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  • A specially designed speculum is used to help direct the injection into the G-spot, with effects lasting around four months. G Marks The Spot
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
  • By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy.
  • Prior to the 19th century, the region's social structure - outside of a few major cities, including Baghdad - was organized primarily around relatively isolated tribal confederations.
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  • Try feeling a little "schlubby" popping around the corner for a newspaper. Wine Shopping in San Francisco, Italian Style
  • I just stayed the dorm to around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends.
  • I usually sqirt a drop or two on the front and back of my boots, and a few drops on a wick around the stand. i never used the buck pee though. i have used a couple of tarsal glands from a buck that my friend killed. had small buck circle the tree i hung it from a couple times. When to use What deer pee?
  • Said hi also to a few of the guys from Aereogramme after they'd finished up, but wasn't actually sure of who was there from Chemikal Underground or what they look like, so I was basically floating around and looking glaikit until Mags pointed out the Newsnight crew, and the nice interviewer man figured out who I was. Archive 2007-02-01
  • And while everyone around wished the couple a happy married life, one of the guests decided to be a little cheeky.
  • And I feel hopelessly undereducated, with all the MAs around me.
  • He put a proprietorial arm around her.
  • Each item was skewered on a cocktail stick and laid like sun rays around the plate, which also had a flower intricately carved out of turnip for decoration.
  • Hamed will go on a publicity tour around the States next week before entering training camp on February 16.
  • All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one o’clock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
  • The flight crew made a distress call and the aircraft landed safely on one engine around 14 minutes after take-off.
  • One man's ‘most respected occult books around’ are another man's old hat ripe for a kicking.
  • They asked around and at least five different people have seen him.
  • Labor economics has become virtually a branch of applied econometrics, with the usual large data sets and headless horsemen running around looking for patterns.
  • Many had played around the world, including in North America's National Hockey League.
  • De Forest had only one seat to his buggy, and it was rather irksome to be conveying two ladies around all the time. The Expressman and the Detective
  • Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
  • And the fact is that women just dig men who see clips of defenseless mother pigs stuffed in crates so small that they can't turn around, and then blurt out, "But, I love me some bacon! Josh Tetrick: Five Reasons Why Man = Meat
  • The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
  • At around 11 am that day a pensioner foiled another attempted scam by a man and woman in Central Avenue, Gravesend.
  • Season with salt and pepper and tie string around each saddle to secure the caul fat.
  • His first impulse was to turn around and walk away, blank her out, pretend he hadn't even seen.
  • And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
  • Since corporate America is more interested in hoarding than rehiring, the New Poor are going to be around for awhile. Mark Olmsted: No Pizza, No Peace: The New Poor and the Coming Blowback
  • Prices may vary so it's well worth shopping around before you buy.
  • Rob also reckons that the south-west coast of Ireland has some of the best sailing grounds in the world - particularly around Roaring Water Bay in West Cork.
  • The State Department contacted American embassies around the world to make sure that they repeated the line that it was an aberration and not in line with American ‘values.’
  • Already well dispersed, they probably acquired iron technology around 500 C.E. On their route eastward, the Bantu speakers skirted the northern forest edge toward the interlacustrine region of East Africa. D. Africa, 500-1500
  • The pitahaya season in San Diego goes from October 1 to around mid-November.
  • The lightship has had uplighters added to its fore and aft masts with lighting units added around its deck and jetty.
  • Pour cider around the meat and cover with foil.
  • Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
  • It was mid autumn and the leaves were already starting to swirl around me as a harsher wind blew, creating almost a curtain of color each time the breeze came.
  • He said the operators of two steel fishing vessels recently reported losses of HK $50,000 a month while the operators of two sampans said they had lost around HK $20,000.
  • Many had difficulty negotiating the cross-drive obstacle, where often it was not until they were almost upon it that is was clear whether the sheep were going through or around the outside.
  • To acidify soil, sprinkle two tablespoons of aluminum phosphate or sulfur around the shrubs in early fall.
  • He spun a chair around and straddled it as he sat down, folding his arms across the wrought iron back.
  • Ice the sides with the chocolate icing, then pipe a decorative border of chocolate icing around the top, encircling the coconut topping.
  • The kings of the heartogram didn't fail to impress, with a diverse crowd gathered, including everyone from young punks to soccer moms and even a haggard old bat dancing around in lingerie.
  • More often, though, I hear plans being made around me and I'm not included.
  • Look out for things like white feathers and birds that appear to follow you around the garden. The Sun
  • I have caught plenty more on hook and line than they have noodling (they call it grappling around here), so I don't think it is something that we should be concerned with. What do you guys think about noodling? have you ever gone? or do you think its wrong?
  • He said it was because he was paid to sit around and drink milkshakes all day.
  • A €500 million investment in upgrading long-haul aircraft is part of the turnaround. Times, Sunday Times
  • How about a nice sing-along around the piano?
  • She learned to scramble around and even run sideways, but not forward.
  • It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
  • Hunt thinks it unlikely that the currency will break parity with the dollar next year, and feels it is likely to settle around the $0.92 level.
  • So far the scenery around her had been thick fur trees and dense foliage.
  • The filly's head whirled around and she nickered softly before fumbling toward me, nudging my palm as I held my hand out.
  • What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
  • Lia was looking around her shoulder, as if she was expecting a stampede of wild animals to come charging down the corner.
  • Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
  • The Olympic venues have won praise and admiration from around the world. The Sun
  • Their lasagna is like eating a cloud .... the little museum next to the church has some interesting objects, and the best entertainment of all is a nice long stroll around town. tashby Current Info on San Sebastian del Oeste
  • Around the humerus, loose where once it had clung tightly, lay the twisted semi-circle of a priestly arm-ring. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • Katherine and Kyla ferreted around the racks looking for good clothes.
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
  • [12] The spermatozooids of certain plants can be strongly attracted towards a pipette which is filled with malic acid -- crowding around and into it with avidity. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
  • Every time I turn around he seems to be checking up on me.
  • There was a convoluted tangle of coloured threads around you, some of which seemed to be paths.
  • What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress? The Sun
  • And then, in the pouring rain, a half-dozen supporters stood around waiting for the media to show up.
  • Cleland was occupied with his visual recorder, surveyor, gravitometer, and whatever else he could wield in the saddle, or simply with gazing around. Starfarers
  • The case - possibly the ultimate in town versus gown - revolves around a former manse on a quiet street in St Andrews, where students already occupy more than half the town centre accommodation.
  • I was standing in some kind of wooded area and looking around Probably trying to find any distraction to keep me from going for my lecture and I did eventually find that tap-dancing squirrel but that's a story for another post and then somehow bits and pieces began to hit me. Archive 2005-02-01
  • That's no mean boast, since there's a surfeit of super-featherweight talent around.
  • In the early years of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and even one author's experience under the CISP program, the term compensating control was used to describe everything from a legitimate work-around for a security challenge to a shortcut to compliance. CSO
  • All tickets are booked, the glitzy hotel has been booked, and I will be flying up there this Friday, around mid day.
  • The wandering wraiths, addicts and drunks that you see around town didn't just come about out of the blue - they were produced by the education system.
  • By the time we had got the boat to the waist, the ship had filled with water, and was going down on her beam-ends: we shoved our boat as quickly as possible from the plank-shear ** A timber around a vessel's hull at deck line. into the water, all hands jumping in her at the same time, and launched off clear of the ship. The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told
  • Female cockroaches carry their fertilized eggs around in these pod-like sacks called ootheca. Boing Boing
  • I can hear it rattling around. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indeed, there are times when the pedestrian traffic through the cemetery and around its perimeter is heavy enough to make one think about the need for a stop light inside.
  • On an odometer basis, my perambulations around the hearthrug by rocking chair are infinitely more dangerous than an astronaut's wildest rides through space.
  • Look at the nests of ants, how around them the land is barren. A Plague of Angels
  • She lay back in her bed, her companion clucking around like a motherly hen.
  • The inferior gluteal artery also assists in forming the cruciate anastomosis that forms around the neck and greater trochanter of the femur.
  • I wrapped my arms around him and he buried his face into my shoulder like he had earlier that evening, shoulders heaving as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
  • Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered. Undesirables
  • I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
  • Most lenders have relaxed their criteria around the maximum age of applicants at the end of the term. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to him, ‘In Europe the farmers throw dirt around the asparagus in order to blanch it.’
  • The discussion then went off on a tangent, to the question of how many spheres of equal size could rotate around a central ball of the same size.
  • And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
  • At the time, the Reno Air Races were starting up and John thought it might be fun to take the big Cat around the pylons.
  • Vast clouds of volcanic dust were shot into the stratosphere and swept around the globe. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many local children play on the dirt grounds around this farm with the cockerels running loose all day.
  • The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times
  • This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
  • It came with a large red ribbon tied around its nose. Times, Sunday Times
  • For many years, along with the Department of Defense and many other federal agencies, the Department of State has been our partner in fighting terrorism around the world. CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2001
  • And if there are residual cracks in Adele's pipes, you can't hear them: the word "hometown" easily wraps itself around the venue's lofting ironwork. Adele – review
  • But the matron still expected me to work and I was forced to hop around the wards tending to my patients.
  • We bumbled around each other like Laurel and Hardy in the gloom, fumbling for a torch we couldn't find.
  • Scented candles, especially the industrial strength and size that many people light around the holidays, give off more than fragrance-studies show they produce tiny bits of pollution known as particulates that can inflame the respiratory tract and aggravate asthma, Dr. Sublett says. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • Sapphire, who taught teenagers in Harlem from the early '80s to the early' 90s, formed this book upon what she saw around her. Archive 2009-11-01
  • Some feminists today debate whether women who dance around poles are liberated or enslaved, which is, to my mind (and to others), an updated version of the 1980s sex wars around which feminists of different stripes established their positions on porn," I tried. Deborah Siegel: Sex Wars Old and New
  • When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.
  • A part of me wants to snuggle up against his side and let him loop a lazy arm around my shoulders, but another part knows that I can't.
  • The dregs of humanity strewn around me. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dr Dewes hoped the exhibition would be shown around the world once it closed in Christchurch in November.
  • B , Power Doppler image showing circumferential blood flow around the tumor.
  • In the case of meat sheep versus wool sheep, wool is usually around $10 a kilo, and meat $2 a kilo.
  • After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come.
  • They will be left-hand drive and should be priced around 33,000 when they arrive next year. The Sun
  • Unlike Church, Turing developed his disproof of Hilbert's conjecture around the conception of a hypothetical machine which would decide the truth of statements by a set of well-defined sequential operations.
  • His hair was starting to gray around the edges, and his eyes were sunken, hidden away behind bags and wrinkles that were now forming.
  • And a gigantic cock salmon of around 44 lb was also landed in November during hatchery broodstock collection.
  • Your mother's will most likely transfers property to the revocable trust, rather than the other way around, in case she failed to transfer something to the trust prior to her death.
  • And, to be honest, he did not seem to be that agile as he moved around stage.
  • An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
  • Suddenly an arm hooked around my neck.
  • The activity centres around the big top in Stockton High Street offering free all day entertainment with live broadcasts and personal appearances.
  • I suspect it's because they make some of the most amazing, anthemic, inspiring music around today.
  • A rail system can reroute traffic around destroyed tracks, repair sections of damaged rail, or even transfer freight from boxcars to trucks.
  • I've followed this story from the time Blaise and her boyfriend went galavanting around Marseilles, when you and your husband were desperately trying to find them both and fearing the worst. Une plaie - French Word-A-Day
  • He stood up, looked down at me consideringly for a moment, then walked around the table, extended his hand, and drew me to my feet. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Isn't she that annoying bimbo with the tinny voice who constantly hangs around him?
  • Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house. Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
  • Instead of carrying the nation's hopes, he has an albatross around his neck. Times, Sunday Times
  • Writing around the time Beecher wrote, Elizabeth Cady Stanton also found differences between women's and men's moralities.
  • One end of the clay cord was formed into a loop and fastened with a smaller coil of clay wrapped around it.
  • They hunt for camel meat by putting land mines around the region's brackish waterholes.
  • I was in a beautiful and cushy room, with maroon painted walls and plush chairs all around.
  • Sir Stuart expected 240 men to join the priesthood, plus around 220 women.
  • You run around the garden scooping air into the open end and then you tie a knot. Times, Sunday Times
  • They're usually the ones who've been around for a while, and they usually manage with the barest minimum of speaker support.
  • I moved slowly, feeling soft fabric around me, though my body pained me.
  • These aetherial lines of force stretch out into space on every side of the sun, and in fact form concentric magnetic shells around the sun; which magnetic shells coincide with the equipotential surfaces of the Aether and Gravitation
  • Sterling was darting around, looking for pockets of space, but missing a glorious chance from close range. Times, Sunday Times
  • I could skip around the postings and suss out what I wanted.
  • It is estimated that up to 1,200 people have land on the road's route, which covers an area of around 800 acres.
  • Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
  • The road itself twisted and contorted as much as the river as it dodged through and around clusters of trees and boulders: indigenous and erratics.
  • Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
  • The muppet was then slid down to the eye of the hook so that it formed a skirt around the top of the squid bait.
  • I expect comics to come and be prepared and I expect them not to stand around chinwagging with each other while people are onstage working.
  • We have a bunch of Wackadoo doos, who cannot accept that this Black man is the President of the United States and who are going around claiming that he is an undocumented alien and basically suggesting that he arrived at the presidency unlegimately. Police group: Obama should apologize
  • Oh, yes, they make those weird, two-wheel gizmos you have to stand on that you see Kevin James riding around in in his latest movie Paul Bart : Mall Cop - it's a comedy.
  • The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
  • People who have pledged their lives to fighting Islamic extremism, when asked about Charles Johnson now, unsheathe a word they do not throw around lightly ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Comparing Left and Right Blogospheres
  • He wasn't a large man, and had never been the sporty type, so there were no golf clubs or baseball bats lying handily around, and the notion of overpowering a hulking burglar with the meagre physical means at his disposal was laughable. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
  • Around 4.30pm a big four-engined airliner flew over.
  • The only time I have done them is for older teenagers with congenitally missing back teeth (with the baby tooth still there at that age) whose only cosmetic option is the porcelain fused to metal crown (those run around $800 or more each) and usually necessitates a pulpal treatment as well due to the small tooth size, and these crowns having a questionable prognosis in baby teeth. White Crowns For Baby Teeth
  • We spent a misty day walking through the forests around Forsmark, where the newly fallen snow held the paw prints of lynx and the big M-shaped hoof marks of moose.
  • As they turned around, Cary ducked into a cave to avoid being seen.
  • The three of them continued to circle around each other in the endless waltz of the aerial battle.
  • There were electric lamps around the edges of the room, but in the space at the front of the church there was a huge candelabrum.
  • Queensland Orienteering Association development officer Liz Bourne says that probably more than any other sport orienteering has suffered from the loss of bushland, particularly around Brisbane.
  • When standing on the dancefloor, I could have been in any typical club around Leicester Square or Piccadilly Circus… plenty of drunks, try-hards, sleazes, idiots, and easy girls all packed in.
  • Bars around the lions den were said to have been missing and a probe has begun. The Sun
  • Based on the analyse of the magnetic around the wire line circuit, we design a logical structure to make sure the accuracy of GMR sensor.
  • In fact the people that were chosen for management were usually total screwups and were dangerous around such equipment and aircraft..usually their day consisted of walking around asking the mechanics, “Are you done yet?” smoking cigarettes and generally just collecting a paycheck. Think Progress » Under Fire, ABC Yanks Official Blog of 9/11 Docudrama
  • While contemplating the possibility that the Baraita is a Karaite forgery intended to attack rabbinic Judaism, Horowitz finally opted for a rabbinic origin, and concluded that it was composed around the fourth century, in Palestine. Baraita de-Niddah.
  • Jack put his arm around her and she sighed, rolled over and tucked herself in against his body.
  • The town has rebuilt its economy around aerospace, telecommunications, and manufacturing.
  • A joyful date to keep in mind and make a note of, is when a birthday comes around to you.Thank you for your love which makes our home warm and beautiful.It is only with you that I find true contentment. Nothing will ever come between us.Happy birthday to you!
  • In ‘Amphibians,’ the tortoises arranged around the shell-like form vary in size gradually.
  • Yes, it drubs the Corolla, but the current Corolla has been around since the Earth cooled (2006). Brand-New and Almost Out of Date
  • I was on the driveway yesterday jumping around on my pogo stick.
  • She recounts in detail her nervousness around him, her supposedly dangerous fascination with his charm.
  • For the entire night we walked around in circles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Later translated into Latin by Boethius around 500 AD, Aristotle’s influence spread throughout Syria and Islam whilst Christian Europe ignored him in favour of Plato.
  • At around $1,195 it sounds expensive, until you realize your grandchildren will still be using it long after you've turned into dust and are part of the backstop at your local range.
  • There were several kids lolling around outside the club.
  • Gwen flashed an angry look at her and went around her to the door, shutting it tightly behind her.
  • This is the more surprising given the many build-up signs anticipating much greater outbursts of millenarian fervor around the year 2000.
  • Liadan questions her boyfriend as she shifts the picture around the page of her scrapbook.
  • Hopefully not by me. * hint hint, prod prod* I should probably get around to subbing those in-game movies too. Anime Nano!
  • I looked around my prekindergarten classroom and had to laugh.
  • Lou's car turned around, and sped off down the quiet dark street as Ted stood under the glow of a lamp post, reflecting on all that had happened that night.
  • Puffas/ subzero parkas are fine if you're sitting around doing nothing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Around lunchtime we stopped in Christchurch, which is a much larger city than I had expected. Stonetable.org » 2003 » December
  • I answered, clutching at the hem of my oversized jersey as a cold draft blew around my exposed legs.
  • The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
  • She took a leather strap and buckled it around my wrist, attaching the dagger to it, pulling the sleeve down to conceal the weapon.
  • The poor little mite was obviously distressed and was hobbling around on its good leg, often resting on the ground.
  • The airy Atrium café is an ingenious use of ‘yard space’ and has become a fulcrum around which the centre rotates, serving affordable gourmet food cooked on the premises, prepared by top chefs.
  • We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
  • I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.
  • Correlation of the two regions (Wales and Spain) is achieved by ammonite biostratigraphy; however, the correlation is complicated by diachrony in the ammonite zones, especially around the Pliensbachian / Toarcian boundary.
  • I basically look at the game as a parkour simulation with a story wrapped around it, and the aim of parkour is to get from one place to another as fast as possible. Scattershot On My Way Out
  • But queuing at a car park for an hour to slog around the shops is not my idea of the perfect weekend. The Sun
  • Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
  • IMO the all around best gun of the bunch is the SBE. Where I turkey hunt is very hilly and requires a lot of hiking. I'm looking for the lighest 12 ga.
  • He could feel himself changing, deep inside, he could feel his innards moving around, readjusting, transforming.
  • Kelvin surmounted this problem by running a single wire along his machine that went around each wheel, so that the combined effects of all wheels would be represented by the motion at the end of the wire.
  • All he failed to do was twirl his shirt around his head. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some used it as an opportunity to potter around doing chores. Times, Sunday Times
  • How much the world revolves almost entirely around the male gaze. Times, Sunday Times
  • Mrs. Lopez wheeled around and whispered something in Eddie's ear.
  • What began as a rubber tyre and components importer in the late 1980s has now grown to a serious farm machinery enterprise based around its "remanufactured" low-hour second hand North Queensland Register - Front Page
  • If you get tired one day, you will see my smile as long as you turn around.

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