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Such was our guide, the captain, steersman, and ballaster of our vessel.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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The officials of the Northern Railway fear damage from the overflow of the river Oise, and the main line of the Western Railway, on which the city now has to depend largely for its food supply, is also threatened at several points, but particularly at Les Mureaux, where the line has been hastily protected by wooden barricades to prevent the waters of the Seine from washing away the ballaster.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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