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It is caused by light shining through thin altocumulus, which causes the light to bend as it passes through the water droplets within the cloud.
Racing to the third bend James Fancy got into a challenging position along the rails and quickly set sail for home.
We've been fighting for two years now to stop these huge juggernauts negotiating this short stretch of road which has a 90 degree bend.
If bleeding reoccurs, pinch your nose, bend down to prevent the blood from going down into your throat, and apply some ice cubes over the nose.
Tucking in behind his rival on the rainswept circuit, he audaciously out-braked him on the inside of the final bend to steal ahead and win.
For example, the more you bend your elbows on a flye or lateral raise, the easier it will be to lift the weight.
The sitar also has huge frets and loose strings that will bend four or five tones with a little pressure, aka whammy bar.
There is a mistaken belief that it is a straight road, while in fact there is a slight bend.
Not only can flexible people bend over more easily to pick up something off the floor, but they're also less likely to suffer achy joints.
So he parks outside on the pavement, forcing an elderly lady in a wheelchair on to the road on a blind bend.
This means rays of light passing through will bend toward the center of the lens on entry.
Now, was she heading towards the blind bend in the road or was she going away from it?
Synth notes bob, bend and warble, producing a strange, droning, Doppler effect, whizzing past the listener like vehicles on a Tron superhighway.
Like a klutz, she's done this on a narrow stretch of road with a blind bend less than a hundred yards away.
Jackson rolled his eyes, then, walking ahead eagerly, peered around the next bend and gave a whoop of delight.
He missed our hotel, and reversed the hundred metres round a blind bend at the same speed to drop us off.
At this point, a guy suddenly came along the pathway around the bend, and caught me in the act of arguing with the cat.
As with any heavy weight, your child should bend at the knees and grab the pack with both hands when lifting a backpack to the shoulders.
When lifting heavy objects, keep your back straight, bend at the knees and power the lift with your legs.
I'm coached on how to bend down by contracting my abs and curving my rib cage in.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The smaller the degree of dissociation, therefore, the sharper will be the bend.
At the bend of the river towards chaton fresh boats showed themselves unceasingly.
Such a case is very unusual, as the use of the bend for differencing has long been obsolete.
This bracing counteracts any tendency of the ribs to bend sideways under the compressive strain.
The compressive stress parallel to the fibres causes them to buckle or bend as in an endwise compressive test.
Below the junction of the abnormal with the coronal suture, the latter takes a pronounced bend forward.
A similar bend in the coronal suture is present in the same specimen on the left side.
The portions of the coronal suture below and above the bend differ somewhat in character.
In replacing the drip pan of an ice box or refrigerator it is often necessary to bend over in locating it under the drip pipe.
Therefore you are custodes utriusque tabul, and must bend the force of all your government to the saving of the people's souls.
All we have to do is to get her off, bend on a sail or two, and head her for Bonacca or barbette.
He almost pulled him around the bend, and then he found Jim and arietta there.
Half an hour's walk brought us to Vista Alegre, another little clearing on an alluvial fan in the bend of the river.
There it lay in a bend of the asper in the low-lands, and every town where men lived was an enemy.
Here she anchored again, just round a bend of the river, and lay there for the night.
It was one of those evenings, serenely luminous, amply and atmospherically still, when the river bend was at its best.
It was fair, and so long that when standing up she could tread on it and bend her head forward.
It was emblazoned with the arms of the lords of Orley, without a bend sinister.
All these families bear the arms described by your correspondent, but without the bend sinister.
Thus a bend proceeding from the top of the left side of the shield is called a bend sinister.
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