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  • Spurs say a fire alarm went off, automatically locking the inward-bound turnstiles of the Paxton Road Stand.

    Football Association takes control of coaching from Sir Trevor Brooking Matt Scott 2010

  • And Jim was pointing to the bridge screen, which showed the moon that was coming up, and a small sparkle that couldn't be debris since it moved with astonishing speed on a steady, inward-bound direction.

    Freedoms Challenge McCaffrey, Anne 1998

  • Halifax and Freetown inward-bound convoys will continue.

    Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956

  • The only inward-bound ship the gangsmen were forbidden to press from was the "sick ship" or vessel undergoing quarantine because of the presence, or the suspected presence, on board of her of some

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • Her commission or letter of marque of course protected her, but when she was inward-bound that circumstance carried no weight.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • The condition of many of our great freight terminals is still one of difficulty and results in imposing, large costs on the public for inward-bound freight, and on the railways for outward-bound freight.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • Meantime the boat danced over the waves, and, after an hour or two, was cruising across the track of inward-bound vessels.

    The Dock Rats of New York Harlan Page Halsey

  • Their seaworthiness and speed made the Downs the crux of inward-bound ships, whose only means of escaping their attentions was to incur another danger by "going back of the Goodwins."

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • Boulogne, and one or two other villages, then went through a wild desolate tract of sand-hills and plains and came upon the lighthouse, one of the most important of the coast -- a very powerful light that all inward-bound boats are delighted to see.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • In moderate weather, they go twenty or thirty miles out to sea in quest of inward-bound vessels.

    Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

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