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Usage examples of acle.

The Admiral, with the wrong end of a paint-brush, was tracing the curling blue line that marked the River Bure past the mouth of the Ant and on to the place where it was joined by the Thurne, and the blue line thickened and curled away down the map towards Acle and Yarmouth.

And at Acle Bridge there are always lookers-on, waiting to enjoy the misfortunes of the unskilled.

It seemed to Tom that she must have forgotten that every minute's sailing was bringing them nearer not only to Acle but to Yarmouth and Breydon, racing tides and every kind of possible disaster.

This was not at all like steering in the gentle streams and easy tides that run above Acle Bridge.

Sir Garnet had left Acle Bridge astern of her, and was sailing once more.

It was one thing just to take a lift on a friendly wherry as far as Acle, or even as far as Stokesby, but here they were sailing on farther and farther from home with every minute and not knowing what was before them.

And if we get up to Acle before dark, we can easily get to Horning next day, before breakfast if somebody wakes us up.

They heard how, at Acle, Joe and Pete had learnt that Bill had made a mistake about the day, and that the Margoletta was coming down to Yarmouth at low water on the very day that the Teasel had planned to come through.

Now you propose to use the pretext of Citizen Translucent's absence to renege on the Or -- acle again?

In November '73, by letters issued at Gergeaule, we appointed you keeper of the wood of Vincennes, in the room of Gilbert Acle, esquire.