How To Use Norn In A Sentence
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Given that a few other Eocene European tetrapods have been suggested to be particularly closely related to South American taxa (namely the ratite Palaeotis, the peradectine opossums and the supposed anteater Eurotamandua), Ameghinornis and Aenigmavis were thought to perhaps indicate that phorusrhacids had originated in Europe and later spread (via Africa) to South America (Peters & Storch 1993).
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It was the pure yet not unornamental line of the early Wiener Werkstätte that proved most popular in America ten years ago.
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These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire
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When examined using scanning electron microscopy, almost all of the charred material consists of secondary tissue composed of unornamented, elongate cells with exceptionally thick radial walls, arranged in irregular rows.
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And I think the ardour of all the ladies and gentlemen is an inornate and pure civic consciousness which could present a petition in order to help people. This is the precious treasure of the spirit.
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It is utterly slovenly-looking, and unornamental, abounds in slouching bar-room-looking characters, and looks a place of low, mean lives.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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I myself grew up in Indianapolis, where common speech sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin, and employs a vocabulary as unornamental as a monkey wrench.
In which of the states is it easiest to talk to strangers?
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The bleakness of Young's After the Gold Rush and Cohen's Bird on a Wire are amplified by her precise enunciation and unornamented piano accompaniment.
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His dark brown, nearly black hair flopped over one eyebrow as he smiled crookedly, a smile girls back in Sanorn had once loved.
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Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Lloyd Wright and Neutra created sleek, unornamented homes that redefined residential living.
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It's all most beautifully arranged, but in a manner ferociously determined to leave no surface unornamented.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bridges and stations should be cheap and unornamental, and constructed at the lowest possible expense.
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Traditional types and spaces: tenement blocks, streets and squares were to be reinterpreted in austere, unornamented buildings which, some thought, would acquire gentler qualities under the influences of use and time.
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Gambel's quail is a highly ornate and dichromatic species, whereas scaled quail (C. squamata) is unornamented and monochromatic.
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Gambel's quail is a highly ornate and dichromatic species, whereas scaled quail (C. squamata) is unornamented and monochromatic.
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functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
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They slept all through the day and into the next night, awakening to hear the sounds of more merrymaking—norn merrymaking, which sounded like a continual bar fight punctuated with ferocious laughter.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Archer's chiding words still lingered in his mind, and, moreover, without the glass he could do nothing for he certainly would never have thought of entering Norne without first "piking" it from a safe vantage point.
Tom Slade with the Boys Over There
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The first beads were large, unornamental and round.
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Driven from their homeland by a force beyond reckoning, the norn have regrouped among the dwarven ruins of the Shiverpeaks.
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Mr. Suárez writes in a cold, unornamental, Hemingwayesque style, always straightforward and cinematic.
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In the meantime great pains are being taken with her education, and her accomplishments promise to be varied, though entirely unornamental.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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Ring, med din maka, helst sedan stjärnorna sprida sitt sken!
Fritiofs Saga
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It stands on a low and unornamented polished granite plinth in the centre of a small square of bluestone which sits flush with the surrounding turf.
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They have short sills and unornamental surrounds.
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Other birds found in this ecoregion include the western thornbill (Acanthiza inornata), and the short-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus latirostris EN) which inhabits sandplain woodlands and mallee, and the long-billed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus baudinii) which is found in open eucalypt woodland and farmland.
Swan Coastal Plain scrub and woodlands
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With the exception of some Warholian meanderings of the camera, the scene is shot in the unornamented style of direct cinema (another movement concerned with an authentic, unmediated art).
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In this film Buñuel abandons his customary surrealism for a subdued, unornamented style.
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Owen also identified New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa or dinornis, from a piece of shin just 15 cm long.
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Conor and Tiernan are intrigued to see Northern Ireland, or Norn Iron as they pronounce it, mimicking a northern accent.
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They were like Furies, or the Norns, or some kind of Greek chorus -- but knitting.
NOTHING TO WEAR AND NOWHERE TO HIDE: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES
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One such reason is the way in which struthious birds are, or have been, distributed around the antarctic region: as the ostrich in Africa, the rhea in South America, the emeu in Australia, the apteryx, dinornis, &c. in New Zealand, the epiornis in Madagascar.
On the Genesis of Species
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So I learned then, once for all, that gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and that only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.
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He looked to see his attacker—a norn with a tanned, dreadlocked, piratical face.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use.
Rational Review
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In transverse section both inner and outer layers are present although the surface usually appears unornamented.
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It was an aged norn male, his once-proud figure stooped a bit, his head bald, his eyes enfolded in rings.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody.
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Most of the women are strongly formed and dressed in unornamental but convenient cottons.
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Loosely speaking, Creatures were cyberpets called Norns who operated in real time, were born with a few basic drives and had to learn from their environment - including how to deal with the baddies, called Grendels.
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In the decades that followed, she notes, followers of Le Corbusier made rings that were severely unornamented and of materials such as lacquer, silver, chrome, steel, and precious stones - all in abstract designs.
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The sabers and accoutrements clank, and the entirely unornamental cortège as it trots toward Lafayette Square arouses no sensation, only some curious stranger stops and gazes.
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They were visited upon a collection of emptied maritime foundations, the flat and unornamented exteriors of abandoned concrete and stucco-surfaced buildings and the wreckage of burned-out cars along a highway.
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Mitt på golvet -- med halm var det strött -- brann lågan beständigt 40 glatt på sin murade häll, och igenom det luftiga rökfång blickade stjärnorna in, de himmelska vänner, i salen.
Fritiofs Saga
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A TRING GIRL should consult a doctor about the moles if very unornamental.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886
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This bird is currently classified as a sister subspecies along with the western willet, T. s. inornatus.
Mystery bird: eastern willet, Tringa s. semipalmata
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It was almost entirely unornamented, the stiff bodice emphasizing her narrow waist.
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Pared-down, unornamented, monotone cool - aka minimalisim - is in the ascendant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now Zealand formerly possessed several species of dinornis, one of which, called moa by the islanders, was larger than the ostrich.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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Graphically, Big Brother is very cartoon-like. The graphics are nothing to get excited over and besides a few supposedly exclusive video clips, it's all rather unornamented.
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The stippled backdrop is unornamented, increasing the tight focal emphasis on the figure.
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Boulanger's delight, while Isidore on donning the new made, and by no means unornamental moccasins, declared that nothing could be more comfortable, and that he felt able to accomplish any journey that the guide might think fit to lay out for the day.
The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France
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This was a large cathedral, large but unornamented, with little décor addressing either altar or aisle.
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The smaller female is Brownish and unornamented. Curassows have delicious flesh and are hunted as game.
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Other rare birds are Fraser's eagle owl Bubo poensis, white-bellied robin chat Cossypher roberti, Grauer's warbler Graueria vittata, short-tailed warbler Hemitasia neumanni, yellow-eyed black flycatcher Melaenornis ardesiaca, montane double-collared sunbird Nectarinia ludovicenis and dusky twinspot Clytospiza cinereoinacea.
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
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They had been walking in the Flower Meadow east of Norntown, where most of the norns lived in a warren of interconnected rooms and gardens.
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Real Tuscan villas possess a sort of laconic elegance from their relatively unornamented rustic style: the rough hewn here is more of the Home Depot ‘I forgot’ variety.
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Each character is given a home instance, personalized to their biography choices, located in their racial capital - Hoelbrak for the norn, the Grove for the sylvari, and so forth.
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Thus, with his head tied up, and secretly lamenting the unornamental figure he now presented to the eyes of his partner and charmer, Quimby resumed the game.
Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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Nornornas lottning, 8 huru vi fike, trotsa vi, klaga vi ej oss ifrån.
Fritiofs Saga
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Decoration needed to be in keeping with the sober, relatively unornamented classicism of the building if it was to bring the triumphant unity of the project to full expression.
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It relies on composition, using largely unornamented surfaces, with small incidents of ornament, or at times a small-scale over-all pattern.
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Yet within the English critical formalist tradition, there is a precocious - and pertinent - esthetic responsiveness to unornamented industrial architecture on the part of Clive Bell.
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Shells of T. inornatus are lacking the spinose projections of the lamellae along the subsutural keel.
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The two other members of Edge of Steel jogged up to where the charr and the norn wrestled.
GuildWars Edge of Destiny
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Coprolite deposits reveal the diet and ecology of the extinct New Zealand megaherbivore moa Aves, Dinornithiformes.
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Mr. Henry Norn 's Russell was not only a philosopher or a mathematician, but also an educator.
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The little blue-haired girl was in front of the simple wooden door, the door that symbolized the huge metamorphosis she would go through upon stepping past that unornamented threshold.
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Norns '(for so in that country they called the Fates)' beckon you to a land where green fields lie under a blue sky, fields where golden-haired maidens lie among the flowers. '
The Book of Romance
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The doctor under her hands became a dignified and not unornamental figure-head to the concern, in whom she took a certain filial pride.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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The large ribonucleoproteic particle thus assembled in the early part of the pathway, or 90S pre-ribosome, is composed mainly of so-called UTP proteins (U-Three Particle), which associate to the U3 snoRNP
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Jacob had two unornamental twin brothers then, and two unseemly parents.
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The several species of that gigantic genus of birds, the Deinornis, seem here to have replaced mammiferous quadrupeds, in the same manner as the reptiles still do at the Galapagos Archipelago.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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With its almost unornamented limestone facade, it is in the austere style associated with neoclassicism.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down many deep steps beneath the stage is a winding passage leading past the unornamental bases of what appear to be huge balks of timber, rising up into space.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
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Amending Shakespeare, he gave Sam and the others a crash course in mineralogy, pointing out that “nothing that glitters is gold . . . gold in its native state is dull, unornamental stuff, and that only low-born metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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It stands on a low and unornamented polished granite plinth in the centre of a small square of bluestone which sits flush with the surrounding turf.
