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While they discussed, doostEr was looking around and saw that getting the rockasaur into here would be a rigging job in itself
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They lived in the city, he'd done rigging at their workshop
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He and Taktor let the huge crate down onto the dolly and took the rigging down
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They turned around to see it over the backbone and the rigging
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The only crew remaining alive were those who'd found a corner to strap themselves in where they couldn't be taken overboard or battered with hunks of rigging still attached to the hull
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You have to pay attention now, I wouldn't want to be holding this handle if a bolt hit the rigging
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Jerry came up with rigging that they could use while flying
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Using Lady Jennie as a test dragon, they tried the rigging out on her
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The tower itself was surrounded by a scaffold exoskeleton, with rigging, ladders and several lift platforms providing transitions from one level to the next
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Even the thick rings of dwarven blue-steel seemed ready to snap as they kept the rigging air-bound
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The freighter’s captain was shouting orders to seamen in the rigging
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militia with his stones, she attached sails to the rigging
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From every part of the ship, the limited crew took positions in the rigging and anywhere else to observe
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As the battery on shore boomed out a farewell salute, the soldiers swarmed to the deck and rigging, and the air was rent with a shout of triumph from sixteen thousand throats
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Once back in control of his vehicle he began to race south towards Edinburgh using a map of the area he had memorised the previous day to the sound of horns rigging away sounding of their annoyance at him
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The fishing boat’s rigging had been shredded by the machine gun, and long lengths of line whipped out from its mast, cracking in the wind
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He had completed repairs to the flailing rigging before the storm had fully abated
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million had shown indications of “bid rigging” and that $7 million was squandered through overpayment
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They had the V-shaped hull and long keel and used the heavy ballast of the fuchuan but had the masts and rigging of the shachuan
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I noticed that the first huge ship was gone and the second one was afloat in a wet dock while the rigging and sails were being installed
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“I used my head—and I knew that I would be at better advantage in the rigging than on deck with the monster
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Somonik clacked his claws, and there was sudden silence as the sounds of the sea, the wind, and the creaking of rigging abruptly ceased
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The term “cutter” comes from England and was applied to Revenue Marine vessels because of the usual two-masted sail rigging, and the association of schooners with revenue collection as opposed to naval warfare
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Rigging: general term for ropes, chains and gear supporting masts, yards, booms, and sails
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Standing rigging are lines that provide support, but generally do not move
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Running rigging move and operate equipment
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She paced around me while I was rigging the sails,
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always reaching out to snatch at the rails or the rigging, often
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covering my head with my arms, convinced that rigging of some
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of the rigging that had blown when the gust front hit, a diagonal
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He had a torn cable in one hand – the rigging from the
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out a way to raise a sail with what little rigging was left
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rigging, waited for a moment, and then scurried to the foremast
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of its rigging still drooped sadly from its remains
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rigging, we could see that most of the stays and cables had
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with it the main sail, and all of the rigging, stays, cables and
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Prosecutor Parrish gets caught with his pants down blatantly rigging a false trial
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Rigging up a tele-
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Xiphias waxed gibbous above them, sending silvery shadows through the cables, sheets and shrouds, antimony sprites that seemed to man the rigging with quicksilver limbs
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Shrieker birds circle overhead and settle on the rigging, glad of a rest after flying for long hours over their sushimi-bar sea
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(Am I right, Brandy?) It was too risky for women to be onboard ocean-going vessels what with their breasts getting tangled up in the rigging, getting pregnant by pirates and attracting sharks with their constant menstruating and all
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needs the rigging that goes with it
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is the rigging: how bright it was,
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‘Goddess of the Sea’ had 4 masts, miles of white rigging and an overall length of 307 feet
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It did not come with the torture of the citizens, their treatment as ciphers, it did not come with the rigging of elections, it did not come with the falling standard of living, with the few fabulously rich
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Men were moving quickly all along its decks and in the rigging overhead
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The crew roared out in approval as they broke up and started making their way along the ship’s rails and up into the rigging to make way with the ship again
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its side pelted by loose stirrups and rigging
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courteous with the rigging
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dressage of some new standing rigging and had spent the last week at sea putting her
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"So urgent is it," answered Sancho, "that if they were for my own person I could not want them more;" and forthwith, fortified by this licence, he effected the mutatio capparum, rigging out his beast to the ninety-nines and making quite another thing of it
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But hardly had he sallied forth from the inn when it struck the curate that he was doing wrong in rigging himself out in that fashion, as it was an indecorous thing for a priest to dress himself that way even though much might depend upon it; and saying so to the barber he begged him to change dresses, as it was fitter he should be the distressed damsel, while he himself would play the squire's part, which would be less derogatory to his dignity; otherwise he was resolved to have nothing more to do with the matter, and let the devil take Don Quixote
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Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance
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necessaries for rigging me out, as they termed it, completely
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"and I love it as if it were my own flesh and blood! Aboard a conventional ship, facing the ocean's perils, danger lurks everywhere; on the surface of the sea, your chief sensation is the constant feeling of an underlying chasm, as the Dutchman Jansen so aptly put it; but below the waves aboard the Nautilus , your heart never fails you! There are no structural deformities to worry about, because the double hull of this boat has the rigidity of iron; no rigging to be worn out by rolling and pitching on the waves; no sails for the wind to carry off; no boilers for steam to burst open; no fires to fear, because this submersible is made of sheet iron not wood; no coal to run out of, since electricity is its mechanical force; no collisions to fear, because it navigates the watery deep all by itself; no storms to brave, because just a few meters beneath the waves, it finds absolute tranquility! There, sir
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A ship's rigging would have been unusable, because all its tackle would have jammed in the grooves of the pulleys
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And yet in the midst of this turmoil, the Nautilus lived up to that saying of an expert engineer: "A well–constructed hull can defy any sea!" This submersible was no resisting rock that waves could demolish; it was a steel spindle, obediently in motion, without rigging or masting, and able to brave their fury with impunity
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The cold wind seemed to blow colder there than outside the gate; and it made a shrill noise in howling in and out at the open sides of the brewery, like the noise of wind in the rigging of a ship at
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WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time
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Nevertheless, without going into the minutiae of the business, the eloquent fact remained that the sea was there in all its glory and in the natural course of things somebody or other had to sail on it and fly in the face of providence though it merely went to show how people usually contrived to load that sort of onus on to the other fellow like the hell idea and the lottery and insurance which were run on identically the same lines so that for that very reason if no other lifeboat Sunday was a highly laudable institution to which the public at large, no matter where living inland or seaside, as the case might be, having it brought home to them like that should extend its gratitude also to the harbourmasters and coastguard service who had to man the rigging and push off and out amid the elements whatever the season when duty called Ireland expects that every man and so on and sometimes had a terrible time of it in the wintertime not forgetting the Irish lights, Kish and others, liable to capsize at any moment, rounding which he once with his daughter had experienced some remarkably choppy, not to say stormy, weather
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On winter afternoons he moves among the antennas like a sailor through rigging
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At the shell houses on both sides of the river, boys finished rigging their shells
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They discussed boat design and rigging techniques, debated racing strategy, recounted past victories and defeats, and analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of other crews and coaches
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In the shell house, where he was checking the rigging on the Husky Clipper one final time, George Pocock paused for a moment and realized with sudden pride that, out of old habit, he was standing bolt upright, listening to “God Save the King
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Like Dahrand Rohsail earlier, he stood in Broadsword’s mizzen rigging
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The deck was littered with broken rigging and broken men, although there were remarkably few of the latter, given how long the engagement had raged
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Other galleons’ captains had had the same idea earlier, but anyone who got close enough to use the short-ranged anti-rigging ammunition had to come close enough for Dreadnought’s six-inch guns to demolish his ship even more rapidly than he could take down her rigging
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More of the enemies crowding in around her were staying in action longer, getting off more fire of their own before they could be crippled or driven off, and her rigging had already been severely damaged
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The glow reached upward, gilding her lower masts and rigging with a faint patina of gold, and he grunted in satisfaction
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Peter Leeson thinks he knows the answer: “priestly rigging
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Some Men were equipp’d with Boarding Pikes to cut thro’ the Enemy’s Rigging (as well as their Nets and Bulwarks), others hurl’d Stinkpotts at the Prey—homemade Crocks of Sulphur with a horrible Smell—or homemade Grenades of Pistol Shot and old Iron
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Those of us still aboard the Hopewell duckt below the Waists and pray’d that the Boat should arrive at the Pyrate Flag Ship before Lancelot’s Men destroy’d our Rigging utterly in their o’er-zealous but misguided Revenge
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’Twas determin’d that as soon as we could repair the Rigging of the Hopewell and capture fresh Provisions, Water, and e’en Men from some outward-bound Slaver, our Pyrate Flotilla should head across the South Atlantick for the Sugar Isles
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It proving impossible to repair the Hopewell’s Rigging without putting into some friendly Anchorage, we captur’d another Ship instead, a broad-beam’d English Flute call’d the Speedy Return, and sank the Hopewell without further Ado
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I would scramble up the Masts to cut away the Rigging, and disable the Prey, making good her speedy Surrender
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Sev’ral of our Black Brothers ran to wedge the Cassandra’s Rudder, whilst Littlehat and Caveat and Puck swung their Boarding Axes at Cassandra’s Rigging, bringing down both Rope and Sail as well as the Tars who clung there in Terror for their Lives
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He resorted to such blatant vote rigging to win the 1977 elections that protests erupted on the streets and the army decided to get rid of him
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Marcos tried to catch his opponents out in 1986 by suddenly announcing an election (on American prime time television, would you believe!) and rigging the result; unfortunately Mrs Aquino declared that she had won, and most foreign observers agreed with her
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Someone came down from the rigging and landed next to me in the basket
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The lowest tip of the city was mostly dark, with the exception of the lanterns illuminating the rigging of a clipper ship docked at a wharf-side warehouse
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From the people we trust to manage our financial future? From the brokers who sell us expensive mutual funds? From the managers themselves, who play legal but shady games to line their pockets? From the high-frequency traders who are “front running” the market and pinching millions one penny at a time? In the last couple years alone, we have seen rogue traders cause billions in losses for banks; large firms such as MF Global misappropriate client funds and ultimately declare bankruptcy; insider trading convictions from one of the world’s largest hedge funds; and bank traders criminally prosecuted for rigging LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rates), the world’s most widely used benchmark for short-term interest rates
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All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a green cap; he was a life convict
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blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was recalled
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Logs and branches of trees went floating by now and again, and land birds flew out to them and rested in the rigging
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To Doc’s friends Mack and the boys mentioned the rigging of the lottery, but to strangers—who cared? It was a perfect example of the collective goodness and generosity of a community