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How to use pit in a sentence

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He tried it in a local chalk pit where he usually rode and was pleased with it, though he found brake problems.
Or if you fall for the siren song of the Evil One, you're going to be drained dry and cast into the pit of flames in due course.
The sounds of leaves rustling in the wind were whirling around in a pit of fury.
Each pit can hold a trace quantity of a chemical that reacts to a certain protein found in the blood.
The motion of an object falling through a bottomless pit is harmonic, not Keplerian.
The idea that a pit crew can win a race, irrespective of the ability of the driver, is ludicrous.
It added an air of eeriness and unreality to the situation that made Joe feel sick to the pit of his stomach.
Crew members tighten lug nuts they should have gotten during the previous pit stop.
Like all the women on my wife's side of the family, Linda looks like a cover girl, but is as determined as a pit bull.
The pit is now producing 10,000 tonnes of coal a week, which is 2,000 more than before the mine went into receivership.
Several hundred slaves roasted sheep in pit ovens, while the female dancers, like the warriors, were reckoned to number in their thousands.
It was replaced with a cold rage kindling in the pit of her stomach as she stared at her so called father.
Expression of ribs, and the lunular pit in Bothrocorbula, are used to a lesser extent for species discrimination.
Paul Mullin is relishing the chance to pit his wits against two more Championship sides.
It's going to be a great occasion for my players to pit their wits against certainly the best squad in the division.
More competent players can pit their wits against the masters of the past in historically accurate face-offs.
Drivers race at such places for the love of the sport, and pit crews are largely a volunteer effort.
Suddenly, one of the horses stumbled, sending the rider crashing through fallen corn stalks and into a hidden pit beneath.
But I know, any moment, she is going to look round, and my heart sinks with a judder into the pit of my stomach.
The bathhouse evolved from a creek-side fire pit into an indoor washing room that heats a barrel of water for all your scrubbing needs.
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Identifying an adjustment that works in testing might carry a car from 15th after a pit stop to fifth in only a few laps during the race.
Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines.
This conversation was pointless and only awakened the hollow feeling in the pit of his gut and the sensation of helplessness.
He was a dinosaur who, instead of crawling off to some distant tar pit to die, took an entire industry with him into the abyss.
Excepting his frequent dips into the tar pit of toxic love, he isn't regarded to have done too badly.
The tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time to come.
Hulbert had been right in his assumption that this had been an ancient storage pit or cache.
She felt rooted to the spot, her disappointment and fear a cold, hard knot in the pit of her stomach.
I wanted to get a photo of the Gram Parsons BBQ pit from a small shelf in the rock above.
I made this last year and the inside of it is a children's plastic sand pit with a butyl liner over it inside a timber frame.
Last month the Doncaster-based firm said up to 40 miners at the colliery would have to lose their jobs in order for the pit to stay afloat.
At the far side of the green there was a huge open pit full of mature trees whose tops emerged only a few metres above the level of the green.
Trading was conducted by traders on the floor of the pit calling out and signalling to each other.
As the Spitfire flypast disappeared into the horizon, engines fired into life and the TGP aces flew out of the pit lane to form up the grid.
The fact that neither hall has an orchestra pit created unique problems of stagecraft for the directors.
The philosophy is it's easier to train an athlete to perform pit stops than it is to turn a mechanic into a top-tier athlete.
This time Junior makes a dramatic move to the inside of the track, pointing the nose of his Chevrolet nearly straight at the pit lane.
That he accomplishes all this without diving head first into a pit of treacle and Hallmark sentiment makes it all the more valuable.
When I was volunteering for the AIDS Ride last year, there were these big bowls of creamy goop that covered the tables at every pit stop.
His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
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Five pit stops against the winner's two was what told against the other two pilots.
It still produced that certain amount of trepidation and fear in the pit of her stomach.
I lost a few positions when I stalled the engine during the second pit stop.
At the center is a two-foot spot, also in red elm, symbolically indicating where a fire pit would be.
As Vettel was making his first pit call on lap 14, the Finn was seen leaving the circuit.
This week, his battle with Jets LT Jason Fabini will resemble a backyard scrap between a couple of pit bulls.
Peter, a 2-year-old Queensland heeler pit bull mix, had his left hind leg amputated.
The remains appear to represent the base of the wheel pit for a vertical waterwheel.
The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
Two older men bicker over the rules of their game, in which they pit pet crickets against one another in battle.
Then he hit the fence in front of us and decided to rage-quit the race and ran into the side of my car going into the pit lane.
Because of the wacky aero rules, drivers are relying more on their pit crews to get the cars out quickly and up front.
Clark says timber rattlesnakes and other pit vipers may be the most social of all snakes.
At this point, I decided to change my strategy and made the obligatory pit stop earlier than expected.
The team had also lost time changing a starter motor, and then Dayton received a stop-and-go penalty for speeding in the pit lane.
We sand-rakers are a tight group and while we could rake a mean sand pit in ten seconds, we could never throw anything.
I had this gnawing, worried feeling in the pit of my stomach, wondering if any farmers would show up.
He simply digs himself into his self-selected money pit deeper than he's capable of climbing out.
Not knowing which of them wrote what, I can only report that the pit contained two cellos, one double-bass, solo woodwind, brass and timpani.
But still, when they remounted and rode rapidly on, the dread gnawed at his vitals like a rat in the pit of his belly.
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The suitable land to dig rain pit is midland area, which is made up of laterite soil.
With no water-borne sewerage, the settlements use chemical toilets, ventilated pit latrines or the bucket system.
Non-native plants, such as Laurustinus will also contribute to the increasing number of late winter pit stops for insects.
Digging in the pit was a job set aside for slaves since it was obviously a messy job.
I am, however, afraid of getting into a mosh pit with a horde of metalheads.
Anyone who has ever been down a pit returns to the surface with deep respect for those who make a career of mining.
In the field on top of the brow was a ventilation shaft which descended to the depths of the coal pit below.
The dockers went on strike in July and pit deputies in the union threatened to strike in October.
He was a pit deputy at Redbrook colliery on the outskirts of Barnsley, in a different union.
The general secretary of the pit deputies union said it was ironic British mineworkers were wanted in Australia.
And last month the pit deputies union Nacods also reluctantly agreed to the deal, despite months of trying to negotiate a national agreement.
Members of the pit deputies union were poised to stage the first of eight one-day strikes next Tuesday in a dispute over pay and conditions.
He started at Walton pit in 1958 before getting a job working for a firm of mining contractors.
I sank deeper into my pit of shyness as I forced myself not to dwell upon her true intentions.
Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.
I knew when I came in for my pit stop that there was little likelihood I would be leaving again.
My past simply heightens my nausea, but doesn't create and sustain the sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that rises throughout the day.
The campaign team highlighted the health hazards caused by sewage contamination of groundwater from pit latrines and septic tanks.
The coffin was decked with flowers and a miniature pit bull terrier was placed on top of the casket along with a black Celtic Cross.
Enraged, Gupan and Utar descended from the Chariot of The Clouds into the pit to do battle with Mot, devourer of The Dead.
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The women turned to face the pit and the appellant mowed them down with the machine gun.
To enhance this mental picture, boas and the pit vipers have heat-sensitive pits that further confirm the stranger as food or threat.
When you felt your throat dry and a pit in your stomach, you had probably just skipped a meal.
The cuff sent me sprawling to the floor with a painful sting in my cheek, and a hurt feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Former pit communities in South Yorkshire hit by the collapse of the mining industry are finally turning the corner after years of decline.
Dragging this old case up will create such a stink, it will pit neighbour against neighbour.
It is not feasible by any means to pit songwriting against poetry, for they are one and the same.
When silaged the fall rye was fairly mature and dry, it was put into the bottom of the silage pit so it would mix with the other silage crops.
However today my race was really over when I stalled the car at the start and had to begin my race from the pit lane.
It was growing dark, and the fire from the pit showed more and more brightly every moment.
In the old days, before cookers, the stones would be thrown into a water-filled pit or vessel, to boil water for cooking or washing.
I went to the most sophisticated game, baccarat, and naively asked the burly pit boss what were the odds of winning at this game.
The ad features a teenage boy in the middle of a mosh pit at a rock concert.
Maddie moved up to thrash around in the forming mosh pit closer to the stage, but Austin chose to stay behind.
I still remember that tight skittery feeling in the pit of my stomach from all the different schools I attended.
The skull of a woolly mammoth found in a Wiltshire gravel pit will form the centrepiece of a new education centre.
It was superb meeting a Grand Prix winner like Fernando and I enjoyed being allowed inside the pit garages with the team at work.
Juvenile mummichogs were captured in pit traps along with spotfin killifish in the high marsh at both Piermont Marsh and Ralph Creek.
Clooney, who reputedly flew in on economy class unannounced, was merely making a pit stop to check on his investment.
Of some 20 venomous snakes in the United States, all but coral snakes are pit vipers.
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We then descended 140 metres to the pit bottom and entered roadways hewn out of the rock more than 100 years ago.
The first band was heavy metal, and a substantial mosh pit grew out from the center of the room.
Collard's race effectively ended, however, when his car's bonnet dramatically flew up into its windscreen and he was forced to pit for repairs.
We realized then that our every move would be watched, as the pit bosses waited for any kind of slip-up to nail us.
There is no brain chemistry unique to the pit bull that makes it unpredictable.
The current facility, a traditional black-box theater in Alice Pratt Brown Hall, accommodates only 200 and has a small orchestra pit and stage.
Six principal string players had left their places in the orchestra pit and now took their seats on the stage for the overture.
And the orchestra pit at the Jamshed Bhabha Theatre was being used for the first time.
And for those who might be curious, I played flute, pit percussion, tympani, piccolo, French horn and mellophone.
It is his first time and for those that don't know it is feared by most comedians as it is a bear pit of a comedy club.
A chamber that normally is a bear pit of partisan emotions was united in shock and sorrow.
One told me it was no use doing yoga and meditation if you threw the employees back into a bullying bear pit on the workplace floor.
He remembered the sickened feeling he got in the pit of his stomach the last time he time-shifted.
She knew soon Jose Marcel would come down to the pit and check in with his dealers and meet the high rollers.
Slowly my pulse falls, the blood pressure drops, the feeling of sickness in the pit of my stomach slowly subsides.
Species of all four families in which pit membranes are present occur in highly mesic or bog habitats.
They found a grave pit containing fragments of bones which may be human, as well as Mesolithic and late Neolithic flint tools and pottery.
I am left alone, to wake and guard, until the seven fires die, and the fire in the pit also goes out.
This meant a quick pit visit to clear the radiator ducts of grass as the car started to overheat.
I dare any metalhead worthy of the name not to want to join the mosh pit after witnessing them.
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In the wake of the pit closures crisis of the early 1990s, there was a shift in popular attitudes.
If I google myself, just about the only hits are of that poor unfortunate child who got attacked by a pit bull.
This way of meeting health needs does not create a bottomless pit into which we are forced to drain all available social resources.
Two double pit alignments were dug, one east of the northern henge, the other west of the southern.
Three other artifacts found in the dig initially seemed at odds with a trash pit scenario.
There are reports that hog-nosed skunks in the Andes are immune to the venom of pit vipers.
He attached the grapples to the edge of the pit and flung the ropes into the blackness.
We looked at outcrops by the open pit and saw vugs everywhere with remnants of fluorite and barite crystals.
There was a fairish stage, and boxes, pit and gallery, and as soon as practicable illumination was by town gas.
Something about the way Georgina said that made Penelope feel uneasy, her stomach performing a small flip in the pit of her belly.
Union chiefs must sign a business contract agreeing to this or face the possibility of the pit closing.
The Eden project is a living theatre, the size of 30 football pitches, based in a china clay pit overlooking St Austell Bay in Cornwall.
The eastern monolith had then been pulled over a rock-cut pit onto two masonry trestle supports, one at each end of the stone.
There was a small ounce of jealousy that erupted in the pit of her stomach before she forcibly suppressed it.
Upstream in the manufacturing of a steel can, iron ore is excavated in open pit mines.
During sortie surges when aircraft fly four times per day, two hot pit sessions reduce the flying hour window by over 3 hours.
A 1.5 by 1 m pit containing heavily baked clay and burnt sherds may be a kiln, the first of its kind for mainland Britain.
In November she got a criminal record after her pet pit bull gored a child.
On the floor, in the corner, is a small pit and a trench about six inches deep.
The only weak point in the engineering is the lack of distinction between the chamber orchestra in the pit and the larger orchestra in the back.
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We may come from tenements and places with pit bings in them but we can storm any stage you want, the bigger the better.
You can imagine Willie on top of a pit bing harranguing the men, so he's the hammer.
There is an attractive new orchid known as Young's Helleborine found growing among the scrub on derelict pit bings.
There was a huge pit in the faceplate of my helmet, almost over my left eye, and a stinging sensation from my left arm.
The coffee bean itself is found inside the pit of a small red cherry that grows on the coffee shrub.
I suspect you are all well versed with the arguments, which pit us innocent wine drinkers against all those sanctimonious churchy types.
Natalie informs me that we'll be able to see her in the mosh pit and possibly doing some stage diving.
They make their way forward to stand alongside the fans, and soon a mosh pit develops.
There was a mosh pit in the middle of the room and people were starting to crowd-surf.
We were singing our own stuff though, so people in the mosh pit didn't know what songs these were.
But the economics of the concert industry may jar fans harder than the mosh pit at the band's show.
In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro.
The simplest thing to do is dig a small pit and pile in all your scraps, mowings and prunings.
Most non-melting types are clingstone, meaning the flesh adheres to the pit when ripe.
The pit swirled down into oblivion, a thick, cloying miasma threatening to devour him if he drew too close to it.
Cat felt a flutter in the pit of her stomach and instinctively pulled her leg away.
Similarly, the muttonheads who specialise in breeding particularly vicious strains, such as pit bulls, deserve lobotomies.
There was a twenty foot long trap door that led to a pit filled with muddy, slimy water.
The chariot had been placed in a large oval pit in the centre of a square ditched enclosure.
The greyhound, which appeared as Jessie in the hit film, was badly injured in a frenzied attack by a pit bull terrier.
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The pomelo pit can be pounded into small pieces, and then boiled on a slow fire to extract the medicinal essence.
The other thing is to dress the borrow pit so that it all drains to the sump end and you can pump the water if it rains.
This struggle would pit the Americans against the Germans from the beaches and boscage of Normandy to the Ardennes and beyond.
There was a farm with an elegant Dutch barn and a 50-foot diameter pit nicely filed by trees not rubbish.
Early in the race, a plastic bag caught on Benson's front grille, prompting an unscheduled pit stop.
Hamilton's truck is running well after the first pit stop, but we cut a tire and have to make an unscheduled pit stop.
Several tradesmen elbowed their way past him as they descended into one pit or another.
Naturally, I was delighted to hear he'd be making a pit stop in my neck of the woods on his way back from Northern Ireland.
I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence, but we don't have any boards and considering the depth of the pit the wood will surely break.
To my dismay, his voice seemed to be coming from the back of his throat, rather than from the pit of his stomach.
Embolism at conifer pits occurs when the torus is displaced from its sealing position at the pit porus.
This in turn forms a abnormal thickening of the diseased fascia, which forms a band, cord or pit and is known as Dupuytren's contracture.
Many cars take pit stops during safety car periods so that they do not lose time to the rest of the field.
Operations in the 1940s consisted of a large open pit with smaller cuts and several tunnels.
The state of the roads and the bulkiness of coal combined to prevent adequate amounts from reaching areas not near the pit head.
By venturing into the pit of vipers we call the Body Politic, our Pagan leaders pay a price for our future.
Which may be why the vipers in the political snake pit are rattling their rattles and baring those long, curved fangs.
In one pit inside the enclosure, excavators found an adult's skull and a fragment of a long bone that had been cremated in situ within the pit.
He brought them to the side of the stream a ways away from the pit they had just exited from.
As a result of the pit's size, the woman's neck was strongly dorsiflexed, and the hands and feet were crowded against the pit wall.
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The airjack failed on the car, so he had to pit twice for tires, as the crew used manual jacks.
It features pit props for roof beams, bricks from wash houses, a massive lump of coal for an alter and a half winding wheel on a wall.
If the radiator fluid gets bad it can pit the sleeves and water jacket called cavitation.
With electric gates which can be operated from either end of the pit cows make a quick entry and a fast exit.
Still, few could have predicted he'd fall this deep into a pit of lyrical self-pity and teen angst.
Predominantly in the tangential walls, primary pit fields of high density are conspicuously labelled by aniline blue staining of callose.
Ventilation fans and water pumps to prevent the pit flooding were switched off the following month.
Place the peach in a light sugar syrup with the cracked peach pit for flavour.
Somebody got ready to pit and Riggs obviously didn't know about it and slammed the brakes on and hung a right on me.
Rather than a fireplace, it boasted a pit dug into the dirt floor, ringed by large rocks.
Some might even have been able to give their driver an automatic speed limiter like they use in the pit lane.
A shallow, bleached pit in the center marks the spot where a cluster of trees once took root.
Logs were laid in a roughly circular manner around the fire pit and there were some rough chairs as well.
This pit is used to catch cinders from the locomotives as their ash pans are cleaned before and after service.
The family dog, an American pit bull, was shot and killed in the attack after it jumped up and bit the assailant on the arm.
Unfortunately, none of the mutts got on and were at each other's throats like rabid pit bulls.
Most everyone has witnessed the elementary science lesson of the toothpick in the avocado pit growing roots in a baby food jar.
These include the Brazilian fila, the dogo Argentino, the Japanese tosa, and the American pit bull terrier.
People who own American pit bulls, Japanese tosas, Brazilian filas, and dogo Argentinos will have to muzzle them while they are in public.
If it's winter, there may be a fire pit burning to give the oysters, and our sweat shirts, a smoky aroma.
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A former gravel pit near Ripon has become a haven for thousands of birds since it went back to nature.
Put the palm of your right hand on the abdomen, just above the navel, and press up against the solar plexus or pit of the stomach.
Union leaders claim there are at least 90m tonnes of unworked coal still in the pit that could take the best part of 20 years to mine.
Word is Adams fell nearly six feet into the orchestra pit at Liverpool's Royal Court theatre, badly fracturing his wrist, injuring his leg and cutting his lip.
Jack also makes several pit stops along memory lane, as he reflects on the breakup of his marriage and the predictable romantic misadventures that led to it.
He's been keeping her in the orchestra pit under the stage all this time.
Another door at the far end led into the orchestra pit under the stage.
The feeling at the pit now is that we have just gone through a helter-skelter of emotions and we need to put the men's needs first and have a period of stabilisation.
In 1966, when 146 people, mainly children, were killed after a pit bing collapsed in the mining village of Aberfan, she waited six days before visiting the scene.
All dogs are potentially dangerous, not just pit bulls and Japanese tosas.
They filled an entire section of the grandstand opposite the Williams pit garage, cheered wildly and waved flags and yelled every time Montoya made an appearance.
Each year in Canada and the U.S. dozens of children are mauled and killed by dogs, with pit bulls, Rottweilers and German shepherds involved in the majority of fatal attacks.
But on Friday, during the debate on the dreadful events in New York, the bear pit of partisanship was instantly transformed into a sounding board of sombre national unity.
He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
We don't want to see this become a money pit for federal dollars.
Slick stage management in the hands of Dave Bedding ensured the show moved at a pace and strong chorus work and pit singers meant each number was given the full treatment.
Circular elements are repeated throughout this landscape with several more moon gates, flowing paths, a round fire pit and two spherical reflective pools.
Our final stop-off was the Eden Project in Bodelva, where two huge biomes set into an old clay pit house plants, shrubs, trees and commodities from around the world.
So being in the bear pit isn't exactly virgin territory to this man.
The former princess, now regent, stopped laughing and looked down at her small son, an ache at the back of her throat and in the pit of her stomach.
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A pit in the Panayia field, west of the long sixth-century building, yielded a large quantity of mendable pottery including a wide variety of amphoras.
In the United States, about 8,000 people a year are bitten by rattlers or their cousins in the pit viper subfamily, which includes copperheads and water moccasins.
We had a huge flame tree in the front yard, and the mechanic's pit in the garage had been converted into a bomb shelter, covered by corrugated metal roofing.
We were down the front in the mosh pit but we had by far the best view.
This 2-year-old Queensland heeler pit bull mix has a calm demeanor.
One of these unassigned elements from the upper portion of the pit at the level of the house floor is charred, probably as a result of the burning of the house.
It is a surrealistic story involving a tense relationship between lovers, nannies pushing baby carriages, and starlets parading around in a snake pit of Hollywood promises.
When Columbus landed on what is now Puerto Rico, he saw Taino natives slow-roasting meat on a grid over a pit filled with smoldering, burned down wood.
He scoots from machine to machine, checking e-mail and monitoring file-trading activity while occasionally scolding Cookie, his high-strung pit bull puppy.
Since Nov. 2, I've had an icky feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Babe brings together dogs and cats, pink poodles and pit bulls.
Feeling a strange flutter in the pit of my stomach, I looked away.
The pit also contained some 25 flint scrapers, and two stone axeheads whose distinctive rock identifies them as petrological group XX, from nearby Charnwood Forest.
Within each pit are 60 to 70 sensors called sensilla in insects.
I am against terrorism in all its forms, but when a government is so barefaced in its terror of innocent civilians it sickens those who want peace to the pit of our stomachs!
The coalfield was brought to a halt as pit after pit came out on strike.
It would be in the upper Rio Branco, in Northern Brazil, though, where Nick, hiding in a pit filming giant expansa terrapins, would see his first jaguar in the wild.
You may as well gorge out my eyes with burning sabers of methane gas and ceremoniously sacrifice my body over an open barbecue pit in the name of good taste.
Unfortunately, a slow pit stop brought Barichello back to the pack which included a fast rising Juan Pablo, who slipstreamed past Schumacher to take the lead.
At its top end, the trench opened out into a shallow circular pit that had been built up with a parapet of scree stone and mud from the valley bottom.
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The sides of the pit were as smooth as marble and as durable as granite.
Deepening the money pit were the expectations of corrupt government officials and adoption facilitators.
He was at the infamous Orgreave coking plant near Sheffield during a particularly ugly confrontation, and narrowly avoided being badly hurt at Woolley pit near Wakefield.
They could control, for example, a character who stood in a pit in the pouring rain and had to bail the water from the pit with a bucket or drown.
Players of the machine can control, for example, a character who stands in a pit in the pouring rain and has to bail water with a bucket or drown.
In the squally pit of criticism, Wood is the brightest beacon and the biggest target.
My pool equipment sits in a large concrete pit below ground, which hides the apparatus equipment from the landscape, and baffles the noise created by the electric pump motor.
One night, Casey, our pit bull terrier, spotted a skunk drinking from a water bowl and crashed through our 14-foot plate glass window to get at the critter.
But she was suddenly struck by a chill that ran down her spine, a heavy leaden feeling in the pit of her stomach as she finally realized what she had down.
The next phase of his life is being sold to a man who trains him as a gladiatorial pit fighter, where he learns the ways and glory of combat and gains his sense of self.
Soon the landscape was dotted with fetid open pit liquid manure lagoons.
A Supreme Court Case would ultimately pit the right to assembly against the right to be free from hate speech.
Simply put, the system divides the orchestra pit into ten acoustical zones and the stage into fourteen, each governed by a directional microphone.
We can see this important change at Nosterfield Quarry, immediately to the north, where Bronze Age field ditches and single pit alignments were discovered.
There was a bonfire burning in the fire pit and camp chairs set up.
Delachaise, a pit bull mix, made it across the field on her first try, but had to stop and sniff the camera.
There was no seam or opening to be found on the box, yet at a word from Loarela, the top suddenly was no longer just a painting of a vortex, but an actual pit of darkness.
It is feared that the longer the pit is without care and maintenance, the higher the cost of getting it back on line, making it harder to find a buyer.
One pit latrine had a sort of toilet built on top, but it was very wonky.
Unfortunately towards the end of the race during the ninth hour, we had to make a pit stop because we have a technical problem with the engine starter.
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They're even immune to the venom of rattlesnakes and other pit vipers.
I hate to besmirch the reputation of an innocent dog, but a lot of time her personality is like a rabid pit bull.
It appears that the deceased was employed shunting coal wagons, and at about the time stated he was in the neighbourhood of the Arley pit with an engine and wagon.
Its finish is superbly long, with deep marrowy, minerally undertones, faint plum pit bitterness, and persistently bright, juicy, slightly tart berry fruit.
If there are big chub in the pit I often take a set-up rod with me and have a cast or two with a freelined lobworm or corn over last night's groundbait.
The ribs pass beneath the level of the floor, into a glazed pit emerging to form the bar separating the servery from the public space of the cafe.
Small, single-family wigwams and pit dwellings are also documented.
Each heat will pit the entrants against each other in series of specially designed, sporting competitions which will push them to their physical and mental limits.
Nick had fallen down into the same pit that Scott and Sean fell into.
The pit boss will then happily conclude that he has a loony on his hands.
Bare and open to the merciless view of the afternoon sky, silent and unwatched by all save the ravens, the pit revealed its truths of the men who had gathered there.
The 16 spotfin killifish collected at Piermont Marsh were all taken in pit traps or collected with dip nets from small ponds located in the interior marsh.
I sat on his tail on the run-up to the pit straight and half way down.
To that end, every evening the marina staff stretch a cable across the entrance of the harbor to prevent any nosy boaters from making uninvited pit stops.
There is no longer a bottomless pit from which largesse can be dispensed.
The priests conclude that there is common ground on even the most contentious topics that pit science versus spirituality.
We have faced quite a few of them so far and Manchester United have got some great players who you like to pit your wits against and see how you cope.
Kim Jong Un, a hamster in the snake pit of the regime, has just created a new adversary.
My favorite fishing spot is a 12-minute drive away, alongside a commercial gravel pit whose chain-link fence the river is always undercutting and dragging away.
We're playing a team two divisions up in a great stadium and it's a good opportunity for us to pit our wits against them and see if we can compete.
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Pale-to-medium blue mammillary rosasite aggregates occur with malachite in oxidized rock fallen from the north face of the open pit near the decline access drift.
Above this pit at the Water Works was mounted a steel beam carrying two block and tackles so as to be able to lift the motors in flood time or for servicing.
Access to the pit is prohibited, but excellent specimens of calcite scalenohedra, dolomite rhombohedra, pyrite, and marcasite have been collected from the pit's east wall.
The former coking plant was the scene of bitter clashes between striking pit workers and police in 1984-a confrontation which included NUM President Arthur Scargill's arrest.
Time was, Ajo was best known as the last pit stop for tourists bound for the beaches of Sonora.
The series is so competitive that an extra second on a pit stop or getting through traffic on the racetrack can mean the difference between finishing first or fourth.
First he put a bunch of stones in a big fire, then he put the stones in a pit dug in the ground, put stones over the top, and covered it with moss, sticks and sand.
Some stations, he says, booby-trap transmitters with CS spray to keep them from being stolen, and one has kept pit bulls on a tower-block roof in Hackney.
Such an overwhelming slime pit of sagas would normally infect and ferment your average low budget B-movie, rendering it as unappetizing as moldy headcheese.
While our youngsters, brought up without free school milk, were lolloping about mid-week, the home side darted about like greyhounds and finished like pit bulls.
He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.
Digging her mess kit out of her saddlebags, she set about retrieving some dinner from the pans littering the pit stones along the edge of the fire's reach.
The games and drinks may change with age, but a fire means there's a place to play regardless of whether it's in a campground, a back yard, a rock-lined pit or a chiminea.
As the 13th melt was nearing completion, something in the pit exploded.
It is simply inevitable that in a snake pit with that many snakes one of them would be lucky or smart enough to have bitten you despite your resistance.
A halfhearted pit had formed, swirling widdershins in front of the stage.
We are also concerned that some may think that if a dog is not muzzled, if it is not a fila, a tosa, a dogo, or an American pit bull, less care is required around it.
This evening, though, Davis will make his debut in the orchestra pit at Richard Wagner's Bayreuth festival theatre in Bavaria, conducting the composer's 1850 work, Lohengrin.
A special focus on the performing arts is evidenced in the public wing of the building, which includes a 1030-seat auditorium with a recessed orchestra pit and full fly loft.
Structures found include a brick-lined pit which housed a wheel, probably driven by a steam engine, and thought to have been used for powering the foundry bellows.

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