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A water-spout began to form slowly on the river to the right, and with each warm-up toss that Preacher Wil threw, another one emerged.
Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009
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A water-spout began to form slowly on the river to the right, and with each warm-up toss that Preacher Wil threw, another one emerged.
Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009
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A water-spout began to form slowly on the river to the right, and with each warm-up toss that Preacher Wil threw, another one emerged.
Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009
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A water-spout began to form slowly on the river to the right, and with each warm-up toss that Preacher Wil threw, another one emerged.
Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere Loren Long 2009
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It attained its maximum depth in the Rue Saint – Pierre, where it rose to the height of three feet above the flag-stones of the water-spout, and its maximum length in the Rue Saint – Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two hundred and thirty-eight metres in length.
Les Miserables 2008
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Moreover iron conjures away fiends: when a water-spout or a sand-devil (called Shaytán also in Arabia) approaches, you point the index at the Jinn and say, “Iron, O thou ill-omened one!”
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All traces of the broken windows were billed out, the doors were billed across, the water-spout was billed over.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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The brig, irresistibly raised on a sort of water-spout, had just split in two, and in less than ten seconds she was swallowed up with all her criminal crew!
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She had been regularly turned over by the inexplicable but frightful submarine action, which had been at the same time manifested by an enormous water-spout.
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After having been raised by the water-spout, she had fallen on her side, and had sunk in that position, doubtless in consequence of some enormous leak.
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