How To Use Quay In A Sentence
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The broadcaster attacked customs officials and police who seemingly stood on the quayside watching without intervening to help.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police in Newquay are warning underage drinkers that the party is over.
Times, Sunday Times
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The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
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To celebrate their golden anniversary the couple are planning a relaxing break in Torquay.
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As they neared the quay, youthful voices sang out a greeting.
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That could see Tommy Bridewell aboard the Quay Garage Honda posing questions of the title chasing pack as he ran only marginally down in seventh place ahead of Alastair Seeley on the second Relentless Suzuki and Chris Walker riding his privately entered Suzuki
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He and pals later moved on to a bar in the Quay Street area of the city.
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long each, having a total quayage in connection with the dock of 6,775 ft.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
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The vessel anchored alongside the quay.
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We wandered down Cannery Row and sat at the quayside eating clam chowder from bread bowls.
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He was a sociable man and a popular figure in Newcastle, fond of a gossip on the Quayside or at the Exchange on Sandhill.
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One suggestion I've heard is to run the race along Aotea Quay between the highway off-ramp and the railway station.
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He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
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The side of the boat hit the quay with a grinding jar.
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At a fish-and-chip shop called the Balancing Eel, a stone's throw from the quayside, cod, haddock, plaice and sole are the fish of choice with scampi and prawn fritters close behind.
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One small dolphin that washed ashore on a beach near Newquay appeared to have had a large chunk taken out of it by a shark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exploratory work for the renovation has revealed, for the first time since it was covered over in the 1700s, the slipway or ‘staithe’ at the back of the quayside building in Grape Lane.
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She went to Stratford-upon-Avon to see Anthony Quayle in The Taming of the Shrew, and to see Sir Laurence Olivier in Richard III.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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Albion Quayside, London, is 5.5 hectares of flood-resilient quayside, park, marina and 850 houses in the Thames Gateway – the U.K.'s biggest regeneration area stretching 40 miles downstream from London along the Thames Estuary.
Fighting Back the Waves
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It might not be amazingly warm, but at least the sparkle will add some razzmatazz to your fortnight in Torquay.
Times, Sunday Times
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One by one they were released into the River Stour from the jetty by the sailing club near the slipway at Quay Street.
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It won't shake the football world if we beat Torquay.
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He drove a short distance along the quayside away from the vessel and towards the town and then drove a few metres off the road and parked amongst some trees.
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Some harbour board members fear that it will be in the area of the Deep Water Quay, coming through the site of the old dump.
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By 12.00 I'd bought the bike but had to wait three hours for them to fit the mudguards and rack, so I went to the Quay Arts Centre for tea.
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Over 100 three and four-masted sailing ships will be berthed on the quayside here for over a week.
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Suddenly the wooded hillsides are ribbed with vines and the cobbled quays of Jarnac and Cognac crowded with the merchant warehouses of great cognac-makers like Courvoisier, Hine, Martell and Otard.
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You can catch crabs from the quayside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Newquay has better investment potential than any other coastal resort in the country.
Times, Sunday Times
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London was a port and a sequence of waterfronts, quays, and warehouses developed along the north bank of the Thames.
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The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago.
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The 50-year-old Ukrainian was injured when a lifeboat he was in became insecure on its davits and dropped about 2ft while his ship was moored at Parkeston Quay.
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Torquay made a substitution at half-time and changed their formation as Neil Prince was withdrawn and Marcus Richardson was sent on to join Howard Forinton in attack.
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By 1850 Totton had a railway station and a spur line ran to Eling quay.
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Will I get in trouble for trawling the streets of Torquay with a can of Stella in my hand?
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On their way to the quay, an incident at the military barrier at the entrance to the casbah tested his self-control.
WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
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He dropped dead on the quayside.
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They also built the walls of the reclamation works along the sea front, now known as Collyer Quay, and above referred to, and the river wall at Campong
Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825
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Mr.. Thorowgood, not to be outdone, responded to the effect that she had "suspicioned" all along that this was going to be the case, and that when she had heard in the village yesterday that Mr. Coventry had gone straight to the Cottage upon his return that afternoon to Silverquay -- with Mr. Lovell away in Ferribridge, too, and all!
The Vision of Desire
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The low moan of a foghorn across miles of greyness, the slap of waves breaking against a gently rocking hull in the dark, the slow creak of rusting quayside machinery in the wind beckon through the haar.
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Up to c. 1700, Britain's ports had been largely natural coastal or riverside sites, sometimes with quays and wharfs for lading, and beaching vessels at low tide.
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Newquay isn't all about surfer dudes and stag nights.
Times, Sunday Times
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The reliquary will remain in Church Street until 7.30 pm tomorrow when it will be moved across the Liffey to Merchants Quay church where there will be short period for veneration.
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However, the three times British champion crashed on the way out of the Quays after a TV motor bike crew accidentally flipped a traffic cone into her machine.
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At last the old warehouse building on Sugar House Quay is coming down, or at least the front façade is being taken away in the interest of safety.
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Southampton's network of medieval vaults are hidden below the streets and houses of the old town, stretching from Bargate in the north to Town Quay.
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The future of Circular Quay will probably continue to be a future of regular upgrade works spaced approximately 10 to 15 years apart.
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Anchor Bottle is a secret hideaway above a pretty gift shop on a narrow lane near the quay.
Times, Sunday Times
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Southgate probably represents an area of riverfront settlement providing quayage for boats without them having to travel further upriver to Fybridge.
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The ship slowed its turn and headed toward the Timonium, a large quay to the west of the small harbour locked island of Antirrhodus.
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In Torquay more than 25,000 people signed a petition opposed to the cull.
Times, Sunday Times
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I know that in Liverpool in the late nineteenth century around 0.5 per cent of the entire lineal quayage was unusable because it was covered in rubbish: the lad did not know that.
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You cannot submit more than 4000 characters as a message. blimey do you live in our house & is your name binky? would be good additions though, saw Wishbone Ash in Torquay a few years ago and they were good.
Undefined
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The fourth harbor, Herakles, is reserved for freighters fitted with hatches opening directly onto the quay.
A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
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At a private hearing in Torquay, a judge granted a residence order which allows her to continue living with her grandparents.
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Cold, aching, and exhausted I swam in past the unscalable hulls of the ships toward the stone wall of the quay.
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There are more surf shops than on Newquay high street.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used to greatly respect Steve Quayle, but in light of his histrionical rants of late (including his "orange alert"), his credibility has been severely devalued in my book (and AJ's to a great extent as well).
Infowars
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As soon as they berthed, the boxes of fish and shellfish would be transferred to Fred Hall's freezer sheds near the quay.
THE BOOK LADY
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The barge slowed as it approached the quay, and the rowers shipped their oars.
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Boxer had been steadily bowling along the quays, where the traffic was less congested.
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In between official duties sailors managed to get ashore to take in the sights of Exeter and Torquay.
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Some time later that morning the train deposited us at the quayside at Kisumu, right next to the paddle steamer which was to take us on our three day cruise down the lake.
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And that means fans of the Shrimpers' Stout and Quayside beer have less than a month to swig their final mouthfuls of the favourite tipples.
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Within an hour, a huge crowd had gathered to watch it enter the new harbour and berth at the quay.
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In front of him were three turbaned young men on the quay.
Gideon’s war
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Along the quayside there's to be a wide pedestrian area along which holiday makers may stroll, and a few small shops to cater to them.
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These sturdy wooden boats mingle picturesquely alongside the quay, while they are relieved of their morning's catch or stocked with sacks of spices.
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People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters.
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Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside.
Times, Sunday Times
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The harbour was crowded with fishing vessels no longer employed… the quay was covered in long grass and a melancholy assemblage of beggars importuned us for relief wherever we walked.
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The goods were still in a transit shed on the quay.
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In the middle, a sheltered harbour full of yachts is framed by a busy quayside.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was sitting on the quay at a turn in the canal, peeling an orange, dropping bits of skin into the water.
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Shaped like the letter Y, the main bridge is curved, with a secondary gangway linked to the quayside a short distance away.
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The first Quay slabs were cast in August and fitting of bollards and fenders along the Quay Wall are proceeding.
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With the arrival of summer I have seen the increasing numbers of people using the Lancaster cycleway, gawping at the Millenium Bridge and strolling along the beautiful quayside.
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Romantics can box up the Wessex league clubs into a neat little eightsome reel – Plymouth, Torquay, Exeter and Bournemouth along the coast, Yeovil in the middle and, to the north, Swindon and the two Bristols.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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Meanwhile Ballina is still whistling for funding for a marina at the local Quay.
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The quayside location is convenient to a range of city centre employment and transport hubs, with Tara Street and Barrow Street Dart stations located nearby.
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Torquay were deserved winners in a match that was effectively over just before the half-time interval.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Cresselly Arms at Cresswell Quay will be the scene of South Pembrokeshire Hunt's last meet.
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Huge industrial cranes lifted the 120-year-old vessel from the slipway on Lowestoft's north quay on to the 50m long pontoon which is going to support the ship for years to come.
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More touristy but by no means inferior is the string of quayside restaurants serving up classic Italian and French dishes.
The Sun
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People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters.
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He is largely oblivious to the fact that he has caused her decline, and even excuses himself from her deathbed to have a final meeting with his mistress at the quayside.
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They spent three hours at the quayside and were assisted by lifeboatmen when they had to take to the sea to fight the blaze.
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In one place, this superb basin was lined with quays, where stately dromonds and argosies unloaded their wealth, while, by the shore of the haven, galleys, feluccas, and other small craft, idly flapped the singularly shaped and snow-white pinions which served them for sails.
Count Robert of Paris
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There were a couple of schooners used in the china-clay trade lying at the quayside; at anchor was a barquentine, a big bluff-bellied tramp of a creature, black with coaldust, and beyond her again what was still a rare sight in those parts -- a steamer.
Secret Bread
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It is currently working with a small Newquay grower to source greengrocery, going as far as to work out specific varieties of produce to be grown throughout the year especially for its menu.
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In 1682, the estates of East Frisia gave Brandenburg-Prussia help by allowing their ships to use her quays in Emden - a large harbour on the North Sea.
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gantry" is applied to the movable scaffold or frame, which in this case rests upon a pair of rails twenty-three feet apart, one of them being close to the edge of the quay.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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On the quayside fishwives gut fish by hand and the catch is kippered by traditional methods.
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Circular Quay is the transportation hub of Sydney Harbour.
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Police in Newquay are warning underage drinkers that the party is over.
Times, Sunday Times
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The total quay length measures 2630m and the port offers 11 commercial shipping berths, a repair quay and a drydock.
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The skiver of the year trophy goes to Gerry from TWN Construction, for surfing in Newquay while claiming to be stuck up a crane at the redevelopment of Wembley Stadium.
What's Going On
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Sydney's several wharves and quays, given such vibrant new life, draw huge crowds.
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Circular Quay, where harbor cruises depart, is across the street.
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_ A Paris, chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, à la croix d'or.
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Fears are growing that many of the cheap but small flats and studios springing up around Newquay will remain unsold.
Times, Sunday Times
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The deserted quays looked very white and dry in the moonlight, and as if frostbound in the sharp air of that December night.
A Personal Record
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I had just enjoyed an excellent dinner at the Victoria and fancied a quiet drink on the terrace in the late evening sunshine that was bathing Torquay.
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The accident occurred when a single bus mounted a pavement and crashed into a steel lamp post on the busy main quay of the city.
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How are some reoccurring themes of Quaytman's - light, optical illusion, perspective - treated in this new group of works?
Quaytman Explores Terrain Between Text and Image in New SFMOMA Show
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Lampton Quay is decorated with slightly over-ripe kowhai trees in full bloom; the petals trampled into the street by the suits, and what's left on the trees disheveled by the spring rains.
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One small dolphin that washed ashore on a beach near Newquay appeared to have had a large chunk taken out of it by a shark.
Times, Sunday Times
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The long-term vision for Waterford's south quays is that they will have fewer car parks and will be more of an amenity area for visitors and locals alike to enjoy the River Suir.
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It is a sailing resort with all the related services such as mooring on floating bridges, catways, quays, fuel, showers, daily weather reports and boat hire.
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Originally they were quays with small jetties built out to serve shipping.
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A forum, quays, harbours, villas, baths and theatres were constructed also a system of water conservation and control.
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The pretty quay is lined with bustling pubs and restaurants.
The Sun
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The vessel anchored alongside the quay.
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Although League One's Carlisle are accustomed to regular travels to what must seem like the ends of the earth, the club's daunting 700-mile-plus FA Cup third-round trip on Saturday to Torquay's palmy riviera at least rewards them with a scenic route to a fresh destination.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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A ferry boat dropped us at a wooden quay to be met by a waiter bearing rum punch.
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Defeats to City's fellow strugglers Torquay and Carlisle had seen Orient's stock fall from automatic promotion contenders to play-off chancers.
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The man at the centre of the puzzle was born in Torquay in 1867 and first fell in love with South America when he helped the Bolivian government to survey its frontier with Brazil.
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Gulls circle as the catch is spilt on to the quay and arranged for auction on the following day.
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He was a boatman, like her brother and father, a Scillonian, respected by the other men on the quay and on the fishing boats.
LET NOT THE DEEP
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Berth allocation problem is abstracted as Package Problem, and an integer model is presented which considered simultaneously berth and quay cranes and whose objective is minimize the generalized time.
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The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers.
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It has a delightful old stone bridge, and a fine range of quayside buildings.
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And as the green lobbyists go on to complain, this is a system based on measuring what is landed on the quay, not on the by-catch which is thrown back into the sea for being under-sized or over-quota.
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Magisterial palaces and impressive churches sit alongside simple, scenic quaysides and straw-hatted gondoliers.
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And it made an unscheduled stop in Torquay to drop him off.
The Sun
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They hit the Castle Quay shopping centre like sailors on temporary shore leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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Picking Bayh would be kind of ironical, seeing as it was Dan Quayle who jackhammered his dad's butt out of the Senate, sending him back to private life after spending some 30 years in Congress.
I call Barack Obama to account for picking another bland, midwestern pretty boy.
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The looming bow of this huge vessel now sits within touching distance of a quayside house.
In Japanese Port Town, Hope Rises Amid Devastation
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The ships will berth on the city's quays, allowing visitors a chance to get up close to the world-class vessels.
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The industry was in its heyday - stacks of fish back to back the length of the quay, off a long line of trawlers newly returned from the far North.
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We tied up alongside the quay.
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There was no sound as she paused, glancing across the quay down river towards the broad estuary.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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That living coast is the thing that draws me back to Torquay year after year, whereas once I'd witnessed the mind-bending beauty of Mauritius and the Maldives, I had no desire to do it again.
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Wearing his scarlet flannel pad, he rolled majestically down the chute to the quay and everybody laughed and cheered.
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Diplomats waiting at the quayside for the ship pronounced it clear after finding no unaccompanied children on board.
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The Quays welcomed two Galway Hooker sailing boats and a flotilla of sailing vessels were docked at Albert Basin.
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A comparable effect can be found in the Brothers Quay's latest, In Absentia, where light plays menacingly over a doll-house-size madhouse.
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Dan Quayle kind of complimented them in a back handed way when they said they're an intact family and Ozzy may be an anti-drug message.
CNN Transcript Jan 16, 2003
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This preliminary surcharge is equivalent to an average of 8.0 m (an increase of 2.0 m over the design stage) of backfill east of the quay wall.
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Back at Revolver, a 20-something wearing a collared shirt unbuttoned to his navel is approached and asked what he thinks of Ben Quayle.
Ben Quayle's run for Congress, interrupted by Internet columnist Nik Richie
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Stroll along the quayside among sailors and traders who will amaze you with their magic tricks and comical acts.
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It was a serious consideration to me, who at that time was travelling through the West with a very small and very wayworn portmanteau, with Glasgow, Torquay, Boston, Rock Island, and I know not what besides upon it.
The Englishwoman in America
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It is also no surprise that Waterford quays became known as the ‘noblest quay in Europe’ at that time.
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Since it stretched along the length of the Yare bank, sections of the quayside were distinguished from each other by their own names.
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Within an hour, a huge crowd had gathered to watch it enter the new harbour and berth at the quay.
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The Irish alcohol factories have built a large molasses tank at the deep-water berths, with pipe line to the quayside.
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Only four apartments remain unsold at the Russell Quay development in Ballyconnell, Co Cavan.
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As the gap between the enormous hull and the quayside grew the water churned.
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The view up and down the quays has the cool, neutral tone of colour that one finds so often in French water-side places -- the bright greyness which is the tone of French landscape art.
A Little Tour of France
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If the term ‘mooring’ is used to include a berth alongside then the gear which comprises the mooring - the bollards, bitts and rings, are in the case of St Peter's Quay, all on private property.
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Quayle underwent an appendectomy last Wednesday and his doctors said the growth, a mucinous cystadenoma, showed no evidence of malignancy.
More Health Questions
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We were dining at Bruno's restaurant, La Taverne du Port, overlooking the quayside where a symphony of boats bobbed and jangled in the harbour.
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Aston's Quay, or to O'Clohissey's in the bystreet.
Dubliners
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They sat on the open deck, using a battened hatchway as a table, and feasted on fresh produce purchased on the quay.
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There are some high quality office spaces available at present, particularly along the quays and docklands area.
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The Perrse had a summerhouse in New Quay and they called it Mount Vernon after the summerhouse of George Washington.
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As we have said more than once, it is unusual for North American Indians to demonstrate, but Isquay and Adolay were, like Nazinred, in advance of their times, and were in the habit of snapping their fingers in the hideous face of the Red Indian Mrs Grundy!
The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice
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When they arrived at the quayside, the Kendall-Humes' boat was already half way across the bay heading towards the quiet beach.
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The British beach town of Newquay has witnessed a rise in mankini violations, according to chief of Newquay Police Ian Drummond-Smith.
Grab Your 'Murse,' Pack a 'Mankini' And Don't Forget the 'Mewelry'
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The ship's holds were all open and I caught the smell of the five men beginning to putrefy from the quay.
A DARKENING STAIN
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They hit the Castle Quay shopping centre like sailors on temporary shore leave.
Times, Sunday Times
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He would want to escape, to get back to the quayside and his ship.
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One small dolphin that washed ashore on a beach near Newquay appeared to have had a large chunk taken out of it by a shark.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, converted bumboats operate as river-taxis which carry sightseeing passengers, with pickup and disembarkation points along Boat Quay and Clake Quay.
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Think traditional family fun, such as rock-pooling, cream teas and boogie boarding or, for the more adventurous, surfing and coasteering (schools pepper the coast), or country pursuits such as stalking and shooting (Park Farmhouse, 20 minutes north of Newquay, tailor-makes excellent days out for novices up to keen shots).
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That's what's put me off going to Poole Quay - bloody feds all over the place, spoils your ride back as you're always on the look out for them!
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Listening to the conversation, Trent watched three frigate birds sailing the on-shore breeze beyond the quay.
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Queensway Quay will incorporate shops, restaurants and other amenities.
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John McCain brings up the name Dan Quayle and says the unveiling of that unbriefed, unknown vice presidential pick was not the way to introduce a running mate.
CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2008
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The first development, Leitrim Quay, has 13 houses for short-term lets.
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We also drove to Newquay and walked along the dramatic coastline, marvelling at the surfers.
The Sun
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Across Cavenagh Bridge, dotted with tourists oohing and aahing at the view of the Esplanade, facing one way, and down the quays, facing the other.
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Colin Hendry's side are hoping to erase memories of a tame defeat at Torquay last weekend.
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Vice-President Dan Quayle famously advised a young schoolboy to add the letter "e" to the end of the word "potato" during a spelling exercise.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Ibis was neaped on the old slipway at Morwellham Quay, and covered over.
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It also affected South Mall, Grand Parade, Merchants' Quay, and Washington Street.
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The tides are unnaturally high, and every day and night the floods from the river pour down to the inrushing tide and there is a boiling surge of water that wipes out riverside houses, quays, piers, and docks.
The Red Queen
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No rain came, as they had expected, and by the time they halted the western sky had cleared, so that the newly-lit lamps on the quay, and the evening glow shining over the river, inwove their harmonious rays as the warp and woof of one lustrous tissue.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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He found half a dozen fishermen seated under the palm trees at the foot of the Co-operative quay.
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So, having fetched his stick and locked the house-door behind him, he dandered down towards the Quay.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist
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The centrepiece of the gallery will be a three-quarter view full-scale model of a transport hoy, a reproduction of the Foreman's Office, and the quayside along which the boat will be moored.
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A lone piper played the lament before the crowd dispersed from the quayside following the ceremony.
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Kick off your shoes and dangle your legs off the quayside.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alex turned his car on to the Albert Quay and drove along until he found a parking place.
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Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes.
Times, Sunday Times
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He oozes carpe diem spirit, leading us amiably to the quayside to pick up 'sargos, rofos and fagri'.
Times, Sunday Times
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Citizens packed the quay and bells rang as she landed and went straight to the nearest church to give thanks for her safe arrival.
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The dual gauge rail loop will give trains from regional areas direct access to North Quay in the inner harbour.
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The planning notice lists an 87-space underground car park on four decked levels, as well as five new retail units on St Patrick's Quay.
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The Glasgow plan aims to quicken the pace of development at Atlantic Quay and surrounding land on the north bank of the river.
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The stone edge of the quay is still to be seen, and it doesn't take a huge leap of imagination to picture it as it was a century ago.
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Reuben and the son were piking it down the quay next the river on their way to the Isle of Man boat and the young chiseller suddenly got loose and over the wall with him into the Liffey. —
Ulysses
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The new harbour will have an extensive berthing quay, which will be for the larger draft boats in the fishing fleet and other big fishing vessels that wish to berth there.
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Murphy was seen with her baby in her arms watching a broadcast of Quayle's attack on her.
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The Quays triathlon also incorporates the National Championships for the first time, ensuring a bumper entry.
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Mick said how lucky it was that the trip went ahead because while they were lunching at a secluded quay, away from civilisation, they heard children screaming and shouting.
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The war caused the temporary suspension of this plan; nevertheless, a sum of £6,600 was spent on concreting the quay roads and approaches to the berths.
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It is a source of pride to see the Celtic Explorer alongside the quay in her home port of Galway.
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In the busiest ports, such as London or Newcastle upon Tyne, where larger vessels were unable to tie up at the quay, smaller lighters were used as intermediaries to carry goods from ship to shore.
