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  • Our last bit of sport was blowing up the bridge in our area over the River Aliakmon with Capt Kennard, after doing out-post duties, for 24 hours without food and many scares at night ...

    The Greek Campaign 2010

  • We are forced to inform you that sal man was killed in transit to our out-post on Koriban.

    There Goes The Neighbourhood 2005

  • At a small BLM out-post on the banks of the Yukon River I met a fiftyish Minnesota couple who moved four years ago to a tiny log cabin at the confluence of the Yukon and Hess Creek.

    How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway 2004

  • On the other hand, the house in the street of Consuls was a known out-post of Legitimacy.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • Then came the conquering Turanians, riding out of the East to thrust back the boundaries of Stygia, and now for a generation Zamboula had been Turan's western-most out-post, ruled by a Turanian satrap.

    The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Then came the conquering Turanians, riding out of the East to thrust back the boundaries of Stygia, and now for a generation Zamboula had been Turan's western-most out-post, ruled by a Turanian satrap.

    The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • It led to a watch-tower almost concealed in thick pines, that crowned the opposite cliff, and had thus served not only for a strong battery over the road, but, connecting the opposite sides of the defile, had formed a line of communication between the fort and this out-post.

    The Italian 2004

  • There was many a skilled packer who had led and guarded his trains of laden mules through the Indian-haunted country surrounding some out-post of civilization.

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

  • According to the initial satellite surveys, the Skatandah Delta was the most densely populated section of Tslamaina, which was why it had been chosen as the site of the first Commonwealth out-post.

    Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • The orbital station circling Centaurus 'seventh planet was an enormous wheeled complex, mankind's farthest out-post.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

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