How To Use Marooned In A Sentence
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Patients are marooned on trolleys because there are no available beds even though there are plenty of beds available in private nursing homes.
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These nine were, according to the barbarous practice of those kind of people, marooned, that is, set on shore on an uninhabited island.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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I was marooned on a lonely country road.
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Its acoustic tones were marooned amid the increasingly electronic textures of their music.
Times, Sunday Times
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She likes to go on holiday by herself and says she would be happy marooned on a desert island.
Times, Sunday Times
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The book opens with the introduction of a small group of English boys that are marooned on an island.
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His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
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The only thing that had kept him from going insane when he was marooned was the beauty of the island.
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Whether a camel is stuck in a gluggy saltpan, a vehicle is bogged on a giant sandhill, a party is running out of fuel or water, or guests are marooned on the wrong side of rising floodwaters, Rex can always find a solution.
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This was the only musical instrument the marooned men possessed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rest of the lads are out ‘on the town’, they've been marooned on a sheep stations for a whole 10 days, so what will it be like letting them loose in public again?
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soldiers are marooned on an island inhabited by monsters.
The Sun
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the travellers were marooned
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Even so, few of the 'marooned' holidays had passed off without trouble, and in the end the agency had abandoned them.
Longshot
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It's a straightforward, unimaginative slasher picture about a serial killer convict, one Leo Rook, who kills off warders and fellow lags one by one when they are marooned on a lighthouse.
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The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark.
Times, Sunday Times
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His vessels, rotted by shipworm, were abandoned in Jamaica, where Columbus was marooned for a year.
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Police were called to deal with the marooned low-loader on Friday morning after it became jammed on the crest of the bridge over the Kennet and Avon canal at Staverton.
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The computer on the desk was an island of straight lines marooned in a zigzag sea of paper.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Imagine those poor people marooned on the runway for something like four hours.
The Sun
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Tourists got stranded abroad or marooned at home.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was the only musical instrument the marooned men possessed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tales were told of flood-bound trains marooned in the desert for so long that drivers fished in new-born rivers or shot wild goats in order to feed their passengers.
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The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere.
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It would seem tantamount to saying they were stuck with what he had done, marooned like shipwrecked sailors.
PROSPECT HILL
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Soldiers are marooned on an island inhabited by monsters.
The Sun
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With a strong population of English, Australian and South African transplants, mixed with a number of east coasters marooned in Southern California, Irvine is a unique squash melting pot.
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He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
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A lorry driver was killed in a fireball crash which closed the M60 and marooned thousands of shoppers in the Trafford Centre.
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Many people have been marooned on rooftops or high ground.
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There were several landslides in the area, where four workers were marooned.
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Some, like Budyonny and Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, were marooned in the past, preferring horses to tanks.
Deathride
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Snow and ice left many people marooned in their homes, unable to get to the shops.
The Sun
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This brought out the full particulars of the affair, and Tom listened to the end of a rather excited account of what had happened that afternoon -- both on the island where Helen and Ruth had been "marooned" and here at the camp -- together with the suspicions and curiosity about the island which had been dubbed the Kingdom of Pipes.
Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
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During the storm we were marooned in a cabin miles from town.
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In deeper, murkier pools, such as that where I overturn and become marooned with a seven foot freshy, dwell crocodiles awaiting their next meal.
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The ones they would most like to have if they were to be marooned on a desert island.
The Sun
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Fulham are in danger of being marooned at the bottom of the table.
Times, Sunday Times
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Journalists who flew ten nautical miles up the river mouth saw between 500 and 1000 marooned people.
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Fulham are in danger of being marooned at the bottom of the table.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many people have been marooned on rooftops or high ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are champions of the avant-garde, which explains how they come to be marooned for a fortnight in a chateau in the middle of a Belgian forest rehearsing a piece called Partitum Mutande.
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Some officious little bean counter marooned behind a desk, talking down his nose at me.
CHAMELEON
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On the way to South America, the ship sinks and he is marooned on an island.
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In consequence French land forces were both marooned and blockaded.
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The prospect of being marooned on Gullholm for days with a Heathcliff bereft of his Cathy gave her the creeps.
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The restaurant is marooned on an island and accessible only by foot.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is a man apparently without qualities or talent; a man like so many other men marooned in the past, ill-equipped and uneducated for change.
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In 1884 four sailors were marooned in a lifeboat after their ship sank.
The Sun
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Seemingly marooned in the bottom three, we were nine points adrift of that fourth spot.
The Sun
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The study team suspect the bird evolved into a separate island race having been blown astray and marooned on Wangi Wangi, part of the Tukangbesi archipelago.
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Thousands died and ships were marooned two miles inland.
The Sun
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Some officious little bean-counter marooned behind a desk, talking down his nose at me.
CHAMELEON
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Unfortunately, my spiritual search soon ran aground on the shoals of alcoholism, and would remain marooned there until May, 1993, when I got sober.
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What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
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The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Earlier this year he spoke of the irony of having so many women interested in him when he is marooned on the island.
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Marooned in this far-flung corner of the world by the tyranny of distance and outrageous airfares, the only way to get out of it is to, well, get out of it.
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But its dreamscape reminds me as much of Cocteau's ancient figures marooned in modernity, speaking like ghosts or halfrealized human beings.
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In 1895, as a fifteen year old, he had experienced firsthand the rugged conditions of the outback when marooned for a month on a sandbar in the Victoria River in the Northern Territory.
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Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties.
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Marooned in this far-flung corner of the world by the tyranny of distance and outrageous airfares, the only way to get out of it is to, well, get out of it.
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The railway went through some of Australia's most desolate and flood prone country, often suffering washouts with passengers marooned for several days.
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There he sat, marooned and outwardly calm, massaging his injured limb, while a curious crowd gathered.
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The car broke down and left us marooned in the middle of nowhere.
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The Army authorities also used a helicopter and airdropped around 8,000 food packets to marooned villagers.
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The sort of Dad who could make being marooned on a desert island seem like a lark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its acoustic tones were marooned amid the increasingly electronic textures of their music.
Times, Sunday Times
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he drawls, sounding like Sammy Davis Jr marooned in Basildon.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
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The life raft was spotted around three miles off the coast, and the five marooned sailors were winched to safety by the Navy aircraft.
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Related: In the Los Angeles Times, Queenan considers The Interpreter, The Constant Gardener and Blood Diamond: In each of these movies, beleaguered black folks marooned in forlorn, blood-drenched African nations get to see justice done because of the heroic efforts of some truly fabulous white people.
GreenCine Daily: Jumpstart-the-week shorts.
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The ones they would most like to have if they were to be marooned on a desert island.
The Sun
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Young people need to look forward and I hope you don't wind up "marooned" when the exegencies of calamity come calling.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
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I was certain to check before setting out, for this is not a place to be marooned at the mercy of nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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There he sat, marooned and outwardly calm, massaging his injured limb, while a curious crowd gathered.
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YOU would have thought West Ham had enough to cope with marooned at the bottom of the table.
The Sun
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Royally shafted by the studio, they found themselves marooned in pre-production limbo.
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Of course the marooned crew tried to maintain civility and culture in their surroundings.
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Having abandoned England she is marooned in a country with which her native country is at war.
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The marooned sailor rises, grasps a palm tree, shakes it and loosens a coconut, which conks him directly on the wound.
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Up to eight cars broke down in the floods with residents stepping in to help marooned motorists.
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The marooned seaman saves his sanity by cutting notches in a stick, the solitary prisoner by friendship with a mouse; and when life is reduced to the last exiguity of narrowness, the interests of life will be narrow too.
The Quest of the Simple Life
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When the plane's engine blows, they crash and are marooned in the middle of the tundra with only a handful of supplies.
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The format is familiar to students of programmes that are so bad they are almost good: his and hers presenters, faces set in a perpetual rictus of forced bonhomie, marooned on a couch in trash-television hell.
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She was going to be marooned on an island alone where he would not be able to reach her or give comfort.
SEA MUSIC
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The emergency rations consumed, we were marooned, starving in a hostile land.
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We had helicopters in stand-by but reached the marooned villages in boats because distributional efficiency is higher.
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Imagine those poor people marooned on the runway for something like four hours.
The Sun
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In Limbo, a marooned family on an island discover the diaries of those stranded there a hundred years before and start to think of themselves as re-enacting their experience.
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YOU would have thought West Ham had enough to cope with marooned at the bottom of the table.
The Sun
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From one point of view, Britain is now marooned in the Atlantic - distrusted by the Europeans, and ill-used by an American administration which remains stubbornly unilateralist and even nationalist.
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Here also, around 10 villages have been marooned and are being provided rations from the air.
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Four people are marooned on an Icelandic rock outcrop in terrible weather.
Times, Sunday Times
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She likes to go on holiday by herself and says she would be happy marooned on a desert island.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wasn't marooned in a sweltering jungle somewhere in the tropics; rather, I was in a country without a single jungle, a country that intersects with the Arctic Circle, in fact, and I was seated in a hexagonal box.
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What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
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He started on a long story about a `shack" hotel in Austria where he'd been marooned in a shaft for eight hours.
THE QUEST FOR K
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He wanders past the old city gate, marooned by itself on an island in the traffic.
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She stumbled on to an island where she was marooned.
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travelers marooned by the blizzard
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He described to two children how he and a heathen landowner, out fishing, had been marooned on a rock during a storm.
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On the second voyage, Sindbad is marooned on an island, but with the help of a giant bird, he is able to collect many diamonds before returning home.
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Labour was left marooned yesterday after it suffered a drubbing in Scotland but avoided catastrophic defeat in polls elsewhere.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was certain to check before setting out, for this is not a place to be marooned at the mercy of nature.
Times, Sunday Times
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Snow and ice left many people marooned in their homes, unable to get to the shops.
The Sun
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Psychologically "marooned," Dale finds a woman in the village who is in real trouble.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West
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Seemingly marooned in the bottom three, we were nine points adrift of that fourth spot.
The Sun
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What would you miss most if you found yourself marooned on a desert island?
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The mutinous sailors were marooned on an island
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'Lord of the Flies' is a novel about English schoolboys marooned on a desert island.
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Island marooned alien derelict bodysnatcher decides on a shooting swansong.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Ostensibly it is the story of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island who revert to being as savage as their forbears.
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The pair played a brother and sister marooned in the wastes of suburban ordinariness.
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This was the only musical instrument the marooned men possessed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main breadwinner, Rachel is really the Traditional Dad, but instead of being handed her pipe and slippers at six, she appears to be marooned in a sexless remodeling project with a passive-aggressive Competitive Wife.
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
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Close X 'Game 5: Suspended 2-2, bottom of 6th text6ed00f269f88e4eb3a4cfa9b10d63da73 =' MORE GAME 5 Game 5 blog Game story Selig: Game to be played to conclusion Rain washes away Hamels advantage Rays grateful to play another day Rays, Phils will get short second chance Speed, power both on display Marooned Rays bonding in Delaware Lopresti: Baseball gods must be crazy Selig waiting for right conditions to play Phils, Rays wait another yet day How will resumed Game 5 play out?
Rays' clinic evens Series 'at the old ball game'
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The police are advising motorists marooned by the blizzards to stay in their cars until the rescue services can reach them.
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One of the worst areas was beyond Smithills where several moorland roads were snowbound, and cattle trucks have been marooned.
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You and me and him," observed the Cap'n, with sullen prod of his thumb in direction of the "gingerbready" tower of the Bickford place rising over the ridge, "marooned in that judges 'stand like penguins on a ledge -- we'll be li'ble to break the monotony.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul