How To Use Bent In A Sentence

If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
Traditional methods for liquid or semiliquid fecal incontinence management, such as the use of absorbent briefs/pads, skin cleansers, and moisturizers, are only moderately successful in alleviating the consequences of fecal incontinence. New Data Shows Budget Impact of Fecal Management System in Hospital ICU
Stink gases in sewage farm of oil refinery pollute environment and influence scent of people. Adsorbents can be used to deodorize the stink gases.
The scorched surface should be covered with this liniment and then with a layer of borated gauze or absorbent cotton, to protect from the air. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
To make such a rectangular and austere space appropriate for music, walls are treated with acoustic plaster and ceilings are absorbent too.

The openings permit solid and semi-solid bodily exudates to pass through the top sheet to the absorbent core as the diaper is worn.
The solution obtained by dissolving the absorbent albuminoid in the buffer advantageously contains 6% by weight of this albuminoid.
Walls were blotted with absorbent paper before being lowered into the oil.
Sampling of gases and vapors by active sampling on a solid adsorbent or passive sampling by diffusion is routinely done and well documented.
After the seacock or gate valve is closed, remove the hose temporarily so that it drains and then use an absorbent cloth or turkey baster to eliminate any residual water in the nipple.
Gallorum; quod tot lites et causae forenses, aliae ferantur ex aliis, in immensum producantur, et magnos sumptus requirant unde fit ut juris administri plerumque nobilium possessiones adquirant, tum quod sumptuose vivant, et a mercatoribus absorbentur et splendissime vestiantur, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
In Caudipteryx, four procumbent teeth are present in each premaxilla, but the rest of the skull is edentulous. The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view
Generally speaking, I tend not to get too bent out of shape by occasional rhetorical howlers.
But his police career ended in a welter of accusations that in order to obtain results, he hadn't just bent the rules, he'd twisted them out of shape.
In the northern Bering and southern Chukchi Seas, primary production occurs over a shallow shelf (50 to 200 m) and as the zooplankton and bacterioplankton cannot fully deplete this carbon source, it is either transferred to the benthos or advected downstream [17]. Carbon cycle and climate change in the Arctic
In one, a rear view, Tritia was bent over the back of a couch, offering to the camera a perfect shot of her white untanned ass. Baby Games
All 79 patients were seronegative for the HIV antibody by the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
He's bent on suicide.
This so-called "truncation" of the collection process calls for a redefinition of the duties incumbent on the holder and collecting and drawee banks and have been specifically addressed in the proposed legislation. ANC Daily News Briefing
Rio Algom issued units consisting of 25 common shares and a Debenture in the principal amount of $2,000.
Its curved frame suggests almost a modern reinterpretation of the bentwood chair.
The spoon had been bent into such a shape that would provide louder clanging, and the pot was misshapen, being dented in many places.
Lets hope her constituents rise up in the next election and oust this unqualified and opportunitistic showboater who only won by running against an unpopular and dying incumbent. Archive 2009-08-01
Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat. Maurice Guest
‘Don't ever do that again,’ he said quietly, his words gentle caresses against her ear as he bent down to reach her face.
Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
The head of the humerus is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity, by means of a small ligament, and it consists of a rounded epiphysis composed of spongy cartilage, the humerus itself is bent outward and forward, and it is articulated with its (glenoid?) cavity by its side, and not in a straight line. Instruments Of Reduction
I remember on this occasion of our last sugar bush in Minnesota, that I stood one day outside of our hut and watched the approach of a visitor -- a bent old man, his hair almost white, and carrying on his back a large bundle of red willow, or kinnikinick, which the Indians use for smoking. Indian Boyhood
Then as now, a majority of the electorate disapproved of the incumbent's performance.
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Qui omnem pecuniarum contemptum habent, et nulli imaginationis totius munsi se immiscuerint, et tyrannicas corporis concupiscentias sustinuerint hi multoties capti a vana gloria omnia perdiderunt. Anatomy of Melancholy
By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
She felt it incumbent upon/on her to raise the subject at their meeting.
I filled him up with tarry spunyarn, nailed sheet copper round him, bent some parts in the fire; and we are paying-in without more trouble now. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin
Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
A change in anyone's government gets far more attention than an election that returns the incumbent government to office.
Here Bentham clearly ascribes the felicific tendency to action tokens, and he equates an action's felicific tendency with the extent to which it promotes utility. Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy
He becomes less a magician and more and more not only an illusionist of increasing power, but one bent on tormenting his audience rather than entertaining them.
His evil spirit is awa i 'puir' Brownie's 'body, bent on Border Ghost Stories
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Earth is such a beautiful, unique, unbelievably complex planet and yet humans are simply hellbent on destroying it and everything on it. Death by Plastic
By this action, the highly elastic axis must be bent at the lower extremity, where it is naturally slightly curved; and I imagine it is by this elasticity alone that the zoophyte is enabled to rise again through the mud. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
* Quod si in hoc erro, quod animos hominum immortales esse credam, libenter erro, nec mihi hunc errorem quo delector, dum vivo, extorqueri volo; sin mortuus, ut quidam minuti philosophi censent, nihil sentiam, non vereor ne hunc errorem meum mortui philosophi irrideant: [784] 1 The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 08.
Second, there is an additive in that anthrax, bentonite, which is used to cause the anthrax to not stick together, and float in the air. Hullabaloo
However, of late I've taken to using a bentwood chair on set, but I am writing my next film so I'll be getting the old chair out again.
Habent verò scuta de viminibus, aut de virgulis facta. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
Jahn glanced at his chopsticks, bento lunch, and then gave him an exasperated look.
As you may be aware I am the Speaker of the House of Commons and it is incumbent upon me to honour and uphold the noble traditions of the House.
Well, then, I'll get the port cable bent and the anchor a-cockbill ready for lettin 'go before touchin' the canvas. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
I would suggest that if they are bent on breaking Bengal they may opt for joining Sikkim which is a state comprising of Nepalese, Gorkhas, Bhutias, Lepchas and some other mongoloid ethnic groups. Is Gorkhaland Movement Entering a Phase of Violence?
Obviously, being one of the most famous Indians in the world didn't help Naipaul curry favour with Indian babudom bent on mindless application of rules. The Times of India
But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
A plain surface of benty turf lay before him, bright in the moonlight, dangerous to cross, upon which a few sheep came and went. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Marine sponges are an essential and highly diverse component of marine benthic communities, ranging from the euryhaline estuarine, to intertidal, to the deep-sea.
Tim Holden won his last race with 51 percent in a newly reapportioned district against another incumbent.
Three types of soils, residual soils, kaolinite and bentonite, were used in the study.
“His face was pale, his figure wasted and bent, and his expression dejected and nervous; one might have taken him for a walking shadow. Musicians of To-Day
Bent double in a jolting droshky, I kept asking myself whether I should tell Varia all as it was, or go on deceiving her, and little by little turn her heart from Andrei ... The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
Most lawyers are frustrated writers, actors, comedians or performers of some bent or another.
Bent reeds, evenly spaced, protrude upwards.
There is another way to weigh this trend, however: maybe readers and viewers are not so much growing insular as searching for meaning in a vast universe of fact and factoid, and embracing a political bent is one way of organizing it.
I hope his 2012 campaign ads avoid racial incitement by only saying “reelect the incumbent.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking ObamaCare Challenges Seriously
In addition, she changed the exercise equipment in the club bringing in treadmills, recumbent bikes and ellipticals that were more comfortable for the women, most of whom were new to exercising.
The soldier bellowed and bent over in pain, but still held onto Cairn to the best of his abilities.
Mandatum decimum haec verba exhibent [Non concupisces proximi tui domum, non concupisces proximi tui uxorem, non servum, non ancillam, non bovem, non asinum, neque aliud denique quicquam quod est proximi tui]. The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
Meysman et al. also assign a "revolutionary" position to bioturbation in the grand scheme of evolution: "Benthic fauna had to adapt to the newly emerging bioturbated sediment conditions, thereby fuelling the 'Cambrian explosion'". Bioturbation all around you
They left the _furca_ and the _patibulum_, the axe and the rods, to great offenders: for these minor and (if I may so term them) extra-moral offences _the bent thumb_ was considered as a sufficient sign of disapprobation, -- _vertere pollicem_; as _the pressed thumb, premere pollicem_, was a mark of approving. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863
One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
By releasing Tectonics, Freeland showed the world that UK breakbeat meant much more than the cheesy sounds of Fatboy Slim, Chemical Brothers and the completely horrible Bentley Rhythm Ace.
When the patient is recumbent you should raise his head to about 45 degrees, if that is possible.
The occurrence of trees with decumbent stem form was also noted and leaning of the stem from a vertical posture was visually assessed.
James being freed by the peace from all other cares, bent his attention to the conclusion of a matrimonial alliance, which he had during the last year been attempting.
It would entrench the position of incumbent institutions that are already too large and too diverse.
Present castle incumbent Peter Frost-Pennington is a stoic, sensible Scot, who likes to keep an open mind on spectral matters, but readily admits a recent flurry in phantom phenomena has been pretty good for business.
If the catkins remain dormant when the pistillate flowers bloom, they have been winterkilled, and the bent down reserves have to be called up. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
But we cannot just resort to blaming the present incumbents for our circumstances.
Five Dem incumbents there are in jeopardy due to a GOP redistricting plan.
Her leg was bent at an unnatural angle.
'This house will do whatever is incumbent upon it in good conscience,' said the abbot with chilly emphasis, and watched with an unrevealing face as Drogo Bosiet, with only the curtest of nods by way of leavetaking, turned on his booted heel and strode out of the chapterhouse. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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Sed quando plene habent dominium super eos, si aliquid promiserunt eis nihil obseruant: sed quascunque possunt congrue occasiones inueniunt contra eos. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
He could possibly replace the Republican incumbent, who is not seeking reelection.
Bentonite, which was modified by anion - cation surface - active agent , is succeeded in applying to organic wastewater treatment.
WE have a hard enough time making our minds up over three basically the same parties (ys, when it comes right down to it ... no social programs are touched by any party. .healthcare, UI, and CPP) But if we had the "excitment" of the American style politics up here, most people would say we have become Americans and get all bent out of shape. CTV News RSS Feed
Bent double under their loads, the savants spend hours unpacking and repacking their sacks whenever they meet each other.
Holding a barbell, stand with your knees slightly bent, your chest out and your back slightly arched.
The main body was streamline, ending in a rounded point, with something that looked like a long, thick black loop that had been bent around the back and almost reached the point attached at various points.
The left winglet had torn away, leaving a jagged stump, the left wing had bent upward, and along its upper surface some of the skin was separating from the internal structure. William Langewiesche on the Amazon air crash
Fort Benton, the great distribution center, the head of navigation for the vast Montana Territory as well as Canada, was fast losing out to the incoming railroads, which in turn were putting the big freighting outfits out of business.
He bent forward and laid a kiss softly upon her forehead.
Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
But, most of these figures have a limited range of posture, with the bent head, suggesting defeat, or failure.
That is typical of Bent, uncrushed by disappointment, enthusiastic even in adversity, and not at all ready to give up on his England dream. Darren Bent: Missing out on World Cup squad hurt like hell
Although I wasn't in the habit of talking to strangers, he didn't seem sketchy, so I walked over to the car and bent down to get to his eye level.
The screening test is called an ELISA enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. THE LUPUS HANDBOOK FOR WOMEN
I know it is somewhat uneventful, but I should point out that should one of the pins get bent, you are going to have a heck of a time unbending it, as the pins are extremely closely spaced together and quite tiny.
Trevelyan himself was present, bent with age, his musty gown fraying at the edges - emblematic, I remember thinking, of an old order passing.
But the publisher I had at the time (the late Mr. George Bentley) assured me that if I wrote another 'spiritualistic' book, I should lose the public hearing I had just gained. The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance
Saggitas habent alias ad sagittandum aues bestias et homines inermes ad trium digitorum latitudinem. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Weird milky eyes with no pupil, limbs too long for their thin boniness, and they ... bent. Asimov's Science Fiction
One can also find differences in the attitudes of the professionals depending on their ideological bent.
I think if we are going to have these high alerts in the future, I think it is incumbent on the attorney general to give us more information.
Now they are bent to the task of creating the first Nigerian pages on the university's Web server.
It is said that when one of the incumbent ministers asked his superiors for an additional bathroom for the house, he was given the choice of that or the services of a precentor (praise leader) for the church.
Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
On the death of the incumbent baron in 1965, the title passed to Elizabeth / Ewan, who, by dint of a paper ‘sex change’, was now the male heir to the barony.
A challenger must come into the open and secure swift support across all wings of the party against the incumbent.
Julio Lugo is the incumbent shortstop, but young Adam Everett could push him out. USATODAY.com - 7. Atlanta Braves
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These filters are normally used to clarify the products of settled grape juice or wine, such as lees after crushing, pressing, and settling, and the residue of finings such as bentonite.
The plot is that the parole officer witnesses a murder committed by a bent copper.
It's the same reason U.S. airlines shy away from adding service in rival airline's fortress hubs -- the bigger incumbent can outmatch you in flights and fares to protect its markets, and likely has many business travelers locked into frequent flier programs and corporate contracts. For Fliers, 'Open Skies' Start Is Slow
The incumbent president faces problems which began many years before he took office.
In the Hampton Roads region Tuesday, Rep. Glenn Nye (D) swung from a 5-point win over an incumbent two years ago to an 11-point loss against auto dealer Scott Rigell (R). Democrats took a bruising, but state's still in 'purple' territory
The incumbents often behave badly towards new entrants. Times, Sunday Times
As he walked back through the kitchen, he bent over and flipped up the loose hinge on the doorless oven. The Suicider (draft)
The presence of other specialized benthos at the crinoid-bearing localities indicates that the ocean bottom locally was not fully anoxic.
In return for such a privilege we implicitly acknowledge that there are reciprocal obligations incumbent upon us.
The Cambrian fossil record suggests that many metazoans were macroscopic and adapted for life in the macrobenthos.
Bentley conjectured AVERSO for _aduerso_, and the two words are obviously prone to interchange: compare _Tr_ I iii 45 (of Ovid's wife, after his departure) 'multaque in auersos [_Heinsius_: aduersos _codd_] effudit uerba Penates' and the variations among the manuscripts at The Last Poems of Ovid
Pelo menos os miudos rebentam de energia, o que nos contagia um bocadinho mas só um bocadinho. Névoas de um segundo dia
Joe Trippi is right, the Republicans are hell bent on destroying the presidency, not in cooperating to move the country forward. Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter
Celia hired an administrator whose name was Nigel Bentley.
No inversion can, therefore, really take place in anatropous ovules, but the blade of the leaf is bent back on the funicle, with which its margins also cohere. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
Long-tem change in benthopelagic fish abundance in the abyssal northeast Pacific Ocean. Bottom-up control
He's not nasty, cruel or bent on taking over the world.
So I caught one of the hands that were lying limply on the coverlet, bent forward and said softly, reprovingly: "You silly young muggins, why did you go and do a daft thing like that? Fear is the Key
The first was the incumbent wetland flora with origins in the early Carboniferous.
Despite the shortage of qualified dhammaduta monks, scattered across the West there are a few Theravada viharas and Buddhist centres whose incumbents, in their own quiet and non-assertive way, are working to spread the Dhamma.
I have seen an etheromaniac at forty-one a wizened, bent, decrepit, and tottering old man.
But it appeared to be the incumbent who will gain any political advantage.
The house special bento box is $8.95 and comes with four pieces of fresh and firm nigiri sushi, a nice salad, some fresh and light tempura, and teriyaki chicken.
She bent down to pick up her glove.
What's in the water that makes Bay Area foodies hell-bent on feeding the world safe & healthy food (carried in non-plastic bags handstitched by non-corporations)? Annie Spiegelman: Eating Green: An Interview with Helge Hellberg About the Rising Food Movement
Some people seem hell-bent on misinterpreting you, even people you thought weren't inclined to having jerky knees.
Vnde quum equitant plures domin� simul et videntur � longe, apparent milites, habentes galeas in capitibus cum lanceis eleuatis. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
During the first two years of the Obama administration, businesses often complained of what they described as an anticorporate bent among federal regulators. U.S. Backs Down on Work Noise, Medical Devices
Such institutions were thinly disguised agents of a superstate bent on subverting or displacing private enterprise, particularly in the generation of hydroelectric power.
Around this time in every midterm election cycle, the vultures of political prognostication begin hovering over incumbents in trouble.
With characteristic energy he bent his efforts to the immediate development and improvement of the land, which he converted into a fine farm that he cultivated throughout his remaining days.
Tamara, without haste, with a pin refastens the fabric more conveniently on her knee, smooths the seam down with the thimble, and speaks, without raising the narrowed eyes, her head bent just Yama: the pit
First, the effects of dry density, bentonite percentage and bentonite grain distribution on its permeability were studied.
The rod bent double, the reel shrieked and ratcheted.
She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.
Legem etiam siue consuetudinem habent occidendi virum et mulierem quos in adulterio inuenirent manifest�. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense - unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
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He defeated the incumbent governor by a large plurality.
Indeed, this be of that which is incumbent on us, O King, and I say, ‘Praised be Allah!’ in that He hath guerdoned thee with His gifts and vouchsafed thee of His mercy, the welfare of the realm; and hath succoured thee and ourselves, on condition that we increase in gratitude to Him; and all this no otherwise than by thine existence! The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This contains a thin, flat strip made of a layer of iron and a layer of brass soldered together, and bent into a coil.
Rather than playing a hero on his way up, Chow casts himself as a no-good beggar bent on joining a Shanghai gang.
Sticking with the fish, they are often served whole with the head and tail bent towards one another like a circle or symbol of eternity.
And the incumbent governor of Mississippi is a Democrat.
It's incumbent on you to advise your son before he leaves home.
The worker is fully bent on the project.
There are carriages on their side, bent and twisted and there are bogies [wheels] all over the place.
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She was bent over the bridge videoing a gondola as it floated down the canal.
But, being unaccustomed to existence as a dragon, by the time the lambent flame burst from his cavernous mouth, Natieasdo had disappeared, taking Lationae with him.
Short in proportion to the Corolla tho wide or bulky; the Style is very long or longer than the stamens, simple, cilindrical, bowed or bent upwards, placed on the top of the germ, membranous shrivels and falls off when the pericarp has obtained it's full Size. the Stigma is three clefts very manute and pubescent. the pericarp is a capsule, triangular, oblong, obtuse, and trilocular with three longitudinal valves. the Seed So far as I could judge are noumerous not very manute and globilar. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
A fountain of sparks spurted up, falling in a shower around the boy, bent over in concentration.
Bonds that pledge no collateral are called debentures.
The presence of ‘rue’ in ‘untrue’ would have appealed to a poet of Southwell's microcosmic bent, and his choice suggests that he was a careful and aware rhymer.
Omnia philtra etsi inter se differant, hoc habent commune, quod hominem efficiant melancholicum. epist. Anatomy of Melancholy
Mark took the paperclip from her hand and unbent it.
Favore apud nos et gratia plerumque res agitur; et qui commodum aliquem nacti sunt intercessorem, aditum fere habent ad omnes praefecturas. Anatomy of Melancholy
The folds or parts are to be kept from contact by means of lint or absorbent cotton; thin, flat bags of cheese cloth or similar material partly filled with dusting-powder, and kept clean by frequent changes, are excellent for this purpose, and usually curative. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
The elderly couple stared up at the towering weathered granite, a huge monolith that lay across the desert country like a recumbent lion.
Undefended Buddhist monasteries, often containing valuable treasures, proved irresistible targets to raiders bent on booty in the name of holy war.
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Free entry and exit enables a potential entrant to adopt hit-and-run behaviour whenever the incumbent shows any signs of making above-normal profits.
Our swaggering demon is resolute until agile Laksman climbs on his foe's bent thigh to deliver a walloping strike that sends Intorachit reeling.
With this clue we recognise that the big pink splodge that occupies the rest of the paper must be Venus - Twombly's inept attempt to paint a recumbent nude; if, however, we read the breasts as heads, the splodge could equally well be interpreted as the lovers sexually engaged, the detached penis now a superfluous synecdochism. Evening Standard - Home
His tall, gaunt, black-robed form was bent over the center of the circle, absorbed in something that only he could see.
Citheras et vielas nostras non vidi ibi, sed multa alia instrumenta, quæ apud nos non habentur. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
She had bent down to help a little black boy tie his shoes.
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a shell and her cotton bulkheads ignited, but the crew of the Benton, who boarded her, succeeded in extinguishing the fire. The Civil War In America.
Traxi moram in Cambalu tribus annis: fratres nostri locum habent in Curia sua specialiter, et festis diebus statutis dant benedictionem, Odericus. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
What actually happened, was that a key Senate race swung from the Democratic incumbent to the Republican challenger, when Saxby Chambliss attacked Max Cleland for obstruction. Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable
The metal slips a little, but locks in the double knot at crooks he's bent with the pliers.
The researchers also added a special 'sorbent' material to trap all the carbon dioxide produced, leaving them with pure hydrogen gas. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Research requires an inquisitive and independent bent, and rewards these talents handsomely.
JUVENALtS Sldera te excipiant modo prlmos incipientcm 19 f Edere vagitus; & adhuc a matre rubentem. A. Persii Flacci et Dec. Jun. Juvenalis satirae: Ad optimas editiones ...
Weapons were lowered, bows unbent, and arrows put back in their quivers. THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN
It is made of fine twine (one-inch mesh), preferably from the bark of one of the fig-trees or the brown kurrajong, tightly stretched on two pieces of lawyer-cane each bent to form the half of an irregular ellipse. Tropic Days
His right hand, clenched into an iron mallet, battered desperately at the fearful face bent toward his; the beast-like teeth shattered under his blows and blood splattered, but still the red eyes gloated and the taloned fingers sank deeper and deeper until a ringing in Turlogh's ears knelled his soul's departure. People of the Dark
The inner layer is made from a natural absorbent fiber called Tencel that is derived from Eucalyptus wood pulp. Backpacking Light Magazine
Chain mail alternated with steel plates that had been bent around the knight seamlessly so as not to impede his movement.
His eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he saw veils of moving smoke, lighter shapes that suggested vast nudities, then rows of bent heads with blurred outlines. Death in Ecstasy
Hamper bent to Dunbar and whispered, beerily, in his ear: "P'r'aps 'e don't want to' ear, guv'nor! The Yellow Claw
I could see from the way his sea rod bent right over that it was not an insignificant tiddler but, rather, something of worth.
They range from the chamber music of the Clarinets, a woodwind trio with Mr. Noriega and Anthony Burr, to the instrumental rock of My Ears Are Bent, an ensemble project led by keyboardist Ted Reichman that features guitarist Mary Halvorson. Dancing in the Swirl of Skirl
The importance of presentation is equally apparent on a smaller scale, in the famous Japanese bento box (for a lunch or picnic).
The chlorosis is another disease owing to the deficient action of the absorbents of the liver, and perhaps in some degree also to that of the secretory vessels, or glands, which compose that viscus. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Magnatum scrinia; veni, per Noctis & tenebrarum abdita profundissima; per labentia sydera; per ipsos motus horarum furtivos, Hecatesq [ue] altum silentium! Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
Jason bent over and kissed her on the temple of her forehead.
Yet chemical analysis has clearly proved that the manurial value of straw is perfectly insignificant, and that, as a constituent of stable manure, it is chiefly useful as an absorbent of the liquid egesta of the animals littered upon it. The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock
The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.
She planted her feet wide and bent her knees slightly.

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