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  • Hands, who was not so far up, was in consequence nearer to the ship and fell between me and the bulwarks.  (source)
    bulwarks = the part of a ship's side that  is above the upper deck
  • Will you sail and be my bulwark in Italy?†  (source)
  • A day later, as the trail crested a ridge, he got his first glimpse of Mt. McKinley's high, blinding-white bulwarks, and a day after that, May 1, some twenty miles down the trail from where he was dropped by Gallien, he stumbled upon the old bus beside the Sushana River.†  (source)
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  • Over the causeway toward the huge smoldering bulwark of Saint-Malo.†  (source)
  • Flames of abnormal size were pursuing them, licking up the sides of the junk bulwarks, which were crumbling to soot at their touch.†  (source)
  • 260 Thou neither own'st the courage nor the force, Ulysses, now, which nine whole years thou showd'st At Ilium, waging battle obstinate For high-born Helen, and in horrid fight Destroying multitudes, till thy advice At last lay'd Priam's bulwark'd city low.†  (source)
  • The cart whisked them silently alongside the country's western border-a fifty-foot-tall cement bulwark thick enough to ward off attacks even by tanks.†  (source)
  • Instead of surging over the bulwarks and exploding in the captain's face, it ricocheted off the ship's side and went straight into the Pacific, where it died with a hiss.†  (source)
  • I knew that I shouldn't be mad at Ty for being what he'd always been, patient, understanding, careful, willing to act as the bulwark against my father, but I was mad at him.†  (source)
  • A radiant Thursday was breaking over the golden domes of the city of the Viceroys, but Fermina Daza, standing at the railing, could not bear the pestilential stink of its glories, the arrogance of its bulwarks profaned by iguanas: the horror of real life.†  (source)
  • Within that mighty bulwark, the kitchens and stables and yards sheltered safe from wind and wave.†  (source)
  • White college students, after all, had been one of the great bulwarks in the battle for racial justice, and many had dedicated themselves heroically to this cause.†  (source)
  • Today is Women's Day, a special day of appreciation for the church's bulwark.†  (source)
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