How To Use Perch In A Sentence
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Nowadays she heats her place with a cast-iron stove perched on firebricks in the living room, cooks with propane, and does her beadwork at night by the light of a kerosene lamp while listening to a battery-operated radio.
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That said, the advisability of perching a laurel crown on a horse-riding hat, which tended to happen after the equestrianism events, may have to be addressed.
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I am also told that many of the perch were undersized and released.
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To complete the desired effect of Edmund's cuteness, the photographer has put a posy of flowers into his hand, then perched him on a tall rattan chair from which his short legs dangle.
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Place the leg in the pot (roasting dish) and perch the rosemary on top.
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In the background is a large lacquered coffer, its side decorated with a flying bird and another perched in a tree.
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¶ Fresshe sturgyon, breme, perche in gelly, a Ioll of samon, sturgyon, and welkes; apples & peres rosted with suger candy.
Early English Meals and Manners
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There was a loud clapping from the boys who were perched on the rail fence, but some of the girls were crying.
Rainbow Valley
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Having to stand upright, dip to serve drinks and perch on the edge of chairs all night is clearly a workout in itself.
The Sun
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Bolts around exhaust manifolds or superchargers get hot and tend to rust.
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The tusky but soft-hearted little brute kept nodding his round, sparsely covered head while he listened, exuding a smell of lavender-water, cigars, and gutta-percha.
The Freelands
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Made from bright orange, green or pink wool-covered foam, the seat perches upon thin steel legs.
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Her eyes missed nothing; her dainty close-set ears heard all -- the short, dry note of a chewink, the sweet, wholesome song of the cardinal, the thrilling cries of native jays and woodpeckers, the heavenly outpoured melody of the Florida wren, perched on some tiptop stem, throat swelling under the long, delicate, upturned bill.
The Firing Line
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Although the complex syncopated rhythms of duets can sound to the untrained ear as if they are coming from one bird, they are the efforts of two wrens perched side by side and interposing their notes with precise timing.
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This is a taut, tense and thrilling two hours, supercharged with some serious star power.
The Sun
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Add to this mix the prospects of an economy supercharged by €12 billion when the special saving investments accounts start to mature in under two years' time, and the economic winds seem to blowing fair for stocks.
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From his lofty perch, hanging over the slopes of Kilimanjaro under a parasail with razor sharp rocks below, Judge Bryan Pope gives this DVD a thumbs up.
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The trained bird will then perch on the best man's arm.
The Sun
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Standing firm Only in recent years have Border Patrol agents perched themselves so close to the border.
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In superchemistry, scientists are able to precisely control the pairings and interactions of the atoms and molecules in Bose-Einstein condensates.
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There I have caught bream, roach, rudd, tench, perch, pike, and gudgeon.
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Once or twice a day the intrepid fisherman ‘runs’ his trot line meaning he gets in a boat and checks the hook dangling beneath each float and if necessary sticks a fresh perch on it for bait.
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O immaginativa, che ne rube tal volta sì di fuor, ch 'uom non s'accorge perchè d'intorno suonin mille tube; chi move te, se il senso non ti porge?
Art
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Remember those supercharged notebooks I mentioned back in May?
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She found a flat rock, in midstream, to perch on, and from there made an assessment of her situation.
GALILEE
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So when I turned on my seven-hundred-dollar heels to strut toward the bar, and over to where Mona was—perched up on a barstool with a frosty drink in her hand, like I wanted to be—I was slightly annoyed when some nigga grabbed me gently by the forearm, pulling me back to the floor.
Deep Throat Diva
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Kelp beds and offshore reefs create habitat for a wide range of fish, with surfperch being the most common.
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If you want to use a T-perch on top of your bird carrier then allow your parrot to sit on the perch for a short time every day so that he/she gets used to it.
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From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination.
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One of the reasons given for the dumping of the turbosupercharger concept was the fact that a turbo had exploded on the YFM - 1's first test flight on 28 September 1939.
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So like preemption, in today's supercharged political climate, unilateralism and multilateralism no longer convey any meaning.
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The silence was broken by the gavel pounding on the judge's perch.
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When perched on shrubs, it often pumps its tail up and down like a phoebe.
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The museum has a Saudi sculpture of a falcon on a perch, of inestimable value and stunning vulgarity, made from gold, quartz, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and 1,210 diamonds.
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However, she soon gave over these attempts at intimidation, perched beside the percher, and again put something into his maw.
The Foot-path Way
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Others relish their greens when hung creatively over branches and perches so they may work at nibbling the tasty offering.
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Perched on the back of the large booby, the small finch then sucks its blood.
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The city was perched on its barren, hot rock, with scarcely a drop of water, and its inhabitants must often have been tempted to wish that there had been running down the sun-bleached bed of the Kedron a flashing stream, such as laved the rock-cut temples and tombs of Thebes.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
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Only from an editor's perch can you get a broad panoramic view of this community of scholars - authors, reviewers, associate editors - in action.
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Sometimes you'll find shoals of roach and perch in streams running out into the bays.
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Yesterday at low tide, silt shut the slough like trap, and mud stranded boats on docks perched high above water.
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Certain training techniques can take your resistance program to the next level, promoting greater muscle gain, jolting your metabolism, pushing you past a plateau, supercharging your motivation and so much more.
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He watches the child climb the low branches of an apple tree, sees the insects inside the fruit and watches the bird perch upon the topmost cluster of leaves.
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The clouds have no notion of being caricatured, and the trees keep cautiously away from the brink of such streams -- save, perchance, now and then, here and there, a weak well-meaning willow -- a thing of shreds and patches -- its leafless wands covered with bits of old worsted stockings, crowns of hats, a bauchle
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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As she perched on the blanket and started to unlace her boots, she remembered what the constable had said and leapt to her feet.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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Simultaneously, hydrogen ions are produced, which react with the perchlorate ions making perchloric acid.
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Another mode of making a springe, which is a capital plan for catching almost any bird, whether it be a percher or a runner, is this: Procure an elastic wand (hazel or osier makes the best) of about 3 ft. 6 in. long, to the top of which tie a piece of twisted horsehair about 3 in. in length; to the free end attach a little piece of wood of 2 in. in length, by the middle, cutting one end to an obtuse point, flattened on the top and underneath.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Adults let senorita fish and several species of surfperch clean them.
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In the case of the perch, the anglers argued that catching a fish was a human prerogative.
Times, Sunday Times
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Quando sono ben freddi, si spalma sulla base una confettura a scelta (io preferisco quella di rosa canina perchè ha una consistenza che adoro, tipo una gelatina liquida, in più non è dolce), si appiccica la parte superiore precedentemente spolverizzata di zucchero a velo.
Ovis Mollis « Baking History
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To give one example, a red pellet could contain substances such as potassium perchlorate and strontium carbonate, besides pitch as fuel and starch as binder.
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Whisper glided across the dark bay, having spied in the distance a tall building perched on the edge of a cliff.
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Spectrophotometric measurements carried out by us (to be published later) show conclusively that there is no dimer formation, and that in ceric perchlorate solutions in normal perchloric acid approximately 92 per cent of the ceric ion is present as the ion-pair complex Ce 4 + OH -.
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Alyssa Rosenberg points out that from his new perch at OIRA, Cass Sunstein will also oversee federal “e-government” initiatives, something that should be of interest to bloggers and blog readers.
Matthew Yglesias » The Unknown OIRA
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Skarlis, for example, colors his jig purple where the forage is sheepshead or bluegill, green for sunfish, orange and yellow for perch, and black or brown for bullhead or eelpout.
A Walleye Pro's Tricks for Customizing Soft-Plastic Grubs
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I now have perches that I salvaged from the woodpile in my back yard.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Arcos, 30 kilometres east of Jerez, is perched on a huge rock which thrusts 200 metres up from the Rio Guadalete.
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A Falkland Islands fur seal perches on a rock outcrop off New Island, where seafood-rich waters nourish a wildlife population diverse in nature and often astonishing in number.
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Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness.
The Egoist
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Billy had told her of the great perch Cal Hutchins caught on the day of the eclipse, when he had little dreamed the heart of his manhood would be spent in convict's garb.
CHAPTER XV
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Ma ora che Fuel TV ha il suo canale Vimeo, perché aspettare ancora?
No Fat Clips!!! : Fuel TV: Surf Spot
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The old castle and fortress of Guevara is perched on the crown of what Captain Dalgetty would call a monticle, rising very abruptly out of the most arid and dry plain it was ever my fortune to visit.
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Further tests by the Phoenix lander found traces of a substance called perchlorate in the Martian soil.
Signs of the Times
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Outside, under the flame trees, women sipping milky tea shelled beans and sold Nile Perch broth or a peanut sauce to go with a starchy-green banana mush called matoke.
Richard C. Morais: The Poetry of Pork
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The big steel gates opened again and a three wheeled motorcycle drove in pulling a low trailer upon which were perched two plain wood coffins.
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But there are plenty of things that threaten anew to knock Clinton off his presidential perch.
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There were three beds, one window with a little houseplant perched on the windowsill, and a set of slightly tacky drapes.
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Thomas Weir perched, like that of a man beheaded for treason, upon the apex of the gablet of the old tomb, as I was of hearing the wonderful playing of that husky old organ, of which I have spoken once before.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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It is perched on a plateau of tufa rock, almost like it's been carved straight from its roots.
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In such cases the hunters may become the hunted, and may perchance be 'strafed' themselves.
Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories
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Allied to the perches is the pike-perch, of which two species are of some importance to the angler, one the wall-eye of eastern
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Black bass (locally called chub) and white perch are very abundant, and at the proper season rock and herring enter the Sound in considerable numbers.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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From his various perches he spies on the kaleidoscope of life passing beneath him.
Times, Sunday Times
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In like manner the commander of Fort Casimir, when he found his martial spirit waxing too hot within him, would sally forth into the fields and lay about him most lustily with his sabre; decapitating cabbages by platoons; hewing down lofty sunflowers, which he termed gigantic Swedes; and if, perchance, he espied a colony of big-bellied pumpkins quietly basking in the sun, "Ah! caitiff Yankees!" would he roar, "have I caught ye at last?
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
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They may try to nail it on the perch again but nobody will believe it is still alive.
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The behaviour of bathypelagic perch fry (BPF) was monitored during 21 May, 24 June, 8 August and 5 September 1996 along the longitudinal profile of Øímov reservoir (Czech Republic), using acoustic methods.
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The pears had been barely cooked and they perched on a puff pastry tarte with no caramelisation in sight.
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Another family drove past, the children perched on top of a couple of mattresses strapped over another sorry pile of possessions.
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Jockey Frank Amonte has perched expertly in the irons upon countless thoroughbreds since he officially began his race riding career in 1951.
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Happiness is perched on your windowsill, invite it in.
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A pink pillar-box hat was perched precariously on her head, and pinned to its side was a large artificial purple flower.
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The cat purred and slowly closed her eyes, sticking her claws back into his stomach to find a better perch.
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He put on a wonderful demonstration with his four-horse hitch of Belgians and another competitor showed how it's done when he hitched his pair of gray Percherons tandem.
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Or, perchance, mystery and importance have been found, during his long and varied experience with the unsophisticated tourist, excellent things to increase the volume of importance attached to the exhibited articles, and the volume of "pice" in his exchequer.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
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Many had perched atop the two and three-storeyed buildings on either side of the road.
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It is simply inhumane to chain a bird to a perch or stand.
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Family photographs cover various side tables perched at the end of faintly floral sofas.
Times, Sunday Times
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Similarly, parents might lure young from the nest by perching nearby with food or by calling to nestlings.
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Norwegian fisherman use nets to capture halibut, red perch, cod and king crab.
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They watch for prey from slightly elevated perches such as hummocks, rocks, and fence posts.
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The scene that confronted us appeared tranquil: a flock of vultures perched, on watch, up in a clump of trees overlooking a large herd of waterbuck browsing on the near bank.
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His insides aching with sadness, Arthur did as she'd requested and then perched on the edge of his aunt's bed.
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Perhaps it starts with you screaming about finding your reading glasses only to be sniggeringly told by your resident sniggerer that they are perched on top of your head.
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He continued to play and record and, despite failing eyesight, he performed with his customary verve once he was perched on a stool on stage.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches.
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Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
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Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birds abandoned their perches and took to the skies.
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We spotted an old man precariously perched on top of a pile of rubble, searching for something.
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Opening morning found us perched near the top of some Georgia pines, freezing half to death, overlooking a small field where we had glassed a few good bucks during the summer.
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There they climb into a series of wooden constructions three metres high, made with tree trunks lashed together with lianas like tree houses perched above the flood.
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Fish species most commonly consumed included bass, yellow perch, and walleye.
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The elder statesman had another perch bag of 3-13 as did third-placed man Adrian Goodwin who scaled 2-4oz.
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As the aircraft gained altitude, the turbosupercharger would begin to function, taking exhaust gases from the engine to the turbine via the tubing.
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A marbled murrelet perches on a branch 50 feet below her.
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Five or six birds - doves, robins, bluebirds - had perched on the windowsill, and were affectionately nestling against her hands and arms.
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His crest hung on the wooden wall, the black hawk with wings perched in a frightful pose staring at her with its piercing golden eyes.
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Election Central Sunday Roundup
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The stage resembled an oblong squash court with seating perched precariously on scaffolding above the set.
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The two centrifugal cabin superchargers driven by the outboard engines delivered sufficient quantities of air to the cabin to maintain proper ventilation and pressure.
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Perchè avendo egli domandato di me per venire a vedermi ed essendogli risposto 'che non potrebbe vedermi più perchè ero vicina a morire' -- egli rispose che in quel caso voleva morire egli pure; la qual cosa essendosi poi ripetata si conobbe cosi l'oggetto del suo viaggio.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Yetwhile my mind spins furiously with all these things I should do andshould want to do, my bodyfeels awfully stubborn about remaining perched in one spot, complaining with increased aches and stiffness about gardneing orbiking, invoking extra effort to read with eyes that can no longer bring fine printinto focus.
2008 July « Becca’s Byline
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A few survivors, precariously perched on sill-less windows, survey their double bind looking for perspective and vanishing points, a place to tip themselves over the edge in hopes defatigable winging.
Kamikaze Birdsongs
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Age and hygienic necessities bind me to a somewhat anchoritic life in pure air, with abundant leisure to meditate upon the wisdom of Candide's sage aphorism, "Cultivons notre jardin" ” especially if the term garden may be taken broadly and applied to the stony and weed-grown ground within my skull, as well as to a few perches of more promising chalk down outside it.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
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The perch outside one of the boxes has slipped and Don was trying to manoeuvre it back into position when a rosella popped her head out from the box to see what was happening.
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She sighs, too, and perches on the edge of my bed.
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She asked me to take a seat and I sat on the armchair beside her, perching gingerly on the front of it.
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For the coach we (three passengers) were in, was built like an omnibus-sleigh on wheels, with a high seat and "dasher" in front, so that we could not see what it was that drew our ark, and therefore I climbed up in the driver's perch to overlook our motors.
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses
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Perched on the edge of the fragmenting Roman world, Britain between ad 300 and 700 was at a meeting of currents flowing from several directions.
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Rinella's meal, which took days of preparation and required ingredients like snapping turtle, swallow's nest and perch milt, was definitely not a novice-level culinary adventure.
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The atmosphere can be supercharged.
The Sun
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Obesity is an independent risk factor for myocardial infarction, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and impaired glucose tolerance.
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They were simple folk, living in rounded huts or cabins, which were perched on floors supported by piles, probably on account of the marshiness of the ground, and which had to be entered by means of ladders.
Ancient Egypt
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Half the cast dangle above the stage on ropes or perch precariously on a bamboo scaffold that forms the skeleton of the set.
Times, Sunday Times
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What we didn't expect was to find the thing perched on a weather-sculpted and bus-sized block of gritstone.
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He perched happily on a hillside and watched the sea.
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Inorganic anions used as the model anions were sulfate, fluoride, chloride, bromide, nitrite, nitrate, chlorate, iodide, thiocyanate, and perchlorate, used as their sodium salts.
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As the end of the runway loomed in front of him, he pulled back on the control wheel and forced his bird from its perch.
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Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all?
No, i have time
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The relationship of BMI and WC with the risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesteremia(high TC), and hypertriglyceridemia(high TG)were analyzed.
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We fished until almost dinnertime, then cleaned and scraped our stringer of bluegill, goggle-eye perch, and sacalait in the sluice of water from the windmill.
The Convict and Other Stories
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Though many of the original Funny Car pioneers switched back to carbureted Super Stockers, Grove learned how to run a supercharged engine with great skill.
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Bobby hoisted his one-year-old son, Aidan, into a backpack and went to transfer two pet hawks from their outdoor weathering perch to an indoor mews.
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Mind you, quite a few have fallen off the perch, or committed social suicide by writing their boring memoirs.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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I will go out on a limb and suggest a certain melancholic mood perchance?
Rebecca Reminds - They're Perfectly Normal
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She is here competing with other piscivorous (fish-eating) birds in search of anchovy, shiner perch and grunion to eat.
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Barlow turned his face to where the songster was perched in the top branches of a wild-fig, and Bootea, said in a low voice: "Sahib, it is said that the shama is a soul come back to earth to sing of love that men may not grow harsh.
Caste
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In a flash I knew that if I added malic acid to the mercury -- perchloride of mercury or corrosive sublimate -- I would have calomel or subchloride of mercury, the only thing that would switch the poison out of my system and Mrs. Boncour's.
The Poisoned Pen
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The primary solvent used in dry cleaning is perchloroethylene, also known as tetrachloroethylene and commonly known as perc.
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I perch happily on a stool, poking gleefully at a small aquarium with a few brightly colored fish in it.
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My mother certainly dreamed of something similar and openly fantasised about which one of the children she could have adopted in order to make room for nine feet of MFI'd speckled faux-granite laminate and four tall stools, on which she could perch breakfasting on peach Ski yoghurt, drinking Mellow Bird's with Carnation evaporated milk and being, in a lot of ways like Heather Locklear from Dynasty, but living in Currock, Carlisle.
How Britain fell in love with breakfast
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Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.
Wildwood
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From his various perches he spies on the kaleidoscope of life passing beneath him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perched on a rock precipice, the site is unassailable from three sides, with a vertiginous 1000 feet drop at one end.
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Perched on a stool by the door, clad in tasteless leisure-wear… [he] would trade coarse badinage with his regulars.
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On that red-letter day when I was alone in the house for the first time one eagle sat in a favorite perch tree across the river.
Bird Cloud
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Sunlight streams over fields, birds perch in trees, rows of bright crops glisten on the hills.
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Benché il paracadutismo in topless sia interessante, in realtà ho postato il video perché adoro quando una partita di golf viene interrotta.
No Fat Clips!!! : Fleggaard: Nude Skydive
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The challenges facing not only this country, but the world, in the backwash of these events require more than parliamentary parrots squawking on their publicly funded perch.
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The mix tapes that kick off every chapter are total time-capsule candy for anyone who grew up with, say, Duran Duran and U2 and grew into the indie-era of Pavement and Superchunk and others (in fact, many others: the mixes are delightfully mixy and eclectic, criss-crossing time and genre: you'll quickly understand why he listens to them over and over).
October 2009
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Energy minimized 3D model structures of furin-Eda-peptide before and after Bergman cyclo-aromatization reaction were computed using hyperchem program and the structures were depicted in
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Farther into the alley, there was a pile of crates with a boy perched on top.
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If you speak of an acanthopterygian, it is plain that you are not discussing perch in reference to its roasting or boiling merits; and if you make an allusion to monomyarian malacology, it will not naturally be supposed to have reference to the cooking of oyster sauce.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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A cluster of stone houses perched on a rocky hillside above the river's course.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
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Saint-Christo is perched on a mountain slope.
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At first it's impossible to see anything through the thick mass of branches, but suddenly I spot a beautiful scarlet-plumed tanager perched on a branch.
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Most perching birds stop singing regularly in late summer, but male wood-pewees keep up their chanting until the autumn migration.
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High-heat gutta-percha has been used as a base in deep occlusal, buccal, and approximal cavities, completing the fillings with tin.
Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth
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The blue jay, perched upon that bronze, with bright unweeting eyes,
The New Morning Poems
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I like fishing for perch on vacation.
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Perched directly in front of her is a talismanic teapot.
Times, Sunday Times
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And just when I had got it nearly ashore, by the very place where you are sitting, on that shelving bank, young man, the line broke, and the perch twisted himself among those roots, and -- cacodaemon that he was -- ran off, hook and all.
My Novel — Complete
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A temple perched on a cliff.
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She sat, perched delicately on a stool at the bar that was right down the street from her dorm.
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This street-inspired affectation is best worn with a superchic designer watch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their musical development is practically nonexistent - the group's spacey, synth-spiked brand of hypercharged guitar rock has remained basically unchanged for years.
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The church is perched on a hill.
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Perched on her grandma's shoulders, an apple-cheeked 5-year-old flashes a peace sign.
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Plus he would keep her company in the shower, peering down from his perch on the edge of the rail.
Times, Sunday Times
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His train conductor's hat was perched smartly at an angle and his shoes were polished to a shiny brown.
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The diversity of speckling is most pronounced in passerine birds (the perching or songbirds that make up 60 percent of all bird species).
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The app in question is a popular book-reading app called Classics, which rounds up a bunch of public-domain titles in a slick-looking package that features a user interface with various titles perched on a bookshelf. article also suggests that the UI similarities extend beyond the top-level interface.
Medlogs - Recent stories
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Black vultures choose less precarious rocky perches on which to nest but join the lammergeiers on the thermals in their quest for food.
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An occasional tonga clattered by, the driver and his passenger perched atop the two-wheeled wooden cart pulled by a donkey daring enough to brave the traffic.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
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We did bag some fat ringed perch, nearly two dozen slab-sized crappies, and a similar number of northern pike.
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Only in 1997, when the Irish economy was entering the era of supercharged growth, was there a significantly higher number of buy recommendations than in 2003.
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It wasn't for the savaged flic because he was back by the door with his cap perched on his head and calming his temper with a cigarette.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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From there a path twists its way through outcropping crags and tiny lochans to the summit, perched precariously on top of its own little crag.
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She is here competing with other piscivorous (fish-eating) birds in search of anchovy, shiner perch and grunion to eat.
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Perched awkwardly atop each tree was a scruffy but huge Californian condor.
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During the day, I'd perch on a knobby redwood buff and toss pieces of bark into a bucket.
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They rub stinging insects against their perch to remove the venom, but often eat the sting.
Times, Sunday Times
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In coupé or convertible form, with or without supercharged engines, they combine cruiser and bruiser to brilliant effect.
Times, Sunday Times
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The process required teams to coordinate with each other from opposite sides of the canyon, with a rodman, or rigger, perched on one wall holding a fifteen-foot pole with a flag at one end—used to probe to the back of the caves perforating the rock—while a surveyor across the river fixed him in the crosshairs of his camera-equipped theodolite.
Colossus
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In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard.
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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Has your doctor said you have high cholesterol (called hypercholesterolemia)?
WebMD Health
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To efficiently harvest the region's trees, which average 20 cm in diameter and are perched on slopes and rocky escarpments, calls for some innovative and hardworking contractors.
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Moments later, Tara perched herself on a bar stool at the end of the table after delivering a plate of food to Zeke.
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Near one of the lakes I saw 8 pied kingfishers perched on the top of a date palm, it may have been the parent birds with their recently fledged young.
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It may perch on a rock to get a better view, with sentry duty lasting for around an hour.
The Sun
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But there are plenty of things that threaten anew to knock Clinton off his presidential perch.
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Critics have him pigeonholed as ‘Flash Gordon,’ that postmodern enfant terrible who rocketed to stardom on the supercharged fireworks of the State of Illinois Building in 1985.
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He may perchance find a few of the curved Omani daggers with handsome sheaths adorned with filigree silver, to which is usually attached, by a leather thong, a thorn extractor, an earpick, and a spike.
Southern Arabia
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A lone arbutus tree perches atop hill on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia.
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Or a reader perching atop a recumbent hippo?
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Many recent analytical advances address ongoing problems, including arsenic, perchlorates, and methyl tert butyl ether in soil and water supplies.
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All around the stunning, perched towns of Pitigliano, Sovana, and Sorano run hidden hiking trails carved from volcanic rock by the pre-Roman Etruscans.
The Other Tuscany
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The black crow perched on the telephone pole.
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Near a pot of bitter brown water masquerading as coffee, on a platter perched atop a red-checked oilcloth, sat the finest apricot turnovers this side of anywhere.
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Flying into this Himalayan Shangri-La, I was immediately struck by the world's highest unclimbed mountain, the exquisite temples perched precariously on cliffs, the friendly and handsome people adorned in traditional silk attire, and a healthy dose of wafting incense and chanting mantras.
Chip Conley: The Happiest Place on the Planet?
