Just after she checked in, a thin, reedy man with graying hair to match his gray wool suit approached her. |
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A tall, reedy blonde girl stood in front of her, chewing on a piece of her peroxide hair. |
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A group of rush cabins nestle among canals that drain the reedy marshes into the open water. |
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French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons. |
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His voice is a reedy hush, like a jet of water issuing from a punctured pipe. |
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For 1000 rupees I could be balanced on a crude seat hung from a pole between two thin, reedy men and jolted to the top. |
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He's got a high, reedy voice, that paradoxically creates a special strength in its vulnerability. |
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Then you hear them reading their poems and instead of rich and resonant voice full of authority and confidence there's a thin, reedy croak. |
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The bore is no wider than that of a clarinet, but the greater length produces an attractive reedy sound. |
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This guy is speaking in a quick, nervous, reedy sort of voice that makes me think of Woody Allen. |
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He did not at all fit that period's physical stereotype of the dandy as a slight, reedy wisp of a thing. |
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The flautist in the second movement is also darker, more with an almost reedy quality to the playing. |
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Her voice is annoyingly reedy, with a fast vibrato and intonation slightly under pitch. |
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Most of it simply buzzes and squeaks, a reedy clarinet against a rhythm section of cash registers and ticker tape. |
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Swollen with meltwater from the mountains, a stream rushed between reedy banks. |
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Didn't we all know that Hepburn, as slender and reedy as she was all her life, was made of solid oak? |
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Her compassion leads Pharaoh's daughter to rescue Moses from the reedy water just as Yahweh delivers the Hebrews from the Sea of Reeds. |
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He is so thin and reedy you worried for his balance when the wind picked up, but he moves with soft, sumptuous delicacy. |
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Or perhaps she is a pale Cleopatra, fleeing armor-clad Roman soldiers, finding her way to a reedy marsh and then captured by her own slim reflection. |
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The female leopard usually gives birth to between two and three cubs, usually in a cave among rocks, thickets, hollow trees, reedy nests or wherever she can find cover. |
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The pictures on the office wall were all of autumn landscapes, the dry leaves matched by the thin, reedy tones of the ageing former revolutionary behind the desk. |
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Looking at him, with his horrific face and reedy, boyish voice, I understood that he was just desperate for some sort of acceptance and credibility. |
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The speakers laughed, the reedy cackle of a dying old woman. |
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I had expected to find it disturbing but, face to face, it was reedy, almost musical. |
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Their wide conical bore, large double reed, and seven front finger holes provided them with a loud reedy tone. |
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Practically all the infected localities are close to reedy lakes or marshes used by wild ducks. |
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The males have lower, softer, and shorter calls more like a low reedy quek. |
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The reedy and undercut shores as well as the 20 to 40 m lily fields offer excellent shelters for game fish of many species. |
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As soon as the ice has gone pike seek out shallow reedy bays and even flooded fields, where the roe is deposited. |
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René Binamé juxtaposes and superimposes reedy melodies and walls of guitars. |
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As usual, Lindsay's voice is soft and seductive, beckoning listeners in both English and Portuguese, with little more than a reedy whisper. |
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Its primary purpose was to study, protect and manage the reedy marshes present in our local area as well as the birdlife living there. |
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Tranquil Charente is a patchwork of arable plains, ancient woodlands and reedy wetlands, rich in birdlife. |
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Representing the tour was H. Bartow Farr III, who is 56, looks 10 years younger, speaks carefully without being showy, and with a reedy tone in his voice. |
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He sings in his usual reedy voice, sounding all but lost in the swirl. |
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Jorma Silvasti, the tenor, has a bright, slightly reedy tone, rather than the big heroic voice required for the fanfare opening of the symphonic version. |
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Simon O'Neill's voice is almost reedy enough to be authentically French, and he is mostly successful at coping with the score's Wagnerian demands without heaviness. |
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She has a high-pitched reedy voice that doesn't stretch into the corners of these dark hued songs as much as shimmer above them like an unreliable narrator. |
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The river down which we are gently chugging is clear and fairly shallow, about 200 metres wide, edged with reedy dunes, leading back to pine-forested gentle slopes. |
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The prairie round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews. |
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I told him « hey what are you listening to » with my tiny reedy voice. |
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In the reedy borders there are bird species like the grasshopper warbler, the reed warbler, the bluethroat, and the grebe which have their breeding places there. |
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Towards the top of the tachometer, the V6 makes a dry, reedy and semi-exotic howl that calls cars like the Nissan 350Z and recently-resurrected Camaro RS to mind. |
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Charlotte's thin, reedy vocals have certainly gained in force over the years and one can only regret that she appears to have given up her singing career for acting at the moment. |
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Do a vast array of biological themes and counterpoints exist in the universe, or are there places with living fugues, compared with which Earth's one tune is a bit thin and reedy? |
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The sound was reedy, low-pitched, and muffled. |
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Matthew Dear This experimental microhouse D.J. and producer channels Detroit techno in his reedy, subtly dystopian brushes of beats. |
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Eddie liked to take his johnboat into the shallow, reedy, sandbars that the out-of-town fishermen, with their big, expensive, fiberglass bassboats, couldn't reach. |
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