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inlet Noun 1. a narrow strip of water extending from the sea into the land 2. a passage or valve through which a liquid or gas enters a machine
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The lesson for him was one of trust and courage; and I, who seemed to be then shut in upon a mountain-walled fiord without inlet or outlet, took the lesson home and promised myself not to lose heart again. One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption. Northward, along the leeward coast of Malaita, the Ariel worked her leisurely way, threading the colour-riotous lagoon that lay between the shore-reefs and outer-reefs, daring passages so narrow and coral-patched that Captain Winters averred each day added a thousand grey hairs to his head, and dropping anchor off every walled inlet of the outer reef and every mangrove swamp of the mainland that looked promising of cannibal life. |
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