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These small exquisitely carved ivory figurines come in an almost limitless variety.
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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.
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The food fares well in terms of freshness, quantity and effort, and there's a made-to-order pasta bar and a station where roast beef is carved before your eyes.
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She watched Luke read it, saw the gathering frown carve two grooves over his aquiline nose.
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The undulating holloway, which has itself sunk through the steady erosion of cartwheels and hooves up to fifteen feet beneath the hillside, translates you from the present into an earlier era when John Nash carved out his woodcuts in English boxwood at the kitchen table under a single lamp-bulb and cultivated the half-wild garden.
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The neo-classical house features a main doorway framed with Ionic pillars and topped by a balustraded balcony complete with carved stone coat of arms.
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His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone.
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Down below, a mass of brank-ursine formed as it were a pedestal, from the midst of which sprang scarlet geum, rhodanthe with stiff petals, and clarkia with great white carved crosses, that looked like the insignia of some barbarous order.
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Officers used a digger to carve out a trench 10ft deep and 40ft long to get to the van.
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Also, they were bound with several bands of intricately carved bronze.
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The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
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Between them, father and son have carved out a place where the song, the voice and the delivery of a real and recognisable emotion are paramount.
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Onward they sailed along the south bank of the estuary, past the great sea-carved stone arches of “Île Percée” that made it an important seamark.
Champlain's Dream
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Some areas are left uncarved and unpolished, giving a dramatic sense of the raw material.
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In Yemen, for example, rhino horn is carved into handles used in daggers called jambiyas.
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Impressionistic cloud cities carved in some kind of webbed driftwood.
Beowulf's Children
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The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
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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
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The huge advance that she secured for the book attests to the place she has carved out on the cultural landscape.
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Though never quite managing to hit commercial paydirt, Glasgow-born singer/songwriter John Martyn has carved out an acclaimed career by purveying an idiosyncratic mix of rock, folk and jazz.
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Our mercenaries (Blackwater and Haliburton and their minion) will still be on the ground, interfering with the new government whenever it drifts from the preordained path carved out by the American government since The Carter Doctrine.
CNN Poll: Americans overwhelming support moving US combat troops out of Iraqi cities
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This restaurant offers a buffet with a wide selection of traditional boerekos such as tomato bredie, chicken pie and a lavish carvery, as well as Malay curries and bobotie.
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Whether or not Hugo was a wall-painter, the records of his activities as carver and manuscript painter attest to his versatility.
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Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
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The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
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Since Active Directory can scale to hundreds of thousands or even millions of objects, it's necessary to carve up the Active Directory database into sections, called naming contexts.
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The drawings themselves will be used to produce the zinc templates from which workmen in the Minster stoneyard will work when they begin to carve the replacement stones.
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It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.
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Numerous period features remain: the Victorian staircase with its carved wooden banisters, the 1820s ornate stuccoed ceilings, the many stone and marble fireplaces.
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At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
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As Mona she wears glittering, flimsy garments with sheer embroidered scarves, hennaed hair, nail varnish and lipstick.
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
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The person who answered the door was the artist, Yelton, who had even carved a talking stick for the Queen about 10 years ago.
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As the bus turned into a new recognizable road, the pavements were filled with people, scarves blowing in the wind.
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Space has to be carved out and carefully wrapped to create a luminous, inward-looking void, augmented by carefully framed views of the townscape.
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The handle was just a sharply carved crescent moon shape, crudely cut from a tarnishing piece of bronze.
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Andrew began to carve the chicken.
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I paused outside the carved double doors, gathering my dignity and composure around me like a shield.
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The statue was carved out of a single piece of stone.
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(Piss and blood fetishes similarly leave me cold, though were you to ask me to urinate in your mouth or carve the word "cocksucker" in your chest with a razor blade, I would probably be happy to oblige.)
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Carve the legs into slices and cut the breast into fillets.
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Rather than compete, they would join forces and carve up the market.
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Over 120 pieces of flint waste show that Neanderthals had made butchery tools on site to carve up the mammoths.
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The statue was carved .
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The even skin of the carvel hull enabled shipwrights to cut gunports close to the waterline.
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I carved your name in the stone with a chisel.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin.
Power, corruption and lies
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“Some 1,700 apsaras sicare carved on the walls of Angkor Wat alone; thousands more – individual in dress, hairstyle, and ornamentation – appear in almost every Angkor temple, Hindu and Buddhist alike.”
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Woodcarvers, all of whom are men, carve masks and figurines as well as mortars, pestles, and bowls.
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The opening at one end of the shrine is closed not by the paneled doors characteristic of temples but by a pair of low gates carved to represent wickerwork and surmounted by a row of inverted dentils.
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Beginning in the last quarter of the fourteenth century, shoes were worn with pattens - carved wooden supports with pedestals under the heel and ball - to protect the shoes.
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It was lovely and the carvery was great, as was the minty ice-cream for afters!
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Strengthening and hand-carved jade bead necklace of shells grossularite, platnium set diamond and Pink Sapphire is very beautiful.
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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.
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Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department.
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There are many exquisite details, carved doorways, potted plants framed by shaded windows.
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There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
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It was made of stone, and it had carvings of sea creatures carved into the front door.
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The members wore colourful headscarves and patchwork jackets and were carrying rucksacks and canvas bags.
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The Tibetan scarves that dance and beckon from the tables of street vendors are orange.
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Was given a pen, by a pen shop - Elephant and Coral - who feel that authors should get nice pens (this was a Pilot pen with the nib carved out of the barrel, and looks like it will be a lovely thing to write with).
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The western carvers produced decoys solely for the purpose of luring waterfowl.
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But when the Peking duck arrives, he at last focuses on the food and watches in admiration as the waiters carve the roasted bird.
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Carved on the lobstick of the Landing were many names famous in the annals of this region, Pike, Maltern, McKinley, Munn, Tyrrel among them.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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The armchair's densely carved scallops and shellwork, rosebuds, floral bouquets, and cartouche-shaped back are loosely based on the rococo style as reinterpreted in French pattern books of the mid-nineteenth century.
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The light didn't quite reach the high ceiling where carved figures lurked in the shadows of a graceful groin vault.
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No tympanum was ever carved, however, only the trumeau to support one, together with a similarly carved block and some subsidiary reliefs.
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The last datable examples of ancient Egyptian writing are found on the island of Philae, where a hieroglyphic temple inscription was carved in AD 394 and where a piece of demotic graffiti has been dated to 450 AD.
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Many of the targets were basic silhouettes, though others were figures wearing traditional Arab head scarves, called kaffiyeh, and holding rocket-propelled grenades.
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Often they wear layers of waistcoats and scarves that they've stolen on the streets.
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The scarves twirl round and round thousands of heads.
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Inside were wonderfully carved, handsome pieces like six-legged snooker tables and eight-legged billiard tables.
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Then, something making her turn her head sharply to the big bed with its red moreen curtains hanging straightly down beside its four carved posts, her eyes met the wide open eyes of the man lying there.
Mrs. Day's Daughters
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I ran my fingers along the carved wood, admiring the way the workman had managed to fit motifs from Inuit art into the design without muddying the clarity of the sign.
How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf
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Induction into the prestigious AAAL followed naturally from Carver’s honorable completion of the Strauss Living.
Raymond Carver
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To make the glyphs, the ancient carvers used chisels, probably of hard, fine-grained quartzite, which they struck with hammers of stone or antler, each blow chipping out one small stone flake.
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It has been carved from a massive slab of marble.
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The carved wooden ceilings in many of the rooms are outstanding.
Umbria - the green heart of Italy
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Dallas auditionee Kimberly Carver there, after Simon called her uninteresting and "jazz TV" - and guest judge Neil Patrick ...
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SIMON: Mr. Cully, how did you become a master pumpkin carver?
The Master Carver Vs. The 1,800-Pound Pumpkin
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With an original oak floor, this area also features a carved oak ceiling rose, pediments, cornices and architraves.
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Large incomes were required before titles were awarded, but fiefs and landgrants were carved out of conquered territories in order to endow the new titles.
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He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw.
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Naturalistic animals were carved on misericords in the early 14th century, and individualized facial features appeared on the small human heads that decorated keystones and arch mouldings.
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The original inhabitants carved them from soft volcanic rock and almost all are positioned around the coast facing inland.
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He knows how to work with outdated packing material like the thinly curled wood shavings known as excelsior and how to carve commercial deer mounts into shapes for wild antelopes and oryxes.
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The carvery is situated in the ‘new’ section of the pub, adjacent to the bar area and has one glassed in section with the roast meats and the bain marie hot boxes for the vegetables and the soup.
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Will the owners of townhouses carve out self-contained flats in the attic or the basement to avoid the annual toll?
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People were bundled up in scarves and hats and snowpants and mittens and gloves.
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We all had our concerns as to whether the horsehide could be carved, but as you can see.
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That was at the very apogee of the age of imperialism, when white men carved up the black continent between them.
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When Tuscany was being carved up everyone wanted to be in the Chianti or Chianti Classico region, as this was the best selling and most well regarded of Italian wines.
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There is a fine oak carved overmantel and an old door opens on to the curved stone stair to the first floor.
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On the long, steep scarp between the iron age hillfort above and ploughed fields below are white signs carved into the turf.
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Carved wooden paneling faced the whitewashed walls.
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On October 8, 1865, in the Great Synagogue in London, she married Isaac Magnin, born in Assen, Holland, in 1842, a carver and gilder.
Mary Ann Cohen: Magnin.
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Each of the girls, as well as Ethan, wore their thickest coats and warmest mittens, as well as scarves and hats and earmuffs.
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Paintings of past and present champions in action, horseshoe-shaped ear-rings and ties and scarves with jockeys' silks on them are all on sale.
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I feel hustle and bustle may be enough to inflict damage in the group stage but once the games become one-offs and we have to go the extra mile to carve out victories I feel we will be once again found lacking.
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The board is carved in the baroque style of ornament, and resembles very closely the black, lettered placards erected in whitewashed country churches.
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Even their clothes are more vibrant - they wear colourful sarongs and headscarves, while the men favour western T-shirts and trousers.
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This magnificant carved wooden seahorse is part of an exhibit at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, showcasing the work of carver James T. McClellan (1910-2005).
Carving Out the Ocean’s Power
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At the end of the night, the winning carver is announced, and the radishes of Oaxaca can rest easy for another year.
Radish Night in Oaxaca
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Stop chipping halfway , you cannot chop down deadwood ; and keep chipping a way, gold and stone can be carved.
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Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea.
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I was most conscience-stricken by my anguished looking mother's tearful eyes; an unproud image now permanently carved into my subconscious.
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I generally like to try the carvery before settling back for the race.
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If the South seceded, the European superpowers would have cooked, carved and devoured the weakened American eagle.
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You can often choose between plain white or coloured and patterned scarves.
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We're all just trying to carve out our niche.
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Now, why would one want to carve up roadkilled or poached antelope carcasses you might ask?
Grouse Diary Entry
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You will be amazed at the beauty and crispness of this hand carved wood floral rose wreath.
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As if to symbolize this state of things, the "fancy piece" astern comprised, among numerous other carved decorations, a cross and a miter; while forward, on the bows, was a sort of devil for a figure-head -- a dragon-shaped creature, with a fiery red mouth, and a switchy-looking tail.
Redburn. His First Voyage
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Overlooking it are the residential streets that were carved from the precipitous slopes.
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It is perched on a plateau of tufa rock, almost like it's been carved straight from its roots.
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The exhibition will showcase a special range of shawls, stoles, garments, sarees, scarves, caps, gloves, sweaters, durries and fabric in embroidery, mirror work, weaves and natural dyes.
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A cheerful wood-fire blazed in the capacious hearth; a little at one side an old-fashioned table, with richly-carved legs, was placed -- destined, no doubt, to receive the supper, for which preparations were going forward; and ranged with exact regularity, stood the tall-backed chairs, whose ungracefulness was more than counterbalanced by their comfort.
The Purcell Papers, Volume II
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Along this vein, "honorable mention" is provided for makers of certain crafts whose works are not featured (under the heading of, for example, "Additional woodcarvers in Arrazola").
Mexican Folk Art from Oaxacan Artist Families by Arden Aibel and Anya Leah Rothstein
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It was carved by my great-grandfather and came to me unrequested, a bargained token in the frantic last minute horse-trading as my parents' divorce was settled.
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Early cameos are carved from hardstones such as onyx, sardonyx, or agate, while later a number of less expensive substances were used that were also easier to carve.
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Part of her was carved from a patch of ocher ground, and part from the hole dug there.
EVERVILLE
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Observing the famous sculptors Luyani and Nsebani at work, Kitaia dreamt of becoming a professional carver and tried to make one piece after another.
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However included in this is a cold mineral drink, tea or coffee and two delicious profiteroles carved as swans for afters.
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Qristyl, another of my early favorites, is making something out of shiny satin in a print that recalls the sprinkles on the Carvel ice cream logo.
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But the figure of the woman was still more awkward: an unwieldy bulk, two extended arms which seemed to bear it up with difficulty, and looked like two carved handles from the neck to the widest part of a large kilderkin, and beneath this enormous body, two legs, naked up to the knees, which could scarcely totter along.
Chapter XI
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Using a damp cloth, I carefully sponged the days-old sweat from her body while Blood Thorn sat to one side, a beautifully carved trencher in his lap, spooning food to her by the bite.
Fire The Sky
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She carved out a name for herself in the engineering business.
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The other half of the stores sell scented soap, beaded scarves, or ugly plastic shoes.
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the cradle was ornately carved
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The compo consisted of a mixture of chalk and resins and was pressed into a carved wood mold.
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Part of her was carved from a patch of ocher ground, and part from the hole dug there.
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The semielliptical fanlight over the entrance door is framed by a wooden arch neatly carved with flutes and stylized flowers.
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For multi-color printing several blocks had to be carved - one for each color.
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The facades on the buildings that conform the quadrangle are adorned with elaborate representations of Mayan huts, rectangles and Chac masks, with superimposed ornaments such as carved loops, lattices, small columns, human shapes, birds and monkeys.
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The beautifully carved tombstones, with inscriptions in the Dutch language, could have been carved in Holland and sent to India.
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Fretted screens diffuse the light, and wooden doors and panels are delicately carved.
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The plinths below the columns, the arch spandrels, friezes and entablatures were enriched with carved ornament and sculpture.
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She carves in both stone and wood.
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The rugs, scarves, mittens and other merchandise have all been produced through Snow Leopard Enterprises.
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Among this group, friendly rivalry gave rise to creative innovation, and most carvers refined their skills.
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If the owner's froideur doesn't deter you, this 10-room semi-troglodyte hotel overlooking the vineyards of Saumur-Champigny has a lot to offer: a charming site; thematically decorated rooms; and, above all, a dramatic heated swimming pool carved into the rock of its own troglodyte cave.
Soul Food
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Next door, at Cruz Vega's place of business, the maiden is carved into a very large picture in which she is in an open meadow.
The colorful wood carvings of Cuanajo, Michoacan
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He helped create and expand the Bastille legend, exhibiting in his waxworks insurgents, released prisoners, and a model of the fortress, carved from its ‘last’ stone.
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Over the centuries, what was originally a royal hunting preserve has been carved up and served out.
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The piece of wood had been carved into the shape of a flower.
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Carved from tweneboa, a Ghanaian cedar tree, the drums have fragile skins and tuning pegs.
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Father carved the ham
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It is in typical ‘Kentian’ style, with the cornice supported on scrolled brackets flanking a frieze with swags and a central mask, the jambs being carved as female terms with classical drapery.
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It was so fantastic being among all those crowds of people, and everyone bundled up in scarves and coats looking all wintery.
The One With A Photo And A Few Other Things
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There were people in warm, woollen scarves and thick, tall boots, and there were others in large, heavy overcoats and fluffy ear muffs.
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The carved eagles at the comers suggest that the table might have been made for the Borghese family, whose armorial bearings incorporate an eagle.
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The old media giants are working together to kill off innovative online competitors and carve up the market for themselves.
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There were Berber men with daggers and turbaned heads, and women with colourful headscarves.
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He carved out a decent career as a middle-ranking actor.
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At the age of 70, famous wood and stone carver Dick Reid is hanging up his mallet and chisels at his workshop in Fishergate and calling it a day.
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More symbols were scrawled into the stone of the arch, crimson slashes carved in the rock as though they were weeping wounds in the gateway.
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Carvel, "within their limits, are works of art;" The Inside of the Cup "is no more than a compendium of paralogy, as silly and smattering as a speech by William Jennings Bryan or a shocker by Jane Addams.
A Book of Prefaces
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Beauty and light glowed from classic mantel and carven cornice and walls grotesquely figured, while a sleek black cat rose yawning from hearthside sleep that his master's start and shriek had disturbed.
The Best Endings in Science Fiction
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A lot of carve surface coordinate points are gained from measurement layout to measure by (coordinate) measuring machine(CMM).
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An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration.
Là-bas
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But liberal economists in China fret that state-owned banks and their SOE cronies will carve up the spoils, leaving small and medium private enterprises by the wayside.
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The majority of communities invited carvers and artists to come and put their work on display.
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Sculptors and carvers fashion teakwood goblets, cigar and jewelry boxes, and board games such as dominoes and backgammon.
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Upstairs in the big bedchamber is a ceiling of beams worked in bold roll mouldings; and there is an exquisite little parlour, lined with linen fold panels, with a breastsummer carved with strange animals.
Medieval People
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Hispanic creators of santos - carved and painted depictions of the Catholic saints - displayed their work at San Felipe Cathedral in Old Town.
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Someone had carved their initials on the tree.
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In other words, Salomon carved a tiny fraction out of each financial transaction.
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Making traditional springerle is quick and easy with this 20-pattern, machine-carved wooden pin.
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It’s nice if the roaster is pretty enough to serve in, although it’s not crucial since you’ll need take the bird out to carve it anyway.
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Carved crosspieces are lashed to the frame with rattan.
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Now Carver Smithton has a paunched belly as stout as the beer that fills it.
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The Girls, The Collectors, and The Life
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In the Bay Area alone, three companies are trying to carve out a niche in the casual clothing market.
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Tory Burch Tory Burch resort collection 2012 Tory Burch went Southwest for her spirited resort collection, which featured, in addition to her signature tunics and ballet flats, twists such as pretty silk fringe scarves, tweed woven ponchos and basketweave jackets all inspired by the American Southwest, Santa Fe in particular.
Resort Wear from the Urban Jungle to the Mellow Southwest
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She now had her own elven bow that Tré had carved for her, and the silvery green, wooden arrows were fletched with owl feathers, and flew true.
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Wales - a country with incertitude carved into its genes - is beginning to find its confidence.
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Mr Miles was able to turn the clock body and the main column but then had to fashion the square base, carve four lion heads to go on the base and a crown to go on the top.
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Credible resolution would seem to require at least some form of separability, and arguably there is a case for some form of ex ante separation so that bank operations whose continuous provision is truly critical to the functioning of the economy can clearly be easily and rapidly carved out in the event of calamity," Mr. Vickers said.
Splitting Up U.K. Banks May Make System Safer, Panel Says
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They are carvel-built -- that is, the planks are placed as in a ship.
Peter the Whaler
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This year, carve a buttery, cider-glazed version showcased with roasted apples and eye-catching grapes and currants.
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Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants.
Inside Higher Ed
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In the days following the D-Day landings, Allied troops carved a tenuous foothold on the coast of Normandy.
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The company carved $1 million from its budget.
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In case prestigious BMW bloodlines simply aren't enough to impress, this Bavarian drop-top also features a long list of bolt-ons which transform it from a superb curve carver into a first rate speed machine.
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The symbolism carved out of flowers, the sun and elements of nature is surprisingly shared across the board of all three artists.
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Carve the fowl into 8 pieces.
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They are ground into metal plates with a "small knife", will be carved into five yellow five-pointed star of toilet paper.
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Some Yoruba woodcarvers also work in bone, ivory, and stone.
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One year my mother bought her a dollhouse with miniature wood furniture, chintz curtains, little made-up beds, and a perfect family of carved dolls, father dressed in his suit, mother with an apron around her waist, two sisters and a brother, as if to create what we lacked.
History of a Suicide
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Wild applause erupted when Zeng Fanzhi's painting of youths wearing absurd masks and Red Guard scarves went for $9.7 million, a new auction high for any Asian contemporary artwork.
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The women under the headscarves participate in something that both motivates and deranges their men.
Nina Burleigh: Helens of the Jihad, Part Two
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He imagined that very few people in history had actually seen this carving up close, since it was designed to sit so high above the populace—but up close, the carved image of the disclike Sun looked odd, as if it were not a carved image but rather…well…aplug in the stone.
Seven Deadly Wonders
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Down La Canebière I stroll, heading for the glinting, faraway turquoise eyespot of the Old Port, following women dressed in ankle-length raincoats and Islamic head scarves, long-faced men in frayed djellabas and knit skullcaps, gangly youths with scruffy beards.
Sunstroked
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All the features, including stone blocks, wooden and steel doors and even the ironmongery, were hand-carved by the company's craft experts.
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Games and such … backgammon is huge here, you can get hand carved wooden boards, they play it constantly and they will win; p, almost everyone can play chess also, as well as the Russian version of checkers that is not too much different from the American version.
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With a Romanesque Revival exterior style, the interior has extensive hand-carved woodwork in the shape of mermaids and mythical animals.
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Also patron of kings and carvers.
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His duty to the deity over, he and Miri carved up and roasted the remaining parts of the doe on a spit over the fire.
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The word hijab comes from the Arabic for veil and is used to describe the headscarves worn by Muslim women.
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