Since then, the earl had seen people dying in the great plague, the clergy conspicuous by its absence. |
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Among the most conspicuous of the first colonisers at Mount St Helens was the common raven, known to eat almost anything, including carrion. |
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Grasses were also a very conspicuous element of the vegetation and included the attractive Lagurus ovatus. |
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These, like most happenings, were characterized by a conspicuous lack of narrative sense. |
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The cells possessed eosinophilic cytoplasm, well-defined cell borders, and vesicular nuclei with small, conspicuous nucleoli. |
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Palaeozoic volcanicity was conspicuous along active continental margins especially where there was subduction. |
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The most commonly known varieties of vespids are the social wasps, with their conspicuous paper-like nests and sometimes aggressive behavior. |
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The most conspicuous symptom is coloration between the main veins of the leaf, which becomes particularly noticeable around veraison. |
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I'm only picking on the brothers who wear the bling because of hip-hop's wide-reaching and conspicuous influence. |
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We managed to clean up before we called for help so as not to look conspicuous but, boy! |
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Their typical slinkiness was as conspicuous as an uncloaked ghost floating over the Arc de Triomphe. |
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Accentuate the important layer with a conspicuous colour and use various shades of grey or undertints for the others. |
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As a result, they may undersell their strengths in order to avoid being singled out and made to feel conspicuous. |
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The succession begins with a conspicuous brown sideritic crust above the last rich cheiloceratid fauna. |
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They show conspicuous white edgings in the wing-coverts and an absence of a white neck-patch. |
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The elaborate floral displays of bikes and tricolours which many French villages put up were conspicuous by their absence. |
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Several invertebrate groups that are conspicuous deep sea benthos are rare or absent from vent communities. |
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Only a few shells measured had teeth or conspicuous apertural thickening, and these features were not measured in this study. |
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Less conspicuous species are woolly plantain, wild four-o'clock, yellow stargrass, and false toadflax. |
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These teens manifest a conspicuous sensualism and seek to push the pedal on life's enjoyments to the max. |
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I am tempted sometimes to say that the only point of conspicuous compassion is action, the rest is self-flattery. |
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He would have liked his normal holster but with his battered Barbour jacket and pullover it would have been impractical and conspicuous. |
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As such, she doesn't get out much, since her few attempts at dating are scuttled by the conspicuous presence of her bodyguards. |
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Suddenly I felt conspicuous, standing there with my hair dripping onto the carpet and scraggily sticking to my neck and shoulders. |
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I'll be there with bells on, though that might make us a little conspicuous. |
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Carrion Crow nests are conspicuous and we were able to observe birds delivering food to nestlings using spotting scopes. |
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In addition, many collared mangabeys display by continuously lifting and lowering their conspicuous white eyelids. |
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An inversion line is conspicuous at the base of the scaled lobe of the caudal fin. |
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In the event, the segregated Hispanic community of Tucson was conspicuous by its under-representation. |
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Most conspicuous were the dark clumps consisting of several individuals with their loricas cemented together. |
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The calcareous algae, stromatoporoids, tabulate corals, and rugose corals became conspicuous reef-builders throughout the tropical seas. |
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The eyelashes stiff with mascara make the artificiality and clumsiness of makeup conspicuous. |
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Though not especially high or otherwise conspicuous, it held within its conical flanks a silver lode of extraordinary size and purity. |
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While the sun was conspicuous by its absence the weather was still pleasant and tourists as well as locals took full advantage of it. |
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They are big brash symbols of conspicuous consumption, a way for flash men and women with a lot of cash to flaunt their wealth. |
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It is all conspicuous consumption of premium champagne, BMWs and surface flash. |
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These dudes seem the antithesis of the greed-is-good ethic which made Wall Street's Gordon Gekko the antichrist of 1980s' conspicuous wealth. |
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The zygomatic plate, formed by the anterior base of the zygomatic arch, is broad and a conspicuous feature of the cranium. |
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The cells lack a sheath and are uni-nucleate with a conspicuous single laminate parietal chloroplast that encircles less than half of the cell. |
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It is large enough to be conspicuous, and as it attracts attention, it also attracts speculation. |
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Chalk is perhaps the most recognizable and conspicuous rock type in Europe. |
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For some mysterious reason the history of the Khazar kingdom is conspicuous by its absence from history courses in the schools and colleges. |
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Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs. |
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When we swam in our pool, Louis was conspicuous by the whiteness of his skin. |
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Instead they decided to defer the matter to give the park time to change the colour scheme to all white to make it look less conspicuous. |
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The film had the conspicuous raggedness of a work hijacked by circumstance. |
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The larger, more conspicuous include other species of cold-water coral, actinians and sponges. |
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The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display. |
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In an October exhibition game in Asheville, N.C., the good and bad in him were on conspicuous display. |
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Another conspicuous feature is the large vent hole on the top of the case. |
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He quests for a trophy to call his own, hoping the Kartoon King ice cream contest might gain him the conspicuous congratulations he so desperately requires. |
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Any list of his conspicuous qualities turns out to be a recitation of opposites. |
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As recently as a few years ago, buying and driving a hybrid was an exercise in conspicuous consumption. |
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It was a dizzying time, and Shaquille handled an array of new situations with conspicuous aplomb. |
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I am talking about work from Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov on conspicuous consumption and race. |
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The Valley is a strange blend of workaholism and conspicuous consumption, hot tubs and traffic jams. |
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So-called generous displays may be conspicuous consumption designed to inspire envy. |
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Indeed, conspicuous precedent for forced change exists with respect to this selfsame Washington football club. |
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The speech is equally conspicuous for what Paulson omitted to mention about his industry's own role in contributing to the low repute in which corporate America is now held. |
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With some birds, the lores presents the most conspicuous field mark. |
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Review boards have been sending the Park Service back to the drawing board to restudy their plan since 2002, and the bollards will be much less conspicuous as a result. |
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The letterheads have a conspicuous 1950s graphic design style. |
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In the lower third of the unit, a conspicuous 15-40 cm thick lignite with quartz grit matrix occurs and includes plant stem fragments, some more than 5 cm long. |
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The second clue is that many of the rocks have very conspicuous ripple marks on, which at least at first glance resemble those we might find on a common day seashore. |
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If they venture rhyme, that most conspicuous auditory technique of verse, they often play it down as well by burying it in run-on lines or substituting slant and half-rhymes. |
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Crested auklets have a conspicuous black forehead-crest, white auricular plumes, an orange bill with accessory plates, and a citruslike plumage odor. |
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Many gyms are in conspicuous downtown locations and sheathed in clear glass so passersby can watch people working out. |
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A conspicuous anatomical feature associated with pepper fruit ripening was the development of a plate of sclerenchymatous tissue in the separation zone. |
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Shoshonite nearest the contact with the overlying flow is scoriaceous and, being less weather resistant, has eroded back to form a conspicuous bench. |
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The specimen before me has the same part of a dull testaceous color, being not at all conspicuous and in feeble contrast with the black ground color. |
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I have counted scores of these rich garlands, throughout which the queenly lotus always shone conspicuous, bespangling the surface of the water at the same time. |
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The most conspicuous outboard structure is the accretionary wedge that lies just continentward of the ocean trench, the bathymetric manifestation of the subduction zone. |
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Perhaps the most conspicuous guest at the non-aligned Movement summit in Tehran is Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. |
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The plan was to serve as a blueprint for the rejuvenation of the town centre, but so far developments have either met heavy opposition or been conspicuous by their absence. |
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In a small garden every weed or unpruned bush is conspicuous. |
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This is the most conspicuous and direct mechanism where weak system underpinnings foster heightened asset inflation and unsound economic expansion. |
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Joey was leaning against the wall, his short, black hair more conspicuous than ever, and he had it covered with his hands, as if there was a snowstorm of dandruff on it. |
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A tall, suave man he was educated at St. Peter's College, Agra and was conspicuous in Connaught Place in the sola topi and brown cassock he wore in all seasons. |
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One of the most conspicuous groups of animals living in deep-sea chemosynthetic communities at hydrothermal vents are large vestimentiferan tube worms. |
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Some cells had conspicuous nucleoli, and others had cytoplasmic clearing. |
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Yes, I felt rather conspicuous, being, as I was, obtrusively alive. |
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In this country any haute cuisine tradition that exists is almost solely because of the appetites and conspicuous consumption of the British nobility, hereditary or otherwise. |
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As the playa dries during the summer, conspicuous plant zonation develops along the shoreline. |
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The showy blooms are soon followed by conspicuous fruits, which have the appearance of yellowish, bladderlike pods. |
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As was mentioned on p.31, value-judgments are generally considered the most conspicuous source of subjectivity in historiography. |
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Aedeagus large, conspicuous, extrusive, flat, with recurved apex and sharp, subapical flanges. |
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These are so named because the cancer cells are large, with excess cytoplasm, large nuclei and conspicuous nucleoli. |
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Vestiture as in male except that abdominal venter has long slender setae and the carapace and abdomen lack the conspicuous recumbent scales. |
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They brag about their conspicuous consumption Jay-Z, eat your heart out. |
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As a society becomes richer, those whose incomes do not grow spend more on conspicuous consumption in an attempt to keep up. |
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However, such radars are also conspicuous, susceptible to clutter, and have low precision. |
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Accordingly, the most crying abuses described in this book have either disappeared or have been made less conspicuous. |
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Though himself a millionaire, Brandeis disliked wealthy persons who engaged in conspicuous consumption or were ostentatious. |
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By the latter part of the 19th century, the bourgeois house contained a home that had been remodelled by conspicuous consumption. |
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There is an especially diverse array of endemic insects like the conspicuous Arsenura armida. |
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Gunboat diplomacy is the use of conspicuous displays of military strength as a means of intimidation in order to influence others. |
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It was conspicuous in its operations against the Yugoslav Partisans and civilian population. |
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The Virginia Company's settlements, Bermuda and Virginia, as well as Antigua and Barbados were conspicuous in their loyalty to the Crown. |
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The evolution is further precipitated by Germany's conspicuous position as Europe's strongest economy. |
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The junk was nearer, beating in toward the island, her brown batwing sail suddenly tall and terribly conspicuous against the sky. |
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Larvae feed gregariously on mature needles during April and leave conspicuous orange-brown wisps of midveins on damaged shoots. |
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A solitary animal, while foraging, can also be less conspicuous to predators or prey. |
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Caespituli amphigenous, punctiform to subeffuse, dark brown, not very conspicuous. |
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Being conspicuous elements of the ecosystem, they have been considered as indicators of ecological health. |
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I don't want to pay the freight on the kind of conspicuous consumption that thrives on Mercedes or Jaguars. |
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The most conspicuous aspect of the footage was the swarm of benthic amphipods. |
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They support the Eisteddfod as the promoter and inspirer of arts, letters and music, and are conspicuous among the annual prize winners. |
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Margin of prothorax ocher with a white spot dorsally on mesothorax, and a conspicuous black spot dorsally on A4 to A5 abdominal segment. |
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When circling overhead, the white underwing of the bird becomes conspicuous. |
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Political borders are often classified by whether or not they follow conspicuous physical features on the earth. |
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We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate. |
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Such hair forms a ruff around the necks of the some Old World megabat males, forming a conspicuous collar. |
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The other part of its Linnaean name means bearded and refers to its most characteristic feature, the conspicuous and very abundant whiskers. |
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A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly. |
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The flowers, which are usually conspicuous and white or yellow, sometimes both or rarely green, consist of a perianth of three parts. |
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A hawkmoth caterpillar in a Costa Rican cloud forest displays conspicuous eyespots and a soft, fake stinger. |
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Territorial marking consists of urinating on trees, vegetation and rocks, and depositing faeces in conspicuous places. |
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Historiographically, as well as in terms of social policy, New Zealand's accident compensation legislation is conspicuous. |
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Rivers that carry large amounts of sediment may develop conspicuous deltas at their mouths. |
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Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. |
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The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Chuck Hammer and Pete Townshend. |
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Mendelssohn's influence, conspicuous in early works, appears intermittently in later ones. |
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Two conspicuous white nidamental glands, one on each side, measuring 30 x 42 mm each. |
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The nine-banded armadillo is perhaps the most conspicuous of Palo Pinto County residents. |
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The most conspicuous survivals are the many Pictish stones that are located all over Pictland, from Inverness to Lanarkshire. |
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The most conspicuous places in cities are usually deputed for the erection of statues. |
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It matched for that matter her other elements, which were wontedly conspicuous as usual as she sat there suggestive of early tea. |
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To his right in an honored position sat an Egyptian general, conspicuous by his Turkish pantaloons, red cloak and tall betasseled fez. |
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One bird conspicuous by its absence is the White Wagtail usully seen in good numbers by now. |
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It played a conspicuous role in the cultures of ancient Egypt and in Babylonia. |
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Placer environments typically contain black sand, a conspicuous shiny black mixture of iron oxides, mostly magnetite with variable amounts of ilmenite and hematite. |
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One of the most conspicuous traditions at St Andrews is the wearing of academic dress, particularly the distinctive red undergraduate gown of the United College. |
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Females are less reddish than the males and have less conspicuous combs. |
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Males in many lekking species have conspicuous morphological ornaments that may be targets of female choice, but male contest competition may also be involved. |
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Like plants, fungi often grow in soil and, in the case of mushrooms, form conspicuous fruit bodies, which sometimes resemble plants such as mosses. |
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For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous. |
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Carpets of living Sphagnum may be attacked by various fungi, and one fungus that is also a mushroom, Sphagnurus paluster, produces conspicuous dead patches. |
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Perhaps the big blind was too conspicuous in the middle of the field. |
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In most species the dorsolateral aerophore line is conspicuous throughout the length of the stipe, generally being somewhat paler in colour than the surrounding tissue. |
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Although many parts of the island are lichenologically unexplored the general distribution of quite a number of more conspicuous lichens can be outlined fairly reliably. |
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It's a conspicuous part of what might be termed a charmed life. |
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Home's premiership was short and not conspicuous for radical innovation. |
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French fashions were conspicuous at her court, as she tried to recreate in the dankness of Holyrood some of the majesty of the Louvre or Fontainebleau. |
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Additionally, this study compares the banner ad results for clear and conspicuous presentation to those of a prior study that examined television advertising. |
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At one level, there is something illiberal about the French law banning conspicuous religious symbols, be they hijabs, kippas or crosses, from public schools. |
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The most conspicuous protistans on the farm are the planktonic suspended algae that undergo seasonal bloom in the lake at the back of the property. |
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The most conspicuous landmark is the Victoria Tower on Castle Hill. |
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And, for kids with conspicuous rashes, motional consequences. |
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