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  • Don't forget to make it stable through the transonic flight without buffetting the rider to pieces.

    Today's Video: Orbital Skydiving - NASA Watch 2008

  • Warrantless searches, Katrina fingerpointing, $7.8 trillion budget, Abramoff spin: these were the stories buffetting the White House last week.

    Trade and Growth 2006

  • After six years of buffetting by the scientists the ID big tent has folded up and its ringmasters have decided to give up any pretence of doing science.

    Still hoppin' in Iowa - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • After six years of buffetting by the scientists the ID big tent has folded up and its ringmasters have decided to give up any pretence of doing science.

    Still hoppin' in Iowa - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Clinker, who heard me cry, and saw me indistinctly a good way without the guide, buffetting the waves, took it for granted I was drowning, and rushing into the sea, clothes and all, overturned the guide in his hurry to save his master.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • All the ships converged and fired on the Enterprise, buffetting it.

    Doors Into Chaos Robert Greenberger 2001

  • Through this hole, Vaughn saw not the rocks and breaking waves of Costa Ro - cosa that he knew to be on the other side of it, but in-stead an arid expanse of blue sand being blown by winds even harsher than those buffetting Vaughn.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • The poor little "Foxhound" had a lively time of it, and proved herself unequal to such a buffetting.

    In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 J. J. Smith

  • Colomberie, who was going out to spend the evening; and who struggled with all her healthy vigour against the impertinent buffetting of the bleak north-wester.

    Where Deep Seas Moan E. Gallienne Robin

  • Reviling, slandering, buffetting and caning were oft his lot.

    A Book of Quaker Saints 1911

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