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  • Canoes and narrow-beam boats can often be righted by a maneuver called the Capistrano flip.

    How to Survive When Your Canoe Tips Over 2006

  • "Can you bounce a narrow-beam signal to them through the worm-hole?"

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • Then a narrow-beam flashlight sliced through the dark and crossed the bed before it cut out again.

    The Empress File Sandford, John, 1944 Feb. 23- 1991

  • Drugs tend to narrow consciousness, intensifying the narrow-beam awareness while, at the same time, giving the impression of just the opposite.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • Overhead she recognized the fairly standard assort'ment of narrow-beam, high-intensity lasers.

    The Black Hole Foster, Alan Dean 1979

  • Of course, it was to be cooked ashore, for even the ardent lover of the narrow-beam boat admitted that cooking was a most serious problem aboard such a cranky craft, and he would be only too glad to make use of the camp fire that had been kindled.

    Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel

  • These biometric rhythms are translated and projected as pulses of narrow-beam light that will move sequentially down rows of spotlights placed along the perimeter of the lawn as each consecutive participant makes contact with the sensor.

    WN.com - Articles related to Setting up a vegetable garden at home for safe, organic food 2010

  • Phasor is billed as a narrow-beam sniping mode, but ultimately proved to be simply too difficult to aim well enough (unless you've got steady surgeon hands, then it'll work out fine for you).

    Atomic 2010

  • Phasor is billed as a narrow-beam sniping mode, but ultimately proved to be simply too difficult to aim well enough (unless you've got steady surgeon hands, then it'll work out fine for you).

    Atomic 2010

  • These biometric rhythms are translated and projected as pulses of narrow-beam light that will move sequentially down rows of spotlights placed along the perimeter of the lawn as each consecutive participant makes contact with the sensor.

    WN.com - Articles related to Setting up a vegetable garden at home for safe, organic food 2010

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