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"Singlehanded," said Ulf. "A shaft to each leg, then spear to the throat and axe to the brain."
The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages John Preston True
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In 1976 after living in London and near Dublin, he competed in the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, fodder for his first non-fiction book "Blue Water, Green Skipper."
One Home, Three Locations Nancy Keates 2011
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Heiney, a longtime consumer-affairs broadcaster in Britain, was not that experienced a sailor when he entered the Singlehanded Transatlantic Race in 2005.
Five Best 2008
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Autissier in Ecureuil Poitou - Charentes 2, on winning the first leg of the BOC Singlehanded Around the World Yacht Race when she crossed the finishing line at Cape Town in the early hours yesterday morning.
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Singlehanded she had turned the Fourth of July celebration around — from a travesty to a spectacular success.
The Cat Who Went Underground Braun, Lilian Jackson 1989
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Singlehanded he must kill a man and bring the maid a trophy of the slaughter before she will even consider him, and Danakil maids of spirit often demand some plurality of trophies.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Singlehanded, I could not have pursued better tactics, for the red men, convinced by sudden surprise that not less than a regiment of regulars was upon them, turned and fled in every direction for their bows, arrows, and rifles.
A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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Singlehanded, I could not have pursued better tactics, for the red men, convinced by sudden surprise that not less than a regiment of regulars was upon them, turned and fled in every direction for their bows, arrows, and rifles.
A Princess of Mars 1912
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Singlehanded and alone he had gone to and fro through that under world of the slave, preaching his gospel of liberty and hate.
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Singlehanded, Louis XIV. appeared powerful enough to maintain the integrity of the Spanish monarchy before the face and in the teeth of all the competitors.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830
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