The sphere looked much like a dark crystal ball with swirling colors, all dark shades, mixing and moving inside. |
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It formed a twisting spiderweb of lines and patterns, a swirling sprawl of lightning that stretched out into infinity. |
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Reclining on the futon, he gazes upon goldfish and koi swirling in the nearby pond and listens to softly falling water. |
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The site is also, in effect, a traffic island, with vehicles swirling relentlessly around it. |
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These works ranged from swirling, meditative patterns of onyx and white to startling hues of lapis lazuli. |
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This new album proves to be a modern day masterpiece laden with swirling strings, swing beats and guest vocalists a plenty. |
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All of this is good news for Carlyle's family of investors, who seem nonplussed by the questions swirling around the firm. |
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The bank at this point stood over a slow swirling eddy of water about 18 inches deep. |
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As this material approaches the black hole, it swirls in a vortex, like water swirling down a drain. |
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The rolling green pastures were now dust, plumes of brown and yellow swirling over a land which was once so rich and fruitful. |
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The pressure of the water in these swirling vortices is lower than it is in the undisturbed fluid around the fish. |
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Dust devils are swirling vortexes that can tower several miles high and a quarter-mile wide at the base. |
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I dropped into the water and was immediately surrounded by a swirling shoal of tiny sprats. |
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For a 14-year-old, just looking at the swirling and overlapping musical notes was daunting. |
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Ornamental gauntlets with swirling embroidery and pinked edges were patented by F. Farrant. |
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But without them I was forced to live in a world of initially swirling, but then foetidly clumping leaves. |
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Strolling toward a table in the corner, she turned slowly, swirling her skirts around her, and plopped indecorously into a chair. |
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He directed his attention to the melting ice cream, swirling his spoon around in the chocolate goo. |
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As she exerted more force on it, she saw a human form materialize, first as a pillar of swirling water, then into a humanoid form. |
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Mind you, the outfits are of the least sensible variety, with flowing capes and swirling belts that would trip up even modest attempts to walk. |
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As if a swirling combination of rage, sympathy, and steely determination made it hard for him to formulate his sentences. |
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Far in the west the lofty crest of the Rockies flickered snow white between swirling openings in the cloud cover. |
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The winds were swirling faster now, an angry ice-taloned roc with wings of darkness. |
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Deep in her eyes, she had heartache, pain, and anger swirling together in a destructive mass. |
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Closing my heavy eyes again I feel myself falling into a swirling mist that refuses to settle. |
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Suddenly the wind hit, overtaking the chalet, shaking the wooden balcony out front, and swirling inside, filling the room. |
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Soon, up the street, I saw the swirling masses, vaguely in the fog of the gasses. |
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Some distant street lights are casting patches of yellow criss-crossing branches as an overlay on the swirling flat ice surface. |
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To either side, a liquescent nightmare of swirling hellish flame spun round them as the Widow settled ever deeper into the maelstrom. |
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The cheese-ball big-budget film is a riot of swirling gaudy colors, questionable plotting, and ham-fisted dialogue. |
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Kaleidoscope fashions with swirling flowers and paisley prints make little chiffon or satin dresses very bold and enticing. |
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Behind them, the once-silvery wall materialized into a liquid crystal screen, with a wide variety of colors swirling inside. |
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It begins surrealistically, with swirling fog and shapes of trees emerging in the garden. |
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My blood was swirling in a spiral pattern, before finally mixing with the water and turning it red. |
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At first he saw nothing but darkness, swirling and spinning around in front of him. |
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Local residents told protestors how they woke to find smoke from the blaze swirling through their homes. |
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They had gone a deep, depthless green-black, swirling like the ocean in a storm. |
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Put the rice into a pot and wash it with cold water, swirling the rice with one hand and tipping off the milky water. |
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They just sat there, he swirling a drink with a spoon and she staring off into space. |
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The scorer took off to greet the pocket of fans down by the corner flag, swirling his shirt above his head in celebration. |
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I put down my half full cup of tea back onto the tray and poured some milk into it, swirling it around. |
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The wind was swirling up leaf litter and the dusty snow together and they made a dry hissing sound. |
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Heat up a small omelette pan and add a teaspoon of oil, swirling it around the pan. |
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He stared at his pint, head down, swirling the beer slowly in the glass between his hands. |
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Most compositions are swirling masses of intense orchestration mixed once again with this signature drum 'n' bass lite rhythm programming. |
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Her eyes wandered in the circular motion of the black coffee, the trace amounts of sugar swirling inside of it hypnotizing her. |
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He raised his suntanned right arm to his face and shielded his eyes from the swirling clouds of dirt and dust kicked up by the Dauphin's rotors. |
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Maia looked down at the crystal ball and ran her hands across it, studying the swirling surface. |
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She ran like a madwoman for the longest time, jumping over people, swirling around houses, and tearing through the forest. |
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But he made no mention of a cabinet shuffle, despite the fact that rumours are swirling around Nassau about such a move. |
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In it he almost obliterates the sky in a frenzy of thick white paint and the sea in a swirling foreground of creamy, hot-chocolate gloop. |
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But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs. |
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When you agitate the contents with a swirling motion, it will feel as if there were liquid in the pan until all the gases have been given off. |
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Jonathan strode in, his black cloak swirling around him, his dark ebony hair disheveled by the wind. |
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To the west, swirling, drifting snow led Czech authorities to contemplate closing several border crossings into Poland. |
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The cone acquires a definite sense of rotation, swirling cyclonically at its top. |
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Reyes hit a swirling, inswinging free-kick, Juanito evaded his marker and headed into the top corner from 10 yards. |
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Jamie dropped his eyes to the drink in front of him and picked it up, swirling the contents in the glass before taking a drink. |
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The fans created a haze of maroon and white as hundreds joined together in simultaneously swirling their scarves above their heads. |
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It was some sort of creature made from what can only be described as pure darkness, its body a mass of swirling shadow. |
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Everything was swirling together into a mass of blackness, shot through with bolts of red, green and gold. |
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Beneath the swirling gray clouds a mass of sharply-peaked rooftops jutted up like a range of mountains. |
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The conditions were very difficult, with a swirling wind, and Joe Deane hit the bar when a goal would have settled us down. |
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Its full skirt will look great when you are swirling on the dancefloor, and it's more comfortable than a traditional boned ball gown. |
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On Hogmanay I met my neighbour twice, swirling through the crowd at the local hall. |
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It's hardly a river, a few yards wide but very clear, and swirling with water crowfoot that will flower in the summer. |
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Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them. |
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The outside is smoked glass decorated with a swirling pattern made from what looks like beaten copper. |
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Masonry blocks and flaming wood fountained out and choking smoke poured down the corridor, fire swirling in its wake. |
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It is a dance, swirling and whirling until one person tires of it or moves on to a new partner. |
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The back was a swirling mesh of bronze pipes, encasing deep red gems in random locations as well. |
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By the light of the ship, Jenni could see the crests of the waves as streaks of white, swirling randomly in the face of the gale. |
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He's an otherwise decent scientist possessed by the swirling, serpentine tentacles that continually whisper in his ears. |
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With their harmony vocals, swirling Hammond organ, and wah-wah guitar, they soon became known as the Beach Boys of hard rock. |
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Through the solid walls the undefined shapes entered, swirling around like the wind and almost having the appearance of a tornado. |
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The dark shadows crept across the ground, the swirling surface trembling at their presence. |
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It was made of dark, polished oak, with delicate tracings of bright silver describing a swirling pattern along its length. |
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The prince was rather flustered, his mind swirling as he tried to decide who would be his bride. |
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His paintings of this time had a magical and apocalyptic character, with hazy shapes and swirling draperies fading into the landscape. |
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The bold foreshortening and the swirling draperies create an intensely dramatic composition. |
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With a swirling wind driving into their faces, the second-half promised to be a stiffer test for City's defensive resolve and so it proved. |
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We heard only the swirling water and the cold wind whistling through the tall cottonweeds. |
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Now I was seeing mental images of water swirling down the toilet bowl because that's where this conversation was headed. |
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Over Easter this year an enormous shoal of grey mullet was swirling round for at least a week. |
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The yellow and red leaves are swirling down, the rain mizzles, the soft white sky is soothing after months of harsh sunlight. |
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It began sloppily with swirling wind and driving rain hampering the early action. |
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Gas and dust funnel towards a black hole in an accretion disk, swirling around and into the void like water down a drain. |
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Matter funnels into this black hole like water swirling down a drain, forming what is called an accretion disk. |
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Hector shut his eyes, to see his inner world, a blaze of swirling pearly colours. |
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I jump back into reality, dipping my mop again and swirling the water around on the dirty floor. |
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But before this material is permanently captured, it gathers into a swirling accretion disk that surrounds the black hole and radiates intensely. |
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People hurried back and forth, wrapped in cloaks or swirling capes behind them, in peasant wear or merchant finery. |
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She was blind and deaf to every other sight and sound aside from the swirling patterns. |
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It shows a car from below as it sinks toward the seabed amid a swirling shoal of silvery fish. |
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There's an excess of flounces and frou-frou as swirling skirts, bangles, baubles, ribbons and bow trims come out to play. |
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Andy grabbed the handle of the skillet and slowly began to move it so the meat was swirling the juices. |
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Wordlessly, we turned and took our first swirling steps into the deep water of one of the jungle pools in the Raspaculo river. |
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Within an instant, a swirling cloud of dust from the sandy ground was kicked up. |
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Off I set with kilt swirling, pipes skirling and feather bonnet flowing in what little wind there was. |
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She came out of the small station, the smoke from the departing train billowed across the lane, parting and swirling about the bare hawthorns. |
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Girl from Mantuckit sang out and sat poutingly in her chair, and began swirling in it flightily. |
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A swirling vortex of yellow and white light irised open from a small dot to a man-sized portal just above the deck in front of Illeen. |
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By now the snow is easing off and has turned into a sort of swirling sleety rain. |
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It must have been fun creating the ice slide, where we see the animals swirling around on a kind of natural rollercoaster? |
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It's all so dazzling as to be kaleidoscopic in its beauty and swirling confusion. |
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Gloriana was the tallest of the three, with bright red hair flaming and swirling around her head, and green eyes that flashed impatiently. |
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The slinky waves, graceful and sinuous in movement, invite fishermen to reactivate their fishing nets and venture into the swirling waters. |
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There was a disappointed frown on her brow as the swirling symphony of notes surrounded us. |
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Speculation is also swirling that insurance and other financial conglomerates could spin off their asset-management arms. |
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There is no vegetation here and the swirling winds are almost as intense as the khamsins in the Sahara. |
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He could make out the glint of staves and unsheathed swords through the swirling dust. |
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We have missions that include active nebulas, swirling dust clouds, moving asteroids and asteroid fields. |
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The inside of a cloud is full of turbulence that creates many swirling eddies of air. |
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She landed gently, the winds swirling around her, picking up the small flakes of snow from the ground. |
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Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a ventilator mask, he was shrouded in a swirling cloud of snowlike particles. |
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The wider gap could add fuel to a long-term debate swirling around when modern human behavior, as opposed to modern human anatomy, emerged. |
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A cloud of dust rose up in swirling patterns around the car's headlight as he braked hard and came to a skidding stop. |
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Place it indoors, in a quiet room, and the smoke becomes a cloud of wispy filaments, swirling gently until they all blend into a screen of gray. |
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In response, the mare nickered softly, gently leaning into the swirling motions of the brush, eyes closed in a horse-like state of ecstasy. |
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The winds have picked up a bit, swirling the sour smell of privet blossoms around me, bringing on another bout of sneezing. |
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But he missed three greens in his first nine holes Saturday as he battled swirling wind that had flags flapping. |
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Turning the glass snow-globe over and over in his hands, Ross Granger watches tiny white specks swirling around in the water. |
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The Factory never looked as good, with swirling images projected onto one bare wall and a mirrorball spreading spots of light around the rest of them. |
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Prints ranged from rich and India-meets-Psychedelic to modern and art deco, rendered in abstract circular, swirling prints. |
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A biting wind and swirling snow kept attendance low and meant that the absentees missed an evening of sparkling music from the Duke Ellington Orchestra. |
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The dance was, well, lovely, swirling around the floor in his arms to soft music, and it almost made her forget how hard she'd worked in Social Dance to learn to waltz. |
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Behind the counter is the pit, perfuming the room with the swirling, come-hither scent of beef and smoke. |
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A halfhearted pit had formed, swirling widdershins in front of the stage. |
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I knew I'd have to focus since my brain was still swirling with this new bit of information, not that I hadn't guessed that something of the kind was true. |
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Both the horse and the hawk are unruly, the latter swirling its head around instead of waiting in obedient stillness, and the dogs have curiously rounded leonine heads. |
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One minute you're in a sharp, spluttering, stony riffle, and then you're in a swift, frictionless, swirling run, or in a deep slow pool of long vowels and slow consonants. |
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Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo. |
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Perfect for wildlife watching, hiking trails snake through canyons beside the swirling Rio Grande in the US-Mexico borderlands. |
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The building looked very much like a country courthouse, with an intricate wrought iron sign hanging over the door, a pair of scales framed by swirling designs. |
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With all the hoopla swirling around out here, their attitude was refreshing. |
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Sensational smoky backlighting also accentuated the band's striking stage presence, as they stood as black silhouettes in a swirling, full-lit stage. |
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There was a yellowish-grey foam swirling on top, and after a wave washed up on shore, its backwash collided with the next incoming wave to create a geyser effect. |
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It's a fish magnet, home to swirling schools of baitfish and snappers, multitudes of groupers, and more scorpionfish per square metre than I have ever seen before. |
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Leaving Alex to study for his biology degree, we walked out into the swirling mists and up the steep slopes of volcanic scree towards the snowline. |
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Its paint had long chipped away, leaving only the naked brick exposed to the heat of the sun and the abrasion of the constantly swirling desert sand. |
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The volcanic vista in Lava Lake also features designed topography, including striped atolls from which astronautlike figures survey the swirling red seas of their planet. |
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At 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever winner of the Booker Prize with her swirling, mesmerizing epic The luminaries. |
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Light emitted by the hot gas swirling around the black hole passed near this magnetar before reaching us. |
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Rumors are swirling that Pope Francis is ill after the Vatican canceled all his July audiences and daily Mass. |
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It was not unusual then to see a shower of swirling blossoms fall softly on the hair of many a beautiful girl as she made her way to the dancing board. |
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Other rumors swirling around the Phoenix area pin the killing on minutemen or narcotraficantes. |
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Streets devoid of any sign of human life had been taken over by swirling rubbish, rolling through city centres like tumbleweed in an old ghost town. |
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A swirling wind and blinding rain destroyed the quality of play. |
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With investigations swirling, she apparently found it wise to return to Uzbekistan. |
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The video screens were blotted out by the clouds, displaying only swirling mists and droplets of moisture punctuated by a flash as lightning rippled through a cloud. |
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For the next fortnight Aquarian Venus busily stretches your social horizons, whirling and swirling you through various, multifarious, interesting new possibilities. |
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Her slim figure and graceful movements suggested to him that she knew how to quietly slip into a room, or to turn it into a swirling storm of attention. |
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He turned and was gone, cloak swirling briefly in his slipstream. |
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Some people love the facelift for such touches as the swirling tile time line that portrays the town's history, while others feel that their beach town has been Botoxed. |
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I can see the stars outside, the swirling patterns of distant nebulae. |
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Cameron turned left, her head swirling with a snowstorm of thoughts. |
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Chemicals diffuse through this membrane, react inside the cavity, and then diffuse out, creating swirling clouds of violet liquid in the green base solution. |
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Several questions ran through our heads as we made our way past the numerous coffee shops and bundled up against the swirling winds the port city is known for. |
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And judging by the buoyant mood of the cheerful crowds swirling all over the city centre, and day after day of packed events, they were succeeding. |
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The denser sand on top sinks while light sand on the bottom rises, creating swirling vortices akin to the convection rolls that are common in gases heated from below. |
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A descent through your rotor wash creates swirling vortices that spoil lift, so the more power you add, the worse it gets, and the faster you fall. |
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Kaishek failed to notice the concealed motion and came at his opponent with both blades swirling like the oars of a seven man regatta rowing boat. |
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Across the Berkshire Downs heavy clouds obliterated the moon and unleashed a swirling hailstorm that lashed the dark bills and motorway with an icy deception. |
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Especially at a moment when buckets of blood are swirling in the roiled Republican waters. |
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Refrigerant flows through the mixing chamber in a swirling or other turbulent pattern and into the suction chamber through circumferentially spaced openings. |
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Although astronomers are surprised to find a blue disk of stars swirling around a supermassive black hole, they also say the puzzling architecture may not be that unusual. |
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Suddenly the fog moved, swirling to form the shape of a man's head. |
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I'm climbing ever higher on the Panekiri Bluff, enveloped in swirling mists and harbouring the inexplicable feeling that my every move is being watched by the patupaiarehe. |
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It reflected the swirling hordes of dancers below, so that the shades of peacock blue and blood red and midnight black danced along the gilded walls. |
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Gamins, snappy in pinstripe suits and cross-culture printed silk, dress up for the evening like gypsies in a dizzy fandango of swirling, hand-painted silk ruffled skirts. |
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Nor can we easily draw a line between the film in its finished state and the many in-process, experimental layers of its ragged, driven, swirling incompletion. |
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The danger is real and immediate, and yet the allure of taking chances, of putting oneself at the mercy of the swirling forces of nature, is inextinguishable. |
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A cryptic chorus of sound accompanies these series of visions while a swirling and undulating hot air balloon figure slowly inflates under the night sky. |
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The swirling draperies create an intensely dramatic composition. |
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The cross-currents of various conversations seem to be swirling around me. |
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Once I realised that the trick lies in swirling the pan as soon as the mixture is poured in, making a circular pancake was easy-peasy from there onwards. |
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At the last second a geyser of frigid water rushed up under him, swirling around and under him just strong enough to keep him from hitting the ground. |
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Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it. |
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Bare hills and mountains are grooved with swirling lines of erosion while an almost endless ribbon of palms meanders from one village to the next. |
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Thus, both band and fans grew alike together in their musical education, and are bound evermore in a swirling mutual appreciation of the smaller person's universe. |
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It was surrounded by a glowing ethereal light and swirling vapours. |
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The mist thickens into a swirling grey peasouper and the bridge turns on the foghorn and keeps a watchful eye on the radar. |
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They fought out a scoreless draw with the part-timers, who lost 10-0 to Hearts last week, on a gluepot surface with brutal winds swirling. |
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Against the band's shifting, swirling show, the crowd was as effervescent as the music, their every move marked by glowstick trails. |
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There are some water devils,'' Janis said, describing them as big sheets of swirling water blowing across the ocean. |
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Trademark swirling synths are all present and correct along with the low-in-the-mix vocals and arpeggios. |
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The acolytes are now swirling their red fabric sheaths. The man on the table is, if anything, more decontrolled, more uncentered, than before. |
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In fluid dynamics, an eddy is the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid is in a turbulent flow regime. |
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To stand up in the cockly boats in the rough swirling water was at first rather nervous work, but we soon got not to mind it. |
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The tiny water droplets free for just a few seconds dance euphorically towards the sky before falling back towards the swirling cauldron. |
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A pink gin is prepared by swirling a few drops of bitters round the glass and throwing any excess away. It's the Marmite of the drinking world. |
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Wielding his flashlight like a lightsaber, Kyle sent golden shafts slicing through the swirling vapors. |
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This special material provides a physical barrier between swirling water and the erodible soil and keeps it in place. |
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However, there was so much mist swirling round the Bilino Polje Stadium that Clark didn't know it was Dzeko who netted. |
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Just add running water or a flush of the toilet and you can almost hear the sound of memories and thousands of dollars swirling down the drain. |
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Appearing as dark oval on the disc of Jupiter, the Great Red Spot is a vast swirling cyclone. |
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Jerusha turned, a flush on her cheeks that wasn't makeup, a swath of steam from the vaporizer swirling around her chest, disembodying her head. |
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My sister lives in Italy and sips her wine slowly, smelling it delectably and swirling it like it's work of art. |
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Then he had to concentrate his efforts on a smooth descent through the swirling gusts of the brickfielder. |
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A swirling chaos of superdense matter with temperatures exceeding 18 billion degrees Fahrenheit surrounded the newborn black hole. |
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Two trumpeter swans floated on the steaming river, snowflakes swirling around their ghostly white forms. |
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The opening saw a swirling cloudscape projected onto the back of the white box space, and the original music helped set a foreboding scene. |
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Do it!, stir up your energy until it's swirling around like a leaf storm inside your body. |
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In the air, the sandgrouse were fast and confusing, speeding through in tight flocks before swirling round to pitch down. |
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Ghillie tan is a dark tan color with a faint swirling camo pattern in it. |
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While this formation occurs in many places around the world, nor'easters are unique for their combination of northeast winds and moisture content of the swirling clouds. |
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Shoegaze combines ethereal, swirling vocals with layers of distorted, bent, flanged guitars, creating a wash of sound where no instrument is distinguishable from another. |
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That was partly because of a swirling wind that made precision passing difficult and also a derby atmosphere where the emphasis seemed to be on passion rather than football. |
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Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup. |
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In fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, an eddy is not a property of the fluid, but a violent swirling motion caused by the position and direction of turbulent flow. |
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Astronomers used Spitzer to look for a prebiotic chemical, called hydrogen cyanide, in the planet-forming material swirling around different types of stars. |
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How, driving in whiteout above tree line the summit road washed white blue-white gone to swirling powder, we gasp whirling inside the frosted sigh of the earth. |
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Fingertips cut through the swirling pools of microcosmic intimacy. |
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The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano. |
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With the infinite vastness on one side and the swirling blue waters and green land masses on the other, Curtis felt his own insignificance for the first time. |
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More specifically, many of these rocks are described as migmatites, in which the pink veins seem to blend insensibly into a kind of swirling granite. |
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The swirling, concentric rings around the arena are almost sculpted in impasted pigment and other media as they rise to the upper tier of the stadium. |
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