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And, of course, Eagle Harbor Books, on sail-boaty Bainbridge Island.
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It really does strike me as a swift-boaty kind of thing.
Report: Obama Voted "Present" Repeatedly As State Senator 2009
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The problem with SUVs is that the cars people really wanted; big, boaty, muscular, sedans and family bus station wagons were driven out by faulty standards setting is that redundant?
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the New Auto Emission & Efficiency Standards: 2009
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Now, the moment you design amas either side of the central hull the boaty part of the boat, you have created a trimaran, not an outrigger any more.
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Now, the moment you design amas either side of the central hull the boaty part of the boat, you have created a trimaran, not an outrigger any more.
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Mr. Wrenn knew that there was just one thing in the world that he wanted to do; to persuade Miss Nelly Croubel that (though he was a solid business man, indeed yes, and honorable) he was a cool one, who had chosen, in wandering o'er this world so wide, the most perilous and cattle-boaty places.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Wrenn knew that there was just one thing in the world that he wanted to do; to persuade Miss Nelly Croubel that (though he was a solid business man, indeed yes, and honorable) he was a cool one, who had chosen, in wandering o'er this world so wide, the most perilous and cattle-boaty places.
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'My boaty fetched him,' said Dandelion, feeling that every thing had turned out just as he expected.
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860
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You know right away that this is nothing like the boaty
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And they can hear boaty noises in the background, like the engines and the squawk of gulls overhead looking for food because they're so far from land, and you're the Beagle, and you're heading for the Straits of Magellan.
Mirror.co.uk - News 2009
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