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The council plans to store the old Tube structure, should funding be found to update and restore the building at a later date, with a possible option of having it on the Graving Docks, overlooking the waters edge.
Cardiff today: Barry body painting, new Tube and Inconsiderate Parking 2010
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SMITH: This is from your novel, "The Graving Dock."
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SMITH: This is from your novel, "The Graving Dock."
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It's the WSDOT that has cost us hundreds of millions ... just look at the Hood Canal Graving Yard debacle!
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HMCS Victoria is presently sitting in the Graving Dock in Esquimalt as I write this.
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The Hood Canal Graving Yard debacle in Pt. Angeles cost taxpayers $87 million PLUS an additional $17.5 setlement negotiated by Mrs. Gregoire with the City of Pt. Angeles, Port of Pt. Angeles and Lower Elwha Tribe PLUS other concessions in "gift that keeps on giving"!!!
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Graving dock dues, including expenses of removals, cartages, use of shears, stages and graving dock materials, shall be allowed in full.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Divinity, as also in such manual Arts as lie in the Suburbs of the liberal Sciences, Painting, Graving, _&c. _ so that we might sooner reckon up those things wherein he had no skill, as those wherein he was skilled: But his _Genius_ chiefly disposed him for the writing of
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Graving the skull with the pity of all that had been, --
Perpetual Light : a memorial William Rose Ben��t 1918
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_Clyde_ and _North_, after a short sail round the harbour, landed their passengers at the Grand Trunk Railway wharf; the _Brothers_ went down to St. Joseph, and gave to those on board an opportunity of noticing the progress made upon the new Graving Dock there.
Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868
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