I'm now a bit stiff and have a big lump on my right foot where I caught a guy on the elbow. |
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Pressure is constantly applied on school administrations to attract greater numbers or face stiff funding cuts. |
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The company is facing stiff competition from rivals that have launched new products such as DVD players and televisions. |
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In winter I washed my clothes and put them on the line to dry and they got so stiff, I was shocked. |
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A woman in her mid-fifties stood on a ladder organizing books on a top shelf, her stiff, dark hair long since made limp by the humidity. |
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In a fashion shoot called Doll Drums, the model lies limp and stiff, draped over chairs as if she'd been thrown there by a petulant child. |
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You can then work over the wood surface with a stiff broom to further dislodge dirt, then rinse it off with a hose. |
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The style, when it is not terse and apophthegmatic, as of one trying to imitate Bacon, is stiff with conceits and long-winded sentences. |
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The air was cold and a stiff wind had blown up, howling down corridors like a banshee. |
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She was dressed in a style I had only seen in old portraits, a stiff black dress with flaring skirts and a lace-ornamented stomacher. |
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It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey. |
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But he wanted to be able to feel them once more, their less-than-perfect curvatures beneath her cold lids and stiff, rough lashes. |
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The government could certainly go to employers and enact stiff penalties and cut that spigot off. |
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She asked Congress on Saturday to legislate stiff punishments for illegal loggers, stopping short of calling for the death penalty. |
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Cadet Drew Callaghan nodded in return, and resumed his stiff stance, holding the door open for the two girls. |
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I was met with a stiff child, no answering or responsive hug, no acknowledgement and a blank stare into space. |
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The stiff and stylised human forms dominate, colluding powerfully with the resonant colours. |
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It broke down not because it met with stiff physical resistance from security forces but more because it was an ideological flop. |
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In a traditional yurt, the framework is covered with felt mats and tied down with hair ropes to prevent the mats from blowing off in stiff winds. |
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The dancers are competent but seemed rather stiff it's panto girls and boys, let yourselves go! |
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With a spectator's hat on, you'd need a stiff drink to even think about it. |
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But the car all comers have to beat is this one, and it's stiff competition. |
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If it's sandy or stiff with clay, dig in humus to improve water retention and aeration. |
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Using a stiff long-handled brush, scrub the stain with concentrated detergent suds. |
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The answers lie in stiff competition in their domestic markets, in woeful mismanagement, even the collapse of some businesses. |
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We were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it were a bar of chocolate. |
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Julia, who had never set foot on a ship before, clutched the rigging in alarm when the ship first heeled over with the stiff breeze. |
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Arms and legs grow stiff in the chilly water, paddling becomes hard, wipeouts and swims brutal. |
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He signed and reclined in the tub, resting his stiff neck on the padded edge. |
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The Cooper S holds the road well and although the ride can be a little stiff at times, that's only to be expected with something this sporty. |
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I have some aida cloth that is so stiff it's hard to work with. How can I soften it? |
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Jacqui was too busy rearranging her skirts after her untimely fall to notice our stiff conversation. |
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I wait for them at the top, dangling my feet off the side of the building, wiggling my stiff toes in the air. |
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Many of the relays doing very well up against stiff opposition and bad weather. |
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Punishment for those involved was sharp and painful in receiving half a dozen strokes across the bared back with a stiff cane. |
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My limbs are stiff and painful, my nose is running like a tap, my throat feels like I've swallowed a razor blade, and I feel like I am drunk. |
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The white chocolate is smooth, creamy and stiff with grains of proper Bourbon vanilla, not vanillin, the cost-cutting artificial flavouring. |
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The grand pas de deux was danced in white with red trim and while Kitri's costume was beautiful the stiff tutu lacked grace. |
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With a clean whisk, beat the egg white till it stands stiff then fold into the mascarpone. |
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Future revenue would be harvested from a single-rate flat tax on wages or, better still, a stiff sales tax on consumption. |
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Beat egg white with a whisk or handheld mixer in a small bowl until just stiff. |
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Using the whipping attachments, whip the sugar and cream until medium stiff peaks are achieved. |
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Abruptly the old man wheezed and slumped back in his chair, one stiff, gnarled hand to his chest. |
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I lay down beside him on my back, stiff as a ramrod, praying he wasn't going to do what he did. |
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He handed over his passport to the ramrod stiff guard in the booth and waited. |
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A brave businesswoman who is scared stiff of sharks is set to take the charity plunge into a tank full of the fearsome fish. |
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But the upper class is scared stiff of his rise, and plots to foil his attempts through fraud. |
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Some are scared stiff of losing their work, others are pressured by family members not to complain. |
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They are scared stiff of what other people think, who in turn are scared stiff of what they think. |
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A west wind blew stiff and steady all morning, so I never really warmed up. |
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The exercise will move stiff shoulder joints and stretch muscles in the waist. |
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All the others depend on jobseeker's allowance, which imposes stiff penalties on people who fail to seek work. |
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Running as if in diving boots, his back looked stiff and his shoulder appeared to be giving him gyp. |
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The more he kept moving the more he realized he still felt stiff so the injection's effect was wearing off. |
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I've let this old carcass get as stiff as beef jerky on a cold winter morning. |
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Louise moves to the opening of the lounge, in stiff jerky movements as though hampered by the knitting of broken bones. |
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I don't feel any better for it today, in fact if anything my body is really achy and stiff probably from lying down for so long. |
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Hopefully i wont be all stiff and achy since i might have done a bit too much today, but i was eager to get in and do some gardening! |
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She is one of the world's most consistent javelin throwers but faces stiff competition from Russia's world champion. |
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This preserves function, especially in relation to the accessory nerve, which if sacrificed usually gives rise to a stiff and painful shoulder. |
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As per your suggestion, I had a stiff Tom Collins, followed by some White Russians and a few shooters. |
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The recent snow and rain turned some of the peat hags into quagmires and a stiff westerly wind made the going tough. |
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I get up and stretch out my stiff muscles and take the bookmark and put it in the book on the page I was reading. |
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It was the mid-morning angelus and the chanting could be heard echoing throughout the halls and vibrating the stiff walls as the slow cries to the Virgin were heard. |
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Her pallid young face, brow sweating with fear and pain, yet resolute and stiff with sorrow, makes you want to cry. |
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There's a stiff breeze coming off the Indian Ocean and the surfies are clustered in groups, waddling around in their wetsuits like hipster penguins. |
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The most common cause of posterior heel bursitis is ill-fitting footwear with a stiff posterior edge that abrades the area of the Achilles tendon insertion. |
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In the 1950s, hand scrubbing required the use of rough brushes with stiff bristles that abraded the skin and frequently increased bacterial counts. |
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Levy recounts how she herself went to a chiropractor in 2002 to seek help with a stiff shoulder she had developed in her sleep. |
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Washing happened in an enormous sink on the rooftop or in the compound, scrubbed in cold water and using a special detergent and a stiff brush on a corrugated washboard. |
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The harness consists of two shoulder straps, made from a medium-grade webbing, which are comfortable and mould to your torso without being too stiff. |
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I am possessed, as much as the next man, of that stiff upper lip, steely resolve and adamantine backbone which make us British positively megalithic in the face of danger. |
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My favourite memory of a tall ship is standing at the helm of the Lord Nelson under full sail, feeling her heel over in a stiff breeze until her port deck was awash. |
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Coming back in the rider raised his sword and brought it down on the stiff wire, shearing it through to prevent the bandits from reeling it in to fire at him a second time. |
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The story is all the more remarkable when you take into account the size of Europe's wine lake and the stiff competition in today's crushingly crowded fine wine market. |
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I turned around and marched away, my body unexplainably stiff and rigid. |
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Nelson stood and stretched his muscles, stiff from the prolonged still position and the rigidness of the chair, and went over to check on his sleeping son. |
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The disadvantage is the stiff watch strap from LG even though it is genuine leather and it looks cheap. |
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The Zaydi highland tribes emerged as national heroes by offering a stiff, vigorous resistance to the Turkish occupation. |
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On June 7, an invasion of 6,000 men under Hessian general Wilhelm von Knyphausen met stiff resistance from the local militia. |
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Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark. |
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However, expansion into the hinterlands of both cities met with stiff resistance. |
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It met stiff resistance from the British 3rd Division and was soon recalled to assist in the area between Caen and Bayeux. |
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Bayeux was not captured the first day due to stiff resistance from the 352nd Infantry Division. |
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The jaws of leaf-cutter ants and locusts, for example, both contain high levels of zinc, making them particularly stiff and hard. |
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His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived. |
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His singular and complex personality has provided historians and biographers with a particularly stiff challenge. |
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I'm not much of a holiday merrymaker, but I do appreciate a stiff glass of eggnog while the others sing carols. |
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Fortunately, the man in the passenger seat had the stiff upper lip bit off to a tee. |
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The thumb of a Mercurian has a tendency to be stiff, as they love money and may have difficulty sharing it. |
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When I got out of bed this morning my back was stiff as a board. |
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This can yield stiff and lifeless performances in slower more expressive cues. |
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In Northern Europe, cooks created the pastry using fats like lard and butter to make stiff dough to hold an upright pie. |
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They looped ropes around the stiff legbones of the first cow and pulled her body toward the stoneboat, resting between spurts of hauling. |
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Mud that's been churned up, or bioturbated, would be softer, freed of the stiff microbial mat that covered much of the seafloor. |
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The Treasury rejected proposals for a stiff capital levy, which the Labour Party wanted to use to weaken the capitalists. |
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Despite stiff resistance from the East India lobby in parliament and from the Company's shareholders, the Act passed. |
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If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain. |
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A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. |
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They disappear at once on slightly relaxing the air-pressure, whilst true incipient thickenings of the surface remain white and unpliably stiff. |
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The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back. |
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Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws. |
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But Bernice, standing stiff and angry in the starlight, turned on her heel without a response. |
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I wipe away the tears of unjoy before they stain the hideous, stiff bedspread. |
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Revivalists often regard classic soul as a museum piece, stiff and untweakable. |
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The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs. |
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If athletes do too much too soon, they will be stiff and sore 24 to 48 hours after a new workout. |
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The jacket had all the figure-hugging shape of a wind sock and the stiff, unforgiving shoulders resembled American football pads. |
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The best way to attack this is with a stiff broom or wire brush and remove as much as possible. |
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Combine a pressure washer or stiff yard broom with a path cleaner or algicide. |
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Wormcasts are a problem for many and need removing from the lawn with a stiff broom before the first mow. |
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They create a nice, soft arc at low amperages and a stiff arc on the high end. |
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I thought now the jig was mighty nigh up with me, but I determined to keep a stiff upper lip. |
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They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence. |
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A man may go pretty near through his whole sea-life without any call to show a stiff upper lip. |
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In typical British stiff upper lip fashion, the tournament organizers expected us to play into, and through, the menacing weather. |
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Whisk your egg whites until you have stiff peaks and then the bowl can be held upside down over your head and the egg whites stay put. |
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The glabrous old head cranks round on him, stiff and slow, until the clouded eyes draw level with his own. |
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She convinced the stiff to go to her hotel room, where her henchman was waiting to rob him. |
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The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail. |
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The spidery construction looked like it would fall apart in a stiff breeze. |
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From here a stiff ascent up what may have been a landslip leads directly to the summit. |
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Conditions deteriorate at the crossing of Buttermere Moss, followed by a stiff climb to the summit. |
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Try any fusibles you have on hand, making sure that they aren't too stiff for the project you have in mind. |
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Especially in the first half of the century, portraits were very formal and stiff in composition. |
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This law allowed stiff fines, increasing with the number of slaves transported, for captains of slave ships. |
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Just as soon as the world is full of twisty stiff pseudo-nature, the Casa del Fascio will appear and dazzle us like we are apemen. |
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Avoid stiff pocketings of 100 percent polyester. To reduce bulk, cut linings for patch pockets from lining fabric rather than self-fabric. |
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One of his grievances was that he had to exchange his stylish Paris suit for a stiff uniform and pigtail. |
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The nature of the muscle is so stiff, it is almost as hard as bone to touch, as if it were the continuum of the skull. |
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Certain species of passerines have stiff tail feathers, which help the birds balance themselves when perching upon vertical surfaces. |
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The wings are stiff and cambered, with thickened streamlined leading edges. |
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They met stiff resistance from the British 3rd Infantry Division and were soon recalled to assist in the area between Caen and Bayeux. |
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Beat egg whites with an electric mixer or a whisk until stiff peaks form, but do not overbeat. |
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Old Cigfolla, who despite stiff joints could outspin any of them, drew out a fine thread of flax. |
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Members of Rajidae are distinguished by their stiff snout and a rostrum that is not reduced. |
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Like other petrels, their walking ability is limited, but they are strong fliers, with a stiff wing action quite unlike the gulls. |
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In upwind designs, turbine blades must be made stiff to prevent the blades from being pushed into the tower by high winds. |
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Small depressions on the upper jaw each contain a lone stiff hair, but are only visible on close inspection. |
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The arms of some stenurids are slender and flexible, but those of others are broad and comparatively stiff. |
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The collected laver is repeatedly washed to remove sand and boiled for hours until it becomes a stiff, green mush. |
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Under the plan, the AFL-CIO and network will pursue minimum wage campaigns, safety at construction sites and legislation to criminalize employers who stiff day laborers. |
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Scrub your wastebaskets with a clean, stiff brush using soap and water. |
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Some alternate terms for this missile have included the spear, but this term has fallen out of favour since in all other uses, spears are stiff enough to be used for stabbing. |
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Where was Uncle? Gone for a stiff one? Again? His hollow leg, you know. Ducking in the john to throw up on his loafers? Probably that. What did he have tonight? Anything good? |
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This combines the best of the above, but is costly, heavy, and stiff. |
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Burgoyne's pursuit ran into stiff resistance at Hubbardton and Fort Anne. |
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Drummond, like Hearst, believed that the music programmes' presentation was too stiff and formal and he therefore encouraged announcers to be more natural and enthusiastic. |
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Would I go equipped? You can get a stiff sentence for that! I've got a couple of skeleton keys, I don't deny, but I hope we won't need them. There are other ways. |
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No, tha'd drop down stiff, as dead as a door-knob, wi' thy nesh sides. |
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Together his accumbent pose and closed eyes denoted sleep, as an alternative to death, which the stiff, recumbent pose of previous effigies had embodied. |
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Reducing or reefing the total sail area will have the same effect and many boats will sail faster with less sail in a stiff breeze due to the reduction in underwater drag. |
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Males may speed up the process by rubbing their antlers on trees, so that their antlers are hard and stiff for the duels during the mating season. |
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Unlike birds whose stiff wings deliver bending and torsional stress to the shoulders, bats have a flexible wing membrane which can only resist tension. |
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The fourth and fifth digits go from the wrist to the trailing edge, and repel the bending force caused by air pushing up against the stiff membrane. |
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This combined with stiff resistance led to the failure of their attack. |
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Doesn't anybody recognize humor anymore, or have our faces gone completely stiff from thinking about good vs. evil or character balance or munchkin-zapping? |
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I woke with a stiff neck in slightly gasiferous sunlight, mechanically receiving a mug of lurid tea with a dash of petrol from one of my invincibles. |
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Ms Roberts, a guide at the Whistlefish Gallery, saw off stiff competition from more than 90 entries from around the world to win the pounds 1,000 first prize. |
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Every boy, or youth, who has not exercised before, is either entirely stiff, or if he possesses some limberness, he rarely understands to execute a regular movement. |
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This is the west-coast take on structured freedom, and it's a wonderfully far cry from the film soundstages where too many LA jazzmen grow rich and stiff. |
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It is a perennial and herbaceous plant, 30 to 80 centimeters high, with stiff stems and simple or compound lanceolate basal leaves with 2-3 teeth. |
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She faces stiff competition from cocksure northern rockers Arctic Monkeys, baby-faced crooner Jake Bugg, London dance duo Disclosure and evergreen pop icon David Bowie. |
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At the southern tip of the island that was shaped like a letter qof they splashed up a stone embankment and clambered stiff and stumbling like unarticulated iron beings. |
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The rooms are larger than average and they are fully air-conditioned to ensure that our guests will be comfortable whether a bergwind or a stiff southwester is blowing. |
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He felt like a toss-up between a bindle stiff and a skid row derelict. |
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A stiff lawn rake can also work if the thatch layer is one-half to one inch thick. Anything more than this, get a thatch rake. Or rent a power rake or vertical mower. |
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The Japanese successfully attacked over the Kawkareik Pass, and captured the port of Moulmein at the mouth of the Salween River after overcoming stiff resistance. |
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The optimal caudal fin for sustained swimming is stiff, has a high aspect ratio, and a lunate shape that reduces drag produced by the wake of the fish. |
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The tibial comb or forespur, on the front pair of legs, has about 65 teeth, stiff and elastic, and is deftly fitted into the tarsus opposite, which has about 45 coarser teeth. |
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