His eyes drop, and he drifts with the wild ice ticking seaward down the Hudson, like the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle. |
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And like many dairy cows, she often has mastitis, a painful udder inflammation, despite receiving antibiotics between lactations. |
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Males and females did not pair with like partners but paired disassortatively according to personality. |
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It might even be more uncomfortable to see the world through the mind of someone who thinks exactly like you do. |
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No matter how many times they were said and no matter who said them, comments like that always stung. |
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This is specifically a reference to those fluorescent plastic thingummies that men like to stick in the back pockets of their trousers or jeans. |
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There's no fool like an old fool, these old goats don't know how foolish they look. |
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It hit a local village, overturning boats and snapping trees like matchsticks. |
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The full force of the waves hit us, rocking our little boat like a piece of matchwood. |
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But today Matthew is the only person I can think of like that in that age range. |
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Hair thickener was an oily blue liquid, a bit like petrol, and came in a clear plastic bottle that reminded me of a glue container. |
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The inside of her house was much like the outside in the sense of the electrical barbwire. |
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It seems like the lesson here is to let things slide, no matter how painful things get. |
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None of this boded very well for the Secreta Alf, who, in the first place, didn't like cold, and, in the second place, didn't like people. |
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It looks like barm or yeast, but, being unfit for use, is only beggarly barm at best. |
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When you think benefits, think bare-bones basics like a retirement plan, as well as health, dental, disability, and life insurance. |
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His matted hair looks like it hasn't been washed for months and he smells like a damp rug. |
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Detectors used for long-term continuous monitoring of UV from sources like the sun may be thermoelectrically cooled. |
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So why is it that an ordinary thigh bone will never wear out like a metal structure? |
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It still looks like Barbados will get a fair share of rains and high winds. |
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Find other clear-headed thinkers like yourself and pay attention exclusively to their work. |
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Any woman still thinking that men are like buses and there'll be another one along in a minute has another think coming. |
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Those who don't like boys-only schools would say they are barbaric and uncivilised. |
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The floor was white washed wood, going from one room to the next like a piece of seamless fabric. |
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I didn't want to barge into his home like this and shove two girls down his throat, but I had no other choice. |
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The birds love the dense thickets and scrub and clumps of bushes like blackthorn that grow in the older sites of the park. |
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Yeah, right, like any of us are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with someone wearing a Barbour and a tweed cap. |
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The frigid old crone who taught us made copulation seem like the most boring thing possible. |
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It had also taken Katrina a while to grow accustomed to Hazel's thick accent, but after a few weeks of it, Katrina had come to like her voice. |
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We can't have anything like that, we've never done a thing like this before. |
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I still don't like doing it and have to psych myself up to it but I am starting to master the fear. |
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Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson. |
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It really is like camping out under the stars, said the master of the ancient craft. |
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Afterwards, it was matted down with an industrial scrubber and made to look like marble. |
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I like to start casual dinner parties with an appetizer served at the bar facing our open kitchen. |
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Meanwhile another cutthroat was charging towards him like a bull after a matador. |
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Therefore promoters tend to treat local bands like second-class citizens, with quality control no longer a factor. |
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His only chance is to play his brutish opponent like a skilled matador plays a fearsome bull. |
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The two couples that we see most of responded before the weekend, saying yes, they'd like to come. |
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Young baritone Andrew Schroeder has sung the title role in Brussels and New York City, and it sounds like he owns it. |
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She, like John, contributed a major share to tuberculosis knowledge and its control. |
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Several trees snapped and broke apart like matchsticks, and as I climbed my tree, I could only hope that it, too, would not be swept away. |
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From a distance its 23 km long rampart of hotels, apartments and resorts shimmers on the shore of Nichupte Lagoon like a massive bar code. |
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While it might seem like an eternity for your thesis to be proven, its fruition is often well worth the wait. |
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You have a natural knack for fashion and occupy a suit like a matinee idol. |
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Badge-less bar-hoppers like me are always fair game for operatives, who work around clocks deciding for the undecided. |
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No, it is not like I was a model to be emulated in school, or college for that matter. |
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He just wasn't into material things, but he did like to drink and get laid. |
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I mean, that's terrible to lose a life partner and a mate at any age, but certainly at a young age like that. |
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The strings attach themselves like barnacles to Fripp's guitar and refuse to be shaken loose. |
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The math is dumbed down a bit as is necessary for a mass market book like this. |
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Between rings, the bell wheels squeaked in their gudgeons like an old barn door. |
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This sculpture was room size and not made of any fine material like marble or wood. |
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Haven't watched it all, but it seems like a manga thingy and has an amazingly weird look to it. |
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Unfortunately in situations like this the need to blame someone comes in and Alec is getting the thick end of it. |
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Contemporary coverings like mats and rugs can change the whole appearance of our homes. |
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It's like meeting a really handsome bloke and finding out he's thick as two short planks when he opens his mouth. |
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Simply put, like the Toronto event, it is expected to be all things to all people. |
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He carries his back muscles like a burden, and his head is attached to his shoulders like a barnacle to an ocean rock. |
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Sadly, like their previous albums, you are more likely to encounter it in the bargain bin than the charts. |
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We view huge bulls bellowing like gladiators and bow-legged, skinny-bottomed cowboys in chaps, nonchalantly smoking roll-ups. |
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It's kind of like the bull going for a matador who has teased but hasn't put in the telling hits. |
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Stuck like a barnacle to his home, he relied on people sending him their barnacle collections by post. |
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There is nothing like the thought of baring all in a bikini to keep your hand out of the biscuit barrel. |
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The system works like Russian matryoshka dolls, shells within shells within shells, which in the end can be impenetrable to legal process. |
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I feel like this girl invites bare people to her baby shower just for the gifts. |
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At the rate he is going, it looks like his strategy could backfire and he could soon be out on his ear. |
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And if you think you can shoot off emails like that without getting an enraged response, you'd better think again, mate. |
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It's like he's enjoying a second childhood, finding energy that he didn't have before. |
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The wind picks up, stirring the drifts until the snow looks like it's falling upward. |
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It was large and weather beaten, though its new sails and the obvious care put into it didn't make it seem like any second class ship. |
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Although, like most other mediums, she was regularly searched before seances, many believe she swallowed and later regurgitated the material. |
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Just goes to show, there's no fool like an old fool, especially an old fool that trusts the piskies. |
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Of the islands on our cruise itinerary, five struck me as ones I'd like to revisit in a bareboat. |
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They're cantankerous and cussed and refuse to obey the rules, but they're like naughty schoolboys enjoying a second childhood. |
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I had pointed out that having a second class of membership rendered a lot of people second-class members and they didn't all like it. |
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With arms full of daughters, he feels like a rich man-at least until they matriculate at the University. |
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The muntjac has a call which sounds like the bark of a dog and accounts for another common name, barking deer. |
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Too uncertain to advance with a raise, or retreat with a fold, I called, fastened to this pot like a barnacle. |
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We think these are something like modern day sea pens, which are a kind of soft-bodied coral. |
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These seem like odd responses since she doesn't come across as materialistic, but perhaps that's why. |
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I'd also like to say how pleased I am for my ex-boyfriend, who's a season ticket holder at Stamford Bridge. |
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Barbs can be separated from each other and smoothed back into place because barbules and barbicels act somewhat like a zipper. |
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He was like a thick-witted detective at a crime scene, unable to make sense of clues right before his eyes. |
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All of which taste like watered down barley water with a bit of an alcoholic kick. |
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As I was standing there, a great sea serpent, long and blue like the falls that shimmered brilliantly, slithered out of the water. |
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The summiteers would like to keep their meeting focused on bilateral matters. |
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She latches onto him like a barnacle and burrows under his skin like a tick, while he sputters protests and offers weak resistance. |
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The barberry bushes have bright red little berries for all the world like Redhot candies. |
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Finally, I'd like to know if you've replaced editors with the spell checker and thesaurus of your word processor. |
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Jan Maher, librarian, would like you to know that she is having a gigantic bargain book sale, to make way for her very large stock of new books. |
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Although this design approach was abandoned fairly quickly, the class name stuck, kind of like a barnacle. |
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There are so many different places for entertainment, like the Jamaican Club, but also jazz, and rock, so you can just go bar-hopping. |
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They did all sorts of very public, totally barfy couple stuff together, like playing duets on the piano. |
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Protruding from the frozen earth, like dinosaur fossils in a matrix of rock, was a row of brown vertebrae, ancient and massive. |
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We're also trying to serve the Belgian beers and big beers, like barley wines, in the traditional glasses. |
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Claustrophobia and dread permeate the air like the thick mist around the mansion. |
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I put this thing on and looked in the mirror and it was like I had turned into a cartoon. |
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I would never want to be around someone like her, or her loser brother for that matter. |
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The height of the columns varied, allowing the work to appear like a meandering bar graph. |
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It was just one thing after another after another, but we never felt like giving up. |
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I'd like to just say that politicians would like to be all things to all people. |
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My illness thingy has only got worse, I have started to cough like some mis-firing machine gun. |
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I'm not going to waste more time trying to talk sense into some narrow-minded thickhead, like you. |
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The sober and matter-of-fact presentation makes his discussion seem like just common sense. |
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Critics seemed to like this approach of matter-of-factly meeting their ends with dignity. |
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If I open the barn door, I get a cross breeze in here but it smells a lot like pigeons. |
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In fact, have at least some of us not implicitly been thinking of the originator as something like a causal circumstance? |
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The thing is, it feels to me like you're thinking of game development as big business, corporate, organised fare. |
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It is also a ring, like a wedding band that guarantees a matrimonial contract. |
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The rampant crowds were like ancient Viking barbarians, smoking heavily and taking down alcohol in large gulps. |
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I just feel like we are falling apart at the seams I really don't want that to happen. |
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Many of the less calcified bryozoans, like the common sea mat, live attached to seaweed in the intertidal and shallow subtidal areas. |
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Despite her claims to matchmaking, it seems like Mr. Knightley is a much better judge of the human heart. |
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How many of them have given thought to their audience and the type of things they'd like to hear on a regular basis? |
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At least two thermistors measure skin temperature in spots like the armpit. |
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It kind of sounds like I'm hogging you and that you can't be with your other friends. |
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I know I've said that I like winter, and cold weather, but the thing is, I like it in winter! |
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It looked like it had struck her so violently that she was barely able to contain it. |
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High in the air probably 1000 feet up I saw a small group of rooks riding a thermal just like they were a kettle of broad-wing hawks. |
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The hanger steak barbacoa, served in parchment paper tied up like a beggar's purse, was also strongly suggestive of Indian cuisine. |
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Tables in the lunch room were marked like assigned seating between the different cliques. |
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However it looked like not all people shared Mr. Oliver's enthusiasm about the race. |
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There are illustrative charts that explain phenomena like birds soaring using thermals. |
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To Jude she looked like an angel, with her dark locks encircling her face and her eyes closed and edged in thick lashes. |
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Made of a gelatinous thermoplastic material, the product acts like a solid adhesive and will not dry out. |
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Outside, the treated material was covered by a thick layer of tree waste, like bark and sawdust, to remove odours from the compost. |
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Scooting around in the sunshine, Ulrich looks like a middle-aged guy searching for his second childhood. |
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You could say that saints' relics were the earliest tourist attractions, whose possessors competed for business like barkers at a fair. |
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One time someone ordered this adorable little seaweed that looked like tiny bare tree branches from a winter forest and I missed the name. |
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All in the name of testing new materials for things like planes and spacecraft. |
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Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig. |
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There are lots of shots that look fuzzy or soft because of the use of mattes, and overall the serpent looks like he was sculpted out of Play-Doh. |
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The colour concepts in the latest collection are rich and saturate the eye like the works of the Impressionist master painter Monet. |
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All the collected works from the seven-week event are currently on show alongside masters like Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali. |
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I was up to my ears in work, and literally talking on two phones at once like a tycoon in an old movie. |
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If Chelle had been a physio like she wanted to when she was a teenager, I could be getting mates' rates. |
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I just had the perfect run, mate, it was like I was in the zone, you know, it was just all happening for me, and I just got the best run through. |
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The werewolf bared its fangs in a mirthless grin and made a low growling sound that sounded chillingly like laughter. |
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It's more like playing the game masters in a massive continuous role-playing session. |
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The man in the ocher-colored robes sits cross-legged, eyes gently shut, palms half-open like seashells resting lightly on his knees. |
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Asked about writing, she examines the butter dish with interest, before mouthing some sentences like a student parroting poetry. |
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At night, when the moon is about to rise, this is what it can look like on the barely lit island of Fernando de Noronha. |
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I would now like to appeal to those who frequent this secluded area to please respect our environment and refrain from trashing it. |
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He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. |
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You can attract birds like eastern rosellas, king parrots, galahs and lorikeets to your garden. |
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All mentioned material things like a large salary, a nice house, an SUV, and so on. |
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Someone gave me a bar of chocolate today, and it feels like I've eaten about fifteen bars of chocolate in one go. |
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Oh well, I have special permission to be raunchy because I'm sick and I feel like barfing. |
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And after what seemed like an eternity, the master of ceremonies finally emerged to announce him as the next performer. |
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Blackpool out of season, like most seaside resorts, is a town not at its best. |
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As an English exercise I got them all to write a speech about what they'd like to say. |
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They're a bit like caps on a shaken soda bottle, and upwelling matter and energy can blow at any moment. |
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Thus dark energy is intrinsically relativistic and is more like energy than matter. |
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For close-flushing game like pheasants or quail, you simply took your time when the bird got up. |
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Perennials like geraniums are the seasonal stars of gardens all around the country at the moment. |
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We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores. |
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I would like to shame the spineless, thieving moron who on April 5 stole my little girl's books from the toilets in Morrisons. |
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A sea lion lets out a single long deep-throated bellow that eerily pierces the air like an elephant's roar. |
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Her face looks like thunder from the moment she gets up and any conversation is said in short barks. |
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The Net doesn't affect us like a searing image on the television, galvanizing a nation. |
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Naturally I thought that he'd have a little box like a snuff box or a matchbox and he'd blow them away as we'd usually seen it done. |
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His pride in barbering and his lack of education make him, like the other barbers, an object of Jimmy's contempt. |
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Are there people you want to read solo whom you'd like less if they were matched up with some appropriate co-bloggers? |
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In other words, match the tanner shade to your skin tone rather than the colour you would like to be. |
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Add seasonings like garlic and ginger first, followed by meat, then vegetables. |
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I could also see large marine isopods, looking like giant marine slaters, and some flower-like sea lilies. |
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He's the master of lyrical images filled with a foreboding darkness that's almost more like a painted masterwork than film. |
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It's true that we're treated like second-class citizens, but we try not to behave as though we are. |
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A cloud of lint hovered over the seamstresses and their sewing machines like a multicolored fog over a river. |
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Now that I am a season ticket holder, I feel like this is my team more than I ever did. |
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In games like this where the stakes are so high, I think when the teams are evenly matched it can go either way. |
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Unless, that is, you like your barbecue sauce syrupy sweet and goosed with liquid smoke. |
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I'll find myself standing in the aisle, weighing the purchase of some matchbooks packaged to look like they came from a Parisian brasserie. |
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I am not like those who go out with their sandwiches and Thermos flask, walking 18 holes with their favourite player. |
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Naturally like Kings Lawn, this small section holds typical Thames weir stream species such as chub, barbel and dace. |
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Do not ride motorcycles at any time during Songkran and keep your purse in a plastic bag unless you like soggy money. |
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From the air Darwin looks like a matchbox town that has been crushed by a giant foot. |
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Be it Kaju barfi, badam or pista barfi, combination like Kaju Kajjur dollar, Kaju pista rolls, dry fruit barfi, Anjeer rolls etc. |
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The bones of ceratosaurians, like those of all known theropods, are hollow. |
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And I like to watch the tiny matchbox cars moving down the road and wonder whether the drivers know they're being watched from above. |
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In fact, the place looked like a film-set or a museum of barbering apparatus. |
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Sooner or later, you'll see the cable car, which looks like a matchbox toy from the valley floor, inching up the grade. |
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I always thought it was something simple, like overcompensating materially for our own spare childhood. |
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He got thin and weak and seeing my father like this was not the easiest of experiences in my life. |
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The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox. |
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Places like HMV and EB offer constant bargains and offers, as well as sales that can totally eclipse a small independent retailers. |
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He wrote about what it was like to live and die where the air is so thin that every breath is a triumph. |
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It's just like when you were a kid and you made your own tracks for your matchbox cars around the house. |
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They hoist, hold and balance notes like barbells in a weight-lifting exhibition. |
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I feel like I have this opportunity to turn this into something good and teach people about intersex. |
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Central London may be a long way away, and the skyscrapers may look more like distant matchsticks, but the astonishing thing is that the City is visible at all. |
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And like one out of every 2,000 people, she was born with an intersex body. |
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There's nothing quite like a domineering matriarch to fall in love with and Streep not only neuters her on-screen male counterparts but the audience as well. |
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She bit into amethysts that tasted like purple barley sugar. |
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We could all have a microchip implanted into our bodies with its own unique code, rather like the bar code on the side of a can of beans on a supermarket shelf. |
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There would not be too much Barcoo rot on this journey, and not too many would need to be carried on a stretcher like the explorer Stuart 140 years before. |
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Journalists have a soft spot for him, even avowedly liberal ones like me, because if nothing else he is Sui generis. |
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Without the racist prop the reader would have been just like anyone else on the train, yet with it he suddenly appeared to be an archetypal thickset English thug. |
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When he came to stay with us it was like having an extra pair of hands. |
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They make a suicide pact, but this, too, like everything else in their brief love, fails. |
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Maybe the diverse threads of this wide ranging conversation are beginning to blend and merge like that imagined reflection inside the mirrored sphere. |
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Do you get seborrhoeic dermatitis around your nose and an acne like rash? |
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Deer eat acorns like popcorn, as do feral hogs, squirrels and raccoons. |
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Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out. |
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Suddenly I realize, sitting here looking at her defend herself against an interloper like me, how wrong I have been about her. |
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When situations like this happen, I turn to Yelp as it is an invaluable resource for finding delicious eats all over the world. |
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The evolution of information science has been such as to bring a mathematically oriented person, like myself, ever closer to the center of interest. |
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Wardens and guards with names like interrogator Wu and Officer Gong deprived the prisoners they hated of meat. |
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It's just the right size for a night out on the town, and has just the right features for a lightweight communications context like being out barhopping. |
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It has a strong taste, like most older ales, but is not like barley wine. |
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Which means girls like me, who like to wear a nice pair of heeled boots and a short skirt, are instead having to wear thermal underwear, thick trousers and snow boots. |
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Merchants can enhance their listings with interactive features like video profiles, premium inventory listings, websites and search engine optimization. |
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Class distinction goes out of the window when Lords, Ladies, gamekeepers and farmers all wear Barbour to some country pursuit like a clay-pigeon shoot or barn dance. |
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But like this horse-riding character, Eggers is not on a pleasure barge. |
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It's like they're racing you, barging you out of the way from the side. |
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Trying to find truth in the blogs is like the search for the Holy Grail. |
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Naturally, this has his mother's matchmaking radar going like gangbusters. |
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Our story starts with Sarah, a self involved and rather whiny teen, desperately convinced of her own maturity yet clinging to childhood like a barnacle. |
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But the question of how it will be interpreted, like so much else in Luhansk, remains an open question. |
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Suddenly a jolt of pain seared through my body, like flames being ignited. |
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I had found myself clinging like a barnacle to a splintered oak beam. |
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Most of us like ourselves very much, and that suffices to explain self-assessments that are biased in a particular direction. |
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They may consist of spheres of gas like Jupiter or look like Neptune itself with a core of rock and ice surrounded by a thick atmosphere of hydrogen and helium. |
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It is designed for corporate firms involved in manufacturing processes like petrochemical industries and thermal power stations that require large quantities of water. |
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Store chiefs said the spending boom was more like a holiday weekend as customers cleared the shelves of salt, soup, ski jackets, sledges and Thermos flasks. |
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I am offering an ethic of authenticity, removing all excuses that some philosophers attach to us like barnacles, blaming parents, climate, social class, whatever. |
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The rest of the plasma is very much like seawater, an ocean of life. |
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He took to the Kiwi wine like a duck to water and by the time that Frenchman got to the barbie he was wielding a pair of tongs with gusto and flair. |
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To easily switch between sounds, the organ is outfitted with dozens of preset buttons like the kind found in old radios. |
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I immediately ran in to go and claim a bedroom before Tricia could take the pretty one and leave me with the one that looked like barf and smelled even worse. |
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Sounds like the kind of movie you have to pack the barf bag for. |
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Today, she takes the formula from me and sucks down every last drop of liquid like a desert-thirsty nomad. |
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He wore this really ugly jacket with wide lapels that were embroidered at the edges so he looked like a cross between a carnival barker and a train conductor. |
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She raised her hand when she wanted to interject, looking like a kid wanting to be called on in class. |
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A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea. |
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Troy's thin smile was cautious, guarded, like he was afraid of something. |
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Maybe someday we'll have a financial system like some sort of neural network, that can make geography not matter. |
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My words seemed to fasten like barbed arrows in the souls of men. |
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Little kids like myself were handed matches and told to light the candles. |
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Community-focused businesses like barbershops and post offices are scattered throughout the ground floors of various buildings as well, to encourage mingling. |
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Beauty salons and barbershops entice potential customers with colorful portraits of well-coifed heads that look more like art pieces than hairstyles. |
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Lagos has an unplanned-ness to it, houses spring up everywhere like weeds, roads and streets interweave. |
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Addressing the rally, the union conveyer said it was time management listened to the workforce instead of treating them like second-class citizens. |
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Then the doors slide open, and a straw-hatted barker who looks like he's just stepped out of the 19th century greets you and ushers you into a Coca-Cola fantasyland. |
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Exposing the gel to photographic film would give me a pattern of dark bands like a bar code, showing the positions of the radioactively labelled fragments. |
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Just look at Newcastle, they are second from bottom, like we are. |
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The molars masticate the food and move across a field like a lawn mower. |
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They simply seem like two oddly matched adults, thrown together. |
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You don't want your franchisees to feel like second-class citizens. |
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Despite repeated FBI assurances that cops are equal partners in the war against terrorism, local cops say they frequently feel like second-class citizens. |
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Among Republicans, this disappointment has translated into what looks like a renewed fondness for interventionism. |
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The Chamber of Commerce would like to extend season's greetings to all and look forward to a bumper Christmas trade in the town over the coming month. |
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It would be a great help if, in the interval, party supporters refrained from looking or sounding like raving madmen. |
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Something like the same effect occurs in one of Italy's most celebrated dishes, Arrosto di maiale al latte, in which a boned pork loin is braised in milk. |
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I am shocked and dismayed to learn that our neighbors to the north have government officials who play politics just like ours do down here in the barbarian south. |
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Soon, he thought, soon it would be him living high on the hog like Lynn. |
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He was thick-shouldered, square-headed, and handsome like a movie star. |
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Many of the males and a few of the females wear stuff that looks like leather, but most is woven animal fur or plant material of kinds I do not know. |
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More kids climb on a riverside playground, and in the water beyond is a handful of cormorants, including one taking off low to the water like a seaplane. |
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The army and marine snipers particularly like to work at night, when their night vision and thermal imaging equipment enables them to shoot accurately in the darkness. |
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Even if we use sophisticated detection systems like thermal imaging, the guerillas can move down to the basement where they will evade even those means of detection. |
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The mastheads were delicately carved with figures and trees, the sails were plain white that buckled and flapped in the winds like swans about to fly. |
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And like past challenges to civilization, such barbarism thrives on Western appeasement and considers enlightened deference as weakness, if not decadence. |
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The dash for gas looked like a smart idea when it cost less than 20p a therm and developers were falling over themselves to build the next generation of low-cost stations. |
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In effect, Chicago needs a troop surge like what we saw in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Instead, they intensify with age, like peachberry wine, and occasionally they grow rank. |
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For that to continue and make every single show like a naked performance, I think that's what people want in general, they want to see a band that bares all. |
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Tane sat in a chair next to the table of soldiers, Ice pretended to stir his drink, and Ryo acted like a barmaid and asked them if they wanted anything else. |
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Perhaps the captain and his mate would like to make me an offer? |
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Look at him, walking around like he's the day master at a boarding school. |
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For the first time in what seemed like years I heard actual rain drumming against the roof and washing snow from the streets and reducing drifts to icy piles of dirty slush. |
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The genes of these viruses produce new virus variants, including those with potential to cause epidemics in other animals, like minks, seals, swine, and humans. |
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I feel like a dunce in this company, until I get talking to some of my mates in the group who share a lot of my frustrations and aspirations, and are a holy if unruly group. |
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As the band lets the dueling guitars heat up, Johnson barks like a flea market pitchman, bargaining with wary shoppers for humanism and attention. |
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I like trudging up the path through the drifts of dead leaves, too. |
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This may sound like the opening bars of a folk song, but it's true. |
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The violinist plays the opening bars of a Mozart sonata, and the unaccustomed cadences and harmonies of classical western melody are like strange birdsong. |
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Some members of the third estate, however, decided that they would no longer remain bareheaded in the presence of the king, and, like the nobles, covered themselves. |
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In parts of Africa a productive dairy cow is a very valuable asset, so a condition like teat mastitis can be a matter of life or death for the herd. |
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What looked like ethnic or folk iconography was seen in the brightest of colors on suede, lace, and silk chiffon. |
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Instead you yield to him, just like the matador yields to the bull, and you use his strength and the principle of balance to bring about his downfall. |
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The song will start as a skeleton sort of, and then we attack it much like an orchestra, getting all the parts to intertwine. |
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How can anyone be proud to live in a province where the sick and the elderly living in our rural communities are treated like second-class citizens? |
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The terms and conditions are seldom read before the 'accept' button gets pressed when installing freeware, like the Google tool bar. |
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And like Bardot, Fonda also found a conscience, in addition to making films such as The China Syndrome and On Golden Pond. |
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It fixes Jeter firmly in the constellation of the greats, like Stan Musial, Roberto Clemente, Carl Yastrzemski and Honus Wagner. |
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I wouldn a Go p wouldn't chat to Tomas every night or anything but I think he's like a God in Nemo as regards the players even. |
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I do like it and I think that without it, from a distance, Castle Hill would look little more interesting than a spoil heap by a coal mine. |
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He decided to open a wild game preserve where Alaska tourists could see big animals, like bison and, later, musk ox and reindeer. |
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We beat them at home last year, and took points off them at Parkhead so we'd like to be the first to beat them this year too. |
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The massage at times felt like the Chinese burns my brother used to give me as a child. |
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Any seed, bean or grain is sproutable, but beginners might like mung beans, or alfalfa, radish and clover seeds. |
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Westbridge looks a little like a museum piece itself with its quaint, Victorian-inspired decor. |
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In turn, the squid is a formidable hunter of large marine creatures like the Patagonian toothfish that can grow to be more than 6 ft long. |
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Obvious pains like Socha's, or merely visible imperfections like black toenails or calluses, often indicate imbalances that can lead to injury. |
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On the first part of the first rotation my muscle memory was seriously kicking in as I remembered what it was like to do 30 seconds of push-ups. |
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It's never going to be exactly like Tollhouse, but it's a much healthier version. |
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It might sound like something computer-y and spoddy, but it's 100 percent style, this. |
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For him, when he comes back, he feels like he's lost unless he's got the exact change for the toll booth. |
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