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Examples
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A Japanese came down on the landing-stage beside Saxon and Billy, and hailed the yacht.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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The foremost wagons had reached the landing-stage, and our folk were already getting out and making their way to the water's edge, where a great line of thatched, clumsy-looking barges was anchored in the shallows.
Fiancée 2010
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At one of the villages a sad accident has since occurred; the crazy old steamer toppled over with her living freight of over two hundred passengers just as she reached the landing-stage, nearly all being drowned.
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At one of the villages a sad accident has since occurred; the crazy old steamer toppled over with her living freight of over two hundred passengers just as she reached the landing-stage, nearly all being drowned.
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The two lovers happened to be at a part of the terrace where the rock arises abruptly from the lake, and were leaning over the stone parapet that crowns the wall above a flight of steps leading down to a landing-stage.
Albert Savarus 2007
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The two lovers happened to be at a part of the terrace where the rock arises abruptly from the lake, and were leaning over the stone parapet that crowns the wall above a flight of steps leading down to a landing-stage.
Albert Savarus 2007
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Suddenly I noticed that the steamer, which was now abreast me, began to move towards the shore, and as I came over a low rise, I saw on my left a straggling village with a church, and a small landing-stage.
Greenmantle 2005
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It had rained this last fortnight — the river was very full, and in the water, collected round the little house-boat moored by his landing-stage, were many leaves from the woods above, brought off by a frost.
In Chancery 2004
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When she stepped out on to the garden landing-stage he rose, and grasping his hair with both hands, looked at her.
To Let 2004
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Fleur thrust her letters back, got out her sculls, and pulled up to the landing-stage.
To Let 2004
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