How To Use Encrusted In A Sentence
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This is God-fucking wondrous awful, Thomas Blanky had time to think as the entire ton or ton and a half of ice-encrusted manrope and human being began being pulled upward as easily and surely as if a fisherman were hauling up his net after a casting.
The Terror
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Almost every conversation begins with a reminder that the speakers have "renk breath" and "dirt-encrusted nostrils".
The Long Song: Amazon.co.uk: Andrea Levy: Books
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False-firecracker Thrower @ 11: 49: Better than your boy, bushie, who kissed the terrorist-Saudis on the mouth, while holding their oil-encrusted hands.
White House: Obama monitoring terror situation closely
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In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze.
THE DIAMOND
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Eaten on their own as a candy or as an accompaniment to cheese, these little sugar encrusted fruit treats with a name that has no good translation, come in every imaginable flavor from raspberry to mirabelle plum to date.
Flora Lazar: Finally -- Locavore Candy at the Farmers Market
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The punctured part on a boy's arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)
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Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
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From shell-encrusted jewellery and belts through sequinned flip-flops and swimsuits to wetsuits and boards, it's all here.
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Beautiful silver earrings hang from the points of her ears, encrusted by black diamonds and deep purple amethysts.
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Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
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Some of the valuable horse aigrettes, which are encrusted and plumed, are also kept in the treasury.
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Their signature salad chock full of fresh greens, sun-dried tomatoes, spinach, avocado, eggplant portobello mushrooms and topped with pepita encrusted tofu is enough to show you that this ain't your traditional bar menu.
Carolyn Scott: Miami Twice: Miami Healthy Dining Hot Spots Part 2
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Pearl encrusted gold and enamel pocketwatch with automata
Of Clockwork Trains and Faberge Eggs
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The ice-encrusted cairn eventually appeared through the gloom and I was glad to retrace my steps downhill to a little niche where I could find some semblance of shelter.
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You might like a plain silver ring with ancient Celtic designs or a sapphire and diamond-encrusted ring made of pure gold.
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As on the fish serving fork, the terminal of the fork is formed by a thick quahog clamshell with a tiny crab on it, and the stem is lavishly encrusted with marine elements.
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You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world.
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Alongside her on the top deck of the Antarctic survey ship HMS Endurance, stood the Duke of Edinburgh in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, encrusted with gold braid.
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It's presented on a block of glass strewn with herbs, along with three Armagnac grapes encrusted in cornflakes and a foie gras parfait topped with a capering silver monkey.
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Henry VIII was fond of wearing a velvet, gold-embroidered purple doublet encrusted with diamonds, rubies and pearls.
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And she'd be dolled up for it, too, her dyed red hair shellacked into an indestructible coif, resplendent in a velour maxi lounging gown and jewel-encrusted slippers.
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The cross can be seen throughout the Christian world, from elaborate, gem-encrusted gold altar ornaments to simple wayside calvaries, in handsome stone marketplace crosses, and in the basic floor plan of Christian churches.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art
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The public will goggle at the kitsch vulgarity of diamond-encrusted eggs and crystal flowers.
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Encrusted with 25.5 cts of 'I'F' Flawless diamonds, a magnificent total of 53 individually set sparkling gems dwell beautifully in their solid 22ct Apple logo.
Gold iPad Supreme (PHOTO): The World's Most Expensive iPad Is Yours For $189,000
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory.
Chapter 10
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The taste and science displayed in its execution do credit to the engineer; and the soil in which it is imbedded, being argillaceous, partially encrusted with strontian, reflects equal honour on his geological attainments.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 375, June 13, 1829
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The resulting bracelets and brooches were realised in gold and enamel, encrusted with a dazzling array of precious gemstones.
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The corners of his mouth were still encrusted with chocolate from his cookies.
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The rim of the windowpane was encrusted with snow.
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The purple domino, worn carelessly open, revealed black satin encrusted with silver and diamonds.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Most chitons feed by rasping algae and other encrusted food off of the rocks on which they crawl.
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Characters arrive encrusted with pages and pages of back story yet somehow manage to remain opaque.
Times, Sunday Times
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I thought of what Amy had told me of the Fellowship, its hatred for what it perceived as human weakness and fallibility; of Faulkner's ornate Apocalypses, visions of the final judgment; and of the word hacked beneath James Jessop's name on a length of dirt-encrusted wood.
The Killing Kind
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Her coats featured jewel encrusted collars and belts, also made in tweed and checks.
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This specimen of profound vulgarity, spotted at the Beverly Hills Neiman Marcus between cases of Baccarat and Limoges, is a jewel-encrusted Mister Potato Head.
Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
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The resulting bracelets and brooches were realised in gold and enamel, encrusted with a dazzling array of precious gemstones.
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He comes with a collection of satin platforms, kitten heels and jewel-encrusted flats, and if shoes aren't your bag, maybe handbags are.
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The many battleships, cruisers and transport ships which were bombed or torpedoed during the war have now become coral-encrusted artificial reefs, attracting schools of fish, sharks and manta rays.
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She arrived home with her knees encrusted with mud.
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I agree that we should have reduced expenditures in the Housing and Urban Development Department, but what we did was to get rid of a whole layer of regional offices and to consolidate a lot of those various programs that had been kind of encrusted with bureaucracy over the years.
President Remarks To Emory University Students
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Thirsting for a strong cup of joe, we kept our sand-encrusted eyes peeled for any sign of gourmet coffee.
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Ancient middens and sacred sites may lie hidden, undiscoverable, coral encrusted, or disassembled by the action of surf and tide.
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The fact is, the "sombre" message (as it is being officially endorsed) of a jewel encrusted and glorified dynastic ruler is a far cry from the values of humility and humanity that Jesus Christ represents for those of the Abrahamic faiths.
Shirin Sadeghi: Ahmadinejad's Alternative to the Queen's Christmas Message
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The shoes are encrusted with more than 400 round and pear-shaped diamonds.
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt - encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket.
Chapter 10
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A silver band with pale blue jewels encrusted within was set upon his head.
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She smouldered in a floor length gem-encrusted crimson gown and Tango-coloured mohair evening wrap, while the model modelled the flimsiest of fur halter tops.
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Heart Buchanan fills its quirky windows with strings of chilli peppers and pink net constructions encrusted with love hearts which allow views into its warm interior.
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Every surface is encrusted in sponges, corals and weed.
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Too often the exterior of an encrusted entrée gets a tad scorched in the pan, lending a burned taste to an otherwise fine piece of fish or fowl.
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Laurie's hand automatically moves to cover the silver brooch, fingers tracing the elaborate curling leaves encrusted with marcasite.
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At Louvain, the three ornate facades are sculptural in a conventional sense, completely encrusted with baldachins and statues, the surfaces richly worked like a monumental reliquary.
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Only in rare examples are there discontinuities in the silica groundmass around the microbes that may denote the outer limit of the silica that originally encrusted the microbe.
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Dolce & Gabbanna’s vision of a catwoman was a gladiator-like black cape with crystal encrusted knee and elbow pads, as well as a mask.
Buzzine » Superhero Fashion and Fantasy
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Salt from the sea had encrusted on the dry sand.
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Strappy high-heeled sandals and fabulous glitter-encrusted stilettos are more my kind of thing.
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An encrusted gash scarred his forehead, and one side of his face was swollen with dying yellow bruises.
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One of the five rings she wore was a gift from the nongambling Bill. it showed a horse's head framed by a horseshoe encrusted with tiny diamonds.
The First Friend Of Bill
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She walked past Emily and sat down on the couch, haggardly scrubbing her tear-encrusted face with her hands.
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In the middle of the knot glinted a black cabochon star sapphire and around the winding arms of the metal was a circle encrusted with hundreds of tiny diamonds that shimmered in the light.
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Every house needed a coat of paint and the stonework was encrusted with the grime of heavy industry.
GOODBYE CURATE
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They are powerful if unreliable weapons, and each one is a valuable artifact, encrusted with baroque decoration and intricate designs.
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Tshudy and Feldmann made such observations on the counterpart of concretions containing macruran decapods in which the exocuticle did not exfoliate, and they recognized serpulid worms and oysters that had encrusted the host.
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It's a sorry sight to see two stunted propshafts, encrusted with marine growth, but he films the severed ends anyway.
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With his ice-encrusted mitten, he covered his eyes, bowed his head, and listened with dread to the rising wind.
THE BROKEN GOD
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A diamond-encrusted, 14-karat-gold fortune cookie is available for $1,100 from Niemen Marcus, an upscale department store.
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He glances up as the sun suddenly shafts through the dark rain clouds, illuminating two great rings of lichen-encrusted sarsens.
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Look closer: the bow is encrusted with millions of kaleidoscopic jewel anemones.
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A glittering tribute to Michael Jackson will have you swaying your neck to the beat of "Thriller," while the costume exhibit will lure you to long flowing gowns, sweat-stained debonair ensembles, crystal-encrusted bodices such as the one worn in Swan Lake and even M.C. Hammer's infamous harem pants.
Maria Russo: Saratoga Springs: Mineral Baths, Museums And Homemade Potato Chips
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Additionally, for the students, the potential stress of working with a new material or in a new technique is counterbalanced by the undiluted fun of trying to create a beaked bull or a jewel-encrusted woodpecker.
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The manuscript is bound in gold and silver and encrusted with jewels.
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Cadfael bathed away the encrusted exudations and cleaned the gash with a lotion of water betony and sanicle.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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Granite bedrock and boulders – all encrusted with lichens – are lapped in clumps of white bladder campion and pink thrift, drifts of bluebells and patches of turf starred with vernal squill (the seaside bluebell).
Country diary: Cornwall
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The water was low, its surface encrusted with an algae greener than the grass which sprang between the tiling at the pool's edge.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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Characters arrive encrusted with pages and pages of back story yet somehow manage to remain opaque.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now, the true Bath bun is soft, like a marriage between a brioche and an Easter hot-cross, but encrusted with currants and gritty nibs of sugar.
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Just at her elbow was the gay _bonbonniere_ containing the brown, cream-encrusted walnuts.
Seven Little Australians
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Plaque-clogged arteries in the abdomen suggest a red-meat eater; black-encrusted lungs signify long-term nicotine addiction; the faint indentation in the ulna is the scarred evidence of an arm broken in childhood.
Body of Knowledge
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Gilded and jewel-encrusted have been the favors we have bestowed on our friends; odorless and radioactive is the justice we have meted to traitors who sought safety abroad.
The Committee to Re-Elect Putin
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But there weren't any obvious valuables such as diamond encrusted letter openers or solid gold vases that I could tuck into a case.
SOMEBODY
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The twigs soon become encrusted with a mammelated substance of a red colour more or less deep, nearly transparent, hard, and having a brilliant conchoidal fracture.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Mud-encrusted mukluks and wet Wellingtons have left their dirty footprints in your foyer and down the cellar stairs.
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She arrived home with her knees encrusted with mud.
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To simplify matters, he took some photographs with him of Lee's gold-encrusted fist so he could be sure of getting something equally tawdry, ostentatious and meretricious.
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I will be wearing my usual Avocet touring shoes, khaki touring shorts extra short, ragg wool socks, Primal "Pink Floyd" jersey and disheveled, Cytomax-encrusted beard.
Gender Issues: Sealing Victory With A Kiss
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I may be interested in a stud encrusted leather rhombus.
Regretsy – Stud Service
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The Black Eyed Peas donned oversized mirrored eyewear, leather-like bodysuits and rhinestone- encrusted microphones befitting Michael Jackson impersonators.
Minnesota homespun costumes for Super Bowl
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On deck was a complete section of superstructure, probably the accommodation block, and beside it a lifeboat davit encrusted in coral.
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These ranged from startlingly androgynous, man-tailored jackets and breeches to mile-high pouf coiffures decorated with intricate landscapes and military battle-scenes, and from sweeping, jewel-encrusted gowns with which she upstaged her husband at public appearances to risqué peasant-girl shifts that she sported at her private country retreat.
Caroline Weber: Let Them Eat Lace: Marie Antoinette's Fierce and Fearless Fashion
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In the process, the farmer Scarecrow found out how intelligent he was, the lion found his courage, and the working Tin Man received a new source of strength in a bimetallic tool -- a golden ax with a blade of silver -- and he would never rust again as long as he had his silver oil can encrusted with gold and jewels.
Balkinization
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Here you can see intricate jewel-encrusted horse harnesses or the gold block designs on white headscarves.
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A chryselephantine figure of Zeus sat on a jewel-encrusted throne carrying a small figure of Nike in his left hand, a scepter in his right.
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In each work, the encrusted outer coating veils a delicate drama of line, light and shadow that takes place just beneath the surface.
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Being in such shallow water, the coral encrusted wreck is a mini-ecosystem in itself and snorkeling here is like being in a large aquarium.
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The emperor was clad in a rich robe encrusted with jewels.
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Her favorite collectibles included jeweled fans, jewels, and objets d' art, although her overall collection included everything from royal seals to cameos and from Fabergé animals to gold boxes encrusted with jewels.
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The water was low, its surface encrusted with an algae greener than the grass which sprang between the tiling at the pool's edge.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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One afternoon we passed over some abandoned terraces, their earth encrusted and overgrown with scratchy, sunburned weeds.
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It is encrusted in pink algae and offers a nice contrast to the wreck, which is resting on a sandy bottom.
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They're pretty, I suppose, but have all the allure for me of a diamond-encrusted casserole dish, or gold-and-ruby bootlaces.
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The churches were taxed until LBJ struck a deal with them, basically: "We will let you go tax-free as long as you keep your gism encrusted fingers out of the political pie.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
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After all, it’s hard to argue that a flour-encrusted marmoset is any stranger than, say, kapparot.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Passover and the charination ritual
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Since then, the cotton tops have been shrunk, tie-dyed, torn, cropped, coloured, encrusted with jewels and covered in zips.
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When Carmine lifted the lid of the hamper he found a set of pajamas soiled and encrusted with vomitus; clearly they had been used to do the wiping up.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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‘They should be glad I am not writing about the food,’ smiled Miller after sampling the herb-encrusted halibut with fennel sauce, scalloped potatoes and asparagus.
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The climax came when a sequin encrusted Jesus (played by the best actor – a woman) was raised dramatically from the ground on a rough wooden cross.
My journey into the world of narrative
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An event occurs, and it slowly becomes encrusted with narratives about what happened.
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Outcrops of these green sandstone ledges are so encrusted with fossil oysters that they look like rubble from ancient middens.
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The one-of-a-kind bijoux—a sapphire-encrusted starfish brooch and gumball-sized pearl and diamond swan earrings—are available at Ms. Druckenmiller's year-old Upper East Side gallery-cum-boutique, F.D. a mecca for seekers of 20th-century Cartier baubles, vintage Birkin bags and antique Rolexes.
Fresh Picks: Fashion News
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Whether it takes the form of a preference for diamond-shaped midfield formations, jewel-encrusted earrings or Louis Vuitton washbags, fashions within the world of football are notoriously fickle.
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The nomos is horribly corroded and encrusted with all sorts of gunk.
The present state of affairs is unsatisfactory « Isegoria
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Since then, the cotton tops have been shrunk, tie-dyed, torn, cropped, coloured, encrusted with jewels and covered in zips.
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The punctured part on a boys arm (who was inoculated with fresh limpid virus) on the sixth day, instead of shewing a beginning vesicle, which is usual in the cow-pox at that period, was encrusted over with a rugged, amber-coloured scab.
III. A Continuation of Facts and Observations Relative to the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1800
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The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps.
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The dull grey concrete of the flats was coated in a layer of thick slimy mould and the windows were encrusted with smog fumes.
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The banks of this creek are adorned with natural groves and copses, in which Mr. Hall observed the candleberry myrtle in great abundance: but a more interesting sight was afforded by numerous organic remains, with which the blocks of limestone, scattered through the low ground around it, are encrusted, as if with rude sculpture.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe
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Teh First Rule of Princesses states that 'None shall dare touch Teh Jewel Encrusted Tiara of Teh Princess nor besmirch her honour through any act which results in dislodgment from the carefully tended coiffure of Teh Princess'.
In Memoriam.
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Rubbing your eye can lead to encrusted eyelids, mucous discharge and further irritation.
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I am unable to learn to what species it is most nearly related; its name, which doubtless has reference to its peculiar form and habit, would seem to isolate it even from its parents, if such are known; it, however, belongs to that section having thick leathery leaves, ligulate, encrusted, arranged in rosette form, and having excavated dots.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The sand was dotted with saucer - sized jellyfish, rocks and pools are squidgy with jelly buttons encrusted with limpets, barnacles and winkles and are seedbeds for mussels.
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You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world.
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The fronts were encrusted with dried mud, collected over the years.
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt - encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket.
Chapter 10
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They analyzed the remains of food left in tombs as offerings and the residues of beer and crumbs of bread encrusted on pottery shards and vessels.
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The contact between these zones is marked by large voids, the bottom surfaces of which are encrusted with druses of tabular microcline crystals.
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Encrusted with verdigris, two statues of the "liver bird", the city's symbol, sit atop a riverside building.
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What evidence is there for the supposedly health-giving properties of these soil-encrusted tubers and these repulsive, squashy sacks of sticky juice and seed?
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Washing out her blood encrusted hair, she watched the dirty brown stains run down the bath floor, in twisted patterns, that stuck in some places.
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The craft had assumed a coralline life of its own, its rails and ladders transformed into encrusted versions of themselves.
RUSHING TO PARADISE
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Cleaning the fish, and the mud-encrusted seiners, required more laughter and beer than skill and water.
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My body's in shambles encrusted with brambles that sharpen the air I breathe.
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The side facing me had five square windows complete with deadlight covers, all encrusted in coral.
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The gold crown was encrusted with precious gems.
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That gritty feeling in my eyes, as if the lids were encrusted with sand; it would pass.
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He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur.
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The pieces likely to reach the highest prices are a rare Ming celadon incense burner dating from the 15th century and some encrusted martaban jars.
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Dubbed, ‘the man with the golden flute’, because of well, his fourteen karat gold flute encrusted with diamonds, Sir James Galway has a storied musical career.
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Her gown was of azure satin, encrusted with many gems, and her long court train glittered and shone with gold and silver.
The Fairies and the Christmas Child
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The twist that makes this look right now is that the lapels, fronts and hems of the tweeds are encrusted with gold and silver or outlined in colourful stones.
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It was hard to tell of course considering the state of him, hard to see beyond the filth that encrusted his body and clothing.
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From the jewel-encrusted tikka adorning the bride's forehead, to her chandelier-like earrings, ornate nose ring and the bangles on her arms, to the rings on her hennaed fingers and toes, a traditional Indian wedding involves some serious "bling".
Every Indian wedding adds to demand in world's biggest jewellery market
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Being a newly minted attending I couldn't just show up for work in a pink oxford button-down with a flamingo-encrusted bow tie, so I decided to put on a suit.
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In front of each chair lay a jeweled, ruby-encrusted goblet of wine, whose inlaid gemstones shone in the bright lamplight.
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There is a good covering of marine life, and many rocks are encrusted by a hard pink growth.
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Steep sloping walls and cascading waterfalls of coral encrusted the features like a blanket of molten lava.
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Mr Proudfoot will use poultices to remove encrusted dust and grime before treating the stone with chemical strengtheners to prevent cracking and erosion.
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Though the island is of volcanic origin, corals have encrusted her flanks and over the millennia these have built reefs, growing farther and farther out to sea.
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Characters arrive encrusted with pages and pages of back story yet somehow manage to remain opaque.
Times, Sunday Times
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The walls around flicker with refractions from the gem-encrusted trove that is the Iranian Crown Jewels.
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The water was low, its surface encrusted with an algae greener than the grass which sprang between the tiling at the pool's edge.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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That wretched apology of a creature stripped from me my dirt-encrusted shirt that I had worn since my entrance to solitary, and exposed my poor wasted body, the skin ridged like brown parchment over the ribs and sore-infested from the many bouts with the jacket The examination was shamelessly perfunctory.
Chapter 10
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As well as big Peruvian ponchos, pretty lace blouses, bead-encrusted bags and the sassiest dresses in town, you'll find something altogether more elusive.
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The dashboard was marked with dints and encrusted in a thin layer of dust and grime.
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The scene of Yuri writing his poems in an ice-encrusted dacha with wolves and winds howling outside seems to sum up this land.
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The sand was dotted with saucer - sized jellyfish, rocks and pools are squidgy with jelly buttons encrusted with limpets, barnacles and winkles and are seedbeds for mussels.
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The bulletproof windows are gold-plated, the exhaust is made of tungsten, the gauges are encrusted with diamonds and rubies and the exterior has a Kevlar coating.
Prombron: The World's Baddest SUV
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But just as Crosby would have done on a Canadian pond years ago, he ignored the bumpiness of snow-encrusted ice to calmly beat Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller Tuesday for a goal in the third round of the shootout to give Pittsburgh a 2-1 win in the second regular-season outdoor game in NHL history.
Crosby's outdoor act follows 'a great script'
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Every house needed a coat of paint and the stonework was encrusted with the grime of heavy industry.
GOODBYE CURATE
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Thank the prophet Teddybear that the water is fairly hot, because the inside of the machine was encrusted with backwashed coffee grounds and various signs of oxidisation.
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She added with some little diffidence that the fee for a seance was a guinea, and, as she left, took a card out of a case, encrusted with glowing rubies, and gave it her.
Queen Lucia
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As you might imagine, Beethoven is a composer of particular interest for such revisionism, given both the encrusted consensus on interpreting his music and the highly-charged political atmospheres both in which he worked and in which his music has been used (and misused) ever since.
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Salt from the sea had encrusted on the dry sand.
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Behind that there is, encrusted with petrified straw, a wooden box.
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I've got to get out of the house early today, as it will take me quite a while to unstick my car from the ice-encrusted driveway.
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She evokes the futile battle against insects: The pages of my notebook tell their own story, encrusted with flattened mosquito and blackfly corpses and splotches of my own blood.
Two books on the Arctic
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Supported on four feet modeled as shells (mussel, scallop, oyster, and clam), it has irregularly crenate ends that are encrusted with sand and various types of aquatic life, and other marine-related elements adorn the lower sides.
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This is evidenced in cases where gems have been found encrusted on their matrix, which latter was being slowly transformed to the character of the jewel encrusted, or "scabbed" on it.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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This 33-pound Swarovski-crystal-encrusted satin gown by Dior features 6,000 sequins — handstitched with gold thread, obviously.
Blake Lively: An American in Paris
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Software Description: About Snowing at Sunnyridge Farm XII, This wallpaper is a picture of a snow encrusted antique wagon wheel.
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It's presented on a block of glass strewn with herbs, along with three armagnac grapes encrusted in cornflakes and a foie gras parfait topped with a capering silver monkey.
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The floor was of bare wood, unpolished, with a curious weather-stained look, almost as though it was the salt-encrusted deck of an ancient sailing ship.
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The windows were encrusted with dirt.
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It's fresh, a triumph of spirit, like spring sun undeterred by dirt-encrusted windows, first breath of morning against your naked spine.
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The sand was dotted with saucer - sized jellyfish, rocks and pools are squidgy with jelly buttons encrusted with limpets, barnacles and winkles and are seedbeds for mussels.
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Both sides of the family were encrusted with baronetcies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Porcupine fish and old wives hover near encrusted piles, while talma poke among the soft corals.
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Keeping the cables off the often mud-encrusted down tube is a good thing for cyclocross.
’Cross Check: Fondriest Cross Carbon cyclocross bike reviewed
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Some are encrusted with costume jewelry, evoking the roughly bejeweled icons of Byzantium.
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The Glacier Express is the most famous of several rail journeys that plough through the snow-encrusted Alps.
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Mould has seeped its way through holes on the outside of the building and encrusted itself into the walls, gyprock and insolation that house them.
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Mr. Fagan also succumbs to self-indulgence, telling us, for instance, how "as I dunked my salt-encrusted head under a garden faucet after an afternoon sail," thoughts of water as "a merciful gift from God . . . resonated in my mind.
Any Drop to Drink?
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A thick layer of ice encrusted the surface of the dark water.
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A ceiling of blackened wooden beams gave way to an elegant, high ogival arcade encrusted with mosaic scenes from the Bible.
The Kaisho
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Entirely encrusted with corals, Mawali is a lively reef, sheltering huge scorpionfish, nudibranchs, sweepers, flower groupers, lionfish and harlequin ghost pipefish.
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In the work made of the Mollusk's cast-off clothing, I find encrusted the spindle shell of the Clausilium, the key shell of the pupa, the spiral of the smaller Helix, the yawning volute of the Vitrina, or glass snail, the turret shell of the Bulimus
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
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The milk tasted much like cows', but creamier, and the ash-encrusted cheese like cream cheese with a mild tang.
Jonathan Handel: The Laurel Canyon Goats Are Leaving!
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He was dressed formally: high-collared, open-necked shirt of sherris-silk, stiff with silver embroidery at the cuffs and neck-band; white velvet, square-necked tunic banded with silver bullion at hem and neck, skintight sherris-silk leggings and equally tight silver-encrusted boots to display his fine legs to best advantage.
The Elvenbane
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Due out next month, the Lollipop Bling line was apparently inspired by the diamond encrusted Ring Pop ring that Nick Cannon gave to Mariah Carey at their wedding vow renewal ceremony earlier this year … the 3 fragrances from the line — Ribbon, Honey and Mine Again — have been named for a few of Mimi‘s favorite songs.
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Mariah Carey Releases A New Fragrance Line Called ‘Lollipop Bling’
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Having to saddle up a mud-encrusted bike and ride hell-bent in inky blindness is a dicey proposition.
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Friday was spent weaving through filth encrusted bums passed-out in the gutter, as I took a therapeutic tour of some of the wicked (yet pretty pouncy) shops in the Valley.
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Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-encrusted personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country-music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton, died Sunday night of lung cancer.
Steve Anderson: An American Music Treasure Gone: Porter Wagoner, 1927-2007
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There were dozens of knives; ellipsoidal, stiletto, triangular, with or without blood gutters grooved nastily in their flanks, gem-encrusted little pig-stickers for argumentative ladies, trick knives concealed in eyeglass cases or boot soles ... all the deadly variety of which the honer was capable.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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So go love's small murders, tiny everyday escalations of injury, reacted to by disconnection, causing more injury, until one fast-forwards to a couple whose initial passion has become so 'encrusted' with disappointment that they barely function as a couple anymore.
December 2002
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A thick layer of ice encrusted the surface of the dark water.
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Backless vests in leopard-embossed jacquard fastened around the neck and across the back with stud-encrusted straps in black leather.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS)
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It was musty, cobwebbed, and encrusted with stalactic nitre, but the spirit of rare old vintages exhaled from its depths, and visionary clusters of purplest grapes dangled in every direction.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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In aquatic habitats, bryozoans may be found on all types of hard substrates: sand grains, rocks, shells, wood, and blades of kelps and other algae may be heavily encrusted with bryozoans.
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He wore a blue, faux rhinestone encrusted jumpsuit, huge sunglasses, and some of the shaggiest mutton chops I had seen in my life.
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The 18-carat gold watch encrusted with 400 diamonds is part of the Rado travelling exhibition.
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Artist Dan Harvey works beside a crystal encrusted minke whale skeleton entitled "Stranded" at the Natural History Museum in London May 30, 2006.