How To Use Delf In A Sentence
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Someone had stacked up dozens of conical limpet shells to form narrow, teetering towers on the shelves where delft once stood.
FALSE MERMAID
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The body is hand painted in polychrome enamels in the Bristol delft style and decorated with a figure of a Chinese gentleman beckoning to a distant flock of birds (estimate €1,500 - €2,000).
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Sinon aussi vous pouvez me faire un don a moi-meme par paypal ou cheque afin d'acquerir ma sublime BJD "Luts Delf Kid Boy" ani "" ...
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Je resiste pour ne pas acheter un kid delf ani boy mais c dur mais je tiens et de toute facon je ne vois pas trop ce que j'en ferais!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine.
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Delap has picked up a booking for a foul in the build-up.80 mins Excellent challenge from Shawcross inside the box, as Aston Villa break rapidly from a Stoke corner –Delfouneso feeding Albrighton down by the corner of the six-yard area and the latter looking to jink his way past the defender but finding the ball pinched off his toes as he skips down towards the goalline.
Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
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Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink.
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Giasone's dissipation was signaled by his unknotted tuxedo tie; the Argo was a modern speedboat; Isifile had a pink minidress with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat; the Golden Fleece was a big, shaggy coat; and Delfa's outfit was channeling Dame Edna.
On a Tattered Shoestring
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‘Oh, no; the delf cups and saucers; — it will be twice as good in them;’ and as the handsome mistress of the mansion, sitting in the deal chair, loosened her cloak and untied her bonnet, she chatted away, to the edification of Margery and the amusement of both.
Wylder's Hand
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Mae 'na ryw ddelfrydiaeth cheesy uffernol, a mae'r syniad o bobol yn teithio o amgylch y bydysawd yn sortio allan problema aliens sy'n rhy thic i ddatrys eu problemau eu hunain yn drewi braidd.
Hwre!
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No doubt Vermeer owed a particular debt to Delft, but it is the great dichotomies of Dutch art generally that nourished his genius.
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My character at Omen is a woodelf priestess of the Goddess of Nature, and I had prepared a small elvish sermon this weekend, but with all the battles there was no time for it.
Sairahiniel's Sermon
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He also made other types of ceramics, among them copies of Dutch Delft and Raku wares.
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If you were a slightly nervous Israeli soldier, would you wait until he was really close before seeing if he was going to delf-detonate?
BBC: bias or bad writing?
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Well, the ExoFly aerobot is based on that camera-equipped DelFly design, only this time it's gearing up for a trip to Mars -- maybe even Titan or Venus.
We Blog A Lot
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Most information was gathered from telephone interviews with, and personal histories written by, Ruth Browns Gundelfinger, Gale Jacobsohn, Shulamite
Israeli Folk Dance Pioneers in North America.
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PORTSMOUTH (AFP) - Aston Villa remain in the hunt for a European place after Nathan Delfouneso's first Premier League goal clinched a 2-1 win against Portsmouth on Sunday.
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The shopwindows in this district were full of delftware—a cross between pewter and bone in broad daylight—and slabs of Belgian chocolate that stood as solid and brown as the earth itself.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre
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Since many pieces of English delftware are dated, they have long been held in particularly high regard by antiquarians and collectors.
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The Nieuwe Kerk's carillon came streaming around me, and then the cold breezy air was filled with the celestial silvery noise of thousands of bells ringing out midday from all the towers and steeples of Delft.
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The drawings and watercolors on exhibit vary from preparatory sketches to finished drawings depicting views in Delft that are still recognizable today.
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I have seen a man and wife drinking coffee from one small tin pan, their china and delftware having been left in fragments to decorate the desert wayside.
Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
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Where the SPEEDWELL lay while being "refitted" has not been ascertained, though presumably at Delfshaven, whence she sailed, though possibly at one of the neighboring larger ports, where her new masts and cordage could be "set up" to best advantage.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
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Over the centuries the makers of delftware have copied all sorts of decorative styles so that this essentially imitative craft has become a style in itself.
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And now I'm back in Delft, and my ordered copy of Blue Gender has finally arrived.
January 10th, 2005
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Everyday life in 17th century Delft is so vivid in Girl with a Pearl
An interview with Tracy Chevalier about Girl With A Pearl Earring
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Period armory seems to have considered the billet equivalent to the delf and no difference is granted between them in Society heraldry.
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During a conference in Delft (Conference on Damage Tolerance of Aircraft Structures: 25-28 September 2007), GTM and Alcoa have presented the new concept to international experts in the field of metal fatigue and damage sensitivity of aircraft constructions.
Delft Material Concept For Aircraft Wings Could Save Billions | Impact Lab
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Mr. Sainsbury was passionate about English delftware pottery, and there are 80 lots in the sale all dating to the 1600s, including plates, tankards, jugs, wine bottles and vases.
Sainsbury Sale Highlights
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The delft blue eyes looked back at him unblinkingly.
Shameless
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Made of a light-buff clay, and known as delftware, the tiles unearthed are decorated in blue, with a conventionalized design in each corner and
New Discoveries at Jamestown Site of the First Successful English Settlement in America
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A large invoice of Portuguese "road ware" was sent to the Maine settlers in 1634, and proved thoroughly unsuitable and undurable; but probably no china -- not even Delft ware -- came over on the Mayflower.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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“The parishioners about here,” continued Mrs. Day, not looking at any living being, but snatching up the brown delf tea-things,
Under the Greenwood Tree
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Relief and gratitude blazed from her eyes, which were once again that beguiling delft blue.
Shameless
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Mr. O'Sullivan and I liked the plates with abstracted flower patterns overlaid with gilded outlines of Delftware vessels ($518), and the vases and bowls with overlapping streaks of denim-colored paint inspired by Chinese brushwork ($328 for a small fluted bowl).
Delight in Blue and White
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We then wandered onto Kloisters, which is one of the two bars in Delft with a 'beer menu' i.e. they have so many different beers that they need a book-like menu to list all of them.
January 30th, 2005
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The four Delftware gallipots, a big wide one and three smaller high ones, may have belonged to the inventory of the sick-bay.
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So we all and Mr. Ibbott, the Minister, took a schuit -- [The trekschuit (drag-boat) along the canal is still described as an agreeable conveyance from Leyden to Delft.] -- and very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers, where most speak French; went after them, but met them by the way.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 05: May 1660
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If the first had demonstrated his speed and control, the second was a routine tap-in, an opportunity created when Petursson fumbled Nathan Delfouneso's cross straight to Oxlade-Chamberlain's feet and the winger passed the ball into the empty net.
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Although light in weight and less prone to chipping than delftware, this new refined earthenware was still not as durable as white salt-glazed stoneware.
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Related scenes ornament archaeological fragments of two delft chamber pots and a small punch bowl from sites in New Castle, Delaware.
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Midelfort shows that Weyer's ideas on witchcraft, which forced jurists to begin considering medical testimony in such cases, had a broader, hitherto unconsidered, impact on the law.
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The delft industry grew in Southwark, and by 1640 there were some forty potters working there, many of them Dutch immigrants.
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The move is brought to an end as Huth dispossesses Delfouneso, the Villa player windihing himself in the process as he runs into the defender.86 mins Not it's Stoke's turn to win a free-kick in a decent position – certainly well within Huth's range.
Stoke v Aston Villa - as it happened | Paolo Bandini
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The blue-and-white London delftware punch bowl shown in Plate IV beam a floral sprig on the interior, and, because of its deep profile, is datable to between about 1715 and 1730.
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On this side of the Atlantic, the colonists were using large quantities of delftware imported from England until creamware became popular in the 1760s. Delftware was largely a memory by 1840.
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» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
» Dept. of Funny Signs (and cool infrastructure): automated bollard in Delft • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
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The fragments of pottery include specimens plainly not of Indian manufacture, such as fragments of porcelain, and that variety of glazed ware known as delf, and lastly, the neck of a glass bottle.
The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races
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A Street in Delft by Jan Vermeer, painted 1657-58.
Thank You, Holland!
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Delft is definitely a nice picturesque town to visit if you have a morning.
Schiphol Surprises
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At this minute, Mr. Gale entered from the front shop to show a customer some delf plates; and he did not see — but WE
Roundabout Papers
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Another such word is geoduck, which is pronounced "gooey duck"; a less violently dissonant, but still unpredictable, spelling is distelfink, which according to Merriam-Webster's is pronounced DISH-tlfink it's from Pennsylvania Dutch dischdelfink 'goldfinch', although the AHD gives the normalized DIST-lfink.
Languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPELLING.
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Here, one can find anything and everything from the likes of monumental archaic Chinese bronzes to Byzantine ivories or medieval sculpture and Delft, maiolica and porcelain, tribal art, rare books, manuscripts, drawings and prints.
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In Nosferatu the Vampyre, thousands of rats were let loose in Delft and I don't know if they were all accounted for at the end.
Werner Herzog, a movie-making genius of performance art
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Visions of blue and white delftware passed through our minds as we entered the old town, which hardly looks as though worldly automobilists would be well received.
The Automobilist Abroad
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Included in the price are two nights' accommodation berthed in Amsterdam and one night in Volendam, buffet breakfast on board, twin-bedded en suite cabin, a visit to Delft, return coach travel and ferry crossings.
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A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
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That shard of blue-and-white delft in her treasure box had come from somewhere along this coast.
FALSE MERMAID
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To their left, under a dome of palms, was a marble basin, on the edges of which four large swans of delftware emitted the water from their beaks.
Bel Ami
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“Five nothings on five plates of delf” made her supper.
The Common Reader, Second Series
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The furniture was sparse—a dresser with delft, a rough kitchen table with chairs, the armchair she sat in, and the rocking chair in which Mrs. Prendergast rocked, a black-and-white cat purring companionably on her lap.
Winter Bloom
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Other British politicians are commemorated on excavated English delft punch bowls, including some found at Philipsburg Manor in New York that are inscribed ‘Pitt & Liberty.’
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Each wall is painted in a different color, such as fuchsia, delft blue or bright orange.
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Price of the electrolyzed-water cleaning device being used as a sanitizer by the housekeeping staff at the Sheraton Delfina hotel, in Santa Monica, California.
By the Numbers: Electrolyzed water seen as a "miracle" cleaner
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The pine dresser against the wall still held a few cracked pieces of blue-and-white delft.
FALSE MERMAID
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From Rotterdam to Delft, all the way by the canal, allowing for the détour via Schiedam, is less than twenty kilometres, and the journey is short for any sort of an automobile that will go beyond a snail's pace.
The Automobilist Abroad
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We're kinda planning on going out in Leiden next weekend, with the attendant medical school and skewed male/female ratios therein (think technical courses i.e. the whole of darn Delft, but the opposite way around), so I may well have to see what I can do about my confidence before then.
March 7th, 2005
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Stoneware began to overtake delftware as a practical and stylish dinnerware with the introduction, between about 1740 and 1745 from France, of plaster of Paris for making molds.
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It is certainly true, with reference to paintings like The Little Street or View of Delft, that a topographical artist cannot change the buildings which are in front of him.
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Ligand-competitive binding of antibodies was measured by Notch1 extracellular domain (ECD) displacement in a dissociation-enhanced time resolved fluorometric assay (DELFIA).
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However, in 1614 the States General commissioned him to design the funerary monument for William the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft.
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He later moved to Delft, where he was well known and became a syndic of the Guild of Saint Luke.
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Her delft blue eyes took on a decidedly militant sparkle, and a flush—that curse of all redheads—heated her porcelain skin.
Shameless
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Striding towards the banquet-table with his flouncing companion at his side, Crockett secured a large delftware platter and commenced to fill it with a prodigious quantity of viands.
Nevermore
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Fine porcelain ware brought to Europe in the 16th century was named for its origin, China (the imitation, delft, came from Delft, Netherlands).
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
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Pieter de Hooch's arrival in Delft is misdated in the catalogue as 1654, although a will he witnessed in 1652 describes him as a ‘resident of Delft’.
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The works included mostly paintings, some etchings, charcoal and brush sketches, drypoint work, watercolors of plants, blown glass goblets and containers, Delft ceramic tiles and vessels and silver items (and a few miniature chairs, 6 inches high).
Vermeer and Rembrandt at the Vancouver Art Gallery « Colleen Anderson
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The following morning, having drunk his coffee, Maurice pushed back the metal tray on which the delf-ware stood, and remained sitting idle with his hands before him.
Maurice Guest
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Susan Dzivak—a girl that I'dworshippedwhen I was a boy, a blonde Slovak beauty, my delft-blue-eyed lover for one tick of time, grown up and unclothed in the soft, shadowed light, who whispered to me, "It's time you learned wisdom.
All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams
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Blind Girl never knew that ugly shapes of delf and earthenware were on the board; that sorrow and faintheartedness were in the house; that
The Cricket on the Hearth
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Tin-glazed earthenware was first manufactured in Delft, Holland, in the early seventeenth century.
