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Usage examples of beached.

Skin acrawl with urgency, Taverik strode down to the beached boat and muffled the badly mismatched oars.

At midnight two boat-loads of determined men, rowing with muffled oars moved silently out from the blockader towards the beached vessel.

Things had been quite different, after Bradden had beached the lugger.

The Gizmo lay on its side like some gigantic beached squid, all functions off-line, and with them everything on the homestead that ran through it.

Gesturing to Lobb and several seamen to follow, and waving to Thomas, who was just about to jump down from his beached boat, Ned walked across the dusty track to the nearest house, which was built of wood on stone foundations.

The ridiculously low total would make more than one land speculator moan, curse and cry in his beer, for along with the abandoned rendering plant went fifty acres of land bordering the Intracoastal Waterway, a sturdy pier built to hold a hundred and fifty foot pogy boat in winds up to near hurricane force, three large buildings, two small houses, assorted boilers and pipes and other odds and ends of rusting machinery, a loft filled with rotting nets and bags of used net floats, three beached purse boats with gasoline motors still mounted and usable after overhaul and six huge storage tanks which had been erected to store the rendered menhaden oil pending shipment to fertilizer and pet food plants further inland.

Half a dozen Land merchantmen had beached themselves by the harbor forts on either side of the entrance from the Pada estuary.

The ride from Pimlico to Portobello took well over ninety minutes and it was gone midnight when I beached the car on a double yellow line outside my sock.

Shortly after day break Ninaka beached his prahu before the long-house of a peaceful river tribe.

In it he made out two natives, and the stealthiness of their approach caused him to withdraw into the shadow of a large prahu which was beached close to where he had been standing.

While Jahdo beached the coracle properly she stood looking up the winding path that led twixt white buildings to the summit.

They found Shimoda there, lying on a straining imitation-wood lounge, basking in the sun like a beached beluga.

Morse found himself quietly re-appraising the man who first beached and then readjusted his vast bulk in an armchair, with a series of expiratory grunts.

By the breath of my mad typhoon I swept your close-packed Praya and beached your best at Kowloon!

They beached the merchant ship beside the Principessa, at an angle to act as a breakwater, then started to cannibalize the timbers from her hull.