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Count Bennigsen, being a landowner in the Vilna province, offered his country house for the fete, and the thirteenth of June was fixed for a ball, dinner, regatta, and fireworks at Zakret, Count Bennigsen's country seat.
They worked as desperately as if they were contesting in a Royal yacht regatta.
We could not, in all conscience, have picked out a better day for our regatta had we had the free choice of all the days that ever dawned upon the lonely struggles and solitary agonies of ships since the Norse rovers first steered to the westward against the run of Atlantic waves.
He did not know why, but the conversation would not lead in the right direction; he had decided that the first thing to do was to put his arm round her waist; but he could not suddenly put his arm round her waist when she was talking of the regatta which was to be held next week.
Henley was getting ready for the regatta, and was full of bustle.
At college he pulled stroke-oar in the Christchurch boat, and had thrashed all the best bruisers of the "town." He carried his taste for boxing and athletic exercises into private life; there was not a fight within twenty miles at which he was not present, nor a race, nor a coursing match, nor a regatta, nor a ball, nor an election, nor a visitation dinner, nor indeed a good dinner in the whole county, but he found means to attend it.
Catherine's Light at the Autumn Regattas has borne ample, if tardy, fruit.
Part of the time, the Milanese use it for a race track, and at other seasons they flood it with water and have spirited yachting regattas there.
A traditional event, the Una River Regatta began this morning gathering more than 400 participants who enjoy the adrenaline, love the Una River and its rapids.
SeaSpine Holdings announced the full commercial launch of the Regatta Lateral System, featuring NanoMetalene technology.
The Royal Navy of Oman vessel Shabab Oman II left for the Netherlands on Sunday to take part in the Tall Ships Regatta - Scheveningen from June 20 to 23.