How To Use Wind In A Sentence
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Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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As the holiday movie season winds down, we thought we'd preview the films of 2003 to see which ones stand out and which should stand down.
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It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own.
Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
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If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex.
Goodnight Tweetheart
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Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
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The blame for this month's wet weather lies with the jet stream winds a few miles high.
Times, Sunday Times
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The language is out of condition: -- fat and fozy, thick-winded, purfled and plethoric.
Famous Reviews
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Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
Little Women
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The model nature of Windsor involved imitation, as of the Tudor style, to make a statement with a lot of leisure about it.
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Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
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And in a way I want to make my language as mimetic as possible, as sensual as possible, so that you can feel the treetops, taste the lamb chump chops, and hear the wind and the sound of the surf beating on the beach.
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The software is also a great customization solution for those who would like to alter the look and feel of the Finder, Dock and login window, making it easy to prebind and re-prebind their entire system or selected folders, run cron scripts, change startup mode and language, force empty trash, update "whatis," locate databases, and so on.
Softpedia News - Global
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Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography.
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Wind energy and solar power could be harnessed to heat the dwellings and provide enough energy for daily needs.
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A window slammed shut in the wind.
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That's when I noticed the little sticker on the window explaining the purpose of the ‘Child Safety Lock’.
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Instead, the thin sandy developments defining the sequence boundaries suggest sandy sabkhas and sand sheets supplied by this undersaturated wind system and only preserved as a consequence of renewed lake-level rise.
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The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
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In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
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Would you like an aisle seat or would you prefer to be by the window?
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The features in this home are just too many to mention such as coffered ceilings, multi-light windows, heavy door and window casings, and other elements that give this home great charm.
WN.com - Business News
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Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
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The Windows allows a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.
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By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
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The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired.
April 1st, 2007
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The invention concerns a cable drum having a non-cylindrical profile of its outer surface and the use of this cable drum in a window regulator system, particularly in a vehicle.
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There wasn't a puff of wind for most of an unseasonally cold day and the heavy overnight rain had softened both the fairways and greens to make them more receptive.
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A sudden gust of wind blew his sunshade inside out.
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It was mid autumn and the leaves were already starting to swirl around me as a harsher wind blew, creating almost a curtain of color each time the breeze came.
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She damped her cloth before cleaning the windows.
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Putting Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound is like putting a refinery in Yellowstone.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cape Wind Approved
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As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Most seeds are spread by the wind.
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South to south-west winds will reach 30-40 mph this morning with gusts of 50-70 mph in some coastal areas.
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Rich, warm string tone, sweet, elegant winds, and mellow, sonorous brass are the hallmarks of the ‘Saxony sound’.
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Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pathogens in Harm’s Way:
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Here, we take a whirlwind global tour of foods that can help keep us healthy.
The Sun
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The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
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An open casement window provides the painted studio's interior light.
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Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more.
1601
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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. Erma Bombeck
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As the pattering rain gradually came to a stop, a glimmer of light filtered through the window curtain.
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A delectable path, for example, runs up behind the cemetery, bordered by butterfly orchids and lithospermum and aristolochia and other plants worthy of better names; it winds aloft, under shady chestnuts, with views on either side.
Alone
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The servants disappeared as if they were whiffs of smoke blown away by the wind.
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Well, sir, I won't say anything about the hextry gas, though a poor widder and sevenpence hextry on the thousand, but I'm thinkin 'if you would give my Rosie a lesson once a week on that there pianner, it would be a kind of set-off, for you know, sir, the policeman tells me your winder is a landmark to' im on the foggiest nights.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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‘Sewing a squash ball into the back of their pyjamas or nightie might sound like a wind-up but it's effective because it stops people from sleeping on their back,’ he said.
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This is then stacked into windrows or movable racks under a roofed area, and the piles are periodically aerated.
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Cholesterol, Windaus "habilitated" as lecturer in 1903.
Adolf Windaus - Biography
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Crank baits trolled parallel to the shore or over sand flats in the DIRTY water where wind is blowing waves into the shore or shallows is good too regardless of the depth.
Whats a good bait to use for walleye? ive never caught one but we now have land at a lake that is stocked with some.
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He was asleep on the window, looking angelic as the moonlight shone in, making his skin a smooth pale lucid colour.
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The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
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One way is to make it easier for a user to default to your engine - by embedding a toolbar on his desktop, say, or putting a search box into his browser window.
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All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
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‘Tree surfing’ is euphoria-induced skylarking on a windy day.
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As luck would have it the winds had been howling onshore for almost a solid week.
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And sometimes those mistakes wind up back to back on a Sunday afternoon.
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If it's wind or bloating, you get too much.
The Sun
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As we got closer, a face so old and cragged with such deep wrinkles they looked like sun-baked crevasses formed by thousand of years of standing in the wind and rain.
Guanajuato restaurants
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I returned to my hotel to sit at the window and watch the grand son-et-lumière that night, the opening show of the south-west monsoon.
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Which is a long-winded way of saying that human nature will play a part in deliberations.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that time Swindon south Tories were against the development while the north Swindon Tories were for it.
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His bankruptcy or winding-up usually abrogates the agreement, and may restore to the bank its right to combine the accounts without notice.
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Slow the airplane to reduce impact forces; also, you'll likely encounter wind shear and strong downdrafts.
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The king said there was now a window of opportunity for peace.
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A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
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Windsor and colleagues have referred to these as service demands or wants or as perceived or felt needs.
An Introduction to Community Health
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Suzy Menkes noted in an article that the jewels the Duchess of Windsor gave Princess Michael included: ‘a gold sunburst suite set with pearls and a pair of emerald panther earrings.’
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The Zambia soccer squad winds up its camping in South Africa with a friendly game against Orlando Pirates in Johannesburg today.
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All of their windows carry a ten-year guarantee.
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It was the size of a monkey's fist and flew into the kitchen window with a thunk.
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In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits.
This week's new exhibitions
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a self-winding watch
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OOh gosh 20 whole cm women & children first, man the life boats, wind the winches & pump the bilges.
Cheeseburger Gothic » This is why the Playboy Mansion sits atop a very high hill.
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Walking on the road, the wind coming like a heat wave attacks.
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The temperature was -25, but much colder with the wind-chill.
Canada.com
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Several questions ran through our heads as we made our way past the numerous coffee shops and bundled up against the swirling winds the port city is known for.
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Four guylines are attached half way up the pole sleeve to storm-lash the tent - great for very high winds.
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It was really cold, with a sneaky, penetrating breeze to provide an extra wind-chill.
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He lays it down on the workbench and stands there, staring out the window.
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As if to presage that there is a new dawn in the world, with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, the strong winds coming from the Sub-Sahara have manifested themselves in the form of what Ghana typically knows as the harmattan season.
Accra by Day & Night
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It seemed to Jordan that he was going into another long-winded speech.
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A rain squall dimmed the ward, and he closed the two nearest windows.
THE OPEN DOOR
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When they get married, they build a small windowless hut that lacks any source of heating for warmth or cooking.
Cultural Anthropology
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And after rewinding the film and watching it without any adrenaline to threaten our objectivity, it became pretty clear that during this year of epic passing, San Francisco played one of the greatest defensive games in playoff history.
OK, Now That Was a Defense
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He won the summit in the thick of howling wind and driving snow, providentially stumbling upon
Trust
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Transverse ridges have a higher sand supply than barchans but also exist in unidirectional winds.
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All homes will have high ceilings and large windows.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pondus limi, inde aworden is flæsc pund fyres of thon read is blod and hat factus est caro; pondus ignis, inde rubeus est sanguis et calidus; pund saltes of thon sindon salto tehero pund deawes of thon pondus salis, inde sunt salsae lacrimae; pondus roris, unde aworden is swat pund blostmes of thon is fagung egena factus est sudor; pondus floris, inde est uarietas oculorum; pund wolcnes of thon is unstydfullnisse _vel_ unstatholfæstnisse pondus nubis, inde est instabilitas thohta mentium; pund windes of thon is oroth cald pund gefe of thon is pondus uenti, inde est anhela frigida: pondus gratiae, id est thoht monnes sensus hominis.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
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The guest bedroom with a deep, recessed window to the front also benefits from en suite facilities and a fitted wardrobe.
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She hears nothing but the breeze rustling the curtains of her bedroom window, and the angry blare of the television coming from her father's bedroom.
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A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
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For a week after the headlands of Tarifa and Spartel have sunk under the eastern horizon, the vessel is kept every day upon her course, -- her top-gallant and studding sails all distent with the wind blowing freely from over Biscay.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
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The flat roofs that leak need to be replaced, as do the heating system and the windows.
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The rear sights are dovetailed to allow for windage adjustments.
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There was a gang fight outside our window and a motorcycle rider was shot and killed.
Times, Sunday Times
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He could wind up in gaol.
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Uncle Fliakim Sheril, furbished up in a new crisp black suit, and with his spindleshanks trimly incased in the smoothest of black silk stockings, looking for all the world just like an alert and spirited black cricket, outdid himself on this occasion in singing _counter_, in that high, weird voice that he must have learned from the wintry winds that usually piped around the corners of the old house.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know
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It is more than a decade since a coach and her young prodigy stood on a windswept Sheffield running track and envisaged the future.
Times, Sunday Times
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If looking at the stand from the oval, you're faced with a visage of plate-glass windows that lends a futuristic look.
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In the Windhoek area, the generally calm weather of the past few days has been accompanied by clear, still nights.
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The prominent winds and brass, and unusual sonorities like the harsh Chinese cymbals that convey Hippolyt's disgust at Phaedra's advances, increase the piece's hard-edge quality.
Divided Inside, in Theme and Structure
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Then the wind began to get more gusty.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
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Paris doesn't feel that old, especially after all the time I spent in the compact, windy streets of the old City of Zurich.
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Every morning he would be up before sunrise raring to go, throwing clods of earth at the windows of staff to awaken them.
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Even at these speeds, engine noise was quiet, with only small amounts of road and wind noise.
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Some of you may get a windfall: property or a vehicle from parents or close relatives.
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Swindon Council may also serve a warning notice on riders causing a noise nuisance.
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Was there ever such a man?" said Mr. Mordacks to himself, as he rode back to Flamborough against the bitter wind, after "fettling" the affairs of the poor Carroways, as well as might be for the present.
Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
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Across the room, a pane of glass in the window cracked with a sharp pop.
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But up to sixty yards the lateral deflexion from wind is negligible; past this it may amount to three or four feet.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
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The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
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I moved back to the window and stared again at the muddled urban view where the new intermingled with the old.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Then they must rewind the video and run it again.
Muscle Management
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The apartment is big: tall, white walls; big, spacious windows; huge, airy rooms.
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And so they traveled north with the current and favorable winds of the season.
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The newspapers were spread out over the big worktable under the windows, heedless of the smudging printers ' ink.
DEATH IN FASHION
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In fact, David Hasselhoff is a man of such magnetic charisma that women literally throw themselves out of high-storey windows to attract his attention.
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The weather will be wet and windy in the south.
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The wind and rain intensified as they watched the deadly twisters move towards them.
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As soon as the door closed behind her I hurried to the dirty window in the front room and I watched as she walked down the street looking remarkably out of place in the drab surroundings in her bright green dress.
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The picture windows showcase vistas of the snow-covered mountains at their best.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sunlight glinted off the windows of a tall apartment building.
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I say this because in the mid distance is the Swinden Limestone Quarry, and they are removing one hill, and making another with the quarry tailings, and successfully grassing over the spoil and planting trees.
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Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.
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Wind energy simply cannot employ as many people as the coal industry currently does.
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At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm.
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In May it was burgled and the Victorian stained glass window was smashed.
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Some kind of creeper was even growing across the windowpane, trying to get into the house.
READY?
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- A small backpacker stove, fuel and cookpot (and spoon!) - Clothing suitable for wet, windy or cold weather
Parry thrust parry
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It may have been the biting cold wind that concentrated minds on my questions, but contrary to what opinion surveys are finding, almost nobody owned up to being a don't know or no-show.
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British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
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That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
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Somebody had bricked up all the doors and windows.
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Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below.
TREASON KEEP
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The fire flamed out when the wind blew again.
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His relegation of the winds to the class of breathings is analogic, but not homologic.
Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
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Kislev is a land of dark pine forests, snow-clad wilderness and wind-swept steppes.
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It was a breezy morning, the wind sending washboard ripples across the loch.
CHAMELEON
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We haven't verified that it works, and if you want to mess around with your Windows Registry, as it suggests, that's your own affair and nothing to do with us, squire.
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To demonstrate fidelity to the deceased family member, a band of wind and percussion instruments is often present to perform both traditional and popular music.
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There is no mid-season transfer window in rugby.
Times, Sunday Times
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The treaty usually took place in the dishevelled drawing-room, after a round of the widely parted chambers, where frowzy beds, covered with frowzy white counterpanes, stood on frowzy carpets or yet frowzier mattings, and dusty windows peered into purblind courts.
London Films
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A new furniture shop with a three-piece suite in uncut moquette in the window next to a cocktail cabinet shiny as toffee.
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The inequity of allowing windfall profits to be appropriated by private landholders can thus be demonstrated more clearly than in George's day.
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As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style.
The Genius
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Tickets for other Amalgamation matches should soon be available and it is hoped that more extensive advertising and a reduced number of contests at favoured venues will see a reverse in the dwindling attendances.
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The prevailing wind is from the southwest.
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Garden walls and fences may offer protection from cold, but the wind can push forward any shrubs growing against them.
Times, Sunday Times
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The view of snow-covered mountains through the picture windows is staggering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, among many of the tribes the sun is wakanda — not _the_ wakanda or _a_ wakanda, but simply wakanda; and among the same tribes the moon is wakanda, and so is thunder, lightning, the stars, the winds, the cedar, and various other things; even
The Siouan Indians
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A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm.
Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
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All the houses will have a traditional look with curved timber framed windows, decorative roof detail and over-door pediments.
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The wind carried the sickly smell of burnt flesh and the chemical smell of the fires.
Times, Sunday Times
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Windsor is open to visitors when the Royal Family is not in residence.
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Despite going to sea on a boat with no windows, no fantail, no helipad or even a hatch to allow in some tension-breaking fresh salt air, submariners are still sailors at heart.
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A grid of rhomboid forms, like windows in a high-rise, tilts and careens to the upper right of the 12-foot expanse of Lost Highway, as though rushing away.
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The Largo is done broadly and is less nostalgic than tragic; some suspect intonation from the wind choir reduces the music's power somewhat.
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Danlo listened to the wind rise and whoosh between the buildings.
The Broken God
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In the spirit of the colonial revival, they replaced the Victorian era mansard roof with a hip roof with dormers, removed the two-story service wing, replaced windows and doors, and restored or embellished interior woodwork.
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Kitesurfing involves riding a small board over water while gaining propulsion from the wind by means of a large kite.
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Your mail will probably be in the folder C: \Documents and Settings\your logon\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\ \Microsoft\Outlook Express, where your logon is your Windows user name, and a really long number is, well, you'll know it when you open the Identities folder.
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They can cause dust devils and whirlwinds, though these are nothing when compared to the immense dust storms that can occur.
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Herein resided the stem-winding, therapeutic logic of the year-long national "conversation on race"; the periodic presidential apologies for world-historic wrongs which were usually strategic evasions of actual legislative responsibility; and the fussy feel-good conferences on teen violence and the media.
The Feel Good Presidency
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He dragged himself up the walk, dimly noticing that the front window was covered with condensation.
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Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
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The only sign of life there today came from a mouldy old caravan, all steamy windows and grimed with neglect, where a radio was playing Sunday morning music of the popular kind.
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He recommends using paintable, siliconized acrylic caulk inside to seal areas where window trim meets the wall and frame.
Saving Energy on the Cheap
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As the light streams through the windows of the minivan and reflects off Joni's earrings, Joel remembers the way the late-afternoon sun used to glint on the river as he made his way back from class to his off-campus apartment…the way his heart used to pound whenever he caught a glimpse of his downstairs neighbor, a balalaika player named Clarisse.
The Search
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Perhaps the biggest problem on top was making signals to the engineers in the yard below to prevent overwinding of the hoisting engines.
The Great Bridge
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The burglar got into the house through the bedroom window.
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[From the window of a dry-cleaner's in San Francisco.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 4
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The flame was glorious - radiant with the colours of antique knighthood and the flashing gallantries of the past; but no substance fed it; flaring wildly, it tossed to and fro in the wind; it was suddenly put out.
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The latest additions to home collection includes bowls, boxes, picture frames, tealights and window ornaments.
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She hurried her hands to press the papers which were hiked up by a wind.
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Some postal workers specifically avoided the World Trade Centre because its upper floors were known to creak and sway in stiff winds.
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Stradbally had opened in whirlwind fashion and had two goals on the scoreboard as an expected rout began.
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She broke loose from his embrace and crossed to the window.
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They had managed to brave the strong winds and to make the short journey down Main Street on foot.
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After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind.
American Notes for General Circulation
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It overlooked an alley, and the bay windows were sun-blocked by the townhouse at 93.
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Rushwind activates his wrist-comm and tells them to prepare to beam them up.
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Peche was able to create this dreamworld by breaking up a wall with a row of narrow windows, by giving the illusion of height with columns and pilasters, and by blurring the borders of a room.
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If this was the UK, I would expect to be ushered to a table (probably grumbling inwardly about the empty tables I passed on the way), then, once seated, make a curt nod and "hullo" to my table mates before either engaging in quiet conversation with my companion or looking pensively out of the window, trying hard to look like I'm thinking of Very Important Things.
Amtrak adventures
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Kitesurfing evolved in the mid-1990s out of other extreme water sports, combining the most exciting elements of windsurfing and wakeboarding and taking them to vastly greater heights.
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He balanced precariously on the narrow window - ledge.
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All 44 diocesan bishops and 10 suffragans were asked to attend the meeting to discuss October's Windsor Report, a document produced to examine the crisis.
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In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability.
Jules Witcover: Obama's Sidekick Joe Biden: Understanding The Vice President
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The children would gather in a noisy clump at the rear window to shout encouragement and offer coaching tips to their pursuer.
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Dick Brewer had taken refuge behind a thirty-inch sawlog near the mill, just one hundred and forty steps from the window near which this fierce little fighting man was lying, wounded to death.
The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado
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We overbalanced and tumbled towards the window, smashing it and falling through.
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Our first semester is winding down, and all the pcvs are eagerly awaiting IST (In Service Training) in Gansu province at the end of January to meet up again!
Sichuan Province: Mianyang « Peace Corps: China
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He put a sheet of plastic over the broken window.
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Don't know what was wrong - the wind was swirly and the roads were in slippery condition, but the main problem was heavy legs.
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We have wind, this is heavy duty, serious blowy stuff.
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You could make a windfall profit - or you might suffer an exchange-rate loss if you encash those assets when the valuation currency is weak against your base currency.
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There were four curtained windows through which we could see that it was already dark outside, and a door that was slightly ajar.
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And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
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She had been gone about an hour, when the sky suddenly darkened, the wind rose and the thunder rolled in prelude to the storm.
The Hidden Hand
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It's an album that is as beautiful, harmonious and calm as a blue sky on a windless day.
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The difference in ride going upwind and downwind was enormous, demonstrating the need to assess weather conditions for an offshore trip with a boat full of potentially tired divers.
