breakwater

• The craft swooped out around the end of the breakwater, and headed northward John Acre repaired to the radio cabin and wrote out a message. —  012 - The Man Who Shook The Earth
• Peter thinks that every Christian has assailants whom no Christian by himself can repel, but that he may, if he likes, have an impregnable ring of defence drawn round him, which shall fling back in idle spray the wildest onset of the waves, as a breakwater or a cliff might do Then there is another very beautiful and striking point to be made, and that is the connection between the words of my text and those immediately preceding. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• The extension of the western breakwater is also completed, and from its outer extremity a small green light will be exhibited. —  Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
• As they steamed out around the breakwater, they had a fine view of Table Bay and the mountains that surround it. —  The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent
• Not a soul was to be seen at the breakwater, a circumstance Barraclough noted with satisfaction, although he had no reason to expect opposition. —  Men of Affairs

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