How To Use Dour In A Sentence
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It was still cold and a little gloomy but there was a dour magnificence to it.
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In chantries unrehearsed we'd wow the votarists and serenade the friary to panting ecstasies while summoned to kingly chambers we branked the troubadours, turning the sovereign mind to heaven, the courtiers left speechless with neglect...
Strange Bedfellows
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For further purification one may install either chemical or thermal equipment for destruction of remaining odour components.
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It's still early in the morning; the air is cool and exhilarating, and the low sun softens the landscape and transfigures the dour colours of the hills.
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Step6: With tray Cheng Fangling's random bottle container canister, get ready for the guest brush towel, the odour of more ameliorable toilet after beautiful sweet candle is ignited.
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
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A beggar woman and her child took shelter on the verandah at night and left behind disquieting odours.
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Are there effluvia analogous to what we call odour: effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to us, yet capable of stimulating a sense-organ far more sensitive than our own?
Social Life in the Insect World
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Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
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A strong odour of hemp and resin stung his nostrils.
Spice and the Devil's Cave
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I looked at him dourly and gnawed on my nail nervously.
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Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants.
Nicholas Nickleby
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He is blinded and befogged by two things: (1) his (i.e. their) aristocratism, and again (2) his satisfaction in splendour and get-up, provided it is attached to moral greatness.
Cyropaedia
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The stewardess came down the aisle, a big-breasted young woman exuding a strong odour of perspiration.
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Pavilions of Splendour is the brainchild of Gwyn Headley who says the idea was born from a growing demand for unusual properties.
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One hundred women were asked to indicate their preferences on six male body odour samples, drawn from 97 volunteer samples, before and after initiating contraceptive pill use.
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Their cuff links were dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the very least, he's a far richer playwright than the dour tag would imply.
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Luther; "while others, it is added," abjurit and relapsit, baneist of auld, now comes pertlie [openly] without any dreidour, nocht allenarly in the far parts of the Realme, but als to the Court and presens of your
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
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It must be confessed, however, that certain influences darkened the style even before it had reached maturity; chief among these was a gloomy hierarchical splendour, and a ritual rigidity, which to-day we yet refer to, quite properly, as Byzantinism.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
How I Found Livingstone
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Finally, bad odours can also often be traced back to bacteria forming in the air-conditioning ducts.
Times, Sunday Times
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This impression was often based on an aversion to the strong odour of the camels rather than the cameleers themselves.
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The palace has been restored to its former splendour.
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His set was a rather more dour affair.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, the promise of odour-free toes comes with an environmental drawback.
Times, Sunday Times
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I closed the door quickly against the odour of rot and decay it emitted.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic.
At Good Old Siwash
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I unscrewed the cap and sniffed at a minute drop of liquid - it was odourless.
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Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour, -- a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars.
The Golden Dog
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The undies neutralise smells thanks to a filter which removes odours through a thin and flexible carbon cloth.
The Sun
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But, by 2008, it is hoped that visitors will be able to stroll along a new hour-long trail and glimpse some of the splendours and ideals of past eras.
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dour determination
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Give us a wheelie bin for the recycling waste and if it takes a month for some to fill it, then at least it will be in a secure container with a lid to secure the odours.
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You possess too much candour and benevolence not to make allowance, and to forgive the various emotions of my mind, which you have witnessed in this, to me, unhappy conferrence.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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He increased his feigned ardour for the bushwoman, at the same time increasing the imperiousness of his will of desire over her to be led to look upon the Red One face to face.
THE RED ONE
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He has a haircut, his beard is trimmed, his suit was drycleaned, and he remembered to pack his toothbrush and deodourant.
A woman's work is never done
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Can we observe differences in our psychophysiological response to malodours and pleasant smells?
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Israel's foot soldiers are getting new odour-free socks that can be worn for two weeks straight without smelling or stinking up the feet, the Maariv daily reported on Thursday.
Elder of Ziyon
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The book is only marginally about sex, and takes a dour view of sexology, survey research, and Western-influenced sex education.
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Certainly, Theotimus, beauty is without effect, unprofitable and dead, if light and splendour do not make it lively and effective, whence we term colours lively when they have light and lustre.
Treatise on the Love of God
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With typical candour, she admits she now feels guilty over what they had to go through.
The Sun
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That being said, the oral tradition within which troubadour song was devised and transmitted probably encouraged constant reinvention, and it is hard to believe that either melodies or accompaniments were immutably fixed.
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I smelt the familiar cigarette odour as it attacked my nostrils, and clung on tighter.
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But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow.
The Book of Snobs
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The cooler temperatures of the last week should have quelled the amorous residents' ardour and after their recent exertions they should have quite an appetite.
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Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
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I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
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The fact that so many people still wish Andie had ended up with her New Wave-ish, pompadoured best buddy speaks to how beloved and unforgettable Duckie turned out to be.
Friday List: Ranking the John Hughes characters
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Romani, Imperium Populi Romani, Fortuna Populi Romani_, glitter out of the voluminous periods with a splendour that hardly any other words could give.
Latin Literature
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All public water supplies in Laois were also fully compliant with the standards for ammonium, nitrate, nitrite, odour, pH and turbidity.
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It's a cameraman's film and mostly about riding dangerously through mulga, about rounding up scrub bulls, about branding and marking with the mass of Mt Leichhardt rising up in blue splendour beyond.
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The moral is obvious, and as old as history; but herein lay the secret of Byron's potency, that he could remint and issue in fresh splendour the familiar coinage of the world's wit.
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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Does anyone know of a cheap alternative to odour-free cat litter?
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Their cuff links were dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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If we hadopen government and could watch their every move, we wouldnot be at war in Afghanistan or Iraq andour national security would be in good shape and we would not have had anyof the wars of US terror today. by
OpEdNews - Diary: 22,000,000+ Missing Emails
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According to Torr, ‘Tsetse use host kairomones to locate their hosts by a process termed ‘odour-mediated upwind anemotaxis’.
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These are deposited by the bugs before they settle down to digest their meals, and have a sweet odour described as ‘pepperminty’ or ‘musty’.
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Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless, and is produced when gas fails to burn completely.
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We are the Mr Clean society - devoted to eradicating every natural body odour and euphemizing every body function and its excretions.
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Add a few drops of odourless alcohol to help to preserve it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is the only heir of the pandour chieftain, Franz von Trenck.
Frederick the Great and His Family
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Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence.
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The gospel is incensed to signify the sweet odour which it communicates to our souls; and the ministers of God, to signify, according to St. Thomas, that God maketh manifest _the odour_ of his knowledge by us in every place: "For we are unto God _the good odour_ of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish".
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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They reported quite particular odours.
Times, Sunday Times
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The land in all its splendour was rich and the dark red soil held all the rain and mist which seeped into the ground feeding the crops that grew in abundance.
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He said the new silo would not affect the smells and odours from the premises, since it would be enclosed and would not alter the processes taking place at the plant.
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The normally exultant cheers of a vast Scottish Grand National crowd were muted because the splendour of a truly great race was bought at a very dear price.
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Cruise the Mediterranean in unaccustomed splendour aboard the Royal Clipper, the only square-sailed full-rigged ship in the world with five masts.
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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
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How far were troubadour love affairs all in the mind?
Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
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The foreign ministers are meeting in the splendour of Oktyabrskaya Hotel in central Moscow.
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These new works are a bold push forward, and they show the artist entering into the world of storytelling in the manner of a heartsick troubadour.
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While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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I with a maddening sense of awkwardness, that was not much bettered by the tattle of the plainstanes, where merchant lads and others made audible comment on the cousinly ardour of young Lachie.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The colourless, odourless liquid had mistakenly been left on a surface in a water bottle, according to police in Nicosia.
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Through all the hardship, Dunne's humour and candour keeps the book bowling along.
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Dentures are another important cause of oral malodour, particularly if they are worn overnight.
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Consider this: In his June 1908 baccalaureate address, Wilson dourly told the young Princeton men: I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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NEW YORK - Wendy's new CEO on Monday called the dour results of the past few years "self-inflicted wounds" and vowed to do better, laying...
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Thick tapestry wall hangings vie in splendour with the rich cloth covering her prayer table, on which an exquisitely illuminated Book of Hours lies open.
Foundations « Tales from the Reading Room
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hallowed fountains," and "solemn sound;" but in all Gray's odes there is a kind of cumbrous splendour which we wish away.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
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The air was permeated with the odour of burning rubber.
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An acrid odour caught his attention.
Times, Sunday Times
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Just a 15-minute drive away, Branston offers another chance to relax and unwind in some splendour but requires a tad more energy.
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We have few tall, pointed cypress trees to match in height and splendour those in the Como gardens.
Times, Sunday Times
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Among the little stores, Meia Tigela and Verde Inveja showcase Portuguese products, from lavender or cherry-scented Confiança soaps, to strong red wines from the banks of the Douro river and colorful clay figures of saints, soldiers and roosters made in the nearby town of Barcelos.
Within Portugal's Cradle
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Our time together over, I shake hands, thank her for her candour and walk out the door.
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Read _Romeo and Juliet_; — all is youth and spring; — youth with its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies; — spring with its odours, its flowers, and its transiency; it is one and the same feeling that commences, goes through, and ends the play.
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher
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He is the inventor of the plastination process in which human tissues are impregnated with plastics and silicone rubber to become permanent, colourful, and odourless.
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It is therefore imperative that the procedures for the abatement of malodours are very effective.
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Neither protests nor drizzle could dampen their ardour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mark Wilson will see a specialist today about possible knee surgery while Badr El-Kaddouri is cup-tied and Thomas Rogne was not registered for the European outings.
There is no pressure on me, says Celtic's Neil Lennon
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As well as the unusual candour of its writing, much of its appeal was in its contemporary feel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Villa owners are now getting together to revive their former splendour, realising they have a cultural treasure trove to offer tourists.
The Sun
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One of the hallmarks of the temperate nature of the early part of the growing season in 2007 on the Douro was the cool, but humid, conditions that followed on the heels of a rainy winter.
Natural wines, premox, chenin blanc, 07 Port and Rhone – John Gilman | Dr Vino's wine blog
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All these would make a coherent composition where colour and form would carry the underlying theme in flowering splendour from May until August.
The Education of a Gardener
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Later, this water is chlorinated and the output is colourless and odourless water with the purity label of 80 percent and later stored in the 1.5 MLD capacity storage tank.
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_Dipterocarpus_, chiefly _D. turbinatus_, which has the odour and properties of copaiba and has been used for the same purposes.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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WE'VE seen the splendour in which the energy fat cats live.
The Sun
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I take odourless garlic capsules because I assume that they carry the same benefits as fresh garlic.
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It therefore has a certain candour which was a little lacking from Formosa after August 23.
Chinese Nationalism Old and New
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The rectory was a dour red brick house with ivy-clad walls where birds would soon be nesting.
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Amid all the tumult and clamour of the teeming crowds who throng the premises, the hall stands dignified in its majestic splendour.
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Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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The young people sniffed in advance the two dear, distinctive odours which, more than anything else, presented the scenes before them -- the soft, cowy-milky scent of the farm, the salt, sharp whiff of the brine.
A College Girl
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The town, which was a famous spa with thermal springs, was on the Adour River, about 80 km north of the Pyrenees and the border with Spain.
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He is a dour stayer and is unexposed over marathon distances.
The Sun
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I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)
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But the splendour of the details reflected the skill of the seamstresses who spend hundreds of hours on each made-to-measure couture creation.
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With a candour that is unusual in most CVs, he details some of his failures.
Times, Sunday Times
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If you are a first-timer or a seasoned pro planning a trip to snowy climes this season, there is plenty to ensure that whether you end up spending your time on the bunny slopes, black runs or with a chocolat chaud and your tail between your legs in the chalet, you can do so in style and splendour rather than in a pair of ill-fitting hand-me-down salopettes.
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The air was permeated with the odour of burning rubber.
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The room has a musty odour; the furniture looks dark, heavy and somber as if the house resents my presence.
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Many thanks for taking the trouble to reply again; we very much appreciate your sincerity and candour.
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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Youssou N'Dour worked with Fathy Salama, who arranged and conducted his orchestral group of violins, reeds, flutes, and percussion.
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And the sakieh raises its wailing, wayward voice and sings to the shadoof; and the shadoof sings to the sakieh; and the lifted water falls and flows away into the green wilderness of doura that, like
The Spell of Egypt
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Faced with this loathsome infestation, I realised the world needed to hear a different kind of voice - the dour voice of Calvinism.
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And therewithall I embraced my friend Socrates and kissed him: but hee smelling the stinke of the pisse wherewith those Hagges had embrued me, thrust me away and sayd, Clense thy selfe from this filthy odour, and then he began gently to enquire, how that noysome sent hapned unto mee.
The Golden Asse
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The point was the inventive richness of the language, the splendour of the vocabulary, the unstaunchable flow of imagination and invective. . .
So No More He'll Go A-Roving
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He threw himself into them with a kind of piratical ardour; took them by the throat, wallowed in them, worried them like a terrier, and finally assimilated them.
South Wind
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An omnivorous troubadour, he roves from Manchester libraries to Colombian villages to salvage musical traditions – with recordings that move from Berber beats to the raptures of a raga, from the thrilling stillness of an Armenian lament to the sprightliness of an Elizabethan galliard.
In praise of … Jordi Savall | Editorial
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It is debatable whether an exhibition such as this should show the splendours of a collection or, more historically, also reveal the lapses of the collector's taste.
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For years I've been blaming it on middle age, poor blood, lack of vitamins, air pollution, saccharin, obesity, dieting, underarm odour, yellow wax buildup and other maladies that make you wonder if life is really worth living.
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His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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The room has a musty odour; the furniture looks dark, heavy and somber as if the house resents my presence.
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The odour while it was boiling was wonderful, so hopefully the end product will be equally good.
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Detectives envisage the creation of a criminal odour databank to trace and incriminate suspects.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's no different to someone brushing their teeth and wearing deodourant before a date.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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But doesn't the freezing cold cool their ardour?
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There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district.
The Opened Shutters
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Sixteen years later, her ardour hasn't dimmed.
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Now water is collected from the three hundred and sixty veins and, in the form of red blood, entereth the left testicle, where it is decocted, by the heat of temperament inherent in the son of Adam, into a thick, white liquid, whose odour is as that of the palm-spathe.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A lovey-dovey couple whispering sweet nothings amidst nature's breathtaking splendour, besides a couple of glass paintings are other brilliant pieces created by the young and upcoming artist.
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Balgriffin was once more wrapped in its wintertime odour of sweetly burning turf, and the clothes on the line never dried.
DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
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It was the smell, the smell of his own dug-out, a vile odour of putrefaction, of rotting bodies, of blood, of stale human sweat.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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And, moreover, as our best doings are only very pitiful shortcomings, worth little or nothing, it is just as good for us that the consciousness of our unprofitableness should be kept constantly before us, instead of the serene self-complacency of doing wonders, over which we should fall asleep, certainly neither in blessedness nor the odour of sanctity!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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But the show is also a bit dour and static.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a little disconcerting hearing the wide-eyed troubadour so distraught, but if it's any consolation, the emotional intensity of his folksy confessionals and heartfelt power-pop nuggets have been jacked up considerably.
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The soft music of the distant string band and -- oh, it was all dashed with a touch of Babylonic splendour with due regard for the decorum required by modern civilisation, and Nancy was sufficiently young and unused to delight in every moment of it.
The Man in the Twilight
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Kuepper's a troubadour, a wandering minstrel who unpacks his swag at the Great Northern this Sunday, May 8.
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He is a dour stayer so the step up to 4m should suit.
The Sun
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He said: 'It is a bit dour and that is a bit surprising given the amount of money spent on players who must have been in demand.
The Sun
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He is a dour stayer and is unexposed over marathon distances.
The Sun
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The event at the Charterhouse, where the young Elizabeth I stayed before acceding to the English throne, featured musicians, a court jester and yeomen guards in a bid to recreate the regal splendour of the Tudor age.
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They may have the Himalayas in all their splendour laid out before them, walks in pine-scented forests, lakes of a blue you can die for, wild flowers that would make mafia dons go gaga, and what is it that they demand?
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A stale odour of inevitability seeps from the disputes about wage differentials at Manchester City.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could smell the familiar odour of rotting foliage in his nostrils.
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On the other hand, unlike natural wounds of a certain duration, those of stigmatics do not give forth a fetid odour.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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They were unaffected by the odours of other chemicals.
Times, Sunday Times
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At twelve o'clock (noon) the next day the English engineers, with a party comprising all the Brazilian swells of Lagôa Dourada, proceeded to a valley within the village to lay the first chain for the exploration of the mountains which divide the watershed of the Rio São Francisco and the Paraopéba from the Carandahy and Rio Grande, for the prolongation of the Dom Pedro Segunda Railway.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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In particular, I want to drive up the Douro valley from Porto to the vineyards where the grapes for port wine are grown, and I want to see more of the estuaries of the Galician coast.
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Until then, the play is set in a sort of Scots mock - baronial splendour, filled with tinctures and libraries of apothecaries' texts, and complete with thunderous thunderbox.
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He is a dour stayer and is unexposed over marathon distances.
The Sun
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It may be her candour and unorthodox behaviour that prompted her superiors to put pressure on her to leave Egypt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The action takes place on Hal's stag event, an all-day pub-crawl organised by his dour friend Mr Mac.
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Ornamental trees add a touch of splendour to long avenues, while leafy plants in an arbour soften the sunlight.
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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It has an abominably disgusting odour, and is therefore named the "lattice stinkhorn.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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We shower, we smear and spray ourselves with product, we defecate into artfully designed porcelain which takes away the ordure invisibly and more or less odourlessly.
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Provenal literature in the medieval period consisted chiefly of the lyric poetry composed by the troubadours for the feudal courts of the Midi, northern Italy, and Spain.
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It's a bit of an art, because you have to ensure a silent evacuation and a quick disassociation from any lingering odours.
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He's a dour stayer but would probably prefer softer ground and this is a rise in class.
The Sun
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_October 9th_ -- Started for Portugal on board the 'Douro' from Southampton.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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Gary Dourdan (presenter and CSI star) admitted to wearing makeup on a daily basis and was so happy to find one that won’t clog is pores.?
Dermacia Breathable Foundations and Skincare Treated Country Music’s Biggest Stars at the ACMAs
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He has the clothes, the shoes, the pompadour, and the ‘strong, silent, coolness’ thing completely down cold.
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I enquired the cause, when, with his natural candour, he informed me that he could not help being more impressed by what he termed the prating of the gossips who had just left us, than, perhaps, he ought to be; and then showed me a little vellum case which he found at the Lodge, and which, he was then assured, was dropped by the young lady of whom they had been talking.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
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His cousin the pandour died in Vienna, and, as Trenck believed that he had left him a fortune of some millions, he tore his tender ties asunder, and hastened to Vienna to receive this rich inheritance, which, to his astonishment, he found to consist not in millions, but in law processes.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
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They have an unpleasant odour and taste.
The Dictionary of Nutritional Health
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The extent to which a person is annoyed by the perception of an odour varies.
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The film is directed with a technical bravura and visual splendour.
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Without its gilded splendour and cheap bars, some peers might want to call it a day anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
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Roman satin" and what is called "_satin de luxe_" (perhaps because it is not so luxurious as it pretends to be) are effective ground-stuffs easy to work upon; but there is an odour of pretence about satin-faced cotton.
Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
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I allude especially to the monorhyme, Rim continuat or tirade monorime, whose monotonous simplicity was preferred by the Troubadours for threnodies.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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On account of his rank and his services, people pay the bestarred and betitled old brute a sort of reverence; and he looks down upon you and me, and exhibits his contempt for us, with a stupid and artless candour which is quite amusing to watch.
The Book of Snobs
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It dawned upon me to what end the puma and the other animals -- which had now been brought with other luggage into the enclosure behind the house -- were destined; and a curious faint odour, the halitus of something familiar, an odour that had been in the background of my consciousness hitherto, suddenly came forward into the forefront of my thoughts.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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A dour stayer, very much at home over this distance of three miles and three furlongs, he is taken to clinch the spoils.
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Reciters of epic poetry in the bardic tradition can loosely be described as minstrels, as can the instrumentalists who worked alongside the troubadours, trouvères, and Minnesinger.
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It is written so clearly, so directly, so unpretentiously, with candour and endearing tenderness.
Family Legacies « Tales from the Reading Room
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I can only imagine what you are sensing as you, someone who works for and still has faith in the efforts to find commonalities for progress, watch the tightening of the power cumberbund, onethat iscinchingup aroundour waists.
G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing
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In defense of our approach, I would say only that ours can include the modern primitives, and also include Zen, Sufism, The Troubadours, western anarchism, cyberpunk, punk rock, cubism, Voltaire, ad infinitum.
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Having explored different directions, most recently the doom-laden troubadour swathed in strings, he has clearly taken a look at his audience and decided to give them what they want.
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life.
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I tupped her with no great ardour that night, I can tell you.
Isabelle
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Read 'Romeo and Juliet'; -- all is youth and spring; -- youth with its follies, its virtues, its precipitancies; -- spring with its odours, its flowers, and its transiency; it is one and the same feeling that commences, goes through, and ends the play.
Literary Remains, Volume 2
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The theory will steamroll over subtle distinctions between candour and honesty, tact and politeness, reticence and stonewalling.
The Times Literary Supplement
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So, I really hope that Dourish paper will help the field in recognizing (1) the need for "ethnography" in a form that is intended, aimed, and designed to support in a design process (i.e. design oriented ethnography).
Archive 2006-06-01
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It is therefore imperative that the procedures for the abatement of malodours are very effective.
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However, given the dour nature of the contest, it appeared that summer holidays were closer to the player's minds.
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The city is regaining a little of its former splendour.
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And he was to tell the story of it with disarming candour in Glory Glory!
Times, Sunday Times
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Rigby worked with ardour to suppress trafficking in slaves and his efforts to enforce the 1845 treaty were unremitting.
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Thou knowest with what joy I roamed over thy confines, and beheld the universal beauty that then was spread around; how tenderly I whispered through thy flowers, how joyfully I carried up their fragrant odours as a thank-offering to heaven; how merrily I sported on the hills, or taught the branches of thy lofty trees to bow, as in obeisance to Him who made them!
Parables From Nature
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Now we have a ghastly split between the mundane, apparently unsusceptible to any form of artistic transfiguration, and pure music whose splendour and misery are that it is uncontaminated by reality.
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I find this painting rather gloomy and dour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ‘office’ was a dour, airless place, with bulletproof glass screens protecting the two women who were processing the queue.
