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    barge


    barged


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    1. They fell in behind a barge carrying hundreds of rolls of raw cloth bound on a day-long journey to the fashion shops of the south side


    2. I'll not barge in on him in anger and I'll not barge in on him if he sleeps


    3. They had to thread ropes around with paddlers from barge to barge to get them untangled


    4. You can't take this barge out there, you need a vessel that's all one hull and no more than three masts


    5. "He would drive the motorcar to the log picker or the lon barge and then he would drive that for a shift


    6. It was peaceful on the wasteg; she could just hear Iain and Berndt chatting under an awning at the other end of the barge from where she was standing watching the banks slowly drifting past


    7. The nearer the barge drew to London, the lighter Kara’s heart became


    8. She resumed her observation of the banks past which the barge was steadily progressing


    9. barge in without opening the door


    10. ‘The wasteg goes close, so we could take the ggs most of the way on a barge and ride the rest

    11. The barge provided for our journey is much newer than the ones Berndt and I travelled on – but I should not be surprised at that, I suppose


    12. ’ I replied, going on to tell him about the mishap with the barge and how we had to swim for the shore


    13. Berndt appears for lunch and the three of us pretend that nothing has occurred, spending a pleasant afternoon taking it in turns to play the board game Berndt taught me on the barge … as then, he thrashes both Joris and I mercilessly


    14. ‘There is a large barge setting off within the hour


    15. As we draw level with the barge in question, I see a man about to untie the ropes holding the gangplank to the quay


    16. As the barge moves out and the deck under her hooves shifts, Sefir’s ears go back but the proximity of Adamant and the scent of the hay soon calm her again


    17. Sounds are amplified inside the tunnel and the gentle wash of the water against the barge takes on an ominous tone, at least that is how it feels to me


    18. There are lights at the business end of the barge but none here


    19. Once through the tunnel, we eat, the sound of rain hitting the barge above our heads a musical counterpoint to the chatter of the crew members and the cutlery on the china


    20. ’ I said for the millionth time as a nasty grating noise resonates through the barge

    21. ‘There is a hole in the hull, the barge will sink – you need to get all your belongings and swim for it


    22. Five minutes later, I clamber up the steps with my bags to the main deck to find that the barge is lying very low in the water


    23. We might have had to leave it all on the barge


    24. ‘There’d be no point – anyway, no-one knows where we are or what barge we were on


    25. She's a mean one, I've had her barge in on me before


    26. Doors crash open as the second ambulance crew wheel their stretcher into the club and barge through the staff to get to Bex


    27. It wasn’t til Jorma walked up to his hut that he said, “Big barge coming for a load from Lorry’s,” he pointed to the barn


    28. There was a garden float on one side that was stalled in a restoration process, a battered old barge on the other


    29. where he’d earlier discovered that a barge was leaving for


    30. his eyes away as the barge pulled from the Ile de Cite and

    31. These chimneys are above the two and a half mile barge canal that runs deep beneath the valley floor


    32. small shelter next to the barge, and listened to the


    33. planning to catch a boat or barge from Avignon, but with


    34. Do you normally barge into people's houses and throw them into the wall? Is this a psychotic tendency I should look forward to in the future?” Griffin stood and glared at Savannah


    35. At least the man knew not to barge in


    36. After all, it shouldn’t be so very difficult to grab a load of cocaine from a log barge, but every time he mentioned it, she’d switch right back to blaming him for setting the two broads free


    37. “No, we’re not going to do anything about any log barge,” she says, like what he thinks counts for nothing! “And that’s it! Period! Why you couldn’t just do like I told you and stick with getting the money back, I’ll never know


    38. She was impressed at his resourcefulness and told him as much, whereupon he beamed with pride and, in a conspiratorial manner, described another little system he had for avoiding regulations and saving money: below decks, in the barge used to transport their cargo, were two refrigerated ‘fish houses’, insulated by large blocks of Styrofoam removable for drying


    39. He’d need to know a lot of other stuff too, if it was true, like when and on which barge he moved his shit


    40. With that idea being impractical, Eileen had come up with a novel approach to the problem, based around a simple, easy to follow strategy that had proven extremely popular in the past, with the foremost memorable example being the Charge of the Light Brigade: Just barge in his warehouse office, kill him, and burn him with some gasoline or any other flammable material, except perhaps bourbon

    41. The fair was taking place at this large old barge station right by the riverside, where the smell of cotton seed oil mingled with whatever happened to be floating in the river, and the resulting odor was less than agreeable


    42. However, there was something odd concerning the movement of the coast guard cutter: like any vessel of its size, it came and went on high tide – except occasionally – when the cutter got underway at dusk, regardless of the state of the tide and, more or less, at the same inopportune hour, a tug would arrive with a log barge


    43. He could recall occasions when the tide was so low that the cutter barely slipped through the narrows, and sure enough, just after she cleared, a tug entered with a barge


    44. Few bridges remained intact, and twice their heavy truck had to be ferried across rivers by barge


    45. The timing of her departure was truly impressive: as the sleek form of the cutter receded from view, an inbound sea-going tug appeared, towing, at the end of a long cable, a barge stacked high with logs


    46. The afternoon sun shone weakly between mountain peaks: the harbor would be in darkness before the barge was secured in its berth


    47. It would be; Edgar was more than willing to wait all night if necessary, but come daybreak, he would know for sure if illegal drugs were hidden somewhere on that barge


    48. The pier next to the one where the barge would be tied had suffered a fire and been abandoned


    49. He steadied a hand against the burned window frame and peered at the shimmering image of the tug and barge seemingly unmoving across the wide expanse of harbor


    50. It wasn’t until he had eaten cold, greasy fried chicken with equally slimy fries and drank cold coffee from a soggy cardboard cup, that the barge was docked, workmen climbed aboard and guided cables from an overhead crane around the girth of the gargantuan logs














































    1. Their only real, physical contact had been when the young man barged into her by accident on a street corner


    2. contact had been when the young man barged into her by accident


    3. But now this nightmare barged in at a time in his life that was probably the


    4. At least, that’s what she was considering the minute the phone rang, and Julianna Russo barged into the picture


    5. " he responded, stepping past her to the kitchen, but she and Alex exchanged looks, His said “I don’t think it was that simple” as he to barged pass her as well


    6. The next morning the girls had awakened Zarko with a jolt when they’d barged into his room and made themselves comfortable on his bed


    7. In a flurry of clatter and commotion, Captain Husim barged onto his bridge and stopped suddenly as his eyes took in the image filling his screen


    8. I was about to leave, when the door opened and Paul barged in, knocking over the hat


    9. I took off my clothes and was preparing to fall into bed when Paul barged in


    10. Bentley had reached the front door and as soon as he released the latch, Matthew Bulow barged in

    11. As Conal turned to go back to the computer room, Troy barged into the canteen


    12. Cloud barged past the crowds of commuters, pushing many to


    13. “I should’ve barged right in there and saved her


    14. I should’ve just barged in there


    15. “I thought I’d barged into the war room at the Pentagon,” she said, hoping to lighten the mood


    16. The scene repeated itself as they meandered here and there, occasionally being interspersed with the bodies of horses, some of which were still attached to the lightweight war chariots similar to those that Moshe remembered having been barged down the river


    17. Walking in front, Bubba barged through the throng of Vietnamese and Americans, all in civilian clothes, gathered to play the slot machines arraigned on both sides of the front door


    18. similar to those that Moshe remembered having been barged down the river


    19. al around Hal as the contingent barged past him back into the


    20. Batistuta felt his wil leave him, the Ultra barged

    21. At the bottom she paused and seemed about to explain, but he barged ahead


    22. We barged through the gate


    23. barged my way through zombies and jumped the couch again


    24. Edwin was starving (he hadn’t eaten a thing since lunchtime) and so entered the fray without hesitation; but he only managed to snatch a couple of grains before he was barged aside by a plump, speckled hen


    25. Before Sam could invite him in, he barged his way into the house


    26. Hardly had we reached when K barged in


    27. He didn’t knock at Butler’s door he barged straight in and pointed his finger at the security chief


    28. Butler shook his head, “You barged into my office…”


    29. A woman barged into me with her fully laden


    30. DC Ray Tikasingh had bullied and barged his way through the virtually grid locked snow covered London streets to get them all back to base as quickly as he could

    31. The other man, the sniper, had been lining up for a shot and was on the very edge of pulling the trigger when Jane had barged in on them


    32. A red faced Second Lieutenant barged into the room


    33. Before she could object, Nicolas swiveled around and barged out of the shed, slamming the door on his way out


    34. When Murbella heard about it she ran out of the temple straight through the village and barged into Karit’s house, demanding to know where he was


    35. The carspi simply trampled and barged through them


    36. They all faced the door and watched as the Rakai barged his way inside


    37. Joey whimpered and barged his way through the bushes, sending tapikes and other small creatures scattering


    38. With her armor of honoi Yeltsa barged into the assault mech in front of her with her forearms over her face


    39. 'Hello Babe’ was all I heard from Jack London as he barged into the room, with Sheila and


    40. to ensure that the door couldn’t be barged into

    41. Just as the guard inserted the key, Collins turned the handle and barged the heavy steel door


    42. Max did not budge, but braced himself by leaning forward against the large rock solid muscular belly that barged into him


    43. Max barged in, threw the girl on the bed and kicked the door closed behind him


    44. As the captors manhandled Carla, she barged into Max and tripped him up


    45. Not that he thought it was secure there, but he wanted it out of sight in case Bill barged in uninvited


    46. He was shocked and furious and barged in their hall and started dragging Tarana along with him


    47. Then her patience wore thin and she barged in seeing only two men with looks of shock


    48. As Shoop barged his way through the remaining ninjas, The Boss


    49. Well before Dana barged into the room, she assaulted the security guard who was at the desk around the corner


    50. He barged into his one bedroom apartment and ran to his











































    1. That traffic moved at the speed people paddled and the speed big teams of kedas moved the heavy barges around


    2. There were lines of ships and rafts anchored off every lock entry, ropes being paddled in and out, barges being drawn both ways in a complex ballet who's rhythm wasn't obvious at first


    3. Their big still here was their only one in Wescarp, barrels went out on river boats and canal barges from here


    4. Unsurprisingly, we arrive at the head of the wasteg without any major problems – I am becoming inured to Berndt’s apparent infallibility! Leaving me holding the two ggs, he goes off to the Wastegmaster’s office to make enquiries about barges going across to Chester


    5. ‘The red one … three barges along


    6. But after a few hours of struggling thru city traffic in the mazes of small canals or the ships and barges of the main canals, he was already thinking they probably should have taken a lake runner to Chardovia


    7. “I’d need to be out on an irrigation pond in the country to start,” she went on with her act, “not where I could be crushed between barges in city traffic


    8. He hoped there was no floating debris in the black water between barges as he sliced between them by the light of a few random lanterns on the nearby docks


    9. He had to fight some urban traffic along the back side of the city, but he kept to the middle and kept the petcock as wide as he dared, slicing between barges and canal ferries, running under tow ropes and making sharp turns in front of terrified stares


    10. On the peak of the point of bedrock there was a ring of cargo canal with a bridge to Eleventh where the clothing barges had an easier access to the market

    11. compared with barges and boats, and can barely move in


    12. The barges moved around the bend in the river as the sun broke through the darkness and the early morning clouds


    13. Barges and flat boats went up and down the Youghigheny


    14. “What log barges?” she responded, and for that was hit across the face while from across the garage Herminia begged them to stop and wailed that she was sorry


    15. ” Herminia’s pleas for mercy and horrifying shrieks of agony reverberated in Beth’s head as other questions about log barges, kilos, Boston and forged checks, all of which she had no answers for, were fired at her


    16. She says he’s a big-time trafficker with hundreds of kilos coming in every three months on log barges – and that ain’t all! Then she says that your boyfriend’s brother cooked up a plan with George Dearling to rob him using phony checks! Don’t look at me like that, I ain’t making this up


    17. “What?” Beth was stunned beyond belief: log barges were just what Mike Henderson had been asking about! Had Herminia put that idea in his head and it led to her getting raped? “Leon didn’t say anything like that, Herminia


    18. Raping me was supposed to be punishment to this ‘boyfriend,’ because I wouldn’t tell them anything about his brother’s log barges


    19. It was all completely insane! I had no idea of what any of that meant until yesterday, when Herminia told me Leon said Gordon Edward’s cocaine comes hidden in log barges


    20. Costa Rican log barges loaded with cargo harvested on the Pacific Coast routinely passed through the Panama Canal

    21. Log barges were selected for several reasons: they carried no crew who might otherwise stumble across the drug and, bound for Costa Rica, not the US or Europe, they would not arouse undue suspicion in the tightly monitored canal


    22. What if everything the whore said was totally true, he’d wondered, and the nigger really was moving barges full of coke? He’d been able to think of little else since he heard of it but, without Sylvia around bugging him every minute, he’d been able to formulate a plan


    23. He realized if he was gonna go for it, he would need guys he could trust with him and someone who knew about barges and how waterfronts work


    24. Log barges, he told them, arrived randomly throughout the year and the coast guard was just as unpredictable


    25. The guy tells her how his brother brings tons ‘a coke – really, tons – in log barges up from the Panama Canal


    26. “We still gonna try’n see if they’re shipping coke out on those barges, Mike?” Doug asked tentatively


    27. It hadn’t been a difficult piece of detective work to determine if a regular connection existed between the movement of log barges and the arrival and departure of the only Coast Guard cutter on the Caribbean coast


    28. Additionally, in view of the recent notoriety of the log barges I currently use,” he said, indicating the log barge references in the notebook, “we will, for safety’s sake, need to discontinue the use of them as well so, with you coming aboard and my associate retiring, there will be a great reshuffling, but I want no interruption of deliveries to our customers


    29. They allowed themselves to be carried by the Vistula’s current, rowing occasionally, and from time to time making it appear as if they were testing the depth of the river, especially when river barges or other vessels passed them, or they observed that they were being watched from the shore


    30. They drove past the harbor and the piers where the military presence was more than evident: stores of supplies seemed to be piling up, while barges slowly waded through the Niger, loaded to the brim

    31. After I was interviewed, a lawyer with better experience with barges, who was leaving the USG, applied without solicitation


    32. “Are we expected to pack all of the military hardware that the army abandoned on this entire roadway on these barges?”


    33. Finally, all barges were loaded


    34. “All equipment has been loaded onto the barges,” he replied, trying not to show the weariness he felt


    35. “Everything! Although all the barges and boats are seriously overloaded, and we will have to take special care in their movement, we stand ready on my Lord’s command!”


    36. We will just have to hope that the tide is right and hasn’t stranded everything! It will probably be best if you concentrate all your strength on the barges, one at a time, to be sure that you can overcome any grounding problems


    37. “Now, however,” Youssaf continued, “is a good time to start my transport through that beastly hoard of insects that I see buzzing around down there!” Youssaf, with a wave of his hand toward the river, redirected their attention to the huge swarms that harassed crews as they worked at moving the barges and other water transport


    38. The remaining craft, towlines dangling uselessly, swept past the barges, but with quickly thrown hand lines, managed to come to ground in about the same lineup as they had begun


    39. There are stone docks there where boats and barges can tie up


    40. “Many barges use these waterways

    41. head of several barges, all moving downriver, looking rather serene in their movement


    42. in a loud sharp-edged voice he demanded, “Who are those barges assigned to?”


    43. barges would then be ready to be refitted, my prior assignment would be completed, and while


    44. he waved his arm in the direction of the barges


    45. surprise was when that captain commandeered our barges


    46. “Hey ho!” Marah shouted as Moshe and Yigal drew near the barges


    47. down as all the barges filled to capacity and prepared to cast off


    48. by the flotilla of barges that had previously accompanied him downriver


    49. the barges floated faster than the troops marched


    50. The pandemonium on the barges and boats was just as chaotic, but with nowhere to run, there













































    1. She wasn't destined to find out that afternoon, Rob come barging in at just that instant, asking if he’d placed the furniture up stairs properly


    2. He could see that all this just barging about with words


    3. Having taken all that into account, and after prolonged and thoughtful deliberation, the idea of barging in Novorski’s office could only be compared to a village of natives in the Amazon waking up one day, and deciding they were the rightful rulers of the entire world, before promptly setting out to conquer everyone else armed with sticks, spears, stones, and the occasional sharp tropical fruit, arguing amongst themselves that the one hiccup in their plan was whether or not their canoes would be able to provide the required logistics support, mainly mangoes and coke leaves


    4. ” The door burst open and a red-faced Councilor Trent came barging in


    5. know Judy did not know what to expect with our large family barging


    6. Lord Ignor of Araion comes barging in and feeling out of breath: I came as soon as I noticed the fight stopped, my king


    7. barging in, they also shouted, “POLICE! WE HAVE A


    8. He missed his children barging in on him


    9. Birds didn’t listen to a barging brought on by what other enthusiasts labeled hiking


    10. Trask changed, and they rushed around picking up, putting away, vacuuming, making the beds neater, starting a fire in the stove to take the chill off, boiling water for tea—and before long there appeared a car in the drive and a knock at the door, and here came a blocky darkish woman in a severe mannish pants-suit, barging into the house as if she owned it

    11. “Where is he?!” Richard’s dad ran into the kitchen, barging in with the shotgun, trembling even more than Richard’s mom


    12. An extremely red-faced Andrei managed to catch Marianne’s eye and give her a quick wink when he “introduced” himself to them, saying that he apologised for barging in on them, but that he had no clue as to what Wei’s game was and could think of no reason for his being assaulted and incarcerated - he was after all, just a Tourist


    13. No sooner had he started up his laptop, than Forrest came barging in the room


    14. suggesting it, come barging in here with the paparazzi after me


    15. Barging in with all her weight, the door hinge bends and breaks as Victoria gets her way


    16. “You can’t come barging in on our investigation


    17. seen, came barging through


    18. And then Takina was there, sprinting from the trees, barging into Selene


    19. And then there were footsteps behind her, something or someone running at her at speed, barging into her, shunting her across Read’s mutilated corpse


    20. As he finishes with the recap, I would be barging in through the door on the right side of the lecture theatre and take a seat on the first row of the right column on the second seat from the aisle

    21. I closed my eyes and tried not to think but the more I tried, the more annoying thoughts came barging in


    22. with that mason came barging into the office


    23. We both jumped as Johnny came barging through the foyer entrance, laughing loudly at his own antics


    24. They strode purposefully through the huddle and toward the house, barging the journalists aside if they didn’t move in time


    25. ‘This stops right now,’ said Danny, after barging into Sebastian’s office – to the exasperation of his secretary


    26. A young man ran on from the wings, barging past Danny and grabbing his mic


    27. Sultan Abdul Kadir stopped and turned around, "And here I thought you will be barging into my office tomorrow morning, but I guess you couldn't wait a few hours, could you? Let's go to my study


    28. Barging in, he said indignantly to himself; barging in when nobody had asked her opinion or explanation of anything


    29. “Something awful has happened to Roger and Marc!” he said hysterically after barging in without knocking


    30. lift line, even the best skiers are notorious for barging into the

    31. toss and shock me if it is not him”, the sales head blabbered, almost barging into general


    32. Kurt’s visions of success didn’t include the FBI barging through the doors and seizing computers


    33. “Cierra, there’s something that I want to talk to you about,” he said, barging inside


    34. Whatever else, Eastshare won’t be barging any troops or supplies up the rivers and canals after him while he retreats!”


    35. It seemed sanest, though against the grain of years of jurisdictional intransigence, not to bring his own Department barging in, asking the kinds of procedural questions that get you fired without benefits


    36. Barging into her husband’s office and threatening to have his knees capped… that sort of stuff… we call them enemies, Lindsay


    37. Tracchio was used to my barging in


    38. Jenny, where are you? Say something! I’m surrounded by images from her past: her mom and dad entertaining guests at their mansion, her brother barging into her room to steal her toys, her snooty classmates teasing her at school


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    Synonyms for "barge"

    barge flatboat hoy lighter push forward thrust ahead ferry packet ship

    "barge" definitions

    a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)


    push one's way


    transport by barge on a body of water