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Examples
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In such fashion I managed a real exploit by swimming off to the schooner one dark midnight and going soundly to sleep while the water-police searched the harbour for my body and brought my clothes out for identification.
Chapter 17 2010
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Because he had that torch, a water-police boat found Nick and pulled him out of the water.
True Spirit Jessica Watson 2010
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The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.
Sole Music 2010
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The water-police sergeant had made him as comfortable as he could, putting him on a thin mattress and covering him up with a blanket.
Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976
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The water-police sergeant moved a lever and the launch picked up speed suddenly.
Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976
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The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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The alarm, however, was given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was eventually recovered.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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In such fashion I managed a real exploit by swimming off to the schooner one dark midnight and going soundly to sleep while the water-police searched the harbour for my body and brought my clothes out for identification.
Chapter XVII 1913
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At the bottom, both at the quay of Foundoucli, and at that of Tophana, I had left under shelter two caiques for double safety, one a Sultan's gilt craft, with gold spur at the prow, and one a boat of those zaptias that used to patrol the Golden Horn as water-police: by one or other of these I meant to reach the _Speranza_, she being then safely anchored some distance up the Bosphorus coast.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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Torpoint, they fell in with the water-police, who took them for a party rowing home to Plymouth from the Regatta, and threatened 'em with the lock-up if they didn't proceed quiet.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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