How To Use Minutely In A Sentence
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He is shown seated before his famous invention: a ruling machine for producing concave diffraction gratings, which are slightly curved metal plates scored with minutely spaced lines that diffract light into spectra.
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The youngster examines minutely curiously: The flavour of that drumstick how?
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Downstairs, a new "stereotactic" radiation therapy machine is capable of delivering a minutely focused, high-level dose of radiation to shrink or eliminate tumors.
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our inability to see everything minutely and clearly is due merely to the infirmity of our senses
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The minutely balanced works, the gnomon fitted to the perpendicular plane, would be far beyond their grasp.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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A minutely detailed timeline of'how a human life ends' is etched in his head.
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Over the washstand was a little black-framed water-colour drawing, depicting a large eye with an extremely fishlike intensity in the spark of light on the dark pupil; and in "illuminated" lettering beneath was printed very minutely, "Thou God Seest ME," followed by a long looped monogram,
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
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The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer.
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You are minutely analytical and can fulfill any task that requires meticulous attention to detail.
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Opposite, a portly gentleman with a magnificent beard adjusted his sword and bowed his head minutely in welcome.
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Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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When she glanced at Ginny's palette, it seemed to be covered in minutely distinctive shades of red.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES: MYRA THE WRITER
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I pretended complete ignorance of the French language, he therefore asked me in Italian minutely about my affairs, and how I could attempt to travel home without any money or goods, to defray the expenses of the journey.
Travels in Nubia
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What is difficult to translate and what I specifically concentrated on in my review were moments where Proust describes as minutely as possible, and as no one had ever done before or after him, the psychological currents that run between one person and another, between those who do not wish to reveal anything about themselves and the narrator who is forever deciphering their hidden motives.
'Proust's Way?': An Exchange
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The many semi-precious stones which have a quartz basis (such as the varieties of waxy or cryptocrystalline chalcedony which is largely quartz in a very minutely crystalline condition) are often even tougher than the clear crystallized quartz.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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Racemes are rather loose and open, the flowers widely spaced on minutely bracteolate pedicels mostly 4-10 mm long.
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In a bustling and minutely imagined fabular landscape, crammed with allegorical figures and places, Luka moves swiftly between the mythological and the contemporary; one minute he is meeting all manner of gods and goddesses, the other he's subject to the laws of the videogame, keeping a close eye on the number of "lives" he has left and trying to save his progress through various levels.
Luka and the Fire of Life by Salman Rushdie - review
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While Kurosawa is known mostly for his historically accurate, minutely observed period pieces and swashbucklers, Ozu sought drama in the simple rhythms of life in the modern Japanese family.
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They'd be good at minutely copying highly detailed flower paintings.
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The violet disk of the sun touched the water, then became minutely flattened on the bottom, like a locomotive wheel in need of regrinding.
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It sees storm clouds torn from their moorings and smashed against the ground with a minutely escalating, hissing swirl of arterial spray, then morphing into a jackhammer pulse.
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_Leaf-blades_ are broadly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading, flat, or in short-leaved forms, stiff and pungent, 1 to 2 inches long (rarely also 5 inches long), glabrous above and below, ciliate at the margins towards the base, and with a very minutely serrate hyaline margin.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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That new form of legislation, most clearly found in the application of lenient punishments minutely calibrated to the severity of offenses, is designed to do two things, which find their way into Bentham's numerous defenses of new legislation to replace transportation and capital punishment with humane incarceration — legislation aimed at increasing the
Romantic Fear
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He undertook minutely detailed work over the course of six summers.
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He passed out a minutely detailed questionnaire of just how open the door of the next minister should be.
Christianity Today
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This was beautifully and minutely rendered.
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It offers a minutely detailed fantasy world, complete with history and languages.
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The minutely balanced works, the gnomon fitted to the perpendicular plane, would be far beyond their grasp.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The unit crackled minutely and a faint voice answered, heard only in Matthew's earphones.
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The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, base rounded, glabrous, smooth below, especially in the lower part, and scabrid above and in the upper part, 6 to 12 inches long, by 1/4 to 3/8 inch; the lower leaves have their blades somewhat narrower at the base than in the middle, but the blades in the upper part of the stem and in the middle are of the same breadth; margins are very minutely serrate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Organism with no eyespot experiences a random mutation due to natural forces, which produces some minutely incremental change which happens to move the organism towards an eyespot, and which is somehow promotable by natural selection.
Kicking the Legs Out From Under the Willfully Ignorant « Whatever
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He is funny, dignified and minutely knowledgeable about the whole Christie canon, having dramatised all the Poirots and all the Radio 4 Miss Marples with June Whitfield.
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Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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a purple dorsal awn, 3-nerved paleate; the two marginal nerves are densely bearded with long white or purple tinged hairs from near the base to almost the apex and the mid-nerve also similarly bearded with long hairs on both sides, and the base with a tuft of long hairs; the palea is as long as the glume, coriaceous obovately-cuneate, obtuse, minutely bifid, purple-tipped, with folded hyaline margins, 2-keeled; keels shortly ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The wings of Lepidoptera are minutely scaled, which feature gives the name to this order.
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Inevitably, with a subject already minutely probed and examined, the territory is familiar.
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“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”
Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz
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The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, softly pubescent or glabrescent on both the surfaces, with rounded or subcordate base and margins minutely serrate and ciliate, 2 to 6 inches long 1/6 to 1/2 inch broad; the midrib is distinct though slender with four to six main veins on each side.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The agreement has been examined minutely.
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This is where, every year, the world's keenest young chefs have come to stand for hours over long stainless steel tops podding peas, fiddling with strange foodstuffs and helping in the minutely detailed preparations of the 44 dishes served to each of the 50 privileged customers every night.
How a wartime romance gave birth to the best restaurant in the world
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For Art & Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars/And not in generalizing Demonstrations of the Rational Power (55: 60-63).
Unlocking Language: Self-Similarity in Blake's _Jerusalem_.
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The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer.
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Ellen’s face formed an expression minutely too casual, as if it were being pushed through another, more immediate emotion.
The Will
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The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, softly pubescent or glabrescent on both the surfaces, with rounded or subcordate base and margins minutely serrate and ciliate, 2 to 6 inches long 1/6 to 1/2 inch broad; the midrib is distinct though slender with four to six main veins on each side.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Like gawking through a keyhole, every situation is richly textured, minutely detailed, and jammed full with voyeuristic glee.
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No need to study them minutely; a glance will give the flavour.
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Small in scope, minutely focused on the emotional dynamics of a gaggle of neurotic urban characters, shot in dark, unslick images and wholly bereft of special effects, Baumbach's closely observed tale of dysfunctional family relationships has the microscopic texture of a New Yorker short story and the darting, spontaneous style of a French New Wave movie.
Here There Be Monsters
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We will also set up a tracking system to minutely monitor progress on each issue.
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The _leaf-blade_ is broadly lanceolate, cordate at base, amplexicaul, acuminate or acute, with scattered long hairs both above and below, and some of the hairs of the under surface are tubercle-based, convolute when young; margin of the leaf is wavy, minutely serrate, and ciliated with distant hairs towards the lower half of the leaf when young; the midrib is prominent below.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The benefit of an x-ray far outweighs the minutely increased risk of cancer.
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Events may be minutely chronicled, with little effort at critical analysis.
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Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
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The wrinkles, furrows and folds around the woman's assessing eyes, dominant nose and chin and clamped mouth are minutely delineated, as are the varying tones of brown in her tanned face.
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This was beautifully and minutely rendered.
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Extraction of the tingeing fecula of vegetables rendered more minutely divided by admixture with salino-aequous fluids with which the pores of the subjects to be dyed are to be impregnated and therein fixed as much as possible by such bodies as are known to be greatly astringent particularly those which precipitate the fecula from their dissolved state in fluids not unlike the manner by which Lakes are prepared for the painter.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The broad expanse of shirt-front, with its delicate embroidery, not obtrusively splendid, but minutely elaborate rather, involving the largest expenditure of needlework to produce the smallest and vaguest effect -- a suspicion of richness, as it were, nothing more; the snowy cambric contrasts with the bronzed visage of the soldier, or blends harmoniously with the fair complexion of the fopling, who has never exposed his countenance to the rough winds of heaven; the expanse of linen proclaims the breadth of chest, and gives a factitious slimness to the waist.
The Lovels of Arden
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= Stem = cylindrical, even, twisted somewhat, white, striate and minutely squamulose like the pileus, but with coarser scales, especially toward the base, solid, flesh white.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Accordingly, the knight took no time to consider minutely the particulars which we have detailed, but thanking Saint Julian (the patron of travellers) who had sent him good harbourage, he leaped from his horse and assailed the door of the hermitage with the butt of his lance, in order to arouse attention and gain admittance.
Ivanhoe
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This was beautifully and minutely rendered.
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They are intended to stimulate reverent inquiry, not to gratify idle speculative curiosity; and when the event shall have been fulfilled, they will show the divine wisdom of God, who ordered all things in minutely harmonious relations, and left neither the times nor the ways haphazard.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The metal is then minutely examined to ensure there are no cracks.
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Ashbery's poetry, like Darger's art, is an entire world, its terms minutely and eccentrically developed; like Cornell's boxes and collages, his poems are part storage, part wonder.
Papa
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However, it has broadly expanded and sometimes minutely denticulate bases of the median staminal filaments, distinctly 2-lobed stigmas, accumbent cotyledons, white flowers with purplish petal claws, and strongly divided leaves.
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The _third glume_ is thickly coriaceous, brownish, shining, minutely striolate, margins roundly incurved throughout its length, paleate; the _palea_ is similar to the glume in structure and colour, margins strongly inflexed and with two broad membranous auricles almost overlapping just below the middle.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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AVICULAE are only covered with very closely applied short concentric slightly raised minutely denticulated lamina, forming an epidermal coat on the surface.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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The _leaf-blade_ is lanceolate-linear, pointed, flat, rigid, the margin is very minutely serrulate, glandular and occasionally also with fine long hairs; the upper surface is somewhat rough, the lower smooth and both with fine long scattered hairs or glabrous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The _fourth glume_ is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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It's a poem that's been subjected to much critical appraisal, analysed and pulled apart, and examined minutely to the very last syllable.
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Laidlaw, however, scratching it minutely out, found it covered with a layer of pitch inside, and then said, "Ay, the truth is, sir, it is neither mair nor less than a piece of a tar pat that some o 'the farmers hae been buisting their sheep out o', i 'the auld kirk langsyne.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 383, August 1, 1829
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The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, broadly ovate, tip acutely pointed and almost cuspidate or acute, mucronate, white or brownish, reticulately minutely pitted.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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It happens, however, to be the only one in which the habits and customs of this particular species have been minutely portrayed, and it only needs to be opened in order to see how absolutely remote the presentment is from anything that could by any possibility have existed in reality.
Maria Edgeworth
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You can wander through the fantasy worlds at your leisure, but you must examine your surroundings minutely and take copious notes.
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The _fourth glume_ is slightly shorter than the third, oblong or elliptic, apiculate, minutely rugulose, thinly coriaceous, with bisexual flower;
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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A walk along our curved bay hides the minutely jagged edges of a coast dissolving in the mist.
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Minutely though Hawkwood's military achievements were recorded by the chroniclers, his motivation has always been hard to discern.
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= -- Cones upon dwarf branches, erect or inclining upwards, ovoid to cylindrical, 1/2-3/4 of an inch long, purplish or reddish brown while growing, light brown at maturity, persistent for at least a year; scales thin, obtuse to truncate; edge entire, minutely toothed or erose; seeds small, winged.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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This is perhaps the most minutely researched biography of any angler's life that has yet been published.
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Elsewhere, what appeared at first glance to be a fluffy pale jacket of tufted tulle turned out to be made of leather, minutely shaved with razors to give an "eyelash" - fine
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It was a minutely judged combination of taste and texture and solid meaty beauty.
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On examining more minutely with the magnifier, open-mouthed bronchial twigs, and very small blood-vessels, were seen plugged up with solid and fluid carbon, and, from the appearance of the morbid structure, it was manifest, that the ulcerative process had effected a complete disorganization of the _bronchial_ tubes of every calibre, while the smaller _arterial_ vessels had alone suffered, leaving the larger ones entire. [
An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners
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If you put the "'prentice" in it, show nothing more than his paper cap, because he will be an important character in the story, and you will need to know more about him as he is minutely described.
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It was incredibly thick, dry, pliable; filled minutely with cells of a liquid-gaseous something which she knew to be a more perfect insulator even than the fibres of the tegument itself.
Children of the Lens
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+Cap+ 2 to 5 inches broad, yellowish-brown, convex, dry, firm, glabrous or minutely tomentose, flesh yellow or pale yellow.
Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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Abandoned by their neglectful mother, four children are left to fend for themselves in this quiet, unsensational but minutely observed drama by Japan's Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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The highly divided gecko foot is also minutely adaptable to bumpy surfaces and is easy to reposition, he says.
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When he was in the prince's ancestorial temple, or in the court, he spoke minutely on every point, but cautiously.
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
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Police have been minutely examining a tape of the programme to see whether anyone in it broke the law by inciting racial hatred.
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You are minutely analytical and can fulfill any task that requires meticulous attention to detail.
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What the Chinese eat is a mystery, and such queer compounds enter into their _menu_ that I would give everybody who dines with a Chinaman this advice -- don't enquire too minutely into what is placed before you, or you will eat nothing, and so offend your host; bolt it and fancy it is something nice -- and _fancy_ goes for something at times, I can assure you.
In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83
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His four-minute execution by lethal injection in Indianain the United States was perhaps the most minutely scrutinised death in history.
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Her figures and landscapes are not minutely limned in, as in the miniature tradition, each with a definite attribute and place in the cosmos.
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Instead he busied himself plumping up a couple of pillows on the sofa, minutely adjusting the stained antique embroidered throw on a chair.
BEHINDLINGS
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One has the cringing sense that Ms. Zanganeh is trying to imitate Nabokov himself, who was given to minutely observed descriptive prose and who opened his famous novel with phonetic byplay.
The Trouble With Ardor
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The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, convolute in bud, scabrid above and smooth below, with a minutely serrate, very narrow, hyaline margin, 1 to 10 inches long and 1/12 inch broad.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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But all we see are pillow lavas, varying minutely with fewer or more buds, perhaps larger or smaller lobes.
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The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, broadly ovate, tip acutely pointed and almost cuspidate or acute, mucronate, white or brownish, reticulately minutely pitted.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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They are very slender, tubular, the mouth somewhat enlarged, the margin of the tubes pale cream color and minutely mealy or furfuraceous, with numerous irregular, roughened threads.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The second glume is thinner, dorsally gibbous, keeled, 5 - to 9-nerved, beaked and minutely bifid.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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She came up with the idea of riddling -- minutely turning the bottles each day so that the yeast collects near the cap, where it can all be disgorged in seconds.
Vinography: A Wine Blog
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The wide open parkland that sweeps in front of the house was planned minutely.
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The pianist won the gold for an intricate, playful and minutely precise combination performed to a potpourri of Russian melodies.
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P. 6-10 cm. plane, margin striate, grey, yellow, brown, or white; g. pallid; s. 10-12 cm. narrowed upwards, minutely squamulose, volva large, margin free; sp.
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His rugged-model good looks make it all the more painful when he's shouting at us to hurry, or discovering a minutely misaligned seam on an otherwise perfect cake.
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It was a long, pendulous, minutely itemed affair, such as the traveller's recklessness in candles and firewood comes to in the books of the Continental landlord, and it almost swept the floor when its volume was unrolled.
Indian Summer
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Unfortunately, at £175 the Elvis trilby added up to more than my current choices can support even counting a minutely considered VAT exemption.
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This is forcing the Government to examine spending commitments minutely.
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Again I referred to the mysterious Gabrielle whom I described as minutely as I was able, and apparently my description fitted that of
The Stretton Street Affair
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Body elongate, cordate, with a deep anterior grove and notch; covered above with minute hair-like spines, with scattered very elongated tubular minutely striated spines on the sides; the anterior groves and circumference of the vent with larger equal hair-like spines on each side; the under surface with a triangular disk of similar spines beneath the vent, and with elongated larger tubular spines.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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You can wander through the fantasy worlds at your leisure, but you must examine your surroundings minutely and take copious notes.
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Small lance-shaped leaves, bright green, and kind of cobwebby, clasp together at the top of the stalk, then unwrap to reveal a globe of overlapping, minutely fringed bracts, satiny and tawny like Enstrom's toffee.
Aspen Times - Top Stories
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The pileus is expanded, umbonate, thin except at the umbo, minutely floccose squamulose, no pinkish tinge noted; the flesh is white, but on the umbo changing to flesh color where wounded.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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Every sample was tested and minutely examined; the prices, from three to ten francs per ream, were noted on each separate slip; some were sized, others unsized; some were of almost metallic purity, others soft as
Eve and David
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The tablets reveal the Minoans as lovers of minutely recorded detail; their labyrinthine architecture reveals a love of complexity and puzzles.
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He thought of things far away down the perspective of memory, of jolly moments when his father had skylarked with a wildly excited little boy, of a certain annual visit to the Crystal Palace pantomime, full of trivial glittering incidents and wonders, of his father's dread back while customers were in the old, minutely known shop.
The History of Mr. Polly
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It is dry, on the center finely tomentose to minutely squamulose, sometimes the scales splitting up into concentric rows around the cap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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What does annoy me minutely is the ordering of items in the Scripting News feed, which appears not to be strictly by time.
Scripting News for 1/23/2007 « Scripting News Annex
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The whole garden has already been minutely examined.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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It was a minutely judged combination of taste and texture and solid meaty beauty.
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But what is wrong with attempting to make something elegant or cultured or minutely precise?
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Some of these have involved minutely detailed descriptions of snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms.
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When it rains, the system applies the brakes minutely every few seconds to keep the pads dry.
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The metal is then minutely examined to ensure there are no cracks.
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He drinks a fermented liquor made from milk; he takes snuff or smokes the rank native tobacco; he conducts interminable diplomatic negotiations; he oversees minutely the forms of ceremonials; he helps to shape the policies of his manyatta, and he gives his attention to the accumulation of cows.
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