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Word: floating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stranded float was successfully launched yesterday at high tide, after many attempts. Long beams, reaching to the water, were placed under it and by means of rollers it was slid into the water. The float will be at once repaired, and the bridges placed in position as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/14/1882 | See Source »

...looked at the thick clouds that were rolling blackly in from the south-east and then at the white-crested waves breaking over the black, jagged rocks. The tide was coming in very swiftly. The float that held half-a-dozen little row-boats was thumping restlessly against the pier where I stood. A single yacht was dancing up and down like a feather at her moorings a few rods away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...float has broken loose, an' the boats are gone - an' it 's too late...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...Boat-house. The Varsity Crew are rowing by; MINNIE and JIM are on the Float...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT WE ARE COMING TO; OR, HARVARD IN 1981. | 1/14/1881 | See Source »

...float through life together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUGHT! | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

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