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1. "The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water."
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William Shakespeare, Hamlet
2. "His barge has obviously been spirited away by Charles Ferguson, who has also had his criminal"
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Jack Higgins, The Wolf at the Door
3. "We start by sinking a barge," I decided. Then I blinked and looked at the Erlking. "Can we sink a barge?" The shadow-masked Erlking tilted his head slightly to one side, his burning eyes narrowed. "Wizard, please."
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Jim Butcher, Cold Days
4. "HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper? MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge..."
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George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
5. "A barge of mist floated along the water, and dragonflies, iridescent blue ones, darted back and forth like they were stitching up the air."
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Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
6. "and a barge that sailed into the banqueting-hall with his week’s washing, just as he was giving a dinner-party; and he was"
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Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
7. "It was to have been a quiet evening at home. Home is the Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale."
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John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-Bye
8. "[A] pile driver was improvised by mounting a large steam donkey engine, a steam hammer, and a timber tower on a barge."
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Quote by Ray Bottenberg
9. "This was because his badge was attached to his belt in close proximity to his fly, and I didn’t want to seem too interested. Sorry to barge in unannounced, he went on."
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Sue Grafton, X
10. "Huge with child, and lumbering about dressed in black - I'll look like one of those hopper-barges loaded with refuse and sent out to sea." "You're too small to be a barge," Cassandra said. "You'll be a tugboat."
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Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne