careening

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Wherefore I went without the Cambusses, and by noon we saw the ships that lay at the careening island near Batavia.

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  • Anyone who has driven on the nation's roads, from the Cairo-Alexandria desert highway to the smallest residential sidestreet, knows peril looms as a careening truck with no mirrors lurks just around a blind corner, a speed demon that won't yield the right of way.
  • (The child doesn't see the truck careening around the bend, doesn't see the rattler five feet behind him.) —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • Some of this has been wondrously therapeutic, but some has sent too many of us careening away in pursuit of self-improvement at the expense of sanctification. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
  • It's a hard-driving slab of churning, funky rock that features Neil careening right toward us in a classic car as he sings, "Let's hit the road and go to town …." —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • In other music-related Super Bowl news, the Hyundai-commissioned new song by the Smashing Pumpkins, "F.O.L.," made its debut right before yesterday's big game in an ad that featured many careening turns and some sort of "make your own ad" contest that takes about five minutes of Flash animations to finally get to. —  Idolator: Music News, Reviews, And Gossip
 

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