How To Use Skiff In A Sentence
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It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
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Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
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His boat is a small skiff with a 25 hp engine, which seriously limits how many people he can take out.
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The five days needed to reach it after it first appeared on the horizon had been fraught with danger: a dozen rapids, violent eddies that whirled the Explorer around “like a teetotum,” interspersed with innumerable reaches through which the boat had to be towed by a dozen men hauling upon fraying ropes or by a battered skiff with splintered oars.
Colossus
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Well, I was in this little skiffle group, you know, just me and some fellows on the street.
DESPERADOES
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Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
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I don't want to be a namedropper, so I'm not going list all the terrific skiffy writers who attended.
Blue Heaven 2007 Raunchy Limerick Challenge
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
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He hoisted a heavy, laden pack onto his back, closed up the skiff, and bore a groundsheet and heavy sleeping-bag in his arms.
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There are 160 German naval personnel in Mombasa monitoring the Horn of Africa, presumably for al-Qaeda skiffs and pirate ships.
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The river was near at hand, still wearing its Parisian aspect, filled with chains, bathing establishments, great barges, and multitudes of little, skiffs, with a layer of coaldust on their pretentious, freshly-painted names, tied to the pier and rocking to the slightest motion of the water.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
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The practice of fishing with nets and lines from shore, with the aid of a rowboat or double-ended skiff, appears to have continued well into the 19th century.
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Charles hurriedly had his friends assist him in launching his rowing skiff and went after the dolphins.
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But knowing that it does adds meaning and weight to each moment, especially when John discovers his idol, Elvis Presley, his fledgling "skiffle" band embarks on its first performances and John is introduced to two promising young musicians named Paul and George.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Nowhere Boy -- On His 70th Birthday, Lennon as a Lad
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Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie.
The legacy of John Lennon
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
One Man, Two Guvnors - review
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Old pilots and young, fishermen and gossoons, they swept out from creek and headland in their swift Mayo skiffs.
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Well now, they had a ladder, what we called a ladder road right beside where that skiff went down in the shaft, and it was kind of built off — you know, penned up — so that you wouldn't get over in the shaft.
Oral History Interview with Dock E. Hall, January 7, 1976. Interview H-0271. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
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It's a shame that TV channels keep on making reality shows following Paris Hilton around or scripting the lives of the young and dumb for our amusement when they could be catch a psychedelic hippy skiffle group as they surf a drug- and BBQ chicken-powered wave across America.
Internet picks of the week
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We used the skiff to slip into a narrow gap in the reef.
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Job had poled his skiff deep down a finger in the Bayou.
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They did not qualify, however, because the Scouts' canoes were not the sculling skiffs required by the rules.
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Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s.
Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze
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To celebrate he decided to take Lawton on the skiff, go out past Crocodile Dragover to McCormick Creek, check some snook holes he knew.
OFF THE CHART
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After that, at five-minute intervals, came waves of increasingly speedy fixed-seat rowing craft - home-built plywood skiffs, rugged surf boats, fragile wherries, multi-oared gigs.
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So it came to pass that we chartered Tuna Smith, a well-known bonefishing guidewho owned a panga-like skiff, to take us offshore in search of giant trevally.
Howell Raines' South Pacific Marlin Fishing Adventure
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A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
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Jazzers detested the skifflers, who tended to look down their tea-chest basses at the folkies, often with good reason.
Times, Sunday Times
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While sitting on the roof of a skiff, crossing the Lagoon of Christmas Island (Kiritimati), this brown booby decided to visit with me long enough to get this shot.
Field & Stream
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Of course I shall say it much more rudely and possibly while whapping him soundly around the head with a giant cod, caught off the coast of Ireland by a Welsh skiff.
Only The English are British
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He seemed to hang in the air above the old man in the skiff.
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The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain.
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Set in Brighton in 1963 on the cusp of Beatlemania, there's a terrific skiffle band playing before each act, and each principal actor takes a solo turn on a bizarre instrument, ranging from washboard to tuned car-horns.
Small-Screen Stars Shine on Stage
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I was the guest at the Science Fiction Society of Northern New Jersey, famous for having the least-pronounceable acronym in skiffydom.
May 17th, 2009
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Vice-Admiral had the rudder of his skiff strucken through with a saker shot, and a little or no harm received elsewhere.
Summarie and true discourse of Sir Frances Drakes West Indian voyage
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For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding.
One Man, Two Guvnors - review
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Now the Baliol shell had made sternway sufficient for the man in the skiff to seize the rudder.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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There were passages of thin ice and skiffs of snow over black ice, and he had to be constantly on his guard.
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He was appearing with Tommy Trinder, Shani Wallis, a skiffle band, some tumblers called the Five Corsairs and an escape artiste called Zeno.
MR STARLIGHT
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He then rolled the hide into a bundle, placed the bundle in an oilskin sack, and began leading the way back to their skiff.
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For we were drawn back from the pursuit of the strange boat by the creaking of the davits, and arrived at the Lancashire Queen just as the Italians were lowering their skiff.
THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN'
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Next, fill the hole and crater completely with drywall compound, plus an additional thin skiff of compound that sits slightly proud of the surface.
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Hemingway's novelette tells of the Cuban fisherman Santiago who for 84 luckless days has rowed his skiff into the Gulf Stream in quest of marlin.
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The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
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A skiff of autumn leaves blew out of the trees across the street.
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The glasses and the gawkiness told us that we, too, could have a go at what he was doing, if we were prepared to put away skiffle's tea-chest bass and washboard and invest in those solid-bodied electric guitars that appeared to have come off the same drawing board responsible for the era's befinned and chrome-laden Packard and De Soto automobiles and Wurlitzer and Rock-Ola jukeboxes.
Expecting Rain
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Boomer was a wizard at the helm of any boat, from a little skiff to a big racing yacht.
NIMITZ CLASS
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On a skiffle groove, the Chicks wag their fingers at the homemakers' life, singing about the pleasures of cooking, dusting, and breeding.
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It's an Italian term and it's short for the word skiffle and skiffle means disgusting but it doesn't really mean disgusting in the way we use that word in English.
Undefined
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Merseybeat, like skiffle, was a small club music and even if technique was valuable it was rarely shown off: what counted was energy and pace.
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King of skiffle Lonnie Donegan died after collapsing just hours before he was due to take the stage in York.
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It was a great day out and we hope to have raised thousands to keep the skiffs up and running.
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Today the sailboats and skiffs are lost to history, along with the working vessels that carried goods to docks long gone.
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They came a long way from a skiffle group to a big name band for those ‘trend-setters’ who played to so many happy dancers way back then.
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The biting winds, freezing rain, and skiffs of snow felt like a judgment by God for some unfathomable sin.
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He wore a suit, and rowed their skiff towards the main traffic bridge.
THE OPEN DOOR
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There was an octagonal fountain so large you could row about it in a skiff.
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In the mid 50's he was a leading light of the skiffle movement, a genre that would influence the early Beatles incarnation, The Quarrymen.
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The 49er class of 4.9m-long skiffs was first introduced as an Olympic event at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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We came foaming down abreast of the skiff, so close that we could hear above the wind the voices of Big Alec and his mate as they shouted at us with all the scorn that professional watermen feel for amateurs, especially when amateurs are making fools of themselves.
The King of the Greeks
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You dress as if you belong to a skiffle group.
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Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner.
Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
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As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
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They'd towed the skiff behind the big boat to have some way to get into the skinny water, chase the fish.
BLACKWATER SOUND
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It's a rare reunion for the Old Line Skiffle Combo, a Maryland six-piece that plays traditional skiffle and rockabilly tunes using everything from a washboard to pedal-steel guitar to recreate the shufflin' '50s vibe.
Nightlife Agenda: Parties for a long weekend
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It is run by some very experienced guides with a large fleet of brand-new skiffs.
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Off the coast of the violence-racked nation, millions of dollars in ransom are demanded and won by young men travelling in skiffs, armed with AK-47s and rocket propelled grenades and sometimes hopped up on the narcotic plant called qat that is popular with Somalis.
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His head turned five degrees to me and then went back to the skiff.
A DARKENING STAIN
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So you type, under the definition box, ` small boat 'and every word in the English language that -- that has ` small boat' in the definition -- you know, coracle, skiff, batteau or whatever -- appears.
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The skiffle star died last week midway through a UK tour after collapsing at the home of friends in Peterborough, where the service took place yesterday.
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Sailors from Australia and New Zealand have been hooked for decades on the adrenalized thrills of skiff sailing - a sport in which two- or three-person boats fly ridiculous amounts of sail on shallow, lightning-fast hulls.
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He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
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The skiffs were crewed by teams from pubs and clubs in the area.
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Breakfast over, I grabbed my kit while Joel grabbed the ice chest; it was just a short walk to the skiff with its fifty horse power motor.
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The official opening of the new facility at Gill Pier was followed by an inaugural race for local skiffs.
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Glasgow-born Donegan paved the way for the British pop explosion of the 1960s with skiffle, a blend of folk, blues and jazz.
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You would think, given the genre (spy-fi) and the introduction of a nifty skiffy superweapon, that I'd be all over this one.
April 23rd, 2010
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Faith's showbusiness career began in the 1950s in a skiffle band and he went on to become one of the music industry's most bankable stars before getting regular film, television and stage roles.
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Crucial traits all, when your reel is screeching and a 20-pound snook is towing your skiff into deep water.
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When Armand glanced out again early in the morning light he saw an old aluminum fishing skiff with an outboard astern, sporting an orange plastic tarp rigged amidships over the loading boom as a tent.
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It was an organized move on the part of the sailors, evidently countenanced by the captain; for by the time we arrived where the gangway had been, it was being hoisted up, and the skiff, slung in the ship's davits, was likewise flying aloft out of reach.
THE SIEGE OF THE 'LANCASHIRE QUEEN'
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The ships held five long skiffs that were used for landings.
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Tugs and skiffs sprawl, black on the multicoloured Thames.
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We can't ask him whether he would prefer a father who can kick a ball around or a mother who doesn't remember skiffle.
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Thus Severin hires an old sailing boat to recapture the experience of an early Caribbean castaway, although the vessel bears scant resemblance to the little skiff that carried the subject of his imagined reconstruction.
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Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
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Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
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When John started a skiffle group, Julia was delighted.
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Nefer launched himself across the gap between skiff and landed like a young leopard springing from the branch of an acacia tree.
Warlock
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The production makes good use of rock 'n' roll, the wireless and the skiffle band.
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And of course, when the bleeding remnants of Bob and Nicky were sent packing in their skiff, the event must needs be celebrated in further carousal.
Chapter 11
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I made for the Bois de Boulogne, there to find, instead of the old rabbit-and-roebuck-haunted thickets and ferneries and impenetrable growth, a huge artificial lake, with row-boats and skiffs, and a rockery that would have held its own in Rosherville gardens.
Peter Ibbetson
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The frigate Gelibolu, serving as part of a NATO anti-piracy mission, intercepted the pirate skiff while monitoring the security corridor for merchant shipping 80 miles from the coast on Wednesday, the statement said.
TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News
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His family summered on Block Island and as a teenager, he occupied his days with an outboard skiff, fishing, clamming, and catching lobsters.
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On a moonlit June night, members of Doc's team sit on three skiffs in the lagoon's North Sound, waiting to trap the young sharks in nets.
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Hemingway's novelette tells of the Cuban fisherman Santiago who for 84 luckless days has rowed his skiff into the Gulf Stream in quest of marlin.
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The police could not know whether they were looking for a skiff, a punt, or a cabin cruiser.
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Forster makes similar observations on ‘Born to a Family,’ working off of a nice change-of-pace skiffle beat.
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
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Joel cut the motor, the only sound was the water lapping the side of the skiff.
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He started off playing washboard with a skiffle group.
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She walked away, around the house to the jetty where her skiff bobbed on its painter, puddled with rain.
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Ever the wit, the 71-year-old king of skiffle had been closing his shows on that tour with the gospel blues of This May Be The Last Time.
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A short herring fishing took place with a few of the small ‘skiffs’ using trammel nets managed to catch the allocated quota.
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Ronnie played washboard with his brother Ted's outfit, the Candy Bison skiffle group, in the intermission between two Tommy Steele films at a local cinema.
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We waded ashore, and the kid with the skiff gunned the outboard and planed back through the curious seals to the big boat, now once more enshrouded in the mist.
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
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By the time he was 14, Rod was in a skiffle band with schoolmates from Nunthorpe Grammar, styling themselves the Green Corn Boys.
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As a teenager he played guitar and harmonica with local bands and skiffle and rock ‘n’ roll groups.
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But Bean has set the action in 1963 in Brighton, and the key point is that Francis Henshall, a failed skiffle player, finds himself working for two guvnors.
One Man, Two Guvnors - review
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A couple of skiffs are running local dives so I haven't missed the chance to dive, only the chance to see Namena.
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The skiff was dancing at the stern.
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My first job was handline fishing for mackerel off Kilkeel in a skiff I owned with my brother.
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In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway’s Santiago battles an 18-foot blue marlin from a skiff in the Florida Straits, where the Gulf Stream begins between Cuba and the Florida Keys.
The Mid-Life Slam
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He was in a school skiffle band at first.
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The conversation then drifted onto the place of kazoos in skiffle bands; this made me much happier.
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Instantly, Miss Skiffins stopped it with the neatness of a placid boxer, took off that girdle or cestus as before, and laid it on the table.
Great Expectations
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Still, next time I'll pilot a Thames skiff instead of driving a car!
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We were walking the land in late February, a skiff of snow still on the ground.
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When you round Cove Point, the sun, like a low red host, has migrated west of the church steeple over the anchorage of sloops and ketches into what will soon be night past the carcass of a skiff almost hidden in the weeds.
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From swing to big bands and from skiffle to psychedelia, the face of music was ever-evolving in the four decades starting in the 1930s.
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Dutifully, he beached his skiff, dragged his mast and sails into their shed, and finally crawled off to his shack, to welcome slumber.
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The dory is a two-man rowboat which possesses as many of the different, and sometimes contradictory, good points of the canoe, skiff, punt, and lifeboat as it is possible to {160} combine in a single craft.
All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways
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He guided the skiff toward the dock, nosing it in, then lassoing the piling next to us.
Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
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Looky there," said the skipper of the second skiff, "do you notice that where we make this turn to the left the bushes along the point are kind of frayed, like something had rubbed against 'em a heap of times?
Afloat or, Adventures on Watery Trails
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A secret society manipulating the course of history so that matters would come out right would not, in rebus ipses, be thought a thing worth fighting by a skiffy reader.
July 25th, 2008
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The yacht is capable of 45 miles an hour with its 4,000 horsepower engine and when the Italians try to make a getaway in their skiff, the Streak streaks for them, "pulsing and vibrating and roaring like a thing alive" until the thieves haul in their oars and surrender.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
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Donegan's pioneering skiffle music provided inspiration for the British beat boom of the 1950s.
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It was bitterly cold, with a thin skiff of snow holding down the dirt and dust of the streets.
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It is certainly very enjoyable, a music-hall-style adaptation of the tale of three chaps in flannels traversing the Thames in a skiff.
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When jiving and bepop was followed by skiffle, Ronnie's band, The Dominoes, were given a chance to play.
