They moan at the door now and again, asking for it to be opened so they can check the suitability of the weather for a short excursion. |
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It looks cool on Elvis and Michael Jackson, but most guys just look like dufuses if their pants are too short. |
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The presumption that the glass envelopes of these bulbs function as cutoff filters to remove short wavelength radiation was unsubstantiated. |
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More disturbingly, however, she wrote some bizarre short stories on the website, including one in which two brothers talk of assaulting a girl. |
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The 45th Infantry evacuated the immediate area and moved a short distance south. |
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Using the dull edge of the knife blade, scrape the inside of the top shell in short movements going away from you. |
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It wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't so short, but I end up looking like a dumpling, or a pudding. |
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In short, humanity faces a growing global mental illness crisis of epidemic proportions. |
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There is about 1 foot of space between the table and the short divider wall that separates us from the bar. |
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Efforts to work with mothers-in-law and other family members may yield higher dividends in the short term. |
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Today an epigram is generally defined as any short poem with a witty ending. |
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An expected personal following did not eventuate and he finished well short with just 615 votes. |
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When she turned to walk back up the short sand beach to the dunny, it was as if she was walking on the moon. |
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Updike's short story lines up four episodes, all told from a different point of view. |
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The Thompsons lived in Langley for a short time, then bought an old house on Lonsdale Avenue and restored it into a duplex. |
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If your divots are short and deep, it's because you're using too much right hand. |
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In short, they all had episodic cough, wheezing, dyspnea, and normal chest roentgenography results. |
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A DNA virus with a short genome of only 3200 bases causes hepatitis B infection. |
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Dave was just going on final and I was low again about 25 kms short only to find myself staring at a dust devil just in front of me. |
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Everyday wear, especially at home, consists of short pants for boys, and dusters, loose skirts, shirts, and short pants for girls. |
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The kind of space that I want to create is one where men do not think that a short skirt equals consent. |
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The inspector ended up making her visit extremely short, and we were hardly docked any points. |
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A short 5 ps molecular dynamics simulation at 50 K and constant volume equilibrated the solvent with the LBD fixed. |
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Honest employees will also feel the benefit as they will less often be short staffed by a duvet day taken by their lazy colleagues. |
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Up ahead, sat two large doors set into the stone with two short dwarves guarding them. |
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He didn't know what the aliens called themselves, but they were short and stocky of stature, much like the dwarfs of folklore. |
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Using his momentum, and short stature, the dwarf rammed his head into the elves stomach before it could strike with its sword. |
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This clearly falls short of any scheme aimed at apportioning losses equitably between the parties. |
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Her autobiography, The Kindness of Strangers, published last year, is exceedingly short on personal detail. |
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The funds can buy equities, sell short and leverage their best ideas by buying and selling options. |
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I looked around, but it was dark outside except for one street light at the corner a short way ahead of me. |
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I must admit that I do find it hilarious that she's cut her hair short and dyed it blonde for the role. |
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However, I must say that my favourite discoveries were in the short and documentary sections. |
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The soundtrack section plays short excerpts of the music, which should get a lot of credit for establishing the mood of the film. |
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These short works are excerpts from longer pieces to be performed at the upcoming independent dance show. |
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The above is excerpted from a short poem I wrote about something that indeed happened to me in Prague. |
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Normally in short supply, it is found in excess amounts in up to half of all types of malignant tumors. |
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How close relations are between the MfS general and the prosecutor becomes evident from a short exchange of words before both left the building. |
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In fact, she joined in on their short exchange of words as she felt a bigger feeling take over her. |
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Still, the latest meeting was a good contest, not short of lively exchanges, memorable clashes and the occasional burst of blatant hostility. |
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The shaven-headed, doe-eyed beauty was never short on shock tactics and as a result was often the target of condemnation and negative press. |
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Ben Vereen is nothing short of masterful, a dynamo of energy and enthusiasm that carries the show from beginning to end. |
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Well, a short flight down to London excluding the two hour delay in taking off. |
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I asked other parents when they began leaving their children alone, either for a short errand or during after-school hours. |
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You just need to do a couple of short errands, so you don't feel it is necessary to buckle up. |
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I have a short errand to run, then I'll reschedule my meeting with Mark and plunge back into the fray. |
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Their fur will hold air for a while, enough for a short dog-paddle, but beyond that their musculature just weighs them down. |
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The message is ready and short, but there are some spelling errors so remember to correct them. |
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Young little terns become highly mobile, making short excursions from the nest within hours of birth and soon becoming widely separated. |
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One of my favorite excursions was a short drive from downtown at the Ballard Locks, which is absolutely free to visitors. |
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After a short stint as a private duty nurse, Dora became a relief district nurse at Slave Lake. |
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Bored with the monotony of her life, she takes her motor-less moped on short excursions. |
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As with many first-time visitors to Mexico, the short excursion stirs up more in the author than he can fully comprehend. |
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He had packed for camping trips and other short excursions before, but he didn't know how long he would have to stay out of town. |
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From there the album takes a short excursion into a more experimental direction that isn't quite as satisfying. |
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To understand the underlying basis of the Buteyko method and related methods a short excursion to the root of the problem may help. |
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In short, the market is divided into real surplus, ersatz surplus, and newly manufactured ammunition and components. |
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York were unprepared for Featherstone's short kick-off which they executed to perfection. |
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In the third over after the resumption, he flinched a dolly to short midwicket. |
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They were told to integrate the exercises in daily activities and to exercise in short sessions on several occasions during the day. |
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There is inhalation and exhalation, long breath and short breath, deep breath, shallow breath, smooth breath, and ragged breath. |
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In its short history America has a lot to be proud of, especially in the field of human endeavour. |
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It translates not only to those short gains but, more notably, to his knack of dominating the most important games. |
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Each section centers around a theme and is introduced with a short essay by one of the editors. |
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I won an award for a poem, and consistently scored really well for essays, short stories and other English stuff in high school. |
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The editors encouraged all forms of literary submissions from poetry and essays to short stories and serialized novels. |
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Apart from the novels, Sundara Ramaswamy has written several short stories and essays on literary criticism. |
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However, he continued to write poems, short stories, essays, and novels when he found time. |
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Previously, he had published travel essays and short stories, but he turned to writing novels. |
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I went on to publish essays, short stories, poetry, and political commentaries. |
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He has published essays, reviews and short stories in a number of journals and anthologies and is currently at work on a novel. |
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He played for the darts team and filled in on the dominoes team when we were short. |
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Others are visiting the country for short periods to establish contact with the criminal community. |
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At least in the short term, he says, Washington reporters enjoyed a surge in public esteem as they covered the crisis. |
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All of them contained usually short fragments of coding sequences corresponding to exons of single-copy genes. |
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Come As You Are was a series of four short plays united by the theme of the eternal triangle. |
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The investments in ETFs are slightly positive and short positions have also been reduced. |
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It continues to thrive as an expansive gallery space where, in a relatively short period of time, you can view works from more than 60 artists. |
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Here, four short movements are imbued with grace and ethereality and the end result is a truly pleasant listening experience. |
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The short season is only one reason why asparagus is expensive to grow and produce. |
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Although there was slight expiratory wheezing over both lungs, he was not coughing or visibly short of breath. |
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In the short intervening period sociology has become obsessed with biology, and biology is asked to be the universal explanandum of humanity. |
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In short, the so-called new economy and online dot-coms are more than magazine-cover trendy. |
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It's just as dotty to say short people are more at risk because they are nearer bus exhaust pipes. |
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Having taken the 4km short course race on Saturday, he became the first man to complete the double when he won the 12 km race yesterday. |
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One explanation is that exporters faced considerable cost pressure in 1985 after the yen doubled in value in a short period. |
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Taken together, the mass flight and expulsions amounted to the single largest known migration over a short period of time. |
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There are also double-breasted coats and raincoats with large collars, straight, short coats, and pea coats with a removable double collar. |
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First, Wood reviews the extant literature in order to present a short biography. |
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The period of detention was further extended for a short period before the man was released without charge. |
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You sell an extended warranty on everything short of the very air in the store. |
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There are a number of ways to come and experience life here, whether for a short stay or for an extended period. |
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Interspersed with nostalgic video clips of the company, the programme moved through short works and extracts. |
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A short extract from this film can be downloaded from the British Film Institute's Creative Archive. |
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Here are a few short extracts from the many letters that members sent to PSA President Sue Walsh. |
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For the sake of fairness, here is a short extract from one of the letters I received from Dan today. |
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Sentiment towards the housing market, therefore, will be the main driver of the companies share price in the short term. |
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Though it's short on extras, the double feature is a great way to give the consumer two anamorphic films for one low price. |
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In short, it appears that it's due to extrinsic factors, rather than anything the province of Ontario itself did. |
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He had a chubby face, stubble, dark brown piercing eyes, dark eyebrows and short dark hair. |
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Red watched as a short, stocky woman walked over, one of her eyes obscured by an eyepatch. |
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Indicators of this are the short doublet and very prominent codpiece, the round-toed shoes and the knee-breeches. |
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We are not talking about being short of a little bit of dough, it is big money. |
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A small-flowered Geranium species, Dove's foot cranesbill is found in short grassland. |
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He turned sharply racing through on goal only to be pulled down just short of the penalty area. |
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Back on the warm sand, I lay down on my stomach, pencil in hand ready to write my short story. |
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He was gaunt, unshorn, his dark brown hair tied back in an unfashionable short ponytail. |
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Alex Wilson, who worked for Nugget when he first came to the Centre, was a short man, 1.6 metres tall with his down-at-heel boots on. |
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Pittas are small to medium sized birds with long legs, short tails and strong, downcurved bills. |
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But the report has stopped short of recommending which hospitals will be downgraded. |
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The trail eventually takes a few short and steep upturns, but for the most part just flows downhill like water. |
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He seemed totally in control of his game and cruising to a 67 when his tee shot to the short 17th finished on the back downslope of a bunker. |
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In downtrends, trend-following indicators suggest selling short, but oscillators become oversold and issue signals to buy. |
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Concerning this jaw, Cope remarked that it was a trilophodont mastodont with a short downturned symphysis but did not figure it. |
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Chimes took her out of her short doze and she leaned out of the bath as she realized that it was time for her to go. |
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In Twisted Tales expect the unexpected in a series of compelling dramatised short stories. |
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Freshly installed spouse Sophie, meanwhile, has only just stopped short of draping herself across the bonnets of sports cars in ermine and tiara. |
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There will always be a need for draw-downs on short notice which will call for a reasonable degree of liquidity. |
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We are all very proud of Dan and his achievements in his short but very full life. We all miss him dreadfully. |
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In short, we had to pander to the general belief that drifters were losers who were ashamed of their personal histories. |
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It's a nightmarish experience that drives the teetotalling Higgins to drink and to a short breakdown. |
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Recently, drivers of high-accessibility vehicles have been using the cart-tracks and even the meadows as short cuts. |
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It is a 27 hole course with excellent practice facilities, a driving range and short game practice area. |
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The bill is relatively short and fine-tipped, with a slight droop at the end. |
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A short distance from this site, Mr Tobin stops his van at the side of the mountain road where there is a steep drop to a stream. |
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Her short dark blond hair was curled around a simple Russian tiara with matching diamond drop earrings. |
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The major limitations of this study include the high dropout rate and the short treatment period. |
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In the normally tradition-bound world of musical instruments, synthetic drumheads took over in an amazingly short time. |
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The sounds of short beats on the drum kit and guitars being tuned reached the ears of the customers. |
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The speeches were numerous, but crucially short, and the perennial post-reception disco was splendid. |
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While the magnolia woman was short and sweet, her mother was tall, rigid, regal. |
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Later, a letter omega was created for the long value, with O, known as omicron, kept for the short value. |
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Meanwhile the omnivorous niches were filled by giant pig-like entelodonts like Archaeotherium, which retained short legs and low-crowned teeth. |
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In short, the government should mint coinage for circulation only, and leave commemorative minting to private enterprise. |
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Since achondroplasia affects mainly cartilaginous bones, the sitting height is normal while the standing height is short. |
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Due to its extremely short half-life, there's no reason for considering the effects of rutherfordium in the environment. |
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Now my hair is short, a kissing cousin to a bob, and it's choppy and almost punk rock looking. |
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The bones which constitute the ankle are the two long bones of the lower leg, which articulate with a short ankle bone called the talus. |
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There are five large teeth on the maxillae, rather short canines, and at least twenty small and uniform post-canines. |
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The mullet, that dodgy haircut with short top and long back, is making a comeback. |
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The term catalectic means the meter is short the final syllable, and acatalectic means it is complete. |
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Of these, Arthur Crook is May's personal favorite, the editor he wrote for and for a short time worked under. |
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I have set aside my book Illustrations for a short while in order to finish a few pieces of Scherenschnitte that have been gathering dust. |
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It is also demonstrated that a high polysaccharide concentration and short reaction time are adverse to nHA crystals. |
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Long story short, I'm up to my elbow under his divan bed, when I feel a packet of tissues. |
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I gave this dumbo a short, sharp, answer long ago, but he's still carrying on about this nonsense. |
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Head divemaster Osmond gave a short orientation, emphasizing that divers were responsible for their own profiles. |
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Except for short exercise periods in the evening the prisoners were confined to their individual cells for the first three days. |
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He'd mesmerised the home defence with a beautiful dummy before picking up a short pass and slotting the ball past the helpless Roy Carroll. |
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Then there's a short dummy run of the programme which isn't recorded, to warm up the panel and act as a technical run-through. |
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The divertimento is in five short movements, and humor, not abundant elsewhere on this disc, is in the forefront. |
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Far from being short, thick and dumpy they walk tall as champions of freedom and responsibility. |
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I imagine her to be short and squat, but pretty feminine in a sickly flowery way despite her dumpiness. |
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His early tackling was nothing short of woeful and they found themselves 16-0 behind in double quick time courtesy of three tries and two conversions. |
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They have short life spans and live on ephemeral food patches. |
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Plants with short reproductive cycles, such as ephemeral and annual herbs, have genomes that are smaller on average than those with long cycles such as perennial herbs. |
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A few seconds later a short, dumpy woman cautiously opened the door. |
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I still think the WGA is facing a down-and-dirty round of bargaining which could lead to either a long, destructive strike or a short, destructive collapse. |
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Chinese servants should not appear before their masters in short clothes, nor without socks, nor with shoes down at heel, nor with their tail tied round the head. |
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If the winds are strong, beware of eddy currents coming off nearby trees, and for strips with a precipice at the approach end, be ready for a strong downdraft on short final. |
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So the short form doesn't get the credit it deserves, but to people who have a taste for the epigrammatic, the short form has an incomparable allure. |
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A mix of Indo-western, the collection consists of salwar kameez, saree, lehangas, ghagra-choli, short kurtas, long dupattas, churidars and kurtis. |
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Most of these small and delicate bioclasts were probably produced on the slope itself and underwent only short displacement downslope, if any, before burial. |
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If prices are in a downtrend and open interest is on the rise, chartists know that new money is coming into the market, showing aggressive new short selling. |
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Exemptions on the thousands of apartments, single-family, and duplex homes built in that short five-year period amounted to almost a billion dollars. |
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The short man glared at him, displeased that he evoked no response. |
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For more capacity, you can move up a notch or two to loader backhoes and midsize excavators when space for the big excavators, dozers, and other dedicated machines is short. |
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A dozen short stories precede the novella, a reminder that while Updike may not be the equal of, say, Carver, in that genre he has few equals among his contemporaries. |
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All players had to be competent dancers and singers, but dramatists like Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson replaced earlier short, rhymed verse with poetic drama. |
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But reunification, an unprecedented experiment in social and political reclamation, was bound to fall short of the exalted German ideal of national solidarity. |
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His hair was twisted in short dreadlocks that hung down past his chin. |
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It was a relay event in which a group of basketball players dribble the ball for a short distance, where another group of players takes over, and the relay continues. |
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Following a path without caring where it led as he pondered, he was brought up short when a doe and her young fawn scrambled quickly to their feet and bounded off. |
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Finally, if the rope is short enough, the problem simplifies immensely. |
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A few late 16th and early 17th-century instruction manuscripts have survived with military calls, short fanfares, and longer flourishes written out. |
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Leave the car at home, walk for short errands or use your bike. |
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I'm short, skinny and have excruciatingly underdeveloped social skills. |
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Interestingly, while the City is inundated, the famous Vedanthangal bird sanctuary, which is a short excursion away, has received little water in the last couple of days. |
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Foreboding as this was, though, I decided to put my mind to rest and take a short excursion down the next one of these roads that I found, for humor's sake if nothing else. |
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This was only a short excursion into the forest to report to my brothers. |
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Specifically, the shortnose gar is characterized by a short, broad snout. |
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After a short excursion into the field of metallurgy, he studied painting and etching at the Royal Academy in London and later at a private art school in Paris. |
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When time is short, drive-through windows are an easy way to go. |
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But the increasing number of low-income dole recipients shows that wages have generally stayed low and that its economy is not likely to fully recover in the short term. |
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These items are then brightened up by hand and any rust removed from steelwork, paying particular attention to the escape wheel for bent or short teeth. |
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Like the other movies on that short list, it combines teen angst, romance, and comedy while never presuming that its audience is full of dolts and idiots. |
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As far back as 1975, they say, the local authority installed a short asbestos pipe near the back door as a link to carry the domestic water supply. |
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Anyway, the long and the short of it is that when the lights go down in the house there are five of us in the audience, and what we see is absolutely marvellous. |
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Although he lacked a good radio voice, he excelled at writing short but incisive essays that captured a radio audience unused to such quality in a news broadcast. |
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He began writing plays, essays, short stories and then film scripts declaring that he planned to devote his life to art as a force for social change. |
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He's since written many novels, and essays, and short stories. |
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Many of the essays are just too short to really get into the subject. |
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The rose twisted-stalk can be distinguished by its often branched stem, leaves fringed with short, straight hairs, and small pink flowers borne in the leaf axils. |
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This usage model is defined for mobile phones and PDAs for printing text messages, short email messages, business cards, and other formatted documents. |
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Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story, "The Cask of Amontillado," is loaded with irony, and there are several excellent examples of verbal irony to be found. |
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New students need to go through a short orientation before they begin classes. |
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In them, it held a short double-edged sword and circular shield. |
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But charging extra is a bad practice and it is nothing short of extortion. |
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Last night while I was waiting to get let into dinner, two extras from the short film that's being shot on campus were there, killing time and shooting the breeze. |
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Hoggard took the second over, the field for Hayden set to a plan, with Vaughan at short mid-off, and Strauss at short extra cover in addition to his slips and gully. |
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Keedy claimed some revenge when Bicknell, after helping Tudor to add 35 for the ninth wicket, drove him straight to David Byas at short extra cover. |
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A short extract, chosen at random, gives the general flavour. |
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The sound file features a short extract from his most recent concert. |
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He will then hear a short extract from the royal charter of 1204 that features in a town play, Wheels of Time, written for the anniversary by local historian David Sherratt. |
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The deaths of the powerful elicit extravagant claims, and many of the tributes to the man being buried in Rome today have been little short of grotesque. |
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It can be due to either a too flat cornea or the eyeball being too short. |
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We come up so short, so often, within our own country that it is folly of the highest order to believe that we have a right to evangelize to the rest of the world. |
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I had to limit my shopping list to items I knew would be acquirable at short notice. |
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Located a short walk from the Hauptbahnhof, Pension Augsberg is central to all of Munich's daylife and nightlife. |
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And once you become a bickersome couple it's a short ride to bitter and trapped. |
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The motion-captured ape characters are the bleeding edge of digital effects, rarely short of impressive. |
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The famous actor's blink-and-you-miss-it appearance in the short film is little known. |
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When you have been waited on by armless hands, and have had a short conversation with a cat, nothing can surprise you much. |
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The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north. |
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That settled the Merseysiders for a short while but it did not blunt the home side's spirit. |
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In, there is a short description of a rule-based parser where clause identification is included in the parsing process. |
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Could you lend me some money? I'm a trifle short of what I need to pay the rent. |
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The unseen dragsman had laid a short and clear opening trail, and the hounds hunted it briskly. |
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Her short stout body was packed into pale pink polyester pants and a matching buttonfront vest. |
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Two short pitches up a chimney-crack are followed by a traverse right to the centre of the buttress. |
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Paul disappeared, but in a very short time returned dejected, cakeless, chickenless. |
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They find illegal, the dissociation of the Caliphate and Sultanate, in short, the transfer of the Caliphian powers to a body of persons. |
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After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived. |
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They were the same winged messengers that out-run cashless debtors, and cut short lovers' dreams. |
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Consistent with Diether, Lee, and Werner, we find that short sellers are contrarian in contemporaneous returns. |
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A full breath would take enough time for a deep intake of air, while a half breath would be more like a short catch breath. |
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Hind femur with anteroventral row of rather fine setae nearly as long as depth of femur, other setae including posteroventrals short and fine. |
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Stretton got the strong pace he needs but only just prevailed by a neck from Prairie Wolf, with Liquid Form a short head away in a bunch finish. |
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The man, aged in his 30s, is described as caucasian with olive skin, medium build, about 175cm tall and has short dark hair. |
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Some clever person came up with the apt name of little John for a suitably shaped container for those who were caught short. |
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Every chromosome has a long arm and a short arm separated by a pinch point known as a centromere. |
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But here we give no such extracts, but content ourselves with four short skits, having the cetacea for their subject. |
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We are not confused children and if we were then let these childs be free, for life is short and every bit of a smile extends life one more day. |
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The moment was well-earned, and, true to form, was short lived. |
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I would get very short with people and speak clear of my feelings without consideration of their feelings. |
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The cobby cat is a solidly built animal with short, thick legs, broad shoulders and rump, and a short, rounded head with a flattish face. |
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He was a very short, fat little man, with immensely long grey side-whiskers, and a most consequential manner. |
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Considering the extent of his crimes, he was given a surprisingly short sentence. |
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Flooding also induces the formation of short, thick-walled rounded tracheids, surrounded by intercellular spaces. |
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So when leaders keep around C players, the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time. |
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So the Mexicans, never short of a good idea, have come up with a brand new marketing pitch that is more than a thousand years old. |
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Winslow started on his dulciloquy. With an autocratic, barely perceptible sweep of the hand, the general cut him short. |
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As pageants go, this one was short and friendly in a fringey, attitudinous way. |
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Seven samples were of small-diameter inanga, which should be of short to medium lifespan, generally 50-80 years but possibly up to 220 years. |
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Cassola regards the short form as an Aeolism, which from an epic point of view would be an archaism. |
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The next morning Oswald stopped short in the middle of his shaving, which in his case involved the most tortuous deflections and grimacings. |
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Its short hind legs give a most ungainly gait, though it runs with surprising speed when pursued. Its unearthly howl adds to its despicability. |
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In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end. |
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He gave several noteworthy performances during his short career. |
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In her short stories, science fiction and romance intermingle. |
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A short black wire connects the computer's monitor to its keyboard. |
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The documentable improvement of the quality of life in this brief period has been nothing short of miraculous. |
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Cut off the tentacles of an actinia, and they are replaced in a short time, and the experiment may be repeated indefinitely. |
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If the only air tanker available is 300 miles away, it can still be over your fire in a fairly short period of time. |
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He looks utterly bewitching in large headset earphones, a bushy Tom Selleck mustache, and a short Afro wig pulled down over shaggy brown hair. |
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The gentle alaunt is built exactly like a greyhound, except that he has a short, thick head. |
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Clinical signs of WMS include glaucoma, ectopia lentis, lenticular myopia, spherophakia, and short stature. |
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As I have hinted in the introduction, the journal's honeymoon with anthroposociology was of short duration. |
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You're neither of you exactly what you'd call short in the apple-dumpling shop. |
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The Saudis know that as long as we consume 7 billion barrels per year, they have us by the short hairs. |
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In short, never was a Dr. Slop so beluted, and so transubstantiated, since that affair came into fashion. |
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My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle. |
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The countryside, in short, was becoming more archaic and more autarkic. |
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He has learning difficulties because of his short attention span. |
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We finished the main course in short order and called for more wine. |
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I drew the short straw and got stuck doing the whole project alone. |
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The relatively small, ovoid-triangular nuts are produced in a four-valved, leathery cupule that is usually covered with short, recurved appendages. |
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Chamomilla belongs to the typhoid miasm, with an intensity between acute or psora, whose features are an intense, short, do-or-die effort alternating with collapse. |
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Liaoning dromaeosaurids may simply be a grade on the line to velociraptorines and dromaeosaurines, and short arms may have evolved multiple times in this grade. |
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Everything short of the toe-to-toe Truth and Love that comes from real confrontation of individual consciousness is just playing with Barbie dolls. |
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Another invader of the Anchorage area is the northern pike, a voracious species of predatory fish that can wipe out a trout population or a salmon run in short order. |
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After a short breather she was ready to continue up the hill. |
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From there, it was a short step to running a charm school, where she taught the children of the powerful how to bow, curtsey and tenderly ladle punch. |
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There will also be a short set by Roberto Corona and Stefano Pinna, who'll play the launeddas, an ancient Sardinian triple-reed instrument that produces a bagpipelike drone. |
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Still huddled together, bundlesome in cold-weather gear, they moved awkwardly to the personnel hatch, which on command opened and deployed the short escalator. |
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In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood. |
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In attaching this dobber or float, tie it on as short a tippet as you can manage and attach it to the leader from four to six feet above the nymph. |
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The lateral growth of these underground shoots can be very rapid, so that, from a small patch of couch, a large area of coffee can become infested in a short time. |
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The abacus is moulded in three sections and has four main concave faces corresponding with the tapering volutes below and truncated by a short sqaure face on the diagonal. |
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I look just like all short, dubby, light-complexioned girls. |
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Don't you see, laddie, you're much too valuable to squander your energies playing the lousy short con, suffering the cop roustings and head bustings, the chump change scores. |
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One finds the longest chromosomes in the vascular epithelial cells if the monaster is well developed, whilst shortly beforehand the chromosomes are still rather short. |
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In short, Critical Race Theory is an intellectual movement that is both particular to our postmodern times and part of a tradition of human resistance and liberation. |
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Children with foetal alcohol syndrome have behaviour problems including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, learning and memory difficulties and short attention span. |
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Because the word short is in fact short, it is considered autological. |
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The result was a book of adaptations of classical Sanskrit short poems called kavya, ten of which appear here and in In Light of India, a prose memoir. |
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The mail-coat, or byrnie, was made of iron links that probably were cut out of sheet metal with a die, or from flat hammered wire cut into short lengths. |
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Caroline and Amelia were rather short in their tempers that night at hair-brushing time, and Lucy was glad to have her funny little cupboardy room all to herself. |
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For instance, gradual change is relatively common in vertebrates, though some rapidly evolving vertebrates lineages show rates as high as 10 darwins, over short periods. |
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A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. |
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By short cuts known to him, he made his way now through the vast congeries of rooms and staircases to the banqueting-hall, five acres distant on the other side of the house. |
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