How To Use Goon In A Sentence

Absorbing and retracing my history, memories of the special, never forgotten days, when our family made the crossing over the lagoon to the hummocks beyond.
In the night of the 28th 2,000 French dragoons each laden with 60 pounds of gunpowder arrived at the circumvallating walls in disguise.
The large lagoon and break in the reef attract many species, including dugongs, whale sharks, dolphins and manta rays.
No sign of Dobson and his goon, but one bloke was stock-still on the pavement, keeping his eyes on us even when jostled. THE TARTAN RINGERS
The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica. Península Valdés, Argentina

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Attempts at forcible conversion involved the quartering of troops - often dragoons, hence dragonnades - on Huguenot households.
A subject race, dragooned by force for centuries, has shaken off the last of its shackles.
At sunup and sundown, the lagoon becomes a communal meeting place for locals.
Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
Muddy and broad, it picks its way across the plains, changing course at will, leaving a maze of dead ends, ox-bow lakes, swamps and lagoons.
No-neck goons in black turtlenecks and lumpy suit jackets are fine if you want to hit a dance club with a posse, but they are not effective for executives.
We have recently added a troop of dragoons to the regiment.
While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
Another popular sandal is the Lagoon sandal, which comes in a wide variety of trendy colors, like blues and greens.
Communities on the coral atolls are usually concentrated along the leeward shoreline of lagoons.
Styled on the popular Parisian boulevard cafes, this delightful family restaurant overlooks the exotic lagoon-style pool.
Pass me the goon, now.
Perhaps I am a farmer myself — an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats. Roundabout Papers
In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same - a blanket of wet cow manure.
We observed an influx of long-tailed ducks into coastal lagoons in July, followed by dispersal to other areas in late August.
Indeed, the evaluation site's old wastewater lagoon was converted into clean, aerated water.
Obviously threatened by our tenacity, the owner called his goons, five men, and grabbed my friend (a woman) as she approached the counter with another question.
They got the nightvision goongoggles, they got that full body armor, they got them gasmasks latched on, they hear the squawky voice in the head phones, they got the GPS locator's, the heat sensor hound dog, they got the dragnet spread out, they got their charts and planning. A Limbaugh-Ron Paulian Republic? The Youth Will Decide
The doctor's home, a two-bedroom ranch-style house, is located high above a scenic lagoon with a beautiful view of the ocean.
So it is extremely likely that Alice the Goon did influence the now standard meaning of the word goon, but E.C. Segar did not coin the word itself, as it was around for more than a decade before Alice the Goon came into the picture. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
An hour south is the Blue Lagoon, a lake with steam vents that has been developed into a beach, healing bath, and beauty spa with deck chairs, a bar, a cafeteria, massages, mud packs, and even a gift shop.
So it's a very different kind of biota that would have been in these lagoons or near-shore deposits, near-shore areas 36 million years ago. New Species Of Extinct Giant Penguin Discovered
We loved to go swimming in the lagoon.
The ribbon of land mass, fringed with coconut trees, stretches for more than 12,500 miles around a vast lagoon.
It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons, and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics . . . it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. A Renegade History of the United States
The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
There followed card games accompanied by a few mugs of goon.
Sponges and corals grew on rises in this sea, forming reefs that divided up parts of this sea into isolated lagoons.
The Goon Show was a breath of surreal fresh air in dreary post-war Britain.
Before setting off to Dancewear in Glasgow to buy my first set of pumps, however, I was dragooned by the man to take part in a hateful five-a-side.
The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old. Morgan’s Run
Behind the lagoons and swamps of the coastal belt is an area of thick forest. Geography Basic Facts
The soft, milky, aquamarine colour comes from the blue-green algae that thrives in the lagoon and white Silica mud, which carpets the bottom with a light natural sediment.
Dragoon enclosed on the base and went high in the air then dive-bombed the area with that special fireball technique.
Xeric and halophyte shrublands, grasslands, riverine shrublands, coastal lagoons. Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
The occurrence of this specimen in nearshore beach deposits is somewhat unusual, as articulated or associated remains of Cretaceous sea turtles are more commonly encountered in lagoonal or offshore marine shale and chalk.
In the early hours of the morning, the goon ran out.
Kerala is blessed with rivers, lakes and lagoons and these offer a rare spectacle to tourists.
‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
Maremma's beautiful slopes, the sea and the lagoon, emerged in the scent of strawberry trees, set the scene of a unique environment with a mild climate that allows golf to be played all year.
Eventually, basin shallowing allowed in situ precipitation of selenite in shallow lagoons and ponds near the basin depocentre.
The goons, the oilmen, the shakedown and the cover-up.
There are no surrounding protective reefs or sheltered lagoons.
Its pool is a lagoon of green slime. The Sun
And it's why lounging on soft sand by a lapping tropical lagoon feels so natural. Times, Sunday Times
-- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
Every spring, female lemon sharks return to give birth in the shallow waters of a lagoon edged by a mangrove swamp.
Temperatures may be rising after the rare cold weather but scores of turtles are still being found unconscious on beaches and in lagoons. Times, Sunday Times
Be equally at home in arctic seas or tropical lagoons. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
The island is renowned for one of the largest coral lagoons in the world, its beautiful beaches and spectacular ocean habitats with giant clams and tropical fish. Times, Sunday Times
Without stopping, as soon as the sun rose Banastre Tarleton ordered his unrested Legion and dragoons to charge into the American militia in the center.
The black goby is a coastal fish inhabiting sandy environments and frequently entering brackish lagoons and estuaries.
First of all, it is stored in a sealed clay or lined lagoon, which also happens to be diked about four or five feet above ground level.
Lot's wife," we moved on again, past the glory of the lagoons, to further brumby encounters, carrying a water-bag on a pack-horse by way of precaution against further "drouths. We of the Never-Never
The wave simply swept through, destroying buildings along the way, sweeping people away and carrying them into the lagoons behind.
The first M91 / 30 rifles therefore, used the curved backsights of the old dragoon rifles.
The hidden UAE gem has 27 miles of coastline including lagoons and golden sand beaches. The Sun
The dragoon was the first to resume the conversation. The Tiger Hunter
The BMC calendar is legal -- even without Ford's blessing -- and when you protect yourself from legal liability by shutting it down, you incur PR liability by seeming like a bunch of candy-asses who can be bullied into submission by a memo from some white-shoe legal goon from a Fortune 100. Boing Boing
I had visions of palm trees and blue lagoons and snorkelling under a tropic sky.
Living among creeks, lagoons, and salt marshes makes fishing and the salt trade part of everyday life in the area.
Occasionally some unhinged goon will run alongside showering riders with water or giving them a push up the hill but it is mostly high-spirited encouragement.
The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
It is possible that the red uniforms of several British dragoons may have been glimpsed on Novikov's estate.
Here a 'em, thinking aye that ye was riding no far ahint us, and when a hears a gallopin' an 'turns roond, ye've santed, an' here's a pack o 'thae bluidy dragoons that wad blast ye black in the face an' speir the inside oot o 'a wheelbarra. Stories of the Border Marches
The police should have at least stopped the people being thrown out, especially if it was done with the use of dogs and goons.
There are also the typical DD telefilms featuring drunken husbands and harassed wives, or women collectors in district bungalows being leered at by local goons.
Yoo and Bybee aren't responsible for the government committing the crimes that these two goons were hired to so-called legalise, for the Presidential administration, the Congress, the DoJ, ... always know very well that there was NO way to officially legalise these crimes without usurping (or hijacking) the U.S. Bill of Rights Defense Committee - Headlines
Two years ago, the buzz in Lucknow and elsewhere in the state was the overriding desire and concern to get rid of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav and his goonda raj. Mayawati Magic
On afternoons and weekends you can visit nearby beaches, islands, fishing villages, hidden lagoons, reservoirs, coconut plantations, and waterfalls.
Artis antarabangsa, Ne-yo buat pertama kali akan mengegarkan peminat muzik RnB di taman tema Sunway Lagoon, malam ini. Planet Malaysia
Serving troops of the Allied nations, including the Light Dragoons 13 th / 18th Royal Hussars, conducted a march past.
Public service in this period included personal services such as labor on the fortifications being built at the isthmus of Corinth and the quartering and provisioning of dragoons and their mounts in the villages in the winter months.
Anaerobic lagoons are not usually agitated before manure removal.
In this BBC news video, a reporter with all the necessary documentation tries to visit Tiananmen Square with a cameraperson, only to find himself surrounded by umbrella-wielding goons who use their unfurled bumbershoots to block every shot the camera-person tries to catch. Boing Boing
In the corner opposite the dragoon was a boy of eighteen or so in the working clothes of a terrassier or labourer. The Soul of the War
Nine uniformed dragoons are standing around with the figure that is probably the architect, in frock coat and top hat concentrating on a drawing board.
The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left. Archive 2009-05-01
I enjoyed these comparisons, and chuckled heartily at the thought of all the pasty faced goons queuing for minging breakfast rolls along the M50.
The rooms are stylish and funky - all have a view of the emerald lagoon - and there is a spa with a dizzying number of treatments. The Sun
This is what Bill saw in front of his dragoons and jager screen: Prussian infantry supported by Prussian dragoons and cuirassiers. BAR Napoleon Playtest
The dhow exits the lagoon just after low tide, going against the now-incoming current but avoiding the tidal race that forms on an outgoing tide.
Its pool is a lagoon of green slime. The Sun
I hope the jynx mentalist is a gooner and gives them his backing for tonights game. British Blogs
Prince Charles is proud to declare himself "someone who grew up to the sounds of The Goon Show on the steam-driven wireless". The Goon Show must go on – 60 years since its first broadcast
Robert then put a goonie hat on his head and disappeared. The Official “Win a Copy of Coffee Shop” Contest: Your Scathing Book Review « Whatever
Icicles fringed every overhang, and several outriding, smaller floes cupped a protected lagoon in which two large humpbacks idled and blew. The Whale Warriors
Since last month four tow hi in Rangoon have reported bird flu cases.
You can stay in a grass hut with sunset views for a few pounds and it's wonderful, but for just shy of £50, you get into Bon Ton, a beautiful resort of antique stilted fishermen's houses overlooking a water-lilied lagoon.
Born in Hereford, the third of seven children of Peter Garrick and Arabella Clough, he returned with his family to Lichfield where his father was stationed with the dragoons, and where he received his early education.
The soft, milky, aquamarine colour comes from the blue-green algae that thrives in the lagoon and white Silica mud, which carpets the bottom with a light natural sediment.
Their builders also to float out onto the lagoon on s to insert the piling near the er's edge. Times, Sunday Times
The company resisted pressure to clean up the lagoon until 1997, when the pond was finally dug up and the soils shipped to a low-level nuclear waste dump in Utah.
I found that by going behind one of the buildings I got a great view of a little lagoon surrounded by phragmites.
Nancy is like, yeah, well, your goon is a blood stain and I think Guillermo his peoples is to blame. Weeds Session: Episode “Su-Su-Sucio” Offers Jokes, Hugs, Voyeurism, and Blood Relief | /Film
Mr. Leahy, who is Kilmeaden's local county councillor, pointed out that there were no less than 40 different species of aquatic life growing in and around the lagoons, with about 10 to 12 main species such as thyfa, iris and phragmites.
The sewage lagoons provided a very localized but relatively species-rich ecosystem, which acted as a cutrophic oasis of algae and aquatic macrophytes and benefited birds at several trophic levels.
We're luxuriating in the Blue Lagoon, Iceland's premier tourist attraction, an incredible outdoor pool heated by geothermals from the adjoining power station.
Usually there is a narrow reef flat separated from the lagoon floor by a steeper slope.
Nebraska requires that a fence at least four-foot high with a locking gate surround a lagoon.
Following the dis cussion, Ambassador Goonetilleke said: I am satisfied that Intelsat is taking these unauthorised transmissions very seriously, and believe it would do all that it can to stop the terrorist transmissions. Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite | Impact Lab
We could sit on the veranda and be joined by monkeys and baboons while watching the animal activity in the lagoon. Times, Sunday Times
Oh, and I caught a bunch of cutlassfish in the lagoon of Puerto Maya on my fly rod.
It sounded great, so I did chase her and got really hurt by a security goon.
I saw a single coot and lots of wood pigeons perched in the dead trees surrounding the lagoon.
Along with the awful band at the next wedding or Bar Mitzvah you're dragooned into.
Buy a wheel of Swiss Knights Fondue and Cheese and you get 500 AAdvantage air-miles -- that's like a trip to Australia for $1,100 -- a serious bargoon (if you can book far enough in advance to use your miles, of course). Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives
A network built upon trust and cooperation comes crashing down when thugs and goons roll through the neighborhood.
Onlookers said the water was only knee-deep in the part of the lagoon where he fell in.
And in case you get tired of all that ice, the actual heat generated to cool the iceberg is utilised to create hot water lagoons in the nearby cement works quarry. Nuclear-Powered Glaciers
Some live along steep edges of the reef, and others in sandy sheltered lagoons.
Conceptually, it helps me to think of the lake as having more the qualities of a lagoon (Sp. "laguna") than a lake. Lake level 10-2-06
For him some ‘goon’ - I use the term advisedly - keeps popping up to say, ‘Wait just a minute!’
In the distance, flamingos fly from the lagoons, and everywhere there is the scent of the macchia shrubland. Times, Sunday Times
a brackish lagoon
They gave us a nice, candlelit table overlooking a lagoon adjacent to a moonlit bay there in Hawaii. Christianity Today
Not denying the word existed beforehand, but Google and you find even the BBC goes with the Popeye connection, and that the term baffled the BBC execs: Their unique comedy style was first heard on the airwaves on 28 May 1951 on the programme Crazy People featuring The Goons. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
But Joe soon discovered that naval officials in Rangoon had no record of his Kunming telegram.
We got her all established, then sat around for at least forty-five minutes like the goons we are, grinning and commenting on her every action.
The road runs the length of a thin peninsula separating the Caribbean Sea from a large saltwater lagoon.
Short walk to shops, beach, pitch and putt, ten pin bowling, windsurfing lagoon, tennis.
Innocents were being harassed through police at some places by framing them in false cases, PSA was invoked indiscriminately and NC workers were resorting to their old goonda tactics. 'Taliban presence - fear-psychosis for political purposes�� :Mehbooba
Short walk to shops, beach, pitch and putt, ten pin bowling, windsurfing lagoon, tennis.
For example, Old Squaw move to sheltered lagoons along the Beaufort Sea coast.
Concentrated sources of animal manure such as dairies, poultry operations, and feed lots can be brought under some control by fencing stock off from streams and by techniques of lagooning and later field spreading, which need much wider use in the Potomac Basin. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior
If oil entered the lagoons, damage to fish spawning grounds, wildfowl habitat and local commercial and subsistence enterprises could be, literally, incalculable.
He gazed ruminantly away from the lagoon to the pool of Psyche, where the Tahitian women squatted on their shapely haunches and thumped their clothes. Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
The Freytag Pyramid In Freytag-ese, Die Hard unfolds thusly: NYC cop John McClane arrives in LA to reunite with his estranged wife, Holly (exposition), but terrorists raid her office tower, taking everyone hostage except McClane (inciting incident), who escapes unseen and starts picking off the goons (rising action). Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling
Kettledrummle was taen near us -- for Andrew Wilson's naig that he was riding on had been a dragooner lang syne, and the sairer Kettledrummle spurred to win awa, the readier the dour beast ran to the dragoons when he saw them draw up. Old Mortality, Volume 1.
The main attraction, however, is the turquoise lagoons.
There is some muttering about being 'dragooned', but I do not take insubordination from the lower ranks. Home | Mail Online
With Pure Rock, Goon appears to hint at various possible directions to follow with future records.
-- While his regiment was in daily expectation of receiving orders for Ireland, some one told him, that country quarters in the sister kingdom were so filthy, that the rich uniforms of his corps would soon be lamentably soiled: 'Let the men act as dragoons, then,' said his royal highness, 'and _scour the country_.' The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 535, February 25, 1832
Eurypterid associations can often be distinguished and related to environmental conditions, such as marine, lagoonal or estuarine, or brackish to freshwater faunas.
The hidden UAE gem has 27 miles of coastline including lagoons and golden sand beaches. The Sun
The most common biological treatment system that also provides storage is the anaerobic lagoon.
We drove over a quiet lagoon, past a deserted market, through silent streets to my house. BLOOD IS DIRT
Behind us were two large saltwater lagoons separated by a path and small central bridge.
The plans include three barrage schemes and two projects involving lagoons. Times, Sunday Times
The two men shaking hands represent the peaceful settlement of a conflict over the lagoon.
Crank up the volume and get ready to call the goon squad. WATCH: David Bowie Rocks Out To 'Fashion,' Late '90s-Style
Thus, while I can't speak to how Spike Milligan came up with the title of "The Goon Show," it's clear that the term "gooney" and probably the short form "goon" was widely used in England going back to the early 19th century. Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #156 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
Yet the sun starved goons are still sitting out, shivering, trying to drain the last goodness from the day and avoid facing up to the fact that they have an exam in the morning.
The French have 3 battalions of infantry plus Bill's 2 btns, 40 dragoons, 32 cuirassiers, 12 chasseurs and four 8-pounders with crew. June Painting Results
Me, the King of the Mimeo Revolution (according to Booklist), zinging around through cyberspace like a gooney bird. John bennett | murmurs and shards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Cycles are common, with deeper water bioclastic limestones at their base, followed by shallow marine oolitic limestones and lagoonal calcareous mudstones, with palaeokarstic horizons representing emergence at their top.
And this apprentice Goon will sadly mourn his passing.
Once he was strong enough, he would steal the scuba gear from Nihal's tent and fish for grouper in the lagoon. RUSHING TO PARADISE
It had taken Audley four days to complete his report on the current state of the Central Intelligence Agency, which was three days less than he had allowed himself originally; and which, he reminded himself irritably, would have left him ten days buckshee holiday with Faith and Cathy if he hadn't been conned, bullied and dragooned into messing around with politicians 'chestnuts to absolutely no effect. War Game
As we skimmed across the lagoon, sniffing the sea air, there was nothing to see at first but the odd sea bird perched on a marker buoy.
That a goon is a goon has to do with their humanness, not their politics. Obama Responds To FISA Group On His Web Site
The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left. Archive 2009-05-01
In the distance, flamingos fly from the lagoons, and everywhere there is the scent of the macchia shrubland. Times, Sunday Times
The plans include three barrage schemes and two projects involving lagoons. Times, Sunday Times
The avid Spike Milligan reader, who is almost as well known for making Goons of media men with his caustic and coruscating wit as his managerial exploits, also wrote ‘comedy bits and bobs’ and explored many other hinterlands.
The northern islands are coral atolls that have formed over ancient sunken volcanoes and are characterized by outer reefs surrounding a lagoon.
The hidden UAE gem has 27 miles of coastline including lagoons and golden sand beaches. The Sun
The pilot ditched his aircraft in the lagoon surrounding the islands.
“The gooney birds are no longer with us,” reported Task Force Times that day. Daring Young Men
Horton also notes that despite all the heartfelt noble promises of both candidate Obama and candidate Clinton during their glorious progressive agon for the presidential nomination in 2008, the mercenaries of Blackwater -- and other firms in the ever-expanding security goon community -- are still swelling their bellies at the government trough: Blackwater Fever: High Crimes and Hired Guns
One is the variety of red garnet known as almandine, and the other is the jargoon. Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
A young man, head down, was pushing his bicycle up the hill from the lagoon. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
Since villagers associate lagoons and rivers with wealth and fertility, performances are celebratory.
I've always wanted to be a henchman, so signing up to be a goon was an easy decision. UFies.org: April 2002 Archives
We scrambled over some rocks and were soon looking down from about 60 feet onto the lagoons.
Just a quick snorkel should be enough to tick off this playful fish, which loves shallow lagoons and sheltered reefs. Times, Sunday Times
A family beach beside a fishing village, with a lagoon for fishing, sailing and windsurfing. Collins Traveller - The Algarve
Working on a theme of deception and constraints mandating that we must include “a sink, a wink or a rink”, we built the 2d side-scroller “Panda Dragoon: Bees on Ice” with the aid of the Unity engine. Global Game Jam 2010 : KillerCodingNinjaBunny
Therefore, a total ban on private use of the lagoon requires concrete scientific proof of negative influences.
Trillions of dollars would have to be spent constructing thousands of dams on every river basins in the world, and many trillions more integrating them into urban stormwater management systems; wetland restoration projects; concretized rivers and irrigation channels; fortified lagoons and estuaries; abandoned tunnels; flood control structures; and every faucets, sprinklers, buckets and rolling 'hippos' throughout the world. Hydrology vs. the Apocalypse
In the Maldives, the sea is the focal attraction - a perfect narrow crescent of a beach lapped by the lagoon-like Indian Ocean.
After expelling the reporters, the goons vandalized the newspaper's equipment.
The last of the grouper 's bones were withdrawing into the deep, eager to join the sleeping eminence of the lagoon. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Then rent a sea kayak, explore the hidden lagoons and bays around the island, and paddle alongside otters and dolphins. Times, Sunday Times
It smelled toxic, looked like pus from the creature from the black lagoon and burned like hot coals on the skin.
The road is slippery on the high ground hard by, and it is debated at Lisselan House whether the farrier of the Dragoon Guards shall not be asked to "sharpen" the shoes of the animals employed there, for no local workman will touch them. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Their builders also to float out onto the lagoon on s to insert the piling near the er's edge. Times, Sunday Times
The two lagoons are enclosed by two strips of land called Feniglia and Giannella tombolos, where tourists can find kilometres of delightful beaches.
There is plenty to see hereabouts - a bird-filled lagoon, the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor, and the remarkable sand dunes of Voïdokolia Bay.
When you've been pressed into service as "sergeant-general" of the Malagassy army, or forced to convoy a bog-trotting idiot figged up as Sinbad the Sailor through an enemy army, or dragooned into impersonating a poxed-up Danish prince - why, what's a slave rebellion more or less? THE NUMBERS
The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.
People are most disturbed about a general decrease in the numbers and quality of the fish caught in the river and lagoons.
Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds.
Some 90+ miles of paths criss-cross the city, including the one running parallel to the four-some miles of sugary sands making up Copacabana, Ipanema and Lelbon beaches, as well as the path circling Lagoa Rodriguo de Freitas, a salt-water lagoon, and along the bayside Flamengo Park. Jeanine Barone: 8 Myths About Rio de Janeiro
Every part of the cavalier's and dragoon's armor was made to work together.
Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside.
a lagoon that pullulated with tropical fish.
The decade of the 1980s and early 1990s saw the almost routine use of company-paid goons, uniformed and armed, in labor struggles.
The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon.
As she traced the zipper outline of the case, she explained to Brian, ‘There's a party tonight, and I was dragooned into going.’
And then Zeek looked at me with his lovely lagoon eyes, and just as I was about to accept, I remembered that the only dance I could dance was the hokey-pokey.
Little Bluewing, the dragoon's little bluewing, that is, was not like other children; she always talked very sensibly, but she often said queer things, and everybody was puzzled to know where she got them from. In Midsummer Days, and Other Tales
The Gooner also carries an articulate open letter to David Dein, Arsenal's cultured vice-chairman.
Thus, compared with the sea coast, the lagoons contribute largely to the increase of the halieutic demersal potential: the zones of high demersal production correspond to the zones where the lagoons are large and productive.
Swimming up to the poolside bar to drink a long fruit cocktail, gazing out at the lagoon, must be one of life's greater pleasures.

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