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  • I saw him hit the captain of a Swedish bark on the beach at Levuka, in the Fijis.

    Chapter 16 2010

  • They are shipwrecked thrice, in the Gilberts, the Santa Cruz Group and the Fijis, trade pearl and pearl-shell, hawkbill turtle-shell, stranded wrecks, and bêche-de-mer.

    “Some day, all the fools will be dead....” 2008

  • The reader should bear it in mind that for every democratic Australia there are two Belaruses or Chads or Fijis or Colombias that likewise subscribe to the formula of the ballot count.

    Diary of a Bad Year Coetzee, J.M. 2007

  • Some of the other Fijis were eventually forced to work in or drive trucks to Iraq — something that Jiuti had never been formally trained to do.

    LETTER FROM FIJI: A Call for America to Recognize Reforms 2007

  • And they were on the island of Malolo, in the western portion of the Fijis, when through a series of tragic misunderstandings, fighting broke out on the beach, and Wilkes Henry and another officer would die on the beach in hand-to-hand combat, their brains bashed out with -- by Fijian war clubs.

    Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 2004

  • Fijis; but he had sunk so low among men as to have left no trace behind him.

    John Caldigate 2004

  • Fijis, from which they are distant about 4,000 miles, nor are their people of the same race.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Zealand, as it is in the Fijis and in Torres Strait.

    In Search of the Castaways 2003

  • We all knew his fuel could not have been running low since he refueled in the Fijis…it was a fait accompli, and we knew it.3

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

  • We all knew his fuel could not have been running low since he refueled in the Fijis…it was a fait accompli, and we knew it.3

    The Do-or-Die Men George W. Smith 2003

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