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whole and harbour
The quay and area in front of the Harbour Inn is called " Blackshore ", although this name is often, but incorrectly, used to refer to the whole harbour.
Daniel Defoe enlivens this account of the Waveney's Broads course: The River Waveney is a considerable river, and of a deep and full channel, navigable for large barges as high as Beccles ; it runs for a course of about fifty miles, between the two counties of Suffolk and Norfolk, as a boundary to both ; and pushing on, tho ' with a gentle stream, towards the sea, no one would doubt, but, that when they see the river growing broader and deeper, and going directly towards the sea, even to the edge of the beach ; that is to say, within a mile of the main ocean ; no stranger, I say, but would expect to see its entrance into the sea at that place, and a noble harbour for ships at the mouth of it ; when on a sudden, the land rising high by the sea-side, crosses the head of the river, like a dam, checks the whole course of it, and it returns, bending its course west, for two miles, or thereabouts ; and then turning north, thro ' another long course of meadows ( joining to those just now mention'd ) seeks out the River Yare, that it may join its water with hers, and find their way to the sea together.
During the nearly one-year siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, the fortifications on the Malakhov were hotly contested as they overlooked the whole city and the inner harbour.
Splitska also became the most important harbour to carry stone to Salona and the whole of Dalmatia.
While the first defences focused on Portsmouth harbour, in concert with the Fortifications of Gosport, later defensive structures protected the whole of Portsea Island and an increasing distance inland.
It is not sure if the Carthaginians planned the whole affair, but the Roman fleet was trapped in the harbour by Hannibal Gisco.
The whole voyage lasted more than three years and in the course of it Beechey discovered several islands in the Pacific, and an excellent harbour near Cape Prince of Wales.
Together these two forts put the whole of Portland harbour and the roads within range of their artillery, thus protecting shipping from foreign raiders, and preventing an invading landing force from forming up offshore.
In its original form ' Otago ' it was the name of the channel off Wellers Rock but was transferred to the lower harbour as a whole, the port, the nearby Māori settlements and the Weller brothers ' whaling establishment-one of the region's oldest European settlements, having been founded in 1831.
In November 1824 the worst ever storm occurred: three houses were destroyed, the whole of one pier and half the other were swept away and nearly 50 boats in the harbour were dashed to pieces.
Owen took his wife to the highest hill on the island and looking across the harbour he named the island and the whole peninsula ' Beara ' in honour of his wife.
Due to reclamation of the harbour, the whole of Connaught Road has now become landlocked.
For centuries, the harbour at Eyrarbakki was the main port in the south of the country, and Eyrarbakki was the trading centre for the whole of the southern region extending from Selvogur in the west to Lómagnúpur in the east.
As the town slopes steeply away from its shore and harbour, and the museum is situated some way inland, the building's central tower is one of the town's tallest structures and commands panoramic views across the whole region.

whole and front
There was now a pause in the battle: Marlborough wanted to concert the attack upon the whole front, and Eugene, after his second repulse, needed time to reorganize.
The time was about 16: 30, and the two armies were in close contact across the whole four-mile ( 6 km ) front, from the skirmishing in the marshes in the south, through the vast cavalry battle on the open plain ; to the fierce struggle for Ramillies at the centre, and to the north, where, around the cottages of Offus and Autre-Eglise, Orkney and de la Guiche faced each other across the Petite Gheete ready to renew hostilities.
With the surrogate tombstone placed in front of him and the almost holy light cast upon the whole scene ; alluding to an out of this world existence.
The wreckage all evidenced an impact from left to right, wiping the whole front of the boat off in that direction.
Frequently, where the determinant is itself a kenning, the base-word of the kenning that makes up the determinant is attached uninflected to the front of the base-word of the whole kenning to form a compound word: mög-fellandi mellu “ son-slayer of giantess ”
The same year, the front sides and radiator grille were restyled on the whole Samara range.
Therefore, looking at an image of oneself with the front / back axis flipped is the same as looking at an image with the left / right axis flipped and the whole figure rotated 180 degrees about the vertical axis, which is exactly what one sees when standing in front of a mirror.
Furthermore, azhdarchid front limbs as a whole were proportioned similarly to fast-running ungulate mammals.
His handling of the situation earned him praise from King Carol I, who sent Crown Prince ( future monarch ) Ferdinand to congratulate him in front of the whole garrison.
The first generator proved too small to power the whole building, and though the entire front of house was electrically lit, the stage was lit by gas until 28 December 1881.
While angry like his punk contemporaries, Numan suppressed his anger and " got really hung up with this whole thing of not feeling, being cold about everything, not letting emotions get to you, or presenting a front of not feeling ".
The theory was that the front teams, usually oxen, would get out of water first and with good footing help pull the whole string of wagons and teams across.
Bruce then committed his whole Scots army to an inexorable bloody push into the disorganised English mass, fighting side by side across a single front.
For the whole season Bridgestone provided four different specifications of front tyre, six of rear, and a single wet specification — no qualifying specification.
A two story addition was added to the front in 1905 with a new four story tower giving the courthouse a whole new appearance.
In an attempt to make his new album a success, Prince easily gave more interviews than at any other point in his career, appearing on MTV's Total Request Live ( with his album cover on the front of the Virgin Megastore, in the background on TRL throughout the whole show ), Larry King Live ( with Larry Graham ) and other media outlets.
Pockets of enemy resistance still fought on behind the American front line, and the whole beachhead remained under artillery fire.
His plan was simple: he would launch an all-out attack across the whole front at 11: 00 on 1 June.
He was executed at the prison in front of the prisoners and the whole garrison.
The whole column, which had been marching right-to-left past the front of the Mantinean army then ' right-faced ', so that they were now in a battle line, facing the Mantineans.
This also compresses the front " volute " spring pulling the whole cylinder forwards.
After a pistol whipping, Murphy shot him in front of his whole unit of about twenty men and then returned to finish his drink at the bar.
At last the whole crowd descends on the front porch of Mel's true biological parents, Richard and Mary Schlichting.

whole and was
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.
Fresh on his mind were events of the past day when his whole regiment was destroyed in the hills.
Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.
From high in the tree, the whole block lay within range of the eye, but the ground was almost nowhere visible.
Miriam had not yet goaded him into mentioning her directly, but one can feel the generalized anger in Wright's remarks to reporters when he was asked, one morning on arrival in Chicago, what he thought of the city as a whole.
Moreover, because of the particular blot on your family escutcheon through what may only have been one unbridled moment on your grandmother's part, and because you had the lean-to kitchen and trundle bed of your childhood to outgrow, what you obviously most desired with both your conscious and unconscious person, what you bent your whole will, sensibility, and intelligence upon, was to be a lady.
He was always concerned with life, and he tried to picture it whole ; ;
On the surface, the whole question was purely feudal.
`` This whole Washington venture was my last gesture, and it has failed.
Of course the principal factor in the whole experience was the kind of education he received.
For it was the millions of buffalo and prairie chicken and the endless seas of grass that symbolized for a whole generation of Americans the abundant supply that was to take many of them westward when the Ohio and Mississippi valleys began to fill.
The fault was Rameau's and that of the whole culture of this Parisian age.
The furor was such that people who could not possibly have squirmed their way into the rehearsals were pretending that they were intimate with the whole affair and that it would be sensational.
Between the telephone and the wall plug there was sixty feet of cord, and when the conversation came to an end, Eugene carried the instrument with him the whole length of the apartment, to his bathroom, where it rang three more times while he was shaving and in the tub.
`` Nothing's free in the whole goddam world '', was all I could think of to say.
a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.
Cuban S.S.R.: Whatever may have been the setbacks resulting from the unsuccessful attempt of the Cuban rebels to establish a beachhead on the Castro-held mainland last week, there was at least one positive benefit, and that was the clear-cut revelation to the whole world of the complete conversion of Cuba into a Russian-dominated military base.
While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.
He was very funny about the whole thing.
The desired amounts of inactive chlorine and radioactive chlorine were likewise condensed in these cells on the vacuum line following which they were frozen down and the manifold as a whole was sealed off.
When paper electrophoresis was to be used for preparation, eight strips of a whole serum sample or a chromatographic fraction concentrated by negative pressure dialysis were run/chamber under the conditions described above.

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