"If you look out towards what you call the breakwater, you see all the edges right now with the rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Southern Gazette: News] Reference
What we're calling the breakwater is obviously working. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Rising]
On the other side of the breakwater is a choppy small bay where the more experienced snorkelers go out. From Wordnik.com. [billingsgazette.com] Reference
The breakwater, which is a good half mile in length, is a favorite promenade for the citizens of Colombo. From Wordnik.com. [Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days] Reference
The bay is admirably sheltered by the land on three sides, while on the North it is sheltered by a large breakwater, which is protected and leaves passage for vessels. From Wordnik.com. [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference
If it had not been for them, in fact, there probably would never have been a "breakwater" at all. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Rising]
A 230 metrepassage-entrance channel will be created at the breakwater which is. From Wordnik.com. [IntelliBriefs] Reference
Colonsay was too low an island to be any kind of breakwater against a western gale, so the weather was bad from the start. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Within the breakwater the sea is alive with craft. '. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Pomègue and Ratoneau are connected by a breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.] Reference
The great ship slipped through the breakwater of Alexandria. From Wordnik.com. [The Kangaroo Marines] Reference
At three she struck on the sand close to the breakwater -- not. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Just before sunrise we dropped anchor inside Plymouth breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
He built a safe harbor behind a breakwater of lies and fabrication. From Wordnik.com. [Achieving Inner Peace without facebook] Reference
June 12 -- Austrian aeroplanes drop bombs on the breakwater of Bari, on. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
"Whose boat is that moored to the breakwater?" asked Orme, lowering the glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
Sea and the lagoon of Venice, which acts as a kind of natural breakwater to Venice. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Sennen can boast a new breakwater, and every scrap of harbourage is often badly needed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The massive breakwater might also become an effective obstacle to unfriendly navigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
She appeared the next morning off the Chatham breakwater, "taxi-ing" under her own power. From Wordnik.com. [Opportunities in Aviation] Reference
Soon we could distinguish the great breakwater that almost closes the entrance to the Sound. From Wordnik.com. ["The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders] Reference
The vessel often drops anchor far from land, in channels having neither wharf nor breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
They thus form a natural and useful breakwater towards the east, creating the anchorage of the. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
A launch that was moored at the outer end of the breakwater lay quiet on the tideless surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
The notion of walking out on the breakwater at night may seem interesting, and even attractive. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Johansmeyer: Five Non-Golf Reasons to Visit the Samoset Resort] Reference
The latter consists of an outer breakwater, forming an obtuse angle nearly two miles in length. From Wordnik.com. [Shepp's Photographs of the World] Reference
Once that breakwater was swept away, he could not speak for France, but he trembled for his own country. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: One More War, Please] Reference
Mr. Gordon was interested to see where the breakwater was to be, for which government had been petitioned. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
We have illustrations of this law of reflection in the case of water waves striking against a breakwater, or. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
The city is built on the shores of a large bay, sheltered from adverse winds by an island that acts as a breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
There was a remarkable pharos built at Ostia by the Emperor Claudius, which was erected on an artificial breakwater. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
There, in the shelter of the breakwater, was old Hrolfur's boat, its mast already stepped, with the sail wrapped round it. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Icelandic Short Stories] Reference
~ -- The breakwater extends out from the shore and consists of a prism of concrete resting on timber cribs filled with stone. From Wordnik.com. [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference
The extension of the western breakwater is also completed, and from its outer extremity a small green light will be exhibited. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91] Reference
The steady rhythm of the waves against the breakwater reached him in sharp contrast to the brooding stillness of the channel water. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Though the surface rises several feet above normal high water, there are many times when the breakwater is swept by waves from end to end. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The damage to the eastern breakwater caused by the cyclone of last year has been repaired, and the structure has been greatly strengthened. From Wordnik.com. [Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91] Reference
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