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  • KEILAR: It's a rafter's worst nightmare, getting thrown in the water in the middle of treacherous rapids.

    CNN Transcript Jun 22, 2007 2007

  • Notwithstanding, Fidel Castro indicated that as a result of the famous rafter's crisis in August, hundreds of newspaper editorials have expressed that it is time to modify the blockade on Cuba, which Castro said would be an important change.

    Castro Discusses `Right-Wing' Cubans 1995

  • Flame was creeping out in a little blue curl in a new place, under the rafter's edge, and nobody cared.

    Twilight stories 1905

  • ` ` Poor old soul! '' ejaculated the little woman, her soft white curls in disorder and the pink color rising from her cheeks to her fair forehead, as she bent to help Joe drag the box beneath the rafter's edge.

    Twilight stories 1905

  • A huge man in rafter's dress, with a long pole, suddenly came from behind a tree.

    Hauff's Fairy Tales, Translated and Adapted Cicely Hauff McDonnell 1903

  • The result of all that water pouring through the gates turns that part of southern West Virginia into a whitewater rafter's paradise with peak season rapids ranging in intensity from Class VI (professional) to Class III (moderate).

    Luxist 2010

  • I also mentioned the time about two years ago when they ran a front-page photo of a dead local rafter's body.

    The Vail Trail - All Sections Dan Purtell Vail, CO, Colorado newsroom@vaildaily. 2009

  • The rushing Bujagali Falls nearby are one of the sources of the great Nile River and its churning waters are a rafter's dream.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2008

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