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1. The plots within a day's paddle of the city center are a maze of canals, most of them only about six feet wide
2. Here they got to paddle down the old inner harbor for almost a mile, lit only by the bow lanterns of ships at dock
3. We didn’t have time to go there but he says there is a small cove where you can paddle or swim
4. Anyway, the upshot is that she now has a baby – well, he’s a toddler really - and the relationship has fallen apart leaving the girl completely up the creek with no paddle
5. It was a pretty big boat, it definitely weighed over a ton loaded, it wasn’t something you wanted to paddle around a lot
6. “I’ve never really learned to paddle,” was all she said
7. He could point out that he could easily paddle them to the lake but he knew she wasn’t interested “It’s OK, I seldom get to take it out more than a few times a year myself
8. Things were a little tight to be taking a public needleboat, so he got on a u-paddle and figured on getting his exercise for the week on an eleven mile paddle
9. He got on with a group of tourists however and they gawked at the miles of crystal walls they had to paddle thru where the canals run close to each other
10. pedalloes (paddle boats to the uninitiated)
11. Then I noticed that he had a paddle
12. that he had a paddle to help keep his raft in the current and away
13. The canal was pretty busy with paddle traffic
14. Up the proverbial without a paddle
15. We heard the rhythmic thump of a large paddle
16. There was another tap on my knee and Uncle Hobart stuck a defibrillating paddle under my nose
17. But as was his want, Uncle Hobart ignored me, picking up the other paddle instead
18. He put the paddle in the boat and began going through his bag for the binoculars
19. Bru pulled her into the proximity of the bank, holding the boat with the point of his paddle tucked into the bottom of the river
20. He shoved his paddle way out forwards, then gave a little sweep, with the blade held straight up and down, angled slightly
21. “I’m going to need you to paddle on the left,” said Brubaker over the noise of the rapids
22. Putting a paddle down into the sand to brace himself, balancing carefully with his beer, with the doobie clenched between his lips; he eased up and out of the craft
23. He put the paddle down, and with full zoom on the lens, took a couple of shots
24. “Your turn?” he asked, offering the paddle to me
25. Over the next ten minutes, Sabrina crushed Lisette, who surrendered her paddle to Ross
26. this the “dog paddle
27. His plan was to retrieve the nugget and paddle downstream at night to the next town
28. Not much, he thought, but it might make a kind of a paddle! Better than having to use just my hands
29. His paddle was in his hand, but he hadn’t raised it when the leader spoke
30. A lightning move to his left, a vicious swing of the paddle sent his victim sprawling before he could raise an arm in defense
31. Her eyes couldn’t believe what they saw as Loran charged at her with his paddle in an overhand swing that caught the club arm of the brute who still held her in a chokehold as her champion’s airborne body collided with the flesh of her and the bone of her assailant
32. But without it where, oh where would we be? Up a creek without a paddle, or maybe still in a tree?
33. He did so, but then had to paddle hard to get back over to my side again
34. He would not let me help paddle, but expertly handled the maneuvering by himself
35. numb from the cold, it would only be a matter of time, the sea was quite calm which helped for a little while longer, at least he could paddle before succumbing to the elements
36. Chin raced to the stern with his huge paddle and twisted it to
37. “Christ, you would think he had gotten swept over a wave and he couldn’t paddle back,” said Brian who genuinely had respect for the man
38. 13 And you shall have a paddle on your weapon; and it shall be, when you will ease yourself abroad, you shall dig therewith, and shall turn back and cover that which comes from you:
39. Use the paddle and mix on speed 2 for 2 minutes
40. Halfdan and Yngvild had watched Aunt Anna drag a heavy basket out the front door and hang rugs and drapes and wall-coverings over a pole, then use a paddle to knock out dust
41. But the more you paddle the more stuck you begin to feel
42. , Collins, like Cunard, chose wooden hulls and paddle wheels for his ships
43. ” 19 By spending $600,000 to build a new steamship with an iron hull using a new and more powerful beam engine to drive the propeller, compared to the traditional side-lever engine that drives the paddle, Vanderbilt introduced a more substantial and reliable ship
44. William Tell paddle steamer that takes a nice trip across the lake
45. So close in fact that if she had wanted to, she could have touched it with her paddle
46. Its paddle wheel churned through the blue water
47. She handled the gear paddle, shifted gear, and we were
48. Tendulkar has incorporated several modern and unorthodox strokes into his repertoire, including the paddle sweep, the scoop over short fine leg and the slash to third man over the slips' heads, over the last seven or eight years
49. She sits there, her head above water bobbing up and down treading in doggy paddle fashion
50. The paddle was ripped out of his hands at once and sucked away into the vortex
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. They paddled across to the north one and went under one of those echoing stone buildings, under a couple on a bridge still trying to decide if they would spend the sleep together
4. Anyway, I paddled out into the Tahoe and one by one, making trip after trip, I submerged my treasures in the lake
5. I paddled on for hours, until it was The Maiden’s Odyssey
6. Staring intently at the lighter patch of water ahead, he paddled his feet through the cold liquid, relieving the, pressure in his lungs by trickling small bubbles of air from his mouth
7. She and her older half-brother paddled to the far end of the lake in a canoe, where he put her off on a tiny islet, telling her he would leave her there unless she appeared naked on the beach
8. But, off she went in her glass-bottom boat, more interested in male tourists with dollars than any fish with scales, while Sylvia paddled away in a dugout with Angel in search of local real estate
9. LP entered the water with the other surfers, and paddled out to find the best spot for the perfect wave
10. At first the craft lurched from side to side as he seemed to try to use the full extent of the sweep of his arms, but the raft was built more for towing in a canal, as she’d seen many times, than being paddled on open water
11. We stayed aboard at Theodore’s request and Ganook bid us all farewell and quietly slipped into his boat and paddled ashore for the night
12. Yuta paddled over another wave, his face red from the cold wind and icy water; without
13. A wave peaked up and he turned and paddled for it
14. He seemed genuinely surprised by my offer, but jumped at the chance and quickly paddled off
15. Derek rose from his chair and slowly paddled out into the balmy
16. redirected water, where domesticated birds most likely paddled
17. The surfer screamed something about bad mushrooms and paddled away from us as fast as he could
18. Jai draped himself over the side of the boat and paddled frantically with his hands
19. Jai and Ceder paddled with such intensity that the boat picked up a shred of speed—although this may have owed to the wind—but the loop they were seeking to escape was impossibly wide and they were nowhere near the edge
20. He paddled to the carven stair as one familiar with his environs, and moored the boat to a projection of the rock
21. He looked out at the river where a small canoe was being paddled by a man
22. By the time Henderson had paddled the few kilometers
23. She paddled her way out and I just stood there yelling at her to turn
24. Screaming like a whistle Joey paddled with his hands wildly, feeling the hard tug when he caught something and gripped it
25. She proceeded to gorge herself on a feast of waves, while he swam, paddled and got thoroughly thrashed by the white water
26. She pulled out next to him and paddled out with him
27. She paddled into position and took one stroke to drop into a steep five-foot wall
28. As he paddled the long five hundred yards back to the takeoff, he admired the golden sunset and the beautiful rainbow of colours it painted across the western sky
29. We paddled in the
30. With this going around her mind, Nancy paddled at a steady cadence, heading towards the spot on the South Shore from where the canoes of Laplume had appeared, at the future site of the city of Longueuil, itself only a few kilometers from the future city of Boucherville, the original hometown of her deceased timeline twin
31. As we paddled upstream through the early morning mist, we could hear the strong voice of Dark Singer filling the air with the stories of River Mother and Ra until they were the only thing we could hear
32. They told me they paddled all the way—downriver as well as upriver—so they could quickly return to tell me how excited the villages were about the coming to the Celebration
33. physical condition as he effortlessly back paddled against the strong current,
34. Next she paddled through the seawater to the
35. It reminded Hal of his and Robbie’s short journey on the raft a few days ago, when they had stood on the platform and paddled gently with shovels
36. paddled in a shallow muddy part while the others talked
37. Charon paddled his long stick through the water toward the bank
38. She back paddled up to him, and he felt her momentum through a wave beneath the surface
39. "I'm coming in," she called; and as he did not answer she paddled towards the bay
40. "Well, now I say it because you do," he said, crouching at the opposite end watching her movements as she paddled
41. Ingeborg paddled slowly along the middle of the quiet water towards the sunset, and Ingram sat at the other end with his back to it and watched her becoming more and more transfigured as the sun got lower
42. They paddled in the water
43. Levi thought for a few moments, recalling the small electronic detonators with digital timers that he’d trained with in the Navy in mock raids in rubber boats silently paddled to shore
44. They’d paddled their kayaks over the grassy surface of the marsh while the full moon reflected off the water’s surface, blurring the line between sea and sky so they felt as if they were gliding through the air, rather than over the still, shallow water
45. Shapiro paddled away from the house
46. Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fellows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March
47. No, no," continued the scout, looking back at the dim shore of William Henry, which was now fast receding, and laughing in his own silent but heartfelt manner; "I have put a trail of water atween us; and unless the imps can make friends with the fishes, and hear who has paddled across their basin this fine morning, we shall throw the length of the Horican behind us before they have made up their minds which path to take
48. "'Tis a canoe of good birchen bark, and paddled by fierce and crafty Mingoes
49. We paddled out and got aboard—clumb in at an upstairs window
50. I paddled to the raft
1. Exhausted, John feebly paddles, but he seems to be making little progress
2. Most of the traffic was actually hand-paddled kayaks, in places so thick the clack of paddles hitting each other was common
3. Very few vessels were under power like his, most were pulled from the shore with a steersman and a teamsman waving to each other with bright red and blue paddles
4. There were paddles, tentacles and eyes in the water
5. His shell was a heavy eight seater, but they saw he did have extra paddles and the floors looked like the bilge was dry
6. Here it was about play, and the picture showed a group of people in kayaks passing bottles of yaag and grabbing for each other’s paddles and splashing
7. to use their paddles to flow against the current of the river
8. Then I saw others who were not using their paddles because they
9. time until they learned how to use the paddles or someone came
10. and never learned to use the paddles
11. Garrett looked at his nurses, “Crash cart!” Glen and Evans watched as the doctor began performing CPR on his patient while a nurse charged the paddles
12. Then, clicking his dentures, he pressed the red button on the back of one of the paddles
13. A projector was whirring away on a low table and Fin could see that Grant had been playing an on-line shooter game, but instead of the usual hand-held paddles, Grant had an electronic rifle connected to the system
14. Spread out on either side of the covered area were thirty rowers both sitting and standing, paddles in hand, waiting for our arrival
15. As soon as we stepped on board, their paddles dipped into the water in unison and off we went
16. with only sticks to serve as paddles
17. Glasses sinking into the water, he splashes you in the face and paddles out towards the center of the pool
18. above the tall windows at each side were three paddles that were meant for canoes
19. "The paddles need to be used, please put the gloves on and start rowing backwards," the bus
20. conductor ordered the passengers who were sitting next to the paddles to use them
21. 1 Jesus and his friends tarried in Caesarea beyond the time expected because one of the huge steering paddles of the vessel on which they intended to embark was discovered to be in danger of cleaving
22. The motors and paddles were enough to propel the shuttle through the water and upstream at about a kilometer a day
23. Sheila charge paddles to 200! Clear!” Zap!
24. He turned his board around and with only two light paddles angled into a rapidly racing vertical wall of water
25. He was not under military command, this was a civilian enterprise and he was not going to act unlawfully; but he offered to provide them with an inflatable and paddles
26. In the new consoles, the gamepad took over joysticks, paddles, and keypads as the default game controller included with the system
27. One canoe, a large ornately carved and painted dugout draped in garlands of flowers, paddles up to me
28. Another boat paddles up from the left
29. The strokes of the paddles in the water are the only sound
30. As they were about to come alongside with his canoe and still had their hands holding their paddles, Charles Le Moyne suddenly reached for his two pistols and pointed them at the surprised Iroquois
31. electrically charged paddles to the woman’s chest
32. I remember seeing them, and they all had long paddles at the rear of the rafts to steer them as they drifted
33. Steering poles were all but useless in deep water he said, so the two steering oars were needed not only for accurate steering but also for use as paddles and showed us that it was simply a matter of working the steering oars back and forth like fish tails
34. He loves the motion of the paddles and the water and all the villages love the stories he sings
35. Position the patient in their wheelchair with their hands and/or feet in the paddles of the active/passive cycle
36. Position yourself sitting in your wheelchair with your hands and/or feet in the paddles of the active/passive cycle
37. He paddles up to the weir, gets out, picks up his canoe, carries it round to the other side, gets in, and vanishes in the windings of the water and the folds of the hills, leaving the girls in the tennis-courts--you remember the courts are opposite the weir—uncertain whether to titter or to blush, for he wears I suppose the fewest clothes that it is possible to wear and still be called dressed, and no stockings at all
38. One man grabbed some aircraft direction paddles and started to view the sky towards the north
39. • A boating vessel, under sail only, and vessels powered by oars or paddles
40. Sailing craft (not under power) and boats powered by oars or paddles are stand-on vessels when nearing powered driven vessels
41. The whole party now plied their paddles vigorously, and in a very few moments they had reached a point whence they might command an entire view of the northern shore of the island, the side that had hitherto been concealed
42. It was, perhaps, owing to this circumstance, in addition to the necessity of keeping every hand employed at the paddles, that the Hurons had not immediate recourse to their firearms
43. "The imps have put all their strength again at the paddles, and we are to struggle for our scalps with bits of flattened wood, instead of clouded barrels and true eyes
44. The strokes of the paddles grew more measured and regular, while they who plied them continued their labor, after the close and deadly chase from which they had just relieved themselves, with as much coolness as though their speed had been tried in sport, rather than under such pressing, nay, almost desperate, circumstances
45. This caused great confusion on board the steamer, and I heard them calling to us, and heard the order given to stop the paddles, and heard them stop, but felt her driving down upon us irresistibly
46. He was disappointed, but not surprised, to see that there were no masons on the scaffolding, no labourers moving the great stones, no mortar-making women stirring with their giant paddles
47. Another thing, if you touched one of the paddles or anything while you were passing, one of the guards would say to you, "Don't touch anything, children," but he always said it in a nice voice, not like a goddam cop or anything
48. The Mole and the Water Rat had been up since dawn, very busy on matters connected with boats and the opening of the boating season; painting and varnishing, mending paddles, repairing cushions, hunting for missing boat-hooks, and so on; and were finishing breakfast in their little parlour and eagerly discussing their plans for the day, when a heavy knock sounded at the door
49. Outside, a small passenger plane slowed on the runway and taxied towards the terminal, a man in a reflective jacket waving paddles to guide it in
50. Clear as crystal, motionless as a sheet of glass, green as the edge of an iceberg, it stretched in front of us under its leafy archway, every stroke of our paddles sending a thousand ripples across its shining surface
1. Weakly, he pushes the wreckage toward the land, paddling with his feet while still holding on
2. They had to take snapshots and look up many of the megastructures on glossy maps, leaving the natives with a lot of the paddling
3. the happy chatter of the boys paddling around us in the
4. The mist had burned off the water by now and there were a few people paddling about checking the hulls for ripeness
5. To dream that you are paddling with one oar indicates that you are going around in circles and headed nowhere
6. once and that’s what I did, windsurfing and paddling round in that beautiful clear water with my mask and snorkel, watching those
7. He began a desperate swim for the edge of the pool, his feet paddling furiously, long bubbles of air following each paw as it stroked through the water
8. Paddling up the Shashawanaga, Brubaker saw that while the trees in the city were still about fifty percent green, out here the process was a couple of weeks further along
9. Nibbles stopped paddling, turned his head, and nodded
10. Nibbles looked back and saw they were actually leaving a wake, due to Brubaker’s strong paddling and the strength of the current
11. He stopped paddling and they drifted for a while
12. Richard waded through the surf pushing, while Pepé, atop his little seat in the bow, guided to cut the breakers, and soon they were both paddling rhythmically beside the reef, paralleling the coast
13. Lyra had recovered and was now in the water too, having taken her turn in paddling the lilo ashore
14. LP lined up for his first wave, and started paddling for it
15. Derek was doggy paddling but he could feel his legs becoming
16. If his troubles only lay in paddling for his life it would be the
17. He accelerates towards the boater still quickly paddling away
18. They quickly disappeared into the fly cloud, paddling furiously
19. It was made clear to the Keys to The Just Alliance that these informal discussions were of great value to those they spoke with, and that their off-hand commentary on the things they learned consistently led to new breakthroughs and new directions of research, even if their discussions were conducted while enjoying archery practice on the beach or while paddling in the lagoon
20. occasions when there was a truce they would walk down to the river accompanied by the girls and spend some time paddling in the crystal clear waters of the River Feale
21. Then he heard a rhythmic splashing, and peering through the leaves, saw a dugout canoe coming up the river, its single occupant paddling hard against the current
22. This would now leave approximately three and a half minutes until Yang's arms would resume paddling again
23. Mitchell noticed Jose had placed his body horizontally to the surfboard, and then pointed towards Yang, just before paddling towards the beach
24. He pulled out of the wave with a nicely carved turn, dropped onto his board and gave a little, ‘Wahoo!’ There was some zest in his paddling now
25. When he saw one, he lay on his board and exploded in a burst of paddling energy
26. “Yes, when you were four and we had that paddling pool in the back yard
27. De Maisonneuve and the other Frenchmen on the ramparts, soon joined by Closse and Father Lemoyne, then anxiously watched Charles Le Moyne get into a canoe and start paddling away
28. Le Moyne roughly followed the shoreline while paddling upstream, intent on attracting the Iroquois towards the spot where Fernand Bonnet and his four companions were hidden
29. The two chieftains resumed at once their paddling
30. They were paddling back towards the fort when Michel Lorrain shouted a warning
31. Not getting what he wanted, Laplume soon left with his warriors, paddling back to the South Shore
32. Father Lemoyne, sitting in the rear of the canoe, did the same and started paddling in cadence with her
33. With her heart beating faster, Nancy started paddling again, following the lead Iroquois canoe, as the three other Iroquois canoes formed a diamond around her boat, surrounding it while they headed to the South Shore
34. With over a third of their warriors dead or captured before they could themselves fire once, the surviving Iroquois turned their canoes around, paddling desperately to get out of musket range as quickly as possible
35. It sure was neat finding that small feeder creek, and paddling up to that abandoned house
36. After her paddling she didn’t want anything more to do with her mother’s journal, and so four days later, during the new moon, she slipped the Dravadha broach into my apron pocket and ratted on me for stealing
37. Then, suddenly Monkey Mother began paddling to shore
38. strength waned the paddling
39. He stopped his paddling
40. They resembled paddling pools with chicken wire to stop the little crocs from jumping out
41. and four thin legs paddling at the surface
42. Here I was paddling my canoe forward cautiously toward my waterfall of over $300,000
43. Caramarin building sand castles and paddling with Vladimir and they had a late lunch in a new Spanish restaurant by the beach front
44. At last Daphne and the rest of the group were in the water and paddling along the coastline toward the first cave
45. Daphne was glad when they came to the cave and could stop paddling
46. Larry had been right about paddling with the tide
47. Pete reached the kayak and ran with it as far as he could before paddling to the east and out of sight
48. I grinned from ear to ear as I watched him place the little one down with it’s paddling brothers and sisters
49. I stopped to watch a little girl, doggie paddling out to sea
50. In the lily time I get into the miller's punt and make them an excuse for paddling about among the mud islands, and even adventurously exploring the river as it winds into the forest, and the old man watches me anxiously from under the elm
