How To Use Miniature In A Sentence
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In the centre of the pond was an island; and on the island was a little summerhouse like a miniature pagoda.
TOY SHOP
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They are indeed miniatures, as the entire set of eight take about eight minutes to perform by the pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, violins, violas, cellos and one horn.
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These are complete miniatures of the parents and will soon busily be eating brine shrimp.
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Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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It was part of an enormous collection of metalwork, glass, ceramics and miniatures belonging to Ralph Bernal, a lawyer and MP.
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The head of research at a big-time doll maker informs us that a Rubicon has been passed: ‘Dolls are becoming less like toys,’ he says, ‘and more like miniature robots, digital companions.’
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But Fable Coin Golf is a miniature triumph, brilliantly mixing the dynamics of pinball and shove ha'penny with cunningly compelling results.
The 25 best smartphone games of 2011 (so far) – part one
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In front of each god was a miniature steel plate and a tumbler the size of a large thimble.
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The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature.
SACRAMENT
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A portrait of Barbara Barrett-Lennard, copied from a miniature after Thomas Hudson, is supported by her mourning parents in a portrait by Pompeo Batoni.
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Some choices include azalea, calla, hydrangea, miniature rose, moth orchid, Oriental lily, tulip, and ‘Wonder Bells Blue’ double campanula.
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Spiders, however, have a different adhesive structure at the tip of each leg, formed from a dense aggregation of miniature hairs called setae.
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On view are nearly 100 sculptures in beeswax, paper and bronze, along with photographs, miniatures and drawings in an exhibition largely installed by the artist.
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He's giving a party in miniature on his birthday.
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Through play, children act out in miniature the dramas of adult life.
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Working as miniature geologists, these robots will have miniature thermal emission spectrometers and an eye-height panoramic camera among their array of scientific instruments.
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It is only in retrospect that we can see that the story is a kind of miniature and somewhat oversharp version of the allegory that the Glass family stories would enact.
Justice to J.D. Salinger
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Roast suckling pig is served for New Year's in Cuba, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, and Austria—Austrians are also known to decorate the table with miniature pigs made of marzipan.
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The downdraught from the rotor raised a miniature sandstorm.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Note 23: See for example the Psalter miniature of this scene in Hs. 56632 f. 56v, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer?
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He has been experimenting with miniature gardens since he was about seven - encouraged by his mother, whose interests included bonsai.
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Objective To investigate the morphology of normal parotid gland of the miniature pig ( mining ).
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The fountain illustrated, an exquisite piece of Gothic architecture in miniature, was designed to be both fanciful and functional.
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All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes.
Ramuntcho
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No offence ') is a miniature comic masterpiece.
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Hemmed in by its straightedge boundaries, shining moons and planets of dust would swirl and turn, or glide in, through, and out of the beam's dimensions like miniature ships.
I didn't know Nostradamus played in McNamara's band (Novel - excerpt)
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Miniature donkeys are very popular as companion animals and for show.
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The exhibition provides endless proof of refinements of beauty in textiles and architecture, woodwork and metalwork, ceramics and miniature painting.
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an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes
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Now however[Sentencedict], a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
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Fascinated by toys and their miniature mechanisms, Ravel wrote his Mother Goose suite for two musical children as a four-hand duet.
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Drunkenness in its first degree presents you with a miniature picture of the symptoms of the more advanced stages of ebriose poisoning.
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Today, the German smooth-haired pinscher is considered the stepfather of several German dog breeds, including the miniature pinscher, wire-haired breeds such as the schnauzers and affenpinschers, and the popular Doberman pinscher.
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The next day Philip dressed in his miniature Pierre Cardin suit, a Rolex on his wrist.
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In the miniatures of an Alexandrian "Chronicle of the World", written probably during the fifth century we already find pictorial representation of the omophorion.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Portraits in miniature occupy an uncertain place in art historical studies.
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The most likely place for it to occur, he believes, is at miniature undersea volcanoes called hydrothermal vents, where the ingredients and conditions are just right for energy-harnessing chemical machinery to develop.
Is Life Inevitable? - The Panda's Thumb
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We had all assumed the miniature stela was one of the fakes that are turned out by the hundreds to be sold to gullible tourists.
LORD OF THE SILENT
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Think of it as a miniature Camden Crawl with less townie posturing, and no need for wristbands.www.treorchytown.co.ukFrank's Café and Campari Bar is set in an insalubrious multistorey car park in Peckham, but don't let that put you off.
The insider's guide to free arts
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Another piece of the jigsaw in the puzzle surrounding her whereabouts is the simultaneous disappearance of her pet miniature dachshund, Boris.
The Sun
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Fanciful miniature fruits and leaves interpreted in carnelian, agate, onyx and rock crystal are skillfully fashioned into opulent bracelets and chains.
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Some of the objects were miniatures especially made for the funeral, and many were deliberately broken, with only a portion interred in the cinerary urns, with the rest perhaps kept as mementoes for the living, he added.
Anglo-Saxons honored their dead with mundane household objects
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Those who have already spent time and money collecting themselves a full set of miniature fighting monsters may balk at the prospect of starting the lengthy process all over again.
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The buildings were all made of white stone, built carefully with elaborate details, as if every family lived in a miniature castle.
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Resembling a miniature windsock, the filter is deployed by means of a 0.14-in.-thick guidewire.
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The same technology has been used on cordless miniature vacuum cleaners.
The Sun
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Donovan delivered more than he received from Fitin; he sent the Russian reports on oil terminals in Romania, the location of German spare parts depots, Abwehr spying on the Soviets in Turkey, gossip Dulles picked up on Hitler and Göring, along with a sampling of OSS toys, such as the suitcase radio, pistol silencers, pocket incendiaries, and a portable microfilm set with miniature camera for agents photographing documents in the field.
Wild Bill Donovan
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Visitors, four at a time, can float in the spirituality of this miniature monumental space.
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The exhibition featured bobbin lace, patchwork and quilting, cross stitch, canvas work embroidery, macramé, and even miniature furniture.
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The spontaneous appearance of a forest of oaks on the eastern shores of Asia was just as probable, under favoring conditions -- though occurring subsequently to the time of their appearance on this continent -- as that of the miniature forests of "samphire," or small saline plants, which spontaneously made their appearance about the salt-works of Syracuse, when conditions actually favored.
Life: Its True Genesis
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Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss have done here for creepy-crawlies and numbers what they did for animals and letters in 2009's "Alphabeasties": In this case, they've used innumerable miniature numbers to create the shapes of creatures, about which they then tell us more.
Critters That Crawl, Fly And Count
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I bought some miniature furniture for my niece's dolls' house.
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Their return in a second blister pack of two miniatures forebodes devastation among enemy ranks!
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The miniature poodle hasn't had a hit for 25 years.
The Sun
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Among these is James Casebere, who photographs miniature architectural constructions in artificial light.
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The display will include ancient millstones, Victorian and Albert period clothing, and the Michael Cowan working miniatures.
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Wander our surviving early 18th-century streets and look at the finely wrought brick window arches, the mellow brick and precise pointing or the well-cut stone, and the erudite door surrounds, the miniature porticoes leading into the sacred environs of the home.
British architecture: Georgian
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The portrait miniature seems to be a development of two older traditions: the medieval illumination of manuscripts and the Renaissance portrait medal, which was itself a revival of a classical form.
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Careful, many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all; make sure to ask.
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Pizzette are miniature pizzas which are often fried rather than baked.
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One year my mother bought her a dollhouse with miniature wood furniture, chintz curtains, little made-up beds, and a perfect family of carved dolls, father dressed in his suit, mother with an apron around her waist, two sisters and a brother, as if to create what we lacked.
History of a Suicide
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Inset in the paneling are 260 rare miniatures of Indo - Persian heritage.
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We arranged for 33 donkeys and miniature donkeys to receive veterinary care, and we found new homes for camels, emus, bison and several large South American rodents called cavies.
Wayne Pacelle: Menagerie of Animals Saved from Suffering
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The miniature pinscher made the top 10 in San Diego and Sacramento.
Labradors fetch top dog honor
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We saw pictures of dollhouses and all their miniature contents in the catalogs, but that was a fantasy world for us.
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Fine purveyors of vibrating massage chairs and miniature plastic pinball tables, the liquidation is being handled by Gordon Brothers Retail Partners.
Sharper Image Liquidating All Stores - The Consumerist
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Ahead of me was a miniature fairy castle, etched in coral with moats and ports and bastioned towers.
F&S Classic: Five Fathoms Down
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I'm convinced that the back-breaking queues for the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland are entirely driven by that opening trompe l'oieul flyover of London in miniature.
Boing Boing
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A woman walked past me, leading a miniature poodle with a tartan coat.
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The bell tower is pointed with four miniature spires and the paired Corinthian columns and the flanking pilasters on either side of the altar are a distinctive feature.
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Ecuador provides a perfect introduction to South America; it's a continent in miniature.
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For reduced distance rifle-firing on bases that have only pistol ranges, a scaled down target featuring 10 appropriately dimensioned miniature silhouettes is placed at 25 meters.
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The blooms of freesia, narcissus, hyacinths, cattleya orchids, and miniature gardenias are often short-lived, but their sweet fragrance makes up for their early demise.
How To Avoid Housework
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Mementos: Painted and Photographic Miniatures, 1750-1920" traces the popularity of pocket-size portraits created by greats such as John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale.
Don't Miss: July 9-15
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My buddy enthusiastically pointed out a lobster beneath a ledge, as well as a miniature version that was only about 3cm long!
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She plays almost like a jazz drummer, holding down the rhythm while finding space for miniature solo spots.
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Persian poetry and miniature painting had immense prestige.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The miniature aircraft could be fitted with cameras and heat-seeking equipment, allowing police to carry out aerial reconnaissance from a control room.
Surveillance Britain
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The finale takes on almost orchestral proportions, demonstrating the composer's wish to be associated with more than folk music and cute miniatures.
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The exhibition is a showcase of miniature artwork, with everything from converted matchboxes to sculptures made from bird bones.
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Locomotives once used by showmen to haul and power fairground rides; road rollers like Blackberry Jack, which was submerged in brambles before its acquisition for restoration; and more manoeuvrable tractors, including Bo Peep and Hot Favourite, encircled by a procession of their miniature counterparts.
Country diary: Stithians, Cornwall
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Lots of plastic miniatures add to the fun and while there are plenty of dice to be rolled there's enough strategy to keep the more serious minded gamer interested.
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Both speakers repeat this formula so often that this is the whole conference in miniature.
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They used miniature cameras to photograph secret documents and shortwave radios to receive coded messages from their spy masters, prosecutors said.
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When they wheel and dance like miniature starlings, the consequence is that three-dimensional shapes are formed, as tissues invaginate in response to the movements of cells;* or swell or shrink due to local patterns of growth and cell death.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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The figures shown in the picture above depict Connoisseur 8-pounders and Elite 12-pounders along with some Elite Miniatures artillery crew in bicorn, as worn in the 1805-07 campaigns.
Russian Artillery
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The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy - The Exhibition features film footage, props, costumes and artefacts from the movies, including armoury, animatronics and miniatures, as well as computer and mechanical interactives.
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Welcome to the fiercely competitive world of miniature golf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Man called a "macrocosm" because possessing in miniature the qualities of the Universe, 667-l.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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Here, under labyrinthine covered arches, one can buy items as varied as ceramics, carpets, silver, brass, miniatures, tiles, saffron, pistachio nuts and henna.
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They may sew more than 1,000 miniature beads onto one outfit.
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We also felt it appropriate to provide a more substantial trophy for the jockey and trainer and to provide the strapper with a Cup miniature.
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In the centre of the pond was an island; and on the island was a little summerhouse like a miniature pagoda.
TOY SHOP
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It's a toss-up whether the buildings are the diminutive structures of a miniature golf course or the towers of the wide world beyond the backyard.
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The idea was to mimic the conditions in which the plants grew, so why not mimic an alpine landscape in miniature?
Times, Sunday Times
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Many of them were very ornamental in shape, highly decorated with miniatures and floreated embellishment, the monogram or name of the owner often being added.
Chats on Household Curios
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The modern equivalent would be a miniature firescreen.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the left of this central section is the Quick Launch toolbar which has miniature icons of many programs that you can launch with just one click from the toolbar.
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Numerous panels and illuminated miniatures or historiated initials survive and frequently appear on the art market.
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I no longer remember every detail, lucid and logical though they were, but it involved pern-type firelizards miniature dragons, familiars, astral bodies and magic children.
Conversation in a dream
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Again in miniatures from the ninth century the figure is robed, and stands erect on the cross and on the suppedaneum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
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The rose gardens demonstrate the use of carpeting varieties and of the miniature kinds as tub plants.
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He has not yet advised me to use the earth colours as was done by traditional artists when they painted miniatures.
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Timur, or Tamerlane, modelled himself on Genghiz Khan, and miniatures on the wall depict his ferocious onslaught on Baghdad.
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The ancestor of these miniature electronic devices is the vacuum tube.
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The term 'cute' and 'tool' aren't often associated, but I can't think of a better way to describe this tiny screwdriver designed to look like a miniature tank hanging from your keyring.
Gizmodo
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We'd arrived at the police station, a squat grey box of a building that resembled a miniature prison.
THE EXECUTION
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For added safety, we will fit miniature circuit breakers to provide reliable and easily operated protection when using any electrical equipment.
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Delicate eggshells make precious pots for tiny plants, such as coleus seedlings or small succulents or colorful miniature African violets.
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Beautiful countryside (like Canada in miniature), but those roads and the rail/car bridges gave me the willies!
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While the children were delighted by the presence of the smaller breeds like pugs and miniature pinscher, the body language of the grown-ups revealed a liking towards bigger breeds like great Danes and German shepherds.
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Building styles from throughout the country branch off from a main square, showing the visitor a miniature Spain.
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The ravine grew more and more beautiful, and an ascent through a dark wood of arrowy cryptomeria brought us to this village exquisitely situated, where a number of miniature ravines, industriously terraced for rice, come down upon the great chasm of the Kinugawa.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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The doomed King Charles I's surveyor, Abraham van der Doort, for instance, committed suicide after misplacing one of 3,000 miniatures.
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Dimitrova has spent the past year working on her reading of the visual text at the British Library, but in order for the project to move forward, the miniatures need to be filmed before they can be transferred to the final CD-Rom.
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They do look more like miniature aurochs, but that is because they have not been selectively bred for beef or milk, and cattle that have been left to their own devices will tend to revert to ancestral type.
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The miniature calamondin ‘orange’ grown as a decorative house plant is sometimes considered to be a mandarin × kumquat hybrid, and sometimes assigned to a species of its own.
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Paired with the kinds of things you find at your typical nightspots—i.e. liquor, bottle service, plush couches and, no doubt, plenty of loud music—there will be things you don't usually find, i.e. bocce ball, shuffleboard and miniature golf.
Mulligans Over the Village
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He looked like a miniature version of his handsome and elegant big brother.
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Children will love the adventure playground and miniature railway, picnic sites and woodland walks.
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We follow as they re-enact the wars of the nations in miniature from the safety of their respective compounds during a placement in 70's Peking.
Le Sabotage amoureux
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Single cerise. Crown variegated green and cream, girl foliage. Miniature.
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Semidoublel orchid - mauve pansy. Variegated dark green and gold, plain; sucker propagation. Miniature.
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Small is beautiful in the world of antiques where miniature furniture has become so collectable that some of the highest quality pieces are selling for more than the real thing.
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A tray of miniature fruit ices appeared after dessert, along with mint truffles and slivers of candied ginger.
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It holds the National Toy Hall of Fame and many world renowned collections of toys, miniatures, dollhouses as well as the world's most comprehensive collection of dolls.
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It is like some miniature and magic church, a casquet made splendid not with jewels but with beauty, where the miracle picture of Madonna -- not that ancient and wonderful picture by Ugolino da Siena, but a work, it is said, of Bernardo
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
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In place of the utility room sit a miniature family room and dining area.
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Foundry's version of Blucher (left) and Hohenlohe (center) compared to an Elite Miniatures general (right).
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The children played musical chairs in the living room, miniature golf in the back yard, and rode wagons made with skates, two-by-fours, and apple boxes.
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Hot hors d’œuvres could be miniature savoury pastries or tiny fritters or other similar titbits; but these do not belong to the mainstream hors d’œuvres tradition.
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The strong demand for bicycle and pedicab miniatures enabled Maryanto to repay the loan in full, on time.
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The manuscript's decoration is lavish: it contains 46 full-page miniatures, painted headpieces and initials, and over a thousand gold letters.
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Some crustaceans hatch young that are like miniature adults; others go through a larval stage called a nauplius.
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(For the satisfaction of his patients, I may observe, parenthetically, that the skull and the "wombat" -- that last is a creature between a miniature pig and a very small badger -- were not precisely packed up with the sarsaparilla!)
The Caxtons — Complete
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However, it was very much the habit to place the blank sheet as the recto (looking at the opening of a book, the right leaf), with the miniature on the verso (looking at the open book, the left leaf).
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He's bred miniatures as small as your thumbnail, and crossbred them to give large, ranging plants shape.
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Prospective PC will be the miniature circuit in embedded possessory cerebra.
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Large judicial minkisi such as Mangaaka were treated as though they were chiefs, even carried in litters, and therefore sometimes wear miniature ngongi as earrings, a mnemonic of the respect due them.
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Within minutes the miniature oasis was no more, a flavescent smudge of decay against the sickly, pallid earth.
A Triumph of Souls
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Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
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It is a moral tale in miniature about man and the planet.
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Some parents dress their children like miniature adults.
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It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter.
Exit the Actress
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The same goes for the tart salsa verde that came with miniature chicken flautas (a shade too oily) as an appetizer.
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But this time there's more you can do yourself including playing with artificial intelligence, making intro scenes, music and miniature arcade games, much of which would have been impossible with the trickier and narrower toolset of the original.
This week's new games
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He says the quadcopters, which measure less than a foot in diameter, take off from autonomous ocean vehicles, which serve as miniature aircraft carriers.
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Marilyn Peck, one of Australia's leading miniaturists who helped establish four Australian Miniature Art Societies, states that miniature art was probably first identified around the 7th century.
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The site yielded a miniature elbow pipe of catlinite, as identified through X-ray diffraction by James Gundersen and Lillian Pollock.
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For added safety, we will fit miniature circuit breakers to provide reliable and easily operated protection when using any electrical equipment.
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The final section of the show featured a miniature artist's office, with file cabinet, worktable, chair and wastebasket all set out on a funky full-sized work table.
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Below are our pick of the miniature heroes that will not max out your luggage allowance.
The Sun
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It runs the gamut of art riches over the centuries, stretching to murals, miniatures and manuscripts.
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At the mouth the shallow banks of the creek slanted sharply down around a large, flat boulder protruding from the lake, creating a miniature canyon of mud.
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Miniatures have smaller bone structure but their teeth are essentially similar in size to a larger horse, this leads to problems with overcrowding and impaction of teeth.
SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1240
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I was nervous because these particular scenes were so good, so well-written I could taste the bitterness, taste the defeat in the whiskey miniatures.
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Current design fashion is the building construction of outstanding room, the metallic desk lamp of Italianism is well worth doing here, because their itself is sculpture of a miniature.
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Included in the exhibition are largescale portraits by such court painters as Sir Peter Lely as well as miniatures and mezzotints.
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I'm committed to getting to know your miniature schnauzer.
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He looked like a miniature version of his handsome and elegant big brother.
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Of the twenty examples, only four contain miniatures or historiated initials, but all the examples have decorated initials.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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True miniatures, the trees are as happy in a container as in garden soil.
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Throughout the show, he finds constant excuses to swig Special Brew and bottles of scotch, even using spirits miniatures as puppets in a retelling of Goldilocks.
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Highlights of the royal collection include the painted miniatures, costumes and fearsome weapons.
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Herman said proudly that he was among the writers of the Prodeo bulletin published by the boys, while Ardi bragged about his ability to change cement sacks into colorful motorcycle miniatures.
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An arrangement of porcelain flowers, or miniature horses, or even a bowlful of gardenias from yesteryear would qualify as one of today's tablescapes.
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Unconventional contrivances and machina arcana include a range of desktop siege weapons including miniature trebuchets, ballistae, and mangonels.
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She fingered one of the three earrings, a miniature church key, that depended from a triply pierced ear.
SORT OF RICH
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Ends and means are concordant and, indeed, explicitly so, with every step toward the outcome a faithful miniature of the larger program.
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These are miniature jaw-like structures that come from a free-swimming worm-like animal, actually more closely related to fishes than to any of the other invertebrates.
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The patches are monitored by the coaster, which is a miniature fluorimeter, able to measure either excitation ratio for CO2 and pH or fluorescence lifetime for O2.
GEN News Highlights
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In the absence of ancestral halls in the United States, they perform rituals at miniature altars at home and in the place of business and in sanctuaries found in district and family associations in Chinatowns.
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They range from miniature varieties such as the Puppet series, which has scented flowers, to twelve inch tall standard varieties such as the Decora series whose leaves are marbled in silver.
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They are clearly miniature “houses for the gods,” as witnessed both by their clear architectural form and by the fact that in all West Semitic languages Canaanite, Phoenician, Punic, Aramaic, Hebrew, etc. the word ba¯yit/bêt is translated as both “house” and “temple.”
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The chelicarae are medium-sized, with small pincers for grasping food, they are like miniature versions of the large claws of Pterygotus.
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Tsarist Russia was a military empire, and this will be reflected by the many different uniforms on show, including a miniature version worn by the young tsarevich Alexei.
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Following an invisible beam a miniature submarine hones in on the device, until it comes up on Simmo's television monitor.
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The drive for more efficient and more sustainable farming methods also boosted a switch to miniature cattle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The second miniature shows a couple embracing, seated on a stone bench in front of a starry sky with a disc-shaped moon.
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Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
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The mountainous Welles presides over a corner table in the company of his miniature poodle Kiki.
Times, Sunday Times
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We've got a painting of Parsons here somewhere, a miniature done by another member of the club called Peter Lens.
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The results of an evening's worth of figure basing: Elite Miniatures French cuirassiers, dragoons and, oh, one Minden SYW Austrian cuirassier in the front row on the left.
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She likens her pieces to miniature abstract paintings - each one is an individual.
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The brilliance of the miniature of the stoning of St Stephen, on that saint's chasuble, makes one wonder how much El Greco learned from Clovio and what success he would have had with small details, if he had not generally painted in haste.
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Once the cercaria enters the second intermediate host, it sheds its tail and becomes a metacercaria, which is little more than a miniature, but sexually immature, adult, that may, or may not, encyst.
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Johnson also worked at three-quarter-length and occasionally full-length, as well as painting portrait miniatures in oil on copper.
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As miniatures of human bodies, dolls have had many meanings.
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The Elsinore is truly the ship of souls, the world in miniature; and, because she is such a small world, cleaving this vastitude of ocean as our larger world cleaves space, the strange juxtapositions that continually occur are startling.
CHAPTER XXVI
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Knot spun away in a grey miniature cloud, wigeon split up into small groups while the redshanks did not seem to know what to do.
Country diary: Cromarty Firth
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The family of orchids is the largest plant family, with a great deal of variety as well, from miniatures such as Mystacidium caffrum to the 20-foot-tall Renanthera storei.
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Everybody looked with curiosity on the miniature locomotive and wondered how it could tug a train loaded with 50 people up the windings of this steep and narrow little track for four miles.
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At the corners of the curved arcaded corridor connecting the wings to the house are miniature bartizans.
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Somebody is selling a music player whose guts have been swapped with the innards of what looks like a $2 miniature toy electric guitar.
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I've rolled the icosahedron and painted a few miniatures myself so it only raises my charisma to be accepted by that culture.
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DNA microarrays consisting of thousands of individual gene sequences can be printed in a high density format on a glass microscope slide or deposited on a miniature matrix by a photolithographic process.
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The thieves made off with £60,000-worth of objects comprising three small cups, two miniature animal figures, a bowl, two small ornamental plaques and a small ritual cylinder.
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The introit for the first Sunday in Advent, Ad te levavi, was usually one of the most elaborately decorated as this introit opened the Temporale and hence the gradual proper. 99 None of the graduals of German Dominican women were decorated with miniatures, only decorated or historiated initials.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany