How To Use Awl In A Sentence

  • “‘Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after I’ve spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that I’ll be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Chapter 14
  • Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
  • The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.
  • Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • The two leads give crackerjack performances, their timing, dynamism and interaction almost flawless.
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  • Big Brother will now know every financial tidbit about you, every ATM withdrawl, account deposit, creditcard charge, what you bought .... Senate's Wall Street bill in homestretch
  • They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse. The Waverley
  • Carol sprawls out on the bed as Simon tears off his cast triumphantly and sketches her, again and again.
  • I found a refreshing absence of industrial sprawl.
  • Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
  • Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
  • And there is plenty of food here-both the trawls and acoustic surveys have revealed an abundant supply of myctophid lanternfish, the most common prey eaten by large Humboldt squid in these waters in other years. Scientific American
  • Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book. Introduction
  • We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
  • On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
  • A reduction in the days that vessels can spend at sea means trawlers fish harder near their home ports. Times, Sunday Times
  • In his dreams she wore a blue satin frock with a burgundy shawl, or a pink silk pelisse, or a white crinoline.
  • The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
  • The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness.
  • The fact that his acting was flawless in every way while talking to his other ... gv 2010 Academy Awards Winners | /Film
  • Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
  • Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
  • The service is flawless; and every employee you pass in the corridor greets you with the unstudied politeness that is the hallmark of a great hotel.
  • Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
  • The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
  • More important in MMA is skills, fast hips, a good sprawl, well rounded skill and natural genetics. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 6402
  • The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
  • It would be wonderful to crawl into bed, to ask Matron for an aspirin.
  • So, no need to trawl the high street! The Sun
  • When she returned she redressed her hair, drawing it back across her ears, put in at a provocative angle a fan-like carved shell comb, and twisted a shawl of flame-colored silk -- it was a manton, she instructed him -- about her shoulders. Cytherea
  • We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
  • No fighting style remains a mystery to Hopkins inside the ring and he can box with you or brawl - it does not matter.
  • That allowed him to adjust and adapt his sprawling tale. Times, Sunday Times
  • For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws. Times, Sunday Times
  • Observe live bugs and even hold the creepy-crawlies in your hands. Times, Sunday Times
  • That's one of the main Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. WN.com - Articles related to EU navy arrests 13 pirates off Oman
  • Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
  • The ending of secure tenancies could have a bigger impact on the demography of London than the creation of the new towns," she says, recalling the creation of places such as Basildon, Crawley and Harlow that were filled with people flowing out of the capital. Angry and insecure – the renting Britons with no hope of buying a home
  • Gesturing with one fleshy, clawless manus toward his shorter, more cranially hairy companion, he added, And this is my senior diplomatic officer, Commander Deanna Troi. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
  • It came in a steady flood from Fang to me and, through me, to all the creepy-crawly things I could hurl at the ground and at the concrete, at the brick, and at the stone. Crossed
  • The designer goods are in there, but they must be ferreted out of mass quantities stacked on undifferentiated shelves in an encompassing sprawl.
  • The genetic trawl will not be looking for physical characteristics, such as colouring or height, but at particular genes that were thought to be common in Vikings.
  • The political anarchy (disorder) of the 1970s and 1980s has led to lawlessness in parts of the country.
  • The station is so sprawling and packed with vehicles that it took longer than usual for Discovery to be tightly cinched down. Discovery arrives at space station
  • She put on a shawl and told Denver and Beloved to do likewise.
  • So, no need to trawl the high street! The Sun
  • He sat at the opposite side of the table from Nero, his expression unreadable due to the fact that his face was concealed by a smooth oval mask of flawless black glass. The Overload Protocol
  • The place is crawling with highly trained, professional researchers.
  • There was an old lady who swallowed a crab. why did she grad that crawling crab?
  • Perhaps today's corporate entities are little more than the fishes that have crawled out of the ocean.
  • A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill. Times, Sunday Times
  • His talent is amazing, his superb phrasing and sense of rhythm as flawless as a perfectly cut diamond.
  • The angel's face was luminesced, his skin glowing and perfectly flawless.
  • They are extremely handsome and sensual, and glory in a drunken brawl.
  • It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
  • Last month the Victorian government announced that the number of sawlogs allowed to be pulled out of the State's forests will be cut by a third.
  • It got caught in a trawler's nets and died. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was no time now to call at the hostel so we drove through the sprawling, congested town and out again into the country on dirt tracks. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • And besides, Missy, what are you doing out here without your shawl?
  • Now the number of yawls has increased to twenty-five and the yawl racing competition has become a major tourist attraction on Achill island.
  • She crawled back until she was in the safe cover of a tree, she clutched her arms and let the nausea pass.
  • The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
  • In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog.
  • The main floor of the new building will be level with the main floor of the old hospital, with a crawl space beneath.
  • Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
  • The gym is mine. So you can take your band of yellow-bellied losers and crawl out of here.
  • It was not until 1985 that the law penalized the client for kerb-crawling, even though for many years it had penalized prostitutes for soliciting in the street.
  • One is a broken awl, probably made from the neural spine of a bison vertebra.
  • She had exquisite taste and a flawless grasp of the Court's Byzantine code of conduct.
  • Taskbar is still annoying, everything looks worse than vista, my soundcard still doesn't work (probably creative's fault, but still, it's flawless in vista and 'Buntu), and it actually takes longer to boot than vista for me (or does it need to' mature 'like Vista does?). Windows 7′s Best Underhyped Features | Lifehacker Australia
  • Her clothes were long and loose, the shawl brightly colored and rimmed with tassels.
  • Tuxedo-clad waiters brought champagne and frou-frou hors d' oeuvres to the thousand guests sprawled throughout the grounds.
  • I helped myself to breakfast, doing my best not to spill too many cornflakes and cleaned up afterwards, crawling under the table to chase stray flakes.
  • There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
  • They think they will, and all they will do is make this a much more lawless country. Times, Sunday Times
  • The bridge can be a little confusing when conditions deteriorate, as it is draped in trawl net, but a diver can see and swim inside many parts of it.
  • Straight through her flawless appearance and extraordinary manners I saw an artificial person.
  • Gang tags and general graffiti had been scrawled everywhere a vandal with a spray can could reach.
  • Don't come crawlin to me to feed your sorry butt when the grociery stores fail health inspections and you are starvin while im enjoyin some brunswick stew with deer meat or some rabbit with my home grown salad. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
  • It's more of a crablike backward crawl. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I looked, he was sprawled on his back, legs and arms akimbo, half on the steps, half on the metal landing below. BETTER THAN THIS
  • Nawt ignorinse, I libbed rownd hear awlmost awl my lyfe an nawt nowed bout it til several years ago. EVIL - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The immaculately tended gardens are an oasis in the midst of Cairo's urban sprawl.
  • The tech giant will trawl anonymous confidential data to spot people at risk of kidney disease, blood poisoning and organ failure. The Sun
  • It was only to be the edging on a shawl for her, but he spent three days and two nights on it; and then she asked him to make it over with jack-in-the-pulpit inset, because she was sure to grow tired very soon of Sweet William; then she changed her mind about jack-in-the-pulpit and decided on wintergreen berries. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • The withdrawal of the brigand was a signal for a regular mob of the lawless men to make their appearance. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece
  • Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
  • Why would he wanna crawl after such an insecure, uptight little snot?
  • They no longer have to trawl streets at random with their equipment to find vulnerable homes; they can now purchase software that can identify such households remotely. Times, Sunday Times
  • But there is something very romantic about the notion of the pirate that remains to this day: The skill of two swashbucklers battling on the deck of a ship, the hunt for buried treasure and the thrill of lawlessness.
  • Like much of urban Trinidad, this appears to be a functional if unaesthetic sprawl of small businesses, shops, fast-food outlets, homes, temples, mosques and Hindu prayer flags.
  • Matt visited other cities to investigate how they dealt with kerb crawlers and liaised with their community action teams on the best approach to deal with the problem.
  • And in clubbing Clement Sunday in 1 hour, 46 minutes with a nearly flawless baseline game, Agassi showed he is as strong as ever. USATODAY.com - Agassi, Capriati return to tennis' elite
  • Madison’s Main Street is treasured for its art cinema and an independent bookshop that plays host to top authors and bejewels its heavy wooden cases with staff-scrawled book recommendations. Beauty and the Beach
  • Last June, the 35-year-old had to crawl, slide and drag himself down the mountain for 10 hours to get back to base camp.
  • The audience at a women's meeting last Thursday in a Baghdad hotel wore all manner of clothes, from Western style to headscarves and long shawls.
  • The Upper Series consists of a main passage about 200 metres long, divided into two by a right-angled bend where it connects with The Bye Pass Crawl from the Far Eastern Bedding Plane.
  • Their neighbors are ninja types who are constantly brawling with other evil ninja types.
  • Tall grassland is scattered with hawkweed, ragwort, wild carrot and melilot flowers, along with clumps of bird's-foot trefoil, lucerne and goat's rue, and there are regular uprisings of brambles and wild rose, and sprawls of sallow and birch scrub. Country Diary: Canvey Wick, Essex
  • A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! Act I. Scene I. The Tempest
  • Can she really be as flawless as her complexion? Times, Sunday Times
  • I crawl into my sleeping bag and curl up in a tight ball.
  • Fur hat, fur bag, fur garment, fur material, fur coat, fur knitted, knitwear, fur scarf and shawl, feather, feather product.
  • What seemed like a flawless operation has become a nightmare for the commander and his staff.
  • From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
  • Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed.
  • No sooner the rains began, traffic crawled, trees fell, power tripped and Bangaloreans waded home with a sense of déjà vu.
  • Women wear colorful gathered skirts with aprons and cloth shawls over their shoulders.
  • Many of the men crawl towards the rails, ready to jump into the water to swim ashore.
  • But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawlless to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes. Wuthering Heights
  • I fancy she entertains an 'arriere' idea of proposing her flawless niece Gracey, Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • Sunday we crawled out of bed severely hung over and to the airport ready for our trip home.
  • After all, a graffitist can scrawl an offensive message in seconds.
  • Other sources mention Vlad's determination to bring order in lawless times.
  • Villagers have poured in on either side of the debate over whether to allow the new eatery to open next to the existing Evergreen takeaway in Fawley.
  • So, the dog will be sleeping in a Jawa Sandcrawler. Jawa Sandcrawler Dog House!!!
  • She's stuck!" yelled, or as he himself would put it, "bawled," the Prophet. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour
  • They are a strange family indeed; living in a sprawling house in the greater area of Maine, this family is busting at the seams with not only children, but also every animal under the sun.
  • On Saturday mornings throughout the month of September the ancient tradition of yawl sailing was handed down to a new generation of enthusiasts.
  • August 5, 2008 at 3:09 am lettuce hoap tahts awl teh bebbeh doos Babysitting… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • He stalked over to the pup tent of the recreation tent orderly and bawled him out.
  • Jake crawled onto the bed, groping blindly for the towel he always kept nearby for just these occasions.
  • For my part I had just the strength to crawl into Schomberg’s coffeeroom, where I wrote at a little table a note to the mate instructing him to get everything ready for dropping down the river next day. Falk, by Joseph Conrad
  • The traffic was moving at a slow crawl.
  • Crawlways run as straight as dark directional lines, meeting others in mazy routes that confuse even the most observant caver.
  • The jury did not know he had convictions for kerb-crawling in 1994 and, the following year, for indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.
  • Can she really be as flawless as her complexion? Times, Sunday Times
  • By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises.
  • Typhoon Roke first made landfall in the tourist town of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka prefecture at about 2 p.m. local time Wednesday, knocking over trucks and ripping roofs from homes, then crawled up Japan's Honshu island. Storm Strikes Central Japan
  • Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
  • However, he is best known for his irregularly scrawled phrases on road signs.
  • But giving the state the power to take your vote away because it thinks you aren't smart enough to execute it gives me the creepy-crawlies.
  • He writes taut, thrilling mysteries, delicately set against the backdrop of the sprawling Navajo Reservation.
  • In the working-class saloons that lined the roughest sections of late nineteenth-century Chicago, refusing a man's treat violated rules of plebeian sociability and thus frequently triggered brawls.
  • Almost flawless in his midfield holding role. The Sun
  • But atavistic, or vestigial, geotropism in Genesistrine -- or a million larvae start crawling, and a million little frogs start hopping -- knowing no more what it's all about than we do when we crawl to work in the morning and hop away at night. The Book of the Damned
  • Ai iz remembered ov calls bai ackcitent in RLS, when callz frum office (dial 9 for outside line) to the office/customers in India wood nawt cawl India butt(!) Engage tiny attack mode! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • He tested its balance almost unconsciously: lean too far to either side, and it slowed to acrawl. Achille's Choice
  • Teh hippopotamum iz maykin awl teh mess cuz ai fed him awl yaw shinne fingz. TMI - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • For example, with this dream, I scrawled, "Bill Shunn waste time plastic toy platen. Dreaming of Bill Shunn and the Plastic Typewriter
  • A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory.
  • Zack, all beaming blondness and supersocial to the core, charmed all the guests, crawling on the lawn and the deck, raising his arms to ask people to pick him up. Falling Apart in One Piece
  • These are almost invariably twisty, wet, uneven, covered in spilt diesel, negatively cambered and crawling with fools.
  • Music of the highest nobility crawled forth like toothpaste squeezed from an unending tube. Times, Sunday Times
  • Together they shoot up, play soccer, get into barroom brawls, mug tourists and steal to support their habits.
  • Her work includes giant pieces you can crawl into and a knitted installation. The Sun
  • In this way, Hawley’s goals surpassed those of the Self-Strengthening Movement out of which the C.E.M. had initially sprung and according to which the Chinese mind was, as an essential tenet of that movement, to remain inviolable to external influences. The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
  • The history of the early years following the cession is a sad record of violence and general lawlessness among the white inhabitants, and of deplorable Indian troubles. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • She crawled away from him so fast he was afraid she would go too far and fall off the bed.
  • Wayne, you adorable homophobic mouthbreather you, stop being tiresome and crawl back under your rock. It’s different when Conservatives do it.
  • Throw in what Dorsey took as a snub by Rhodes, and the big fella was ready to brawl from the opening tip. USATODAY.com
  • Jake collapsed into a heap in the grass under the willow and started bawling, grabbing a few tufts of crinkly brown grass and tearing them out by the roots.
  • METHODS: Sprague - Dawley rats received food and water ad libitum in 1 week of acclimation.
  • White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
  • His flesh crawled as if he had a scabies.
  • I scrawled a quick note to Judith and put it under her door.
  • Of course, what happens when a perfectly legitimate emailer is labeled as a spammer by such a system, and their own emails slow to a crawl?
  • His sprawl makes me seem like a silent, precise insect.
  • His proposed solution to the sprawling mess of subtopia was not to restrict building but to increase urban densities. The Times Literary Supplement
  • He is visited by Pat, the black-market scally with retribution on his mind for the loss of the trawling father he never met.
  • Teh cyoot littdlol rackettycoons……butt ! await ! foar deaths awaitz u awl wif nasty bigg pointee teef! adn clawsers too ! Look at us, just look - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • The ghost story made my skin crawl.
  • Sometimes I manage to quit, but then I always come a'crawlin 'back. Jerusha Klemperer: Quitting Soda Cold Turkey
  • I raced back to my room, threw myself on my bed, and bawled like a baby!
  • Fish biologists descend in bathyspheres and submarines to the deepest oceanic canyon, and trawlers scrape up odd saltwater nematodes and mollusks from the bottom sediments.
  • Wind buffeted her, chapping her lips and slowing her crawl.
  • There was instant silence from the dog, although Tony continued his whining bawl in her ear. Western Man
  • Each field is built up of gesso, each layer sanded to a flawless finish, the last one airbrushed smoother than any shell.
  • Therefore the argument which had sprung up between them during dinner had ended by being not so much a duel as a brawl: and while duels with food are both entertaining and eupeptic, brawls are neither. Mrs. Miniver
  • Purrsanlee, ai gettin taired ub callin awl black kittehs “bazement cats” an “ebil”! deys naut! Water is - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Ole Billie Bawlie" found as Number 4 was a little song which was used to deride men who had little ability musically to intonate "calls" and Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study
  • Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
  • He had been in a drunken street brawl.
  • Mr Duddy spent a day stuck on the sheer sides of the cone before managing to crawl out on his own.
  • I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
  • POGGIOLI: A recent report by the International Crisis group think tank says Kosovo appears to be run by what it calls a lawless political elite in control of every aspect of society. Corruption, Poverty Create Political Gloom In Kosovo
  • When an Olympic event incorporates brawling with the paparazzi into its most compelling moments, something has gone horribly wrong.
  • The 33-year-old wrote a program to crawl the Web and download menus from New York eateries.
  • Then they go out into the living room and they watch the news and they try not to bawl their eyes out because monsters do exist. Monsters
  • The lawless country has been torn apart by two decades of civil war. The Sun
  • Randy Krajewski, who plays accordion, bass, concertina, and piano and sings, appears to be the driving force behind this homage, and the band pulls it off nearly flawlessly.
  • Hardwood trees stretched out of sight towards the distant sky; five-fingered orchids crawled up their trunks, and huge ferns spilled over their roots across the mossy path.
  • Her sprawling, comic epic about multi-ethnic Britain, which uncovers a wonderland of magic realism in the London subtopias of Cricklewood Broadway and Willesden, beat a strong shortlist of four other books, all by American writers.
  • Perhaps it would be a little shore crab that betrayed itself by scuffling down amongst the corallite or sea-weed, perhaps a little fierce-looking bristly fish, which shot under a ledge of the rock all amongst the limpets, acorn barnacles, or the thousands of yellow and brown and striped snaily fellows that crawled about in company with the periwinkles and pelican's feet. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore
  • Quite common are northern bur-reed Sparganium hyperboreum, small pondweed Potamogeton pusillus ssp. groenlandicus, dwarf water-crowfoot Ranunculus confervoides and occasionally awlwort Subularia aquatica, which only blooms if the pond is totally desiccated (where the mudworm Limosella aquatica also thrives). Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland
  • A modern and sprawling city which sports imposing government monuments reminiscent of the Washington Mall, Brasilia is also home to the nation's Upper Electoral Court overseeing the nation's presidential election. Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand?
  • The food isn't very good, and the place is crawling with criminals.
  • Their sprawling theme park of paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos amounts to a surprisingly ambitious exhibition.
  • Victims of lathyrism, "crawlers", are numerous among the poor in Ethiopia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal where the affliction remains a present threat. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • If you have a fireplace, get a proper fireguard to put in front of it - those of you with children already crawling will know how fast they can move.
  • They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins. Inflation and War Finance
  • It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground. The Sun
  • 'Yi, lass; we're awlus for patchin' th'Almeety's work; and if He leet us, we's mak 'a sorry mess on it and o'. ' Lancashire Idylls (1898)
  • She wrapped a shawl around her shoulders and peered out at the mountains from the window.
  • Among these many worlds, the underworld of that age was representative of the outrageous, brash and lawless life.
  • As we reached the top floor the elevator doors slid open and, after announcing ourselves, we were ushered into a sprawling office that included the couch on which Quiller-Couch napped after lunch each day. Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
  • He conferred again, and I tried to picture the other side of the screen, with the Rani, sharp-faced and thin in her silk shawl, muttering her instructions to him, and puzzled to myself what the odd persistent noise was that I could hear above the soft pipes of the hidden orchestra - a gentle, rhythmic swishing from beyond the screen, as though a huge fan were being used. Fiancée
  • In addition to ads, the screen saver features the information crawl at the bottom of the screen.

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