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- noun Plural form of
lightship .
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Examples
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When German U-boats sank steamers and lightships all up and down the East Coast, two and sometimes three a day, Ruby imagined them lurking off the beach at Coney Island.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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When German U-boats sank steamers and lightships all up and down the East Coast, two and sometimes three a day, Ruby imagined them lurking off the beach at Coney Island.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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When German U-boats sank steamers and lightships all up and down the East Coast, two and sometimes three a day, Ruby imagined them lurking off the beach at Coney Island.
DIAMOND RUBY Joseph Wallace 2010
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The lighthouses, lightships, sea marks, channels and harbours of the world were suffering from a decade of economy, a decade of wartime destruction and a decade of chaos and decay.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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The lightships were attacked and … defeated, she emphasized.
Killing Time Della Van Hise 1990
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Only those aboard our lightships will have any memory of First History at all—and we can no longer permit ourselves to respond to the things of our past.
Killing Time Della Van Hise 1990
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An air from the west, cooled by a midday thunderstorm, followed the steamer as she slid through the calm channels of the Thames estuary, passed the cordon of scintillating lightships that watch over the sea-roads to the imperial city like pickets round a sleeping army, and slipped out into the dark spaces of the North Sea.
The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955
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He could study out the precise spot carefully beforehand -- there are lightships on the sands to act as guides.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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"Yes," replied her father; "those on the east coast of Sweden have several months in the winter when the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia are covered with solid ice; but on the south and west coasts the lighthouses and even the lightships are lighted all winter."
Gerda in Sweden Etta Blaisdell McDonald
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As soon as I arrived, therefore, I put on my yachting cap (white, with a gold anchor embroidered in front), hired a boat and a small boy, and directed him to row me immediately to one of the lightships.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various
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