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  • Vintage steamboats, refitted barges and buoyed inns offer adventurous guests water views and even a little ocean-like motion.

    Anchored, Away 2012

  • To all the victorious Buddhas of the three times endowed with ten powers and who are even masters of the gods, and whose attributes of perfection are the source of all compassionate deeds benefiting the vast ocean-like realm of sentient beings, to you, we offer our prayers with fervent devotion:

    The Long Life Prayer for the 14th Dalai Lama daj42 2009

  • During the book, characters travel between dimensions, and encounter a barrier described as an ocean-like substance that is not to be crossed - the Planck barrier - below which, according to Dr Rucker, no life should be in existence.

    After "Post-Singular" 2010

  • During the book, characters travel between dimensions, and encounter a barrier described as an ocean-like substance that is not to be crossed - the Planck barrier - below which, according to Dr Rucker, no life should be in existence.

    Archive 2010-03-01 2010

  • Waves crashed below, ocean-like, in the fierce tides, and herring gulls and bald eagles and osprey wheeled and screeched.

    Lea Lane: The Inner Journey I Had To Take: Two Weeks Alone on a Cliff 2009

  • This is probably true in a general average sense, but I stayed on Vermont avenue in a third floor apartment and it was pretty silent except for the ocean-like noise of distant traffic.

    abada abada › noisy 2009

  • The World as Will and Representation in declaring that "the point where subject and object no longer exist" is "nothing," a nothing that oscillates between an aestheticized asceticism, an "ocean-like calmness of the spirit," and a more existentially horrific "empty nothingness" (Schopenhauer 411-2).

    Hegel on Buddhism 2007

  • Waves crashed below, ocean-like, in the fierce tides, and herring gulls and bald eagles and osprey wheeled and screeched.

    Lea Lane: Alone On a Cliff 2008

  • The lawn that is the American comic market is virutally insignificant compared to the ocean-like prairie of the manga continent.

    Manga Before Flowers – “Manga for Adults” (Part One) | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • It is surrounded by blue-green gas, and all we know is that its core is ocean-like and rocky.

    Astrology for Enlightenment Michelle Karén 2008

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