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1 Just a little ballast to keep them from capsizing in a gale.
2 This would never do, and so a little ballast was thrown out.
3 Young men starting out in life want to carry as little ballast as possible.
4 But the balloon will not rise until you have thrown off a little ballast .
5 We then took in a little ballast , and went up opposite to the dock gates once more.
6 Her spirits as high as ever, and with as little ballast ; and yet she looks so fagged.
7 There is a little ballast left,-sufficient ,ifwe only turn to, and wash out a little more gold, to take us home.
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