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island off the east coast ofEssex where theThames estuary joins theNorth Sea .
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Examples
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"Foulness" and "shedding his liquor" are not necessarily contingent; but fulness and overflowing are.
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I agree with The Foulness, BTW, that Rondo deserves to start ahead of Harris or Nelson.
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An attempt to build one at Foulness in Essex was scuppered by the 1973 oil crisis, and more recently Cliffe, near the Isle of Grain, has been mooted, but the Foster plan is the most ambitious.
London's new airport: should Beijing be a blueprint for the Isle of Grain? 2011
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This volume collects nearly all of Cardin's uncollected fiction, including his 2004 novella "The God of Foulness."
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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This volume collects nearly all of Cardin's uncollected fiction, including his 2004 novella "The God of Foulness."
Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network 2010
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For after the sailors could no longer come up the Thames, they came on to the Essex coast, to Harwich and Walton and Clacton, and afterwards to Foulness and Shoebury, to bring off the people.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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They were all stalking seaward, as if to intercept the escape of the multitudinous vessels that were crowded between Foulness and the Naze.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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The little steamer was already flapping her way eastward of the big crescent of shipping, and the low Essex coast was growing blue and hazy, when a Martian appeared, small and faint in the remote distance, advancing along the muddy coast from the direction of Foulness.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Does anyone at Lib Dem Voice really want Boris' return to the Foulness agenda?
Third Runway: Do Lib Dems/Boris Seek Return of Foulness? 2008
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Battle upon all Foulness and upon all that did harm and trouble them; and they drave their Enemies down the Valley, and up the
The Night Land 2007
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