• Maybe he is right but by this stage we're sheltering near the stern of the boat, clinging to the railings and wedging our boots against coils of rope to avoid sliding on the wet deck.

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  • Experts have begun taking down part of the wall, removing stones and railings, in order to repair the damage.

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  • Then she found Victoria Beckman, a Russian immigrant laying out family photographs and documents in the cold air along the two stone railings leading from her front door to the sidewalk.

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  • The teenager made pillowcases for Tia with the message "time to say goodbye" and put them on the railings of Grand Avenue, a few hundred yards from the crematorium.

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  • Those who turned up early to secure a spot against the railings at Old Trafford were greeted by thunder and lightning, with some running for cover beneath the canopy of the East Stand.

    BBC: Manchester

  • The exhibition will open to the public on November and will remain on display until December 2012 in the railings surrounding the Castillo de la Real Fuerza, one of Old Havana emblematic fortresses.

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  • The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been a lunatic asylum once.

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  • At the top of the railings, razor wire was woven through the spikes, he said, adding to the hazards: none of them knew how Manning had done it, especially since he was a bit drunk then, too.

    NEWYORKER: Bravado

  • He stood in front of a laptop, and Yorke moved out in front of him, to dance and sing, separated from the crowd by railings and several security guards.

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  • In a section about escalators and elevators, the book said people should place their hands on escalator railings to avoid falling.

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  • Sneaking along railings and leaping from perch to perch is fun, but the enemies rarely provide a real challenge if you fail at stealth.

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  • It's the "City That Care Forgot, " a city of jazz, of the nation's best indigenous cuisine, of excess, of riverboats and gardens and wrought iron railings, unique in every way, from the food to the architecture to the history.

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  • Some children had also tied pink balloons on the railings of a bridge by which the funeral passed on its way to the crematorium.

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  • The stair panels in the vestibule are marvels of abstract rhythms, while their railings, as Mr. Pierson also noted, are sensitively shaped to the scale of the human hand.

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  • At the height of the suffragette movement in the early part of the 1900s, a campaign of civil disobedience began with women chaining themselves to railings, smashing windows and committing arson.

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  • As he tried to steer round this sharp corner he flew off his bike and landed on the iron railings. 10.37.28 Music 10.37.30 Stewart Clanachan I can remember he was lying on his back.

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  • The other dinosaur den is financial options--the equivalent of the right, for example, to buy Treasury bond futures at a certain strike price--where traders hang over the railings, screaming and waving frantically.

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  • By the railings of parliament are the nationalists with their blue-white flags and next to them an orange banner depicting a helicopter.

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  • In the streets surrounding the extensive blaze people gathered, grouping together and taking up high vantage points, lining up at the plastic police tape stretched between trees, railings and bollards, doing their best to get a better view.

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  • "This dates from the 13th century, when the Mongols ruled China, " Chang said as he stopped to admire a stone bridge with no railings.

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  • The woman, speaking from behind a screen and referred to as Miss J, told the court that after hearing two gunshots she emerged from her home to see a police officer dragging a body from the back of the minicab and placing it beside some railings.

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  • The collision caused the taxi to spin on to the footpath and hit a 29-year-old man, trapping him between the taxi and the railings.

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