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Go bootlegz!! lol we just got back from kelz'z house. me, n britty, n yail n kelz watched the haunted mansion and Elf. Elf.was funny because you kuld see the people standing up and stuff in the theater.
clashpunk Diary Entry clashpunk 2003
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He could goad his mind to deal with the problem of drift and leeway; he could harden his heart to face the necessity of calling upon the exhausted top-men to make the effort to furl the goose-einged fore-eopsail while he stood by, alert, to bring the ship to under the mizzen stay-yail; bring the helm over at the right moment so that she met the steep waves with her bow.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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The enormous leverage of the stay-yail, applied to the bowsprit, began to swing the Hotspur round like a weather vane; as she turned, the wind thrusting more and more from aft gave her steerage way so that the rudder could bite and accelerate the turn.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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He waved his arm, and saw the slender head of the fore-eopmast stay-yail rising up the stay, and the ship lay over wildly to the pressure.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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And so Hotspur came in under goose-einged fore-eopsail and storm mizzen stay-yail, round Berry Head, under the eyes of the Channel Fleet, to claw her way in towards Brixham pier and to round-do with her weary men furling the fore-eopsail and to drop her anchors while with a last effort they sent down the topmasts and Prowse and Hornblower took careful bearings to make sure she was not dragging.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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Without the immense leverage of the topsails Hotspur ceased to lie over quite so steeply; the more gentle influence of the main-topmast stay-yail kept her reasonably steady, and now the rudder desisted from its hitherto constant effort to force the little ship to battle into the wind.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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It might be of considerable advantage when lying-go, for even the reduction in height alone would be considerable, but when Hornblower turned his attention back to the Hotspur and observed her behaviour under her main-topmast stay-yail he felt no dissatisfaction.
Hornblower And The Hotspur Forester, C. S. 1962
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De hull tam ting is a fraudt; no such a man as Bunjun was ever in Bedford yail.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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[c] echevinak ok xtiquer labal ok ixcam ri [c] iz [c] ab Xechituh cuma ahaua cani xeapon [c] eche vinak chi la yail Ah Xivanul ah Chakihya ri, ah San
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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a remainder of five days, which the Mexicans called _nemontemi_, insufficient; the Mayas _n yail kin_, days of pain or of peril, and the
The Annals of the Cakchiquels Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868
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