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  • They acted as an anchorage for the stanchions which, standing on the seabed, supported the harbours.
  • For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
  • They mustered eighteen in all, and in half an hour they were ironed in a row along the stanchioned rail of the torpedo-boat. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
  • With a light snow falling, he had driven on perhaps a hundred yards before his car hit a stanchion at slow speed and came to rest.
  • Four people died in the GNER buffet car when it cannoned into an overhead line stanchion.
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  • Yet the building seemed ancient and strong, a part of the roof was battlemented, and the walls were of great thickness; lastly, I observed, with some unpleasant sensations, that the windows of my chamber had been lately secured with iron stanchions, and that the servants who brought me victuals, or visited my apartment to render other menial offices, always locked the door when they retired. Redgauntlet
  • She has done considerable damage to herself, my after bitts are sheered off level with the deck, my stern chocks are pulled out and about 10 feet of the rail, including two stanchions.
  • Both the stanchion futtock and the top timber will be replaced.
  • On the left, a stanchioned flat-screen monitor shows the drummer pounding away in the grave. Familiarity Does Little to Excite
  • The bus was knocked onto its side after hitting a guard rail and a steel stanchion. Bus firm was cited for fatigued driving
  • Such a one stands in the centre, its legs fixed in the floor, with four chairs around it, similarly stanchioned. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
  • The remains of the suicide vehicle was lying across a ditch near the stanchions of the flyover.
  • The overhead power lines caused problems because stanchions supporting them were too far apart and cheap materials had been used.
  • But on a snowy night in the early 1980's, a car skidded into a stanchion, which hit him in the back.
  • Hands quickly reached for taffrails, stanchions, ratlines or some sort of support, and, a moment later, Raven spun the wheel with all her strength to the right until the helm was hard over.
  • And the compass stanchioned on the bridge had gone along with a wave, stanchions and all. Tramping on Life
  • When I got to the life-preserver, it was rusted to the stanchions on which it was hung.
  • A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
  • The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
  • The Earl, invigorated with hope and joy, had by the force of his arm, almost wrenched from its fastening, one of the iron bars of the grate; his foot was lifted to the stanchion, ready to aid him in escaping through the opening, when he was seized by the guards of the Baron, and conveyed precipitately from the prison. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
  • She reached for the aluminium stanchion and the leading piece of metal pipe. CHAMELEON
  • A hollow forged aluminum crown and 30 mm stanchions help keep grams off while still offering maximum rigidity.
  • They had been placed five to each sidewall of the plane and strapped to stanchions. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • On Saturday, 15 people were killed and more than 20 injured when another coach, destined for Chinatown from Connecticut's Mohegan Sun Casino, overturned and slid into a highway sign stanchion in the Bronx. NYPD Cracks Down on Buses
  • Saturday and slid into a sign stanchion, which ripped through the window line, shearing off most of the roof. I-95 bus crash: Driver did time in '90 manslaughter
  • Mr. Chara hit Mr. Pacioretty into the boards, driving his head into a stanchion supporting the glass around the ice. Air Canada Threatens to Pull NHL Sponsorship Over Violence
  • She reached for the aluminium stanchion and the leading piece of metal pipe. CHAMELEON
  • Her leash was tied to a stanchion on the wall, preventing her from moving more than a few feet in any direction.
  • A stanchion is a restraining device that loosely clamps a goat's neck limiting its forward and backward motion while permitting some lateral motion. Chapter 3
  • This system enables the climbers to remain attached to the bridge at all times, without the need to unclip the safety rope each time it reaches a stanchion.
  • Two beautifully sculpted guards stood outside the doors of Christie's auction house yesterday, armed with stanchions and a counter, ready to receive the crowd that would be arriving at part two of the Yves Saint Laurent sale, featuring his furniture and home furnishings from his weekend home in Deauville situated in the Basse-Normandie region of France. Yomi Abiola: Yves Saint Laurent's Final Sale
  • His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised.
  • If you get dairy goats, you'll probably want to build this nifty stanchion to make milking easy for both the milker and the milkee.
  • The ballast, concrete cement, was stanchioned down securely. Sailing Alone Around the World
  • In addition, there are under the beams three rows of vertical stanchions between decks, and one row in the lower hold from the keelson. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
  • The recipe calls for "1 medium cow, about 1,400 pounds, butterflied, skin removed" and "1 heavy block-and-tackle attached to a steel stanchion set in concrete. Wholly Cow! A Few Brave Grillers Go 'Nose-to-Tail'
  • The back of my left thigh hit the stanchion.
  • By the time police managed to get on board from their patrol inflatable, he had caused £21,467 damage to the cruiser and £200 damage to a mooring stanchion.
  • Out of respect for the veterans, media are required to stay within the stanchioned area during the ceremony.
  • The legs kicked a few times, then were still before the line was tied off on a stanchion. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • In the latest incident hundreds of pounds' damage had been caused by louts swinging on the railings, pulling the stanchions away and damaging the old stones.
  • The students sat in the open cockpit to learn terms such as mizzen mast, jib and stanchion. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
  • There, amid torqued stanchions, lay a limp figure, pierced in many places and bloodless. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • The legs kicked a few times, then were still before the line was tied off on a stanchion. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
  • For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
  • A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.
  • There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
  • There is barely a scrap of bare metal on the stanchions, pillars, posts, railings, and decking ribs.
  • Cows were maintained in open dry-lot pens with self-locking head stanchions along a flat concrete feed line.
  • A jet skier who crashed into a stanchion on Blackpool North Pier may have had a heart attack, an inquest has heard.
  • In a time shorter than it takes to tell it, the two doomed men are made fast to the stanchioned chairs; where they sit bolt upright, firm as bollard heads. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
  • The aerodynamic package features a carbon fiber "fanged" splitter in front and adjustable carbon-fiber wing with seven-position stanchions that allow up to an amazing 1,000 lbs. of downforce at 150 mph. Undefined
  • She then flew into a rage when the car hit a stanchion.
  • Wisteria is wrapped around the porch stanchions; a squirrel is running along the top of the chain-link fence surrounding a decent-sized garden.
  • But the Lady Castlewood went back from him, putting back her hood, and leaning against the great stanchioned door which the gaoler had just closed upon them. The History of Henry Esmond
  • The massive stanchions that had supported the crane gantry rails in the past now support the new steel-framed structures.
  • I felt like one of those guys who's walking briskly down the street text messaging and is suddenly knocked cold by a streetlight stanchion he didn't see. Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
  • I had yet to tie together a thousand feet of rope, but hoping that I might be able to momentarily, I tied one end of the rope to a large iron stanchion and hooked the massive coil of line over the polished oak rail.
  • Tensioning the cable results in an uplift force at each of the stanchions.
  • Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: ­halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons. Within The Castle Walls
  • the main point of air springs is saving weight, and a 40mm stanchioned fork isn't going to pull that off too well.
  • The next day the folks working the tow line lowered all the stanchions on the back of the carts to increase the angle of attack.
  • Yasushi Takashita smiled sheepishly when his slender girlfriend Rika, clinging to the train stanchion next to him, suggested he use the Internet to search for some college-related information he needs. Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Japanese Youth: Phone Wizards, PC Illiterates?
  • It is set lengthwise, fore and aft, a stout hair-cloth chair at top, another at bottom, and one at each side -- all, like the table, stanchioned to the timbers of the half-deck. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea
  • The room was high, narrow, and lit by a barred and stanchioned window, far above my reach, even if I had been unbound. A Monk of Fife
  • Stanchioned cattle are very restless because their restraint limits their ability to lick or scratch.
  • The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net. The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914

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