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Similarly, architect Viollet-le-Duc often went overboard restoring some of the great Gothic cathedrals and medieval châteaux in ways their original creators had never imagined.
Jeans mentions one modern authority, whose identity I should like to know, who makes the intriguing suggestion that horses aboard sailing ships often had to be lifted overboard into the sea to relieve their thirst, a theory that even Jeans regards as ludicrous.
But the Post goes a bit overboard with 120-plus words on an alleged conversation between Lewis and Lewinsky's former White House supervisor that reveal nothing about the conversation except that it lasted less than five minutes and was not confrontational.
One "insider" at her production company is quoted as saying, "Oprah's always been religious, but she's gone overboard thinking she's been given a specific mission on Earth."
A cat purchase is a rope tackle used for hauling an anchor, especially on a cat davit , a light crane used on small vessels to hoist an anchor so it can then be swung round to lower the anchor on to the deck or overboard.