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  • The single-engine propeller plane has a wing span of 52.5 feet and will cruis ...

    Boeing Fuel Cell Plane 2007

  • Anyway, two of my most memorable trips were the cruis down the Danube that I took with my sister, and the rafting expedition in Maine that I took with my best friend and her family.

    luvabeans Diary Entry luvabeans 2003

  • For a mere space yacht, even an armed one with ultrapowered engines, to get away from three cruis - ers, was more than an accomplishment; it was very nearly a miracle.

    Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964

  • The captain of the Sulcar cruis - er was still trying to assess her as he came from the door to front her.

    Web Of The Witch World Norton, Andre 1964

  • Britain in 1939 had twelve battleships and battle cruisers, six aircraft carriers, thirty-five fleet cruisers, twenty-three trade route/convoy cruis - ers, 100 fleet destroyers, 101 escort destroyers and sloops and thirty-eight submarines.

    Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

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    Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis Dan Morse 2012

  • After recent reports say 'Family Ties' mom Meredith Baxter was spotted on a gay cruis ...

    E! Online (US) - Top Stories 2009

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  • A British tender with barges cruis - ing off Plymouth, one of the latter, chasing a vessel in, was fired at from the Gurnet Fort and sunk; the men were saved by the other barge, and the sunken one re - covered by the Americans, and brought in, with warlike equipments.

    Collections Massachusetts Historical Society cn 1792

  • One of the Tripolitan cruis - ers, having fallen in with and engaged the small schooner Enterprize, commanded by Lieutenant Sterret, which had gone as a tender to our larger vessels, was captured, after a heavy slaughter of her men, without the loss of a single one on our part.

    The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials 1789

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