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Other historical mysteries re-examined at the Maryland conference include Alexander the Great, who amassed a sprawling empire by age 30, but died in 323 B.C. at age 32.
Solving Darwin's Medical Mystery
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They stood, without any respect for regularity, on each side of a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
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Beddoes as a writer of brief lyric poems, songs exhumed from the bodies of his dramas, and for the bizarre, sprawling Death's Jest Book.
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The shelty came down over the rump of a red bullock, and Sim was sprawling on his face in the trampled grass.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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That allowed him to adjust and adapt his sprawling tale.
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Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws.
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The station is so sprawling and packed with vehicles that it took longer than usual for Discovery to be tightly cinched down.
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There was no time now to call at the hostel so we drove through the sprawling, congested town and out again into the country on dirt tracks.
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There's an edgy, youthful feel to the sprawling stone downtown, where gaggles of short-haired, punky students walk narrow, walled streets.
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From that moment, it was doomed to become a huge, sprawling, one-story conurbation, hopelessly dependent on the automobile.
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They are a strange family indeed; living in a sprawling house in the greater area of Maine, this family is busting at the seams with not only children, but also every animal under the sun.
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He writes taut, thrilling mysteries, delicately set against the backdrop of the sprawling Navajo Reservation.
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A few kilometers down a decrepit road is a sprawling abandoned battery factory.
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White's allegorical space is a vacant sprawling composition, slanting and inclined in a rigid fixture devoid of primary colours or people.
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His proposed solution to the sprawling mess of subtopia was not to restrict building but to increase urban densities.
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Her sprawling, comic epic about multi-ethnic Britain, which uncovers a wonderland of magic realism in the London subtopias of Cricklewood Broadway and Willesden, beat a strong shortlist of four other books, all by American writers.
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A modern and sprawling city which sports imposing government monuments reminiscent of the Washington Mall, Brasilia is also home to the nation's Upper Electoral Court overseeing the nation's presidential election.
Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand?
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Their sprawling theme park of paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and videos amounts to a surprisingly ambitious exhibition.
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It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground.
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As we reached the top floor the elevator doors slid open and, after announcing ourselves, we were ushered into a sprawling office that included the couch on which Quiller-Couch napped after lunch each day.
Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
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A boomburb is a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area..
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Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws.
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In general, ethnic Burmans live in the valley, and the minority ethnic groups such as the Karen, Karenni, Shan, and Kachin live in the sprawling hill country.
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In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop ourselves from cartwheeling down the mountain.
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Costmary, Alecost, Bible-leaf, Sweet Mary, or Mint Geranium is a sprawling, hardy perennial that reaches 3 feet in height when in bloom.
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The vast majority live in sprawling towns and cities, and the countryside has been chopped up with thousands of roads.
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Millions watching the 60 Minutes show got a peek at the palatial home and its sprawling landscaped gardens.
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The sun begins to set in the sprawling valley and Cassie watches the orange hue cast its shade upon the hills.
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But their forlorn, polished California pop is like the sprawling Valley suburbs: nice enough, if that's your sort of thing.
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To some, this is a sign that the city's sprawling suburban growth is slowing.
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Motorization was progressing, and Suburban sprawling was starting.
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Dance music, as a big, sprawling, genre-busting whole, is having the time of its life.
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Mumbai is one of the fastest growing cities in the world but it is sprawling outwards because of restrictive planning laws.
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International soccer authorities and law enforcement officials are struggling to combat rampant match-fixing by what they describe as sprawling networks of organized crime, a problem that has plagued the sport for decades but appears to have intensified recently.
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The cliffs were barely visible now, plunging downwards to a broad inlet spanned by many bridges and surrounded by a sprawling port.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Come evening and the nawabs and the well-heeled would climb atop the terraces of their sprawling ‘deodis’ and let loose their pigeons.
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When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony - titled "Kaddish" - on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically trampled one another to get in the first jabs.
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Many of the articles examine the continuous conflict over water between sprawling metropolitan areas and rural hinterlands.
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So then, I lined up the shot and it would've been a great goal but then some jackass from the other team sent a kick toward my knee and sent me sprawling to the ground.
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Sprawling refineries hide behind chain-link fences topped with razor wire and guards at the exits.
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At the museum, the sprawling exhibition claimed large parts of two floors and spilled into the permanent collection elsewhere in the building.
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The structure suddenly collapsed, sending lecturer and papers sprawling.
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Agriculture was California; there were no sprawling defense and aerospace industries, there was no Silicon Valley.
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But she's too drunk to keep her balance and the momentum of the lurch is enough to send her sprawling.
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Ranchers help prime the sprawling pastures by torching them to burn out prairie brush, clearing the way for stands of big bluestem and other grasses that are cheap cattle feed.
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•The scene: After training at Disney's Sports Complex outside Orlando for seven years, the Buccaneers have stayed home for camp at their sprawling, state-of-the-art headquarters, which like their previous digs is affectionately known as One Buc Place.
Youth won't stop Bucs' Morris from running old-school camp
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Then he stressed not the long line of these sprawling movements, but their turbulence and episodic nature.
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Fields were turned into subdivisions, and the town's small downtown was overshadowed by a sprawling regional mall.
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Urban society will have to accommodate to those prices, and with the majority of people living in a sprawling urban environment, we're going to have a hard time.
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Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence.
G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
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A free-spirited beachcomber living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ringo White scours the shores of Lake Michigan for the materials needed to construct his sprawling, mixed-media installation.
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This plant has sprawling stems of tightly packed silvery leaves and white flowers that make it ideal for growing over the edge of containers.
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The country is blessed with hundreds of miles of sprawling sandy beaches, with fine white sand and clear blue water.
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It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground.
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Abby went sprawling a few feet away, landing hard and crying out in pain and fear.
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Old-style Japanese judo is centered on traditional throws in which athletes toss their opponents over their shoulders to send them sprawling on the mat, or other clean, decisive moves called ippon.
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Just after sunrise twice a week, in a fluorescently lit room on Ohio State's sprawling campus, he lectures 49 bleary-eyed students on the art of coaching.
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I recently moved from a small Midwestern college town to a sprawling Southern metropolis.
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If you were to drive due east of the warm, coastal snowbird capital of Fort Myers, Florida, you'd soon find yourself in the midst of a sprawling grid of unadorned streets and quarter-acre lots collectively known as Lehigh Acres.
Raymond Schillinger: Lehigh Acres, Florida: A Parable of the American Dream Gone Bust
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A similar brawl is taking place in the Ninth, a sprawling pie-shaped district that radiates from Bloomington to the Ohio River.
Races Test Democrats in Midwest
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Many out-of-state visitors travelling through the Delta area leave with the image of the region being a land of asphalt-covered, Formica-Modern, sprawling 'slurbs' jammed with millions of people.
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Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs.
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Mrs. Winchester believed ill would befall her if she ever stopped altering her sprawling mansion.
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She went sprawling across it, and both Locke and Jean suddenly noticed that she wasn't wearing anything but her smallclothes.
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Sprawling mats of rock roses (helianthemum) need the lank flower stems snipped away in handfuls, with secateurs.
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He locked his knee against the man's inner thigh and sent him sprawling to the ground.
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But no matter how much geography changes in the sprawling Old Pueblo, the site still manages to retain its cottonwood-laced charm.
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The US then installed and consistently backed the Shah, who proceeded to abuse systematically human rights, to suppress all political activity and to enrich his cronies while his people festered in sprawling urban slums.
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Robert Downey Jr received acclaim, and an Oscar nomination, for his pitch-perfect performance as the great silent movie era comic Charlie Chaplin in Richard Attenborough's sprawling 1992 film.
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Paphos is now a busy, sprawling resort having grown from a sleepy little fishing port.
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This is a big industrial city, with sprawling suburbs.
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This sprawling site bears the marks of geological metamorphosis, when sediments have compacted into layers of shale and now preserve the delicate details of these organisms as fossils.
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Euphorbia wulfenii is in full bloom with sprawling stems covered in furry grey-green leaves and topped with heavy heads of lime-green flowers.
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A pert, blond-haired woman coiffed and clothed in the style of an American homemaker, circa 1970, stands in the driveway outside her sprawling suburban home.
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There, most of the families we knew lived in houses like the one on Rowland Road: gracious, sprawling, one-or-two-storeyed bungalows in red or white or cream brick, the louvred window shutters painted in green or blue.
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In general, ethnic Burmans live in the valley, and the minority ethnic groups such as the Karen, Karenni, Shan, and Kachin live in the sprawling hill country.
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It means that a sprawling company like AOL Time Warner not only can produce news, entertainment and sports programming, but also distribute it exclusively on any one of its cable or broadcast outlets and subsequently "repurpose," or air it, on any of the rest of its networks.
Network Synergy At Work
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The sprawling urban spaces that are the legacy of the 20th century are further burdened with a decaying infrastructure.
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If your library is on a gadget rather than sprawling impressively across your drawing room, it does rather limit the effect.
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ANN LIVERMORE: Livermore has become acquainted with many corners of HP's sprawling business in her 28-year career with the company, with management positions in sales, research and development and business management.
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Here is a dated but thoroughly delightful article about maintaining continuity in sprawling, multiple-creator-written series.
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The hope of these minorities is that a fissiparous Pakistan, with its history of dysfunctional civilian and military governments, will give way in the fullness of time to a sprawling Greater India, thus liberating Baluchistan to pursue its destiny as a truly autonomous region.
Pakistan’s Fatal Shore
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If the decisions are incorrect or made for the wrong reasons, they can transform a pleasant and attractive area into a sprawling mass of houses which will be far worse than the original Salford overspill.
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It was a sprawling double album, which was, depending who you talk to, an overblown self-indulgence or the best thing he'd ever put on record.
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The first, as Mumford, who considered Geddes “my master,” explained, was to plan cities at a human scale to avoid the sprawling modern megalopolis, which Mumford called “the last word in imageless urban amorphousness.”
Makeshift Metropolis
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a straggling kind of unpaved street, where children, almost in a primitive state of nakedness, lay sprawling, as if to be crushed by the hoofs of the first passing horse.
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She hit the edge of the table with bruising force, her upper body sprawling over its surface.
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A sprawling, congested and expensive city.
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In Cape Town, blacks and coloureds who were driven out of a sprawling mixed-race suburb during the apartheid era recently had keys to new homes in the area given to them by Mandela.
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Oenothera macrocarpa is a low, sprawling plant with a large taproot.
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The sprawling story of how extraplanetary imperialists impose a mission civilisatrice on the dune-dwelling, sandworm-herding "savages" of an almost waterless world is rich in historic, anthropological and archaeological allusions.
Any Drop to Drink?
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I shifted my weight and kicked out at one of them with my right boot, catching him on the hip and sending him sprawling.
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An explosion and fire at a sprawling sugar refinery rattled this Savannah suburb Thursday night, severe-ly injuring dozens of people.
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Most of the inhabitants could afford to buy extra water rations and keep plants, which they proudly displayed sprawling out of the windows and slithering up the pale, smooth walls of their homes.
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If you're pushing the boat out, the sprawling Penfolds Grange room has its own gym, a two-person shower, twin free-standing baths and its own mini-wine cellar.
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It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground.
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This absolutely worthless look at the ant-like endeavors of the roadies as they strive to erect the sprawling sets is mind-bogglingly dull and unimpressive.
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"This is a sprawling historical epic, portraying Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century.
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Two more of the advisers' panel also have links to the vast and sprawling body, which craves access to the corridors of power.
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In a suburban office campus, for example, people work in low, sprawling buildings and drive between them; in a city, people work in compact multistory buildings, use elevators which are inherently energy efficient since they are counterweighted, and walk to lunch.
Makeshift Metropolis
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It's nestled between wooded hills and a landscaped garden leading down to a sprawling 16th-century monastery.
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In the midst of its first summer of operation, the pub has set up a sprawling outdoor eating area with ample seating and plenty of shade.
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It's a vast and sprawling town of tents and caravans.
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The newspaperwoman turned best-selling author whose sprawling novels of Ireland portrayed women confronting all manner of adversity, died on Monday in Dublin.
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At Leggett & Platt's sprawling bedspring factory in Carthage—which processes 800,000 pounds of steel wire a day—the more immediate problem is a price squeeze.
Too Early to Hire, Cautious CEO Says
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The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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Once synonymous with the evils of apartheid, the sprawling suburb has flourished in recent years, with a lively restaurant and bar scene.
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So the Canyon sits in the middle of the sprawling city, inviolate.
COLDHEART CANYON
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Then my head was snapped backwards by a tug on my air hose and I was sent sprawling on the ground.
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There were sprawling grounds running down to the water, with unkempt meadows and wooded with aged deciduous trees.
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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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Their wordless improvisations and clear world music influences have shattered, reconfigured and picked up lyrics, culminating in a sprawling album that comes off as some kind of art-damaged radio play.
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We drove on one hill and saw sprawling haciendas, with very high walls enclosing them and enormous gateways.
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The huge sprawling edifice of Bethlehem Hospital loomed behind them.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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The cuff sent me sprawling to the floor with a painful sting in my cheek, and a hurt feeling in the pit of my stomach.
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He fashions these small thoughts into a sprawling 1,500-word polemic - a sort of liberal call-to-arms.
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These days, Powell is a junior basketball star at Grandview, a sprawling public high school of 2,600 students near Denver, and he prefers to be called Big Shane, a nickname reinforced by his 6-foot-4 beanpole frame.
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Eventually pentecostals-some of them-did organize denominations, establish mission boards, found colleges, and administer vast, sprawling missionary enterprises.
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It hit Susanna squarely, and the force behind it sent her sprawling backwards.
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The trouble is that these sprawling jams were never meant to be released in this unexpurgated form.
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They're shooting mostly on location, in a former cow pasture that now hosts the sprawling Terra Nova settlement, a football field—size colony ringed by majestic bushland.
Terra Nova Exclusive: On the Set of TV's Hottest New Show
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The master bedroom overlooks the sprawling grounds and another bedroom boasts a walk-in dressing room the size of an average flat.
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'Relativity' is a sprawling, psychedelic-flecked number, driven by a motorik pulse and surrounded by swirling organs and sheets of jagged guitars.
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Effortlessly sidestepping a wayward javelin, the Grand Master leapt into the fray, landing with such force that several Serpent-Men were sent sprawling backwards.
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The sprawling conference and resort center even has its own transportation system.
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The streets of New York are full of people from all walks, races, creeds, colors; they are the antithesis of a gated sprawling suburban development.
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Ricardo Delgado (W/A) and Jim Campbell (C) Dawn breaks over a sprawling forest in Cretaceous North America†a dawn far colder than its peaceful, forest-dwelling herbivores are used to.
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Last weekend, underneath the canopy of a sprawling oak tree in a remote park in downtown Austin, a small group gathered around a vintage airstream, a table and few chairs.
Danika Boyle: Sparks From the Culinary Edge
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After a day in Antananarivo -- a sprawling, diesel-soaked city that earns the adjective "teeming" -- we leave by car for Andasibe, a former logging village that is now home to a burgeoning ecotourism trade.
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he was sprawling languorously on the sofa
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A sprawling double album of many moods, and even the upbeat numbers have an undertow of fragmentation.
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The best room is the honeymoon suite, a sprawling gold-themed love nest that is ideal for those seeking a romantic pick-me-up.
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Six candidates are contesting this sprawling seat, which stretches from the historic town of Stirling, north and west to Crianlarich.
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The sprawling suburban areas of Kansas City that stretch into both Kansas and Missouri have also made a place for art.
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Jay slammed into me from behind and sent me sprawling across the blacktop of the alley. Skin tore away from the heels of my palms as I slid to a stop.
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All night, the artfully sprawling rock lulls the lovers and the fighters into a state of dewy-eyed contentedness.
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Sprawling Monongahela National Forest is home to 230 species of birds.
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The most controversial proposal is for a three-storey museum under the Forbidden City, a sprawling citadel dating from the Ming Dynasty.
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I imagine he's having real trouble with the up-keep of his sprawling country estate at the moment.
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The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered.
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There was no time now to call at the hostel so we drove through the sprawling, congested town and out again into the country on dirt tracks.
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At any rate, the township that Fritchie had so vigorously preserved for the Union was a sprawling exurb now.
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There are two kinds of red berry sprawling over the hedges now.
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Critics last night warned that consigning the sprawling army camp to history would not defuse the furious row over the ill-treatment meted out to teenagers entrusted to the care of commanders at the site.
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Then my head was snapped backwards by a tug on my air hose and I was sent sprawling on the ground.
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For almost four decades, seamstresses in this sprawling sweatshop churned out what was once the height of haut couture.
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He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
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It's a vast and sprawling town of tents and caravans.
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Imagine turning down the focus dial in this sprawling metroplex to a five by six patch of dirt in front of a real estate office. All day people go in and out that front door on their way to buy and sell land, homes, and businesses.
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Maradi's sprawling markets straddle the main highway which passes south to Nigeria.
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Having used the sprawling downs for a variety of purposes including grazing their buffaloes over the years, some of the Toda youth are now in the process of adding a new chapter to their chequered history.
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The house was nothing special, a tawdry semi-detached in a sprawling estate, with a broken front fence and an overgrown lawn.
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Nasser Hussain could only edge an unplayable McGrath delivery to Ricky Ponting at second slip, who took a sensational sprawling catch.
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There are reggae jams and Velvet Underground dirges, one-minute tracks that float by like nothing and sprawling campfire singalongs.
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No-one makes them live in those boxy little flats on sprawling council estates, after all.
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Nebula, a sprawling cloud of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy about
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During that time, Ross has seen the city - which he calls el monstruo, or monster - become a sprawling, chaotic, toxic and crime-ridden tangle.
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His foot tripped over a piece of rubble and he went sprawling.
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Covering 3,000 miles and nine states in eight days, the probing biker figured there could be useful lessons to be learned for his role representing the sprawling rural parishes of Whinfell.
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Eventually pentecostals-some of them-did organize denominations, establish mission boards, found colleges, and administer vast, sprawling missionary enterprises.
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The master bedroom overlooks the sprawling grounds and another bedroom boasts a walk-in dressing room the size of an average flat.
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Striking a martial arts pose, she then delivered a swinging punch to the killer's back, followed by a reverse elbow, and finishing up with a double scissor kick that sent the man sprawling to the ground.
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He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
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The game's levels aren't very large - they're certainly not the massive sprawling affairs seen in recent extreme sports games, and this is a real strike against the game.
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Damascus was the sprawling metropolis.
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Less than 30 seconds later, Pires picks the ball up in the centre of the pitch, edges left to right slightly, leaves two Roma defenders sprawling on the floor, and blazes the ball over the bar.
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Even more than the private corporation, it is a composite of huge numbers of individuals who bring to this sprawling nation their own distinctive pasts.
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They say riders tearing along pavements in the area have sent pensioners and mothers, pushing children in prams, sprawling.
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The war has left the sprawling nation carved up into various regions controlled by the government and rebel armies.
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All elements of his sprawling film resonate with each other intellectually, emotionally, and viscerally, while notably avoiding concrete statements of theme.
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This sprawling citadel, looming high above the Andalusian city, boasts a dazzling array of mosaics, with tiles arranged in beautiful, intricate patterns, and is a testament to the beauty of mathematics.
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The same couple lived there for years, raising their kids in the sprawling brick ranch with the obnoxious avocado green trim.
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Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism.
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In several places we each went sprawling, clawing at tufts of dead grass to stop from cartwheeling down the mountain.
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And so it was that people chatted or fiddled with their cell phones or even catnapped during the never-ending show, which was held in the sprawling Espace Pierre Cardin, in Paris 'tony 8th district.
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Philip also had a far more compact principality to defend than the sprawling land mass of the Angevin empire in France, which took up in expenditure much of the revenue generated.
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Then my head was snapped backwards by a tug on my air hose and I was sent sprawling on the ground.
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As recently as the 1990s, Barnes & Noble was known as a carnivorous competitor with the power to wipe out independent bookstores with its steeply discounted books and sprawling stores where customers could sip coffee and read in plush chairs.
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Celestial and August: a vase imitating the substance of ore-rock, all aflame with pyritic scintillation, -- a shape of glittering splendor with chameleons sprawling over it; chameleons of porcelain that shifted color as often as the beholder changed his position.
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When you represent some part of the sprawling federal government, though, there's more to contend with than just personal demureness.
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Covering the underrated early period of the band, the sounds are spacey, spacious and determinedly sprawling.
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He often surrounds himself with tykes, and buses in terminally ill children to play at his sprawling Neverland Valley ranch north of Los Angeles.
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Elsewhere it is a similarly depressing story of industrial sheds, ugly roundabouts, sprawling car parks and aesthetically unpleasing supermarkets.
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And there, behind the flowering bougainvillaea, was a sprawling villa: two storeys high, with white shutters, many of them hanging loose.
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The wheel rolled out from under me and I went sprawling backwards.
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Try lavender or a mixture of scented pelargoniums for a sprawling dash of colour.
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In Australia he worked for a time at the sprawling Department of Veterans, one of hundreds silently compiling files which lined acres of wall.
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The transparency of the building is intended to change perception of the judicial process; and as a grand civic space, the atrium is significant in a city of sprawling suburbs.
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Because at the moment, she is standing curbside on Red River Street, the four-lane road that forms the eastern border of the sprawling campus.
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Again, we want our bedroom sprawling across the width of three windows.
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It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground.
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The nephew of Anjelica Huston — and grandson of John Huston — made a harrowingly brilliant debut on the Halloween-night episode of HBO's sprawling gangster drama as Richard Harrow, a disfigured sniper who joined forces with fellow World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in Chicago.
Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire's Man in the Iron Mask
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The owner or master of the establishment was squatted upon the dry sandy ground, with three or four young children sprawling round him, while his _four_ wives were occupied with their respective duties.
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It is a sprawling work, confusing in the current production, and not entirely clarified even by perusal of the text.
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More importantly, he has changed the rural face of his large, sprawling State, once among the most backward areas of the country, by bringing the benefits of the computer within the reach of the rural community.
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We drove two hundred kilometers to Bam, a sprawling walled city and citadel begun two thousand years ago by the Parthians.
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Jakarta's sprawling metropolis has become a close-knit hive of concern.
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It has a contrasting landscape ranging from beautiful and mesmerizing beaches to sprawling and craggy mountain ranges.
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The sprawling, castlelike structure with five circular towers had sat unused for years until developer Daniel McLean bought the landmark building in 2000.
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The centre of the capital is a sprawling marketplace which probably hasn't had concrete roads since the French packed up and left Mali four decades ago.