aback
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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aback, the situation of the sails of a
square-rigged ship when the
yards are trimmed to bring the wind to bear on their forward side. Sails are laid aback purposely to stop a ship's way through the water or to assist her in
tacking; they are taken aback inadvertently when the ship is brought to by an unexpected change of wind or by the helmsman's lack of attention.
‘Lay all flat aback’ was the order in square-rigged ships to lay all sails aback in order to stop the ship and give her
sternway. When lying at a single anchor such ships normally spread a
mizzen topsail laid aback to prevent the vessel
surging to the anchor and
fouling it with her
cable.
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Colette: Myth and naughty innuendo
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/29/1998; ; 700+ words
; CREATING COLETTE Volume I: From Ingenue to Libertine...writer the world would come to celebrate as Colette once remarked, "They have of me an old...from the woman born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, it is hard to imagine her making such...
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Colette and the Fantom Subject of Autobiography. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...series, Diana Holmes points out that Colette's fiction deals seriously with female...She negates the frequent assumption that Colette's themes are trivial and her male characters...their male counterparts. Holmes praises Colette's realistic precision; her presentation...
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Colette. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...series, Diana Holmes points out that Colette's fiction deals seriously with female...She negates the frequent assumption that Colette's themes are trivial and her male characters...their male counterparts. Holmes praises Colette's realistic precision; her presentation...
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HOW COLETTE SINNED, THEN REDEEMED HERSELF
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/7/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...volume of this exhaustive biography of Colette, the famed French writer, begins. She...whom she had a five-year affair. "Colette herself . . . renounced nothing," write...This concluding volume of "Creating Colette," which spans the last 41 years of the...
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Colette Pechtel
Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 4/9/2003; 618 words
; Keith & Keith Funeral Home YAKIMA - Colette was called home Sunday, April 6, 2003, ending a two year battle with cancer. Colette was born October 9, 1949 in Miami, Arizona...to George E. and Elda-Mae Johnson. Colette moved to Yakima with her family in 1954...
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Colette: the chronic exhibitionist
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; SECRETS OF THE FLESH: A Life of Colette By Judith Thurman (Bloomsbury, 25...about herself than Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. She flaunted her greed, relishing every...nothing from her besotted readers. When Colette fell in love, she wrote it up in instalments...
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COLETTE BIOGRAPHY A DELICIOUS LOOK AT WRITER WHO MADE A FEAST OF LIFE.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 12/31/1998; 700+ words
; ...writer the world would come to celebrate as Colette once remarked, ``They have of me an...from the woman born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, it is hard to imagine her making such...image carefully cultivated and crafted by Colette herself. By the time of her death at...
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Julia Kristeva. Colette.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Symposium; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; JULIA KRISTEVA. Colette. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. New York...guided tour through the many chapters of Colette's life and works, Kristeva manages...familiar territory to aficionados of Colette, offers a fresh perspective on certain...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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The brute who killed my Colette is walking the streets again after three years; Stabbed girl's mum on her treasured memories..and her fear of released killer.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 5/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...DAMIEN FLETCHER ; ROBIN EVELEIGH WHEN Colette Lynch was murdered, her devoted mother...Helen Lynch can show them all the things Colette loved about life - and that above all...and-a-half years. Percy Wright, Colette's former partner, stabbed the 24...
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Cameron, Mary Colette
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/25/2007; 595 words
; Cameron, Mary Colette (Nee Burns) Colette Cameron passed away on Thursday, March 22, 2007, after struggling with breast cancer since 2004. Colette was 54 years old. She is survived by her husband Jeff, daughters...
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette The French author Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954) was concerned with feminine independence...imagistic prose. On Jan. 28, 1873, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was born in a small Burgundian town, Saint-Sauveuren...
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Colette
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette) , 1873-1954, French novelist. Colette achieved popularity with numerous novels, characterized by sensitive observations—particularly of women—and an intimate, semiautobiographical style...
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Cann, Kate 1954-
Book article from: Something About the Author
...the relationship between sixteen-year-old Colette and her boyfriend, Art. Colette has grown up in a household dominated by her...as the two become involved in a relationship, Colette has to deal with her mother's predictable disapproval...
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Jeffrey Robert MacDonald Trial: 1979
Book article from: Great American Trials
...was horrible: a young pregnant mother, Colette MacDonald, and her two young daughters...pajama jacket came to be found beneath Colette MacDonald's body? On May 1 the army...flawed investigation into the death of Colette MacDonald and her two daughters. So embarrassing...
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Transsexualism
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...should belong to the opposite sex in order to be loved by them. Colette Chiland See also: ; ; . Bibliography Benjamin, Harry...international. Journal of Sexology , 7 (1), 12-14. Chiland, Colette. (1997). Changer de sexe? Paris: Odile Jacob. Stoller...
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