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Note how the future Garden State Parkway would follow the path of Double Trouble Road as it heads south; the scarcity of homes built southwest of Bowline Street; the undeveloped future Jimmy Johnson property, the overgrown bogs between Beachwood and South Toms River and the strong eastern waterfront beach presence.
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Wow, Bowline, brilliant job of deciphering a relatively simple sentence: "... or for construing the MVET imposed by Monorail and Sound Transit in a way that wasn't insane (Sheehan)."
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Note how the future Garden State Parkway would follow the path of Double Trouble Road as it heads south; the scarcity of homes built southwest of Bowline Street; the undeveloped future Jimmy Johnson property, the overgrown bogs between Beachwood and South Toms River and the strong eastern waterfront beach presence.
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The fift, we sayled by the Bowline, and out of the toppe we had sight of the Iland of Candia, and towardes noone we might see it plaine, and towards night the winde waxed calme.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Knots, 13, 123, 185 see also Bowline; Clove hitch; Figure eight knot; Reef knot; Round turn and two half hitches; Slip hitch; Stopper knot knots nautical miles per hour, 166167
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Knots, 13, 123, 185 see also Bowline; Clove hitch; Figure eight knot; Reef knot; Round turn and two half hitches; Slip hitch; Stopper knot knots nautical miles per hour, 166167
Sailing Fundamentals Gary Jobson 1998
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Billy Bowline, and other masters of the sea in libraries.
The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
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Ben Bowline presently came up, looked at him, touched his grizzled forelock, and said:
The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island Cyril Burleigh
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"Some of the boys, Ben Bowline, the captain and Buck, all ready for a fight if necessary."
The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island Cyril Burleigh
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Grandfather registered his cattle brand as the Bowline.
David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney
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