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fjord
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  • "That's what I thought—except she headed west, and the exercise area is northeast of the fjord.†   (source)
  • Ramius looked aft at the bluffs of the Kola Fjord.†   (source)
  • Ramius surveyed the fjord through his binoculars.†   (source)
  • It probably came from one of the submarines based at Polyarnyy, on the other side of the fjord.†   (source)
  • The water in the fjord was choppy, driven by the brisk wind.†   (source)
  • The chopper's coming up the fjord, following it inland from the open sea, headed straight for the Spectrum 2000.†   (source)
  • Oh … er, very well," said the old man, slightly taken aback, "I'll just go and get on with some of my fjords then."†   (source)
  • South of there, the tributaries split into a delta of feeder roads that crosses the Canadian/American border at a dozen or more places spread out over five hundred miles from the fjords of British Columbia to the vast striped wheatlands of central Montana.†   (source)
  • "In this replacement Earth we're building they've given me Africa to do and of course I'm doing it with all fjords again because I happen to like them, and I'm old-fashioned enough to think that they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent.†   (source)
  • There is just a light dusting of gold around the edges where it fades into the rain forest, thickening and intensifying as it approaches the har. bor-a long narrow fjordlike notch cut into the straight coastline of Oregon, a deep cold trench of black water heading straight out to Japan.†   (source)
  • Used to have endless fun doing the little bits in fjords … so anyway," he said, trying to find his thread again, "the recession came and we decided it would save a lot of bother if we just slept through it.†   (source)
  • Also we just got some photos from a Big Bird pass over the fjord—for once it wasn't covered with clouds—and we have a bunch of surface ships with bright infrared signatures, like they're getting steam up."†   (source)
  • The water was coated with the bilge oil of numberless ships, filth that would not evaporate in the low temperatures and that left a black ring on the rocky walls of the fjord as though from the bath of a slovenly giant.†   (source)
  • But she saw these Scandinavian women zealously exchanging their spiced puddings and red jackets for fried pork chops and congealed white blouses, trading the ancient Christmas hymns of the fjords for "She's My Jazzland Cutie," being Americanized into uniformity, and in less than a generation losing in the grayness whatever pleasant new customs they might have added to the life of the town.†   (source)
  • Duck him in the fjord!†   (source)
  • …paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in…†   (source)
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