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  • Golub was an odd man out, one of those who kept alive certain ambitions scuttled by the artists who followed Abstract Expressionism.
  • Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market. Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
  • I was totally expecting you to say that you read a section looking for the miscut part and got yourself hideously freaked out for the bike ride home. Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » Stephen King
  • Au lieu de discuter, l'employée du restaurant aurait du faire le canard! French Word-A-Day:
  • Perhaps you can recommend something for getting a blot off an escutcheon. MR STARLIGHT
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  • We can certainly prefer not carrying endless scuttles of coal up from the cellar.
  • The Zornozas boast an escutcheon which is embellished with a band, a number of wolves, and a legend whose import I do not recall. Youth and Egolatry
  • On one wreck off the south coast we saw huge lobsters scuttling across the ship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Habent verò scuta de viminibus, aut de virgulis facta. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
  • But there it is again - there is the scuttering of a mouse in the kitchen.
  • They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language. WATCHING: District 9
  • All I could hear in the hush was the birds tweeting until, suddenly ahead of me, a lithe lad in Lycra darted over a crossroads like a rabbit scuttling for cover.
  • Noted will be the northerners' scutching of UCD last weekend.
  • Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
  • I try to hug him, but he just drops to the floor and scuttles away, slamming the door shut again with his feet.
  • I then crosscut the shelf to the width of the shadowbox and attached the bat to the shelf using galvanized wire.
  • Today tens of thousands of individuals suffering from chronic pain have benefited from transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, which relieves chronic pain without drugs or serious side effects. Mail Call
  • The whole place had a damp and evil smell, and as I moved my torch a rat scuttled across the floor.
  • It is only an ass like Justice Shallow, who would pitch upon the over-scutched tunes, which the carmen whistled, and try to pass them off as his FANCIES and his Chronicles of the Canongate
  • It retains not only its original octagonal stamped English brasses and ivory escutcheons but also most of its gray-blue paper drawer and cupboard lining.
  • Bantam, we wold pay him for his labor, he asked vs 5. rialles of 8. and a redcap, which we graunted vnto, and so one of the men in the scute came on bord the Mauritius, and was our Pilot to Bantam, where we passed by many The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III
  • His lines of crosscutting holes were growing very short. All Gold Canon
  • The officers of the xebecs knew they couldn't outmaneuver or outrun the British so they decided to scuttle their craft, toss their armament overboard and escape on foot to the north.
  • Christ, did ye see 'em scutter like wee mousies wi 'a cat on their tails?" said one patient to another, seemingly oblivious of the nasty powder burn that had singed his left arm from knuckles to shoulder. Dragonfly in Amber
  • Even if I have different objects interwoven or crosscutting one another or in a certain kind of contrapuntal configuration, the clarity is really important to me. NewMusicBox
  • One favorite treatment for sciatica used by Cherokee herbalist David Winston is a combined extract of sweet melilot (Melilotus alba), dodder (Cuscuta americana), and sweet or black birth (Betula lenta). THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE
  • The well-known Shield of the MORTIMERS supplies a good example, No. 131 (H.  3) -- _Barry of six or and az., an inescutcheon arg.; on a chief gold, gyroned of the second, two pallets of the same_: for DARCY -- _Arg., an inescutcheon sa., within an orle of roses gu. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • GEORGE III., till 1816: -- The arms indicated in the diagram, No. 430, the inescutcheon ensigned with an electoral bonnet. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Behind one of the cameras a lizard scuttles up the wall and disappears down the other side.
  • Carnivale, Rome wazz: @dannys: the wire, six feet under, rome, band of brothers, dexter, OZ ... super seriale dannys: salutare! cam ce seriale recomandati? broscutzza: am o mica intrebare: cum de s-a mutat Accidentally on Purpose miercuri (la ei)? Seriale tv - TvBlog
  • Micky Conlan would roll the ball in front, then run, pick it up, baulk an imaginary opponent, run close to the boundary, kick the goal then scuttle back, laughing.
  • Ahead, a line of massive, two-tailed scorpions scuttled through the eastern gate and swarmed among fallen hunks of ceiling. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Strangulated squeaks, beeps and atonal, dying samba rhythms scuttered into life. Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival
  • Lizards with bright blue tails scuttled out of our way, taking cover among the thorn bushes and cactus that were the only greenery.
  • I didn't get to peek at the G8 lunch room, but I'm told actual canoes, artisan canoe makers on hand to talk about their work, children's artwork from Muskoka and a decorative charger plate made from crosscut wood contributed to a "woodsy" theme. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • Lockey makes the same point by transferring the family escutcheons to the yellow curtain on the left, where they become, in effect, emblems of folly.
  • Common approaches to controlling pain include simple analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, acupuncture or dry needling, ice, ultrasound, and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
  • The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breast—a chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stag’s horn sinister. V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
  • Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon suitably blazoned with two tups’ horns and two cutty spoons. Additional Note
  • his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride. The Seattle Times
  • But when I was 17, 16, my father and I cut wood all day long, and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood, and when I walked in the back door late that afternoon, I was singing ... Johnny Cash: A Ghost Rider, Still Stirring Souls
  • That system opened the door regularly to the kind of crosscutting representatives who are increasingly unlikely to win today.] 10. Rob Richie: Ten Surprises about Election '08
  • The New York University sociologist Dalton Conley has written of a “network nation,” in which applications like Facebook and MySpace create “crosscutting social groups” and new, flexible identities that only vaguely overlap with racial identities. The End of White America?
  • At the bottom of the shaft two 700-foot crosscuts were driven in a northwest and southeast direction.
  • The fruit is said to be eatable; the leaves cut transversely are applied to tumors as a discutient; the decoction is mucilaginous, and I am informed that it is much used in Alabama as a demulcent drink in pneumonic and pleuritic inflammations. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Victorian outcry against what was termed 'a blot 'on the already rather shady' escutcheon 'of Australia, the immigration was stopped in 1868. Town Life in Australia
  • The scuttlebutt I hear is that a lot of the leading Illinois Democrats (i.e. the crooked Blue Dog ones who are all going to end up indicted anyway as long as Pat Fitzgerald doesn't run out of time) want Hillary and the only reason Obama has as strong a base as he does in his home state is because of Penny Pritzker's bullheadedness in getting him networked and funded. Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill
  • Evidence comes from numerous quartz-filled fractures that crosscut the mylonitic foliation but recrystallized during deformation.
  • But, fact is, I could use your help around here over the weekend, so I'll do your scut work. ABSOLUTE ZERO
  • It calmed me so much so that I was totally unalarmed when I saw a large black spider go scuttling by along the wainscotting.
  • Camden society what the old church at Jamestown probably was, may be seen the tomb of a Tazewell, who died in 1706, on which is engraved the coat of arms of the family, -- a lion rampant, bearing a helmet with a vizor closed on his back; an escutcheon, which is evidently of Norman origin, and won by some daring feat of arms, and which could only have been held by one of the conquering race. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
  • Their scales, instead of being imbricated like those of land-snakes, form hexagons; and those on the belly, instead of being scutate and enlarged, are nearly of the same size and form as on other parts of the body. Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
  • After this comes the scutching, or swingling, which is done by chopping with dull knives on a block of wood to take out the small pieces of bark which may still be sticking to the fiber.
  • Martis sanguineas quae cohibet manus, quae dat belligeris foedera gentibus et cornu retinet diuite copiam, 10 donetur tenera mitior hostia. et tu, qui facibus legitimis ades, noctem discutiens auspice dextera huc incede gradu marcidus ebrio, praecingens roseo tempora uinculo. Hymeneal
  • He watched a lizard scuttle furtively along the join between wall and ceiling, and disappear into a crevice.
  • He is very pious and self-reliant, which is provocative of bigotry and hot temper; and surrounded and approached on all sides by clever and often unscrupulous financiers and speculators, his scutcheon has worn wonderfully well, and his character and reputation passed through many fiery ordeals. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
  • An anthropoid with blade and scute in place of hands could not crawl very well. A Circus of Hells
  • Made of rosewood with mahogany as the secondary wood, it includes brass stringing on the top and sides and an inlaid flush brass escutcheon and central brass plate.
  • If you aren't paying attention, you might even buy into what that slippery little scut is saying…
  • Nabokov, of course, would have taken delight in using "scutch"; I suppose I'd go with "I feel in my gut the Fate tugging the thread" for phonetic and associational reasons, but I would regret losing the specificity of the technical term. Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
  • She lay with him one afternoon, when a scrap of sunlight spearing through a chink in the scuttle's deadlight was scribing an oval shape on the opposite bulkhead, and she mentally added up the number of rooms in her Lincolnshire house. Sharpe's Trafalgar
  • Ecoles sans accent sur la majuscule, chez moi c'est une question de style et d'école, justement — et pas intéressée vraiment à en discuté, déjà fait “to death” sur usenet et ailleurs Website Pro Day 3: Results! — Climb to the Stars
  • The news of conditions at Scutari, where the ill and wounded soldiers were barracked, was considered scandalous back home in London.
  • Then, he would return the bowl and scuttle back to his lair.
  • This is because fear of small creatures that scuttle about on four or more legs is a much more ancient, primordial fear, going straight back to caveman days.
  • One of the aliens scuttled forward and fiddled with one of its gadgets, finally producing an audible series of grunts, whistles, and squeaks which to Jerome's untutored ears sounded exactly like the sounds of dolphins. A Simple Misunderstanding
  • A series of crosscuts to simultaneous scenes bodes ill.
  • Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
  • Gwyneth strode to the head of the stairs and with a smug smile on her lips gazed down upon them as Maida scuttled behind her daughter's skirts. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
  • He was a pioneer in the use of transcutaneous nerve stimulation, which is used to ease the pain of childbirth. Times, Sunday Times
  • A November day, clouds the color of bruises scutter across the sky. BLACKBIRD
  • If he has ever seen the word scuttle it has been in the Jingo Press, where the "policy of scuttle" is used whenever we give up something to a small Power like Liberals, instead of giving up everything to a great Power, like Imperialists. Tremendous Trifles
  • The deposition of pollinaria on the scutellum of bees clearly enhances the chances of cross-pollination, since it is very difficult for these insects to groom and remove the pollinaria from this region.
  • Yet the 61-year-old Diller insists there was never anything to the scuttlebutt.
  • Royal finance: (1) nonfeudal revenues: Danegeld, shire farms, judicial fines; (2) the usual feudal revenues: relief (inheritance tax on great fiefs), scutage (paid in lieu of performance of knight's service). B. The British Isles
  • The finding suggests that Scutum-Centaurus wraps all the way around the Milky Way, making it a symmetric counterpart to the galaxy's other major star-forming arm, Perseus.
  • I could hear an animal scuttling about in the undergrowth.
  • Objective To investigate the genetic diversity of morphological variation types in Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi.
  • No scutage nor aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid. The Magna Carta
  • The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
  • As the Grafton was scuttled, Mr Kester - who eventually held the rank of sub lieutenant - was transferred to the destroyer Ivanhoe and ended up in Dover.
  • This reward-lacking orchid is pollinated either by workers or drones of Apis cerana japonica which fix pollinaria on the scutellum.
  • Oddly enough, if I know for certain that the scuttling thing isn't arachnoid in nature, it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
  • The youths scuttled down the drive and spilled on to the pavement, where they looked suddenly confused and directionless. PROSPECT HILL
  • When breeding, some Scutiger males exude nuptial excrescences on their venters.
  • Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
  • The melodic flow and harmony-vocal crosscut of the lattermost tune stood far and away above so much reggae of the era with an adroit mix of old-school rootsiness and creative expression. AvaxHome
  • Scutt follows a crew of Melbourne graffiti artists around for one night.
  • The novel is a love story and he begins to crosscut scenes of the developing relationship between Alex and Emma with those of Adam and Emma.
  • When road conditions became worse, juddering was transmitted through the steering column and scuttle shake, that scourge of open-tops, occurred.
  • Backscuttling for the hop off with the odds altogether in favour of his tumbling into the river, Jaun just then I saw to collect from the gentlest weaner among the weiners, (who by this were in half droopleaflong mourning for the passing of the last post) the familiar yellow label into which he let fall a drop, smothered a curse, choked a guffaw, spat expectoratiously and blew his own trumpet. Finnegans Wake
  • That slippery little scut is as slick as a door-to-door Bible salesman.
  • My absolute dream has always been to live and work in the same space - work downstairs then scuttle upstairs to a nest in the rafters.
  • The aspect - oriented programming ( AOP ) facilitates modularization of crosscutting concerns.
  • As jimi Hendrix put it “scutes me while I kiss the sky” and yes it is a diapsid. the pro from dover What else could be expected from Dembski? - The Panda's Thumb
  • The rye straw would be scutched or flayed during the long winter nights, sheafed and left ready for the thatcher.
  • The campus hospital is located near the East Gate of SCUT , students may go there for medical service.
  • Like most X-Box scuttlebutt, the various elements of the leaked spec. are tantalisingly plausible - bloody obvious, if you think about it, possibly too obvious - but too vague to draw any real conclusions.
  • See of Benda, the chief town in a district of this name, near Croia, in the pashalik of Scutari. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Cuscuta contains at least 158 species that no longer possess leaves, but their stems twine around host plants producing numerous haustoria to obtain nutrients.
  • Dirty olive green on the back, from the neck to the tail; scuta 147, dirty reddish orange; head black from the nose to neck; sides of the head white; tongue forked. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
  • could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature
  • Such an undertaking would not be too much of a surprise: billionaire Madeleine Schickedanz' steady accruement of the company's stock prompted scuttlebutt that she was preparing to delist Germany's biggest department store chain and divide it up--although Chief Executive ThomasMiddelhoffThomas Middelhoff told the company's annual general meeting last May that such a scenario was not in the cards. Schickedanz Ready To Delist KarstadtQuelle?
  • In a single act of cowardice and betrayal, if not treason, the US congress has 'scuttled' the Articles of Impeachment drawn up and carefully researched by Dennis Kucinich. Liberty Betrayed
  • Certain scuttlebutt avows that the girls actually do not participate in the makings of many of these records.
  • The most phlegmatic, untroubled rebuilder of wobbling innings in the world today, the 35-year-old left hander shrugged off every ball that gloved him and every one that scuttled.
  • Nox et caeruleam terris infuderat umbram. ille propinquabat silvis et ab aggere celso scuta virum galeasque videt rutilare comantes, qua laxant rami nemus adversaque sub umbra flammeus aeratis lunae tremor errat in armis. obstipuit visis, ibat tamen, horrida tantum spicula et inclusum capulo tenus admovet ensem. ac prior unde, viri, quidve occultatis in armis? 'non humili terrore rogat. nec reddita contra vox, fidamque negant suspecta silentia pacem. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
  • A little lizard scuttled across the path.
  • First by the fella who spotted her—he was staggering home from a party half scuttered, having a piss through the railings when he saw her. The Priest
  • The fleet was to surrender, but it was scuttled before it reached the naval base at Scapa Flow.
  • The document listed coal scuttles, pokers, grates, and fenders, but only one set of andirons.
  • No scutage not aid shall be imposed on our kingdom, unless by common counsel of our kingdom, except for ransoming our person, for making our eldest son a knight, and for once marrying our eldest daughter; and for these there shall not be levied more than a reasonable aid. The Magna Carta
  • Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Philip the Bold, by having an inescutcheon of pretence on the centre of the arms of Margaret de Maele, first assumed by his father, John the Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Ubi semel prurigo ista animum occupat aegre discuti potest, solicitantibus undique ejusdem farinae hominibus, damnosas illas voluptates repetunt, quod et scortatoribus insitum, Anatomy of Melancholy
  • scutcher," three or four laps at a time, one on top of another, to have still more beating and dusting. Makers of Many Things
  • It is said to be sedative, astringent, tonic, and discutient. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • They were booed off by their own fans and scuttled away from the Bridge as fast as they could. The Sun
  • Successful therapies include transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation TENS and cryotherapy, which is treatment with cold applications. The Best Alternative Medicine
  • On the other, the book makes no concession to ways in which authorial intent might be shaped or scuttled by external factors.
  • He knew that on the highest floor a devil would tear the fiber asunder, that it would then go to the scutcher, and have the dust and dirt blown away, then that carding machines would lay all the fibers parallel, that drawing machines would group them into slender ribbons, and a roving machine twist them into a soft cord, and then that a mule or a throstle would spin the roving into yarn, and the yarn would go to the weaving-rooms, where a thousand wonderful machines would turn them into miles and miles of calico; the machines doing all the hard work, while women and girls adjusted and supplied them with the material. The Measure of a Man
  • Depuis l'intervention américaine en Irak, la politique de frappe préventive est très discutée. Bishop Pierre Whalon: 'Just War' And The Intervention In Libya
  • They needed aid in tying on armour- saucepan and coal-scuttle helmets, bolsters for necks, blanket and hearthrug padding, dish-cover shields. Times, Sunday Times
  • a sum of money known as scutage (_shield-money_) in lieu of service. A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
  • That slippery little scut won't be able to stop himself, just wait.
  • Each chest has graduated drawers with solid, mahogany drawer fronts and original elaborate cast-brass pulls and escutcheons.
  • Their skin is covered with non-overlapping scales composed of the protein keratin and often studded with bony plates called scutes.
  • The nurse eventually scuttles happily out of the curtains and disappears.
  • For something to do, I scuttled out into the hall to collect the mail from the battered tin box in the lobby. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • A hedgehog scuttles out of the shrubs, it clicks across the road and I staccato-step behind it.
  • Meanwhile, rows of new swiveling, scuttling ergonomic chairs line the walls.
  • How, for instance, could a Frenchman suppose that a coalbox would be called a "scuttle"? Tremendous Trifles
  • Finally, she heard the sound of voices in the grand foyer and scuttled over to the door of the antechamber.
  • There will be shuttle bus to take you to the hotel and back to SCUT after the seminar.
  • On a mount vert a walnut tree, ppr.; on the sinister side an escutcheon pendent charged with the Arms of France, with a label of three points ar. A History of Caroline County, Virginia
  • The man he sits on scuttles away, so timid to be sat on first thing in the morning.
  • (2002-06) had "scuttled" the probe and had destroyed evidence, United News of Bangladesh (UNB) news agency reported. The Times of India
  • You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. A Little Princess
  • The youngest sills are undeformed and crosscut older foliated troctolite sills, which in turn crosscut isoclinally folded hybrid gabbro-troctolite-anorthosite complexes.
  • collogue," as they expressed it; but also the little gossoons in their ragged trousers and bare feet, and the girleens, with their curly hair, and roguish dark-blue eyes, to scuttle in also. Light O' the Morning
  • The device was scuttling over the crates in the cargo bay, making a few routine diagnostic checks, when its sensors picked up some anomalous readings.
  • Dorsum: the upper surface: in Coleoptera; often confined to meso - and meta-thorax: Odonata; includes mesepisterna and meso - and meta-thoracic terga: Diptera; upper surface of thorax, limited by the dorsopleural sutures laterally, the scutellum posteriorly and the neck anteriorly: Lepidoptera; the lower or inner margin of the wing. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • The report finds evidence that a transcription factor called Achaete scute-like 2 (Ascl2) switches on the stem cell program in intestinal cells. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Most of the head tenants and some of the under tenants held on condition of knight service, later commuted into a money payment in lieu of service called scutage.
  • _ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • The transcutaneous jaundice meter is affected by factors such as gestational age, birth weight, and skin pigmentation.
  • It is curious that Eshref fell through his good faith, for when, a few months later, the Porte issued an irade asking for indication of the reforms needed in the provinces, he replied by calling the population to formulate their wants, which they did, asking for the reopening of the Drin so as to facilitate the draining of the Lake of Scutari, the making of roads and a railway from Scutari to Antivari on the seacoast. The Autobiography of a Journalist
  • Comparative study of the analgesic effect of transcutaneous nerve stimulation (TNS), electroacupuncture (EA) and meperidine in the treatment of postoperative pain. The Best Alternative Medicine
  • If you're anything like me, chances are 90% of the resolutions you made as the ball dropped and you finished your nth kir royale have since been sent scuttling back to the heap of "things I'd like to do/be/practice next year. Daphne Oz: Three Secrets for Interpersonal-Relationship Perfection
  • And I scuttled out wishing the floor would open up.
  • J'aime bien : “Je me suis rendu compte tout dernièrement à quel point il est facile de répondre à une question sans l'avoir lue en entier,” qui est le reflet moderne des vidéo discutions, la pertinence prend des reflet inférieur à la minute, alors que je suis encore entre 5 et 10 mn pour présenter une proposition. LIFT’08: David Brown Workshop — Teenagers and Generation Y — Climb to the Stars
  • Esse mesmo senhor coronel, durante a mesma entrevista, discute com uma garota que lhe aparece aos gritos argumentando algo sobre os absurdos cometidos pela PM. Global Voices in English » Brazil: The country’s largest university becomes a battlefield
  • The gooseneck vents were covered and heavy deadlights were swung across the scuttles and clipped down along the entire ship's sides. LET NOT THE DEEP
  • Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
  • Arms of the Office are -- _Arg., a lion sejant erect and affronté gu., holding in his dexter paw a thistle slipped vert, and in the sinister an escutcheon of the second; on a chief az., a saltire of the first_: No. 266. The Handbook to English Heraldry
  • Spencer scuttled away from Young to shoot wide when he should have scored.sentence dictionary
  • Here, the visual focus crosscuts between two sites.
  • Some would chop down the trees; some would measure and cut off the logs; some would "scutch" the logs; and others would come along with a broadaxe, and hew two sides of the logs flat. Last of the Pioneers, Or Old Times in East Tenn.; Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years).
  • The specific meanings "whip" and "scutch" aren't actual, but something like "Today he has to spend the afternoon messing the hemp" would be a workable idiom if anyone actually used it. Languagehat.com: SCUTCH.
  • Walker took off to see if he could find out the latest scuttlebutt, leaving Emmert alone.
  • Our lively zaptieh cheered the route with an instructive tale of the siege of a certain kula we passed, by soldiers from Scutari sent to collect cattle-tax. High Albania
  • Then the way went by long lines of dark windows diversified by turreted towers and porches of eccentric shapes, where old stone lions and grotesque monsters bristled outside dens of shadow and snarled at the evening gloom over the escutcheons they held in their grip. Bleak House
  • Seminal roots do not form a coleorhiza since the scutellar node tissue is already differentiated when seminal roots emerge and can easily be penetrated.
  • The puntillero, 'tacker' had scuttled out with his short, sharp razor-sharp knife to cut the bull's spinal chord, the coup de grace, but as he begins his surgical insertion, the cut awakens the bull, and he rises howling and scrambling to his feet, the matador falls back, and the peones again appear. There is no such thing as a bullfight
  • Shining our torches onto the sand reveals thousands of hermit crabs scuttling from the light.
  • The two men were intertangled and down among the furniture, and then Omne had locked an arm around Kirk and was scuttling crabwise to one side, dragging the Human in front of him toward the cover of a big couch. The Price of the Phoenix
  • Grace lay beside him, gazing up at the deck, listening to the hiss of rain falling on the deadlight of the cabin's scuttle. Sharpe's Trafalgar
  • The present locks and escutcheons are not original.
  • Wild as the birds in the sun-drenched trees, their children skulked shyly behind the sulky wheels or scuttled for the protection of the woodheap while their parents yarned over cups of tea, swapped tall stories and books, promised to pass on vague messages to Hoopiron Collins or Brumby Waters, and told the fantastic tale of the Pommy jackaroo on Gnarlunga. The Thorn Birds
  • Records, recognize no such classification as "vallettus hospicii Regis," pet the records certainly point to the existence of such a classification.] and later of course, "armiger" or "scutifer. Chaucer's Official Life
  • Esse mesmo senhor coronel, durante a mesma entrevista, discute com uma garota que lhe aparece aos gritos argumentando algo sobre os absurdos cometidos pela PM. Global Voices in English » Brazil: The country’s largest university becomes a battlefield
  • a squamulate appearance to it; when narrowly examined, just above the rather large and bluntish scutellum, there are some distinct scattered punctures; thorax beneath covered with fulvous hairs. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
  • First-strand cDNA was synthesized with an oligo primer from total RNA extracted from scutella of germinating seeds.
  • Musicians scuttled between a cattle pen at the front of the stalls and the unseen stage rear. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her experiences at Scutari convinced her that the impediment to maximal military capability was illness.
  • With a crosscut or fast-cutting combination handsaw flat on the guide, cut out the bottom portion of your doorjamb so that when the slate is installed it will slip under the jamb.
  • The dad of two quickly slammed a takeaway box over the venomous creature to stop it scuttling away. The Sun
  • They were booed off by their own fans and scuttled away from the Bridge as fast as they could. The Sun
  • As such, she doesn't get out much, since her few attempts at dating are scuttled by the conspicuous presence of her bodyguards.
  • It was eventually pointed out to her that scuttling constituted a rather egregious instance of sexual harassment.
  • But if it scuttled down into the depths of my body no power could prevent my violent convulsion. SKORPION'S DEATH
  • Two very small children scuttled away in front of them.
  • The incident threatens to scuttle the peace process.
  • When something dark and chitinous scuttled out from the scrub, Darius was forced to bodily haul him out of its way.
  • The scutal depressor muscles, the scutal abductor muscle, and the tergal depressor muscle are used to open and close the two plates that cover the opening to the barnacle. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • To the left of the escutcheon was the figure of a woman, standing. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
  • a shield of arms, within an orb ar.sa. a spread eagle of the first bearing an escutcheon of pretence ar. a lion ppr. in chief in base a chev.gu. charged with three escallop shells of the first, impaling a saltire sa. between four crosses fitche of the same. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829
  • Walk more, eat less and include dairy products to help burn fat is the scuttlebutt of late.
  • Out it came, and scuttled behind the wardrobe. The Sun
  • It was normally possible to make a payment, known as scutage or shield money, in place of performing feudal military service.
  • Azure, an orle of martlets or, on an inescutcheon arg. three bass gules. Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850
  • Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
  • Day and night gophers and rabbits hop through several concentric fences onto the lawn and scuttle out again.
  • Two axemen arrived at nine in the morning armed with only axes and crosscut saws.
  • Caso você queira discutir um tema que não caiba em nenhuma dessas áreas, crie seu grupo, convide quem mais possa se interessar por ele e toque a conversa. Global Voices in English » Brazil’s Forum for Digital Culture reaches out to the blogosphere
  • The sparse open cluster M10 lies near Gamma Scuti.
  • Is it the unadorned simple man that you welcome to your bosom, or a thing of stars and garters, a patch of parchment, the minion of a throne, the lordling of twenty descents, in which each has been weaker than that before it, the hero of a scutcheon, whose glory is in his quarterings, and whose worldly wealth comes from the sweat of serfs whom the euphonism of an effete country has learned to decorate with the name of tenants? ' He Knew He Was Right
  • They carry a stack of registration forms around and sign people up, volunteer at Dem HQ for whatever scutwork needs doing, cut work or school on election day to drive people around, you know the routine.
  • Body broadly ovate, elevated and truncate posteriorly; back oblique; dorsal impression lanceolate; scutab area very slightly excavated; ambulacral spaces broad, triangular, depressed; interambulacral spaces slightly convex; anteal furrow broad and shallow, sides slightly gibbous; sub-anal impressions broadly ob-cordate; post-oral spinous space broadly lanceolate. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds

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