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  • The floor was yellow and white tile, and the booths were upholstered in nautical blue.†   (source)
  • He was responsible for an area forty nautical miles across, and his sector overlapped the ones east and west so that, theoretically, three operators were constantly monitoring any segment of the barrier.†   (source)
  • You left the high school a quarter of a mile behind still hearing the big flag snapping and the halyard beating nautically on the pole and you powered your car into the wind and saw dust sweep across the road and you drove into a white sky feeling useless and dumb.†   (source)
  • After a few minutes, he came to a large page of parchment with a heading that translated roughly to "Paralon," along with extensive annotations that included nautical instructions.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure whether he had a nautical past and was pining for it, or was hoping for one still ahead.†   (source)
  • It was nautical in theme, and the navy curtains provided a nice contrast to the wooden end tables and dresser.†   (source)
  • I looked into a small office, containing a flat-top desk with a telephone, a typewriter on its table, a bookcase with shelves of books and pamphlets, and a huge map of the world inscribed with ancient nautical signs and a heroic figure of Columbus to one side.†   (source)
  • The nautical miles just flew past.†   (source)
  • He sat hunched, bitterly smiling, as always, his muscles taut as old nautical ropes in a hurricane.†   (source)
  • Her captain being an especially bookish man, she carried three—a collection of nautical poetry that went from bad to worse, a well-thumbed tome about the erotic adventures of a young slave girl in a Lysene pillow house, and the fourth and final volume of The Life of the Triarch Belicho, a famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants.†   (source)
  • Snapped wood, frayed rope, and tattered sails had been left in their wake, a trail of nautical carnage.†   (source)
  • There were nautical charts and sextants, rare shells, and immaculate small models of every ship on which Commerce had served during his life on the shipping lanes.†   (source)
  • The talk had been entirely nautical.†   (source)
  • Ship timbers, wind in the rigging, and then shouts of sailors calling obscure but inescapably nautical instructions from all directions, far and near: A short list: Hard a larboard!†   (source)
  • The place is near the headwaters of the Timucuan, some twenty-two nautical miles, I should judge, up that tributary.†   (source)
  • He led me to his quarters, which were extraordinarily messy, being strewn with many old books, charts, maps, and pieces of nautical equipment.†   (source)
  • Several of them include medium range ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead for a distance of more than 1,000 nautical miles.†   (source)
  • "Five hundred and thirty nautical miles," I said.†   (source)
  • I knew we were exactly one hundred thirteen nautical miles west by northwest of our destination.†   (source)
  • Machinery hummed as the aerial blades that were still working changed to nautical form.†   (source)
  • Maybe a hundred nautical miles to the mouth of the Tiber.†   (source)
  • "Besides," he said, turning to me, "I think you'd be surprised how often nautical flags pop up in parades and movies and, I don't know, on the stage."†   (source)
  • Islanders knew him as a nautical sot who affected the gait and mannerisms of a sea captain: he tipped his captain's hard-billed blue cap wherever he went on San Piedro.†   (source)
  • This was also how he learned that four nautical leagues to the north of the Sotavento Archipelago, a Spanish galleon had been lying under water since the eighteenth century with its cargo of more than five hundred billion pesos in pure gold and precious stones.†   (source)
  • They wasted three Sundays in this way, and they would have continued to waste them all if Florentino Ariza had not decided to share his secret with Euclides, who then modified the entire search plan, and they sailed along the old channel of the galleons, more than twenty nautical leagues to the east of the spot Florentino Ariza had decided on.†   (source)
  • Actually, Daddy, what I would really like to know is the last time you saw nautical flags showcased in any theatrical production.†   (source)
  • Somehow my dream of the sailboat had bled through and infected the hotel room, so it was a room but also the cabin of a ship: built-in cupboards (over my bed and under the eaves) neatly fitted with countersunk brass and enamelled to a high nautical gloss.†   (source)
  • My nautical senses confirmed it.†   (source)
  • Awkwardly, I removed suit and scarf from the plastic—the floor underneath me had a drowsy, nautical roll that made me grab for the wall to steady myself—and reached for my glasses and sat on the bed to examine them under the light.†   (source)
  • I followed her into Mr. Barbour's study, gloomy in the overcast afternoon, where the framed nautical charts and the rain streaming down the gray windowpanes were like a theatrical set of a ship's cabin on a storm-tossed sea.†   (source)
  • But —as evidenced by the blank journal I'd been given by Mr. Neuspeil, my English teacher; Mrs. Swan-son's suggestion that I start attending art classes after school; Enrique's offer to take me down to watch basketball at the courts on Sixth Avenue; and even Mr. Barbour's sporadic attempts to interest me in chart markers and nautical flags — a lot of adults had the same idea.†   (source)
  • The boat had been painted dark blue at one point, but the hull was so crusted with tar and salt it looked like one massive nautical bruise.†   (source)
  • The boat captains in Seward had warned her it was three hundred nautical miles to the Hubbard Glacier, a hard, dangerous journey, but Anion had no trouble.†   (source)
  • They were still milling about, cursing and waving weapons, and looking for all the world like they hadn't even completed the preamble to this nautical overture.†   (source)
  • It's a solid-fuel missile with a range of about six thousand nautical miles, and it carries eight multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, MIRVs, each with an estimated yield of five hundred kilotons.†   (source)
  • It was filled with mementos of his service, ceremonial and Samurai swords, nautical instruments, charts, maps, books on shelves and stacked in corners, bound files of the Proceedings, The Foreign Affairs Quarterly, and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.†   (source)
  • So long as he could tend his lighthouse and eat and drink of good food and brew, and consider his nautical charts in peace, he didn't give half a damn what happened ashore.†   (source)
  • A nautical term, referring to his getting back out of the room, I suppose.†   (source)
  • On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical.†   (source)
  • 'A nautical phenomenon, eh?' laughed Steerforth.†   (source)
  • You must excuse me if I occasionally introduce a nautical expression; I was quite a sailor once.†   (source)
  • The frigate's interior accommodations complemented its nautical virtues.†   (source)
  • While the third syllable is in preparation, the band begins a nautical medley—"All in the Downs,"†   (source)
  • It belongs to the pure nautical mathematics.†   (source)
  • It appears to me that this maxim is applicable to the medical as well as to the nautical profession.†   (source)
  • This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.†   (source)
  • The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a black canvas bag in his hand.†   (source)
  • "It does very well, it seems, though I am not versed in things nautical," she said, nodding her head with grave approval at my steering contrivance.†   (source)
  • The face of the presiding magistrate, clean shaved and impassible, looked at him deadly pale between the red faces of the two nautical assessors.†   (source)
  • On our little walk along the quays, he made himself the most interesting companion, telling me about the different ships that we passed by, their rig, tonnage, and nationality, explaining the work that was going forward—how one was discharging, another taking in cargo, and a third making ready for sea—and every now and then telling me some little anecdote of ships or seamen or repeating a nautical phrase till I had learned it perfectly.†   (source)
  • Ashore in the garb of a civilian, scarce anyone would have taken him for a sailor, more especially that he never garnished unprofessional talk with nautical terms, and grave in his bearing, evinced little appreciation of mere humor.†   (source)
  • …to make up to account for her, so transparent in some ways, so inscrutable in others), possibly she said to herself, As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship (her favourite reading as a girl was Huxley and Tyndall, and they were fond of these nautical metaphors), as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the sufferings of our fellow-prisoners (Huxley again); decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.†   (source)
  • And indeed a man of Claggart's accomplishments, without prior nautical experience, entering the navy at mature life, as he did, and necessarily allotted at the start to the lowest grade in it; a man, too, who never made allusion to his previous life ashore; these were circumstances which in the dearth of exact knowledge as to his true antecedents opened to the invidious a vague field for unfavorable surmise.†   (source)
  • Their business was to come down upon the consequences, and frankly, a casual police magistrate and two nautical assessors are not much good for anything else.†   (source)
  • 'All this was taking place, more than two years afterwards, on board that nautical ruin the Fire-Queen this Jones had got charge of—quite by a funny accident, too—from Matherson—mad Matherson they generally called him—the same who used to hang out in Hai-phong, you know, before the occupation days.†   (source)
  • If in some cases a bit of a nautical Murat in setting forth his person ashore, the Handsome Sailor of the period in question evinced nothing of the dandified Billy-be-Damn, an amusing character all but extinct now, but occasionally to be encountered, and in a form yet more amusing than the original, at the tiller of the boats on the tempestuous Erie Canal or, more likely, vaporing in the groggeries along the tow-path.†   (source)
  • In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.†   (source)
  • There could be little doubt, for instance, that this very ship's crew, though no unfavourable specimens of the nautical brotherhood, had been guilty, as we should phrase it, of depredations on the Spanish commerce, such as would have perilled all their necks in a modern court of justice.†   (source)
  • Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded.†   (source)
  • A white mast, fitted up with spars and other nautical tackle, could be seen rising against the dark clouds whenever the flames played brightly enough to reach it.†   (source)
  • …design, on which he bestowed the appellation of a four-wheeled phaeton, Nicholas proceeded on his journey next morning with greater ease than he had expected: the manager and himself occupying the front seat: and the Master Crummleses and Smike being packed together behind, in company with a wicker basket defended from wet by a stout oilskin, in which were the broad-swords, pistols, pigtails, nautical costumes, and other professional necessaries of the aforesaid young gentlemen.†   (source)
  • His eyes were scarcely open, however, when his nautical instinct told him that the cutter was under way.†   (source)
  • Her monstrosities in the way of cattle would have taken prizes at an agricultural fair, and the perilous pitching of her vessels would have produced seasickness in the most nautical observer, if the utter disregard to all known rules of shipbuilding and rigging had not convulsed him with laughter at the first glance.†   (source)
  • We had not got far from the shore, when I perceived that a current from the river set in directly for the vessel, and though my nautical knowledge was not great, I succeeded in steering the boat into the favourable stream, which carried us nearly three-fourths of our passage with little or no trouble to ourselves; then, by dint of hard pulling, we accomplished the whole distance, and, entering through the breach, gladly made fast our boat and stepped on board.†   (source)
  • A Greenwich nautical almanac[262] he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky.†   (source)
  • What shall I say?" cried Sallie, as Fred ended his rigmarole, in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books.†   (source)
  • Indeed, we had "struck bottom," to use nautical terminology, but in the opposite direction and at a depth of 3,000 feet.†   (source)
  • 'You don't mean to say that there is any affinity between nautical matters and ecclesiastical matters?'†   (source)
  • Dantes listened with admiring attention to all he said; some of his remarks corresponded with what he already knew, or applied to the sort of knowledge his nautical life had enabled him to acquire.†   (source)
  • And he made appropriate nautical comments upon the manner of the approach of the steamer as she came nearer and nearer, dipping and rising in the water.†   (source)
  • In this rough clothing, with a common mariner's telescope under his arm, and a shrewd trick of casting up his eye at the sky as looking out for dirty weather, he was far more nautical, after his manner, than Mr. Peggotty.†   (source)
  • And I can imagine the founding of nautical towns, clusters of underwater households that, like the Nautilus, would return to the surface of the sea to breathe each morning, free towns if ever there were, independent cities!†   (source)
  • Yonder are the Misses Leery, who are looking out for the young officers of the Heavies, who are pretty sure to be pacing the cliff; or again it is a City man, with a nautical turn, and a telescope, the size of a six-pounder, who has his instrument pointed seawards, so as to command every pleasure-boat, herring-boat, or bathing-machine that comes to, or quits, the shore, &c.†   (source)
  • You shall go there one day, and find them blundering through half the nautical terms in Young's Dictionary, apropos of the "Nancy" having run down the "Sarah Jane", or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen having put off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the "Nelson" Indiaman in distress; and you shall go there another day, and find them deep in the evidence, pro and con, respecting a clergyman who has misbehaved himself; and you shall find the judge in the nautical case,…†   (source)
  • Similar events were likewise observed in Pacific seas, on July 23 of the same year, by the Christopher Columbus from the West India & Pacific Steam Navigation Co. Consequently, this extraordinary cetacean could transfer itself from one locality to another with startling swiftness, since within an interval of just three days, the Governor Higginson and the Christopher Columbus had observed it at two positions on the charts separated by a distance of more than 700 nautical leagues.†   (source)
  • Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical duties, such being the case with his comrades.†   (source)
  • Various nautical terms peculiar to America, or taken into English from American sources, came in during the eighteenth century, among them, /schooner/, /cat-boat/ and /pungy/, not to recall /batteau/ and /canoe/.†   (source)
  • Round the side of the Evening Telegraph he just caught a fleeting glimpse of her face round the side of the door with a kind of demented glassy grin showing that she was not exactly all there, viewing with evident amusement the group of gazers round skipper Murphy's nautical chest and then there was no more of her.†   (source)
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