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Examples
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He prayed the fuel wouldn’t catch fire until the Matinicus was a safe distant away.
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Lobstermen on Matinicus, the most remote of Maine's 15 year-round island communities, are known to be protective of their rich fishing grounds.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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If the Matinicus could get close enough before being seen she could get in some licks on the convoy.
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The original op plan called for the Matinicus and the Gary to attack in conjunction.
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I meant the Matinicus and the whole situation here.
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Ronnie Ames, 67, a lifelong Matinicus lobsterman, said Hussey's no threat to anybody on the island.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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He worked as a sternman aboard boats the past four years after coming to Matinicus in 2006 with his wife and three children.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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The peapod – so named because its double-ended and round-sided shape resembles a pea pod – is thought to have originated in the 1870s in Penobscot Bay and was the boat of choice on Matinicus for decades.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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It's been decades since anybody's seen a working lobsterman on Matinicus – and perhaps in Maine – earn a day's pay rowing to his traps and hauling them by hand.
Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting' 2010
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He ordered course corrections as the tanker tried to turn ponderously away from the Matinicus.
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