They are encircled by a pigmented ring called the areola, and surrounded by nerve endings and blood vessels. |
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Thin slices of courgette and aubergine sat on top of tomato-infused couscous, which itself was encircled with a drizzle of pesto. |
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Both ponds were divided from the lake by a low promontory of land that encircled them. |
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The prominently depicted hen and rooster form the brightest spot in the foreground, as they are encircled by an aureole of light. |
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Duck breast is pan-roasted golden as schnitzel and encircled by a cherry jus and caramelized salsify. |
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Wide avenues and ring roads encircled the capital city, frequented only by taxis and black official limousines with not a private car in sight. |
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She would have looked like the perfect Lady had it not been for the heavy black leather scabbard and sword belt that encircled a slender waist. |
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A golden band encircled it, decked with bells like all the rest of his outfit, and words were inscribed upon it. |
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Linden gripped tighter at the knife, and Kamaria's hand encircled the handle of her skillet. |
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It is good feng shui if a building is encircled by streets or on a curved road. |
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Belfast sits at the mouth of the river Lagan and is encircled by green rolling hills. |
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In its original condition a small streamlet encircled the space between the inner and outer circumvallations. |
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Before long, the agrarian, sedentary Hopis, the first to settle the area, were encircled by the pasturing, far more populous Navajos. |
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Her brown hair was sharply cut off below her chin and swung freely around matching brown eyes encircled by tanned skin. |
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Before he could turn and make his escape, two large shepherd dogs had encircled him. |
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Her painting depicts a Buddhist stupa encircled in chains, suggesting peace in trouble. |
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After Grant outflanked the Confederates and encircled Vicksburg, they stood him off for weeks. |
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Each portrait is encircled with a foliate wreath and surrounded by classical rinceaux against a Byzantine style gold background. |
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Ivy twisted through sprigs of flowers, adding green here and there, and rose trellises climbed the stone walls that encircled the gardens. |
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She walked over, encircled her arms about his waist, and propped her chin on his shoulder. |
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At the underside of the sixth floor, the atrium narrows to a small opening encircled by polished granite voussoirs. |
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A spider's web was spun on his neck and on his right arm was a small blue swastika and an encircled A for anarchy. |
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Through such envelopments, a commander could create kessels and systematically destroy an encircled enemy force. |
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Backlighting the hand, a bright yellow disk rests against a washy sienna background encircled by a repeating phrase in Gujarati. |
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Having reached the peak, we got a stunningly beautiful view of the verdant valley below encircled by green hills. |
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I smiled to myself as a pair of strong arms encircled my waist, steadying me and holding on tightly. |
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On either side of the fountain, a curved staircase connected the ground floor to an upper walkway that encircled the entire room. |
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Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins. |
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I didn't get far though, before his arms encircled my waist and pulled me to his wet body. |
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The keep in stone encircled from the full water ditch that we see today was built at this time. |
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On the rare occasions when he did appear, he was encircled by aides-de-camp, soldiers, and various hangers-on. |
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The small piece of gold glittered brightly in the moonlight, setting off the red ruby it encircled. |
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She jumped into his embrace, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck as his own encircled her tiny frame. |
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The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath. |
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He held her so that she could not move, his strong arms encircled about her slender form. |
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The site is landscaped and encircled with stone paths and plants in keeping with the natural habitat. |
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The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. |
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Like modern frogs, she says, the bones show an inner zone of yellow, fatty marrow, encircled by an outer zone of red marrow. |
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The wall of fire quickly spread and encircled the androids while giving cover to the retreating humans. |
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The ragtag Republican forces, resisting him in their forlorn fight against fascism, had encircled the town. |
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The rampart wall was found to be encircled by at least two deep ditches, and possibly three, with counterscarps between tern. |
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In addition, the mounts are encircled by bands supporting balustered posts, each with a suspension ring. |
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While gold coins are set on one side of this necklace, the reverse comprises units of rubies and emeralds encircled with pearls. |
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Instead, tectonics has encircled the north pole with most of the great continents. |
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In Samhain, banks of grass-covered earth in the shape of a sleeping woman wrap around a pool encircled in a ring of birch trees. |
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A wreath of ivy encircled his head, and his hair fell in ripples to his shoulders. |
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I was reminded of the part in A Bridge Too Far when the only supply drop the encircled Allied troops actually manage to retrieve contains nothing but burgundy berets. |
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Situated at 5,400 feet, it's encircled by jagged peaks that make you feel you're cupped inside a caldera. |
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The little hill station of Kohima, north of Imphal and on the road to the important railhead of Dimapur, was encircled, but held out in an epic siege. |
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They also located individual subway and railroad stations and identified the entrance and exit ramps on the Moscow Ring Road, the automobile beltway that encircled the city. |
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Her boots and gloves were of softest kidskin, and a belt encircled her waist from which hung a deadly, but less heavy version of her master's broadsword. |
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Their breath encircled the chateau like a wreath, wrapping its way around the substantial estate as if wanting to squeeze out every last drop of life, which existed inside. |
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De Merode is hundreds of miles from his wife and daughters, encircled by hostile forces, a target on the back of his uniform. |
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The 7,000-ton freighter is still stocked with sake bottles and four fighter planes, and it is encircled by gray reef. |
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In the middle of the courtyard, where the public apparitions took place, a large shrine is encircled by benches. |
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Al Deir is encircled by the rounded bluffs and ridges of a range which plunges 1500 metres to Wadi Araba, a valley linking the Dead Sea to the Red Sea. |
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Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the Paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca. |
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Her glistening black hair was encircled by a crown of animal figures carved from lapis lazuli intertwined and connected by vines and leaves of knotted beaten copper. |
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A number of lawn chairs and a canopied swing were encircled around a large, self-dug fire pit, in which a small orange fire was crackling merrily in the afternoon sun. |
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He found the two encircled in one another's arms fast asleep. |
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Directly above them in the coved gallery ceiling, a continuous plaster molding in the form of a decorative beribboned garland encircled the entire rotunda. |
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In the heart of the department, Puy de Dome is this lovely place, encircled by beautiful hills, rippling brooklets with waterfalls and various mountain lakes. |
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A pulpy perimeter of raw sewage encircled each village, which made walking into the forest to find some privacy an ordeal. |
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Tent City is encircled by razor wire and consists of dozens of open-air tents crammed with double bunks. |
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They passed one unit after another, each entirely separate, each encircled by chain link topped with razor wire. |
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A single strand of wire encircled the top of both the exclosures and the open units to allow for similar seed input from bird defecation into all the units. |
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The terrain is an open grassy area encircled closely by trees. |
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The tears flowed freely now, coursing down my cheeks and soaking into her tank top as she cradled my head with one arm and encircled my waist with the other. |
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The artist here sits in the foreground of the picture, his troubled head, larger than life and encircled in red, rises amid shrouded tables, which have the aura of coffins. |
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A balustrade emphasized by gargoyles encircled each of the three steps. |
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We arrived in Ranikhet, located 1,830 m above sea level, encircled by tall pine trees and soaring deodars, commanding views of the Himalayas glistening white in the distance. |
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One of Matt's arms encircled my waist and the other held my hand. |
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Spreading pecans encircled the house back in the Little Town, trees which received yearly pruning, faithful webworm eradications, and regular fertilizing. |
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Schools of sardines are encircled by a net up to 1 kilometre in length which is then drawn closed at the bottom. |
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Her dupatta slipped from her shoulders, as he encircled her waist with one hand. |
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As further Allied blows fell, von Thoma was captured and reports came in from the Ariete and Trento that they were encircled. |
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And a patch inside one of the tubes has pits encircled by raised collars, resembling cells called choanocytes that move water through sponges. |
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The troops encircled the multi-storey building on Karakas street after gunmen, holed up inside, opened fire. |
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The chapel-length veil, encircled with Alencon lace, was attached to a Juliet cap. |
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Another strong motivation to join forces with the Spanish was that Tlaxcala was encircled by Aztec tributaries. |
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The Danish army encircled and besieged London, but Edmund was able to escape and raised an army of loyalists. |
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But soon barques encircled them and made them prisoners, and transported them to a miserable hamlet situated on the coast. |
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In 1965, Cologne became the first German city to be fully encircled by a motorway ringroad. |
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The last major German forces in the west were encircled and trapped in the Ruhr. |
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Had Oquendo given the order for a line, the immense Spanish fleet could have probably encircled and dispatched the Dutch squadron in a few hours. |
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The whole bay is shut in by high hills and is thickly encircled with sands. |
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Shrewsbury, being almost entirely encircled by the River Severn, has nine bridges across the river and many that cross the Rea Brook. |
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To highlight the phenotype, lacking macrochaetae are encircled on the left heminotum. |
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Entire schools are then encircled with fast auxiliary boats which deploy purse seine nets as they speed around the school. |
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Had Howe chose to land on Manhattan, Washington could have been encircled and his army destroyed. |
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The following year, Agricola raised a fleet and encircled the tribes beyond the Forth, and the Caledonians rose in great numbers against him. |
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In the original design both sides of the coin are encircled by dots, a common feature on coins, known as beading. |
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The Chinook Mountain winds had sucked out most of the storm windows, and broken glass totally encircled the house. |
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At the beginning of this period, all continents joined together to form the supercontinent Pangaea, which was encircled by one ocean called Panthalassa. |
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On the hillside above the house was a space encircled by a low stone wall where larger meetings were held, and beyond the house was a small burial ground. |
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Much of Charles's reign was taken up by conflicts with France, which found itself encircled by Charles's empire while it still maintained ambitions in Italy. |
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The grounds, encircled by towering palms and lush with bougainvillea, lavender, salvia, creeping thyme, rosemary and lantana, are seductively lit. |
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Those challengers were fought off despite the hostile forces having encircled the Philippine archipelago in a crescent formed from Japan to Indonesia. |
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On 16 April, in Burma, 7,000 British soldiers were encircled by the Japanese 33rd Division during the Battle of Yenangyaung and rescued by the Chinese 38th Division. |
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Henry was encircled at Chinon and was compelled to surrender. |
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