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  • Shorty slipped and shot down the thirty-foot chute into the soft snow.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • I have toiled all night, both watches on deck, in a typhoon off the coast of Japan, and been less exhausted than by two hours 'work at reefing down a thirty-foot sloop and heaving up two anchors on a lee shore in a screaming south-easter.

    SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010

  • Every urge of his being impelled him to spring upon the pack that cried at his heels, but it was the will of the gods that this should not be; and behind the will, to enforce it, was the whip of cariboo-gut with its biting thirty-foot lash.

    The Enemy of His Kind 2010

  • At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.

    The Covenant 2010

  • We went into an empty classroom and I reached into my brief case to bring out two sets of note cards; one, a collection of colorful UNICEF cards that a kid gave me when I slipped him an extra bag of Reese's Pieces last Halloween, the other a box of formal ecru-with-blue-trim cards that were so thick you could use them to make a sail for a thirty-foot catboat.

    I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Thank-You Note Con Chapman 2011

  • I figured I was little more than halfway up the thirty-foot climb.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • I figured I was little more than halfway up the thirty-foot climb.

    Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

  • But the thirty-foot walk across the parking lot was unlike any other.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • But the thirty-foot walk across the parking lot was unlike any other.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • If you fall there is a thirty-foot vertical drop on either side ending with a hard landing onto piles of concrete blocks and steel rebar.

    Odd Man Out Michael Gillan Maxwell 2011

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