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  • If you want to follow our progress, we have a project blog (www. masten-space.com/blog), and several of us are on twitter.

    Masten Space System's Xombie Make First Successful Test Flight - NASA Watch 2009

  • But Rice's ornate, vaguely 19th-century locutions prove harder to masten Pitt has both the hardest role and the hardest time: his sullen, inarticulate style can be distractingly contemporary.

    A Feast Of Rats, Blood And Wild Rice 2008

  • 'Alsoo naer bij quam dat se couden toe schieter dragen, de elcken heer onder den windt, gaven so elck hare laghe dan vinjt d'eene sijde, dan veer van d'anden sijde, hielden alsdan met haer schepen voor den vindt tal dat se weer claer waren, dan wast alsvooren met cannoneren van de heele lagh en in sonderheijt op mijn onderhebbende schip vier gaven van meeninge masten aft stengen overboort to schieten.'

    Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

  • Som en mård han flög 8 uti masten opp, och där satt han hög och såg ned från topp.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

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