How To Use Wig In A Sentence

  • Could be that, or maybe she's a little wigged out working in an office full of blabbermouths.
  • They used dry twigs to start the fire.
  • She had wiggled through a tot-sized aperture in the alcove, and toddled over to a display of butterfly nets four feet away.
  • On a tree that is virtually bare, one can often see a solitary leaf still fluttering on a top twig. Times, Sunday Times
  • The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
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  • We're sitting in the middle of a gay pub, and - typically for a bunch of straight guys, I muse - they haven't twigged at all.
  • My son caught it by knocking it off the car with a twig, then coaxing it on to a piece of card, and then putting it in a jam jar.
  • Most women now wear their hair too short for traditional hairstyles, so they wear wigs to go with ritual dress.
  • A young twig is easier twisted than an old tree. 
  • Elroy is surprised to learn that the gardens are not fables but space stations that orbit the Earth and are run by a much-feared Lord, who seeks out Wiggles for taking the forbidden fruit - an apple, natch. 4/06 UPDATE: My New Year's Resolution
  • Manure worms (also called brandlings, red wigglers, or angleworms) and red worms live in organic debris and are the preferred types for commercial bait production and composting.
  • He tried wiggling the control stick but nothing happened.
  • Pins that are used to penetrate hairpieces or wigs are often referred to as T-pin or wig hair pins.
  • I managed to wiggle underneath them all, dislodging those on the very top by unbalancing the unsteady column.
  • “Hadn’t you better settle your wig?” says I, offering it to him on the tip of my cane, “and we’ll arrange time and place when you have put your jasey in order.” Novels by Eminent Hands
  • There are thousands of film festivals around the world, many as welcoming to the casual visitor as they are to movie industry bigwigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • He heard the sharp crack of a twig.
  • It's not just the flummery - the full-bottomed wigs, men walking backwards and so on - but the way this exercise in constitutional theatre is playing to the wrong audience.
  • Would you don the powdered wig, the tweed dress and the pearls? Times, Sunday Times
  • Danjuma, 36, of Wigan, denies five indecent assault charges.
  • Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
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  • ‘I want to go back to when things were so simple’ sings Weiss in a high-pitched hillbilly squeal on ‘Piggly Wiggly’.
  • Passed the bottle, Burnell also took an immense swig and suddenly began to snivel. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
  • The twigs and pebbles and little heaps of dirt were apparently his attempt to recreate the house in miniature. SACRAMENT
  • WOLVES ended a run of eight games without victory with a win over fellow strugglers Wigan. The Sun
  • At Ingolstadt, the branchlike ribs are disjunctively representational, carved with protruding nubs or twigs signaling their botanical nature.
  • An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
  • It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur.
  • In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog.
  • Long green catkins are appearing on the yellow twigs, with small green leaves on either side. Times, Sunday Times
  • They burrow into the rock and support shafts with branches and twigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then the wiglet, or transformation, was plastered over the front part, and Miss Blake's Sunday hat, which is of a very brisk character, with half a blue bird in it, was placed on top of everything. New Treasure Seekers
  • Or possibly sitting in the administrative court with a wig on my head. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ambiguous wording leaves some wiggle room for further negotiation.
  • Who doesn't love a wiggle dress? Times, Sunday Times
  • Wolves have three points from their opening three games after a midweek win at Wigan. The Sun
  • The bouquet contains naranja roses, tiger lilies, carnations, alstromeria, solidago, berries and a selection of greenery and twigs.
  • Still, you might have to wash your wig more often if you use a lot of spray or mousse on it.
  • The first step, that of the manufacture of phenyl arsinic acid, was carried out at Ludwigshafen in one of the existing azo dye sheds without any alteration of plant, just as a new azo dye might have been produced in the same shed. The riddle of the Rhine, chemical strategy in peace and war ...
  • In our own time such words as papoose, sachem, tepee, wigwam and wampum have begun to drop out of everyday use; 11 at an earlier period the language sloughed off ocelot, manitee, calumet, supawn, samp and quahaug, or began to degrade them to the estate of provincialisms. Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 2. Sources of Early Americanisms
  • If the church needs more priests," Ditewig said, "the church needs to find more ways to get more priests, not distort other ministries like the diaconate to fill that need. As Priests Decline, Deacons Step In
  • Rovers very nearly got themselves back into the game within seconds, when Finn ran on to Gary Twigg's flick-on to head towards goal, but Ryzhikov made a fine reaction save to keep his effort out from point-blank range. Shamrock Rovers 0-3 Rubin Kazan | Europa League Group A match report
  • In public, at least, Kirk, who lives close to the Wight memorial in Thirsk, is the soul of diplomacy, maintaining that the amateur route will eventually reap dividends.
  • It's a British thing... as I understand it, "chav" is kind of similar to the American word "wigger" and is often used to refer to middle-class white kids who wear trainers and track suits and listen to hip-hop music. Dave Smith Evolver gets handy upgrade
  • She had wigs prepared so as to limit her hair and make-up time. Times, Sunday Times
  • He followed this by sitting down and making a besom - a brush made from birch twigs.
  • He lit a cigarette and took a swig of the alcohol and grinned at me, a grin that was rapidly becoming a leer.
  • Another British rider, Bradley Wiggins finished ninth in the scratch race - his first competitive outing since winning three medals in Athens.
  • I stomped around and laughed while she wiggled, pranced and sang along to the music like all the other teenagers.
  • Subcylindrical forms such as Stachyodes and Amphipora have been called dendroid or twiglike, and aluacerids have been called subcylindrical, cylindrical, or columnar.
  • The wigged gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court.
  • Has it taken until now for these hard-nosed businessmen to finally twig they have been sold one pup after another? The Sun
  • Dora is engaged to a pompous young bigwig of local fascist society, to the evident delight of her ambitious mother.
  • Me and Mr. Schwigshhnaps, the currier, sate behind in the rumbill; master aloan in the inside, as grand as a Turk, and rapt up in his fine fir-cloak. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
  • Elsewhere, another such ‘baby,’ this one with four tentacles, lies on its back, wiggling his creepy appendages at an individual wearing a cloak and a bizarre sculpturesque mound atop his head.
  • Magpies are also building their domed nests of long twigs in the trees, but have been finding it hard in the strong winds. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is, in the synagogue, in the mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, and a sublime side, which we adore. Les Miserables
  • And according to a costuming chap I once earwigged on, Martin Shaw rolls up his sleeves in every production because he believes his forearms to be particularly attractive. Spooky
  • _ Oh! 'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
  • She couldn't identify the tall tree but sunlit filtering down through the spiderwork of twigs and branches was wonderful. Time Scout
  • Then, every Republican Party bigwig, in an effort to explain away their own failings, or the failure of the policies they advocated, will say, "Oh, well, let's remember, it was a pretty weak field. The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Aug. 26, 2011
  • Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells in graceful wreaths all over it, tall white lilies, delicate ferns, and as many brilliant, picturesque plants as would consent to blossom there. Little Women
  • The first hazel catkins are beginning to turn yellow and swing loose on the twigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • The chimpanzee scratches away the thin covering and inserts the twig. Cultural Anthropology
  • A silver lame number with impossible décolletage, my "Carmella Soprano" fur, diamond bunny necklace, a wiglet straight out of Valley of the Dolls, and matching Birkenstocks. Susie Bright: The Catties: Susie's Red Carpet Awards
  • Eotyrannus lengi, a new coelurosaur from the Isle of Wight. Archive 2006-06-01
  • He first appeared in Wigtown in about 1943, after being invalided out of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, where he'd served as an officer on a sister ship of the Titanic.
  • Cold-pressing the fruit peel yields bigarade, the essential oil of the bitter orange; distilling the twigs gives you petitgrain; and the orange blossoms provide you with neroli. Orange Blossoms
  • He gave a mighty pull and - look there - wiggling on the end of his tweezers was my beautiful nerve ending.
  • The Chargers also landed wide receiver/kick returner Tim Dwight as part of their deal with the Falcons.
  • The English cottage has a rheumatic floor of beaten earth or tile; its rooms are few and small, and very dark; the water-supply is scanty and most inconvenient; its chimney smokes; mice and rats find secure refuge in the thatch; the masses of clinging vines make it damp and earwiggy; but what a lovely bit it is in the landscape! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
  • A variety show was staged at York Rugby League Club's Wigginton Road ground.
  • Symbolically, the sales and marketing departments are located in Ludwigsburg on the opposite side of Stuttgart from the production organization. Lean Thinking
  • This is Elvis Presley, wiggling his fanny for posterity.
  • Taking another swig of his beer, his eyes came to rest on a stumbling figure walking away from the warmth of the large fire.
  • They stretch her hair back and put on this terrible wig and strap her in to the battle garments of queenliness and she comes out and she's the embodiment of power. Fear And Clothing: Cintra Wilson's Fierce Fashion Prowess
  • I am sharing food and drink with gods, goddesses, and wights of the land, other spirits, and my spiritual and religious community.
  • Dressed in a simple loincloth, first the men shower with cold water, then clean their teeth with a small twig from the neem tree.
  • In 1959, the first hovercraft was launched on the Isle of Wight.
  • Significantly, the violators include some political bigwigs, powerful businessman and town planners.
  • Today he was wearing what I sort of called a unisex wig that sort of had remnants or reminders of a bit of Austin Powers, maybe when Austin Powers gets to be around 70 years old, sort of a pageboy blondish blond wig, that ` s how I would best describe it. CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007
  • That, I’ve long contended, is why it created wiggle-room in FISA. Matthew Yglesias » Requests We Can Believe In
  • Robyn blinked back unexpected tears and leant forward to place a log carefully on to the mound of hot red twigs.
  • I tried to get the money off him later, told him she'd changed her mind, but unfortunately he twigged and---" I laughed. GO!
  • I wiggled into the pantyhose, did a spit polish on the pumps, and slipped into those.
  • Some pairs breed very early and will soon be making a flimsy nest of twigs in the branches. Times, Sunday Times
  • A witty wigmaker adopted the sign of Absolom hanging to a tree, with King David lamenting at a distance, who was represented with a label issuing from his mouth, containing these words -- Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
  • She swigs her drinks and is off to blag her way into an exclusive club on the other side of town.
  • Another conspicuous commodity was bear grease, used to shape moustaches and wigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her crooked fingers drag across the skin stiff as twigs.
  • In the above situation it is quite appropriate to look the other way whilst earwigging and they will pretend you can't hear their conversation.
  • Hertwig considered that the following bones were originally formed by coalescence of teeth -- parasphenoid, vomer, palatine, pterygoid, the tooth-bearing part of the pre-maxillary, the maxillary, the dentary and certain bones of the hyo-mandibular skeleton of Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • Wigs, initially full-bottomed but neater as the 18th century wore on, were worn by officers, and soldiers had their hair pomaded, powdered, and drawn together at the back in a ‘club’ or queue.
  • The same people also seem to see it as an attack on twiglet, which it isnt either, at no point is any personally opinion passed on the merits of ‘The Saga’. Only TWILIGHT fans will REMEMBER ME says John! | Obsessed With Film
  • Viscount Bagwig, our excellent ambassador, paid her marked attention.
  • In 1952, Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president, defeating Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
  • When I saw it, around age 13ish, it wasn't long after I'd finally twigged that my parents had raised me as a boy for no reason other than their own misogyny. "I pledge to you all that you wish, the moon and the stars."
  • So enliven a gardener's world with a 1,000-count box of live red wiggler composting worms from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm. Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living
  • Don't buy a tree that is losing green needles, or has dry, brittle twigs or a sour, musty smell.
  • I do mean that in the nicest way, as part of what makes him so freaky is his adeptness at swinging, wiggling and falling from the poles he dances on. VIDEO: Silver Man Pole-Dances, Gender-Bends on America's Got Talent
  • —In autumn, with a great creaking and a snapping of twigs, they break away from trunks grown thick with bark and phloem, which become husks with jagged tips, or later often topple from sheer grief. 2009 June
  • Performers projected into a horn, and the vibrations were directly converted into the wiggles of a groove on the master disc.
  • Time for a spot of wig flipping while getting down and very dirty.
  • Clutch-y orlandosentinel. com - 25 hours ago orlandosentinel. com - A rather dapper-looking Dwight Howard - the ascot was a nice touch - started barking in the northstationsports. com - 3 days ago northstationsports. com - North Station Sports has been reporting on the BallHype - Top Sports News, Videos, and Blogs
  • On the other side of the debate is Ed Dwight, a long-term detractor. MLK Jr. memorial confronts controversy
  • For Christmas or New Year's, fortunes in the form of coins, cornel cherry twigs, or slips of paper are inserted in banitsa or bread.
  • Getting rid of judges' wigs and tights, and the flummery and confusion surrounding the Lord Chancellor's role, appeals to the party's modernising instincts.
  • Stems, twigs and driftwood embedded in the sand and mud were used to carbon-date the core sections.
  • Another is a close-up of a mud-encrusted hand reaching back toward a worker at the top of a precarious twig ladder.
  • The crowd of periwigged heads at the windows — the swearing chairmen round the steps (the blazoned and coronalled panels of whose vehicles denote the lofty rank of their owners), — the throng of embroidered beaux entering or departing, and rendering the air fragrant with the odors of pulvillio and pomander, proclaim the celebrated resort of Burlesques
  • If you don't get down to the market before 4.30 pm, you'll have missed your last chance to enjoy their spectacular spuds, caulis, carrots and broccoli, all grown on the family firm's own acres in Wigginton.
  • Real hair wigs are definitely the better option for people who need a wig because of hair loss.
  • He is a bigwig and has many contacts, as I discovered when I tried to get a lawyer later to contest his dismissal.
  • We collected dry twigs to start the fire.
  • Good Gascon whites are essential summer swiggers as their vibrant, citrussy, herby fruit goes well with or without food.
  • The company has been saying that its exposure to the economic downturn is minor, but despite all the impressive numbers there is very little wiggle room. Times, Sunday Times
  • Swigging something from plastic cups, they grew red-faced and raucous, hiccupping and screeching. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this diary, the heroine is more likely to spend her days loading cartloads of hay and selling cattle rather than counting calories and swigging Chardonnay.
  • The larval insects insert their proboscides into the bark of young shoots of certain lac-bearing trees, varieties of Ficus, draw out the sap for nutriment, and at once exude a resinous secretion which entirely covers their bodies and the twigs, often to the thickness of one-half inch. Handwork in Wood
  • Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
  • I wear a wig, draw on eyebrows and wear fake eyelashes. The Sun
  • Sellers translated his vocal mutability into a visual variety, applying wigs and fake noses, playing old men and women, and creating a new kind of stardom.
  • When she returned to the Isle of Wight to tell her parents that she would be leaving home and school to become a West End actress, they were unfazed.
  • When he saw the mess the pig had made, he dropped the pail and snatched his bulbous bagwig from his head, dashing it to the boards and cursing.
  • Of course, if nature has not been kind, a wig, dyeing or maybe even a snip here or there could help you to look more like your favourite character.
  • But our champagne coupes runnethed over when the taut-bodied café-crème-skinned new Josephine Baker, a.k.a. Brian Scott Bagley, leapt onto and around the stage in his J.B. wig and skirt made of a string of artificial bananas, as Ms. Baker once had in her famous Danse Sauvage. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
  • I believe the first use of pubic wigs was in ancient Egypt as the only cure that they had at the time for crabs.
  • Ancient French tragedy, red-heeled, patched, and be-periwigged, lies in the grave; and it is only the ghost of it that we see, which the fair Jewess has raised. The Paris Sketch Book
  • Council bigwigs have hit back at suggestions a town centre road could be the ‘worst in Britain’ for parking.
  • Many corporate bigwigs and sports personalities were seen teeing off at the Karnataka Golf Association here.
  • Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
  • The _baxa_ was a coarse sandal made of twigs, used by philosophers and comic actors; the _calcæus_ was a shoe that covered the foot, though the toes were often exposed; and the _cothurnus_, a laced boot worn by horsemen, hunters, men of authority, and tragic actors, and it left the toes likewise exposed. The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
  • In Wales this problem is solved by the Dinorwig hydroelectric power station, which pumps water up to a high reservoir during off-peak periods.
  • In other words, when the men get tired of the women spending long hours agonising over jewellery, they can just step next door for a swig.
  • Britain's top judges and barristers traditionally wear wigs in their court appearances.
  • Marco Repola for the Wall Street Journal A cosplayer dressed up as the Vocaloid Kagamine Len gets help from a friend in getting his wig just right. Cosplayers Crowd Ani-Com
  • Like most writers, Dewar is a good listener, earwigging on other's conversations.
  • Not everyone was wholly approving of Wigg's activities in relation to Profumo - and indeed on many other matters.
  • And they are bursting with confidence for tomorrow's home match with Wigan. The Sun
  • It shows a gruff, bewigged figure holding a sheet of music. Times, Sunday Times
  • She wears a bright red wig and dresses entirely in polka dots, right down to her wheelchair. Times, Sunday Times
  • The property of the optical spectrum and imaging systems is analyzed based on the Wigner transformation and its property.
  • Following consecutive defeats away at Tottenham and Wigan Athletic, Arsene Wenger's gaze has shifted from having the title firmly in his sights to nervously peering over his shoulder at the chasing pack. Football.co.uk news feed
  • Broke and reduced to living with his nagging aunt, Jamal gets the bright idea to put on a wig and falsies and join the women's league.
  • For the thousands of women who use wigs to cover their baldness, the options can be deeply unsatisfying. Times, Sunday Times
  • Go on, get busy with those twigs and branches. Times, Sunday Times
  • In flower-beds, stake tall perennials such as delphiniums and hollyhocks by using canes for individual flower stems or by pushing twiggy prunings from shrubs and trees into or around the clump.
  • The candle now fell from his hand, and he attempted to pull off his wig; but it had been tied close on, to appear more natural, and his fright disabled him; he therefore flung himself upon the bed, and rolled the coverlid over his head. Camilla
  • I wore my black and pink pleated skirt, blue puffy sleeved top, brown waistcoat and a brown bob wig.
  • Molecules have a definite structure, but the electron bonds that hold the atoms together are not rigid: they jiggle and wiggle and twist and stretch.
  • Tries earnestly to out-extreme the original programming at HBO, but just ends up like the wigger trying to be cool in a room full of black people.
  • The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
  • Today, there were hourly buses between Buxton and Stockport, New Mills and Piccadilly, Barrow and Piccadilly, Southport, Wigan and Piccadilly.
  • Tasted without food, it's what I can only describe as twiggy - it's as if they have crushed the vines along with the grapes. Archive 2006-08-01
  • So he wore a white curly wig like a bunch of large dead worms. Times, Sunday Times
  • The shark will be back and if you can't pay, he'll break your creativity, morale, and good-mannered nature as virtue twigs.
  • She had a responsive face and wore make-up but no wig. Times, Sunday Times
  • Wig also found that, on top of the normal pressure of call center work, the atmosphere was very oppressive.
  • Methane gas - more dangerous than any terrorist by Aimee on Tuesday, Jan 9, 2007 at 5: 40: 00 AM skatole by nelswight on Tuesday, Jan 9, 2007 at 5: 28: 04 PM Terror Gas in NY?
  • Samaria and its king will float away like a twig on the surface of the waters.
  • The artist combines elegant lines, wiggles and pointillism to create an atmosphere of surreal spaces surrounding the character.
  • Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then Al Trautwig, commentating on the Tour de France, said "The greatest dishonor is to literally have the maillot jaune ripped from your body, which is what happened to Michael Rasmussen yesterday. When good kids show bad judgment
  • We present trial wavefunctions in few - electron quantum rings to describe the spin - dependent rotating Wigner molecule states.
  • He couldn't quite get it together on special teams and we found that for a man who is a little bit short, he did not have what we call the requisite bore - the ability to turn the corner - that both Dwight and Robert have. Colts.com Football News
  • As Jehl finished removing the air from the bulb, the Old Man called his glassblower, Ludwig Boehm, to fully seal off its base. The Orange Revolution
  • Regarding the myth that "corporativism" represented rule by corporations: "The programme of the Fascists, as drafted in 1919, was vehemently anti-capitalistic," wrote Ludwig von Mises. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Anne and Jane cringed by the doorway as they watched a frazzled looking, bewigged physician chase Katherine around the chamber with the offensive bowl and sharp instrument.
  • Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • Twigs and leaves flew to either side as they went deeper into the woods.
  • Or possibly sitting in the administrative court with a wig on my head. Times, Sunday Times
  • In yet another he is seen swigging from a bottle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was this a happy addiction, as the old warhorse dragged out the wig and heels? Times, Sunday Times
  • I almost blush when I think of myself as describing the eight several facets on two slender processes of the palate bone, or the seven little twigs that branch off from the minute tympanic nerve, and I wonder whether my excellent colleague feels in the same way when he pictures himself as giving the constitution of neurin, which as he and I know very well is that of the hydrate of trimethyle-oxethyle-ammonium, or the formula for the production of alloxan, which, though none but the Professors and older students can be expected to remember it, is C10 H4 N4 O6+ 2HO, NO5 = C8 H4 N2 Medical Essays, 1842-1882
  • The Rhinos are quoted at 11-10, Bradford are 5-2, St Helens 9-2 and Wigan at 6-1, while promoted Leigh are the 1,000-1 rank outsiders.
  • These wigwams were built of branches of trees placed in a circle, which are bound at the top by a kind of creeper called supple-jack. The Red True Story Book
  • Photographer Anthony Gibson was lucky enough to capture an attempt by this lynx to grab an American wigeon in Alaska's Denali National Park. Lynx Stalks an American Wigeon
  • At present the fruit is ripening on the twigs, and looks like small brown cherries. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the front of the mower is a rolling barrel with foot-long wiggly rubber fingers.
  • his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff
  • Birch twigs are thin and flexible, and have small buds. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Italians are wearing black robes with ornate gold braid on their shoulders; the British, horsehair wigs; the Dutch and French, simple, unadorned black robes.
  • Finally she tracked down Orwig, who oversees a multihospital program called Fertility Preservation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that offers services to men, women, boys and girls. Doctors aim to save fertility of kids with cancer
  • The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
  • In a pinch, they're finding that they can put together a pretty good Snooki kit with skin bronzer, furry pink slippers, and one of last year's unsold Amy Winehouse wigs, imitating the troubled singer's beehive do. Ghosts Aren't Nearly as Frightening as These Characters
  • He once sent a photograph of himself in a blonde wig and make-up to a superior officer. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'As I sat before the fire on my fir-twig seat, without walls above or around me, I remembered how far on every hand that wilderness stretched, before you came to cleared or cultivated fields, and wondered if any bear or moose was watching the light of my fire; for nature looked sternly upon me on account of the _murder of the moose_. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
  • The first time I saw a wiglet, I was with my mom in a beauty parlor in the 1970s. I Maded You a Widget But I Forgotted It - A Dress A Day
  • I can't wait for the crowd who plead for understanding of why certain populaces have brought terrorism on themselves to try and wiggle this one around 180 degrees.
  • She rolled her eyes and sat up, shaking the dirt and twigs from her soft fur.
  • Best to bend while ’tis a twig
  • The camera always pans round, showing the party 's bigwigs singing. Times, Sunday Times
  • The wind grew fiercer, sending leaves and twigs whirling around in the air.
  • Wildlife experts are worried about the number of squirrels killed by it on the Isle of Wight. The Sun
  • Criminal court judges will continue to wear wigs. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘It is really the ambrosia fungus that kills the tree, not the beetle,’ said Ludwig, who has launched a two-fold emergency program to deal with the threat.
  • Trial judge Mr Justice Moses, who had swapped his red robe and wig for a grey, woollen, calf-length coat and pinstripe suit, followed on.
  • It was the falseness of it that Franny and I noticed: the mannequin's chipped face, the obvious wig, and the stiff, unfleshly bust of the dummy — the fake bosom, the still chest, the rigid waist. The Hotel New Hampshire
  • Page 423 fumes or exhalations, from this bed of clay, may have a vivific nutritive quality, and be received by the fibres of the roots, or being condensed in the atmosphere by nocturnal chills, fall with dews upon the leaves and twigs of these plants, and there absorbed, become nutritive or exhilerating to them. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti

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