True, they rather order me about some, and make me jump from spar to spar, like a grasshopper in a May meadow.

(c) International Antarctic Ice Drifting Buoy Programme

Drowned Queequeg's coffin was my life buoy.

Each buoy assemblage consists of a tsunami detecting bottom pressure recorder device on the ocean floor, which sends acoustic signals through the water to a surface buoy which transmits the data via satellite to ground stations.53

You're telling me you couldn't swim to this weak girl and buoy her up till you could reach this boat?

Lower oil prices would mean less money to spend on domestic projects that buoy his popularity or on the nuclear program.

Even so, Russian and Western officials continue to spar over American plans to deploy ballistic missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic.

In 1968, British workmen entered what Bates claimed to be his territorial waters in order to service a navigational buoy near the platform.

They will spar with each other for another six weeks, then go to the brink of the purported cliff and see who blinks at the last moment.

Waves also reached extreme heights, with a buoy near the entrance to New York Harbor measuring a peak wave ten meters high, from crest to trough.

They give a snapshot of a variety of weather conditions at one single location and are usually at a weather station, a ship or a weather buoy.

25. In another endeavour, in accordance with the International Antarctic Drifting Buoy Project, data buoys measuring sea ice movement and surface meteorological parameters have been deployed within the Antarctic Seasonal sea ice zone for more than ten years.

There is a difference between the height of the mizzen fore and aft spar in the contemporary painting by Luny (below) and its position on the replica in the photographs, compared to the height of the lowest spars on the fore and mainmasts.

And then, once it was in the right place, he got back in the water holding a big knife, and he cut each buoy off, and the buoy popped up into the air, and the cable dropped to the sea floor, and he did that all the way out to the ship, and when he got there, they gave him a glass of juice and a cookie, and then he jumped back in, and he swam back to shore, and then he lit a cigarette.

It is very unlikely that congressional Democrats and Republicans can reach an agreement on extending the Bush era tax cuts for the middle class, while allowing them to expire for the rich. They will spar with each other for another six weeks, then go to the brink of the purported cliff and see who blinks at the last moment.