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January 8, 2008 at 7:17 am der clingon an teh starbord bow starbord bow starbord bow der clingon an teh starbord bow skraype em ahf jim!
OMG, is fulla starz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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October 9, 2008 at 1:29 am awn the starbord arm awn the starbord arm awn the starbord arm, jim
nao you no goes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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So if you are on the Voyager and want to have wireless access, go to deck 11, where the adult pools are, starbord side forward near the entrance.
Ahoy, Wi-Fi Connection - Pogue’s Posts Blog - NYTimes.com 2006
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Across our starbord bow I could see her looming darkly in the mysterious nocturnal glow of the moonless Amtorian night, her lanterns white and colored points of light, her watch dimly visible upon her decks.
Pirates of Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1962
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On the starbord side, so to speak, the sap-wood has grown out in an abnormal manner, and one of the lines indicative of a year's growth is one and seven-eighths inches in width, the widest growth, many experts who have seen the specimen say, that was ever recorded.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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Wheneber dey am on de larbord, you look for long-nose on de starbord.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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On boring into one of the second futtock timbers in the cockpit, on each side, we find it to be sound on the starbord, but on the other side rotten: the inside plank on both sides is rotten.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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Next day, a boat was sent to fish with the seine upon Sweers 'Island, and an officer went to the opposite shore to dig for water; the botanists divided themselves into two parties, to visit both islands, and the carpenters began caulking the starbord side of the ship.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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The channel was now five or six miles wide, and no interruption yet appeared; but breakers were seen a-head before two o'clock, and seemed to connect the reefs to leeward with those on the weather side; and there being a small opening on the starbord beam, we bore away north-west through it, towards the Investigator's track.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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Mount Adolphus to be 142° 40 'east; we then hauled up for Cape York, with soundings between 14 and 10 fathoms, leaving on the starbord hand a rock which lies S. 78° W. five miles from the north end of the western isle.
A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Matthew Flinders 1794
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