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blockade runners

n. (blockade runner English)

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The Rebels held the strong forts of Caswell and Fisher, at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and outside, the Frying Pan Shoals, which extended along the coast forty or fifty miles, kept our blockading fleet so far off, and made the line so weak and scattered, that there was comparatively little risk to the small, swift-sailing vessels employed by the blockade runners in running through it.

The cometary cloud's pretty thick-that's where the course is for the Blockade Runners Derby.

During the remainder of the year no ship would venture forth, except swift blockade runners like the Fair Rosalind.

They clamped down on the blockade runners, sending a half-dozen of them to the firing squad.

When a full head of steam approached the red line on her pressure gauges, she cut the water at close to twenty-five miles an hour, faster than most Confederate blockade runners two decades later.

They had been in several single-ship actions with privateers and blockade runners, and Sinclair’.

Besides, the dashing blockade runners were bringing in these very things under the Yankees’.

Turns out Han is already on the way to Yavin IV, with Anakin and a surprise for the young Jedi -- he's gonna be Grand Marshal at the Blockade Runners Derby at Ord Mantell, and the kids are invited too!

Every warp-capable ship is bouncing around the system turning back blockade runners.