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wight
1. I found it while ferreting around in the ruins of a castle stronghold in the north of Wales where she was imprisoned for some time before being transferred to Wight where she spent the last years of her life
2. I often remember that weekend we stole, the one when we went to the Isle of Wight … in mad moments, I’d try to picture what it would be like if we were together always and now …’ His voice is all husky and his eyes are bright with unshed tears
3. As we drove into Lymington, I suddenly remembered something I’d heard once about a car ferry over to the Isle of Wight going from Lymington
4. We’d sat on the rocks and he’d told me that, as a child, he’d come to the Isle of Wight on a school trip once and fallen in love with it
5. On July 23rd, 1885, he married Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice, at Whippingham Church, in the Isle of Wight, and there are three sons and one daughter of the marriage, the eldest of whom was only nine years old on his father's sad decease
6. As he settled into a seat and watched the opening scenes, McKee relived his fantasy of being the Chief of Police in Amity, instead of the Captain of a hovercraft on the Isle of Wight
7. “Are you piloting the Isle of Wight back across to the mainland Ron?” he asked
8. He’d just given them a brief outline of the incidents on the Isle of Wight and in Portsmouth
9. One in Fraton by the A2047 outside Portsmouth, the other aboard the HMS Monmouth, at present located south of the Isle of Wight
10. “We have a civilian helicopter leaving the Isle of Wight
11. As you are probably aware from the recent news reports, the Isle of Wight is under threat from terrorists
12. Nobody knew Ollie Harris’s actual age, but his family had moved to the Isle of Wight in the late ‘90’s, his mother dying of cancer shortly afterwards
13. The headlines screamed out at him: TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT
14. The Prime Minister was due to give an announcement later in the day, in the meantime all ferry traffic to and from the Isle of Wight had been suspended and a no-fly zone had been introduced
15. Dawn’s stuck on the Isle of Wight and
16. “Isle of Wight? What the hell are you ranting on about?”
17. Alex swore loudly, jabbing his finger towards the coastline - now approaching at a rapid rate - trying to make it clear that he was going to land on the Isle of Wight whether or not it was a restricted area
18. “Christchurch harbour,” he said watching the lights on the Isle of Wight fade away in the gloom
19. The journey across the Sound and around to the southern side of the Isle of Wight had gone without a hitch, the Dawn running silently on her batteries
20. “Mines back on the Isle of Wight
21. The broadcasts were full of reports about the soldiers that had been sent to the Isle of Wight to cull all the infected cats
22. We could fly out to the Isle of Wight, or fly up to Southampton and come back by way of St
23. bring in a bunch of Oliver Wight consultants and start plastering your
24. Coming into sharp contact with the underside of a timber shelf, the wight instinctively travelled magically upwards through the wood to avoid injury only to clatter the top of his skull off the undersides of the various glass and earthenware vessels stored atop the shelf
25. Their contents splattered every surface of the larder, drenching the wight in a spray of wine, milk, olive oil and vinegar
26. He also performed at the Monterey International Pop festival in June 1967 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970
27. Balmoral for Osborne Castle on the Isle of Wight
28. She tossed fireballs over her back blindly, hoping to catch the wight, but something slammed into the back of her neck, and she collapsed onto the floor
29. She felt weak and knew that the wight had drained her of energy
30. The hiss of the wight let them know her image had been seen
31. "Well, then, you are wrong there," said he of the Grove; "for those island governments are not all satisfactory; some are awkward, some are poor, some are dull, and, in short, the highest and choicest brings with it a heavy burden of cares and troubles which the unhappy wight to whose lot it has fallen bears upon his shoulders
32. The unlucky wight did not speak so low but that Roque overheard him, and drawing his sword almost split his head in two, saying, "That is the way I punish impudent saucy fellows
33. And that year she went with him to the Isle of Wight for a holiday
34. At length, it would seem, his patient industry found its reward; for, without explanation or apology, he pronounced aloud the words "Isle of Wight," drew a long, sweet sound from his pitch-pipe, and then ran through the preliminary modulations of the air whose name he had just mentioned, with the sweeter tones of his own musical voice
35. "Isle of Wight!" repeated David, looking about him with that dignity with which he had long been wont to silence the whispering echoes of his school; "'tis a brave tune, and set to solemn words! let it be sung with meet respect!"
36. cheer and rich was on the board that no wight could devise a fuller ne richer
37. “Stupid Bravery,” says Horatio, “for he means to lead the Prisoners out of Newgate and to the London Docks or e’en as far as Southampton or the Isle of Wight, where he plans to commandeer a Ship to take ’em to the New World
38. I have secur’d—I cannot tell you how—a two-masted Brig, the Hazard, which is anchor’d off the Isle of Wight
39. O I wept bitter Tears both at Coxtart’s Misunderstanding of my Plight, and the dread News that three whole Days had pass’d, and here it was too late to reach the Isle of Wight!
40. So the Rebellion had not fail’d! Yet who were the seven Men kill’d? Was Lancelot amongst them? And did they truly escape and reach the Isle of Wight? Upon this the News-Sheet was anguishingly silent
41. Smellie and Lord Bellars beat with angry Fists against the Door, screaming to be admitted; but I could no more rise to unlock it than I could fly to the Isle of Wight to join Lancelot (who, in my Delirium, I fancied still to be awaiting me there)
42. Before too long we had weigh’d Anchor again and were under Sail on our Way to the Downs, where we did not tarry owing to an Easterly Wind (so Cocklyn later told us) which took us, with great Dispatch, ’round the Isle of Wight, and thro’ the choppy and blust’ry Channel
43. ‘Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwonov! That’s not wight! Look at me,’ cried
44. That’s all wight
45. —British training ship Eurydice, a frigate, foundered near the Isle of Wight; 300 lives lost
46. By various experiments in the Isle of Wight and at St
47. Considering that with two legs man is but a hobbling wight in all times of danger; considering that the pursuit of whales is always under great and extraordinary difficulties; that every individual moment, indeed, then comprises a peril; under these circumstances is it wise for any maimed man to enter a whale-boat in the hunt? As a general thing, the joint-owners of the Pequod must have plainly thought not
48. But if there happen to be an unduly slender, clumsy, or timorous wight in the ship, that wight is certain to be made a ship-keeper
49. “Who’s that curtseying there? Cadet Miwónov! That’s not wight! Look at me,” cried Denísov who, unable to keep still on one spot, kept turning his horse in front of the squadron
50. He pointed to the far-away coast line of the Isle of Wight
