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Examples
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'A light-house keeper being beheaded by a laser beam '
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to a light-house.
Sole Music 2010
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'A light-house keeper being beheaded by a laser beam '
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The light-house was then fully automated; staffing & regular maintenance were no longer seen as necessary.
Saving Australia's Maritime Architecture Hels 2009
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The good news is that accommodation is now available at a reasonable price, in the buildings clustered around the light-house.
Saving Australia's Maritime Architecture Hels 2009
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The good news is that accommodation is now available at a reasonable price, in the buildings clustered around the light-house.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hels 2009
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The light-house was then fully automated; staffing & regular maintenance were no longer seen as necessary.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hels 2009
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When he had shown himself and talked a little while, he withdrew with his pocket-instrument, and went bobbing down the cabin, among men of six feet high and upwards, like a light-house walking among lamp-posts.
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The broad sea lies beyond, in front there; and that line of coast, beginning by the light-house, and tapering away, a mere speck in the rosy distance, is the beautiful coast road that leads to Nice.
Pictures from Italy 2007
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We went within about 400 yards of the cliffs and light-house in a calm moonlight, with porpoises springing from the sea, the men crooning long ballads as they lay idle on the forecastle and the sails flapping uncertain on the yards.
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