The central compound of parliamentary buildings has been compared to the forms of a cluster of overturned, beached fishing dories. |
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An off-white agricultural marquee, like some wayward beached iceberg, covered an all-weather work area. |
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Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall. |
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Many more never made it ashore because the landing craft beached too far out, and they drowned under the weight of the equipment they carried. |
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We carried on relentlessly until we beached, having dropped our anchor astern in order to hold us square on the beach and not drift sideways. |
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The Frenchman's car was beached on the kerbs, prompting a call for the safety car. |
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To the left is an upside down picture of a beached right whale showing the long baleen plates that hang from the upper jaw. |
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As the story goes, it was in May 1880 that five young yachtsmen beached their boat at Horseshoe Harbor in Larchmont, New York. |
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The men quickly made for it, before the fog closed in again, and beached the lead raft, pulling the others quickly in. |
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They had beached the raft and made their way on foot across a series of barren plains. |
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With their boat desperately in need of repair, the crew had beached the vessel, awaiting the return of assistance from Spain. |
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Dutifully, he beached his skiff, dragged his mast and sails into their shed, and finally crawled off to his shack, to welcome slumber. |
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The lagoon was a shelter from the weather as the ships could be beached high up on the land at high tide. |
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Three pilot whales beached on St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas, coincident with Navy maneuvers. |
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Giant whale vertebrae lie beached and bleached on the shore like prehistoric, bone propellers. |
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To the critics of his approach, Mr Kennedy is in the habit of retelling an involved Scottish anecdote about a whale getting itself beached. |
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George Tifi looks at a Minke whale calf that beached on Tuesday and was buried at Nyara yesterday. |
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Researchers there found the whales beached and confused, swimming in circles, many bleeding from their ears. |
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But among the mysteries still attached to whales is why pods of them are routinely discovered beached on our shores. |
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Fishermen found a 50-foot, 50-ton sperm whale beached on the coast of Taiwan last Saturday. |
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At the time 14 beaked whales became beached on the same day that U.S. Navy destroyers where engaged in a sonar exercise. |
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In September 2002, a group of beaked whales beached themselves in the Canary Islands. |
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I saw in the newspaper today where a number of Giant Squid were beached in JaLolla, California. |
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A change in literary fashion left him beached with the wreckage of the realistic novel. |
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Three years ago, after a serious heart attack while manning a dinghy in a frostbite race, Shields was beached from competition by his doctors. |
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As galvanic as Holliday is Cleavant Derricks as a slam-bang comic belter sadly beached by new musical tides. |
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We are witnessing the last writhings of a society left beached by the march of history. |
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Hundreds of large containers fell off a cargo ship, beached off the southwestern coast of England. |
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Imagine a house perched on seven acres of land, adjacent to a tree-lined pond with a red paddleboat beached at its shore. |
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I lie on the pebbles like a beached whale, listening to the laughter of my buddy. |
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As there was no anchorage at Toward, the birlinns were beached for the night. |
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At midday I took myself off to Coogee but the cold water and the beached bluebottles put me off the idea of swimming. |
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At Pourville, too, the South Saskatchewan Regiment beached without coming under fire. |
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The 30 ft-long fin whale was in danger of being beached on a mud bank in a shallow river upstream from Oysterhaven. |
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We had beached along a spot in the Nile heavy with papyri, a small tributary. |
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All along the roads, cars beached for the onset of dark, their huddled hulks miniature bastions guarding the moats of lawns. |
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Larne was towed to Poros and beached, and there she stayed for three months while she was patched up. |
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Warburton-Lee was killed, his flagship had to be beached, two other destroyers were damaged, and a third was sunk. |
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Vicious rocks surrounded the tiny islet, and a beached ship lay on its side in the deep sands, torn by wave and water. |
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When they beached the ships, they saw flocks of sheep and goats and they killed them for feasting. |
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I beached it in a small bay and clambered to a rocky promontory to admire the surrounding grandeur and check my progress. |
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Officer-in-charge, Kerry, jumped ashore and gave pursuit while other units saturated area with fire and beached placing assault parties ashore. |
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With the boat beached and the bow tilted up, a guard rail prevented him from taking aim at the enemy. |
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Sights like this, a whale beached off Cairns, found with six square metres of plastic in its body cavity, have caused outrage at the killing capacity of the plastic bag. |
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There was a heave, then a thud that signified that the craft had beached. |
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Visitors to the site where a humpback whale beached itself at the weekend were shocked to discover the mammal had already been put down yesterday. |
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A small motorboat sat beached along a small fence a few yards away. |
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About 20 destroyers out of the 50 interned have been beached. |
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Along East Biloxi's casino row near the beach, workers in hard hats buzzed around hotels and beached casino barges, clearing sand and making repairs. |
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Sure, it had a certain buzz, but so does a beached flyblown whale carcass. |
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At the moment Rowan Williams is beached by his institution's dysfunction. |
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The boat was beached in shallow waters without further incident. |
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The killer app, code-named Orca, transmogrified into a beached whale on election day. |
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Also threatened is the mysterious giant squid, unusual numbers of which have been found beached in Spain recently, some with their organs damaged almost beyond recognition. |
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After a cracking scrap of a few minutes I beached a beautiful barred pargo, a sea-bream-like fish with vertical brown bands running down the flanks and a large yellow eye. |
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The whales had beached near the Dolphin Bay boat ramp and another larger pod had come ashore near a caravan park on Mandalay Beach, four kilometres west of Busselton. |
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Webster said he is asked to identify beached blobs quite frequently. |
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When the ship was beached, the crew disappeared into the night. |
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The travelers reached a bed of sand, which beached their little boat. |
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The whale, now beached, was immediately photographed for the nightly news. |
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A 6.5 m boat, formerly used as a commercial crayfishing vessel, drifted from Flat Island near Great Barrier Island and beached in Boulder Bay on Whatupuke Island. |
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Everyone else sells out quickly, leaving a beached shoal of unsold Barts. |
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The many boats beached on the construction site are causing delays. |
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A rowboat was beached on the gravelly shore and abandoned there. |
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The frantic battle against the clock began when locals noticed a pod of whales beached on Aughacasla Strand, on the Dingle Peninsula, at around 10 am. |
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However, it was to no avail as about three laps later he was sidelined with mechanical gremlins while his team mate Ralf Schumacher spun off and beached himself in the sand. |
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They might need to seek refuge more often, and crews intentionally beached some ships for maintenance and repairs. |
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Reaching Suez, he discovered that the Ottomans had long had intelligence of his raid, and foiled his attempt to burn their beached ships. |
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Within a few days, a November storm beached the ship where it listed and was relentlessly pounded by the furious surf. |
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The sad tale of the Gowanus dolphin comes just a month after a 60-foot-long finback whale beached itself in Breezy Point, Queens. |
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Rescuers refloated 39 pilot whales at high tide, but dozens more died yesterday after a pod beached on a remote island off southern New Zealand. |
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It is here, next to the beached ship of Odysseus, that the Achaeans of the Iliad hold their assemblies and perform their sacrifices. |
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Helene I found beached on the floor outside her room, awake and talking to herself but with no desire to press on toward bed. |
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There were some trampled-looking patches of cassava and taro and a beached, derelict car or two. |
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Housed in the beached tugboat Danie Hugo near the jetty, the Tug is something of an obligatory destination for any dinner-goer in Swakopmund. |
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His beached warships filled with water, and his transports, riding at anchor, were driven against each other. |
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Although the tide was out and the ships still beached, Commius ordered the sails raised. |
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The Danes had beached half their ships and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food. |
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Nine orca whales, including a calf, had died while beached on Te WaeWae Bay overnight. |
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In light winds and high waves they are sometimes unable to take off and they can become beached. |
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Mature males have beached themselves together, suggesting a degree of cooperation which is not yet fully understood. |
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Faroese regulations only allow the killing of bottlenose whales which have beached themselves and cannot be driven out again. |
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The Soleil Royal, Admirable, and Triomphant were in such bad shape they had to be beached at Cherbourg. |
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On the 22nd the gale moderated, and three of Duff's ships were sent to destroy the beached ships. |
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This area of the coastline where MSC Napoli was beached is a part of Britain's first natural World Heritage Site, the Jurassic Coast. |
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The raiders escaped, only to have their ships beached at Tynemouth and the crews killed by locals. |
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The recently refurbished Western Leisure Centre in Ely has got two swimming pools and a small beached toddler pool with a small slide and snake water squirter. |
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Huge numbers of guillemots have been found beached from John O'Groats to the Western Isles, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. |
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When we finally beached, the land was scarcely less wet than the sea. |
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The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting. |
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A dissection of a beached Vaquita showed remains of squid and grunts. |
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Even beached and dying jellyfish can still sting when touched. |
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But on at least three occasions, a beached common dolphin in California was nursed back to health at SeaWorld San Diego, but deemed unfit to release back to the ocean. |
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Most descriptions of large whales from this time until the whaling era, beginning in the 17th century, were of beached whales, which resembled no other animal. |
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In 1827, a blue whale beached itself off the coast of Ostend. |
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The SS America was beached at the Canary islands, in the nineties. |
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In 2007, MSC Napoli beached in the English Channel, dropping hundreds of containers, most of which washed up on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. |
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From the Isangile Falls, five falls from the foot, they beached the canoes and Lady Alice and left the river, aiming for the Portuguese outpost of Boma via land. |
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The empty table, the glass turned down, were as lonesome as a house shuttered up for a season, as lonely and lonesome as a beached ship drawn sandward and trestled for repair. |
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The warning shot forced two of the RHIBs to make a quick retreat to Zlitan harbour, while the crew of the third ran ashore, beached their craft, and fled on foot. |
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And the 45ft long sperm whale which beached in May 2011 will now never be forgotten after its jaw bone went on display at the town's Zetland Lifeboat Museum. |
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