To our surprise, a sprucely groomed gentleman with spats and a waxed moustache came forward, aged apparently, about forty. |
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The widely spaced landing gear had tight spats around the wheels and tires and was quite streamlined. |
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This could be a particularly garish trouser, a pair of spats or a canary-yellow waistcoat. |
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If nothing else, it triggered a series of spats and arguments that continue to reverberate. |
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He wears a top hat and coat-tails, and white spats on shoes the color of Alaskan hematite. |
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They often had tiny spats about Maddie's aversion to anything girlish or even hinting towards being a woman. |
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Men wore Panama hats and Italian spats, American suits and Chelsea boots, Oxford bags and Texan ties. |
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His father was dressed in a rubber macintosh, with thick domestic gloves, spats, and a trilby hat. |
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A penniless Fred, still in striped pants, tailcoat, and spats, hops a freight for New York, with Pop in tow. |
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And, yes, he did look smoother than a virgin ice rink with his zoot suit, his spats, his furry purple fedora and his dark, smouldering cigarette. |
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What complicates the exchange process is that the spirit-forms are socially inter-tied, and have amours and spats, just like the Greek gods. |
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He's wearing a white shirt with a stiff collar, black trousers with braces, and dancing shoes with leather spats. |
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We have our little spats from time to time, but we always kiss and make up before the neighbors start to wonder. |
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Moir's grandfather was the son of a butler, sporting spats and a wing collar. |
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After endless bickering, they overcome their spats and, together again, fight their way to a glorious victory. |
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In the absence of coherent arguments, the discussion quickly descended into backbiting and spats. |
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Meanwhile, Woodrow Wilson preferred white buckskin shoes in size 9 and Warren Harding wore spats representative of the Victorian era. |
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Flustered, the blonde boy untied his spats, and took off one of his sock-shoes, sort of hopping around on one foot while doing so. |
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He was garbed in a laced-up green tunic, gauntlets, spats, and khaki pants with large stitches up the front and back seams. |
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Fabric spats, or spatterdashes, were worn over walking shoes around the turn of the 20th century. |
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They're typical brothers, so they get into these little spats with each other sometimes, and they separate them. |
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It was the usual routine, after one of their spats Antony would go in angry at her, and come out groveling at her feet to take him back. |
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Fay and Dave seldom fought and when they did it was usually little spats, bought on by Fay's fiery personality. |
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Sandy and I have had spats in the past, and we're going to have them going forward. |
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There will be more cuts in the public sector, and more spats with his European partners in the months and years ahead. |
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Beau Brummel in cutaway, white spats, cane, green derby, silvered high-heeled shoes, boutonniere and waxed mustache. |
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In Silicon Valley, you can have such public spats with people you hold in high regard. |
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It's also an oblique commentary on the fleetingness of life, embodied in the dancers' maddened speed and spats that don't find resolution. |
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The spats tend to fade over time, as French leaders come to see how fundamental a strong partnership with Germany really is. |
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A falling dollar and trade spats were the proximate causes of this latest rally. |
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The bride's father wore a gangster outfit complete with trilby and spats, Andy's punk friends sported colourful Mohicans and four of the guests came as the Addams Family. |
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Called Eternità, the winning design wrapped the rear wheels in spats flowing off the body, vaned like a fan or jet. |
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She worked as an usherette at the Mosspark Cinema in Cardonald, and Patrick would stand outside, stubbornly waiting to propose again, in his bowler hat and spats. |
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Occasionally, there seemed to be a personal edge to their courtroom spats. |
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You guys were having another one of you lover's spats, weren't you? |
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And, as recent public spats between generals and admirals underline, the military are playing to the gallery too. |
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The shock behind the salesman's eyes could not have been greater had I asked him for a pair of spats, or to show me their current range of codpieces. |
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And I think spats are going to make a comeback in men's fashion. |
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As well, both singers portray marital spats in a humorous but realistic way. |
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Use a terrazzo grinder or carborundum stone to even irregularities or fill low spats with a good quality Portland cement based patch. |
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By then, Bonnie Doon was often at the cutting edge of many a new rage, such as the craze for leg warmers, toe socks, spats and over-the-knees. |
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The skill of the mussel cultivators is judged by their ability to find the location of the spats quickly. |
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Pipers wore black shoes, tartan hose, spats, kilt, jacket, full wrap around plaid and glengarry, with hat badge and shoulder brooch, and skeine dhu, permissible. |
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Fred is dressed as though he were going to a wedding, with striped gray ascot and spats, similar to the outfit he wore at the beginning of Swing Time. |
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The boards would be a nice touch, but they'd ruin the aerodynamics, so perhaps better additions are a chalk-striped suit, fedora, and spats to your wardrobe. |
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Territorial spats are less likely to blow up into conflict when officers on either side of the dispute have the home telephone numbers of their counterparts. |
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This has led to frequent spats sometimes among themselves but usually involving media personnel, whom they accuse of being biased and untruthful in their reporting. |
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Defenses for more remote portions of the body, such as vambraces for the forearm and defenses for the ankle resembling spats, were included in Greek temple dedications, but they were probably not common in field service. |
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If you look at the preamble of the CTS, it says that no matter how well a couple gets along, they occasionally have spats, disagreements, and so on. |
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And the spats of gang violence plaguing many Indigenous communities. |
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The obvious danger if we do not achieve this is that we end up having spats with precisely the people we should be teaming up with against this American behaviour. |
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The important thing is that we do not let these minor spats interfere with our overall relationship which is of far greater and longer term importance. |
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But under the surface of Twitter spats between the two main parties' press accounts, and a raging debate about debates, early indications are that Labour has had a better start to 2015 than the Conservatives. |
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My restless sock feet stopped midtap, on the very floor those gentlemen trod in their calfskin shoes and spats. |
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One year, my mother made Babar and rendered him perfectly in five colors of homemade frosting — golden crown, red bow tie, green suit, black-and-white spats — only to have our Airedale devour him. |
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Piers Morgan, who has had a number of public spats with Clarkson over several years, also weighed in to suggest he would be available to replace the presenter. |
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Glue the plywood reinforcements in the wheel spats. |
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The roaring 20s, bootlegged liquor, corrupt cops, Tommy gun-toting gangsters in spats, cigarette holders and everyone wearing hats. |
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Blackpool, the club at war with their own supporters in general and a few in particular, as verbal spats between outspoken fans and the Oyston family have escalated into court proceedings. |
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Oysters are also important sources of aquatic production, which like shellfish can be cultured provided suitable substratum is provided to attract the spats and the estuarine conditions are right. |
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Lots of tiny spats can lead to one gigantic legal bill. |
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Unfortunately, my colleague from Sherbrooke does not deserve similar congratulations. While the quality of his constituents' drinking water is at stake, he prefers to take part in partisan spats. |
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Once the spats are collected, the oysters are cultivated for two years, submerged at 7 meters from the ocean floor, but where the depth is 30 meters and the plankton is richer. |
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Worshipped by the Toon fans Gallacher swaggered around Tyneside dressed like a Hollywood gangster in broad-brimmed hat, double-breasted suits and spats. |
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Situated in thick layers in warm and ecologically protected basins of the East Scheldt, the spats mature quickly and soon the mussels are heavier than water and they fall to the bottom. |
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They lived out their spats and quarrels in public and in the papers. |
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Judges' spats, chavtastic families storming the audition room in protest, and torrid life stories all take precedence over finding someone who can actually hold a tune. |
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