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The massive foundation stones of the bulk-head at the west end began to move under the great pressure.
for future use? asakiyume 2008
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A bulk-head with other tumbling debris and dust hung in midair between the ceiling and the floor.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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A bulk-head with other tumbling debris and dust hung in midair between the ceiling and the floor.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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A bulk-head with other tumbling debris and dust hung in midair between the ceiling and the floor.
STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10 Dean Wesley Smith 2007
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Seen in these cold and calculating statistics of economic performance, is US military action in Iraq setting up a prolonged bulk-head for the long-term economic exploitation of the region by predominantly American companies, for financial gain to boost an anemic economy?
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No other method was therefore left, than to cut a hole through the bulk-head, that separated the coal-hole from the fore-hold.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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No other method was therefore left, than to cut a hole through the bulk-head, that separated the coal-hole from the fore-hold.
Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook 2003
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I got into the bulk-head business — piers and stuff — for a few years there.
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These were the cargo of the steerage-a space created by erection of a bulk-head across the forward hold-and as profitable in their way as the harder goods aft.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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From the 21st of January the fleet had remained ready for battle, without a bulk-head up night or day.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993
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