How To Use Ullr In A Sentence
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Spanish matador Oliva Soto stares at a bull during a bullfight during the San Fermin festival at Pamplona's bullring in northern Spain on July 9, 2010.
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Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green.
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Early reviews invoking the album's ‘Southwestern’ influences should be forgiven; surely they meant southwestern Spain, home to the Andalucia province and its many bullrings.
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One might add that there are other archetypal instruments, such as the West Country bullroarer known as the humbuz, that deserve to be studied by the student of dialect and folklore as well as by the musicologist.
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With Schumann, Ullrich and the equestrian dressage team, the Germans had their best day of the Games with three gold medals to lift spirits deflated by a below-par Olympics so far.
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Summer times us went bar headed, but Unker Ned made bullrush hats for us to wear in winter.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
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I remember when the only good fighter was the machine gun tripper. now he can use bullrush, disarm, even grapple effectively and is usually pretty damned good at defending against those same type of attacks.
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To open the package, the consumer unscrews the easy-to-open plastic overcap, removes the inner plastic seal by pulling the pullring, and can reseal the bottle with the overcap.
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Joseph Campbell told me a story also recently recounted by Davidson Loehr about the Australian tribe that used the bullroarer to keep people in awe of the gods.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Another traditional instrument still used in ritual and ceremonial events is the bullroarer, a thin piece of wood suspended from a string and swung in a circle.
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I particularly like the duckling firing the air-powered frog into the air, and the bullrush spindles on the landing.
Snuggle Down
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Their bullroarers, or sacred "tunduns," are of two types, the "grandfather" or "man tundun," distinguished by its deep tone, and the "woman tundun," which, being smaller, gives forth a weaker, shriller note.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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They were the Picadors, the pariahs of the bullring.
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Forty thousand bulls are slaughtered in Spanish bullrings every year in the most horrific of ways.
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One week later, the youngster was jolted into a new world of mountains, crowded markets, bullrings, and spectacle.
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Spanish matador Daniel Luque is seen after killing a bull during a bullfight in The Maestranza bullring in Seville .
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But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him.
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The Englishwomen never appeared to exchange any words yesterday, but the frost between them made the NIA seem closer to Turin than the Bullring.
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The course ends in a bullring where the toros were to face matadors in the afternoon.
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Tickets are available from street sellers for €25, though we bought two for €30 from one of the many vendors outside the bullring about ten minutes before the bullfight.
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At the end of the ritual one of the masked men dipped the bullroarer in the boy's blood and thrust it in his face, simultaneously removing his mask so the boy could see it's not a god at all - it's just one of the old guys.
A Time for Heresy
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Bullfighting as we know it today, started in the village squares, and became formalised, with the building of the bullring in Ronda in the late 18th century.
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To make up for their brutal deaths in the bullrings of Spain, the "toros bravos" are given free rein during their lives to roam vast acres of the red-earthed land, a practice that encourages wolves, lynx and other wildlife to flourish by keeping humans away.
Cycling Spain's ancient Via de la Plata
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Younger children would play ‘bullrush’, make shanghais and stilts and go bird nesting or exploring.
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The monochrome mass of braid and band, oak leaf cluster and iron cross seethed like the bullring of the Bourse.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Two years earlier he had made his debut in the bullring as a rejoneador, a bullfighter on horseback who carries a lance to kill the bull.
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The Spanish national sport of bullfighting originated in Andalusia, where Spain's oldest bullrings are located (in Seville and Ronda).
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In Ronda's famous Pedro Romero bullring he fought three-year-old bulls for the first time and in Nîmes in France he faced a four-year-old bull and qualified as a bullfighter.
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The bullroarer is a long flat board with notches, or slits, at one end, and a rope at the other.
Archive 2006-03-01
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Joseph Campbell told me a story (also recently recounted by Davidson Loehr) about the Australian tribe that used the bullroarer to keep people in awe of the gods.
A Time for Heresy
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Shadow health minister Kay Ullrich said her mailbag is full of letters from people who say their elderly relatives are unable to eat in hospital because there is nobody to help feed them.
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Four years later, in the large bullring at the town of Puerto de Santa María, near Cádiz, he faced six bulls in a bullfight fought in honour of women.
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Poised on a bullrush tipsy with his weight: Nay, in his cage the lone canary sings, Feels the soft air, and spreads his idle wings.
The Story of My Life
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The monochrome mass of braid and band, oak leaf cluster and iron cross seethed like the bullring of the Bourse.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Their heroes fight, after preliminary parley which would do credit to the chivalry of the Hippodrome; and their lances invariably splinter as frush as the texture of the bullrush.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
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Four years later, in the large bullring at the town of Puerto de Santa María, near Cádiz, he faced six bulls in a bullfight fought in honour of women.
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Another traditional instrument still used in ritual and ceremonial events is the bullroarer, a thin piece of wood suspended from a string and swung in a circle.
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In the season there would be plenty of bullrushes in the dykes and ditches in the low-lying areas with a high rainfall.
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David Millar is forced to drop back for emergency repairs to his bike, while Jan Ullrich punctures his front tyre.
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 They decided to zip around the world using an abandoned Outback town as their headquarters and the bullroarer-spinning character find of 1988, Gateway, to teleport them where they needed to go!
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Worked in silk on silk, it depicts Moses in the bullrushes, a subject that Vanderpoel's research suggested had been worked at the school, but no example of which bad come to light.
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The buzzing sound rose like a din in some inner ear and I thought of the bullroarers of the Australian Aborigines.
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* Ullrich actually found the human homolog of the mouse neu gene.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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The armed man opens fire and Jayne decides to bullrush the two men and succeeds in knocking them to the floor.
GAMING NEWS: Captain Bob's Serenity! (13 January 2007)
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Moyle shows clapsticks appearing across the continent, bullroarers, pairs of boomerangs and rattles in specific regions, and the didjeridu in only the top areas of the continent.
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Among these are the integration of musical instruments such as bullroarer, pairs of boomerangs, clapping sticks, seed and shell rattles, and didjeridu into rock group lineups.
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Although there are still supporters of bullfighting, only the Monumental bullring now holds fights in the Catalan capital.
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On the way we discovered fossils buried on the bank, frightened the geese, met a dog called Ronnie, picked tall bullrushes and got thoroughly lost in the undergrowth trying to find the path.
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Like the matador in a bullring, the more the crowd cheers, the more he will entertain.
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This week we're looking at that moon-faced chap from dullrock non-band Keane, who got called a crackhead live on stage the other day.
Celebrity Haiku Competition: ‘Lesbian’ Katie Melua
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Now palmwood is chiefly used in the local context to manufacture bows and bullroarers, which are identity-conferring objects of male power.
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The monochrome mass of braid and band, oak leaf cluster and iron cross seethed like the bullring of the Bourse.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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So harsh was the discipline that it was known as the Bullring by soldiers.
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I think that kids that grow up in cities miss out on the fun of activities like cowtipping and bullrush fights.
Tipping : Bev Vincent
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Ullrich performed a two-wheeled sidestep around the pair and, as professional cycling ethics dictate, the entire lead group slowed while Armstrong and Mayo remounted.
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This bolsa was nothing but a bundle of tule, or bullrush, bound together with grass-ropes in the shape of a cigar, about ten feet long and about two feet through the butt.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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J. R. O. Ojo's study of drums and bullroarers, along with the occasional entries on drums and doors in exhibition catalogues and other texts, some of which are mentioned below, are the primary sources for Ogboni bas-relief work.
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Finito has spared many bulls throughout his career in bullrings such as Córdoba, where the admiring fans have made him feel the true pride of a true matador.
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The new Bullring has replaced the concrete monstrosities and monoliths which dominated the city.
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On the previous time trial, he had been outclassed by Ullrich and suddenly looked fallible.
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Penicillin, in fact, saved so many lives in its early days that statues of Alexander Fleming were erected at many bullrings around Spain.
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Shaped like a knife, a bullroarer makes a humming noise when it is swung.
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The old men knew they were lying when they maintained that the sound of the bullroarer was the voice of supernatural beings or that initiands were to be swallowed by monsters.
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A Spanish 'banderillero' reacts to a bull from Dolores Aguirre Ybarra ranch in the bullring during San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona northern Spain, Saturday July 10, 2010.
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That's what we Buddhists say: "It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring.
OFF THE CHART
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Ross et al. subdivided the overlying Ordovician Ibexian Series into four stages, the lowest of which is the Skullrockian Stage.
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A flaring sunset touches the trees with colours of flame and molten copper; reddens even the bullrushes and the ropes of ivy which drift, among their own reflections, in the river.
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He whittled away at a bullrush (we were sunning by the river, after a swim) and said, "Well, they have earth magic, if you can find a good one.
The Bull From The Sea
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Rong specialists watch over a small ‘thunder house’ where ritual paraphernalia - especially bullroarers and special stones, sometimes too the jawbones of now departed ritual experts - are kept on a rack over a ritual fireplace.
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At the end of the 19th century there were three bullrings in Barcelona, now there is just one left.
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Tickets prices vary considerably depending on the bullring, the bullfighters and the occasion.
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Tickets prices vary considerably depending on the bullring, the bullfighters and the occasion.
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Their sacred bullroarer is kept with other Tjuringas.
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But since bulls had to be driven through the streets to the bullring for the festival bullfights, it is thought that it developed as a competition between drovers to see who could do this the fastest.
Crisis Tames the Pamplona Bull Run
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He looked back, then surged ahead and sprinted up the 21 hairpin bends to the summit, claiming his first stage victory and beating Ullrich by a whopping 1 minute, 59 seconds.
USATODAY.com - Armstrong completes third straight win
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But it was a laboured effort, and Armstrong found the strength to respond, passing Ullrich and taking Basso with him.
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If they'd tried to use a bullroarer it would have been in a 3' radius, which would certainly have resulted in listener casualties, what with bouncing it off of both pillars and listeners.
Making Light: The new new TSA regulations
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This season is crucial for her, since she needs to succeed as a matador in first-class bullrings, as she has as a novillero.
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Ullrich powered past Armstrong on the climb, cutting the American's overall lead to just 15 seconds.
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Unlike the concrete and terrazzo buildings that were bulldozed, the new Bullring has a nice mix of inside and outside space.
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The event itself was staged in a bullring that gave more than a passing resemblance to the alien mother ship at the end of Close Encounters.
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It was some time since any central men's houses had been built there, so it happened that these bachelor quarters also housed men's ritual paraphernalia such as secret gourd instruments, bullroarers, drums, and dance ornaments.
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He leapt into a bullring at the age of nine and began his professional career at the age of twelve.
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At close quarters Julio Del Sol was less impressive than he had seemed while he was flirting his cape in the bullring.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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Voice of Oro," their god of vengeance, is produced by a bullroarer, which is actually worshipped as the god himself.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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They must never have faced a man on foot before they enter the bullring.
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Male novelists are often accused of writing unconvincing female characters, but this novel has to create a strong protagonist in Tara Mullray.
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Reed beds with rush, bullrush and clumps of mauve sea aster encroach on the narrow channel.
Country diary: Cornwall
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This does not include the subsidies given to individual bullrings by local and regional councils.