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  • Indeed, this year has seen strange, wonderful happenings, beginning with 11 breachings of a humpback whale off the Hook peninsula in County Wexford.

    Country diary: The Burren Sarah Poyntz 2010

  • The USA history of the XVI to the XIX century is a long series of killings of native americans, and consecutibe pact breachings by the USA government, to grab yard after yard of native american land, and moving them to filthy reservations in swamps and deserts…

    Think Progress » Buchanan: ‘The Country I Grew Up In’ Was ‘89 or 90 Percent White. I Like That Country’ 2006

  • Then, almost too soon, the loud chuffings, squee-eeings, and ecstatic breachings of dolphins told him the danger had passed.

    First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • Then, almost too soon, the loud chuffings, squee-eeings, and ecstatic breachings of dolphins told him the danger had passed.

    Chronicles of Pern, First Fall McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • Then, almost too soon, the loud chuffings, squee-eeings, and ecstatic breachings of dolphins told him the danger had passed.

    The Chronicles of Pern McCaffrey, Anne 1993

  • One gun on the quarter-deck and two on the maindeck were dismounted, and almost all the tackles and breachings were cut away.

    From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • From the rotten state of her breachings, many of her guns broke loose, but still Captain Dacres, having cleared away the wreck of his masts, continued the action, till the _Constitution_, having rove new braces, took up a position within pistol-shot of the _Guerrier's_ starboard-quarter.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • In this close election, it's a draw even in the race for passport-breachings.)

    Top Billing 2008

  • In this close election, it's a draw even in the race for passport-breachings.)

    Top Billing 2008

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