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ballast
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    Because you would make for good ballast.†  (source)
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    It's made of broken amphorae that were used as ballast on ships that docked in the Tiber.†  (source)
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    Her missile tubes had been filled with ballast and sealed months before.†  (source)
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    To try to stop it from flipping, Louie and Phil bailed in water as ballast, positioned themselves on opposite sides to balance their weight, and lay on their backs to keep the center of gravity low.†  (source)
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    Pattie then snapped off the bright fluorescent ballasts.†  (source)
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    The hammock, the one which had been Billy's bed when alive, having already been ballasted with shot and otherwise prepared to serve for his canvas coffin, the last offices of the sea-undertakers, the Sail-Maker's Mates, were now speedily completed.†  (source)
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    She spent some time at the periscope looking around the harbour and got the hang of that, but the ballasting and trim controls were beyond her and she was not much interested.†  (source)
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    In the end, the merchant gave his youngest son a rickety sloop with raggedy sails, a toothless crew, and empty sacks for ballast.†  (source)
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    Overhead, the ballasts hummed and the fluorescents flickered and lit.†  (source)
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    She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.†  (source)
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    I'm using them as ballast.†  (source)
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    At times I found myself moving to her own ambling, driven gait, round on the heels, nearly race-walking, breasts forward in guidance, my life's ballasts.†  (source)
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    Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.†  (source)
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