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    1. The Mayan, and their precursor’s the Olmec, flourished for a millennium along Mexico’s Gulf coast


    2. bridge the gulf between us and leave the house to you when I die? Didn’t think you’d


    3. wonder that across the gulf of time and space Smith became a little indecisive


    4. In response, Brazilian space-based weapons bombed the Basran and Chirpol refineries on the gulf, destroying the last rusting remnants of the oil-based jihad


    5. 26And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which


    6. Given that one line of humans was separated from the other, and humans being what they are, one would be the first to build ships to cross that space, and someone on the receiving planet had to be the person to encounter the first human to cross that gulf


    7. 01:19: March 8th 2014 – Gulf of Thailand


    8. Initially, I thought that the flight had probably met a watery demise in the Gulf of Thailand


    9. This beautiful country is surrounded on three sides by sparkling blue waters, and sits in the Arabian Gulf, with the only land border meeting Saudi Arabia


    10. The town of Narvik is the most northerly on earth, but the Gulf Stream warms it up a bit!

    11. Before long she came to admire the man for his intellect, for his patience and for his sensitivity to the cultural gulf between them, and most of all for his ability to understand the meaning of what she told him about Angel society


    12. Most of these are in the southeast Gulf of Mexico, and are a chain of islands


    13. "I think what is the most unlikely is that we were allowed to grow up here all isolated when the first species to cross the gulf between stars should have settled the whole galaxy in a geological instant


    14. They’re at the northern tip of our gulf, while Smyrna anchors the southern end


    15. They followed the same route by which ships were hauled on sledges over the ridge to the port of Isthmia on the Saronic Gulf


    16. As they headed into the Saronic Gulf, she saw Stenarch arrive on the dock, trailed by a score of guards


    17. With the Gulf Stream disrupted, the world begins to freeze


    18. soon as his health returned, he was ordered to duty on the sloop of war, Vandalia operating in the Gulf of Mexico


    19. commanders, operating in the Gulf of Mexico and the Windward


    20. Waddell joined her in Pensacola, Florida, and as he later put it, he entered into his old occupation of cruising in the Gulf of

    21. the Gulf fleet, directed his ships to proceed with dispatch from Veracruz, on the east coast of Mexico, to Point Isabel, at


    22. In July 1860, they were ordered to the Gulf of Pecheli, where


    23. Farragut, on his flagship USS Hartford of the Union’s West Gulf Blockading Squadron, was steaming westward along with


    24. the Mississippi, out into the Gulf of Mexico, and from there he


    25. By this time, the South had well over five hundred ships in their arsenal, and they were stationed all around the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico


    26. particularly on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States


    27. He needs to stop tinkering and allow some drilling, preferably in ANWR and the American gulf coast


    28. Some of the blame for US, allied, and Iraqi deaths in both the Gulf and Second Iraq Wars have to be laid at Nixon and Kissinger's callous bumbling


    29. This/these remarkable event(s) quickly brought to mind the Persian Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm) waged ten years earlier by coalition forces led by the United States against Iraq who, having invaded Kuwait and seizing possession of its oil wells, was making veiled threats against its Saudi (Arabian) neighbor


    30. Fully half of all Americans opposed the Gulf War before it began

    31. Its significance was proved again during the Persian Gulf War in the 1990s, where both General Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr


    32. During the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein threatened that over 800 Americans and other westerners would be used as hostages against US and Allied bombing


    33. What: Operations Provide Comfort I and II and the establishment of the No Fly Zones in Operation Northern Watch and Operation Southern Watch following the Gulf War


    34. Up to a million Kurds fled Iraq immediately after the Gulf War


    35. In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein appeared to be weakening


    36. Ironically, Bush lost re election in 1992, in part because many considered the Gulf War a failure because Hussein was not overthrown


    37. He was condemned more for the Iraq War he failed to fight, one that would have failed, rather than condemned for the Gulf War that should not have been fought at all


    38. Opposition to both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars was the highest in both US and world history, even greater than either the US-Vietnam War or the Gulf War


    39. But this is still in the Americas, and only in the nations near the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean


    40. In the UN and US protected zone for Kurds, the death rate was dramatically less, in fact lower than before the Gulf War

    41. , rescuing Kurds at the end of the Gulf War


    42. Hussein had served in the Republican Guard during the Gulf war


    43. Hussein had turned to the west towards the start of the Gulf War and fled across the lines to his British captives where he was welcomed with open hands


    44. In the far distance, we could see the gulf


    45. ” The cheapest place on that strip overlooking the gulf probably weighed in at a million and a half plus


    46. When the 686 intersected Gulf Boulevard, I turned left through the Beach and on into Sand Key


    47. Some are geographic; Two rivers, the Tigris and its sister the Euphrates, meander over the width and length of this silt-filled valley before joining, then pouring over an extensive delta and into what is called today the Persian Gulf


    48. My feeling is that this scenario finds support again in the environmental record, in that the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are reported to have emptied into the Persian Gulf farther inland than they do today


    49. This could have been caused by a rise in the Persian Gulf level from other “seas” pushing in, or from the large meltwater release that would have rushed down through the mountain valleys and into the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers


    50. It would most likely have carried large amounts of silt and other debris, depositing it upon the flooded lower reaches of the twin rivers, but washing much of it into the gulf where it would have extended the delta lands ever farther from its ancient beginnings somewhere just south east of Ur, in the land of Sumer (Babylonia, Akkad of old)














































    1. gulfed with his giant one was a sensation she wanted to


    1. "I don’t know, last thing I remember was having sex with Sean, and him leaving to go gulfing


    1. gulfs, sandy beaches invite you to leave the


    2. He stares not at this world, and not at the demons or their world, but at some distant unfathomable gulfs that Michael Garrett shudders to think about


    3. Who knows? They have gone back into the still waters of the lakes, the quiet hearts of the hills, the gulfs beyond the stars


    4. 'But the life in me was stronger than the life in common folk, for it partakes of the essence of the forces that seethe in the black gulfs beyond mortal ken


    5. At times he talked to Sancha, wildly it seemed to her, of lost continents, and fabulous isles dreaming unguessed amidst the blue foam of nameless gulfs, where horned dragons guarded treasures gathered by pre-human kings, long, long ago


    6. It was not human, this one; it was a demoniacal caterwauling of hideous triumph that seemed to exult over fallen humanity and find echo in black gulfs beyond human ken


    7. Sword in hand he went through the gray mist, as a man might walk through clouds, and the voice grew more distinct as he proceeded until he understood the word it spoke—it was his own name that was being called across the gulfs of Space or Time


    8. Those eyes grew and became gigantic, and in them the Cimmerian glimpsed the reality of all the abysmal and blasphemous horrors that lurk in the outer darkness of formless voids and nighted gulfs


    9. We brought his spirit back over the voids and gulfs of night and oblivion


    10. I have been in a far land, across misty voids and gulfs and unlit oceans

    11. 'Was it a mortal's sword that felled you in your tent before the fight? Nay, it was a child of the dark, a waif of outer space, whose fingers were afire with the frozen coldness of the black gulfs, which froze the blood in your veins and the marrow of your thews


    12. The car came to a halt and immediately an escort rose from underground through a conveyor that injected them out of their gulfs


    13. defeat widened into gulfs of apathy and surrender and I would writhe with anguish as I


    14. shipboard: its properties for cleansing, quenching thirst and fire, nourishing vegetation: its infallibility as paradigm and paragon: its metamorphoses as vapour, mist, cloud, rain, sleet, snow, hail: its strength in rigid hydrants: its variety of forms in loughs and bays and gulfs and bights and guts and lagoons and atolls and archipelagos and sounds and fjords and minches and tidal estuaries and arms of sea: its solidity in glaciers, icebergs, icefloes: its docility in working hydraulic millwheels, turbines, dynamos, electric power stations, bleachworks, tanneries, scutchmills: its utility in canals, rivers, if navigable, floating and graving docks: its potentiality derivable from harnessed tides or watercourses falling from level to level: its submarine fauna and flora (anacoustic, photophobe), numerically, if not literally, the inhabitants of the globe: its ubiquity as constituting 90 percent of the human body: the noxiousness of its effluvia in lacustrine marshes, pestilential fens, faded flowerwater, stagnant pools in the waning moon


    15. The line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are continually moving in front of each other


    16. of the gulfs which he had beneath his great coat


    17. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save


    18. This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs


    19. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create frightful gulfs!


    20. He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy rains, with two gulfs to right and left, unable to stir, subject to the giddiness of a possible fall, and to the horror of a certain arrest, and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these ideas to the other: "Dead if I fall, caught if I stay

    21. lost in the gulfs the well-being of all


    22. It came from the stars and the black velocities, and the shining movements, and the silent gulfs of space


    23. ‘So he could try to mortar up the gaps for me, fill in the gulfs with noise and warm water and words and hands touching me, and all that? No, thanks


    24. “So he could try to mortar up the gaps for me, fill in the gulfs with noise and warm water and words and hands touching me, and all that? No, thanks


    25. As we have seen, God came upon him in the whale, and swallowed him down to living gulfs of doom, and with swift slantings tore him along 'into the midst of the seas,' where the eddying depths sucked him ten thousand fathoms down, and 'the weeds were wrapped about his head,' and all the watery world of woe bowled over him


    26. We have steadily driven him from one hunting ground to another, over the rivers and beyond the lakes, hemmed him in from the gulfs and the oceans, crowded him off the prairies into rugged mountains, compelled him to sell his native lands, and have let loose the dogs of war upon him, because, forsooth, he has had the manhood to resist our march of doom against his race


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    Synonyms for "gulf"

    disconnect disconnection gulf chasm ravine depth inlet cove sound arm expanse hiatus interregnum

    "gulf" definitions

    an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay


    an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)


    a deep wide chasm