How To Use Stalk In A Sentence
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It would seem that efforts to train stalkers to high standards have been successful, and I would agree with that conclusion.
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Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
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I have had my share of stalkers and lechers and most times, I am careful enough not to allow it to lead to something dangerous.
Passing Time
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In the end the keeners stalked the funeral processions screaming and shrieking all the more like vengeful banshees and had to be chased by the priests.
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As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
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Facing off against Daredevil's way coolist foe of the day, Death-Stalker, the team-up had a great moment when the villain grabbed GR's flaming skull and was freaked to find that he wouldn't die.
DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
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As usual with Saab, the design of the instruments and controls is almost perfect although the cruise control stalk is partly hidden from view.
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Several years ago a purchased plant threw out some seeds and we had one or two of this striking biennial with their felty leaves and vertical stalk of blooms for a short time.
UT Blooms Days June 2008 « Fairegarden
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The fruit of the fig is about as big as a rounceval pea, or very small gooseberry; and each of them, upon breaking off the stalk very close, produces one drop of a milky liquor, resembling the juice of our figs, of which the tree is indeed a species.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
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The Cotton grass has tiny flowers with tufts of white silky hairs at the top of a stalk.
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In the mean time they pass for the mandatories of the popular sovereign, with full power in all directions, because he has delegated his omnipotence to them, and the sole power, because their investiture is the most recent; under this sanction, they stalk around somewhat like supernumeraries at the Opera, dressed in purple and gold, representing
The French Revolution - Volume 2
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He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues.
The Swordbearer
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The stalks grow pale and wide, the flavour mellow yet powerful and tangy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The lower part of the stalks can be used in a soup, pasta or risotto, after peeling away remaining fibrous threads.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Choctaw [Footnote: Romans, p. 70, Bossu, Vol. I, p. 308.] boys made use of a cane stalk, eight or nine feet in length, from which the obstructions at the joints had been removed, much as boys use what is called a putty blower.
Indian Games : an historical research
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G 6 A FTP patch cord reaches the best exterior crosstalk performance via its unique double - sleeve design.
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A plant with an umbelliferous inflorescence is one whose flowers are borne on stalks or pedicels originating from a common node on the main stem.
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There's no way you'll hear me saying, ‘dishonesty at any level corrupts the individual’, or find me stalking birds around the garden.
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POLICE are to get tough new powers to protect stalking victims.
The Sun
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The porcupine will gnaw at the base of the maize stalk and drop it, and in doing so is able to get to the maize cob.
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Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in 'up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser
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Its flowers nod on frail stalks that spring straight from a rosette of heart-shaped leaves.
Times, Sunday Times
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There’s also a type known as stem lettuce, or celtuce; it’s especially popular in Asia for its prominent and crisp stalk, which is stripped of its small leaves, peeled, sliced, and cooked.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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The selections this week include reflections on the Meath bus crash, Conor Lenihan as a kebab chef, a Star Wars horoscope, cyberstalking, and deranged art.
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Worst of them is the failure to show us the beanstalk growing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peel and core the pears, taking care to leave the stalks in place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clues aren't obvious—very few will be decked in deerstalker hats or carrying a pipe, and they most pointedly do not say, "Elementary, my dear Watson," a phrase their hero never once uttered in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works.
The Case of the Sherlock Convention
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He placed his pack on the ground and began to stalk the birds like a cat.
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He stalked over to the pup tent of the recreation tent orderly and bawled him out.
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You might even downgrade it to bar fare, since the only stalks most guys eat are served alongside hot wings or immersed in a Bloody Mary.
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Just cut the stalk and bury it in the compost, giving the attached plantlet space to grow.
Times, Sunday Times
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Every field had to be hoed for weeds three times, carefully hilling soil around each young stalk.
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Besides, there is so much to do that such luxuries as spending hours and hours stalking cats in pursuit of the perfect shot are simply not possible.
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The situation is more pronounced in the area of cyberstalking, where even the most basic information is lacking and where relatively little research is taking place.
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As she watched him stalking around the little house, red with rage, body taut as a watch spring with appressed aggression and his mouth constantly spewing Obscenities, she pictured him in his coffin.
Two women
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Many cliffs are now brightened by the pretty pink flowers of thrift on their trembling stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Outside the amniotic ectoderm is a thin layer of mesoderm, which is continuous with that of the somatopleure and is connected by the body-stalk with the mesodermal lining of the chorion.
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And with that Darcy waved and stalked off, clearly trying to keep her stride even and calm.
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Sets were well constructed and particularly effective were the scenes depicting the beanstalk growing - UV light and the shimmering silver of the sky at night, catching and reflecting the light around the hall.
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The stalks of wheat could be spun and braided into many useful things.
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I don't tell this story to boast of my skills as a stalker or hide builder or to show my stoical ability to endure hours without moving in the pursuit of wildlife.
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At the second transplanting, Hiram snipped back the tops, and the roots as well, so that each plant would grow sturdily and not be too "stalky".
Hiram the Young Farmer
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Miriam follows her even after she covers herself in gas and stalks away, and after that they are inseparable, Miriam having promised herself that she will never leave Eunice.
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The play's five boys are school chums from a reasonably close British locale, while the two teen females are on the lam from Scotland, fleeing a stalking high school English teacher.
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This study demonstrates that the material with a low molecular weight of 158 is an active component in wasabi leafstalk which stimulates bone calcification.
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‘We all had it,’ she says, sitting on a rug in front of her mud hut while her granddaughter mauls a stalk of sugarcane.
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Held by the stalk at the bottom, they look like dainty fans with a wavy edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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White Fang does not make an uproar, but rather follows quietly, stalking the stranger.
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Three such soldiers were there at this time, cleaving through waves of eye laden stalks as they rose from the dust.
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The biggest surprise was Everett's Holmes: a compelling, brilliant, darkly original character, much closer to the original stories than to the deerstalkers and meerschaums and Basil Rathbone.
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Like Card, I responded legally, by pointing out to him that his actions could be construed as a form of cyberstalking, which is illegal in Michigan.
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Move your eyes, not your head, Always keep an arrow nocked or your gun ready, this is vital, doing the sneaky stalk.
Still hunting vs.
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The flowers are borne at the height of 2ft. to 3ft., and are produced singly on very thick, rigid stalks, long, nearly nude, grooved, furnished with numerous short, bristle-like hairs, and gradually thickening up to the involucrum of the flower.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Anna Warner, a passalong from neighbors Mae and Mickey looks pleasing with the spent stalks of Astible arendsii ‘Fanal’.
Some Daylilies And A Surprise « Fairegarden
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Halve the lemon grass stalks and squash the bases with the flat side of a knife.
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To surgically alter the navel, Dr. Nadler recommends opening the stalk which forms the "outie" to remove the hard tissue inside.
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They cling to the stalk and peck the seeds off it, especially the seeds of sorrel and persicaria.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaves, each with one to three pairs of smooth, tiny leaflets, shed early, leaving leafstalks to provide lightly filtered shade.
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A further characteristic to aid a correct diagnosis is a marked shortening of the bloom stalks.
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Maybe there are, but hey, I'm not in their world and such prigginess as they and theirs soon won't be in our world -- their stalk is too spindly.
Oil and water (Jack Bog's Blog)
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(#2: The giant ape is defeated after the woman he groped and stalked wins a multi-million dollar harassment suit.)
SF Tidbits for 7/5/08
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If the immune system learns how to recognize only one of these cornstalk molecules, it can attack just about every parasite in the body.
Parasite Rex
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This helps prevent them from drooping or even completely bending over and breaking their stalks.
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Her flowers are exactingly painted, petal, leaf, and stalk; her plates and pheasants waiting to be plucked are textbook - perfect.
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The hypoblast gives rise to extra-embryonic structures such as the stalk of the yolk sac, whereas the embryo proper is formed from the remaining blastoderm cells, known as the epiblast.
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It makes a superb cut flower - five stalks will perfume a room for a week.
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This technique, called "glassing" allows the hunter to spot the game from some distance away, then plan out a ambush or stalk.
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Remove the thyme stalks, scotch bonnet and spring onion before serving.
Times, Sunday Times
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One resident of the town claims to have seen him in these parts before, stalking people - but him swears he's never been there before.
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This fossil has been reconstructed with a hypothetical stalk anchored in the substrate, as if supporting a frondose body in a reclined position.
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This mobile object seemed to have a fragile stalk.
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Permalink 2 hours ago TheseBootsAreMadeForStalking. com - joyce-dewitt-arrested-dui1 What's a holiday weekend without a classic celebrity DUI arrest?!
ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs
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To think that a bad review could result in an incensed author and their posse showing up on my doorstep is pretty damn creepy - online stalking and harassment is equally creepy in my mind.
I'm Not Saying I Condone It, But I Understand
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This stalked crinoid lacks arms, has a disc-shaped aboral cup that is at least five times wider than high, and has the anal opening in the aboral cup.
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Cut the chillies into pieces and add them to the blender or processor with the onion, garlic, ginger and bottom halves of the lemongrass stalks.
The Sun
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The grapes are destalked and crushed, and the skins briefly macerated to preserve as much as possible of the aroma and flavour of the grapes during fermentation.
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The only annoyance is that the wiper and light control stalks remain on the Japanese sides of the steering wheel.
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It has numerous bright blue or purple flowers in clusters at the top of stiff stalks and large leathery leaves at the bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The surely insolence of the waiters drove him into a rage, and he flung his serviette to the floor and stalked out of the restaurant.
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Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown.
Within a Budding Grove
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Eyestalk length was divided into short to medium stalks or long stalks.
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Affected stalks often have pink to reddish discolored internal tissues.
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Some of the time the crowd drown him out completely, and he stalks the stage revelling in the adulation.
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Hurt and deeply jealous, she stalked him for 18 months causing misery and harassment to the pair.
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Note that the indicator and wiper stalks have a new action that takes time to get used to.
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Proffered concerns about underage drinking are thus merely a stalking horse for the financial interests at stake in these cases.
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He says that the words complained of were meant and calculated to disparage the Claimant in his profession and business and also that they imputed to him the criminal offences of harassment stalking and theft.
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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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The Doctor's costume of deerstalker and cloak is suitably Holmesian, except that Holmes never wore a deerstalker - that was the invention of one of the original artists…
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Issues like crosstalk and overwriting are being addressed with encouraging results.
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The performance of crosstalk canceller is very important in a virtual surround sound system.
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Remove the white bulbs from the green onion stalks.
Musha Izakaya
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Here you can still buy a deerstalker hat, be fitted for a pinstripe blazer, slip on some sensible footwear, sniff out some musky cologne or get your balding locks tended by a traditional wet-shave barber.
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Meanwhile, trim and finely chop the chard stalks, then slice the leaves into ribbons.
The Sun
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To avoid being knocked off and carried out to open water, the anemone secrets a very strong adhesive substance at the foot of its stalk that allows it to stay put in the most turbulent situations.
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GOT pictures or other proof of an animal stalking your area?
The Sun
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The classic English fairy tale is embellished with elegant visual sweeps of the beanstalk and the castle in the sky.
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Two or three cups of the stalks, with leaves put into a cup of wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits, refresh and cheer the heart, and drive away melancholy.
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Ellie made Evil Eyes of Death under the flap of the deerstalker.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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The bright canary yellow leafstalks are tied in two to four ‘hands’ for marketing.
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Sometimes it's of the crazed stalker variety.
The Sun
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Stop harvesting when leafstalks begin to appear slender and remove any blossom stalks.
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Fields of sugar-canes soon required the construction of a mill to crush the sacchariferous stalks destined to be used hereafter in the manufacture of molasses, tafia, and rum.
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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In the hardcover category: Dan Dos Santos is up for his cover for Mike Resnick's Stalking the Vampire (wonderful design by Nicole Sommer-Lecht).
2009 Chesley Award Nominations
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He seemed to follow her like an owl stalking its prey, waiting for the right moment to strike.
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The Nazi stalked off, defeated in his quest for cheese-flavored cracker supremity.
Unclebob Diary Entry
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When fear stalks, riskier assets suffer the most.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, a mentally unhinged former lover is stalking her, and the serial killer has struck again.
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To cook asparagus, remove the woody ends first and peel part way up if the stalks are tough, then place in a skillet where the stalks can lie flat.
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Place the ham hock in a saucepan with the onion, carrot, celery and parsley stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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It looks like linzloo has her first stalker troll. linz, I think WillPitt the Lesser has a little crush on you … becareful though.
Think Progress » Rush Lies Again: ‘There Were Union Workers’ At Non-Union Mine Explosion
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Weeds mimic plants, viruses trick the immune system, birds build nests and predators stalk - all engaging in strategies so successful that they look, but cannot possibly be, intentional.
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Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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An old Indian merchant, or some such thing, seemed to me a better character — the Spaniard did nothing but stalk about and twangle his guitar, for the amusement of my Lady Binks, as I think.”
Saint Ronan's Well
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Because of the linear disposition of the speaker array along a usual pedestrian path, the glitches stalk the person during the whole phase of mobile communication initiation.
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Idealistic your German soldier Hans Vollmer joins the front on the eve of the invasion of Russia, unaware that darked things than the enemy stalk the battlefields.
Archive 2008-01-01
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And he called for anyone who believes they may have been stalked or followed in the Sharrow area, which is popular among students, to get in touch.
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Strip rosemary from stalk and chop to dust - very quick using a mezzaluna.
Times, Sunday Times
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At length these streets becoming more straggling yet, dwindled and dwindled away, until there were only small garden patches bordering the road, with many a summer house innocent of paint and built of old timber or some fragments of a boat, green as the tough cabbage – stalks that grew about it, and grottoed at the seams with toad – stools and tight – sticking snails.
The Old Curiosity Shop
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During sepsis, we are learning that immune-endocrine crosstalk is not an epiphenomenon but is critical to the organism's capacity to cope with severe stress.
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canaliculate leafstalks of certain plants
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A male with young in the nest will avidly take care of a stalk of celery or a head of lettuce daily.
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Stalk borer larvae injure corn plants in June and early July.
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Spider crabs stalked the seabed; wrasse, blennies, shannies and rockling darted over the reefs, and pollack wheeled overhead.
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Take flower-de-luces, stalk, blossom, root, together; then decoct them over a slack fire; and with the liquid bathe your eyes several times a day; you will most certainly be cured of that weakness; but see that you purge first, and then go forward with the lotion.
The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
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For instance, broomcorn stalks are used for paper in France.
11. Sorghum: Fuel and Utility Types
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In the shallows were many yellow egrets, while a _sarus_ crane stalked solemnly along the far bank, and everywhere bird-life, rare elsewhere in the State, abounded.
The Jungle Girl
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Death seemed to stalk her soul and she cringed in fear of it but that served as a powerful form of motivation.
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She says it's based on a real stalker who pursued her in much the same way.
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In order to get a good grip on the shoot, the leaves were bent upwards and the leaf stalks gripped.
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Cut the chillies into pieces and add them to the blender or processor with the onion, garlic, ginger and bottom halves of the lemongrass stalks.
The Sun
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Cumbrian gamekeepers and stalkers have embraced Government plans to scrap archaic laws stopping the sale of game all year round.
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The pauciflorous capitulum consists of outer female florets with short ligules, inner hermaphrodite florets without a pappus, and five outer involucral bracts, up to 2 cm long, possessing long-stalked glandular hairs.
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Remove the stalks from the cherries before you eat them.
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Yeah, I named him Seymour, and then proceeded to behead him (the flowering stem is inedible, and saps the nutrients from the rest of the plant ... it had to be done!) and kidnap some of the "offspring" (read: stalks) to make these muffins!
What Seymour Made!
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Peel and discard rough outside husks of lemongrass stalks, then thinly slice cores that remain.
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Often grown for use as a green manure (about 12 tons per hectare), its stalks are sources of fiber and fuel, and the seeds yield a galactomannan gum that can be used for sizing and stabilizing purposes.
Chapter 10
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Expands the definition of "cyberstalking" to include various acts, such as the creation of an Internet site that lasts at least 24 hours and harasses or threatens someone.
The State Journal-Register Home RSS
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Then he lifted its head, wheeled it about by the ammonite, spirograph shells of its horns till its eyes, on stalks, looked back at its bones.
Archive 2009-02-01
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The simplicity of a ribbon-tied bunch of long stalk flowers is absolutely alluring.
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They are neatly arranged in tufts on a short footstalk, which becomes surrounded with young growths, all as clear in their markings as the parent plant, so that a well grown specimen of three years or even less becomes a beautiful object, whether it is on rockwork or in a cold frame.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Flowers 3½ inches across, produced from the end of July to the end of September, bright golden yellow; leaves large, ovate, tapering from the middle to both ends; stalk leaves sessile and nearly connate, that is, clasping the stalk by their opposite base.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885
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You never know when some nut is going to come out of the woodwork and claim you stole her idea, you're stalking George Clooney and you are drunk and disorderly on the balcony late at night...oh wait...those last two things..never mind.
If I hold you harmless, will you hold it against me?
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Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away.
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The former, who showed no mercy to those who were physically less endowed than them, sowed the seeds of injustice and naked brutishness that stalk the country today.
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Shred then chop the sage and pull the leaves off the thyme stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, rinse the drained chickpeas and stir into the soup with the bay leaf and the parsley stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Test for cyanotic bruising when dried - MOST mushrooms (not all!) which contain psilocybin will generally have a grey-blue bruising on the stalk and cap.
Magic mushrooms | My[confined]Space
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Never put anything on Facebook that you would not want your boss, your creepy stalky ex-lover, or your young students/clients to find out.
Why I'm deleting my Facebook account
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Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches.
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Tannia plants can reach a height of about 2 m and have a short erect stem and large, long-stalked sagittate or hastate leaves, which differ from those of Colocasia in that the leaf stalk joins the blade at the margin between the lobes
Chapter 31
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Aldo – You mean you can hold a pair of binoculars and masturbate while stalking Mary, you sick bastard! amit. nandu Says:
Checker Shadow Illusion
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Radical leaves nine inches long, four inches wide, oval-hastate or halberd-shaped, growing on long footstalks.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Comment on “The lovely stalk-eyed fly”.
The Panda's Thumb: March 2007 Archives
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The lower part of the stalks can be used in a soup, pasta or risotto, after peeling away remaining fibrous threads.
Times, Sunday Times
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a scapose stalk
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When the game was over, Drew stalked off, muttering obscenities under his breath.
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Finding the evolutionary origin of hominids is a little like stalking big game.
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They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite.
The Sun
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One flash of my strobe spooks it and I'm back to stalking.
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Place stalk side down on a grill pan and brush with oil.
Times, Sunday Times
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A pair of wide-set eyes (on stalks) is the most attractive trait in stalk-eyed flies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Put the mushrooms to one side and chop the stalks.
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He has now acquired a celebrity stalker.
Times, Sunday Times
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A couple of weeks before the dramatic colours of autumn begin to appear, a layer of cells starts to grow where the leaf stalk joins the branch.
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Wash the strawberries remove the stalks and hull, then cut them into pieces and place in bowls.
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There is a shield layer between the two wafers of the switch to further isolate and prevent crosstalk between the left and right channels.
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The leafstalk would stand up and everything would restore to the original appearance.
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Does flying from Scotland to America to get a book signed constitue stalking?
Reader Interview: Sayuri
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In general, some stalkers tend to be seen as less threatening and less dangerous than others.
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Pick the leaves off the parsley and mint stalks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cut the broccoli into bite-size florets and chop the stalk.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's an atmospheric work - the camera creeps like a stalker through subterranean tunnels.
Times, Sunday Times
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They take up residence at the Pavilion Theatre for the annual pantomime of silly jokes and bad wigs in an all new, up-to-date production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
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From the centre of this footstalk rises a bundle of filaments that encircle the style, stamens springing also from the insertion of the leaves of the corolla, lining it with delicate beauty and waving their slender forms with exquisite grace.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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The newest additions to the line, the ShortTrac and LongTrac Stalker models, feature composite stocks and forearms in matte-black finish and European styling.
Rifle Roundup: 27 New Guns for 2006
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The leaves stand on long footstalks and are glabrous above and downy white beneath.
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In fact, it is the lipid tilt degree of freedom that allows a fusion stalk to exist without the formation of a void region inside.
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her ex-boyfriend stalked her
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These buds are themselves developing beside the leaf stalk on the shoots as they grow in spring.
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Due to elimination of affect of water and sugar, non-sugar dry basis could also reflect the change of sugar even sugar of sweet sorghum stalks had a large loss.
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The leaves are triternate, divisions deeply cut and acute; the leaves of the involucrum are stalked, trifid, and deeply cut.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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This greatly minimizes crosstalk among signals and helps to balance the effective impedance of each line at high frequencies.
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You see, to maximize the stalk size they're grown either in trenches or with soil mounded around each plant.
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I got my husband to set up a few rat traps under my tomato plants and corn stalks.
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The flower stalks do coil suggestively like serpents.
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He was wearing a deerstalker hat with flaps to cover the ears.
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I know that he's the kind of tubby one that's, you know -- (CROSSTALK)
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
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Dactyloscopids derive their common name, sand stargazers, from their eyes, which protrude from the tops of their heads, sometimes on stalks.
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They are rather sinister creatures that like to stalk their prey as it dies a slow, lingering death from septicaemia caused by their vicious bite.
The Sun
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The bizcacha has one very singular habit; namely, dragging every hard object to the mouth of its burrow: around each group of holes many bones of cattle, stones, thistle-stalks, hard lumps of earth, dry dung, etc., are collected into an irregular heap, which frequently amounts to as much as a wheelbarrow would contain.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The stalks controlling lights and windscreen wipers are to European standards, with lights to the left and wipers to the right.
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Hardneck garlic developes an impressive flowering stalk, called a scape, which can grow from 24 to 48 inches in height.
Garlic Scapes
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He wore his deerstalker, and a dirty, dun mackintosh, and a bedraggled tie with stripes.
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Corn crown and root decay can weaken stalks and complicate harvest.
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He plucked a stalk of dried finocchio and chewed it ruminatively, Huck Finn style.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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_Gabi_ (_Caladium_) is another kind of esculent root, palatable to the natives, similar to the turnip, and throws up stalks from 1 to 3 feet high, at the end of which is an almost round leaf, dark green, from 3 to 5 inches diameter at maturity.
The Philippine Islands
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In addition to use of the stalks as sources of fiber and fuel, the seeds yield a galactomannan gum that can be used for sizing and stabilizing applications, and a seed meal that can be used for poultry and cattle feed.
Chapter 6
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But, as former judge Lord Scarman said a quarter of a century ago, it is when fear is stalking the land that bills of rights are needed most.
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Even though he's creepy and stalkerish and freaky I have a soft spot for him.