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Christopher takes the decision to stop sailing, lashing the tiller to the same side as the reefed mainsail.
We are all used to cyclones and storms lashing Florida and the surroundings.
They carried two poles which they began lashing onto the reed mat beneath David's unconscious body.
As the sun sets, Saranne, David, and I stop in a patch of shorter grass, lashing our canoes together and laying plywood boards over them.
He has been jailed for brutally lashing out at his ex-girlfriend with a hammer, before striking her dog over the head with a similar weapon.
The veteran came leaping in, lashing out with his gigantic weapon, striking nothing.
He's just lashing out in impotent frustration at the thought of neo-liberal policies being rejected yet again.
It is propelled by oars, and will carry 15 or 20 persons, but its capacity is greatly increased by lashing inflated seal skins to the outside.
Every day little dugouts would skilfully intercept our boat, almost rolling in the wake before lashing on properly.
On another occasion he attacked a journalist who had given him a bad review, bursting into his office and lashing him with a bullwhip.
Lauren ignored him and picked up a whip, lashing him again and again until he opened a wound that went to bone.
Despite gale force winds lashing the Oaks complex on Sunday weights were still well spread around the 64-field on Cedar Lake.
Richard walks along a barren Irish coast in the rain, waves lashing against his long black coat!
Officials are warning of flash floods and mud slides, and the outer bands of Ivan are lashing Jamaica with torrential rain and huge waves.
Rita is expected to become a hurricane before lashing the Keys sometime tomorrow and then power its way into the Gulf of Mexico.
And speaking of mud, the festival mercifully escaped the rain that was lashing York.
Hurricane Dean has been upgraded to a category-five storm as it begins lashing the coast of northern Mexico with winds exceeding 150 mph.
The Brawlers scowled viciously at the stationary pair as they sped forward, their serpents lashing their tails and hissing.
Jinx kept pacing, lashing his tail in agitation, and Elanor's eyes followed him wherever he went, though her head was frozen in place.
The small dragon was sitting on the bed and lashing her tail as if she was infuriated.
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At the present moment the Snark trails her mainsail like a broken wing, the gooseneck being replaced by a rough lashing.
The young skipper was determined to test the question, and, lashing the helm, he hoisted her headsail.
Simri and Joab, lashing their horses, rushed on to the assistance of their family.
In a journal called the frusta letteraria he took to lashing without mercy the works which were then being published in Italy.
The chuckles of this poor man were like cuts from a whip to Therese, lashing and urging her on.
I quote them because of their effect in lashing Beresford to a passion only describable as insane.
Then the odometer got broken through being jammed in some uneven ice, and it took some hours to mend it by a process of lashing.
His tail was lashing to and fro, and his whiskers were wiggling up and down.
To secure the falls of a tackle together by means of spun yarn, rope yarn, or any lashing wound round them.
Thus, towards evening, when the work was over save the sculping and lashing, dusk caught them unaware.
Barthelemy became master of the ship, and lashing it to the sea devil, sailed off with both vessels at a wonderful rate of speed.
A slovenly method of rolling up a hammock transversely, and lashing it endways by one clue.
A camboose for our fire was made, by sawing a cask in two, and filling it with gravel, and secured by lashing it to the mast.
Securing the lashing to an eyebolt, inward, I got out of the port-hole and let myself down into the water.
These flagella by a lashing movement somewhat resembling the action of oars enable the organisms to move through fluids.
Louder and fiercer roared the box elder, lashing its banks with foam.
But the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body.
Each dancer rocked in angry lunges, arms prattling off various semaphores or lashing out from a spiraling torso.
I'm talking about the pitter-patter type, not lashing sheets in a howling gale that is liable to turn the thing inside out.
He moved his tail again, as though this closest approximation of lashing in which he dared indulge might stimulate his momentarily waned courage.
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