How To Use Rusting In A Sentence
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Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
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National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world.
A Certain Rich Man
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The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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The road was uneven, full of random stones and broken asphalt, thrusting themselves in all directions.
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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The same day's paper features a story "Is this a work of art or just any old iron?" about how the writer, broadcaster, doctor and polymath Sir Jonathan Miller asked a passing scrap metal merchant to remove a rusting bath from his front garden -- only to find his three metal sculptures had also been over-enthusiastically taken.
Media
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In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
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This, however, is another reason for mistrusting the application.
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That he expressed the general feeling in our train was evidenced by the many women who leaned from the wagons, thrusting out gaunt forearms and shaking bony, labor-malformed fists at the last of Mormondom.
Chapter 13
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Besides leaving salt deposits, rusting internal parts and causing valve damage, water in an engine also makes short work of pistons and cylinders.
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Your wife cheating on you may have made you untrusting and possessive but that will damage any relationship.
The Sun
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The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I looked over and watching the saliva encrusting in the corner of Larry's mouth, my heart sank.
God
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It would be a Roman short sword called a gladius, about 27 inches long, 2 and a half inches wide, weighing three pounds, with a tapered point for thrusting and two sharp edges for cutting.
Peacemakers:
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She then whipped around making a thrusting motion with her hands.
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It's important to understand the Duggars' beliefs: The Duggars follow a conservative Christian belief system known as Quiverfull, which eschews all birth control in favor of "trusting the Lord with… family planning," says Vyckie Garrison at RH Reality Check.
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The darling yellow trumpets are thrusting up in fir and birch woods across Scotland for our delight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Glass touched his lips, and Giles drew back, distrusting it.
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There were also a few open spaces - like steel stockyards, railway marshalling yards and scrap yards with rusting car-hulks piled high like the lobster creels on Sorbaig pier.
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Other faunal elements include colonial and solitary corals, encrusting bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and rare brachiopods.
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ELLIS HIXOM, with charge to meet him at such a river though the Master knew well the Captain's toothpike: yet by reason of his admonition and caveat [warning] given him at parting, he (though he bewrayed no sign of distrusting the Cimaroon) yet stood as amazed, lest something had befallen our Captain otherwise than well.
Sir Francis Drake Revived
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One mechanism often proposed to explain how encrusting algae can inhibit their potential competitors is thallus shedding, which is well documented among nongeniculate coralline algae.
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The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
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He was watchful, weary, worried, and altogether untrusting of anything she and her companions said or did.
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In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
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Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon.
The Story of Pocahontas
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She broke free by thrusting her elbow into his chest.
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Even the more rowdy numbers managed to combine hip-thrusting, frilly-shirted swagger with no hint of tumescent, swollen subtext.
Times, Sunday Times
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Analysts say that while the economy is coming around in advance of this year's election, the most untrusting voters will be in hard-hit manufacturing states.
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There is no deal between these two untrusting rivals for a choreographed handover.
The Sun
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I loaded up my rusting fishing tackle in the back of his wife's Lexus SUV (his BMW was in the shop for a $1,000 oil change), and off we went to his boathouse, from where we set off in his 40-foot twin-screw cruiser.
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Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care.
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Jacob knew now, trusting in God as he was, that he did not need to manipulate and beguile and cheat to find favour for himself and his loved ones; he did not have to worry about his welfare.
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The engine was running and the defrosters were all on, but there was still a layer of snow and ice encrusting the windows.
Brown-Eyed Girl
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Still, being retired means he's got time to lay about being stiff, whereas I am a thrusting executive professional who can't afford to be in less than 100% shape.
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I learned that between the planting and the reaping is always the waiting - the watching - the trusting.
Archive 2006-11-01
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She is gray and scaly and trusting some lecher more than she trusts Dick.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity!
Darkness and Dawn
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Trusting in the mystery that will lead me to whatever books will mesh with my current (non-academic) learning needs.
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“A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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But this is a small town as typical as anywhere else in the American heartland: earnest, churchy, amiable, inward-looking, bland, conformist, trusting.
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There are still traces of the Volnay's cargo of munitions scattered about the hold areas: rusting steel warheads, balls of lead shot and sticks of cordite looking like wholemeal spaghetti.
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Once, and once only, I thought I saw something -- a darker shadow, high up like a mountain thrusting the wet blanket of the fog skyward.
HIGH STAND
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It's like trusting a wolf to watch over sheep.
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One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about grewsome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.
THE UNEXPECTED
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They kindly allowed me to pay at a later date though, which was very trusting of them.
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Oh the crushing disappointment of the reality of the Clio – parked outside Asda, two-day-old bird shite crusting on the windscreen.
The Hard Sell: Renault Clio
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Some organisms, including sponges, barnacles, and encrusting coralline algae, can, however, survive overgrowth, without apparent damage, for indeterminate periods of time or may even benefit from being overgrown.
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She is arrested and deported back to the U.S., entrusting the care of her daughter to Azon.
Home
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More than once I heard people talk about not trusting someone from north of the Mason Dixon line (of which I am one), and that people of color (referred to as "darkies") were not to be trusted (most notably from the name partner of a large law firm to his client referring to another attorney in the D.C. area representing a major corporation with whom the client had business dealing with).
Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell
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Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality.
Gravity's Rainbow
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All the candidates were described as conscientious, smart, and insightful, and all the descriptions ended with notes, such as "Observation: seems to be candid and trusting," or, "Observation: his/her natural competitiveness was apparent.
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That cycle of events takes around four days, but new crops of vesicles come up in waves in the first three or four days, so you can have some vesicles growing bigger while earlier ones are drying up and crusting over.
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He found the two convector heaters, slightly chipped and rusting, in the cupboard under the stairs.
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
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I set off for the valley, trusting to luck.
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The thickness of this package of sediments is impossible to measure because of the subsequent folding and overthrusting that have taken place.
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More than once I heard people talk about not trusting someone from north of the Mason Dixon line (of which I am one), and that people of color (referred to as "darkies") were not to be trusted (most notably from the name partner of a large law firm to his client referring to another attorney in the D.C. area representing a major corporation with whom the client had business dealing with).
Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell
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So a while they sat talking, all of them, and the squire and the sergeant aforesaid were not a little timorous of the adventure of making that stead unkenned their sleeping chamber; and to while away the time, their lords made them tell tales such as they knew concerning that place; and both they said that they had never erst come into the dale but a very little way, and said that they had done so then but trusting in their lords 'bidding and the luck of the Quest.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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One of these common beliefs is that "thin-skinned" thrust plates are stratigraphically controlled thrusts with little or no involvement in thrusting of crystalline basement.
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But the Byzantine emperors were themselves no more trusting and would generally keep their foreign envoys in virtual isolation.
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You shouldn't be so trusting - people take advantage of you.
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Arts and theatre groups are constantly thrusting the begging bowl at the government.
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Where then is the danger of trusting these cases, which form allowedly a very large proportion, to the hands of an intelligent and well educated woman?
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Nutrient concentrations in liquid storage facilities become stratified due to settling and crusting.
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Many of these have been interpreted as the product of englacial thrusting in ice that has undergone strong longitudinal compression, especially at the thermal boundary between warm and cold ice.
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It may be moist and pink, there may be red psoriasiform with yellow, superficial crusting, or there may be a dry fissured area with mucoid discharge.
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Yet he is trusting, generous and hypersensitive, reacting physically to the more complex social problems of those closest to him.
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Every time we go on an aeroplane for instance, we are trusting our lives to computers in the cockpit and at air traffic control centres.
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The Lesser Antilles are the island peaks of a 700 km-long volcanic arc of 18 volcanoes, overlying a tectonic plate subduction (under-thrusting) zone.
Pitons Management Area, Saint Lucia
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At issue are those 15 days and whether the media was too compliant and trusting in generally agreeing to government blackout requests.
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People are apprehensive about trusting their food to an unknown business.
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Mr. Ruskin bade men "go to Nature in all singleness of heart, and walk with her laboriously and trustingly, having no other thought but how best to penetrate her meaning, _rejecting nothing, selecting nothing and scorning nothing_;" and Mr. Hamerton was literally obeying him when he exiled himself for five years in a hut on an island in a bleak Scotch lake to learn faithfully to portray the shores of that single lake.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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The low moan of a foghorn across miles of greyness, the slap of waves breaking against a gently rocking hull in the dark, the slow creak of rusting quayside machinery in the wind beckon through the haar.
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Grimy, gap-toothed men on donkey carts scavenge the rusting military trucks.
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There will always be people who'll hurt you, so you need to continue trusting,just be careful.
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In the twenty-four-inch space at the right end of the hot dog there was a brown-yellow plain with just a few thorny trees a-thirsting on it and a pride of lions resting in the stingy shade beneath one of those trees, and far in the distance, too far for the warm lions to bother with, a herd of wildebeests was kicking up dust, and even further in the distance Mt. Kilimanjaro jumped up like God's own sugar-tit, and in a modest encampment at the foot of the peak, E. Hemingway was cleaning his Weatherby 375 magnum (not trusting the native boys to handle such an instrument) and slurping his gin.
Another Roadside Attraction
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Sam nodded, not trusting himself to speak in case he said something that displeasured his father.
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Iggy himself is tastefully arrayed in leather jacket, miniskirt, garters, nylons and heels; dipping and thrusting, hunching and high-kicking, he seems to be in peak condition.
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The sets were lavishly grungy: all rusting metalwork, peeling plaster and torn posters.
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Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.
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In this attitude they proceeded on their journey, trusting solely to the dim light afforded of Henchard's whereabouts by the furmity woman.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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It had taken us longer than expected to make the trip back and we were both a total mess with a thick layer of dirt crusting our clothes and flowers stuck in our hair, which was probably every where by now.
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Overthrusting, volcanism, and plutonic igneous intrusion were identified as originating above the subduction zone where one plate is forced beneath the edge of its neighbour.
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The General submitted the broad outlines of his plan to Lincoln and the President trusting in Grant approved the design without seeking to know the details.
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We also discover that Terry, whose wife absconded with his best man, has turned for clandestine consolation to a naively trusting shopgirl, Nuala, and a dance-loving hairdresser, Breda.
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She was a very suspicious, untrusting woman, not even letting her husband fully into her heart.
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The Papua New Guinea continental crust appears to be underthrusting the adjacent marginal basin and obduction of the ophiolite is occurring in an uphill direction.
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Mix aluminium, lead, copper and steel components incorrectly and you will get rapid rusting.
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This will reduce rusting and make it less attractive to mice and other pests which can damage electrical wiring.
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Their role is taken by rusting blue and white taxis and elegant caleches: carriages drawn by horses that sometimes look as if they could win the Derby, more often like candidates for the glue pot.
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A rusting tractor was visible through the half-open barn door.
MOON PASSAGE
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The bike was in one piece, although badly repainted and rusting pretty much everywhere.
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Each subsequent flag she played more with materials, adding hand-made worry-dolls to the suns, or little mirrors into a sort of plaid pattern, or encrusting the edges so thick with multicolored beads that you want to put the whole thing in your mouth.
Galleon trade edition
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Speed entertains with the frolicsome and playful musical antics delivered through ‘good-humored’ chirpy lyrics and hip-shaking thrusting musical impact.
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HER eyes are warm and trusting and her lips curl upwards to form the beginning of a proud smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Biology: The lining of the rectum is very thin and a ready route for disease and easy to rupture during the vigorous thrusting of anal sex — easy to contaminate your blood with fecal matter – the sphincter muscle of the anus can be damaged by too many intrusions making one incontinent – hemorrhoids and anal sex are surely incompatible.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
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Their child is trusting and adores his fun-loving father.
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It is a world of antique privilege about to be replaced by a thrusting business ethic.
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Thirty yards away, the pack were even then thrusting their way in among the strip of bushes.
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What we have just witnessed is a humble attempt to train the nation to choose and decide, to encourage people to think about their problems, stop trusting to fate and begin asking questions.
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When nostrils started freezing shut and the air cut as we inhaled, and eyelashes froze our eyes shut, then we would reluctantly pull these things over our faces, dealing with the ice encrusting around the mouth hole every time we exhaled.
Hated Winter: From Snow to Rainforest « Colleen Anderson
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It's like trusting a wolf to watch over sheep.
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It allows you to hose off the horse coated in mud, top off water buckets that are crusting with ice, and clean tack and other items without your hands turning blue.
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The view of Botany Bay was in between two immense gasometers, the garden was pigweed and rusting soup tins.
FAIRYLAND
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A sharp burning sensation stung just below his shoulder, thrusting his slim frame forward in the saddle.
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The house is a huge damp building that would be demolished at home, and has plain white mildew-covered walls. The playground is a dust yard with a rusting swing set which the kids love.
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His sense of insufficiency made him both over-trusting and over-suspicious.
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The blue-and-white pulled in past a rusting gas station that must have been a relic of the forties.
FLOATING CITY
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Progress can't be stopped, but the community has changed with people less trusting of their neighbours.
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Trusting in her talent and staying in touch with reality seems to have been the wisest career plan of all so far.
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she cried, thrusting the paper at him," a really nice write-up about tonight!
WORST FEARS REALIZED
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In that night, a vision came to him, not a vision of glory and honor won on the battlefield, but a vision of a sword rusting away in its scabbard, a vision of run - ning errands and posting guard detail over dust and ashes that didn't need guarding.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
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Cultivating and subsurface packing after every rain prevented the soil from crusting and maintained a protective mulch that kept the moisture from evaporating.
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Like spoiled children, they can demand, stamp their feet, refuse to vote, be fickle and whimsical, expecting MPs to act as obsequious valets, while distrusting them all along.
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All metal fittings and fencing materials should be galvanised, zinc plated, sherardised or otherwise treated to prevent rusting.
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Mix aluminium, lead, copper and steel components incorrectly and you will get rapid rusting.
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Entrusting my garland to I started the Workshop with a talk on a functional model of language.
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These are the very men who, in the thrusting 1980s and 1990s, were putting in all the hours God sent to boost their bonus packages and earn that glass-fronted office on the 10th floor.
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Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 'One feature shared by all successful surgeons is the ability to stand confidently beside a trusting, helpless and anesthetized patient, make a deliberate incision on unblemished skin and carry out often complex and sometimes lifethreatening maneuvers inside a body cavity.
Healing Reads: The Year's Five Best Books
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He had a broad, trusting smile, and eyes that twinkled with mischief.
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And then, recollection of what she had seen thrusting itself on her with horrific clarity, a genuine cry of repulsion.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Gardiner is simply trusting to instinct and experience.
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He fulfils their request by thrusting a spear into the body of each one of them.
Celtic Mythology
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They ride around on rickety old bikes to make it obvious that their two-wheelers have spent decades rusting in the sea air.
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Weaponry consisted of battleaxes, thrusting spears and daggers for the infantry, while the leaders in their battlewagons carry sheafs of javelins.
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Thrusting unsought, self-aggrandising information down the throats of people who haven't asked is simply showing off.
Times, Sunday Times
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In connection with the proper classification to be assigned to those borderline loop-tented arch cases where an appendage or spike is thrusting out from the recurve, it is necessary to remember that _an appendage or a spike abutting upon a recurve at right angles in the space between the shoulders of a loop on the outside is considered to spoil the recurve_.
The Science of Fingerprints Classification and Uses
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For certain noted fugitives from the army of King Monmouth (which he himself had deserted, in a low and currish manner), having failed to obtain free shipment from the coast near Watersmouth, had returned into the wilds of Exmoor, trusting to lurk, and be comforted among the common people.
Lorna Doone
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Simply watching the string players' bowing arms thrusting away made me smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not trusting herself to necessarily remain on top of the cliff standing, she dropped to her stomach and slithered toward the edge of the cliff.
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Ratliff quietly casts shame upon the walking dead of Trinity by allowing for gray area and trusting that his audience is keen enough to know a flimflam when it sees one.
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The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.
Barnaby Rudge
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BoatU.S. also learned that most agencies keep records of consumer complaints, making them a valuable resource for consumers who want to check on businesses before spending their money or entrusting their boats to their care.
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The car had been rusting away in his garage for years.
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Surely only the most chivalrous knight would stand forth boldly, without armor, without the element of surprise, trusting only in his virtue and nobility to protect him!
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There's also a stonking good sword fight, in which furniture gets overturned, weapons are scooped up on the fly and the combatants find themselves thrusting and parrying while perched precariously up in the rafters.
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To avoid rusting, you should slap some pain on your boat.
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This drew us past a shed full of equally ancient, rusting machines, and through the mine entrance.
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It's also completely untrusting of local authorities.
Times, Sunday Times
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The contents are heavily personalised and use homely phrases designed to appeal to those of a trusting nature.
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He could not bear the thought of her in another man's arms; those sweet lips, that tender smile, that trusting, almost innocent gaze.
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This cover protects the soil from raindrop impact, reducing erosion and crusting of the soil.
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A stimulus thrusting towards one is more energetic and aggressive than a similar stimulus moving away.
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Sherkan and his men fell upon the infidels and cut off their retreat and tourneyed among the ranks, when lo, a cavalier of goodly presence opened a passage through the army of the Greeks and circled hither and thither amongst them, cutting and thrusting and covering the ground with heads and bodies, so that the infidels feared him and their necks bent under his blows.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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Ultimately any potential investors considering PETE SUMARUCK as a possible recipient of their hard-earned funds will be forced to rethink any notions of trusting such a scurrilous back-alley scallywag, slanderous liar, and unprincipled con-artist with any investments of any sort!
Peter Sumaruck II
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Because of that, she isn't very trusting of people, and she refuses to get too close to anyone anymore.
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Never thrusting himself upon the crowd, but quietly allowing people to find him, he had a confidence in his own ability to judge who and what he wants out of every situation.
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Parents have got fearful and suspicious and untrusting.
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Sometimes trusting the impulse leads directly to brilliance.
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Bleeding in children, arising from persistent crusting of the insides of the nostrils, is best treated using an antiseptic cream or softening ointment such as petroleum jelly.
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For instance, it was by trusting the bifocals of Euhemerus that Heinrich Schliemann rediscovered Troy.
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The personality is trusting and trustworthy, indulgent and generous to itself and others.
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It was amusing to see him thrusting his eager little beezer between the vast, soft, plushy flanks of two patrolmen.
Pipefuls
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I'm sarcastic, cynical, and completely untrusting.
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An increasingly common problem is rusting to the iron cramps used to hold masonry together in Victorian spires.
Times, Sunday Times
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A troika of small boys, cocky and nervous proto-new Russians, lean over the rusting barbed wire and drool gobbets of spit onto his head.
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Beneath flyspecked sash windows and an array of rusting metal advertisements stood a row of block-ice coolers.
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But because they have lived through colonial and totalitarian regimes, they are untrusting and contemptuous of those impressive-sounding grand narratives.
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It's hard to let go of that ancient bike, rusting quietly away in the corner of the shed, cobwebbed to the first lawnmower you ever owned.
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Here the Papua New Guinea continental crust appears to be underthrusting the adjacent marginal basin and obduction of the ophiolite is occurring in an uphill direction.
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The rules still state that the foil and épée are thrusting weapons.
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Roll the meat in the ground peppercorns, crusting all the sides in pepper.
Kerry Saretsky: Steak and Horseradish Croissants
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At the end of the trip, he has to go through another round of number crunching to tally the waybill with the collection before entrusting it to the cash counter.
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Every A-road and motorway should have a fourth lane, where thrusting high-achievers can drive at phenomenal speeds, endangering only each other, unsafe in the knowledge they'vegot phenomenally fast reactions, a trait which is common to all business buccaneers.
A lane with no limits
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Justice suffers because parents have no way of trusting that their own experiences are the norm rather than an aberration.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is probably the most colourful zone of our inshore waters and rocks are often a warm, pinkish-purple colour, thanks to encrusting algae.
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The downside to this is that you turn into a cautionary cynic, not trusting anything that comes out of a publisher's mouth and avoiding anything with a sniff of hype.
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This impersonal and bureaucratic approach, which is implicitly untrusting of physician clinical judgment, is problematic.
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And really, who can blame her for distrusting the world?
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Sharon pulled her gray wool coat tighter and walked across the gravel parking lot to her rusting Chevy.
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I knew that I was prodding him deeply and severely, thrusting the iron into his soul with as little compunction as a Mexican _charo_ exerts when he "cinches" a heavily burdened _burro_.
Princess Zara
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The microscopist will keep your weight up; Pops and I will be fine on our own, with the roaming peacocks and rainwater collecting in the rusting satellite dish.
Florida
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At last Mr. Bessel chanced upon a place where a little crowd of such disembodied silent creatures was gathered, and thrusting through them he saw below a brightly-lit room, and four or five quiet gentlemen and a woman, a stoutish woman dressed in black bombazine and sitting awkwardly in a chair with her head thrown back.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
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The tower is visible tens of miles away, a sharp white needle of stone thrusting into sky.
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From her point of view, it was better not to mention the mistake because it was only a small mistake and admitting it would only result in her boss mistrusting her ability.
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Six-month-old toothless Adi grins trustingly at the world.
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Shear sense indicators suggest overthrusting towards the WNW to NNW.
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It's not the only thing which marks him out from the other thrusting young males on the country scene.
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The hills were formed by some upthrusting of the earth's crust which changed the landscape dramatically after the weight of the ice was melted away.
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At first glance, the powered parachute appears a hermaphroditic aircraft - half loud, thrusting engine, half soft, pliant airfoil.
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Infection by bacteria living on the surface of the skin can cause weeping of fluid (‘wet’ eczema) and crusting or scabbing.
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He shouts, digging his spikes in, thrusting upward.
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The blue-and-white pulled in past a rusting gas station that must have been a relic of the forties.
FLOATING CITY
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Sprawling playa bottoms are pocked with feedlots, mountains of hay bales, and farm machinery rusting in tangled shelterbelts.
The Texas Panhandle: Home to Some of America's Best Pheasant Hunting
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We watched the men 'rusting' various metal objects.
Mexico: a visit to Sayula, Zapotlanejo and Zapopan
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Respecting a leader is important, trusting a leader is another, having the confidence that leader can work for all sides and compromise the issues so one side doesn't feel over run in the process is where that leader can make or break a city ..
Before the bust (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Follow with a warm sea salt compress to remove crusting and clean out any infection.
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Orator & his attendants, that no effectuall restitution was made: but he fatigated with daily attendance and charges, the 14. day of February next ensuing, distrusting any reall and effectual rendring of the saide goods and marchandizes and other the premisses, vpon leaue obtained of the saide Queene, departed towards England, hauing attending vpon him the said two English
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I looked and could see nothing at all but dried, brown leaves with a few delicate fern fronds thrusting through them.
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But the Byzantine emperors were themselves no more trusting and would generally keep their foreign envoys in virtual isolation.
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With its raw concrete patinaed by green mildew, rusting corrugated steel and neglected stretches of fence bent by fallen trees, Las Pozas feels like a Sleeping Beauty castle arrested in time before it was quite finished.
Las Pozas: Edward James' fantasy stands tall in a jungle in Mexico
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This can be related to shearing along the decollement during underthrusting or to mud diapirism.
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Now that she was detoxed and trusting, he could feel the full force of her inner beauty, could feel the press of her honesty and warrior spirit—all wrapped in a beautiful human package . . . her Light essence wrapping around every emotional cord within his soul.
Surrender the Dark
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I'm just plugging in a few keywords and just sort of trusting to luck.
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Since moving to Swindon in my late 20s I have also had bad experiences with dentists, leaving me untrusting and I have paid exorbitant prices for both private and NHS dentistry.
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Now if the student will compare Section 35, he will see that in the white blood corpuscles we have a very remarkable resemblance to the amoeba; the contractile vacuole is absent, but we have the protoplasmic body, the nucleus and nucleolus, and those creeping fluctuations of shape through the thrusting out and withdrawal of pseudopodia, which constitute "amoeboid" motion.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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But proud though she was of her ancestry, there never was a woman freer from the vulgarity of thrusting it forward upon all and sundry, or of expecting to be honoured for it alone.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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Killy's technique of avalement - literally, swallowing the bumps by thrusting knees outward - was revolutionary for its day.
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My school was a thrusting hothouse of academic achievement.
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Betsy made bleating sounds of passion; our thrashing limbs rearranged themselves several times; my clutching fingers dug deep into her meaty buttocks; the mechanical thrustings went on and on and on.
Up The Line