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  • Clouds began to build, fair-weather cumulus, high-prowed and drifting.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Clouds began to build, fair-weather cumulus, high-prowed and drifting.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • Clouds began to build, fair-weather cumulus, high-prowed and drifting.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • I thought I entered the old palace; pacing silent galleries and council-chambers, where the old rulers of this mistress of the waters looked sternly out, in pictures, from the walls, and where her high-prowed galleys, still victorious on canvas, fought and conquered as of old.

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Toward dusk they spotted a high-prowed trading galley heading east.

    Shield of Thunder Gemmell, David 2006

  • There a boat waited, a strange high-prowed affair whose prototype must have plied the Persian Gulf in the days of Old Eridu.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Many days she and George had crouched among the sand dunes and tufted grass, looking seaward, picturing great lines of high-prowed vessels, their sails aloft as they entered the shallows on the flood tide.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • Many days she and George had crouched among the sand dunes and tufted grass, looking seaward, picturing great lines of high-prowed vessels, their sails aloft as they entered the shallows on the flood tide.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • Many days she and George had crouched among the sand dunes and tufted grass, looking seaward, picturing great lines of high-prowed vessels, their sails aloft as they entered the shallows on the flood tide.

    Naughty or Nice MELANIE GEORGE 2004

  • Seamen gaped up at him, as they stood to the sweep and striped sail of a high-prowed, broad-waisted galley.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

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