Following in the grand LL tradition, here are the various first-half Mariners described or otherwise captured by selected sentences from a book I am reading.
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Dustin Ackley
The explosion itself was terrific, a monstrous thing that still attracts an endless procession of superlatives.
Josh Bard
He never smiles or looks in any way genial.
Blake Beavan
But three months later matters were very different.
Erik Bedard
They are unstable because of a well-understood, if wonderfully complicated, mechanism.
Milton Bradley
Even today their curious and chilling echoes are still faintly and worringly discernible, both in Java and around the globe.
Mike Carp
"We didn't take much notice at first," wrote a second, "until the reports got very loud."
Dan Cortes
And that is just what happened.
Jack Cust
The noose was closing.
Chone Figgins
And the disaster left a trail of practical consequences - political, religious, social, economic, psychological, and scientific consequences among them.
Doug Fister
He was a young man, and cut rather a lonely figure.
Chris Gimenez
Both the idea of what should be the spelling and the etymologies of its various names are an enduring mystery.
Jeff Gray
Men like James Hutton, Charles Lyell, and William Smith were fast beginning to suppose that man's existence was, in the grand scheme of the very things that they were delineating, of utter insignificance, his sojourn on the planet temporary and vanishingly brief.
Franklin Gutierrez
After only a few weeks scurvy broke out, with sailors suffering such rending stomach pains among their other symptoms that the Dutch still have a word for it, scheurbuik, "tearing-belly."
Greg Halman
It is still far from being fully understood.
Felix Hernandez
Such a series of hammer blows!
Ichiro
It is a deeply complex subject, the stuff of mathematical modeling and the employment of banks of supercomputers.
Adam Kennedy
The skipper grinned.
Aaron Laffey
He saw nothing that struck him as remarkable.
Ryan Langerhans
He may not after all have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created.
Brandon League
But this one was a little different.
Josh Lueke
"Utter, damned rot!" said the president of the American Philosophical Society.
Adam Moore
But neither man was ever seen alive again.
Miguel Olivo
His ideas, it was almost universally agreed, were the results of bad science at best, wishful thinking at worst.
David Pauley
I was lucky: I happened to be in just the right place at what science has now shown to be just the right time.
Carlos Peguero
Hearing of the event baffled people thousands of miles away from where it happened, and left faraway populations bewildered and, in some cases, more than a little frightened.
Michael Pineda
Just one warning was sounded during those early, braggartly, optimistic days.
Chris Ray
The first indication that all was not right became apparent more or less simultaneously to a number of people nearby.
Luis Rodriguez
This contentedness would not long survive.
Brendan Ryan
And the spectacle was only the half of it.
Michael Saunders
It was simply a matter of the gods being angry.
Kyle Seager
But looks are deceptive: All the while the child-mountain is growing steadily and rapidly, as the elemental fires that created the world rage deep inside.
Justin Smoak
For now, though, it was all vibration and rumblings and the occasional period of low and menacing thuds.
Jason Vargas
It was rising and falling, strongly, irregularly, in bursts of sudden up-and-down movements of the sea water that seemed immediately unnatural and sinister.
Tom Wilhelmsen
The memories of those fifty days stay with me yet.
Jack Wilson
Since I had no obvious qualifications for making the team, I decided to teach myself a vaguely appropriate skill that might make me of some potential use.
Mike Wilson
They look mysterious and rather sinister.
Jamey Wright
It is a volcano that absolutely and very visibly refuses to die.
Jose Yepez
His body was never found.