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Stormalong was said to be a sailor and a giant, some 30 feet tall ; he was the master of a huge clipper ship known in various sources as either the Courser or the Tuscarora, a ship so tall that it had hinged masts to avoid catching on the moon.
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* Captain Stormalong was an American folk hero and the subject of numerous nautical-themed tall tales originating in Massachusetts.
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* Stormalong Bay – The main pool complex at Disney's Yacht and Beach Club resorts that resembles a beach-side water park with its sand-bottom pools, a circular lazy river, waterfall, and the " Shipwreck ", a large replica of a ship wreck with one of the highest resort water slides at Walt Disney World.
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Popular shanties of the 1850s included “ A Hundred Years Ago ,” “ One More Day ,” “ Santiana ,” “ Haul on the Bowline ,” “ Across the Western Ocean ,” and especially “ Stormalong .”
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Other American folk heroes that have been called fakelore include Old Stormalong, Febold Feboldson, Daddy Joe, Daddy Mention, Big Mose, Tony Beaver, Bowleg Bill, Whiskey Jack, Annie Christmas, Cordwood Pete, and Antonine Barada.
The Stormalong Bay pool complex offers a poolside counter service restaurant and bar, a shallow area for children, and an elevated tanning deck.
Stormalong Bay is centrally located between both the Beach Club Resort and the Yacht Club Resort, facing Crescent Lake.
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Normally Hague wasted no words, but now he found himself unable to stop their flow although he knew Kodyke was aware of all he said.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
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He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
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That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
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He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
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Its front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.
she must be poised and proud and unafraid in order to prove to the mountain that she was in earnest.
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Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.
Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.
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