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    1. "There were three left that could move, but minTar died first, impaled on a broken spar


    2. The yearly tradition of the Chinese People's periods they spar there visiting their relatives and friends and bring some fruits or suites for them to give away "Ang pous”


    3. You can spar against Jean


    4. “I can always spar in a few years, once I have begun the family properly


    5. The awarding of the rank of Chief Yeoman to SPAR Elizabeth S


    6. ) Coast Guard cutters Spar, Storis, and Bramble navigated the historically sought Northwest Passage across the North American Arctic


    7. ) Cutters Spar, Storis, and Bramble navigated the historically sought Northwest Passage across the North American Arctic


    8. Instead of a knot, they had knotted a spar through so that I could grasp and pull it like a water skier


    9. Even the battle hardened Marines were intimidated by Captain Darwin and the only one who would spar with her was a grizzled old gunnery sergeant who appeared to be an even match


    10. Mary was one of several examiners and was chosen to spar with Fiona because their heights and weights matched

    11. Fiona and I could spar with each other and have a lot of fun, but neither of us would improve


    12. at the Spar meat counter


    13. As they began to spar he noticed that Tanaka’s reflexes were a slight bit slower than normal


    14. “I guess I will just have to spar with you,” Tammas said, feigning grumpy


    15. Maybe I’ll ask Sheryl to spar with me after this is all over


    16. Soon after they left Jared offered to spar with me in an attempt to teach me some of the moves Angels are capable of


    17. A spar broke loose and something smacked her in the face


    18. land his aircraft, but that CF-18A never flew again; its wing spar and tail structure were


    19. spar was reassuring for he knew it as a sea anchor


    20. Raging over the vast, with many a broken spar and tatter'd sail

    21. You should spar full contact anything goes no rules except wear full protective gear and don't go for a kill or heavy injury you should use gloves which permit you and your opponent to use your hands freely like grappling so on


    22. She keeps her right fist clenched around a spar of the open gate


    23. That was bad enough, but in some ways Zhwaigair’s reinvention of the spar torpedo might well prove even worse


    24. Conceptually, it was simple: put two hundred pounds of gunpowder into a watertight copper container; mount the container on the end of a spar; rig a detonator using the percussion caps now available to the defenders of Mother Church; and then put the entire contraption into a small, fast boat


    25. Just for starters, Zhwaigair hadn’t proposed his spar torpedo yet when he sailed from Chisholm


    26. “And at least now he knows about the spar torpedoes and the availability of Zhwaigair’s screw-galleys,” Merlin pointed out


    27. Nahrmahn and Owl’s discovery that Earl Thirsk’s senior aide was quietly laying plans of his own had all sorts of potential implications—implications which could quite possibly be far more significant than ironclad galleys or spar torpedoes


    28. Their most recent spy reports indicated that he had several score of the Dohlarans’ new “spar torpedoes,” and he’d placed batteries on every rock and islet—and on floating batteries with massive bulwarks reinforced with anchor chains and sandbags—to cover the bay’s entrances


    29. The lieutenant knew Earl Sharpfield wasn’t especially concerned by the possibility that even the heaviest Dohlaran guns could penetrate his two ironclads’ armor, but he had a very lively concern over what might happen if the enemy managed to dismast one of them with spar torpedoes in the vicinity


    30. One of the earl’s schooners had vanished at sea in the same storm, along with her entire crew, and another had lost every spar, although she’d survived

    31. He doubted they’d have any opportunities to use the spar torpedoes each screw-galley carried in addition to its gun armament, but he also doubted that they’d need to


    32. The broken spar fell like thunder, and this time the main topgallant came with it


    33. The massive spar crashed downward, and Haigyl felt Dreadnought falter under his feet as she was progressively lamed and crippled


    34. For Hope is as a floating Spar to a drowning Man; it buoys him up yet a little longer, and puts him above the Waves when he might well be under ’em!)


    35. And a sorry Fate ’twas indeed, for one Man was flung from a Yardarm and suffer’d both a broken Arm and a broken Leg (which later, I heard, had to be amputated), and one was drown’d, as I have said, and another was washt o’erboard but managed to sustain himself by holding fast to a floating Spar until one of his Messmates risqued his own Life to pull him out of the Drink


    36. Dennison, the Surgeon, who seem’d to me verily like a floating Spar bobbing upon that vast Ocean of Despair


    37. 3 Complete the circuits with a half-hitch around one spar and secure with a clove hitch on a spar at right-angles


    38. This is for lashing spars alongside each other or extending the length of a spar


    39. 2 Frap both spars with a few turns of rope over the timber hitch, then make a full turn under the bottom spar


    40. Begin with a clove hitch (a) around one spar

    41. Finish with a clove hitch around the other spar (b)


    42. If you are just starting out in Tai Kwon Do, do you want to spar with a beginning white belt or an advanced black belt? The YM doesn’t have the intensity of the ES crowd


    43. In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe


    44. Yes, I have heard something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still pricking him at times


    45. At the base of the mainmast, full beneath the doubloon and the flame, the Parsee was kneeling in Ahab's front, but with his head bowed away from him; while near by, from the arched and overhanging rigging, where they had just been engaged securing a spar, a number of the seamen, arrested by the glare, now cohered together, and hung pendulous, like a knot of numbed wasps from a drooping, orchard twig


    46. But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar


    47. ” I heard her at the lever as they began to spar


    48. Joseph Baldwin, formerly of Connecticut, now residing near Shawnee Town, in the Illinois Territory, has given us some interesting specimens of fluor spar


    49. The fluor spar is very beautiful


    50. Ledges of rocks form our floor, and the uneven walls are incrusted over with a beautiful brown spar, which is sometimes suspended from the canopy in thin, shining, and translucent sheets









    1. Jorma and Ava had sparred about what was Tdeshi and what was a new personality before Jorma learned that Tdeshi's body was possessed by a Yingolian ghost


    2. But what impressed her most was the added fact he often sparred with Lady Rayne; he was her favorite sparring partner it seems


    3. The times Martha had sparred with her with the practice blade so far had taught Jean that Terese had been going easy on her


    4. The nearby guards, men she had sparred and drank with for many years, watched the activity with a neutral gaze


    5. I do have to warn you, though, I haven’t sparred in quite a long


    6. Helen had never sparred in weightlessness


    7. They sparred for twenty brutal minutes without resting


    8. sparred in the gym against motivated opponents


    9. He had sparred with some of them


    10. But that thought was interrupted by the sight of the reporter—the same one he had sparred with yesterday in his office?—coming toward him, this time with a cameraman

    11. This win placed him in the semifinals where he should have faced the number two seed, but there had been an upset when the number sixteen seed beat the number eight seed, and then went on to beat the number two seed, so, instead of facing the number two seed in the fourth round he sparred against the number sixteen seed


    12. They had often wrestled and sparred, and both were accomplished martial artists, but this was a blow that meant business


    13. We haven't sparred since we were at Jaxon's, show me what you've learned


    14. She sparred with his warm, musky tongue until she finally overpowered him


    15. Throughout our years in the police academy, Andy and I had sparred many times before but this was definitely our most intense session


    16. They sparred skilfully together, exchanging blows, neither gaining the advantage


    17. the challenge not to give in to this creature snapping at his heels, they had sparred like


    18. Boxers sparred in a makeshift ring, dancing to keep their feet under them


    1. Johnny and Ackers were standing beside her, but Nancy couldn’t help thinking that they were all in danger just for being this close to the group, which was currently sparring with a robotic army and, as far as Nancy could tell, each other


    2. But what impressed her most was the added fact he often sparred with Lady Rayne; he was her favorite sparring partner it seems


    3. She hoped that they would all be reunited, she and all of her friends, former class-mates, sparring partners, neighbors, oldest and dearest friends


    4. Boardbreaking, rather than sparring was


    5. The main exercise where speed striking will really come into play is with sparring


    6. When sparring, students will test their knowledge and skil s against other


    7. Sparring can be very fun to watch, especially


    8. sparring, the faster he will develop in the art of speed striking


    9. She wasn’t the best there, but she kept up in sparring and could perform numerous katas with ease


    10. In the friendly sparring practice at the end of each session, he came away feeling battered with numerous bruises and aching strained muscles

    11. She pointed out Maldynado, who stood near the wall, behind rings full of men sparring with rapiers and sabers


    12. There was no sparring


    13. After a few minutes of desultory sparring Con stopped


    14. Friend, companion, sparring partner…Everything!’


    15. Wendy was undergoing her training under the supervision of her father and she had two additional sparring mates


    16. “By the time they knew there was a threat we were already sparring,” Vaughn added, halting my next question, why were we not warned, in its tracks


    17. The first weekend, the Jewish students went to Sabbath morning services without their sparring partners, and on Sunday morning the Marines went to their services alone


    18. Yes, they had met the sparring partners


    19. The sparring partners were on their way to the shipyard with the other Marines ready to


    20. ” Rachel stared directly ahead, almost afraid to face her sparring partner

    21. Her father was my sparring partner in this program when he was in the Academy


    22. Our sparring partners became our life-long friends


    23. One of his regular sparring partners had gone back to Earth with her parents to visit family


    24. Rebecca described in hysterical detail the look on Saul’s face when the girl entered the sparring ring for the first time since her return


    25. would eventually lead to a sparring match with the world's


    26. Billy had listened to everything Riz had said and followed obediently as he was led on the tour and to the sparring mat


    27. Ben's opponent, the young Tarmorian, Len, was sitting on his stool in a slouched position on the other side of the sparring mat


    28. It wasn’t the trick that concerned Ben, for he had practiced against it many times having his sparring partner maneuver to both sides with the roll and the attempted thrust into Ben’s ribcage, instead it was Zirnen’s improvement over the last couple of years that made Ben a little anxious about this match


    29. Your son used it whilst sparring with a


    30. I would prefer to have a partner but there aren’t very many people I know that are as strong as me and I would hate to hurt someone while sparring

    31. He agreed to teach her and they began sparring everyday


    32. As they were sparring that day he managed to maneuver them until she was against a tree and he was pressed against her and he kissed her


    33. “I recently was in a sparring match with him and seven other guards, and Captain


    34. At that, Kitara initiated the sparring match with the first strike


    35. When the sparring match went past the two minute mark, she became more focused and determined, as if she had been merely playing prior to that mark


    36. Sometimes a sparring match ensued between her and her mother about privacy rights, specifically the loss of hers


    37. Verbal sparring was beyond him


    38. It was a friendly sparring


    39. Having seen our parody of sparring, Sensei separated us, placing us into pairs with the guys


    40. “Ah, he was sparring with dogs

    41. Dodging Tatyana’s blows, I began gradually approaching them with this improvised sparring


    42. Volodya and Victor were sparring there, but their sparring was a little bit strange


    43. means “Stop!” But Volodya was obviously captured by the passion of sparring and did not hear him, though the rest of the crowd turned to Sensei at this call


    44. Where was this coming from? The last thing David had expected was to get into a verbal sparring match


    45. The very thought of sparring with Azura appalled him


    46. Stepping into the shower, the sparring began


    47. Walking from the study, he noticed Sheryl and Molly verbally sparring


    48. I think Bryce must have thought I was anxious about sparring with someone more advanced, which wasn’t really the case


    49. guy you met at karate class who was your sparring partner, he was telling you about his


    50. was sparring with Purvaka within the temporary military training















    1. There are Shoprites and Spars (both are South African grocery chains like Sears) which are fully stocked


    2. The airframe was covered in the finest Irish linen, and it was framed up with spruce spars, hickory and ash, braced with piano wire internally and braided aircraft cable externally


    3. driving home connecting spars;


    4. The Coast Guard honored their service in the name of the cutter Spars


    5. Lieutenant Dorothy Stratton (USN) transferred to the USCG to direct the Coast Guard Women"s Reserve and what came to be called the SPARS


    6. The World War Two service of the SPARS is forever etched in Coast Guard lore


    7. ) The Coast Guard Women"s Reserve (SPARS) was organized


    8. Brothels had spars like ships, flying various flags representing different pirate ships


    9. He still lost more often than not, but most spars he gave and received bruises


    10. "He spars with an ancient, insidious force

    11. Spars snapped and covers broke loose


    12. She arranged herself, therefore, in the chair, and, since she couldn't read, tried to remember something to say over to herself instead, some poem, or verse of a poem, to take her attention off the coming dinner; and she was shocked to find, as she sat there with her eyes shut to keep out the light that glared on her from the middle of the ceiling, that she could remember nothing but fragments: loose bits floating derelict round her mind, broken spars that didn't even belong, she was afraid, to any really magnificent whole


    13. His front hooves ripped the canvas and the spars along the middle of the wagon snapped and splintered under his weight


    14. upon the masts and spars,


    15. After the white-gray sails taut to their spars and ropes,


    16. Earth's resume entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars, With thee Time voyages in trust, the antecedent nations sink or


    17. lightweight, it is used in spars and masts in boats, and for


    18. Moving through the air high spars of a threemaster, her sails brailed up on the crosstrees, homing, upstream, silently moving, a silent ship


    19. A splintered boat and a number of crates and fragments of spars rising and falling on the waves showed us where the vessel had foundered; but there was no sign of life, and we had turned away in despair when we heard a cry for help, and saw at some distance a piece of wreckage with a man lying stretched across it


    20. The “torpedo galleys” Zhwaigair had come up with were conventional, oar-powered vessels for the most part, with the fifteen- or twenty-foot spars mounted so that they could be extended over their bows

    21. (Masts and spars were especially problematic, given their length, but they were scarcely the only bottleneck


    22. The captain was grimly certain they’d been crushed and taken over the side by the plunging spars, and nine of their shipmates had been injured—three of them seriously—at the same time


    23. which there heaved and floated a wreckage of beams and spars, chests and


    24. We spent hours every day shaving bamboo for the center and cross spars, cutting the thin tissue paper which made for easy dipping and recovery


    25. Methods of lashing spars, logs, poles etc together differ according to the position of the components


    26. 1 Make a timber hitch carrying the line alternately above and below both spars in a complete circuit before securing it


    27. Then carry the rope over and under both spars in an anti-clockwise direction


    28. This is for lashing spars alongside each other or extending the length of a spar


    29. An alternative to square lashing which is more effective when spars do not cross at right-angles, or more especially when the spars are under strain and have to be pulled towards one another for tying


    30. 2 Frap both spars with a few turns of rope over the timber hitch, then make a full turn under the bottom spar

    31. For tying the ends of two spars at an angle, when making an A-frame, for example


    32. Bring rope between the spars and frap a couple of times around the binding


    33. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship


    34. The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the whale fishery, ere ships were regularly launched in pursuit of the game, the people of that island erected lofty spars along the sea-coast, to which the look-outs ascended by means of nailed cleats, something as fowls go upstairs in a hen-house


    35. All down her sides, this spectral appearance was traced with long channels of reddened rust, while all her spars and her rigging were like the thick branches of trees furred over with hoar-frost


    36. Consider! Most of the scientific drawings have been taken from the stranded fish; and these are about as correct as a drawing of a wrecked ship, with broken back, would correctly represent the noble animal itself in all its undashed pride of hull and spars


    37. Tied by the head to the stern, and by the tail to the bows, the whale now lies with its black hull close to the vessel's and seen through the darkness of the night, which obscured the spars and rigging aloft, the two—ship and whale, seemed yoked together like colossal bullocks, whereof one reclines while the other remains standing


    38. For not to speak of his readiness in ordinary duties:—repairing stove boats, sprung spars, reforming the shape of clumsy-bladed oars, inserting bull's eyes in the deck, or new tree-nails in the side planks, and other miscellaneous matters more directly pertaining to his special business; he was moreover unhesitatingly expert in all manner of conflicting aptitudes, both useful and capricious


    39. Does he not say he will not strike his spars to any gale? Has he not dashed his heavenly quadrant? and in these same perilous seas, gropes he not his way by mere dead reckoning of the error-abounding log? and in this very Typhoon, did he not swear that he would have no lightning-rods? But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship's company down to doom with him?—Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way


    40. Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle

    41. In lieu of beholding dismantled ships covered with boards and mats, we should see in them spars and rigging aloft, and the ports whitened with their sails, and again hear the cheering sound of industry


    42. I could not ascertain the exact loss of the enemy, as many of the dead lay buried under the masts and spars that had fallen on deck, which two hours' exertion had not sufficiently removed


    43. In danger, as she is, of being shut out from the Baltic, and fighting for her existence, she wants not the luxuries, the sugars, and the sweetmeats of the West Indies—she wants the provisions, the timber, the masts, and the spars of the North


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