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He was clinging to the barnacle-encrusted pier—the third giant leg of the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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On February 27th, James Jagroop, fishing in six feet of water, snagged and landed this barnacle-encrusted sword still in its wooden sheath.
Treasure Snaggin' 2009
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He calls the Battle of Little Bighorn a "barnacle-encrusted myth of the West."
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Even on calm summer days the mid-Atlantic swell rises and falls 30ft and the sea laps and sucks heavily against Rockall's dark, barnacle-encrusted flanks.
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He was clinging to the barnacle-encrusted pier—the third giant leg of the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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He was clinging to the barnacle-encrusted pier—the third giant leg of the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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He was clinging to the barnacle-encrusted pier—the third giant leg of the rig.
Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011
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With the transformative instincts of a Circe or an oyster, she has turned its crawling creatures and barnacle-encrusted cast-offs into sculptures doused in precious metal.
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But now we're out, unleashed and the world of tittle-tattle is once again our barnacle-encrusted bivalve.
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"She made great use of Regency furniture, often decorated with shell motifs; and Venetian grotto furniture, with its bizarre gilded oyster and barnacle-encrusted rococo forms," according to Philip Hoare's biography of Tennant, Serious Pleasures.
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