Queen Illariana spat directly in his face, and Revern wiped off her spittle, twisting his mouth in disgust. |
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They flow like gusts of wind on a cool day, curving and twisting as they become yet another poem. |
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They thrive on misinformation, on twisting the truth to suit their nefarious ends. |
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The medina, the medieval old town, is the one place where people do leave their homes, because tanks cannot get down the narrow twisting alleys. |
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Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers. |
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Inside and below on the slopes underneath are twisting cobbled streets and ancient timbered houses. |
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Sharp tines or prongs, operated by a foot pedal or hand crank, grip the weed and yank it out of the ground with a pulling or twisting motion. |
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He's painstakingly twisting tiny hoops of iron wire together to form a shirt of mail. |
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Over a period of ten minutes I saw them become violent and begin twisting in all sorts of directions. |
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I felt like twisting my arm away from him, but his grip was so strong for a guy who was not that beefy. |
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Bees are fooled into pollinating the bee orchid and the wispy, twisting petals of the rare lizard orchid closely resemble lizards. |
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The Ryder Cup trail has often been tortuous, twisting and downright tedious, but the rewards to the Scottish economy are expected to be enormous. |
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Their benefactress stood before them, still twisting at her apron, and she talked. |
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She shaped the words, unable to speak them with the knot of his noose twisting into her voicebox. |
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He dropped his arm, twisting away from her and sheathing it in one liquidy movement. |
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All the energy built up by the twisting of the plasma is suddenly released, as if millions of atomic bombs exploded in just a few seconds. |
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A few lengths were split off from a short section of 2x4, twisting and levering on the knife to pop them loose. |
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A light morning mist covered the ground, twirling and twisting hypnotically. |
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I set the shoulder bag on the table, stopping to adjust the bra straps tighter in a very unladylike twisting of my body. |
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Climbing bittersweet is a twisting, woody vine that climbs rope-like on trees. |
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You can extend one arm beyond the other and keep them both straight by twisting the trunk of your body, and rolling at the shoulders. |
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Flowering vines twisting up the cage, and colonies of monkey flower nearby, add charm to the scene. |
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A new release will have you twisting and shouting in living monophonic sound. |
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One of the joys of the radio show is Adams's pleasure in twisting language into all sorts of new and amusing shapes. |
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She wore a hint of false annoyance on her face, her fascinatingly shaped lips twisting themselves into a grimace. |
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He grabbed hold of her right arm, twisting her around so she faced the wall and the arm was behind her. |
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So when I started twisting the fruit around to loosen the membrane and subsequently pick out the seeds, Joey started pointing at me and laughing. |
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But then, in my paintings, I started twisting branches upside down so that they became shapes lying into the landscape. |
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They move together back into the big part of the house, toward the kitchen, where Dave is twisting the cap off a beer. |
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Remove the silk, and then gently pull the husks back up, twisting the husks off at the top with twist ties. |
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Also remove any leaves that turn yellow or look damaged by twisting them off. |
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These muscle groups come into play when you are bending, twisting or straightening up your body. |
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During the reading, Huang Jingao kept twisting and moving his body, and appeared to be uncomfortable. |
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Zethus fought against his power valiantly, wriggling and twisting, but got little reward for his struggles, as he didn't move an inch. |
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I'm apparently tossing and turning in my uncomfortable sleep, moving here, twisting there. |
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Red flames danced, glowing, leaping and twisting, a haunting mix of black and red casting horrific patterns over the concrete. |
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Then, I started to move, twisting and twirling my body, starting in a dance that involved every muscle I had. |
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Samaras strikes hundreds of different poses, twisting and reshaping himself before the lenses of his various Polaroids. |
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The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury, making his way toward the land. |
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The 19-year-old limped from the fray in the first-half after twisting his ankle where the side of the Gay Meadow pitch met the surrounding track. |
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All that does is play into their strategy of twisting words and meanings until nothing means what it says any more. |
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That's why I stopped talking, because I can see the press twisting whatever I say anyway. |
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On the local and national front, we have another effort at twisting meanings and twisting history. |
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What we should assure politicians is that we have no gain from twisting or distorting facts. |
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Her eyes were red from crying and her hands kept twisting her skirt unknowledgeably. |
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I stopped suddenly in front of the building and turned to Rob, twisting some of my hair around my finger. |
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The pair were laughing loudly, Corrie twisting one of her curls around her finger. |
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Cora toyed with her cloak, twisting the shining white fabric between her fingers while gazing up at the stars. |
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The raging wind began to take shape, twisting and coiling before the man before coalescing into a staff. |
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She twirled, slowly bringing her slender arms above her head while her sheer dress flowed in the breeze, twisting around her body. |
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I tilted my head to one side and started twisting my dirty blonde hair around my fingers. |
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Smoke rose from a hall in the roof and drifted with the wind, twisting and furling in on itself until you were unable to see it. |
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And his grip on my hand firmed, his fingers now curling and twisting over mine as he stood. |
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Rochelle began twisting some of her hair around her finger, and I thought that she mustn't have been keeping tabs on me as well as she thought. |
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Fraser and Grant's voices are the stars of the song, harmonizing and twisting around each other. |
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Maisy, meanwhile, was twisting wild dandelions together to make a kind of chain. |
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Then the trail would stop winding and twisting, and would level off and widen. |
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The small group sat in silence as Alex negotiated the roads, twisting in and out through the traffic, which was unusually heavy this evening. |
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We climbed through tough canyon country, the road bucking and twisting between coastal oaks and mountain laurel. |
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The paths lead on forever and ever, winding and twisting and weaving in circles until you don't know east from west nor north from south. |
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At this point, the Apaches split up from each other and dropped down to ground level where they began to move forward, twisting around dunes. |
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He took my hand and held my waist as we danced across the floor, twisting and twirling. |
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Did she do that on her own, was she forced to do it, was somebody twisting her arm? |
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What they made of the script was just plain bad, and that left good actors twisting in the wind. |
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There were certain projects that I was right in the middle of and that I really hate to leave twisting in the wind. |
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By not instructing on this matter Stevenson, for his own artistic purposes, leaves us, like Jopp, twisting in the wind. |
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The court case that had been planned to start in April 2004 was abandoned, leaving the parents concerned twisting in the wind. |
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The twisting limbs of oak trees are silhouetted against a darkening sky as a nearly full moon rises in the east. |
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All but one of the candles had been blown out, and the single flame was casting long, twisting shadows across the walls and deserted furniture. |
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Lace is created by looping and twisting threads using a set of bobbins or a needle. |
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She stopped working for a moment and stared at her, biting her underlip, twisting her mouth. |
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The bridge's roadway undulates gently at first, then abruptly starts heaving and twisting violently until it finally breaks apart. |
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What looks like oil slicks slither across the surface, multiple colors twisting over each other. |
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A thin, twisting and curling column of smoke emitted from the end of the rolled white paper, which hid the dried and crushed marijuana within it. |
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The sensation should not be fatigue or cramping, but that of a pinpoint white-hot bowie knife twisting deep in each of the three target areas. |
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It could have been that thinking about twisting us into bowknots was his idea of high humor. |
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She kept playing with the tied hair, twisting some around then untwisting it. |
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This is done by twisting the wrist at the moment of delivery so that the ball breaks when it strikes with the pitch. |
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As a result the soft-top feels a less nimble when attacking twisting roads. |
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A popular form in the 1760s was the result of twisting opaque white or coloured glass into the stem, instead of air bubbles. |
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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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The Comanche had gone into spiral mode, twisting this way and that in a futile attempt to stay airborne. |
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On the bare floorboards was a design, a twisting pattern of spirals and waves that was mesmerising. |
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Stevie Crawford, with 10 goals in 13 games to his credit, bustled energetically, twisting and turning the Morton defenders repeatedly. |
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As I drive north that night, the moon lights a fantastic landscape of crumbling ridges and twisting canyons. |
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The jungle natives would too often leave a most complicated Byzantine twisting trail for the enemy to follow. |
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She tried to pick him up but he was squirming and twisting to lick her face so much that she had to set him down. |
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I shouted, squirming and twisting my arm, trying to get it out of his grip. |
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Peering out past the bank, I could see our three shapes in the water, twisting and squirming in the current. |
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Away from boulevards and cafes, away from lights and crowds, he lived among the narrow, twisting alleys behind the quartier portugais. |
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You are the one that keeps twisting what you're saying whenever you are called out on it. |
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When she stopped blowing, it emerged a new, clean shape, the blade twisting with curling edges, designed to rip rather than cut. |
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They snaked with the contours, curling and buckling, even twisting vertically in places and splaying like the back plates of a stegosaur. |
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I paced restlessly around my small cell, stomach twisting with anxiety, and hunger. |
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Mary bit his lip, turning into a hellcat, twisting and fighting his hold, trying to scratch his face. |
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On some occasions his hair resembles the twisting platted masses of Hindu sadhus. |
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They calculated every vector of the arching, twisting plunge, while certain computers tried desperately to override the train's control systems. |
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If the overstimulation is severe, blood clots, kidney damage and twisting of the ovaries may occur, and monitoring in hospital will be required. |
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During copulation, males move their copulatory organs, the pedipalps, in a rhythmic, twisting manner. |
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The twisting action allows the animal to use the flukes in conjunction with the peduncle as a rudder. |
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Still leaning forward, she idly dangled the radio from her left hand while twisting the strap around her fingers. |
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The twisting of the character's emotions, followed by his allegiance, is clumsily handled to the point of annoyance. |
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The emerald pendant was round in shape, with silver and gold twisting over it like roots. |
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With a final slam, she locked her locker by twisting the combination lock beside the keyhole. |
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Aleck tried to pull the ring off, by slowly inching it forward and twisting from side to side, but had no luck either. |
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My twisting body creased the perfectly laid out blankets as I rotated feverishly on the bed. |
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Marc felt as though an apple was caught in his throat and his insides were all twisting around each other. |
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Pivot joints allow a rotating or twisting motion, like that of the head moving from side to side. |
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It carries extensive instrumentation to measure the twisting and bending of the wing during flight. |
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By twisting these single yards together to form the ply yard, the fabric is more resilient and long lasting. |
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I urge the apologists for the Prime Minister to stop their convolutions and twisting of the truth. |
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The spiral turns inward, twisting the soul of society into an alienated artificiality. |
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She looked down at her fingers, which were slowly twisting the length of blue cord from the market around one finger. |
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He picked out some seeds and cordage, rope made by twisting plant fibers together. |
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Using a narrow apple corer, make a hole at the stem end and scoop out the pulp by twisting it round, being careful not to break the skin. |
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Barbara Dement of the Shear Madness Salon in Washington, D.C., created these get-up-and-go cornrows by twisting the hair instead of braiding it. |
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He asked in a refined manner, though he possessed himself of my arm and seized me by the wrist, twisting me from the ground. |
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The road seemed to go on and on, climbing and twisting, between heavily forested hills. |
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Thick moss layered the rest of the floor like a carpet, occasional vines of twisting colored flowers creeping over the vibrant green. |
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Each end of the beam was raised and lowered by two Caterpillar front-end loaders, thereby twisting the load and trailer frame. |
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Betsy was fussing with the thick curls, artfully twisting them around her fingers to form short ringlets. |
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He gripped the thorn again, twisting it gently so that it followed its own path out. |
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A gust of red dust swirls around a patch of prickly poppies outside her hogan door, twisting past a pair of horses in a makeshift corral. |
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Open at an angle of forty-five degrees twisting the bottle, slowly letting the pressure build, while holding the cork. |
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Occasionally, when I'm bored, I'll play with my pubes, twisting them into little spires so they look like a city out of a sci-fi novel. |
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He could feel the strings of destiny twisting, shaping his future to an unavoidable fate. |
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The ridge was framed clearly and through it moved the clouds, covering the grassy valley and twisting lodgepole pines. |
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The forces of the two opposing groups of muscles result in twisting of the epiphysis and the diaphysis in opposite directions. |
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Their dancing, if I can even dignify it as such, was a composite of waist twisting, arm flailing and a vaudeville-style feet shuffle. |
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Ian listened for a few seconds, his bland smile twisting slowly into an exaggerated grimace. |
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His face twisting into a grimace, he managed to bring his legs onto the bed and Francesca covered him with the blankets. |
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I put emphasis on the word fun, twisting it so that it sounded chiding and sarcastic. |
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My friends and I were all laughing and braiding each other's hair, twisting our strands into funky 'dos. |
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The 6.5 mile trail offers a strenuous climb up Taylor Hill followed by a twisting downhill. |
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In my understanding, this kind of dyeing must be done with very hot water, and you run a risk of the fabric felting, twisting, or shrinking. |
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Lowering his quill once more, the ink trailed in a continuous line, curving and twisting on the paper. |
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Every emotion he'd ever known warred within his head and gut, twisting his insides about with sickening force. |
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He injured his ankle within 30 seconds of City's first training session at their Scottish training camp, twisting it in a rabbit hole. |
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I had maybe 75m visibility, on a very narrow, twisting road, full of blind corners. |
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After the long and twisting road to the final there are only two teams left standing in the European Cup. |
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This complete system of Yoga therapy combines rhythmic massage, acupressure, gentle twisting, deep stretching and meditation. |
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The LS1 hydraulic roller camshaft has large bearing journals and a large-diameter base circle to minimize torsional twisting and stress. |
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These dancers were twirling and twisting to the joyful music being played at every corner. |
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The old man, twisting the end of his long, raggedy beard, contemplates his order, and then takes out his change. |
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The circus aerialists perform, hanging from the top of the building, twisting through silver hoops and bright red ribbon. |
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I find that if I concentrate on the geometric shapes and unfocus to the point of occular agony they rarify into a twisting tunnel. |
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Be it aching, burning, gnawing, stabbing, twisting, throbbing or agonizing pain. |
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The act of twisting around made her shot aimed at Hydrogen Guy go wild, winging Ulysses J. Kramer's monument. |
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I stood there a moment longer, teetering on my heels, my stomach lurching and twisting, waiting for him to turn around and see me. |
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Thread should unwind from the spool and enter the first tension guide on the machine without kinking, twisting or puddling. |
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If anything, twisting will increase the size of your obliques, and make your love handles more pronounced. |
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Upon approaching the castle's wooden drawbridge, Jake's stomach began knotting, twisting up until it hurt. |
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He ordered a loaf, watched as she slipped it into a bag, twisting the top with a wrench of her wrist. |
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Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away. |
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Torticollis, also known as wryneck, is a twisting of the neck that causes the head to rotate and tilt at an odd angle. |
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Away from boulevards and cafes, away from lights and crowds, he lived among the narrow, twisting alleys. |
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The spigot stem had an annular cutting edge to cut a cylindrical plug out of the bung or stopper by twisting the spigot. |
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So the long and twisting battle begins, with numerous front-lawn confrontations between the two antagonists. |
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His fingers twisting in it look like wild, exotic vines climbing a shimmering trellis. |
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Over the sea, air may move at speeds of more than 300 kph, twisting anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. |
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Every part is richly decorated with flowers, hearts, twisting vines and grotesque heads. |
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He started walking to the office, twisting the silver ring around his finger as he thought. |
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He looked angry as he stared at the closed door, twisting the silver ring around his finger. |
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Its prime role is to measure the track geometry to locate faults such as spreading and twisting. |
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Using moves that involve twisting the waist can build the kind of rotational strength your abdominals need to shape up and stay more functional. |
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Brian shows me how to tie my fly, twisting the line four times then looping it back through. |
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While attending pulmonary rehabilitation, the patient had one episode of back and sacroiliac pain related to twisting and bending trauma. |
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This car is fun to drive on twisting country roads, thanks to a well-programmed 6 speed automatic gearbox with a tiptronic option. |
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His hair showed an unruly tendency to curl, flipping out at his ears and twisting in tangles. |
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Ten minutes were there of silence as blood seeped slowly out of Claud's chest, twisting the bright scarlet into deep azure. |
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The ensuing investigation is described as a twisting, suspenseful character-study, tautly written to conceal a surprise ending. |
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She raised her hands in the air and cart wheeled head first before twisting her body end over end in backflip after backflip. |
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I was taking Baja out for a bathroom run when he yanked me and I slipped on an ice patch, twisting my bad knee. |
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His head kept twisting back anxiously as they marched him out of the house, barefoot. |
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This border region, the Marches, is a stretch of pasture-land much broken by hills, woods, and twisting rivers. |
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Carlos crosses the beach with the cobra twisting in his arms, folds him into his terrarium, seals the lid, and breathes. |
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I've spent a lot of time twisting the knobs, getting the mix almost right before going too far and scrambling the hues again. |
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Five miles of twisting, turning, banked track with just enough adrenaline to keep you interested but not enough to make you throw up. |
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Borg liked his rackets strung at 80 lb pressure, which was incredibly tight, almost impossible to achieve without breaking a string or twisting the wooden frame. |
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Sometimes, no amount of pulling or twisting unsnarls the coils. |
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They elevate the usual twisting evasiveness of politicians to new heights. |
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We can see the Benedictines roaring with laughter, twisting in their seats, their faces changing color like the chimera's skin was supposed to do. |
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The orchestral instrument uses softer beaters, like giant timpani sticks, often double-ended so that a roll may be played one-handed by twisting the wrist. |
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Lucy Guerin danced in images projected onto the floor and wall, focus was placed on images of wrists and arms twisting and bending in uncomfortable and arhythmical movements. |
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With their massive ballrooms, twisting galleries, ceremoniously laid out kitchens and enviable furnishings, Chateaux were also the dwellings of European Kings and queens. |
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As she left the area where Mrs Scarrabelotti had tripped and broken her wrist, Terra tripped on another cracked part of the footpath, twisting her ankle. |
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Peering overboard, I see twisting whirlpools and black, churning water. |
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Burly runs at Crow, knife and arm raised, Crow easily side-steps the attack and snatches Burly's wrist twisting it around behind the wide man in a most unnatural position. |
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The most helpful hint was that twisting the sashes was the key to the halter top. |
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Actually, where the latter is concerned you've no choice, but I often find myself turning off the autofocus and twisting the focus ring manually, too. |
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Am I being too sensitive, or deliberately twisting his words? |
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By twisting her body and bracing her legs to counteract the momentum, she barely managed to prevent herself from falling face-first onto the hard, grimy pavement. |
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The hilt had vines and snakes twisting together in intricate designs. |
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What you understand is they would do just about anything to have the freedom to believe what they wanted to believe and not have anyone twisting their arm. |
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Sometimes, when we pass very close to or even fly through contrails left by another jet, we can see the twisting motion caused by the jet exhaust which created them. |
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Barely fifty yards from the boat a Humped Back Whale breached, rising over thirty feet out of the water before twisting and falling back into the sea with an amazing crash. |
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From the quay, the taxi which has transported me from the ferry port skirts the wide crescent of beach before twisting and turning all the way to the top of the island. |
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The boy's grandmother stands in the doorway holding a tea towel, twisting it in the way she wrings out the wet laundry before she carries it outside to the line. |
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Always twist wires together securely before twisting on the wire nut. |
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Titanic sat in the rear of the room, twisting his fingers nervously, till he was called. |
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The thick, twisting contrails still prevented any visual sightings. |
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So I screwed up the picture as tightly as I could, twisting and folding and crumpling until my hands hurt and no one would see the scene again, especially not me. |
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Traditional seismographs record straight-line movements, for example shaking, whereas ring lasers measure rotational movements like rolling or twisting. |
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In the US, tornadoes twisting at 300 mph sometimes sweep a path a mile wide over 50 miles, lifting and dumping trucks, barns, livestock and people. |
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A porter stops to rest under the shade of a huge banyan tree, its trunk twisting out of the earth and its umbrella-like branches arching over a granite stairway. |
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He screeches around a corner, twisting the wheel like a madman. |
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These are the songs that'll make people tap their feet and drink melancholically but not realize the twisting genius lurking within until generations later. |
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Bad Blood at The Alhambra is a quick-fire farce featuring twisting plots, twisted characters, rapid action, witty dialogue, ferocious greed and sexual jealousy. |
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The picture of flowers from three seasons, arranged in a terracotta vase, is admirably composed, with a trailing coherence of tendrils and twisting stalks. |
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The building's long, curved roofline is balanced on one side by a tall, twisting tower, with an observation deck floating above the city like a treehouse. |
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For those who do not want to follow the main road a twisting path follows the meander of the river and meets the road to Gisburn at Higherford Bridge. |
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You can resist the opera's vision of redemption but you cannot resist music which enfolds you so completely in a web of sensuous twisting harmonies. |
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Then a larger-scale map revealed a twisting, narrow road up to the col de Lizarrieta, at around 1,300 feet. |
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There were apartment houses on twisting narrow streets, bustling and busy. |
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At Lehman Caves, sign up early for one of the guided tours through an otherworldly half mile of stalactites, stalagmites, and twisting, straw-shaped helictites. |
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During all this, the victim's families have been left twisting in the wind, denied anything close to the truth they will need in order to begin the process of closure. |
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Periodically I would look across to my friend and yoga-pal Sola, who would be twisting her slender body into poses I can only wince at, and feel rather inadequate. |
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After laying down the melody, he proceeded to deconstruct it, pulling it into new shapes, twisting, fragmenting, yet never losing touch with his starting point. |
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Trangmar's starting point was the Greek myth of Ariadne, who sent a ball of thread twisting through pathways to enable Theseus's safe passage from the Minotaur's labyrinth. |
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Though he's adept at twisting the sound of the guitar into any shape he likes, Abrahams is as interested in musical structure as he is in texture. |
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Alsonte was floating down a river of memories, twisting and winding. |
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Don't think it's an easy trip, the twisting mountain passes inevitably slow you down. |
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The corner of her eye caught the yellow bus as it came down the long road, twisting and winding, stopping here and there to pick up children that also attended school. |
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His 14 ratty rooms are among the most luxurious accommodations for visitors to Ghadames' ancient town of mud houses and dark, twisting passageways. |
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He was lying there, looking up at the star-freckled sky with something like smug amusement twisting his lips, turning his expression into an odd parody of a smile. |
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As he spoke he plucked a solitary gold-fish squirming and twisting out of its globe. |
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His hand shot out and grabbed my arm, twisting me back painfully. |
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This is simply made by bringing the wire through the hooks eye twice and twisting the wire inside itself to form a loop then crimping the free tag end. |
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Rather than cut into the hills, roads curved around them, sometimes twisting so sinuously, in so confusing a manner, only a native could find the way out. |
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It offers a glimpse of blue sea through the propshaft tunnel, but getting there involves a twisting, winding dive down collapsed walkways and sagging decks. |
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I feel my insides twisting and take a sharp intake of breath. |
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For nearly four years of my life you managed to be there tormenting me picking up on any weakness or difference and twisting the knife till it really did hurt. |
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And off they went again, up the stony, twisting path, bending over beneath their loads and a natural inclination to avoid the rain as much as possible. |
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The man was wide across the shoulders, the madras plaid making him look like a senior-division body builder, knotty arms twisting from his sleeves. |
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This keeps the saw blade from twisting at one end only, permitting the user to turn corners without the top of the frame contacting the workpiece. |
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Here, only the twisting grey concrete under his tires disturbed the desolate wild. |
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Ay, here's none of your straight lines here, but all taste, zig-zag, crinkum-crankum, in and out, right and left, so and again, twisting like a worm. |
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Typically, this is where people tend to place too much pressure, such as lifting a heavy box, twisting to move a heavy load, or carrying a heavy object. |
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It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion. |
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Turn by moving your whole body rather than by twisting at your waist. |
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The water gurgled musically in a small twisting torrent from the old tap. |
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Rapid growth of the inner and basal parts of the apertural margin during their late shell ontogeny caused twisting of the gerontic whorl both outwards and backwards. |
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Today's Bangalore is a bustling city, still retaining its wide well planned avenues in the main areas, and twisting lanes in a rural atmosphere in the somewhat poorer areas. |
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It was gnarled like a tree branch, twisting and distorting in places. |
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Frantically twisting the leafy herbs into various intricate shapes of power, he adorned her chest, pointing them so that all invoked power would be directed to the amulet. |
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He just sat contently, twisting the end of his tie musingly. |
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The maze of twisting country lanes which surrounded the farm and connected it to the numerous villages and small towns nearby was confusing and disorientating. |
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I'm just uselessly twisting a thousand things around in my head. |
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He strides across the grounds of the Gleneagles Hotel, resplendent in mustard yellow cords, flat cap and wax jacket, his pruned moustache often twisting up in a smile. |
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The eigenvalues of the first bending and twisting modes of a structure are directly related to the flexural and torsional stiffness, respectively. |
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She chuckled, twisting the fringe of the pillow with her right hand. |
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The ground began another round of shaking, moving, and twisting. |
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His investigations hint at secrets held for centuries, revenge, and omerta in the arcane, twisting corridors of the Vatican itself. |
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The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge. |
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The jenny worked in a similar manner to the spinning wheel, by first clamping down on the fibres, then by drawing them out, followed by twisting. |
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The spinal cord at the time of injury may be subjected to hyperbending, overstretching, twisting, or laceration. |
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To 'wind up' the 'engine', the propeller is repeatedly turned, twisting the rubber band. |
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It is an elegant bird, soaring on long wings held at a dihedral, and long forked tail, twisting as it changes direction. |
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From this point on the road becomes narrow and twisting and overtaking is problematic except at a few straight sections. |
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She shot him an impudent smile before gripping the metal with the pliers and twisting it into a star with origamilike precision. |
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He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital. |
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Spinning evolved from twisting the fibres by hand, to using a drop spindle, to using a spinning wheel. |
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He will rise high up in the sky, to turn and plummet downward, in a spiral, twisting and turning as he comes down. |
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If they miss the initial strike, peregrines will chase their prey in a twisting flight. |
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Roll the patient onto the left side so that head, shoulders, and torso move at the same time without twisting. |
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During the proceedings, one of them decided to try twisting the taxi passenger's foot against the force of his anklebone. |
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Kenyanthropus displays bone cracking and twisting comparable to that in the most distorted oreodont fossils, White contends. |
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Luke walked outside and talked for 30-40 minutes, with no arm twisting or anything like that. |
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He really seems to come alive when detailing all the arm twisting and deal making behind various pieces of legislation. |
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After a bit of arm twisting from Lord Butler, he has admitted he got it all wrong. |
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In another trial, a shrew attacked the spider by first seizing the left palp in its jaws and twisting vigorously until the palp became detached. |
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Nearly one lakh auto rickshaw drivers have resorted to arm twisting to get the Delhi government's new City Taxi scheme revoked. |
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That's how Alex Salmond got into office and came to dominate the Scottish agenda, perfecting the art of twisting the Lion's Tail. |
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It is conceivable that a twisting of the body organization would have turned a protostome into a deuterostome. |
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A luge slider lying on a sled streaks down a twisting and turning icy track so fast he looks like a blur. |
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Matthews also contributed a twisting, vine-like design to the ebony peghead. |
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Lying just southwest of San Luis Obispo, it's a narrow, twisting cleft that rises from Avila Beach to the crest of the Irish Hills. |
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Skydivers are twirling and twisting through the air, performing complicated manoeuvres. |
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Nude men were slathered with oil on metal gurneys, twisting into positions that resembled a Robert Mapplethorpe photograph. |
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Kreyling sees history and memory as the surface of a Moebius strip, each twisting into the other. |
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Afterwards I forgot the Mandarin pinyin I'd known since four and had to learn all over, the rising drone of cicadas twisting through my head. |
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The center hole allows drawbolt or rod to provide direct axial pull or clamping force without twisting the rod. |
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Now Mark thinks nothing of twisting his limbs around his body, easing into a headstand and balancing on one leg. |
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And I shall ball-bust for her and enjoy every moment of twisting those suckers in my hands. |
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Without much direction from Wall Street, too many investors appear to be twisting in the wind. |
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There are a number of subplots twisting through, and the narrative is uneven because the tone changes in so many ways. |
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Low back pain can also come from other activities, such as prolonged sitting, as well as bending, twisting, and lifting heavy weights. |
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The tower rises from an octagonal floor plate, twisting counter clockwise that boasts uninterrupted 360 degree views of the bay and the Corniche. |
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If you prefer a more secure hairstyle,Moodie suggests tying the hair up into a ponytail and twisting it around into a bun,keeping hold with a few kirby grips. |
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The X-axis is fitted with drive and linear measuring systems on each side to avoid measuring errors caused by twisting, rectangularity deviations, and contouring errors. |
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When grown out of strong winds and encouraged by staking and pruning, the tree can reach 20 feet, forming a wide canopy of stiff, twisting branches and drooping branchlets. |
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She used different techniques such crosshatching, twisting and tying. |
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The ball and socket joints in your shoulders allow your arms to move in many different directions.When it comes to twisting movements, the ball and socket joint is the king. |
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His three sisters sat, beneath the tree, one twisting the wyrd on her distaff, one spinning the wyrd on her wheel, one weaving the wyrds of gods and men on her loom. |
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Drivers will be tested for memory and car-handling skills while they pit their wits against several tests as they navigate the twisting course against the clock. |
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The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road. |
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The clocks lining the dream hallway in her mind taunted her with their twisting hands, their broken faces, and some of them, with a cringe-worthy coo-coo, coo-coo squall. |
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A wheel was rapidly turned as the frame was pushed back, and the spindles rotated, twisting the rovings into yarn and collecting it on the spindles. |
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That leaves those with true convictions twisting in the wind. |
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Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. |
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