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Their thirty and forty - thousand-ton battleships slowed down half a dozen miles offshore and maneuvered in ponderous evolutions, while tiny scout-boats (lean, six-funneled destroyers) ran in, cutting blackly the flashing sea like so many sharks.

Goliah 2010

They shut down production of millions of barrels of oil, delayed dozens of projects, and in some cases left billion-dollar, thousand-ton platforms listing in the water.

A ‘Three Mile Island for Offshore Oil’? 2010

Instead of the thousand-ton boosters whose bones now littered the Atlantic deeps, men were building far more efficient aerospace planes-giant rocket aircraft which could - climb up to orbit with their cargoes, then return to Earth for another mission.

Tin 2010

Dodging elaborate attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, the one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture - permanently.

Deadlock Divers 2008

At full magnification the Grisha nearly filled the lens, and then both fish hit her port side and the thousand-ton patrol frigate disintegrated before his eyes.

Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

Instead of the thousand-ton boosters whose bones now littered the Atlantic deeps, men were building far more efficient aerospace planes-giant rocket aircraft which could - climb up to orbit with their cargoes, then return to Earth for another mission.

The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972

Floyd felt himself well charged with oxygen, and ready to tackle anything, when the launching track began to sling its thousand-ton payload out over the Atlantic.

2001 A Space Odyssey Clarke, Arthur C. 1968

That thousand-ton cylinder was now hanging fifty feet above Nelson's head, like the business end of a mammoth drop hammer.

Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

He pictured that thousand-ton cylinder, spinning beneath the drive of its fifty million horse-power.

Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

That thousand-ton cylinder was now hanging fifty feet above Nelson's head, like the business end of a mammoth drop hammer.

Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956