How To Use Addle In A Sentence

We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.
Season with salt and pepper and tie string around each saddle to secure the caul fat.
The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran. THE SHADOWS OF POWER

It is also her misfortune to have been saddled with an unappetisingly needy role. Times, Sunday Times
He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
Cleland was occupied with his visual recorder, surveyor, gravitometer, and whatever else he could wield in the saddle, or simply with gazing around. Starfarers
I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
McGregor is saddled with a tiresome everyman role, but Spacey, Clooney, and especially Bridges make some of their scenes work better than they should. Your mind won’t be blown watching “The Men Who Stare at Goats” » Scene-Stealers
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
John, yo 'oncinch thet saddle, an' then, Horatius Ezek'l, yo 'an' David Golieth, taken the hoss to the barn an 'see't he's hayed an' watered 'fore yo 'come back. The Gold Girl
Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
Naomi was given a pony and taught to ride side-saddle.
~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~ en tout cas = in any case; façon de parler = so to speak; à peu près = almost, more or less; le français (m) = French; l'anglais (m) = English; le bât (m) = packsaddle Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
There she goes again with that faith, hope, charity, and creativity twaddle.
With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
They unsaddled their mounts
Chukotka straddles the Arctic Circle and its nine - month winter can witness temperatures as low as - 60 C.
As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
A huge black beacon waddled along, dragging a reluctant mass of iron at the end of its chain cable, followed by a roughly-built "flatty" and a huge log of silkwood. Confessions of a Beachcomber
This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
These dees are affixed by terrets centered on the saddle and by pad screws on both skirts.
She pulled herself onto the bed and straddled her legs over his waist leaning forward to kiss his neck.
I used to go swimming, play paddleball and all kinds of little games at the gym, but no more.
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
There was joy on the double for racing's first Lady Jessica Harrington at Leopardstown as the County Kildare trainer saddled the winners of the two feature races.
These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
So she sware to him that she would not do him any hurt or ensorcell him, and bidding bring him a fine horse, saddled and bridled with a golden bridle and decked with trappings all of gold set with jewels, gave the old man a thousand dinars saying, Use this.’’ The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He said low genetic diversity is a natural part of the domestication process and that Dukha reindeer are selected for traits such as passiveness and strong backs that support saddles and riders.
The more civilised make up of canvass or "gunny bags" stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal's back. First Footsteps in East Africa
At this point the imagery begins to repeat itself in different iterations, as it will for the rest of the novel: The man is at the station where the woman is now looking at him "vacantly"; the dog appears again, blocking his path; he walks along the street, where "a cyclist is trying to pedal along," the fish in his saddle bag now joined by a loaf of bread on top of it. Experimental Fiction
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring. Calder Born, Calder Bred
He smiled down at her and leaned back against the tack and saddlebags that they'd piled on top of each other.
The toddler waddles freely into a neighbourhood yard.
According to F&F Foods, the current manufacturer of Sen Sen®, the candy straddled olfactive and gustative categorization at its inception and “In keeping with its perfumery roots, it was on the market list for many years as a cosmetic.” Breath Perfumes
Not only was Sheryl one of the fastest women beach sprinters ever to scorch the nation's sands, she was also a title-winning paddler on the Malibu board and surf ski.
The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making. Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
Stokton, a fishmonger, Thomas Yong, a saddler, and Robert Jakes, a shearman — all of whom had more than once been convicted of perjury, and on that account been struck off inquests — had contrived to get themselves replaced on the panel, and had been the chief movers in the recent actions against the late mayor and other officers of the city. London and the Kingdom - Volume I
he saddled me with that heavy responsibility
The butter churn have two paddle to whip the cream.
The shop provided saddles, boots, and other riding equipment for riders at south Florida racetracks.
Geographynote: landlocked; straddles crest of the Nile-Congo watershed; the Kagera, which drains into Lake Victoria, is the most remote headstream of the White Nile Burundi
We can still listen to the songs of the kokako and saddleback, and the booming of the kakapo.
Guided by instinct, he paddled with his forepaws.
Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
You left out the bush whackers, rump rangers, fifth column traitors, child pornographers, baby rapers, brain addled dope smoking malcontents, serial abortionists, incorrigible violent criminals and drug pushers as well as the Clintons that make up the Filthy Left wing of the Liberal Losers. Think Progress » Rumsfeld on Iran Today = Rumsfeld on Iraq in 2002
Or pay homage to your nursery school teacher and attach a ghost made of construction paper and a ping-pong paddle to your woodsy cable-knit sweater.
That was before the Ghezouba Dam was built on the Yangtze River in the early 1980s, cutting off the sturgeon's migratory path, just as it did for the critically endangered Chinese paddlefish .
With the aid of lacker varnish and skilful painting, paper made excellent trunks, tobacco bags, cigar cases, saddles, telescope cases, the frames of microscopes; and we even saw and used excellent water-proof coats made of simple paper, which did keep out the rain, and were as supple as the best macintosh ... .. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries
Several of Woolrich's hunting garments are made of Squires Hightech's Saddle-Cloth, a soft, quiet, stormproof and windproof fabric.
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
The fool would put a saddle backwards if left alone. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer? Times, Sunday Times
They are shaped liked bicycle saddles and can be folded away to save space. Times, Sunday Times
When derided for mounting a pair of Government "bluchers," tied over bare feet, with bits of glaring tassel-string from his camel-saddle, he quoted the proverb, "Whoso liveth with a people forty days becomes of them. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
Do not the young men contrive great wealth what of their pack-straps and paddles? CHAPTER 2
now I'm really fantastic at drawing this mechanical device, but you can imagine that dropping a weight can cause a paddle wheel to turn.
The fault of the ass must not be laid upon the packsaddle.
Designed nearly a century ago to be all things to all people, it Chaplin-esquely tries to straddle thousands of rapidly fragmenting micro-niches, a mainframe in an iTouch world. The Newsweekly’s Last Stand
A collar harness does not provide for the vertical force, so if a collar is used, the saddle has to be provided separately - but then it can have the advantage of being made more stable with a girth or bellyband under the donkey's belly. 3.1 Cattle harness
Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
Russie is pursued by cruel foe, He rides away, and suddenly betakes him to his boe, And bends me but about in saddle as be sits, And therewithall amids his race his following foe he hits. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Although the fitting of the saddle should as far as practicable be limited to the adjustment of the shape of the tree and to regulating the amount of stuffing in the panel; the use of a numdah with a saddle which does not fit the horse or which is not sufficiently stuffed, is often a valuable makeshift when necessity gives no other choice. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
Saddled with the most unfortunate perm in the history of the coiffeur, she still manages to create an incredibly believable teen protagonist, filled with instantly recognizable angst and insecurity.
A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described. New Saddleback Tamarin
After you untack your horse, use water (warm water, if it is available) to sponge off the areas that have become sweaty - the saddle area, chest, and behind the tail are the areas where your horse is most likely to sweat.
For the coconut and sesame seed crisps: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, combine butter and sugar and beat until fluffy.
The bike needs a new saddle, but otherwise it's in good condition.
Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race.
Hundreds of people travelled to the southeast Queensland home of RM Williams at the weekend to buy saddlery, tools and machinery from the estate of the bush legend.
Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
As there be tides in the affairs of men which taken at the flood lead on to fortune, so there be waves which straddled at the proper time will bear a Halliwell on their niveous crest to the dizzy heights of fame, quicker'n the nictitation of a thomas-cat. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
The footwear and saddlery departments ran alongside each other, though students followed a rather different syllabus.
Another saddle had Sir Gavlok Whitfell's pierced cinquefoil insignia. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
Even as it was carried across the room, it was clear that the crimson-red saddle of marinated venison was exceptionally succulent.
Cowboy builders, it's time to saddle up and ride out of town. The Sun
The more civilised make up of canvass or “gunny bags” stuffed with hay and provided with cross bars, a rude packsaddle, which is admirably calculated to gall the animal’s back. First footsteps in East Africa
Does he sometimes straddle difficult issues in an effort to please multiple constituencies?
He also complains about the 6000 buckboards for the colonels, thousands of saddles for the cavalry, and hundreds of airplane engines that were never used in the war. Mamas Don't Let your Babies grow up to be Soldiers!
And good thing too, since one of the true joys of bean consumption is being able to re-enact the campfire scene from Blazing Saddles, although I've found it easier to convince the occasional date to engage in intimacies than to join in the butt trumpet serenading. Old Rice/New Rice....Old Beans/New Beans
The spine is in Spain very curved, producing what is termed _ensellure_, or saddle-back -- a characteristic which gives great flexibility to the back and prominence to the gluteal regions, sometimes slightly simulating steatopygia. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man
A straddle is the use of the same strikes for both the call and the put, but a strangle uses out-of-the-money OTM options, usually equally spaced from the price of the underlying. Real-World Trading: Strangling Profits out of Our Option Trade - Yahoo! Finance
Here are to be found not only the silks and pottery, the Jewish goldsmiths 'work, the arms and embroidered saddlery which the city itself produces, but "morocco" from Marrakech, rugs, tent-hangings and matting from Rabat and Salé, grain baskets from In Morocco
He's a champion sailboarder and a determined long distance paddler.
At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
Having spluttered vigorously into double-handfuls of water from the little stream and put the towel back on its bush, he turned his attention to his twelve-dollar boots -- for in the country of boots and saddles the leatherwork is the soul of appearances. The Wrong Woman
$1,000 KYD travel voucher as well as a selection of prizes from Dolphin Cove, Cayman Helicopters, Wakeboarding and Paddleboarding vouchers, and more. Cayman Net News Daily Headlines
Margret rode side-saddle with Linc behind her.
I had pan-fried duck, black pudding and rosemary boudin with slivers of venison saddle, roast sweet potato and hoi sin sauce.
Opposite this doorway is a small granary that is on staddle stones and is the perfect resting place for the Labrador dog that happily ran up to lick our hands!
the saddle seat fitted his buttocks nicely
It also includes used animal trappings such as harnesses, saddles, halters, reins, rope and chain.
Dad is a crofter and a raddled drunk, who has an accident with a sheep that puts him in bed for a few days.
No self-indulgent twaddle, no luvvy duvvy waffle, no tedious explaining what we're looking at, no extraneous family members self-aggrandising and hogging the airtime with totally irrelevant bullshit. Update
Strident, assertive saddlebacks begin argumentative vocal duels, their staccato ‘Yak-yak - yak-yak’ in ever longer and louder volleys.
He twisted and groped one-handed behind the cantle of his saddle for his hunting-bow and quiver, found them and fumbled them loose.
If its proposal is accepted, the company will be saddled with a higher interest bill. Times, Sunday Times
The two loins together are called the chine or saddle. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
Martyn's final went from bad to worse when co-pilot Peter Willcox got tossed out over the side of his boat joined moments later by Justin Saddler getting thrown out of his boat.
The letter read: Dear Partridge, What you say is absolute twaddle. POLITICAL SUICIDE
The ferry stopped, launched a boat and picked them up - they had paddled 14 miles across the Channel - at 7am.
Kemp walked to his horse, tightened the cinch on his saddle and walked it past men standing around talking.
In May they will paddle away from the coast of Japan at the start of a 5,000-mile row across the Pacific to America.
Paddle is largely a doubles game, marked by rapid volleying at the net.
Sad for all that his yak was a fine, strong beast and its saddle of tooled leather with silver trappings; and despite the fact that his robe was new and rich, his saddle bags fully provisioned and his purse crammed with gold. Hero Of Dreams
The ones I've seen give you a good once over, and skedaddle. Wolf Sightings Wisconsin
Pelosi descended to the floor of the House, where a saddle-shoed grandson, Paul Vos, leapt into her arms. Boehner Cries As He Moves To Speakership
And he said there was another camel with two humps, and he was created for riding, and was called a dromedary, and when ye rode him, ye sat at your ease between the two humps, which made a soft saddle, just like an arm-chair ye straddled on, only without arms. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War
There she was, sitting as usual, and I was so concerned, believing that due to my interference all the eggs had addled—for I thought the hatching time was three weeks.
Better lose the saddle than the horse.
They have two large pockets which are positioned behind the saddle flap on either side. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
It was so big that Newman had to use a canoe paddle from his river boat to stir it.
I'll curate it with a one-off Brooks fishbone saddle Bearing Witness: Hitting From Behind
Who wants to listen to ‘Stairway to Heaven’ for that silly hippies-in-Stonehenge twaddle about bustling hedgerows?
If only I could get the newest back-lit, bluetooth, high resolution, 64 Mb turnip twaddler, I wouldn't ever need another gadget. Archive 2005-05-01
Skully will do his utmost to take good care of the surface of the saddle whilst debossing the lettering.
He then uses those measurements to design and manufacture a thermoplastic orthotic which, when placed between horse and saddle, evenly and comfortably distributes the rider's weight to prevent the formation of sores.
In country towns with a population of just a thousand there was likely to be a saddler, blacksmith, coach or implement maker, and grain and fodder merchant, all dependent on the district's horses.
One need only read the curious doublespeak of the so-called black block anarchists, the group responsible for the only destructive protests at the Vancouver Olympics, to realize what kind of addle-brained morons we're dealing with. Vue Weekly
She was the first to ride astride a horse into the hills when few women were riding at all, and those who dared were riding English side-saddle on the Golden Gate Park bridle paths. Charmian London and Dog Possum
They took inspiration from mechanical models such as propellers and paddle wheels.
At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in.
The crossbowman was a good swimmer, Thom," he said as he climbed into the saddle. The Dragon Reborn
I caught one last wave and then paddled in to shore by a river mouth. The Sun
He sat there in the saddle for a moment, immobile, clenching the reins tightly.
It eyes me warily as I paddle past, heart in mouth. The Sun
These were tiny wooden paddles with a little bubble of glass. Times, Sunday Times
I most let it drop offen the saddle as I jogged along, only I'm a sensitive kind of cupid and the buckle of the bag hit that place on my knee I got sleep-walking last week while Rose of Old Harpeth
He believes that by scaring a horse, such as sacking them out incorrectly, snubbing, or tying a scary object to the saddle to where the horse has no means of escape will lead to a nervous or spooky horse.
Saddlebag and Dot islands are bedrock features consisting of serpentinite rock that is over 200 million years old. Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
On July 15, 1874, at the Ackley House stables, Mr. John Waddle offered twelve cows and one bull at public auction, but prices ruled so low that they were soon withdrawn from market.
If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth. A Monk of Fife
He has addled his head with reading and writing all day long.
Flash I was saddled with 'Hologram' for a while, in respect of my annoying habit of disappearing instantly on a run ashore and reappearing magically in camp tucked up in bed minus speech, faculties and an workable digestive system teuchter. it means country folk. Army Rumour Service
If you want a faster front crawl, hold your fingers apart like a rake, not together like a paddle. Times, Sunday Times
When this clot dislodges (now called a thrombus) and moves through the arteries, it plugs blood flow across both openings to arteries at a place called the aortic bifurcation (the clot looks like a saddle). SFGate: Top News Stories
She steals the show as Billie Tricks, the raddled night-club hostess.
The ride was long, but, with my saddle-bags and Lucy, a new mare my aunt had raised and given me, and clad in overalls, which we called tongs, I cared little for the mud, and often enough stopped to assist a chaise out of the deep holes, which made the roads dangerous for vehicles. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
This is a radical reimagining of the bicycle saddle. Times, Sunday Times
Debates range from tow-in versus paddle in and thruster versus single fin all the way down to which local spot hosts the worthiest crew.
She rode barehead, her helmet swinging at her saddle horn. Web Of The Witch World
Tasting Kentucky paddlefish roe that could pass for sevruga caviar. Like a Sturgeon
The proposed site was spread across five townlands in the Mullaghereirk mountains which straddle the Limerick, Cork and Kerry borders.
These jokers that have been floating around these boardrooms, they waddle off to their next cup of tea or whatever and that's it.
Parents sometimes add rear-mounted child seats and/or an auxiliary saddle fitted to the crossbar to transport children.
Call saddled the horse and handed the reins to Matilda, along with his pistol. Dead Man’s Walk
The wider ends of the gate electrodes straddle the peripheral boundaries of the active region.
Often they bounce around on a truck seat, or maybe ride in a saddle scabbard all day strapped to an unruly mustang, acquiring numerous dings and dents.
His sweat would've soaked through her breeches, but she sat sort of side-saddle, and her legs were facing the inside of the arena.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, graham cracker crumbs, and butter and mix until just combined, about two minutes.
Within the Chondrostei, only sturgeons, bichirs and paddlefishes survive today, and many are threatened.
Coupled to all this is the Koenigsegg-engineered transversal, paddle-shift transmission with limited slip differential. Exclusive: Koenigsegg Agera - GTSPIRIT.COM
They can paddle faster but not for any great distance because it takes too much energy. Times, Sunday Times
The turtle waddled down the bank of the slough, out onto a rotten railroad tie through an obstacle course of brambles and beer cans, and, to my surprise, vanished with a wet slap, proving that this water was still alive.
Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
She then went for a paddle in a canoe with a pal. The Sun
For making holes in the bottom where the nails or studs are fixed, a large sewing-awl will be required; this will probably have to be bought at a saddler's; the other tools can all be obtained at any grindery and leather seller's. Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886
Maybe the re-appearance of her beloved Quickos will finally drag her out of this sorry state of maudlin, mumbling, booze-addled torpor.
I started tightening saddles and untying the biggest camp items from the packhorse.
So forgive me if I say phooey to the fashionable PR twaddle which claims that casinos can regenerate our urban landscape.
Using oars as paddles, they moved the motorboat close to the shore. THREE IN ONE
It was some sort of gel blanket to put under the saddle. Times, Sunday Times
His material is leather, and his specialty is fitting a saddle to the infinitely varied human pelvis.
In one scene, for instance, the woman and her dog are following behind a large ocean liner in their paddleboat.
I ignored the paddles on the wheel that allow you to change gears. Times, Sunday Times
Put the saddle on the horse, but don't tighten the girth too much right away.
The saddleback, a black wattlebird with a tan saddle of feathers on its back and a pendulous orange wattle at the base of its bill, has been translocated 27 times since 1925 and now inhabits approximately 16 islands.
The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
Women in wet saris and men with lungis hoisted between their legs paddled in the spume to do puja, or worship. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
The rugged terrain and long distances (up to six hours in the saddle each day) make this trip best for those with riding experience.
Then if If you need to carry a lead rope it can be attached as shown or clipped to the ring close to the saddle pommel. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
I leaned down from my saddle and snatched a shield from a corpse wearing red.
We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.
Jiro waddled closer, his belly bulging and distended.
He slipped his foot into the stirrup of the heavy black western saddle and placed his fingertips on the side of the horses' neck.
‘Certainly,’ replied Traddles; ‘but, in the meanwhile, and until everything is done to our satisfaction, we shall maintain possession of these things; and beg you — in short, compel you — to keep to your own room, and hold no communication with anyone.’ David Copperfield
He spent the night in the little country hotel, and on Sunday morning, astride a saddle-horse rented from the Glen Ellen butcher, rode out of the village. Chapter VIII
Quite a few of them would have dreamed about sinking into the low saddle of a Harley Davidson chopper and thundering off with the feet resting up front and the hands on high handlebars.
We introduce reverberation chamber and it's features in size, shielding material and paddles.
I slipped my leg over the side and straddled the bike.
Contemporaries of the last dinosaurs, paddle-limbed mosasaurs, inhabited seas of the Cretaceous period, which ended about 66 million years ago.
I ignored the paddles on the wheel that allow you to change gears. Times, Sunday Times
Over the two days of competition, Navy teams battled it out in the 20 man and 12 man events with crews containing paddlers, a sweep and drummer.
The great writer and scholar Iris Murdoch, addled and disoriented by advanced Alzheimer's Disease, ambles out of her Oxford house and into the city.
Some of the most frequent gross morphological adaptations to an aquatic lifestyle include the modifications of limbs into paddles and the elongation and lateral flattening of the tail.
This is the kind of issue that you can't straddle.
Other safety items are available that can be attached to reins, stirrups and martingales, as well as fluorescent saddlecloths and exercise rugs.
Would you mount the dray for a ride in the country, or hitch a saddle horse to a heavy wagon?
I desperately tried to paddle for the shore.
By now your paddling mates are a speck in the distance, the rhythmic flash of the sun on their paddle blades a galling reminder of the way this sport should be played.

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