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  • Duchess, a whacking big one-hundred-and fifty-ton schooner, a blackbirder.

    THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

  • A fifty-ton cake ended over, splashing them with muddy water, and settled down before the door.

    CHAPTER 24 2010

  • With temperatures exceeding 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, firestorms created incredibly violent cyclones and vertical winds that could toss fifty-ton bombers onto their backs.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • With temperatures exceeding 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit, firestorms created incredibly violent cyclones and vertical winds that could toss fifty-ton bombers onto their backs.

    Whirlwind Barrett Tillman 2010

  • This is absolutely horrific, of course, especially compared to routinely facing drugged-out individuals with little training and less supervision coming straight at them with fifty-ton bludgeons driven by thousand-horsepower Diesel motors.

    Maybe if We Just Called it "Arms Proliferation Prevention" . . . « Lean Left 2007

  • He had hauled up the fifty-ton steamer Nyanza in three sections, and assembled them at the village of Dufilé, midway along the line of posts.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • He had hauled up the fifty-ton steamer Nyanza in three sections, and assembled them at the village of Dufilé, midway along the line of posts.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • He had hauled up the fifty-ton steamer Nyanza in three sections, and assembled them at the village of Dufilé, midway along the line of posts.

    Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

  • Odd—you can get your fifty-ton locomotive insured against breakdowns, but not a basic Pace Arrow motorhome.

    The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997

  • Odd—you can get your fifty-ton locomotive insured against breakdowns, but not a basic Pace Arrow motorhome.

    The RVer’s Bible Kim Baker 1997

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