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Steering between right and left, proud of his skill at avoiding the sand-bars, he did not notice where the current was taking him until too late.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Steering between right and left, proud of his skill at avoiding the sand-bars, he did not notice where the current was taking him until too late.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Some of these, what of the wear and tear of freshets and of being stranded long summers on sand-bars, were seasoned and dry and without branches.
CHAPTER X 2010
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I mentioned the Siberian sand-bars that abounded with ancient mammoth bones; spoke of the large quantities of fossil ivory purchased from the Innuits by the Alaska Commercial Company; and acknowledged having myself mined six - and eight-foot tusks from the pay gravel of the Klondike creeks.
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Steering between right and left, proud of his skill at avoiding the sand-bars, he did not notice where the current was taking him until too late.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Steering between right and left, proud of his skill at avoiding the sand-bars, he did not notice where the current was taking him until too late.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The river, he said, presented “a confused jumble of savage-looking snags, which we deliberately walked over with one wheel or the other; and of reefs which we butted and butted, and then retired from and climbed over in some softer place; and of sand-bars which we roosted on occasionally, and rested, and then got out our crutches and sparred over.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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The river, he said, presented “a confused jumble of savage-looking snags, which we deliberately walked over with one wheel or the other; and of reefs which we butted and butted, and then retired from and climbed over in some softer place; and of sand-bars which we roosted on occasionally, and rested, and then got out our crutches and sparred over.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Did get out on the mountain bike again, navigating puddles, sand-bars, and potholes.
General confusion and continued gray jhetley 2008
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Too many words, like too much width, breeds shallows and sand-bars.
The Weapon of Prayer 1835-1913 1991
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