless, Boss, Flolamp have leaved for Life Star.
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Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
Times, Sunday Times
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A British fleet defeated the French at Trafalgar.
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Such a cynosure, at least in aspect, and something such too in nature, though with important variations made apparent as the story proceeds, was welkin-eyed Billy Budd, or Baby Budd, as more familiarly under circumstances hereafter to be given he at last came to be called, aged twenty-one, a foretopman of the British fleet toward the close of the last decade of the eighteenth century.
Billy Budd
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They had divers arsenals, or piratic harbors, as likewise watch towers and beacons, all along the sea-coast; and fleets were here received that were well manned with the finest mariners, and well served with the expertest pilots, and composed of swift sailing and light-built vessels adapted for their special purpose.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Running low on fuel Fuchida headed directly back to the battle fleet, now 190 miles north of Oahu.
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Experts probed the origin of the sulphurous smell which appeared at the beginning of February after calls from worried Benfleet and Canvey residents who were left spluttering.
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
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Possession of these books allowed British ships or personnel placed ashore to read the signals being relayed by the semaphore stations, which frequently included operational tasking to French fleet units.
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Owing to these qualities they are utilised for prolonged and searching reconnoitring duties such as strategical reconnaissances as distinct from the hurried and tactical reconnaissances carried out by fleeter machines.
Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
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He drives a top of the range Mercedes but has not indulged himself with a fleet of the sort of flash cars favoured by some in the football world.
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For him, life really was a series of fleeting moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle.
Old Mortality, Complete
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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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A bout of fierce fighting gave the rest of the English fleet enough time to come to the rescue and begin attacking the convoy.
Times, Sunday Times
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It clearly showed the vast armada of the invasion fleet standing just off the coast of Normandy.
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And the assumption the defenses were based on was only invalidated when the Fleet Air Arm successfully attacked Taranto.
Making Light: In the navy, between the wars
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The shipowner has still held a merchant fleet of seven cargo - vessels.
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The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.
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Napoleon, the greatest of all generals, dismissed and disgraced Admiral Bruix when he questioned an order to sail his fleet.
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Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets.
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After a decade of focused research and development, the auto industry worldwide has passed a milestone with the arrival of the first test fleets of seemingly roadworthy fuel-cell cars.
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In fact, our fleet is known to be the youngest and most modern of any major airline in the world.
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Motor vehicles: The business owns a fleet of cars and delivery vans all of which were bought from new.
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The Dutch employed fleets of full-rigged ships of relatively large tonnage, which enabled them to undercut the freight charges of their competitors by a significant margin.
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Fleet went toppling over backwards, sending his armful of cannonballs clattering across the deck.
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Strangely, having run his fastest to get to her, Hyacinth seemed almost reluctant to knock at the door, or enter without knocking, and while he was hesitating on the doorstone her singing ceased, and she came out to see whose fleet footsteps had stirred the small stones of the pathway.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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Meanwhile, the fleet footed and well connected have profited from surging exports, a bubbly urban real estate market and, occasionally, government boosterism.
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BBC | Oil price "grounds North Korea fleet" Não é só no bolso dos automobilistas que o disparo nos preços do petróleo se faz sentir: a força aérea norte-coreana está practicamente paralisada; o país não tem dinheiro para adquirir combustível para pôr a voar a sua frota de velhas aeronaves de origem soviética e chinesa.
Leituras
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Before the City outsourced its fleet services, there was an estimated 40 percent availability of vehicles.
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I remember only fleeting moments.
Times, Sunday Times
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Despite the skill with which Jellicoe and Beatty had enmeshed the High Seas Fleet, Iron Duke had fired only nine salvos when Scheer turned his ships around and vanished into the mist.
Castles of Steel
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The British fleet is now long gone from Malta: in 1979, H.M.S. London sailed out of Valletta harbour and the link between the Royal Navy and Malta came to an end.
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Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds.
Mercy Kill
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Thoas rules [8] the land, o'er barbarians, [Thoas,] who guiding his foot swift as the pinion, has arrived at this epithet [of Thoas, i.e. _the swift_] on account of his fleetness of foot.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
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The move has seriously affected a number of marques here, whose cars in the D segment favoured by large families and commercial fleet operators sell significant shares of diesel engines which fall into the new band.
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The Shrimps recorded a 2-1 win over Fleet - and that wiped away the nightmare of last season's 6-0 drubbing at Stonebridge Road.
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The fleet is manoeuvring off the east coast.
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This was the last great clash between rival surface fleets.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down,' as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained.
Kate Coventry An Autobiography
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I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
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Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
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The meeting was told that most of the nets being stored were bought during the tuna fishing years but that fishery is now all but gone as far as the local fleet is concerned.
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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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During the operation itself, the fleet secured transportation by sea of 15,860 troops and over 15,000 tons of cargoes.
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But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR.
Looking for Trouble
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Jaspan inherits a newspaper with the kind of resources a keen editor with a lively mind and a constitution tested by the fire of Fleet St would find irresistible.
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Disappointed, Magellan led the fleet south again -- further south than any previous explorer had been.
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It has a fleet of over 400 heavy goods vehicle, 900 trailers and 200 vans.
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COSCO Group's tanker fleet development is also confronted with challenges from domestic same trade .
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The Athenian war fleet was reduced to twelve ships - barely enough to protect her shipping.
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We know he lived in Fleet Road, but other than that we don't know much about him.
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But when, on 17 December, Captain Bonaparte's gunners drove the British and Spanish troops from the key forts on those heights, Admiral Hood saw that he must evacuate the port immediately or have his fleet shot to matchwood.
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SARAH PALIN, (R) ALASKA: When my amniocentesis results came back showing what they called abnormalities, oh, dear God, I knew I had instantly an understanding for that fleeting moment why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances, just make it all go away and get some normalcy back in life.
CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2009
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Thus, the wealth of the fishing fleet increases when the industry has the rights to pollute.
Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
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The warship is depicted in full sail as she headed for the battle of Trafalgar and triumph over the French and Spanish fleets in 1805.
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Currently AMCL manages a medium - sized tanker fleet composed of VLCC, SUEZMAX and AFRAMAX.
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The lights above glared down on them all, a rack of suns illuminating a drifting fleet of ships.
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Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard.
A Son of the Immortals
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The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world.
The War in the Air
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The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
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Thanks to better quality lenses, longer battery life and dirt cheap memory cards, your cellphone is a convenient tool for capturing life's fleeting moments with the push of a button.
Tips on shooting cellphone video
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And Cummins imports engines fueled by natural gas for mainland bus fleets.
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the fleet scurrying of squirrels
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For that purpose, Caesar had his men build an entire fleet of biremes from scratch in less than two months.
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The People's car: hundreds of day-trippers brave the discomfort of a fleet of charabancs at Plymouth in 1922.
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Spanish spies had been observing the training manoeuvres and other preparations of the French fleet.
CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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The various protest groups are infuriated over what they call their holding pen, a fenced in area across the street from the Fleet Center.
CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2004
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The final ship of the Fleet's four new auxiliary landing ships will take to the water in a couple of the months as the revolution in the RN's amphibious forces reaches its final stages.
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Monday's strong wind gave the fleet a good race as boats tacked off from the start to find the best wind in the main north-westerly, or to pick up the north-easterly air stream down Troutbeck.
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Crowd management then shepherds the groups, which seem to leave at 15 minute intervals, to the door of the house where one of a fleet of guides greets them and commences the tour.
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The world's fishing fleets became markedly overcapitalized, meaning that there were more nets and boats than fish to catch.
Laurie David: Day 36 of Algalita's Oceanographic Research Vessel Expedition: A Letter From Captain Charles Moore
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A bulky parka smothered the individual's identity, but the flared black trousers marked him as a member of Starfleet; grinning, Kirk redirected his course to join his snowsuited comrade.
The Kobayashi Maru
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So what does an actor of MacLachlan's calibre do to reach the A-list - even if it's just for a fleeting moment?
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Keilberth's stereo sound and somewhat fleeter interpretation though no Böhm or Boulez tip the scales in his favor in my opinion.
Archive 2007-07-01
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Yet inserting a cheeky clause had fleetingly crossed his mind.
Times, Sunday Times
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August 1 he French fleet is destroyed by the British in the Battle of the Nile at Abukir.
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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A fleet of more than 20 ambulances took the victims - believed to include several children - to hospital.
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If we had delayed, the Danish fleet would soon have been in the hands of the enemy; hence his maledictions against what he termed our "aggressions:" we had anticipated him, and he was mortified with the bitter disappointment he thereby sustained.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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The pride of China's naval fleet, wags say, incorporates the very latest in radar-evading stealth technology, so powerful it is as if it didn't even exist.
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On the first of October all was ready for this audacious squibbing of the hornet's nest, and the fleet of investment (which kept its distance according to the weather and the tides) stood in, not bodily so as to arouse excitement, but a ship at a time sidling in towards the coast, and traversing one another's track, as if they were simply exchanging stations.
Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War
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Essex Crane, which serves contractors nationwide, owns 500 crawler cranes in its fleet.
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With a rapid, jingling drive to the harbour in a two - wheeled machine (which Captain Mitchell called a curricle) behind a fleet and scraggy mule beaten all the time by an obviously Neapolitan driver, the cycle would be nearly closed before the lighted-up offices of the O.S. N. Company, remaining open so late because of the steamer.
Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard
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I believe the USS RR is part of the 7th Fleet based out of Pearl Harbor.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6374
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Given the current capabilities of the IAF fleet, this would pose a major threat to Indian forces in Ladakh, Sikkim or Arunachal Pradesh.
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The exercise also will help the Navy determine targeting requirements for a future fleet battle experiment, a spokesman said.
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It collaborates in prototype development and is testing a variety of gasifiers with its transport and planting fleets.
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Having proved that she is more than capable of working in an operational theatre, HMS Echo is now beginning to demonstrate her true capabilities and value to the Fleet.
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For Fleet, which has recently made big acquisitions, the move clears an obstacle in integrating its multi-state operations.
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Armed guards aboard the 510 ft ship immediately returned fire and the attack was thwarted, said a spokesman for the European Union's anti-piracy naval fleet.
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The fleet rendered Britain invulnerable to direct attack, while its wealth allowed it to intervene on the continent even though Britain did not possess a large army.
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For Fleet, which has recently made big acquisitions, the move clears an obstacle in integrating its multi-state operations.
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He may have been casting around for a suitable site in 1331, when he bought up a quitclaim to a tenement on the north bank of Millfleet.
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With the move to common templates, the teams reskinned entire fleets for 2003.
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Life is short and time is fleeting.
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The fleet's five vessels plan to catch 260 whales - 150 minke, 50 Bryde's, 50 sei and 10 sperm whales as part of a scientific research project.
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Phnom Penh, the capital, recently got a new fleet of metered taxis, and it soon will have its first skyscrapers, including a 42-story luxury condominium tower rising up next to an office for a national antileprosy campaign.
Cambodia's Premier in Strong Position Ahead of Vote
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But yesterday the US grounded its fleet of the stealth fighters after one caught fire last month.
The Sun
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Instead of saying that the country is readying its most seasoned diplomats and lawyers to rebuff the claims, it highlighted the deployment of its aging fleet to protect an empty sea.
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Moreover, Brazil represented a restoration of the comfort she had experienced only fleetingly as a child.
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In even worse conditions on Sunday the fleet braved the elements to race round the same course.
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As he stepped upon the bridge the trumpets sounded, and over the aplustre rose the vexillum purpureum, or pennant of a commander of a fleet.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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We know from experience that beauty is fleeting.
Christianity Today
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The merged company will also take over loans associated with the GSL fleet.
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When the future historian gives to another age his account of all that is included in German "frightfulness," there is no feature upon which he will dilate more emphatically than the extraordinary use made by the enemy of their Zeppelin fleet.
Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers
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There, I took off the coat and stepped around a corner to behold rows upon rows of Starfleet cadets in formation, uniforms perfect, expertly coifed.
The Fifth Color | Reach for the Stars | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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The small fleet of 37's used on the Cambrian is being dispersed to Petroleum and other sectors.
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Fleets of aircraft, armadas of ships, armies of soldiers came across the English Channel and struck the German defenses.
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Fleetwood that the owner of the Theatre was a "stubborne fellow," and advised that he be sent for and "bounde" -- would have given advice and information so unfriendly to their own manager, and there cannot be the slightest doubt that Burbage was "the owner" of the Theatre from 1576 to
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
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I have the honour to inform you that the Honourable Company's steamer ‘Nemesis,’ under my command, was obliged to part company with the fleet, being light, and consequently very leewardly.
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The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
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Formerly hunters of Pacific sperm whale, these whaling fleets came to Arctic regions following the bowhead whale migration to the Beaufort Sea for summer feeding.
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He intended to make the fleet faster than its German counterpart.
Times, Sunday Times
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Liverpool, then, seemed to be growing in confidence, Luis Suárez - booked early on for a kick out at Michael Dawson - beginning to work his fleet-footed, impish magic, nutmegging opponents, his electricity jolting the Kop awake.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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There the mayor attempted to arrest them, and Buckingham had to pull off his beard, confess his identity, and claim that as admiral of the fleet he was off to arrange an impromptu inspection at Dover.
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Russia and Ukraine have been disputing the ownership of the fleet.
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The company is now conducting a review of all its operations which include 33 tour operators, 3,600 travel agents and a fleet of 83 aircraft.
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There is fleeting footage of everyone from Nick Cave to New Order, but one critic dismissed it as a structureless muddle.
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He entered the navy a midshipman in the era of cannon balls and oak hulls powered by sail, and retired as admiral of a fleet of steel, powered by steam, that fired huge shells thousands of yards.
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We will continue to work for the profitable and sustainable future of our fishing fleet.
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In the Kodiak harbor, the salmon seine fleet was loading supplies and heading out for an opening the next day, and schools of inch-long smolt darkened the water.
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If she manages it again today then expect to see a huge, but fleeting, smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the next two to three weeks, General Motors will start building so-called "salable" Volts which will go into the captured test fleet for GM employees to accumulate miles and catch any last minute glitches before the cars enter full production in November.
Autoblog Green
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Of course, the name game is just one aspect of the melancholy fact expressed by the cliche ‘fame is fleeting.’
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I feel a flush of glee at having called out the president on national television, but the sensation is fleeting.
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Fleets like to deal with manufacturers that have a large range of vehicles.
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It tastes sweet, light, lilting, rich - it tastes like I imagine one of those sunbeams breaking through clouds might taste, fleeting and rare.
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The tax administration has been intensified and tax revenue has kept increased constantly and fleetly.
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When hundreds of survivors of a shipwrecked French fleet washed up on the beaches of Florida, they were put to the sword, beside a river the Spanish called Matanzas ("slaughters").
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The navy still lacks the full complement of escort vessels needed to form a carrier fleet.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Nelson famously said, "The Dons may make fine ships; they cannot however make men," after visiting the Spanish fleet in Cadiz in 1793, he was referring not to the quality of Spanish sailors but to the lack of them, for as often as not crews were diminished by disease and other factors.
Letters to the Editor
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Sandberg throws big ragers - with live music and up to 500 guests - for special occasions like opening day of the sail season, Fleet Week, and the summer solstice.
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So the only thing that surprised when he was asked if he would take a draw and a replay at Ibrox, was the fact that he swithered, albeit fleetingly, before deciding against it.
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For those seeking a different mode of transport, a fleet of new bicycles will be on board this year and speedboat rides available.
Times, Sunday Times
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This historic old dock, which only floods at very high springs, was used in olden days by fishermen of the local herring fleet for repairs and for drying of the nets.
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He seldom went to the ground, and when he did it was usually a fleeting visit.
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
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A basic challenge to the efficient use of any fleet management system is capturing the field or shop data electronically so that they don't have to be rekeyed into the computer.
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Once the fleet had cleared Cyprus well to the west and out of sight of the island, they heaved into the prevailing southerlies and raced to the coast of Africa.
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During the middle third the fleet could hug the coast and put in to revictual in places like Croton and Tarentum and Brundisium, where the tale would be that they were going to put down trouble in Asia Minor — a tale the troops themselves had been given to believe.
The Grass Crown
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But there is another type of vessel that trades with the "Lively Poll" and other ships of that fishing fleet -- the Dutch "coper", bringing goods to trade for fish, including tobacco and schnapps, for the Demon Drink is the ruination of many a good man.
The Lively Poll A Tale of the North Sea
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Those in the support fleet who weren't neutralized fled to the sanctuary of hyperspace en route back to Confederate Space.
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Russell said that he and European auction company executive Henry Beeby, who is SITA's chairman, had discussed the confusion over the new guidelines "fleetingly" and that it probably would be addressed during SITA's next meeting, which is scheduled for November.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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Again the screen flickered, changing the view to a fleet of magnificent shimmering ships.
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Fleet Street loves a good scandal.
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Freighters, tankers and a modern fishing fleet trafficked the old sea lanes.
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Efforts by the Big Three to curb fleet business have not yet translated into higher sales to individuals at dealerships, which is a more accurate measure of how the companies are doing in the market than are overall sales.
December Slump
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This provides shelter for a small fishing fleet, which supports a population of nearly a hundred people.
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I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, meaningful movies, black cozy couches and the comfort of a brawny shoulder to rest on.
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He lost his entire naval fleet and much of his army.
Christianity Today
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Cambay, which is the harbour for our fleet while in this part of India, when we were visited by the merchants of the Surat factory, the principal of whom was Mr Thomas Kerridge.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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The death of Columbia came as little surprise to most space scientists concerned about the incredible stresses that launch and re-entry were putting on the ageing four-strong shuttle fleet.
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Suddenly, she saw a rapid, fleeting movement in the row of trees in their right.
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Access will be by foot or on a fleet of shuttles that will run from a new mainland car park.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nicephorus' fleet harried the accessible southern coasts in retribution, but made no firm gains.
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The fleet spreads out over the sea and orders are given to raise the anchors and run the sails up the masts.
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Dromaeosaurs, a group of small, fleet-footed dinosaurs in the theropod family, are thought to be the closest known relatives of birds.
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It looks incredibly twiddly and deep, as much of a fleet simulator as anything, and reviews of the Japanese version, released earlier this year, have been quite positive.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Look at its Corot-esque, grey tonality and its fleeting brushwork.
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You'll rake this whole yacht fleet with your old dumpcart!
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
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The Mount Whitney is the 6 th Fleet Flag Ship and the Command and Control Ship for a NATO Strike Force.
The Joel Gaines Show
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These paintings depicted the fleeting moments, transitory effects of atmosphere.
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The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village.
The Nigger of the Narcissus
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It is scheduled for launch on Feb. 24, one of the final flights in the shuttle program before the fleet is retired this year.
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He made his money with a fleet of moving vans.
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Was it acceptable not to change them if the visit had been fleeting?
Times, Sunday Times
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They would then shuttle to and fro between the combat fleets and London, relaying information and directives.
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To get a good idea of our fuel burn, we used the fleet numerical's great optimal-path-aircraft-routing program.
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He gave another fleeting smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Which deckhand found the photo of the Adama family in the Colonial Fleet archives?
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And right now the Air Force has an aging fleet of tanker aircraft that's really starting to get creeky.
CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008
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St. Vincent reported to Iron Duke that she was picking up strong, nearby wireless signals from ships on the wavelength used by the High Seas Fleet.
Castles of Steel
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The young pilots of Galactica's battleship fleet are perpetually zonked on uppers.
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Access will be by foot or on a fleet of shuttles that will run from a new mainland car park.
Times, Sunday Times
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But the carefully modulated tones of this career diplomat were not the red meat that Fleet Street desired.
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When the High Gods had destroyed Atlantis for its sins, the priests of Xotli and their slaves had fled from the sinking land in a mighty fleet of flying ships powered by the mysterious force called vril.
Conan Of The Isles
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But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour.
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The rest pressed on and were over the Mobile Fleet by 6: 30 P.M. In growing darkness, the Americans attacked, damaging several vessels and sinking three, the carrier Hiyo and two oilers.
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When the two-ship Argentine fleet approached Monterey, the local government cautiously retreated inland, leaving the defense to the soldiers in the presidio, or fort, and to pro-Spain militiamen.
Nicolás Meyer: California In Argentine Hands: A Brief History Lesson
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Their fleet was numerically small but it was more powerful than ours.
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The new fleet should come into service this time next year.
The Sun
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Alongside her on the top deck of the Antarctic survey ship HMS Endurance, stood the Duke of Edinburgh in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, encrusted with gold braid.
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The rest will be fleet and business cars.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mixed fleet crew earn just over the minimum wage and below the national average.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were over 500 ships in the enemy fleet.
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Seventeen years later a British government chose to act on that suggestion and dispatch the fleet.
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Remember that this is a carrier, not a fleet; so don't expect old tactics of overrunning the enemy position with superior numbers to work.
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Military and police have complained they are underfunded and had to resort to cannibalizing parts from other aircraft to keep their aging fleets in the air.
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As the saying goes, form is temporary and class is something rather less fleeting.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fleets of mainly Spanish and Panamanian trawlers fish for deep-sea species such as the orange roughy and the round-nosed grenadier which are popular among consumers on the continent.
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Above her, thin clouds fleeted across the sky, chased by strong autumn winds.
The Forgotten Garden
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Our combined fleet has recently re-formed.
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It also had a sizable fleet of extra buses that could be brought in for emergencies.
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Since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's Royal Navy had been the dominant fighting fleet in the world; now Germany was challenging this position.
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Fleet Street loves a good scandal.
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At that same meeting, the Queen took Burrell into her confidence—if only fleetingly.
William and Kate
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Approximately 3,000-3,500 cabs are replaced every year as they reach their maximum allowable age - three years for fleet-owned taxis, five years for owner-driver cabs, and six-to-seven years for hybrids.
Greener taxis coming to New York City
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As a result Germania, which is rolling over its fleet of Boeing 737s, will become a new
HEADLINES
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Although most fleet Kingfishers were catapulted from the fantails of battleships and cruisers, the Navy also tried mounting them on the stern of destroyers.
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To me this children's-song and the fleeting and now plaintive echo of it, as "Voices from Within" -- "_Verso la sera, Di Primavera_" -- in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in "Measure for Measure," wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play.
Life of Robert Browning
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The rest will be fleet and business cars.
Times, Sunday Times