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  • His fire was dampened; he gave over writing and continued with the jute mill and innocent social diversion in company with Louis Shattuck and his friends, who had superseded Jack's wilder comrades and hazards of bay - and sea-faring.

    Preface 2010

  • The event is as much forgotten as the sculpture's simplistic symbolism: six curved columns (the sails of ships), represent the six Gulf countries and support a sphere (a pearl), representing the region's ancient sea-faring economy.

    Todd Reisz: Bahrain: A Roundabout Way to Signifying Nothing Todd Reisz 2011

  • Plus, a host of sea-faring brethren to her friend Roger, that join her in her quest to save him.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Meeting them abroad — and to meet them abroad one must meet them on the sea, for a hybrid sea-faring and farmer breed are they — one would never take them to be Irish.

    SAMUEL 2010

  • Turns out, she was a biologist before she gave it up for writing historical sea-faring novels.

    The Incalculable Wages of Insomnia (Installment 78) ardiril 2009

  • Plus, a host of sea-faring brethren to her friend Roger, that join her in her quest to save him.

    Book Review: "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman 2009

  • The result is an enormously detailed, authoritative description of everything from the SS France's construction to its successive outfittings, alongside sea-faring triumphs and travails.

    When the Going Was Good Martin Rubin 2011

  • The piece is one of the three Sea Plays – sometimes known as the Glencairn Plays – being staged in Waterlooo's atmospheric Old Vic Tunnels, revealing the conflict between sea-faring camaraderie and the longing for home.

    This week's new theatre and dance 2012

  • Kydd is the only major fictional nautical hero not born to the sea-faring life; in the real world, a pressed landsman who rose to captain in the Nelsonian era would be a remarkable creature indeed, and this should be the key to his character.

    At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line Steve Donoghue 2011

  • Both adult and young adult readers will find much to enjoy in this tale of sea-faring and bloody diplomacy.

    The Red Wolf Conspiracy: Summary and book reviews of The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert Redick. 2009

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