How To Use Necked In A Sentence
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Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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On either side of the white marble fireplace were swan-necked gas lamps that still worked.
Times, Sunday Times
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At Ngarkat and Karte conservation parks, you can see everything from ring-necked parrots, honeyeaters and white-winged choughs, to Australian bustards, yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sometimes even a rare Mallee emu-wren or the Mallee ningaui.
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The swine looked even more attractive than ever in a black open-necked polo shirt and black jeans.
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The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.
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Her credibility has lost out to her desperate desire to be liked, even if it is by bull-necked honkers in shirts made of the stars and stripes.
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We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
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Sometimes seen feeding alongside vultures at carcasses is the longer-necked and larger-headed crested caracara (Polyborus plancus), a hawk with distinctive markings.
Did you know? Mexico's vultures have very different eating habits.
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But the stiff-necked jerk never called, and cricket has gone doolally as a result.
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Some parts of Australia have traditions of huge reptiles suggestive of long-necked sauropods, the dinosaur group which includes Diplodocus and Apatosaurus.
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At the same time, Morrow said the surgical department was already "bottlenecked" at times in post-operation beds.
JuneauEmpire.com
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He was assuming that the big, bull-necked, slug-like guys were in some way connected with InfiniDim Enterprises, but it was a reasonable assumption and he felt happy about it because they had logos on their armour-plating which said ` InfiniDim Enterprises 'on them.
Mostly Harmless
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A squat, bull-necked man approached, his dark suit straining at the seams.
AMAGANSETT
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The bird, a lovely white-and-brown speckled ring-necked dove, dozed off from the comfortable heat of the room as she wrote her letter.
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The Red-necked Phalarope (formerly the Northern Phalarope) is the smallest of the three phalaropes and has the shortest bill.
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What happens when I tell them that you're every bit as stiff-necked and honest as I am?
AMBERBEACH
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He appeared surprised that many in the music profession today were stiff-necked.
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Once, she said, as she stood in shallow water in her high-necked, skirted, black bathing suit, a long-nosed garpike swam across her toes and startled her.
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Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur.
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Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
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Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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A click told him that the door had been snecked against him.
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The leather jacket and jeans are gone; now it's a sharp suit and open-necked shirt.
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His mind turned to the bull-necked thug on duty in front of the church the day of the funeral, but he dismissed the idea.
AMAGANSETT
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They told me you were stubborn-necked, but I have obeyed commands.
Chapter 11
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The neckline is a natural scoop necked cowl which looks figure flattering when worn.
She's way too cool
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Two seabirds with restricted breeding ranges, the providence petrel (Pterodroma solandri) and white-necked petrel (P. cervicalis) have been reported breeding on Philip Island.
Norfolk Island subtropical forests
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One half of the room was full of swine -- fat, blowse-necked
Bambi
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In the traditional chrono-topological sequence, short-necked forms follow the bell beakers, with the long-necked forms following still later.
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The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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His lace-necked trainbearer tripped behind in his slipstream.
Times, Sunday Times
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She laughed, standing as cool as you please, very grateful to the eye in tussore coat and skirt, with open-necked blouse, and some kind of rakish hat displaying her thick auburn hair in defiance of the fashion which decreed concealment even of eyebrows with flower-pot head gear.
The Mountebank
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When he came downstairs he had swapped his silk pajamas for slacks and an open-necked shirt, crisp and clean as always.
AMAGANSETT
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It's a long introduction designed to establish my credibility: that I have no reason to promote religion or, since I'm Jewish, the Christian religion in particular, when I say that the atheists who pushed the Nativity scenes from the park showed the very same stiff-necked intolerance that they accuse religions of.
Frank Gruber: Akedism: For Those Who Don't Care If God Exists
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Its left panel frames a standing portrait of Serena, her hair arranged in a thick roll around her head, her person adorned in the high-necked voluminous tunic layered over a tighter-fitting underdress that had become the prevailing fashion for women of late antiquity.
Caesars’ Wives
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He was a scrawny, chicken-necked sack of bones, but in spite of his handicap he moved faster than the others.
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Andy Graham was casual: jeans, open-necked shirt, golf jacket.
YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
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She studied the beautiful, dark-haired young woman in the high-necked black cocktail dress that concealed more than it revealed yet managed to be incredibly sexy.
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Famously discovered by Harry Johnston and named by P.L. Sclater in 1901 (Johnston thought he was tracking down reports of a new forest-dwelling equid), Okapia is a short-necked forest-dwelling giraffid, though how typical it is in the grand scheme of giraffid diversity and evolution has proved controversial.
Archive 2006-06-01
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I was a bit of a rockabilly in those days, 50's gear, backcombed hair (it was cool, honest), and I used to wear circle skirts with tight polo-necked tops and a very, very cinched waist.
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They were big and bull-necked and bullet-headed.
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A kind of cruet is recorded among early French table silver, "a double necked bottle in divisions, in which to place two kinds of liquor without mixing them.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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When word came that Iron Mike had been floored by a virulent attack of the sniffles, his disconsolate well-wishers had to shuffle off without meeting their thick-necked hero.
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Finally, while Tash and Marcia explored an interesting box of hats, the three boys appeared in front of them in the costumes of 19th century French counts; breeches, high-necked shirts and velvet tailcoats.
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Black spelled correctly "serendipity" and "gerenuk" - a long-necked species of antelope native to East Africa - to earn all six points possible in rounds two and three.
The Times-Journal: News
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He comes of our common stock, is as bull-necked as I ever dared be, and as wild a fanatic the one way as you are the other.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
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She had got herself up in proper visiting attire, but now her pink, low-necked frock was wrinkled, and her hair was loose on her shoulders.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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Visitors dressed in straw boaters were entertained by various attractions, not least the upbeat swing of the Mainline Jazz band, kitted out in waistcoats and open-necked shirts.
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Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
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To that I added a thin, low-necked strap top under a V-necked black jumper.
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Mallards, ring-necked ducks, killdeer, marbled godwits, and peregrine falcons settle in for the fall.
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Another is the ring-necked parakeet, which is spreading so fast that the government has just allowed landowners to shoot them without a licence.
Top stories from Times Online
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Her "Primrose" accouter, a unmistakeable patterned, sailing -- necked miniequip was charming, but less so the be zoologicals she subjected to the catwalk in the distinction of uncultured rights.
The Oregon Catalyst
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Family groups of black-necked stilts chatter, the calm water reflecting their long red legs and black-and-white bodies.
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Some of the other diners were wearing sport coats and open-necked shirts, but I didn't think the atmosphere necessarily called for the formality of a jacket and tie.
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The plumages of hand-reared mallards, baldpates, blue-winged teal, shovellers and ring-necked ducks develop more slowly although pintails, redheads and canvasbacks appear similar.
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But 29-year-old David drew criticism for his ripped jeans and scuffed boots which he wore with an open-necked shirt and dinner jacket.
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Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
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I don't like the idea of stiffnecked government officials deciding what we can and can't read -- and when you ban a site like Kynhun (an e-group that discussed the petty corruption of petty officials in Meghalaya as well as the possibility of seceding from the Indian union), you create a genuine grievance out of a minor kvetch.
Archive 2004-06-01
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Carly just smiled, and egged the stiff-necked officer to take her turn.
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They were all wearing gaberdines of thick grey cloth, long beards, and bare-necked.
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This area is home to several endangered and endemic birds, including the white-necked parakeet, coppery-chested jacamar, and bicoloured antvireo.
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
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The image of the female lawyer in a little bow tie and high-necked shirt was pretty much gone by the time I arrived.
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Ogre emerged sporting a large lupine mask, flanked by Key on a synth riser, a live drummer and a guitarist wielding a double-necked axe straight out of a Thor video.
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29-year-old David drew criticism for his ripped jeans and scuffed boots which he wore with an open-necked shirt and dinner jacket.
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Outtrim, the Internet prodigy who cut the code for Hotdog in his loungeroom, was photographed in jeans, open-necked shirt and reversed baseball cap, the quintessential Web geek.
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The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known.
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Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children.
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat
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The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
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A slim Farideh pouts at the lens, her skirt several inches shy of the knee, her black beehive dropping teased curls on her brow while beside her a smooth-necked Hussain seems filled with confidence of the future.
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But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
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And the dog knew its death in that clutch, and when the man moved on, was left broken-necked under the stars.
WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
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Why not a 444 Marlin necked down to 40 or 357 cal?
Rifle Review: Petzal Tests the Marlin .338 MXLR
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The herpetofauna includes black-necked spitting cobra Naja nigricollis, African puff adder Bitis arietans, west African sand boa Eryx muelleri, sand viper Cerastes cerastes, desert monitor lizard Varanus griseus and various species of gecko.
Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
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He had always envied huge men and this bull-necked guy was at least six foot five, weighing over 250 pounds.
HAVANA BEST FRIENDS
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This generation of unregenerated vipers was still perverse, stiff-necked, and hardened in their iniquity.
Barchester Towers
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Tube-lipped nectar bats use their extra-long tongues to reach nectar in long-necked flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can circumnavigate the island by kayak, search for black-necked stilts, sail small boats, and snorkel the reefs off White Bay beach.
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Out of the steamer-trunk she pulled a heavy black silk moire skirt, and a high-necked, long-sleeved black silk shirtwaist trimmed in black silk embroidery and jet beads.
Red dust
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She then returned alone into the pub, necked her drink, stared at everyone in threatening manner and left to puzzled looks all round.
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When a small company leveraged technology and brains to disrupt a business model or a cultural tradition, the world saw it as attractive and exciting and viewed competitors as stiff-necked bullies trying to preserve their power.
In the Plex
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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One of that crook-necked, yellow kind with warts all over it, and a great, big, splurgy vine behind it to account for its being there at all.
A Voice in the Wilderness
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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Anthony Buckeridge assembles the real essence of the retired schoolmaster - Panama hat, silver-tipped cane, swan-necked pipe (minus tobacco since a heart attack last year).
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I tried to sneak out with an open-necked shirt, but she called me back.
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April 28th, 2008 6: 16 pm ET the reverend is only telling the truth, and i'm as rednecked as they come.
Obama: Wright is 'free to speak his mind'
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For fans of witty musical numbers, there are sequences like the patter song in which Millie takes dictation from her stiff-necked boss, and repeats it at lightning speed.
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His laziness has bottlenecked our efforts to reform the system
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They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo.
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Everything about the way the nimble, compact fellow with slicked-back hair, informal formal outfit and open-necked shirt performs exclaims that he loves singing.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Kurt Elling Fools Around With Time at Birdland
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The mammals include a number of well-known animals such as the eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus, the red-necked wallaby M. rufogriseus, wallaroo M. robustus, koala Phasocarctos cinereus and wombat Vombatus ursinus, the greater glider Petaurus volans, the squirrel glider P. norfolcensis, mountain brushtailed possum Trichosurus caninus; also the rarer spotted-tailed quoll Dasyurus maculatus (VU), long-nosed potoroo Potorous tridactylus (VU), yellow-bellied glider Petaurus australis and brush-tailed rock wallaby Petrogale penicillata (VU).
Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
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My sister jumps through hoops for her like a puppy seeking approval and I get stiff-necked in the face of Mother's orders and pronouncements.
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Surely you wouldn't rather stumble about with your thick-necked flatfooted lummox of a boyfriend.
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The bull-necked doorman fixed me with a withering look and said: ‘You're not on me list mate.’
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With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
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Servicing her husband, according to the leathery, turtlenecked crone currently being interviewed.
Fly Away Home
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But my first exposure to Joyce was in a sleepy little black shoebox theatre, where a troupe of mild-mannered turtlenecked barnstormers read from Dubliners from a stage decorated with high stools, and where I, underexposed and underage and over my head, had too much to drink and fell asleep in mid-performance.
After the Race | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
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From time to time, the pond has hosted the locally rare redhead, a member of the group to which scaup, the canvasback and ring-necked duck belong.
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She always wears an open - necked shirt.
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For the really energetic among us, there is also hydra-energetic roll-on, advertised in the same break by more stubbly types, this time wearing open-necked shirts, looking mean and guarding their cards in a poker game, for "when your nights are long, and you don't want your eyes to betray you".
Magical weekend in Cardiff is in a league of its own
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The tunics, square-necked, worn over white shirts with high collars, came to mid-thigh and were double-sleeved, the undersleeve, tight to the arm, of the same leaf-green as the hose, the oversleeve wide and trailing with dagged hems.
This Scepter'd Isle
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In an open-necked pink shirt Howard shook hands and eyeballed his enthusiasts as he moved swiftly to the podium and almost immediately began speaking.
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The place is now crawling with thick-necked men with attitude.
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For a more classic look, there's a square-necked jacket with lateral buttons worn with a tube skirt hemmed at just below the knees.
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It is also known as the black-necked stork or jabiru stork.
Mystery bird: jabirú, Jabiru mycteria
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Other residents include egrets, moor hens, herons, coots, white-necked storks, lapwings, grey wagtails, grebes, black droungos, green bee-eaters, tailorbirds, magpies and robins as well as numerous species of migratory birds like flamingos that often visit the place.
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For those of you wondering what Barbie said, she indeed said "ascot", which is a man's broad necked scarf - fastened with tie tack or stick pin.
Final Toy Story 3 trailer released
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The first confirmed breeding of ring-necked parakeets was in 1971.
Times, Sunday Times
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These include common waterbirds such as bitterns (cinnamon bittern [Ixobrychus cinnamomeus]), herons and egrets (Indian pond-heron [Ardeola grayii], Pacific reef-egret [Egretta sacra]), storks (woolly-necked stork [Ciconia episcopus]), ibis (black-headed ibis [Threskiornis melanocephalus]), ducks (spot-billed duck [Anas poecilorhyncha]), jacanas (pheasant-tailed jacana [Hydrophasianus chirurgus]), pratinoles (oriental pratincole [Glareola maldivarum]), and terns (black-bellied tern [Sterna acuticauda]).
Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests
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Thus the spear becomes 'the slaughter-shaft'; fighting 'hand-play'; the sword 'the leavings of the hammer' (or 'of the anvil'); and a ship 'the foamy-necked floater.'
A History of English Literature
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In a piece labelled ‘The Crow Files’, the newspaper wrote, ‘It is no coincidence that the bull-necked, bullhorn-voiced Mr Crow is an ardent support of Millwall football club, whose thuggish fans rejoice in their unpopularity’.
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Then transparent china teacups, no larger than half an egg-shell, make their appearance, and the ladies are offered a few drops of sugarless tea, poured out of toy kettles, or a sip of 'saki' -- (a spirit made from rice which it is the custom to serve hot, in elegantly shaped vases, long-necked like a heron's throat).
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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The tunics, square-necked, worn over white shirts with high collars, came to mid-thigh and were double-sleeved, the undersleeve, tight to the arm, of the same leaf-green as the hose, the oversleeve wide and trailing with dagged hems.
This Scepter'd Isle
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With Patrick Summers on the podium, the San Francisco Opera's company premiere of Xerxes included several instruments rarely heard in operatic ensembles: the arch lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo a long-necked lute sometimes referred to as a chitarrone.
George Heymont: Going For Baroque With Handel's Xerxes
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Some few have neither a crop nor a dilated oesophagus, but the latter is exceedingly long, as in long necked birds, such as the porphyrio, and, by the way, in the case of all these birds the excrement is unusually moist.
The History of Animals
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I'd quizzed her about the pressures on natural resources from wood-felling, and efforts to protect endangered species such as the snub-nosed Yunnan monkey and the black-necked crane.
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In her navy blazer and high-necked blouse, she seems a throwback to the early eighties.
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The Mayan usually caters to these turtlenecked poseurs who don't care about quality so much as they care about seeing something 'important'.
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Andy MacSharry is a small, bull-necked, blue-eyed bachelor and not at all like the wild-eyed John B Keane character who coveted somebody else's land.
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Here, a diverse and well-preserved assemblage of dinosaur meat-eating theropod, long-necked sauropod, and plant-eating ornithopod, pterosaur, and bird tracks have been recovered from Lower Cretaceous-aged rocks exposed along the Yellow River.
Dinosaurs along the Silk Road
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The best part about the WSMC is most certainly the wide variety of horrifyingly torturous events that Samsonson and his bull-necked Scandinavian ‘son’ clones must endure.
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She preferred to be that way, but when she glanced at the woman's low-necked red T-shirt and short black skirt, Manda wished she had worn something colorful and eye-catching.
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Photographs taken at the airport showed him wearing light trousers and an open-necked shirt, his hands handcuffed, being escorted away by police.
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Throughout these valleys Red-necked Grebes are found on sloughs, ponds, lakes, and reservoirs, not on moving water.
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The consistently amazing quality of the band is their ability to color experimental music and noise with more candor and emotional sophistication than most turtlenecked troubadours.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The okapi is a short - necked primitive cousin of the giraffe.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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Mr Graville is also recommending that two brass swan-necked lights and two spotlights be removed from the restaurant as they are ‘alien and inappropriate’ to the listed building.
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Famously discovered by Harry Johnston and named by P.L. Sclater in 1901 (Johnston thought he was tracking down reports of a new forest-dwelling equid), Okapia is a short-necked forest-dwelling giraffid, though how typical it is in the grand scheme of giraffid diversity and evolution has proved controversial.
Archive 2006-06-01
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D. C.-area drivers put up with a lot: Jam-packed roads, distracted drivers and bottlenecked highways, but cars swerving into oncoming traffic just to shave a few seconds off the morning commute is a bit much for some in Arlington - even by area standards.
Drivers veering into oncoming traffic
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For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are.
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Some gaitered old countryman with little grey whiskers, neat, weathered and firm-featured; or one of those short-necked John Bulls, still extant, square and weighty, with a flat top to his head, and a flat white topper on it!
The Silver Spoon
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His open necked shirt is uber-sexy, but my eyes were drawn to Billie.
Just because...here is a lovely photo of David and Billie schmoozing...
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Instead of his usual suit, he was dressed casually in an open-necked knit shirt, and light-colored slacks, and soft Italian shoes with little tassels over the instep.
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Frequently ravers would continue into the next day as they necked more pills in a quest to recapture the feeling of the first rush, or to retreat from the depressing re - entry into the grey normality of the everyday.
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At least three other parakeet species have established feral breeding colonies: the most numerous is the ring-necked parakeet, now common in many London parks and suburbs.
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But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.
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A fiery-necked nightjar swooped low over the ground and caught a white moth in its beak before ascending into an acacia tree.
Let The Dead Lie
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He was carrying a lighted candle and a narrow-necked glass jar whose base appeared to contain lead shot.
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Long-necked giraffes and camels have the same seven neck bones as do short-necked mice and men.
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Dressed in jeans and open-necked shirt he looked ready for the bridge club bop.
The Sun
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We meet Gaspar, the bull-necked boss of the local Maquis, obviously still enraged by the compliance of his neighbours.
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It was flanked by a long-necked bottle of Florence wine, by which stood a glass enarly as tall, resembling in shape that which Teniers usually places in the hands of his own portrait, when he paints himself as mingling in the revels of a country village.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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A novelist and playwright himself, this might seem like the special pleading of a thin-skinned but hard-necked writer who fears that his own literary endeavours will never stand up to serious appraisal.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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A few minutes later Mr Griffin himself turned up surrounded by minders; shaven-headed, bull-necked and looking like cheap club bouncers talking into radios and wearing black gloves for effect.
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He wore a green high-necked shirt and poofy black pants tucked into leather boots.
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Fn.I. 26 The “lagena,” or “lagona,” was a long-necked bottle
The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes
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With this criterion in mind she'd picked a neat black cotton dress, short-sleeved and V-necked.
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The lake monster, like that of Loch Ness, is supposed to be akin to a plesiosaur, a kind of a long-necked aquatic dinosaur thought to have been an herbivore.
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But, (there's that but {butt!?} again!) if Joe Bob wants to perforate his deer with a .460 Wby necked down to shoot phonograph needles, sobeit!
Two Cases Where Bigger Isn't Better
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Among these may be observed the great musk duck, misnamed "Muscovy," and the black-necked swan; both indigenous to the
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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The party leader, jacketless and in an open-necked shirt, answered three.
Times, Sunday Times
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The locality and dimensions of the South Dakota ‘fish’ have led paleontologists to guess that the creature was a long-necked plesiosaur or a serpentine mosasaur.
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Despite the difference in rank, Jake and the sergeant had formed a strong friendship, probably because Jake had been the only man to put the bull-necked Tatro on his back when the men tried a little bare-knuckle boxing.
Come Again No More
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Or again, it might be a stern El Greco horizon, pregnant with inky rain, and a passing glimpse of some mummy-necked farmer, and all around alternating stripe of quicksilverish water and harsh green corn, the whole arrangement opening like a fan, somewhere in Kansas.
Nabokov's Art as Story
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Dressed in light blue jeans, dark blue blazer and white, open-necked shirt, he spoke to confirm his name and date of birth.
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Hence the sound advice from less stiff-necked writers to young bachelors: if you're looking for a girl, check out the city's major marketplaces.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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It is with narrow-minded people as with narrow-necked bottle; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring out.
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The formation of a necked region or mild notch introduces triaxial stresses, which make it difficult to determine accurately the longitudinal tensile stress on out to fracture.
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Mere mention of the French capital conjures images of turtlenecked poets brooding in starlit cafes, dandified flaneurs strolling the narrow boulevards and glamorous femmes sipping absinthe under gas lanterns.
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The four-year study focused on the rose-ringed, or ring-necked, parakeet, a type of parrot.
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As I rubbernecked, I noticed something on the road.
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The inspiration for the book had come while she was sitting on a friend's balcony in Queensland, watching the endangered red-necked crake.
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When the Isfahan man mocked Shaykh Sa’adi by comparing the bald pates of Shirazian elders to the bottom of a lotá, a brass cup with a wide-necked opening used in the Hammam, the witty poet turned its aperture upwards and thereto likened the well-abused podex of an Isfahani youth.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it?
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Fortunately India had another screen-ready leading man in MS Dhoni, whose bull-necked match-winning innings chimed perfectly with the ambience.
India's future is so bright they gotta wear shades | Barney Ronay
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Bottlenecked cartridges such as the .44-40 and .38-40 are lubed before sizing.
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My dad is a small, bookish, Jewish man with an interest in international politics – but all those years ago he was also a keen martial artist, with extensive sideburns, open-necked shirts and an unwillingness to back away from a confrontation.
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It included a rusty brown outerwear jacket with detachable fur-edged hood; a sleek charcoal cashmere round-necked dress with three-quarter-length sleeves; a loden green zipped jacket worn over a pencil skirt; a navy, three - quarter-length coat with an off-side zipper that was so "Jackie" and wearable and chic.
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Northern pintail, shoveler, green-winged teal and mallard are most numerous, but a discerning eye will spot many types of ducks such as wigeon, cinnamon teal, gadwall and varieties of divers like canvasback, ring-necked and ruddy ducks.
Undefined
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The next day, from a ridgetop we saw dozens of guanacos - longnecked and graceful as a ballerina.
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The success of The Economist — the fact that you read it, a black-turtlenecked guy at Columbia," Mr. Meacham said, before trailing off and complaining how difficult it is to draw in young readers for Newsweek.
Newsweek Inches Closer to The Economist, But Does Editor Jon Meacham Like The Economist?
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Light blue shirt on Sunday morning; two-tone, open-necked blue job on Sunday evening; and stripy, surfer-style blue sweatshirt for a Monday night barbecue.
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Whether she wore a low middy collar or dressed reticently for school in a black suit with a high-necked blouse, she was airy, flippant.
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They read simultaneously as portly bodies and bull-necked heads.
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bottlenecked" at the door and another firefighter touched the small of her back.
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The dress had a small brown flower pattern and was both high-necked and sleeveless, and hugged in just the right areas.
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Yvonne's wearing a black scoop-necked T-shirt and a simple, black ankle-length wrap skirt.
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A seemingly unlikely sight as it crosses a salt pan, this Flap-necked Chameleon (Chamaeleo dilepis) is probably searching for new feeding grounds or possibly a mate.
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Somehow, she maintains her elegant composure, straight-backed, swan-necked.
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Why were we all left smiling at the end of the programme at the hard-necked individuals who tried to, in effect, steal your money and mine and who walked away scot-free?
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If that's too severe and you are looking for simplicity with a hit of color, try the square-necked, front-pleated Gali wool dress with silk-blend trim in magenta (£ 1,250).
The Perfect Dress Is a Loyal Friend
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Herds of Camarasaurus, a long-necked herbivore known as a sauropod, travelled almost 200 miles from the plains to the mountains in a bid to find food and water.
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bottlenecked" endangered species such as Wanglang giant pandas, the East African cheetah and an island koala population founded by only three koalas.
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I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a metaphor for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
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Bacon, whose portraits show him to be a huge, bull-necked man, answered, ‘Madam, my house is well, but it is you that have made me too great for my house’.
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Some have defended the Christian faith and others have criticised it - choosing to label its adherents as stiff-necked, lobotomised fundamentalists.
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The groom went for a casual look with white suit and open-necked shirt.
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Though it was a warm day, he was wearing his old faded high-necked sweater with a frayed shirt collar showing.
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This species is very similar to the Damara ring-necked dove, Streptopelia capicola, but can be distinguished by its red orbital ring, which is clearly visible in the photograph above.
Mystery bird: African mourning dove, Streptopelia decipiens
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Like the Canada goose and ring-necked parakeet, it is an alien invader, albeit one of a much earlier vintage.
Birdwatch: Pheasant
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Along with the common ringneck pheasant and chukar partridge, the rare ‘blue’ pheasant (listed as ‘green’ by the State Department of Fish and Game), black francolin, gray francolin, and both lace-necked and barred doves can be pursued.
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As soon as you see Stu, strutting down the sidewalk, wearing an open-necked shirt and slick sunglasses, you think you know something about him.
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Or to be exact, ring-necked parakeets.
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