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1 It has a small shoal of 30 fathoms rising suddenly from the surrounding mud.
2 Portaged to small shoal lakes and camped on north side, ready to start in A.M.
3 The small shoal falls off rapidly on all sides.
4 There is said to be a small shoal "peak" of 35 fathoms here.
5 It has a sharp, broken, rocky bottom, including a small shoal of 20 fathoms and some hummocks of rather greater depths.
6 This is the thing that the BBC and the quartet of judges, who now pout like a small shoal of beached porpoises, hadn't anticipated.
7 Outside, small shoals of children run between the legs of their horses, chasing, squealing and diving.
8 There is a tolerably clear passage about 8 miles wide between them and the shore, though this has some small shoals in it.)
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