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Without ballast, the ship will roll too much.
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...she looked at the marked passages [of the manuscript] and was surprised to find that all the moral reflections--which she had carefully put in as ballast for much romance--had been stricken out. (source)
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Sea water used as ballast.
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Overhead, the ballasts hummed and the fluorescents flickered and lit.† (source)
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Pattie then snapped off the bright fluorescent ballasts.† (source)
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Joyce was a reasonably confident replacement, having learned from Vera how to do the electric work that was required on a frequent or daily basis—changing eight-foot-long fluorescents, replacing the ballasts of light fixtures, installing new exit signs and fixtures, and checking circuit boards.† (source)
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To try to stop it from flipping, Louie and Phil bailed in water as ballast, positioned themselves on opposite sides to balance their weight, and lay on their backs to keep the center of gravity low.† (source)
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At times I found myself moving to her own ambling, driven gait, round on the heels, nearly race-walking, breasts forward in guidance, my life's ballasts.† (source)
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Elbridge Gerry likened him to a ship ballasted with iron, capable of riding out any storm.† (source)
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She spent some time at the periscope looking around the harbour and got the hang of that, but the ballasting and trim controls were beyond her and she was not much interested.† (source)
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A stout woman labouring up front steps, a string bag in either hand like ballast; two patched boys chasing a grubby dog along the sidewalk.† (source)
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Titch hurled himself across the Cloud-cutter and, fumbling with the ballasts, hollered at me in the darkness.† (source)
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The hammock, the one which had been Billy's bed when alive, having already been ballasted with shot and otherwise prepared to serve for his canvas coffin, the last offices of the sea-undertakers, the Sail-Maker's Mates, were now speedily completed.† (source)
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The parts of the ship below the waterline are used for engines, fuel, and ballast, causing a lot of noise, vibration, and interference.† (source)
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My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps, I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents, I am afoot with my vision.† (source)
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He drove long strands of willow in all the seams to keep out waves, and ballasted with logs.† (source)
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