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  • Seeing the funnels of a steamer awash off Binna, we put in nearer to the shore, the steam cutter being piped away to examine the wreck, which was too close in to the rocks for the _Mermaid_ to approach her with safety.

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • Their retreat to the port whence they had sailed was cut off by the pinnace; and, as their only refuge now when we overhauled them would be the rock-bound coast lying between Binna and Ras Hafim, they were, as I heard Mr Dabchick say to the coxswain, ` between the devil and the deep sea! '

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • ` ` Binna rash --- binna rash, 'exclaimed Hobbie; ` ` hear me

    The Black Dwarf 1898

  • After bonus points - given for having a package liquor store license, five to 10 years 'experience operating with that license or being a small-business operator - Lee's had 94.6 points, Liquor Library had 84.4 and Binna had 63.4.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • LLC, with manager/member Richard Worthington; and Binna LLC, managing member Amer Ramo.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • But the angel said tae them: Binna nane afeard, I bring ye guid news o gryte blytheness for the haill fowk-this day in Dauvit's Town a saviour hes born til ye, Christ the Lord!

    Making Light 2009

  • There being nothing that we could do for the steamer, which would have to be ` written off as a loss 'by the underwriters at Lloyd's, the captain gave the signal for the cutter to return to our ship; and then, making a good offing, so as to put the Arabs off their guard, we banked our fires, except under one boiler, keeping the screw just revolving so as to maintain our position abreast of Binna, well out of sight of the land.

    Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • Sae she says to me, Binna cast doun, but gird yoursell up to the great task o’ the day, and gie your testimony like a man upon the mount o’ the Covenant.”

    Old Mortality 2004

  • Binna far frae him, O Lord; dinna lat him be fleyt. "

    Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

  • "Binna rash -- binna rash," exclaimed Hobbie; "hear me a bit, hear me a bit.

    The Black Dwarf Walter Scott 1801

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