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Examples
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Let the wind baffle and drop in a heavy tide-way just as you are sailing your little sloop through a narrow draw-bridge.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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We ascended the river by night, anchored a short distance from the Songi, in a tide-way like a sluice, and entered the smaller river shortly after daylight.
The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel
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These lines are crossed and knitted in a manner all unlike the sea-weed threads that streamed so long and straight and loose in the tide-way.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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So St Brandan went out to the point of Old Dunmore, and looked over the tide-way roaring round the Blasquets, at the end of all the world, and away into the ocean, and sighed, "Ah that I had wings as a dove!"
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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"Just out of the tide-way in the heart of a cluster of mangroves; we notched the biggest tree," answered Nick.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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Let the wind baffle and drop in a heavy tide-way just as you are sailing your little sloop through a narrow draw-bridge.
Small-Boat Sailing 1917
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Let the wind baffle and drop in a heavy tide-way just as you are sailing your little sloop through a narrow draw-bridge.
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Let the wind baffle and drop in a heavy tide-way just as you are sailing your little sloop through a narrow draw-bridge.
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Let the wind baffle and drop in a heavy tide-way just as you are sailing your little sloop through a narrow drawbridge.
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The waterman, a weedy loafer with a bottle nose and watery blue eyes, agreed to pull across for threepence; but no sooner were they embarked and on the tide-way, than he lay on his oars and jerked his thumb towards the moving ship.
Hetty Wesley Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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