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  • Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
  • Patients then had either normal or low-dose ciclosporin (also spelt cyclosporin), low-dose tac-rolimus or low-dose sirolimus. Times, Sunday Times
  • From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
  • Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
  • The men never exerted themselves except when hunger prompted, or a spent magazine made the acquisition of "peltries" necessary to barter for powder and ball. The Hive of "The Bee-Hunter," A Repository of Sketches, Including Peculiar American Character, Scenery, and Rural Sports
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  • Solution 3 dissolves the pelt appreciably on the first day; after six days, solubilisation is complete. Synthetic Tannins
  • Judge Benson, unbudging in his view that justice had been done in the case of United States v. Leonard Peltier, refused to order a new trial, and once again (in 1984) his ruling was appealed before the circuit court. United States v. Leonard Peltier
  • The crowed pelted stones at the speaker.
  • The Croatian currency is the kuna, apparently named after a small furry animal like a stoat or weasel, the pelts of which used to be traded.
  • Als jullie mij lichaam van tempeltrap gooi, Gibbu, Blav, Mivve en Wallop, zij in dorp zeg jullie gevaarlijke moordenaars ben. Roleplay, culture and morality
  • The Jolly Bottle, the Jolly Bottle, "cried Habershaw, pronouncing this word according to ancient usage, with the accent on the last syllable, as if spelt" bottel; "" give us the Jolly Bottle, we all know the chorus of that song. Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.
  • Over 800+ cataloged specimens from seven species of dinosaur, including the type specimen of the first Jurassic ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, have been recovered from this bonebed. Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
  • The difference is that the message it spelt out would be a little more discreet. Times, Sunday Times
  • The nine-year-old had just spelt the word "sergeant" correctly at her school's spelling bee when her father, a sergeant serving in Iraq, appeared from behind a curtain. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • A group of British tabloid journalists were pelted with eggs by a French campaigner yesterday and pursued across the camp. Times, Sunday Times
  • As soon as the tanning matter has completely penetrated the pelt, the total time of tannage is noted, and the velocity with which the tanning matter converts the pelt into leather at that particular concentration is thus obtained. Synthetic Tannins
  • We don't need to wear any kind of fur or pelt or skins any more. The Sun
  • But humans also were smart enough to develop the ability to kill furry animals and use their pelts for clothing to be warmer.
  • Even at its zenith in the mid-20th century, mink had few rivals, with only sable and the pelts of big cats bestowing anywhere near the same prestige.
  • In an explosion that left me temporarily deaf, the cannon stopped pelting us with energy and began hailing us with pieces of its debris instead.
  • The calyx, the subtending bracts and the two prophylls bear groups of extrafloral nectaries (single peltate trichomes).
  • The children pelt each other with snowballs.
  • Opposite the fireplace, a bulky dark wood bed was draped in dark blue velvet covers and snowy white fur pelts, its sheets thrust to one side.
  • The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
  • _ "The word drummed in his ears as he pelted to 'Bias's rescue. Hocken and Hunken
  • Such words as peltast, androgyn, and exultant are substitutions of this kind, and are intended to be suggestive rather than definitive. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • The density of peltate glandular trichomes on the abaxial surface of a fully developed leaf is typically about 1600 per cm.
  • His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Professor was going to pelt Hugh Mackay with a great, malodorous barrage of bunyip droppings, but then realised there wouldn't be any point.
  • 'Otter' is spelt with a double t.
  • I just used the spellcheck on my computer - 805 words misspelt out of 1,200.
  • The couples are played at full pelt by the finest actors in town. Times, Sunday Times
  • Serve with toasted spelt or barley. Times, Sunday Times
  • Peltandra undulata.pennisetum. pennyroyal.pentstemon. peony.peppermint. pepperidge. pepper, red. perennials, cultivation of. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
  • Then Van Pelt asked what others say about Orakpo, and the subject of friendly fire again reared its bruise-rendering head. Teammates call LaRon Landry "Iron Man"
  • We're coming out of the traps at full pelt. Times, Sunday Times
  • All of the organic grains - wheat, spelt, dry edible beans - are big on the international market now.
  • Problems with the hybrid system of the third car spelt an end to its chances of victory. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Italians, including some of the world's wealthiest players, were pelted with tomatoes when they sneaked back home on a midnight flight.
  • Unhindered by body armor, a peltast could move much more quickly than the fully armed hoplite, whose equipment was both far more heavy and far more expensive than theirs. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
  • a bountied animal pelt
  • In Domesday it is spelt 'Flaneburg,' and _flane_ is the Norse for an arrow or sword. Yorkshire
  • The spelling of our language in respect to the pronunciation is also wonderfully defective, though perhaps less so than that of the French; as the words slaughter and laughter are pronounced totally different, though spelt alike. Note XV
  • the hecklers pelted the discombobulated speaker with anything that came to hand
  • Colonel Boone had but to hear him out and bare his shoulders for such other blows which Judge Wright sought to pelter him, and we will hear with what blow he was driven from his post as Indian Agent. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail
  • The CRS, in even more barmily chic outfits, were getting pelted with rocks.
  • Rome would be the gainer by it if her very constables were elected to serve a century; for in our experience we have never even been able to choose a dog-pelter without celebrating the event with a dozen knockdowns and a general cramming of the station-house with drunken vagabonds overnight. Sketches New And Old
  • One idea I've been kicking around for a shield is a Greek pelta.
  • It said that faeries - he spelt it fairies - were so small that they didn't have room for more than one emotion at a time.
  • The TGV is a haptic feedback device that uses solenoids, eccentric-mass motors, and Peltier elements-all controlled by custom electronics and a personal computer-to give users the ultimate immersive experience: Gizmodo
  • “No, nor yet a peltast”; but he had been ordered by his messmates to drive a mule, although he was a free man. Anabasis
  • There is, for example, scarcely a Welsh name which is correctly spelt.
  • Savvy Yanker bankrollers in Missouri rounded up a bunch of tough lads for capturing beaver pelts to satisfy the rage of the day - the beaver hat.
  • The sun was setting between Eigg and Rum as we reached the deserted beach, only to find "VALHALLA DANCEHALL" spelt out in seaweed letters two foot high, which stumped even the locals. Weird and wonderful: Scotland's Away Game music festival
  • The enthusiastic crowd then pelted him with heads of lettuce.
  • Spelthorne Borough Council is having to dig deep into its coffers to help finance a county-wide concessionary bus scheme, after Surrey County Council withdrew its support.
  • The whole room is a zebra pelt of black and white and that colour that has been the fashion staple for so long they've invented a dozen names for it - taupe, camel, fawn, buff.
  • The Freeport bus has been pelted with stones and missiles hurled from the road and even shot at with an air gun, shattering a window.
  • The only thing that really puzzled me was the first sentence (Now that fur is back in vogue, I've been thinking about splurging on a coat this winter): If fur is back in vogue, then why are pelt prices in the dumper right now? Why Real Fur Is Greener Than Fake
  • Every once in a while, a rat-a-tat of heavy rain would pelt the windows, drowning out the demanding drone of wind.
  • I chanced a second look and was rewarded with even more shots pelting my position dangerously close to my face.
  • I saw the peltast who had not spoken glance at the other as if to say he means it, and then at the crowd. The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Homographs - A homograph is a word that is spelt the same, but has a different meaning. Site Home
  • Make sure you have spelt and addressed your letter correctly.
  • His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt.
  • Thcfc peltated leaves are of a roundifh figure in the whole, though they are angular, and being large, and of a good green, make it a valuable climber. Planting and Ornamental Gardening: A Practical Treatise
  • Cops were pelted with bottles trying to disperse 4,000 people at the fight in warm weather in July. The Sun
  • To make French bâtards or anadama, breads of rye or spelt, fougasse with olives and semolina, they need flour, and for flour, they need wheat. One Big Table
  • The rain pelted down on him and he moved like lightening. Send'er Down
  • As with many of Paisley's characters he is a lovable rogue, thoughtless but not cruel, well-meaning but easily sidetracked, a boy whose threadbare background has spelt out a future of meagre options, many of them criminal.
  • Each day we saw many wild pigs ( "chancho moro") and various kinds of wild cats, including the splendid "gato once" or ounce cat, whose skin is one of the finest, and only to be compared with the "lobo" or golden otter, which has a most magnificent fluffy pelt with a golden tint on the tips. Argentina from a British Point of View
  • Other important plant species in the freshwater habitats include pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), tape-grass (Ottelia alismoides), and buckbean (Nymphoides peltata). Yellow Sea saline meadow
  • Bullets of water pelt down, gusts of wind whip and tear from all sides.
  • His legs, stomach, chest, and upper back were covered with a coarse brown hair that was not enough to be called a pelt, but not far from it. The Clan of the Cave Bear
  • There is no policy of transliteration: the same Bengali word is spelt differently in the text and the notes.
  • What will she do if they suddenly discover her, camp on her doorstep, pelt her with intrusive questions? Times, Sunday Times
  • In some cities firemen have been pelted with rocks and even attacked with fireworks.
  • This exotic combination is followed by a complete contrast of sound in the succeeding galliard, or Gailliarde as it is spelt in the score.
  • Prestigious food awards have brought her best-chef gongs and pelted her with Lifetime Achievement titles.
  • The white, almost gleaming walls of the semi-detached houses spelt wealth and comfort.
  • Denizens of coastal waters in the Pacific, sea otters were pursued for centuries for their thick, soft pelts.
  • This same Lethlean article also refers to another kind of porridge, one made from ground corn - polenta - which was also the Italian word to describe gruels made in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance from things like spelt, chestnut flour and the aforementioned millet and acorns. At My Table
  • Paul Hill: you'd also think he'd notice the other Blaydon is spelt differently, seeing as how he picked you up on spelling. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Already, scores of mercenaries were surrounding the camp, pelting it with flaming arrows and a whole assortment of javelins and throwing spears.
  • There was one pedantic point that really annoyed me about this book: Arcturus is spelt incorrectly throughout, missing the first 'r'. May Books 19) Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
  • CAYUGA PURE ORGANICS grows and sells an amazing product called freekeh, which is roasted unripe spelt berries. Avital Binshtock: Grain Trust: Experts Recommend Their Eco-Favorites
  • When it was a kitten some young Plymborough roughs had hurled it into the little river, and were making of it what they termed a "cockshy," pelting it with stones, fortunately ineffectually, and trying to beat it under water, when the Doctor's footman, who was crossing the bridge, saw what was going on and made an unexpected charge upon the young ruffians, effectually scattering them. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
  • Well Kayne's waistcoat was made out of several native Australian animals, possibly possum, wombat, kangaroo and wallaby pelts, all sewn together.
  • Zinc (pronounced/ˈzɪŋk/, from German Zink), also known as spelter, is a metallic chemical element; it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. PhpBB.com
  • A portion of a section through an apothecium of _Peltigera canina_, showing part of the hymenium of interwoven hyphae below and the bases of three paraphyses above. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • Father Lalemant enumerates the kind of peltry obtained by the French from the Indians, and the amount, as follows. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01
  • They've been claiming for years that the lt gov was pelted with Oreo cookies at a debate - because an "Oreo" is a word used to describe a black person who is black on the outside and white on the inside, i.e., a sell-out. 11/14/2005
  • You thought he was running at full pelt and then he would just stop and go in a different direction. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pelts of Cervidae are not of great importance in furriery, and they are only used for decorative purposes.
  • But for the exertions of the police in extinguishing the flames, made while the mob were pelting them with missiles, all the factory hands would have perished. Foreign and Colonial News
  • The pillory was a set of stocks that imprisoned head and arms and was used to humiliate petty offenders, who would be insulted and perhaps pelted with mud by passers-by.
  • Windows had been broken, houses pelted by eggs and apples, cars damaged and property vandalised.
  • It felt like the airplane being pelted by heavy rain or hail. Times, Sunday Times
  • Although dutifully gutted and stripped of their fur-bearing skin in the field by the trappers, the remaining bits of rotting flesh and grizzle began to give off a stink as the pelts thawed in boxes on the warehouse floor. A DAY AT THE FUR AUCTION • by Stephen Taylor
  • In the slap of waves against the rocky shore one can imagine hearing phantom brigades moving across the lakes, paddling in close line astern, their canoes piled high with beaver pelts destined for Bond Street and the rue de Rivoli.
  • Managers from the branch sat in the stocks outside being pelted with wet sponges, and firefighters turned up with a hose to give them a soaking.
  • A portion of a section of the hymenium of _Peltigera canina_, showing two asci containing spores, two asci with protoplasmic contents, and five paraphyses. Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
  • In this novel the sky is always leaden grey, the light is smoky, the rain is pelting the windows and it is cold.
  • The crowd pelted bad eggs at the speaker.
  • Pelting waist, wining, wukking up, movementations all are rhythmic gyrations of the waist popular in West Indian dance.
  • The words are spelt differently and they mean quite different things.
  • Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter. The Research Magnificent
  • Gradually add stock until the beans and spelt are tender but still al dente. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone else took pride in pelting them with recyclable plastic.
  • During the past few months the city papers have referred to St. Vincent as the leprosy town, Hallock was referred to as the pauper district; we have been advertised as the refuge of tramps and quarantined on account of glanders*; but last of all and worst of all Bro, W-- --- has commenced pelting us with poetry, and SUCH poetry! "...Leprosy Town..."
  • The couples are played at full pelt by the finest actors in town. Times, Sunday Times
  • A person who has obtained the appropriate license and permit may transport green pelts of furbearers.
  • a pelting of insults
  • Didn't Kanye West have his name misspelt on his birthday cake, sometime last year I think? Sarcasm! Wow, That's ORIGINAL!
  • The crop failure spelt disaster for many farmers.
  • I can patter Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Thichimuchimachy; but from the tongue of a Burlesques
  • One of the tasks I saw was a spelling contest where the participants misspelt everything: faux pas became 'fohpa,' cyst became 'sest,' beguile 'begyal' and so on. Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'
  • Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. The Last Airbender Movie Trailer #3 | /Film
  • To take a single case, why should he not have spelt _until_ with two _l_s, instead of one, -- as he does "distill, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
  • Its spelt sourdough combines wheat, rye and spelt for a thick crisp crust with an exceptional flavour. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is sobering to swim at full pelt and apparently not go anywhere. Times, Sunday Times
  • The term farro is broadly used for wheat family members that have a nutty flavor and stout build, including emmer, spelt and einkorn. Get Your Freekeh On
  • Ser, " offered Speltar, 'might I show you the house? Wellspring of Chaos
  • The fire sputtered and spat as it was pelted by the rain, but our food was hot and I had poured the morning's broth into the jugs already.
  • It was almost like being pelted with rocks repeatedly.
  • Now before the farmers start pelting me with corn awareness pamphlets, let me say that there's probably nothing wrong with corn syrup sweeteners per se.
  • The actors took a short while to fully get into the difficult dialogue, but by the end, the confessions, revelations and delusions were brilliantly spelt out.
  • Both women have the chalky flesh-tones, the lank pelt of body-hair, and the deep folds of embonpoint characteristic of Baldung's unenticing nudes.
  • We don't need to wear any kind of fur or pelt or skins any more. The Sun
  • Rotate oatmeal with grains like amaranth, millet, quinoa, rice, spelt, or toasted buckwheat.
  • In the slap of waves against the rocky shore one can imagine hearing phantom brigades moving across the lakes, paddling in close line astern, their canoes piled high with beaver pelts destined for Bond Street and the rue de Rivoli.
  • He rubbed a mixture of charcoal, calamint, water mint, and other dried herbs into his pelt to try to blot out the stench of the village, then toppled onto a pallet in one of the guest rooms to fall asleep within seconds.
  • In fact, anti-fur types be warned: animal pelts line all the beds (lending the rooms a subtle wet-doggy odour) as well as the movie theatre seats and bar alcoves.
  • Sorry i spelt it wrong just in a hery:) yazzerx reply to this GNOME-Look.org Content
  • The painting was pelted with eggs and had to be protected by a screen. Times, Sunday Times
  • In other attacks homes have been pelted with pork products and bacon hung on doors.
  • Outside, dark, ominous thunder clouds gathered as rain began to pelt down on top of her car.
  • Their arms were the bow, spear, and axe, a crescent-shaped shield, called pelta, and (in early art) a helmet - the original model in the Greek mind apparently being the goddess Athena.
  • Accompanying Taylor is Paul Speltz, who was appointed last month as the Treasury's envoy to China.
  • Suddenly a hot-air balloon, with a young child in it, appears to be coming down in the field, followed by others running at full pelt, trying to aid a safe landing.
  • Applied alfo to a ftigma, when it is round and flat, like a pelta. The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...
  • She baked it the night before, using spelt instead of traditional wheat flour, and big, juicy, organic sultanas.
  • I was pleased to note that my name had been spelt correctly for once.
  • A simple brass plaque spelt out Brook Advisory Clinic.
  • He nodded across the slope to Josh and his posse, who were taking turns jibbing on the trick rail while the others pelted them with snowballs. The Ex Games
  • The hailstorm is pelting against the roof.
  • I have a guess what of truth there may be in that; and you the fair Alchemist, are you not all the richer and better that you know the essential gold, and will not have it called pewter or spelter, though in the shops it is only such? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • Chinese farmers hope to earn big profits selling fox pelts into the Russian and Chinese markets.
  • Jackman Hugh Jackman please someone that dood looking doesn’t deserve to have their name misspelt shallow i know Weekend To-Do List: Overexposure edition | EW.com
  • Angry students in Frunze, the Kirgiz capital, demanded that the local leadership resign and pelted the Communist Party chief with rocks when he appeared at a rally to appeal for calm. Hot Summer For Moscow
  • It's snowing like mad right now, huge fluffy flakes pelting down.
  • The established T'ang Quartet, also from Singapore, excelled in two contemporary works, the folk-inspired Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March by yet another 1930s boy, Aulis Sallinen (b 1935), and the third string quartet by Bright Sheng (b 1955) which mixed Chinese and western techniques to nimbly embroidered effect. Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review
  • As rain pelted the field at Shea Stadium, it was only fitting that the Mets-Cardinals game wouldn't be played. Pilot's view: It's not for everyone
  • As it was a moonless night visibility on the strait was non-existent, though the pelting rain had eased somewhat. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
  • His agent, Don Meehan, says Yemelin prefers his name spelt with a 'y'. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Reports indicate that, within the family, different species can have both peltate and capitate trichomes, peltate or capitate only or, more rarely, neither.
  • It can be made from a variety of pelts and hides including leather, sealskin, mink, racoon, rabbit or pigskin in hundreds of different styles.
  • Serve alongside spoons of the spelt salad and wilted spinach leaves. Times, Sunday Times
  • Richard does a kamikaze run in minus 20 celsius and snowing weather, getting pelted with paintballs.
  • The failure of their crops spelt disaster for the peasant farmers.
  • Nettles and tangles of bindweed, pelt-snagging goosegrass and bedstraw alike were avoided, while he gazed with pleasure on the eager growth of scattered rowan and hawthorn saplings.
  • From the start of the procession we were pelted with rubbish, litter, very hard sweets, stones and eggs.
  • From some fifty feet away, the original storyteller said he had pelted several stones at the presumably expired alien thing.
  • Speltz prefers the term positional plagiocephaly because the babies 'flat heads are caused in part by their spending so much time on their backs' sleeping in cribs, lying back in car seats and carriages. Winnipeg Sun
  • The time of year that the animal was killed has a bearing on how well the hair stays in the skin, making trapping in the winter the best time to hunt for pelts.
  • The thermoelectrical principle (is open by the French scientist Peltier in 1834) allows to bring to a design of a refrigerator the heat section for hot food!
  • The audience pelted the speaker with questions until the chairman had to stop them,for there was no more time.
  • August 27, 2007 at 10: 08 pm sorry spelt some sord wrong Lie is one of them Facebooking on your phone | Sync Blog
  • Little letters spelt out his birth date and the whole book was decorated in blue and green pieces of paper and sparkly letters.
  • He handed the Huronian Native the promised items and received the soft beaver pelts, placing them with the rest from that day.
  • That big noise, and the voices applauding it, go at full pelt for two hours here. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suddenly Zach came pelting through the hallway, shoving people out of the way until he accidentally ran into me, bowling me over.
  • Van Pelt favors ‘high potential’ areas for big tree hunting, which often means leaving the beaten trail behind in favor of bushwhacking.
  • Above me, the sky was grey and overcast, the rain pelting down upon the rocky mountainside in steady sheets, running down to feed the rivers and lakes.
  • They forgot that a dog is a dog, not its name spelt backwards. Times, Sunday Times
  • Approximately 19% of the sample consists of bones of the ankylosaur Mymoorapelta, mostly osteoderms and lateral spines 2 individuals. Archive 2009-05-01
  • Attacks ranged from verbal abuse and being spat on to being pelted with stones and shot at with airguns.
  • I hear he got six thousand fine peltries for them. The Berrybender Narratives
  • Marbles" - the Royal Navy communications rating spelt the codeword back phonetically - `has transferred, over. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • For sentimental reasons I had brought with me the spelter lancer that Bella had drawn on that memorable day. The Vesuvius Club
  • At the base, there stood a black horse with a thick shaggy pelt and another dark grey one.
  • And speaking as one who often gets both parts of my name misspelt - an extraneous ‘e’ tacked onto the end of Sharp and pick where you like for people to put the dieresis. May 2008
  • pelt the speaker with questions
  • CINCINNATI (AP) - Rain pelted Brock Berlin's face as he settled in for his first regular-season snap in the NFL. USATODAY.com
  • Gradually add stock until the beans and spelt are tender but still al dente. Times, Sunday Times
  • His idealism runs full pelt into entrenched interests and ends with mysterious forces ousting him. Times, Sunday Times
  • Peltonen made it 3-1 at 7: 48 of the second with a backhander from the side of the net that trickled through Gerber's legs. USATODAY.com
  • The rain pelted down and pelted down and the raindrops smeared my glasses so I could barely see.
  • And speaking as one who often gets both parts of my name misspelt - an extraneous ‘e’ tacked onto the end of Sharp and pick where you like for people to put the dieresis. What’s My Name Again?
  • A sheltered gorge thinly wooded with fir-trees opens before us; the long impending rain begins again, hard and fast; and the path becoming soon too steep for riding, we have to dismount and walk in a pelting storm down a steep mountain-side to Santa Maria Gardena, which is the first hamlet at the head of the Grödner Thal. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
  • The couples are played at full pelt by the finest actors in town. Times, Sunday Times
  • I put together a blend which I aptly named "Rider's Cereal Blend" which consisted of Artisanal Cereal blend base (multigrain oat bran, rye, spelt, barley, amarath and wheat germ) cacao nibs, granola, goji berries and pumpkin seeds. 12 posts from November 2008
  • The metal is known in commerce as "spelter" when in ingots, and as sheet zinc when rolled. A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines.
  • And she claims her home was daubed with paint, and she has been pelted with stones.
  • The people in the audience, who usually spend halftime ignoring us or pelting us with peanuts, were hushed as they tried to figure out what we were writing.
  • When the first European settlers docked their ships here they weren't only enticed by beaver pelts.
  • The failure of their crops spelt disaster for the peasant farmers.
  • ‘There have been a few occasions now when buses have been pelted with missiles and windows have been smashed,’ he said.
  • The word "hotooa" is the same as that which is usually spelt "atua" by Polynesian philologues, and it will be convenient to adopt this spelling. Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study

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