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6 months ago reesetee said:

It is. Makes you want to walk around it slowly to admire it from all angles. ;-)

6 months ago palooka said:

Beautiful word.

6 months ago chained_bear said:

"'...Not to mention the countless devices to measure the speed of the vessel through the water by means of rotating vanes or the pressure of the circumambient ocean...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 76

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MRNegro (81 words)
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