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  • This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
  • He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. Physicist Cracks BBQ Mystery
  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
  • The opposite change occurs in what are termed fastigiate varieties, where the branches, in place of assuming more or less of a horizontal direction, become erect and nearly parallel with the main stem as in the Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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  • Some of his jokes are a bit too near the knuckle for my taste.
  • I'd say name it except for your second point, that named Wealden brachiosaurids are plentiful and once better material is described, some would near certainly be synonymized. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part IV
  • Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
  • Days later, Gregg was gunned down near Belfast docks as he returned from a Glasgow Rangers football match.
  • The scene near the Chennai Kaliappa Hospital, on Tuesday was supremely ironical, and drew sharp reactions from tree lovers who were passing by.
  • There are some fantastic pubs and inns nearby but you should take advantage of the welcome pack you receive on arrival. The Sun
  • The next day Tredias' arm was very nearly healed and needed only the support of a sling.
  • The walls were built from stones taken from nearby hills.
  • ‘Ah Dublin, you're giving it away,’ he wailed in the 55th minute, as the Dublin defence fluffed its lines yet again, giving Laois another unearned scoring opportunity.
  • For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
  • Still, it's nowhere near what he would command on the free-agent market.
  • A study by Conservation International, an American organisation, found that nearly a third of frogs, toads, newts and other amphibian species were likely to disappear within 100 years.
  • But after three consecutive nights of camping out I'd had enough, especially since the last had been spent near Verdun in Le Foret du Mort Homme, which translates as Dead Man's Forest.
  • John Terry booked after a rash challenge which nearly lost Holdsworth his head.
  • Unless a guide is along for the ride, it's all too easy to overshoot the reef and find yourself in green water, 200 feet above the nearest marine life.
  • Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
  • Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.
  • Nearly 40 parents were prosecuted for their child's non-attendance.
  • Winfrey interviewed Cruise at his mountaintop home near Telluride, Colorado, surrounded by the snow-capped Rocky Mountains.
  • Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
  • They decided to pipe the water in from the Changjiang River nearby.
  • What links the eyes of these three coffins, beside the fact that all are painted, is that the inner canthus--the corner of the eye near the nose--descends abruptly and abuts the upper lid, giving them an East Asian appearance. Archive 2008-03-01
  • Canaanite: but [197] _John baptized in Ænon, near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized_. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
  • Ministers have spent nearly 500million stockpiling the antiviral drug in case of a deadly epidemic but there are doubts it is effective. The Sun
  • In the research the hand was linked to the amputee's arm only by wire and actually lay on a nearby surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fitness functions include a simple linear problem for binary strings and classification of data sets which are dynamically loaded from a specified data file.
  • Stahl Real Estate has applied to demolish two early 20th century buildings, but preservationists are firing back, arguing that the 190 rent-stabilized and rent-controlled apartments, which sit between 64th and 65th streets near York Avenue, have played a vital role housing lower- and middle-class tenants for nearly a century. New Spat Over Upper East Side Rent
  • Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.
  • It was taxing to repeat the performance, and took nearly twice as long to finish drawing the sigils and runes.
  • It nearly brought a tear to my eye when I saw thousands of screaming fans watching a bunch of (and I use the term affectionately) nerds out there doing their thing. Sun Bloggers
  • Which means making sure I'm near the front of the line on opening day and a systematic approach to acquisition.
  • More nuanced music suffered, largely due to the tonearm. Times, Sunday Times
  • From here, the nullah reaches the Punjab and Haryana boundary, near Shagun Hotel, where the outflow is now blocked.
  • I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day
  • Long before the statue was unearthed, the natural process of patination had caused the formation of the red cuprite, blue azurite and green malachite commonly found in ancient bronzes. Apollo Deconstructed
  • But because Americans are not nearly as fond of dates as they are of coffee, java came out on top due to sheer popularity.
  • Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth. Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
  • MacFadzean plays Richie Excellent, the young funster who wields unearned celebrity.
  • He stared off toward a cluster of people near the fireplace and I followed his gaze.
  • The cup-marked stone shown below, in the Sma’ Glen, near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, is situated in a large man-made concave-shaped amphitheatre in the hills, and has a prominent dumb-bell shaped cup-mark on its surface.
  • I'd chase along the street nearest the river, dodging out side streets to the riverbank.
  • Personnel from HMAS Anzac set off to do a tour of Egypt while the ship is anchored near the entrance to the Suez Canal.
  • My beagle chases rabbits which is basically the same as pointing birds and I have shot over her and she is nowhere near gunshy. Why are dogs used for upland bird hunting considered gun dogs while Beagles and other non-birddogs are not?
  • Have you failed to hear a word he's said since he swept you off your perfectly pedicured feet and into the nearest watering hole?
  • He nearly had a heart attack himself. Times, Sunday Times
  • Somewhere nearby a guard dog barked and then another one. Bomber
  • The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
  • He noticed the Scotch on a tabouret and a cigar box near a chromium smoking stand. What Would Philip Marlowe Do
  • The job involved getting up at some unearthly hour to catch the first train.
  • But often our dream date is the loudmouth down the hall, our office adversary, even the scary boss -- in short, someone we avoid even standing near in real life.
  • Indianapolis beat out nearly 100 other cities as the site for a huge United Airlines maintenance center.
  • The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew's naval base at Portland, Dorset.
  • The stunts are staged to increase the spectacle, so that when cars pile into each other or toy robots battle, there is an intricate detail and near artistic quality.
  • Nearby attractions: Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Corporation, Hilo.
  • There's no camping, but the nearby university is offering digs. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the first half maybe evern longer, his art was much more clean, smooth, and linear, whereas much later, he developed the blockier style of Kirby. Top 100 Comic Book Runs #30-26 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
  • First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
  • You died near ninety, still unbelieving, unconfessed, and unreceived.
  • The jagged rock he'd sought was three feet up the incline, inviting, tantalizing him with its nearness.
  • The common basis of all gumbos is the roux, a roughly equal combination of flour and fat cooked until very nearly burnt; it is the dark smoky roux that gives the gumbo its colour and flavour.
  • Keep the list of numbers near the phone for easy reference.
  • Alex leaned up against the locker near hers and waited patiently for her to stick her coat in the locker and get the padlock on and locked.
  • Eggs were labeled with a permanent marker, candled to estimate the stage of development, weighed to the nearest 0.5 g using a spring scale, and measured (length and width) to the nearest 0.1 mm with calipers.
  • She said if the Watson Bill was passed she stood to lose her job and tied house at a livery yard at Craigie, near Kilmarnock.
  • Large and small white egrets, spoonbills, black cranes and the very rare lanner falcons are permanent inhabitants of the near-by, strictly protected bird reserve.
  • He's the nearest thing to a film star I've ever met.
  • She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother. The Brothers Karamazov
  • Mr. Robert Jackson (Wantage) (Labour): Will my right honourable friend accept an invitation to visit the Rutherford Appleton laboratory in my constituency to see the new Diamond synchrotron, which is nearing completion there? PRIME SINISTER'S QUESTIONS
  • More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
  • My ships have now unloaded five thousand tons of kit for five and a half thousand troops -- that's nearly a ton each! ONE HUNDRED DAYS
  • The audience was nearly all men.
  • A rain squall dimmed the ward, and he closed the two nearest windows. THE OPEN DOOR
  • Linear, scientific perspective allows for a fairly accurate mental reconstruction of the distances separating objects.
  • The buildings are long gone, but some foundations are still there, as well as the nearby mill stream and part of a dam and sluiceway.
  • Suddenly a deep voice boomed out from some of the trees nearby.
  • It looks like a preying mantis, has a huge hook to snare its prey and is coming to a rocky shoreline near you.
  • A reduction in the days that vessels can spend at sea means trawlers fish harder near their home ports. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a modeling clay that is nearly all silver once it is baked in your oven.
  • Some of those nearest to him fell naturally into the habit of referring to him as “the King,” and in time the title crept out of the immediate household and was taken up by others who loved him. Mark Twain: A Biography
  • High above us, the great heptagon of the Winter sky: Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, and Castor (with Saturn nearby) - with Betelgeuse in the center and the Milky Way cascading through, just to the left of Orion.
  • Gray is thought to be in hiding near the France/Italy border.
  • The adolescent and teenage birth rate has fallen by nearly half since 1992.
  • My desire for a desirable house will come true in the near future.
  • With nearly eight weeks of education behind us the faces of speakers were beginning to blend together.
  • When the polls closed for the day at 5.30 pm university officials said nearly 5,000 people had cast their votes.
  • From being an overlooked, conservative fail-safe, it's shot up near the top of the list of summer desirables.
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  • The cheapest way I can think of to make people feel like they owe you is to have a crumply cardboard sign saying "Will Work For Food" and hold it up near a busy intersection. Don't Do Me Any Favors, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The camera has a 32mm glass lens, and its automatic shutter allows you to take photos in near-darkness without a flash.
  • There is even an evolving language of street markings that uses chalked symbols to alert passers-by to a WiFi network nearby.
  • I was kneeling on the floor beneath his feet and nearly got trampled to death in the scrum.
  • This appears to have led to his death after he lost control of a scooter on a bridleway above the Wharfe's steep banks near his home. Jimi Heselden obituary
  • The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
  • There were new born lambs frolicking in the fields nearby.
  • However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
  • He glanced over at Tara, scribbling notes at a nearby desk filched from the Library of Congress. Rogue Oracle
  • Jools Holland is playing an open-air concert near Tunbridge Wells soon.
  • My life, as usual, is too busy, too near chaos.
  • Posts and rafters were hand-sawn and planed using timber from a nearby forest and, to reduce the use of wood, rafters were trussed with steel wire.
  • By 1781, British General Lord Charles Cornwallis was ordered to march into Virginia to await resupply near Chesapeake Bay.
  • We then build a multispectral image consisting of five spectral bands (visible, near-IR, and three thermal IR channels) and use the program for further processing and interpretation.
  • The researchers have used supercritical CO 2 as medium for the conversion of alcohols to linear and branched ethers, to cyclic ethers, to aryl ethers and to acetals and ketals in good yields and, all-importantly, with high selectivities.
  • I nearly gasp out loud, one hand flying back to my mouth.
  • They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
  • The insects are forming thick clouds near the ground, and they carpet the inside of the car when the doors are cracked open.
  • Born Princess Sophia of the minor German principality of Anhalt-Zerbst, reared by an ambitious and self-centered mother, she was plucked out of near obscurity by the Russian czarina, Elizabeth, in 1744 as a bride for the heir to the Russian throne, Peter III. The Rise Of an Empress
  • It's not necessarily linear - there are stages, but there are many peaks and valleys.
  • The near-constant depth of the abyssal sea floor indicates that the lithosphere thickens to roughly 100 km in 70 million years, but then ceases to grow.
  • Where woods existed near undrained marsh or bog, a traveller's difficulties were enhanced.
  • The body of the missing woman was recovered by police frogmen from a lake near her home.
  • Staff have been told that the workload is unlikely to ease in the near future as there are 1,700 prison jobs across Britain that remain unfilled. Times, Sunday Times
  • My parents divorced nearly 50 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • As to the pay of the Mercenaries it nearly filled two esparto-grass baskets; there were even visible in one of them some of the leathern discs which the Republic used to economise its specie; and as the Barbarians appeared greatly surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Salammbo
  • Said boy was taken up by Thomas Walton, and says _he was free_, and that his parents live near Shawneetown, Illinois, and that he was _taken_ from that place in July 1836; says his father's name is William, and his mother's Sally Brown, and that they moved from Fredericksburg, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
  • The horses were belled and spancelled near by, feeding on the cane and wild grass, and Polly Ann was cooking journey-cakes on a stone. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
  • This in some degree corresponds with Captain Cook's record of the irregularity of his compass when he passed near this part of the coast, in consequence of which he called the peaked island to the westward of the cape, Magnetical Island: this irregularity, however, was not noticed by me in my observations near the same spot; and the difference observed by him may very probably have been occasioned by the ship's local attraction, which in those days was unknown. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
  • She was a kid… a chit fresh out of school room… And more than anything I wanted to be near her…
  • The nearby street was littered with shattered vehicles, pieces of glass, bricks, mangled steel and scraps of clothing.
  • I commend it also for nearly making it work. Times, Sunday Times
  • Early ideas had envisaged a mobile linear defence. NATO's Changing Strategic Agenda
  • Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
  • He urged any member of the community with information to contact the nearest police station.
  • Near the end of his reign, King Behanzin ordered his troops to burn the royal palaces rather than see them fall into French hands.
  • The alligators build their nests out of grass near the water's edge.
  • It is the soleras (nearest to floor) that contain the oldest brandy.
  • His semi in ‘Foulness, near Southend’ has long been reduced to ‘a condition of untouchable sordor’, and is also ‘saturated with pornography in all its forms’.
  • As darkness drew near I joyfully and thankfully watched the pinks, purples, blues and golden colors of the sky melt together into a picture-perfect sunset.
  • She works in nearly 10 homes, making chapatis and doing all other household chores.
  • After appearing to get away to near perfect starts Hutchinson and Campbell were called OCS and had to make an agonising return to restart. ISAF News
  • The show travels to nearly 200 cities around the world annually with the beauty, elegance, glamour and energy of a Broadway show.
  • The outcry against such autocratic barbarousness became nearly universal.
  • For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
  • The interior is near-perfect, with a high-mounted, smallish dashboard—no vast expanses of plastic here.
  • Are these, you wonder, some of the 18,000 Jews from the concentration camp of Majdanek, near Lublin, machine gunned to death Nov. 3, 1943? Meditations on History
  • We ordered moussaka and dolmas and ate them on a nearby street corner with some wine.
  • This came from the xray: One finding not mentioned above, is of a 3.6 x 5. 6CM sharply marginated sclerotic rimmed area in left proximal femur, near lesser trochanter. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • It sounded like a dull roar at first, but now it was nearly deafening.
  • Bankrolled by an allowance from a rich uncle, she finds all of those as she takes small acting roles and moves from cafés and nightclubs in Montparnasse to a villa near Biarritz. 2009 December 07 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • In total, nearly 7,000 people have died in communal conflicts since 1999.
  • Calliaud, and by arguments and reasons by him delivered, he was persuaded to unsay his swearing, and to declare that he believed that the affidavit which he made at Patna, and while the transaction was recent or nearly recent, must be a mistake: that he _believed_ (what is amazing indeed for any belief) that not Mr. Hastings, but he himself, interpreted. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12)
  • A complete list of golf courses near airports is available from the U. S. Golf Society.
  • His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe.
  • One of the "brightest minds" in his class, he was one of the laziest; one of the quickest and most agile when aroused, he was one of the torpids as a rule: One of the kind who should have "gone in for honors," as the faculty said, he came nearer going out for devilment. Found in the Philippines The Story of a Woman's Letters
  • Having quite high viscosities near a jet might be very realistic and physically correct. Exponential Growth in Physical Systems #2 « Climate Audit
  • The graves of women and children have also been found in the nearby cemetery which borders the eastern walls of Qumran.
  • To study viral infections, Weitz teamed with postdoctoral fellow Yuriy Mileyko, graduate student Richard Joh and Eberhard Voit, who is a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, the David D. Flanagan Chair Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biological Systems and director of the new Integrative BioSystems Institute at Georgia Tech. Nearly all previous theoretical studies have claimed that switching between "lysis" and Innovations-report
  • At the Fallowfield lead mine, near Hexham in Northumberland, it is associated with witherite; and at Bromley Hill, near Alston in Cumberland, it occurs in veins with galena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • Consumers remain hunkered down, and the Federal Reserve is nearly tapped out in providing monetary stimulus, so it can't replicate the sharp cuts in interest rates that gave the economy a big lift in the 1980s. Lessons of Reagan's Rebound
  • she works nearby
  • After about two hours of tweets mentioning the lay-off, Philip Brasher broke the silence, also with a tweet: "Saddest part: DM Register opened bureau nearly 80 yrs ago to cover ag policy when Wallace became ag secy. Paula Crossfield: Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher Is Bad for Food
  • The supermarket is very near the station.
  • I anxiously await the appearance of the first Concord grapes from the farm nearby. Laura Silverman: Flight Of The Concords: Grape Sorbet
  • Nearby there is a stretch of white sand beach perfect for sunbathing.
  • The one dramatic moment in the film, when Wayne tries to escape from his captors, is a let-down, and it doesn't last nearly as long as one would hope.
  • And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Many dinosaur skeletons that are nearly intact have also been unearthed. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are so many ways to beat boredom without going near a slots game of any sort. The Sun
  • Young axes have higher values of structural Young's modulus than do older stages and this is reflected by the presence of fibre tissues, primary phloem fibres and collenchyma placed near the periphery of young axes.
  • The crowd set up a shout as the winner neared the post.
  • But as he neared the crux of his missive, he was suddenly interrupted by a flurry of black tresses and wrinkled muslin rushing into the room.
  • We may be informed, for example, that the numbers have a dense linear ordering, that there are associative and commutative operations of addition and multiplication, and so on.
  • Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
  • Despite suffering with emetophobia for nearly 75 years, last year she finally tackled her fear with the support of a therapist.
  • Sales of soap products have gone up from £76m in 1981 to £173m 20 years later while sales of baby wipes have nearly tripled in the last 15 years.
  • Swing the near leg forward and backward. Times, Sunday Times
  • An insect's body covering, the cuticle, contains fat layers making the cuticle nearly waterproof and preventing water loss.
  • The energy from the land was invigorating and there was drumming in the near distance that added to the ambiance.
  • Cleopatra the witch and seducer is near the foundations of Western literature. In All Her Infinite Variety
  • We managed to hunt down an In-and-Out Burger near the airport and showed Annie what a proper milkshake is supposed to taste like. Stonetable.org
  • Poor female alpacas are pregnant for nearly 12 months and have no sooner had a baby, known as a cria, than they are keen to breed again. IcBirmingham
  • It was an infuriating trait, and it made her blood boil every time he came near.
  • A range of software, shareware and applications emerge nearly every other day from different corners of the Tamil speaking world.
  • We have come to realize, through developments in astronomy and cosmology, that we are still quite near the beginning.
  • The sun was nearly blinding, but it made for a gloriously bright day.
  • He gripped the edge of the nearest inspection plate and ripped a quarter of it away.
  • Elegantly erotic statues stood once more in alcoves around the room, and the massive murals were nearly finished.
  • Better good neighbours near than relations far away. 
  • Bronze plaques line the edges of the pools and name the near 3,000 victims. The Sun
  • Natalie Keyssar for The Wall Street Journal The nearly complete Bolognese sauce heats on a stove top. Hold the...Well, Nothing
  • The folks behind nearby cow juice-friendly club night Milk debut their new monthly venture Laid this Wednesday and, in keeping with the bar's theme and their own dairy fetish, White Russians are on special offer, along with various other made-to-order milky concoctions. Clubs picks of the week
  • This class may be made to print much more rapidly than our ordinary silver printing process, approaching sometimes more nearly to the calotype development in this respect. Photographic Reproduction Processes
  • Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
  • The Sun Valley Center simply calls the house The Center, Hailey, and makes little of the Pound connection; the arts organization's main building is in nearby Ketchum Pound House
  • The line on which we now found ourselves was in general close to, but still below, the crest of the ridge at nearly all points. Times, Sunday Times
  • It faces the sea in the most sought-after area near Lisbon. Times, Sunday Times
  • This horse was so fleet, and its rider so expert, that they are said to have outstripped and coted, or turned, a hare upon the Bran-Law, near the head of Moffat Water, where the descent is so precipitous, that no merely earthly horse could keep its feet, or merely mortal rider could keep the saddle. Old Mortality, Complete
  • Their blossoms encompass nearly the entire color spectrum and blooming times range from early spring to fall, depending on the variety.
  • Where the god and the idolon were most nearly one there was least danger of confounding them. Surprised by Joy
  • Then I had to bring a branch of candles near it before I could make out the crabbed and faded handwriting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
  • He was wearing a red V-neck shirt with long sleeves that belled out near the hands, white jeans, and black slip-on shoes with thick white socks.
  • For history buffs, nearly every community in the province has its own collection of historical exhibits displayed in tiny museums.
  • Arsonists torched a town-centre bar, causing residents in nearby houses to flee in terror.
  • The gardener roared nearby on his machine, eyes rigidly averted. Somewhere East of Life

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