His hands were rough and weathered against her smooth, soft skin, but he was gentle when binding the shoulder wound. |
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By the 1760s, therefore, it seemed that the church had successfully weathered a century of intense religious conflict. |
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The news was welcomed by traders in the city who have weathered a difficult winter, as they vowed to keep up the momentum. |
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The country has successfully weathered the painful transition from authoritarianism to participatory government. |
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But he appears to have weathered the transition well, and this team should be stronger in the second half as it continues to jell. |
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I was trying to make sure that we weathered the onslaught of the Asian economic crisis. |
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Religious publications also appear to have weathered the downturn in religious practice. |
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Anglo-American air power relations have successfully weathered serious political tensions because leaders have focused on strategic goals. |
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For this orchestra has weathered centuries of political unrest and revolution in its homeland. |
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We pull up in front of a weathered frame house tucked behind a real-estate office on a busy main road. |
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We all trudged down to The Hazards, which are a chain of weathered granite domes. |
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The result was a graceful shell of weathered brick, rose-coloured with tall, symmetrically disposed openings on each side. |
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Our children bring children to bless her, her face more weathered than mine. |
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In a small fishing village in Cuba, Santiago, an old, weathered fisherman has just gone 84 days without catching a fish. |
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The weathered speedboats line up along three small piers every morning, right next to large police boats that patrol the strait. |
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Randy Eckert, owner of the old Steltzenriede property, stands in the loft of his old, weathered barn. |
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Gates of bamboo or weathered wood will typically let you know where you're not welcome. |
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A tool to scrape away weathered surfaces of rocks will expose fresh surfaces for close-up study. |
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The visitor is drawn into the building between huge weathered industrial Corten steel wings. |
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Individuals can be collected by hand from weathered portions of the limestone. |
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A welter of ancient corridors in a ruin gives way to a clear space, contained within a circle of weathered obelisks. |
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There are no green-covered trees to shelter us from the icy north blasts, just the weathered clapboard of this rickety house. |
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The French media kept the weathered faces of the disgruntled farmers in the press for months. |
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The most effective joints for moisture resistance are concave, v-shaped, and weathered joints. |
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He had a youthful face, not yet weathered like the rest and whenever ashore was quite popular with maidens and wenches alike. |
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The weathered minerals of the regolith, together with an admixture of organic matter and water, make up the soil. |
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Bleaching agents can be applied that will give the decking a silvered weathered look. |
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The only noise that came to me was from the soles of my boots brushing against the wild grass growing on the weathered road. |
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Uzbekistan weathered a storm of China's attacks, holding the host to a scoreless draw in the first half. |
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The corals are inseparable from the matrix of the rocks and generally badly weathered on the exposed surfaces and recrystallized internally. |
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The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion. |
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This tonal restraint also contributes to the antique look of the works, whose distressed and pocked surfaces appear to have weathered over time. |
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Even the old washer-woman, though her features be hooded and in weathered high-relief, has to retire to her humble quarters and stop laundering. |
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Indeed the dome and the lightning rod passed their first real test when they weathered the severe hurricane of July 1788 without incident. |
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The same man did likewise with a well-worked drop goal attempt but Watsonians had weathered the storm and were once again dominated this match. |
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We never expected the boat to live in such a fearful gale and sea, but she weathered it bravely. |
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City were living dangerously but as the clock ticked closer to 90 minutes they looked to have weathered the worst of the storm. |
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These specimens were mostly weathered out from dark gray, argillaceous limestones. |
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As the road neared its end, Mandy turned into the weed-infested driveway of a badly weathered house bearing a rusty metal roof. |
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Higher, steeper slopes of the Vosges have thin topsoil, with subsoils of weathered gneiss, granite, sandstone, schist, and volcanic sediments. |
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I don't tan easily, but all those days outdoors had weathered me, and given me restless nights suffering from sunburn. |
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He arranged a satisfyingly battered set of antique phonograph horns amid the weathered beams of this peaked room. |
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Throughout his high school years in the nearby town of Bay Minette, he weathered the taunts and teases of classmates for being gay. |
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The amphibolite is mostly medium grained, rather schistose and has a characteristic reddish hue on weathered surfaces. |
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Well, I had weathered the Oldreds department store, the Tescos supermarket and a schlepp around PC World, driving between each in sweltering sun. |
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Measurements were taken over 200 second intervals on vertical faces which had had as much loose scree and weathered material removed as possible. |
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The stone mason has started work on the first cone and has even provided some weathered stones from his own private store. |
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Both Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss weathered the opening hostility and, aided by the lack of a third man, started scoring freely. |
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At its base rested a small, weathered plaque with a few words elegantly etched into the fine stone. |
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York weathered the onslaught and their stylised and pacey three-quarters in turn began to threaten. |
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A small, semicircular tunnel with two entrances had been weathered out of the soft rock. |
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Red House today stands secluded behind a pleasantly weathered red-brick wall surrounded by a forest of bungalows and semi-detached houses. |
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Where Jack's face was weathered from the salt air, Eliza's skin was barely touched by the sun and her hair was lightly tinged with blond. |
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In the yellow corner, a rising sense of frustration crossed the already weathered features of Hales, the toymaker from the West Midlands. |
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The soils are developed on weathered materials derived from sandstone, shale, and limestone. |
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It was only when she found herself standing before a massive pile of weathered stones, a huge, natural monolith, that she stopped. |
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The timber cladding on the outside is untreated and has taken on a bleached, silvery colour as it has weathered. |
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It made the merchants under their canopies sweat like cattle, and blistered the weathered skin of the tireless workers just outside the city. |
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Upland soils are highly weathered alfisols and ultisols, with large clay fractions and chert intermixed throughout the profile. |
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A complete, superb uncrushed specimen and several other complete and partial specimens were found weathered from the shale at the first location. |
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The investigator then pressed his face against the weathered boarding, his eye even with the hole. |
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The stoic expression on Buddy's weathered face was almost identical to that of the other boatman as the boats closed rapidly on each other. |
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Grey weathered posts, with white ant mounds creeping up around them, mark the boundary. |
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They are white and weathered, the horns cracked and bleached by the snows and frosts, and the rains and heats of many winters and summers. |
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The pitch-black bark with coarse texture is well weathered and full of the verve of unyieldingness. |
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Turquoise here was found as vein fillings and nodules in weathered Precambrian granite. |
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These two visionary leaders forged an enduring relationship that has weathered many challenges from the Cold War to the terrorism we face today. |
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Dean Nelson, the tall, Nordic man with a weathered complexion and dead-as-steel eyes, looks over to the car. |
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Concretions, which were originally calcitic, are either weathered out or now contain epidote as a cement. |
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A weathered tree stump serves as an occasional table, river rocks adorn tabletops, and branches are used as sculpture. |
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Commercial aluminium window frames have been chosen so that they will eventually harmonize with the silver grey of the weathered shingles. |
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His water-plastered gray beard, his stooped frame, and the weathered lines of his face made his age apparent. |
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It occurred in weathered material with colorless transparent cassiterite, which is thought to have been derived from the oxidation of stannite. |
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Magazines have weathered the on-line storm, as it were, and are back in the catbird seat. |
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Vistas of mountains and valleys with interesting weathered limestone outcrops are everywhere, and there are numerous small mines. |
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While most people consider chalk to be white in colour, when weathered it can be grey and red. |
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They wore chaps criss-crossed with scars from needle sharp cactus, their hats were badly weathered, having survived many suns, winds and rains. |
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Every one also has easels standing tall, accompanied by a weathered table speckled with paint and sporting a paintbox and palettes. |
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Above the clerical collar encircling his neck, his face bears the weathered scars and wrinkles indicative of someone who has survived mean times. |
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Her photographs are mainly close-ups of trees, but also include patterns found on weathered concrete or left behind by removed posters. |
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For long life with oil base stain on rough sawn or weathered lumber, use two coats. |
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A few hours later, an elderly man wakes his wife up with the aroma wafting from their weathered percolator. |
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Their weathered faces, full of character, look down upon Lee as he fixes a bridle. |
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Chelsea had a good period early in the second half, but we weathered that and came back at them. |
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It pleased me somehow to be weathered by this deadly wind on my face and to be exposed to a gorgeous icy glare on this sunny afternoon. |
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I peel a chunk of weathered paint off, and hold the thin papery flake in my palm. |
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The slats are spaced irregularly, imitating the look of an aging, weathered barn that has begun to lose some boards. |
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Set of 6 very good corbeils in old weathered condition with traces of original red paint. |
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The weathered sandstone pinnacles which adorn the ridge looked for all the world like gigantic cottage loaves piled one on the top of the other. |
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More encouragingly, having weathered the storm, the Minstermen set about establishing a foothold in the game. |
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Young players and weathered campaigners pulled together as a force that was more than a team. |
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The only sound was the occasional creak of the weathered ropes straining to hold out weight. |
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The first and last serious emotion that creases this weathered face is agony at a headache. |
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He must have been young at that time, since he only appeared barely over forty years of age, despite a weathered face and body. |
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Her face and body was angular and weathered with premature lines on her face around her mouth and crow's feet at the corner of her eyes. |
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So far he had weathered numerous attacks, emerged unscathed and delivered a heavy blow to the Midway air base. |
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It is weathered from multiple readings, with pages smudged from my greasy fingers. |
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Now we groped our way by flashlight up deeply weathered steps to the top of the tallest pyramid. |
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The fuselage dope and paint is all cracked and weathered making the craft look very authentic. |
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Complete oxeas and styles are rare but do occur scattered as weathered elements on exposed etched surfaces. |
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These immigrant churches weathered acculturation and assimilation better than other immigrant institutions. |
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Bill Harney has the gnarled hands and weathered hat of a lifetime's work with cattle. |
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Old, his face was weathered and wrinkled, but he always had a smile for the strange woman and her sporadic emotional outbursts. |
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Her frame was small, her back was bent, and her skin was weathered, but her vigorous soul persevered. |
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Only in the color difference between new and weathered limestone are there obvious hints at the distinction. |
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He is believed to be in his late 20s and he is said to have a weathered, worn face. |
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The bricks had been weathered and the stone and brickwork needed repairing. |
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Little by little, she was making repairs, yet trying to maintain the authentic feel of the place, using older, more weathered wood. |
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The materials used on the exteriors give the house a pleasing, weathered appearance. |
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Their vegetation, mostly scrub pine, is noticeably weathered from the fierce storms that punish this area. |
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The lining, pure silk, may be dropping off out of old age, but the thick, weathered wool still does its job. |
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He had an old, rough, grizzled face, quite aged and weathered, and his eyes were a deep, deep blue, like chips of ice. |
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A lot of the old revenue service paint had weathered off over the years in the more exposed locations although there was plenty left. |
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When starting a car after a long period of inactivity, it often feels sluggish and un-responsive. This is often because the fuel has weathered. |
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Sometimes iron sulfides have weathered, staining the quartz an orange color, both on the surface and within the crystals themselves. |
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A small hammer and chisel could be used, but we found more crystals that had weathered from the rock then we could collect. |
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There's a sense that the rock has weathered differently in different places. |
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Materials have weathered well in the ten years since the building was completed. |
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His ships weathered the storm, sailed west and reached Honduras in Central America. |
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Take comfort in the fact that Richmond has been around for over 5,000 years and has successfully weathered countless earthquakes. |
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Hunter-gatherer societies, for example, weathered more ups and downs in food availability. |
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She seemed about the same age as Mrs Lewis up at the hotel, thought Chrissy, but her face was prematurely wrinkled, weathered by sun and saltwater. |
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Some of the cavities contain bits of iron oxides, and relatively sharp octahedra have been found on weathered pseudomorphs of limonite after pyrite. |
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His frame was aged and weathered, but he did not look old by any means. |
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Missing limbs, missing teeth, scars and weathered skin were abundant. |
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Stone is an arcane imperial measurement that has somehow weathered the tests of time in Ireland and the UK, especially in regard to the weight of people. |
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We found old baskets, a hand-painted antique serving tray, a child's chicken pull toy, a cornucopia, weathered vases and awesome iron candlesticks. |
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In addition, it shares an overall similarity of proportions and physiognomic features with the unfortunately weathered statue of the seated god El, also from Ugarit. |
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By moving in close to an old, weathered face, either physically or with a long lens, you focus the viewer's attention on the wrinkles and crevices. |
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It's a ghost town now, just a handful of weathered wooden buildings sagging beneath snow. |
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Weeds surrounded what once appeared to be beautiful landscaping, the paint had weathered and was peeling in some spots, and a gutter leaned against the building by the door. |
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Why light candles and leave mementos out in the open to be weathered and ruined? |
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Perfume bottles and weathered papyrus replicas gather dust in the grubby window displays of the empty shops. |
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The concrete piers were sandblasted to create a rough, weathered texture, and native trees and saguaros run along the wash, helping the structure blend with the desert. |
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Ancient deposits of weathered volcanic ash containing the special healing mud known as montmorillonite have been found on a farm 15 km east of Northampton. |
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He was burly with dark, weathered skin and a wide, square jaw. |
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The 'kadaitcha shoe' is a weathered fragment 23.5 cm in length. |
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In his brown robe, faded under the sun to the color of his weathered face and callused hands, he looked more the fellahin than the wealthy landowner. |
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In recent years the defense and aerospace giant has weathered operational snafus, ethical scandals, criminal convictions, and abrupt executive departures. |
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By 1978, Mortimer had six children with four different men and had weathered a painful divorce, the basis for The Pumpkin Eater. |
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Its weathered wood-shingle walls, brick chimneys and prettily striped canopied windows are set amid the maple, birch and pine clad slopes of the Laurentian mountains. |
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The surface of the conch seems to possess a layer of intensively weathered shell, and no feature that could be reasonably interpreted as growth lines is present. |
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Although most of the headstones are severely weathered and illegible, cemetery staff will record all legible marks and inscriptions before removing the stones. |
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And in came Tony Scott, sporting his signature weathered pink baseball cap, aviator shades, and a stogie hanging out of his mouth. |
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Forklifts shuffle weathered pallets of gear lining the airfield in a super-sized game of Tetris. |
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A second scenario is that quarrying operations exposed easily weathered fossiliferous shales, mudstones, or fine-grained sandstones interbedded with limestones. |
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It stands to reason that, if long intervals of time had elapsed between the supposedly-episodic lava flows, weathered horizons, and fossil soils should be common. |
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Seated at the weathered picnic table, we wrote notes to their mother. |
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His tanned, weathered hands firmly gripped the steering wheel. |
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Resembling a natural history museum, the dimly lit central gallery was lined with 13 steel-and-glass vitrines, each containing a weathered stone tablet. |
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The plainsman had gold eyes, tan, weathered skin, and black hair. |
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Ahead lies Bynack's shapely summit ridge of weathered granite. |
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Somewhere, stylistically, between country rock and folk roots, this songwriter has an original, weathered and understatedly expressive voice for a 23-year-old. |
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Now a white-haired man with weathered skin and palms coarsened by years of handling paint and chemicals, he seems more willing to discuss the influences on his life and work. |
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They certainly haven't ignored technology, but the use of instruments like banjo, accordion, glockenspiel and pump organ enhances the weathered folk feel of the music. |
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It was a look which suited Kate much better and weathered the summery temperatures more effortlessly. |
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The magma contains components of the sediments and weathered oceanic crust from the Nazca plate as well as the peridotite in the mantle beneath South America. |
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She's a motherly old woman with grey hair and weathered, wrinkled skin. |
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A small crevice in the cliff allowed them passage, into a very small, shadowy space between many boulders and the remains of a gnarled, weathered tree. |
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Her weathered, darkened skin and bulky build advertised the separate life she had lived as a Comanche wife and mother. |
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All have crow's feet and weathered lips on their heavily tanned faces. |
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And I can picture his shirt sleeves rolled up to reveal a weathered forearm with a tattoo of a mermaid melted into his skin like a doodle on blotting paper. |
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The weathered nature of much of the ore meant that primary ball mill grinding was minimal. |
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Over time, this will deepen the river bed and create steeper sides which are then weathered. |
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They are mainly composed of granite that has weathered into more rounded hills with many long scree slopes on their flanks. |
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Such a practice never existed, as weathered areas were given more attention, but there was a permanent maintenance crew. |
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Things went swimmingly with George. He had weathered a crisis, and was now full of confidence. |
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This rock can be weathered and eroded, then redeposited and lithified into a sedimentary rock. |
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Quartz sand that is recently weathered from granite or gneiss quartz crystals will be angular. |
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The walls are built with basalt blocks that have been weathered and broken up and stacked without mortar. |
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In contrast, a weathered ridge is one with a rounded crest and with sides sloping at less than 40 degrees. |
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Fertile soils from weathered volcanic lava have made it possible to sustain dense populations in the agriculturally productive highland areas. |
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Soils in Western Australia are very old, highly weathered and deficient in many of the major nutrients and trace elements. |
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These solvents, usually acidic, migrate through the weathering rock after leaching through upper weathered layers. |
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I watched him work, saw huge-phallused Frey emerge from the weathered wood, and helped pour libations to the god. |
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On most natural cobbles or nodules of source material, a weathered outer rind called a cortex covers the unweathered inner material. |
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Fertile soils from weathered volcanic lavas have made it possible to sustain dense populations in the agriculturally productive highland areas. |
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These were deposited in water, probably in a caldera lake, as the volcanic rocks weathered and were eroded. |
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Rounded, yellow, weathered peridotite xenolith in a nephelinite lava flow at Kaiserstuhl, SW Germany. |
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Bowerman's Nose is a stack of weathered granite on Dartmoor, Devon, England. |
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Both faces of the cross bear badly weathered inscriptions which have been the source of much speculation since the 19th century. |
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Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other. |
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Even the most weathered and experienced surfcaster will tell you that there are always innovative ways to fish the mighty Atlantic. |
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Boring and sampling showed a saprolite layer of weathered granite approximately 5 to 10-ft. |
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Local artisanal miners have been recovering gold from gold-bearing saprolitic soils and weathered bedrock using pans, monitors and sluices. |
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The scavenged material was weathered, as opposed to material from the passage, which was neither weathered nor scavenged. |
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Approximately 60m thick flow I is of compound pahoehoe type and highly weathered, exhibiting fragmentary tops at some places. |
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Characterization of bacterial community structure on a weathered pegmatitic granite. |
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The Quaternary glaciogenic sediments are composed of, among other things, various weathered Precambrian granitoids from Norway and Sweden. |
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The courtroom, to my surprise, was full of taut, weathered men wearing immaculate silk shirts and ten-gallon hats. |
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Petrological examination confirmed the oxide blebs were most likely highly weathered chalcopyrite. |
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When weathered, the colour of buildings made or faced with this stone is often described as honey or golden. |
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Fritz S J, Mohr DW Chemical alteration in the micro weathering environment within a spheroidally weathered anorthite boulder. |
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So Good Wife fans have already weathered josh Charles leaving. |
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Drake's men saw weathered and bleached skeletons on the grim Spanish gibbets. |
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Note the weathered condition of this F6F and the cordite stains on the wing showing the guns have been recently fired. |
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With heavily scratched and weathered surfaces, the pieces are variously reminiscent of ancient standing stones, beach pebbles or razor shells. |
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Within the weathered rocks a range of secondary copper minerals were identified including native copper, atacamite and chalcocite. |
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Hence, soil types that yield a radiometric signature quite unlike that of the underlying rock can be assumed to be composed of transported or highly weathered material. |
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Steiner C, Das K, Garcia M, Forster B, Zech W Charcoal and smoke extract stimulate the soil microbial community in a highly weathered xanthic Ferralsol. |
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Australia is fortunate to have largely weathered the global downturn and to possess a federal structure that permits a degree of woolliness at the top. |
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The composition of the weathered crust varies significantly, that is related to the composition of the basement rocks and physical-chemical exogenic conditions. |
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Bob lost his job, but somehow his family weathered the storm. |
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Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa. |
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Various theories about the derivation of this term have been given, ranging from the colour of a weathered scarlet coat to the name of a purportedly famous tailor. |
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Disposal of Railroad Ties Vendor to provide 30 cubic yard containers on as-needed basis for the proper disposal of used, weathered wood railroad ties. |
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Knitters or crocheters will do 10 rows of blue for a loss, 10 rows of green for a win and some silver if the team has a bye or gets weathered out. |
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Even the Plastic People's weathered, been-through-hell aging-radical looks can be respun as romantic now that their revolution has safely succeeded. |
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The broken and weathered regolith includes soil and subsoil. |
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Yet it could have been so different for Tony Pulis's side, who weathered a good start by the hosts to create the lion's share of what few first-half chances came along. |
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Mass movement is an important part of the erosional process, and is often the first stage in the breakdown and transport of weathered materials in mountainous areas. |
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Louis, he worked from his sketches, capturing the thick growth of vegetation of cypress-lined bayous with fallen trees, hanging vines, and weathered cypress knees. |
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In Amazonia, indigenous societies weathered centuries of colonization. |
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Rare earth carbonate minerals synchysite and bastnasite have been observed in samples of fresh, unweathered carbonatite beneath this weathered profile. |
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The first drill hole has intersected a sequence of deeply weathered rocks containing a range of secondary copper minerals including native copper, atacamite and chalcocite. |
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In fact, several Eastern European economies are showing signs of having weathered the depressions triggered by the communist collapse and the shift to free markets. |
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As gas flares burn vibrantly in the sky offshore northern Persian Gulf, weathered Iranian workers slog in a labyrinth of pipelines, storage tanks and workshops. |
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Somehow he had weathered the rebellion and remained in office. |
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He is trying to read the stone but decades of exposure to wind, rain and sun have severely weathered it, erasing all but the sketchiest of details. |
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They are pecked or abraded on heavily jointed and fractured gabbro and granophyre igneous rock surfaces that have weathered into massive linear piles. |
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