How To Use Zig In A Sentence

Shellfire damaged the brickwork of the ziggurat at Ur, which was constructed in 2100 B.C.
No wonder, as Mr. Hamilton drily notes, that on the wall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus (where Mendelssohn played and conducted) was Seneca's apothegm: "Res severa est verum gaudium. What Music Has Lost
Half an hour later, Willie's nose zigzagged up a rise onto level patch of sun where, a hundred years ago, a house had stood.
For €848, per person sharing, fly from Dublin to Leipzig and stay three nights in four-star accommodation in the Dorint Hotel in Halle.
Then back to the city and its vivid smells, the wail of tzigane orchestras, the little dancer of the Orpheum - what was her name?

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Scrambling to her feet, she zigzagged away across the wasteland, through the grimy cans an(l hubcaps and other roadside jetsam. COMPULSION
This place of sepulture is the specially erected crypt, immediately below the altar, in the Church of St. John, Leipzig.
The conical upper section of the mountain is reached and the well-defined, rocky path zig-zags to the short summit ridge with its steep drop into the ben's north-east corrie.
Fresh Apples, who has been posting updates since the riots began, reports that the government posted guards at the CBS radio masts on Buziga Hill in Kampala: Global Voices in English » Uganda: Blogs, Twitter Keep World Informed as Kampala Riots Continue
The building exploits the drama of this interlocked matrix of mass and light as stepped ramps zigzag through the atrium, revealing the sheer concrete wall and the great tottering stack of galleries.
Chefs zigzag in formation over the cobbles, disappearing through a warren of doors with bread baskets and trays of millefeuille. Times, Sunday Times
So I sent for 55 black-and-white, zig-zag gumshields and that was the hoot, that was what got the youngsters interested.
Union soldiers completed digging a series of ditches that zigzagged forward and reached the abatis.
Ziggy Pawelzick, 67, who works in the gourmet meat section of a Toronto grocery store, called a harmonized tax a "ripoff. Undefined
Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
The labourers went quietly and steadily on with their work, as though it were a thing that had to be done; and when Jüchziger laid his hand on one and another of them, with the idea of hindering them by force, he soon found himself repulsed in no very gentle fashion. The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours. Zig Ziglar
Stepped pyramids known as ziggurats survive from the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia.
My advice to you is always move in a zigzag fashion and stay close to trees '. Times, Sunday Times
He zigged and zagged and she went with him, arm clenched tightly to his.
While Mortar was thus learnedly discoursing, Sel-quist herded his team over to a staircase, which was cut out of the rock wall and zig-zagged down the side of the cliff. The Doom Brigade
Shooting at them on the zigzag is iffy at best, but hard to resist. What is a snipe and how do you hunt them?
‘It does sound a bit tzigane [French for Roma Gypsies],’ Arbez concedes. ‘You don't know whether it's happy or unhappy.’
This view, modelled upon ancient ziggurats, is probably very similar to how it actually appeared.
He's been zigzagging across the continent for nearly 20 years, non-stop.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. Zig Ziglar
Fish it crosscurrent with a start-stop retrieve: It will hop and zigzag from seam to seam, something that gets trout, smallmouths, and walleyes to take notice. $7; 952-224-3649; www. salmo-usa.com SALMO TENO
We descended and scrambled and zigged and zagged and trudged ever on.
The city formerly called Danzig now calls itself Gdansk; the man formerly known as Cassius Clay now calls himself Muhammad Ali. Undefined
We scurried along walls and zig-zagged from floor to floor effortlessly, battering demonic beetles with nunchakus, all to the accompaniment of a sweeping symphonic score.
Our protection was speed and keeping a zig-zag course.
At length a peasant was found who suited our purpose; but he considered two florins per diem too little pay, so I was obliged to give an additional zwanziger. Visit to Iceland
He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.
Many Devonian species differ from Early Carboniferous species in having quadrate rather than cuneate brachials and in having straight-sided rather than zigzag arms.
The lightning zigzagged through the church yard.
He moved unpredictably like lightning, zigzagging towards Kitsumi in a crookedly random path.
“This man will carry you beyond Chradim for a _zwanziger_ a head,” said the landlord, pointing to the half-liveried fellow, who began gesticulating violently, and marking us off with his fingers as if we were so many sheep. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
Just beyond the bridge is a little park, too rocky to develop, that rises in the middle to a rounded granite ziggurat.
Most fantastic and, as it proved, most disastrous of all the follies of Versailles, was the creation of the free city of Danzig and what was called the Polish Corridor. The Shape of Things to Come
This refers to the zigzag bolt on his forehead, where his Voldemort-marked story began. News - chicagotribune.com
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems. Zig Ziglar
Ziggy 4 - yep, he's the fourth Ziggy-pup Meldrum has owned - made his fame by going completely berko when Dicky Knee appeared during the Molly's Melodrama segment. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
On October 19 Tranzschel summoned Leipzig forensic expert and craniologist Wilhelm His to the excavation site. CounterPunch
An apartment that sleeps four costs from €100 a night (zigzag. Times, Sunday Times
Each rod contains thousands of proteins that transform light into signals via a molecule that crosses the membrane in a sevenfold zigzag.
Trim away the excess fabric and lace and stitch along the outline again, covering the raw edges with zigzag stitch. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
A self-described "Missoni junkie," Mr. Jones lauded the family for their designs characterized by a "kaleidoscope of bold hues, zigzags, stripes, waves, flames, geometric patchworks and floral jacquards. Mary Hall: The Rodeo Walk of Style Welcomes Iman and Missoni
No city could absorb such a body-blow without showing the effects, and by 1937 Danzig was in severe financial difficulties.
It was as much climbing as marching, and, as Bill Gedge said, "all agin the collar;" but the men did not seem to mind, as they mounted higher and higher in the expectation of finding that the next turn of the zigzag was the top of the pass. Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills
During his residence he collected a plenitude of ethnographica for the ethnographical museums in Berlin, Leipzig, and Stuttgart.
Then it sped out and moved around the room, here and there, leaving a zigzag of smoke behind.
Even though it was against Danzig law, these people were all sent to the Reich, presumably to concentration camps.
We had to proceed at high speed and by zigzag.
Armeni Mechitaristici (Venice, 1819) NEUMANN, Essai d'une histoire de la Littérature arménienne (Leipzig, 1836); KALEMKIAR, Une esquisse de l'activité littéraire-typographique de la congrégation méchitariste The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
The improbability will be the greater, the more complicated the routes; and it will become impossibility, if the zigzags are infinitely complicated. Evolution créatrice. English
I join in, zigzagging forward, looking here, there, in search of a miracle. French Word-A-Day:
It is also the spot where a zigzag path leads down to the shore and wooden platforms that are full of sunbeds. Times, Sunday Times
Joining the disks are thin wire strands, painted yellow and orange, that zigzag across the front.
I had a 26-inch IC barrel for pheasant, and I provided entertainment for zig-zagging doves by wasting a few boxes in "antiaircraft fire", but the best I ever shot at the skeet range was 19 out of 25 with a borrowed Franchi O/U 20 gauge! Feathers vs Clay
The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for. Zig Ziglar
If you zig when they zag, it is possible to search acres of water without seeing a fish.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty- four hour days. Zig Ziglar
Standing by the end boards, he banked the puck off the net as Mike Grier cruised bym then skated to the left circle before backhanding a shot past Kolzig at 5: 22. USATODAY.com
Each rod contains thousands of proteins that transform light into signals via a molecule that crosses the membrane in a sevenfold zigzag.
A long handle beats you to death during the vertical jigging motion for the plastic, or the zigzag for the topwater.
During cross examination, which at times was heated, R.B. rejected defence suggestions he was "cajoled" by police to remember meeting Aziga in 2000 rather than 2001. Canada.com Top Stories
Danzig fielded questions on topics ranging from the possibility of exchanging unserviceable utility uniforms for infantrymen to the size of meal portions at the mess halls.
They zigzagged along until Estrella found herself in the familiar surroundings of the underground meeting hall.
Erratic Typhoon Lupit hovers near Philippines, keeps residents on edge Erratic typhoon keeps Philippines on edgeMANILA, Philippines - Living up to its name, Typhoon Lupit - meaning cruel in Filipino - zigzagged around the rain-soaked northern Philippines on Friday, keeping weary residents on edge and forecasters guessing about its next move. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar
On his death certificate it was officially recorded that the cause of death was hitziges Frieselfieber, or "heated miliary fever," referring to a rash that looks like millet seeds.
Having been among the oldest areas of resistance on behalf of Berber culture, Kabylia erupted several times in the past few decades to demand cultural autonomy, including its rights to Berber education in the Amazigh language. The Coming Revolution
The facing of it, or architrave, was often ornamented with the zig-zag, billet, and other mouldings.
Since reunification thousands of plattenbau, which means panel construction, have been demolished in Dresden, Magdeburg and Leipzig, while many more are unsellable and unrentable.
The body color for pale brown approaches the gray central, the back has the large-scale dun streak to juxtapose in on, because also around interlocks mutually presents the zigzag appearance.
Tschackert is correct in maintaining that, in the articles of justification and of the Church, "the fundamental thoughts of the Reformation doctrine were catholicized" by the Leipzig Interim. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
Famed Japanese acress Kyoko Kagawa, known for her work with some of the greatest Japanese directors in the "Golden Era" of Japanese film history, such as Ozu, Kurosowa and Miziguchi, was given the prestigious FIAF award this morning at the Tokyo International Film Festival. Karin Badt: Famed Japanese Actress Kyoko Kagawa Celebrated at the Tokyo International Film Festival
THE FIRST tower vomited a bubbling gout of glowing-hot lava from its chimneylike peak, lava that immediately began to ooze down the zigzagging channels carved into its sides. THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
In an investment career that started with oil back in the 1960s, Anschutz has usually zigged when others zagged.
) Finn's new crew are an even damper squib, a real Ziggy-by-numbers put-on. MUSIC FOR BOYS
DRS is Danzig's first new record in forever, and it's a thick, meaty, hammer-chorded motherf--er, surprisingly catchy, endlessly blastable. Mark Morford: The Top 10 Most Awesome Albums of 2010
Tender passages occurred here and there all the same, and Weinlich, to whom I had already shown the beginning of my work on my return to Leipzig, praised me for the clearness and good vocal quality of the introduction I had composed to the first act; this was an Adagio for a vocal septette, in which I had tried to express the reconciliation of the hostile families, together with the emotions of the wedded couple and the sinister passion of the secret lover. My Life — Volume 1
The Leaky Heaven Circus will be premiering their biggest endeavor thus far, Ziggurat!
In his introduction to this collection, a former Rolling Stone editor Paul Scanlon writes about how the young Thompson used to enter their San-Francisco-based office "with a bowlegged quickstep, making the zigzagging seriocomic, dramatic entrance," then plop down his leather rucksack while wordlessly removing the contents, which "usually included something edible, like a grapefruit, a carton of Dunhills, a large police flashlight, a bottle of Wild Turkey and a can of liquid Mace. Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
There, often with Susan Einzig as his partner, his nervous energy became concentrated, dervish-like, into a trance-like state.
The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era.
The mill, with its well-cultivated catacomb charm, factory building bleakness and fancy lofts, could be described as the home of the New Leipzig School if you want to think of it in home terms.
And actually, as they tried to drive straight up the scarp, they lost traction and had to actually start zigging and zagging to get up the scarp. Images Show A Shrinking Moon
Here trickle nozzles zigzag through the compost to distribute water evenly and prevent waterlogging. The Sun
Keflezighi acclimates his body through what's known as "fartlek" training, which involves a series of accelerations over the course of a run. A Runner and His…Entourage?
The casts were then cut open and used as templates; the assemblages of welded rods are three-dimensional sketches of individuals in zigzags of bright white metal.
Jet Stream is radically looping north and south zigzagging across the continent bringing actic air to zones that don't normally recieve it. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Even with the new snow, I could see a faint trail zigzagging up the ridge.
Regarding the execrable pact between Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, which shocked many former communist sympathizers into lives of anticommunism, Mr. Hobsbawm dismisses the "zig-zags and turns of Comintern and Soviet policy," specifically the "about-turn of 1939-41," which "need not detain us here. How a True Believer Keeps the Faith
It was recorded live in Leipzig to an ecstatic audience ; perhaps you had to be there. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond the woods the path zig-zags steeply uphill and enters a pass between the east slopes of Arkle and the south west slopes of Meall Horn.
She received the 2002 Book award at the Leipzig Book Fair, and the 2010 Thomas Mann award for her last novel, Stadt der Engel Oder the Overcoat of Doctor Freud City of Angels or the Overcoat of Doctor Freud, based on a period of research she undertook in Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Stasi revelations. Christa Wolf obituary
The motor gymkhana events, which are held under floodlights, are the ‘zig zag’ event where in you have to snake across a series of barriers as quickly as possible and clock the best time.
The composition of the figures is placed off-centre and the zigzagging lines of the cafe tables convey their situation in space.
~ Michael Murphy, as interviewed inZig Zag Zen: Buddhism and PsychedelicsChronicle Books, 2002 posted by clocke at # Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Sri Aurobindo, Aldous Huxley and Human Potentialities
The children ran in zigzags around the playground until they were exhausted.
Topping it all with fur, Dior has turned chinchilla and foxtail inside out and unlined with the aim of showing off their rough unfinished zigzag seams without a modicum of pretense.
Around 10% of sufferers say these feelings are accompanied by flashing lights or zigzag lines. Times, Sunday Times
[Footnote 12: Most of the gipsies here profess Islamism.] [Footnote 13: I presume Messrs. Boue and party.] [Footnote 14: The Austrian zwanziger goes here for only three piastres; in Servia it goes for five.] Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours. Zig Ziglar
Decoration is usually geometric and repetitive: lozenges, chevrons, and zigzags dominate.
The computer on the desk was an island of straight lines marooned in a zigzag sea of paper. THE LAST TEMPTATION
The company allowed for a zigzag rather than a linear route to the top.
But immediately, turning to Tamara, she passionately and rapidly began saying something in an agreed jargon, which presented a wild mixture out of the Hebrew, Tzigani and Roumanian tongues and the cant words of thieves and horse-thieves. Yama: the pit
There are two roads across the north of the mountainous interior: both are zigzaggy, but paved, and with several lookout points. Times, Sunday Times
In proceedings last year, Judge Kaplan wrote, "Donziger's own words raise substantial questions as to his possible criminal liability and amenability to professional discipline. The Season of the Political Sting
A zigzaggery, indeed, was this journey from Nîmes to my Pyrenean valley. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar
The set, by the sculptor Antony Gormley, consists of movable cuboid frames which the performers continually reconfigure, the resultant ziggurats sometimes uniting the group, sometimes fracturing it. Political Mother and Babel (words)
The narrow path zigzags up the cliff.
On uneven bars, first up Ziganshina could only score 8.20, after a mistake on the low bar and a fall on her dismount.
Oddball characters are propelled along zigzagging narrative channels, connections made with whimsical aplomb. Times, Sunday Times
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. Zig Ziglar
Lines of anger cut across her forehead - a zigzag of violent emotions.
Danzigers had good reason to be apprehensive about the Versailles Treaty arrangements, and they were not alone.
The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
A cure was effected in this case by tonics, temperance, regulation of the diet, etc. In Tome xv of the Commentaries of Leipzig there is an account of a man who always had his stercoral evacuations on Wednesdays, and who suffered no evil consequences from this abnormality. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Sew your seams the usual way, finish the raw edges with the serger or zigzag, press to one side, switch to top-stitching thread in the needle, and top-stitch the seams on the outside to resemble flat-felled seams.
Dispensing with his ‘prairie style’, he peppered the scheme with domes, spires and ziggurats.
This feature is preferable to a four-step buttonholer, which makes a buttonhole with a forward zigzag stitch, bar tack, reverse zigzag, and finishing tack. Look for these features when buying a sewing machine
Men could be taken across on a wire ropeway, but the heavy materials had to be transported by horses on a steep zig-zag track on the side of the canyon.
The city walls, grimly bastioned, ran in bold zigzags across the face of the steep in a way to daunt assailants. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
Billet moulding, a series of little rolls like a dotted line, and chevron, or zigzag moulding were widely used.
The night breeze is gently wafting through the linen curtains in the temple resting at the apex of the ziggurat. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
After the Second World War, van Dantzig changed topics and worked on probability and statistics.
Of course I zigged when I should of zagged and wound up 2 kilometres out of my way.
For very bulky sweater knits, serge-finish the raw edges, then seam with a narrow to medium zigzag stitch.
I once rented a scooter and zigzagged along most of San Miguel's streets to see the neighborhoods.
Each field should be divided into sections and one acre should be sampled within each section by taking 15-20 subsamples in a zigzag pattern.
They held their peavies across their bodies as balancing-poles, and zig-zagged ashore with a calmness and lack of haste that were in reality only an indication of the keenness with which they fore-estimated each chance. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day
I’m in the process of reading, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and its pretty clear that Germany did have the kernel of a very strong case for a communication link between the contiguous main part of Germany and the province of East Prussia that was cut off from Germany by the Polish Corridor around Gdansk or Danzig. Russia: Nazis Just Wanted To Build A Railway Through Poland « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
Endorsed by famed consultant Zig Ziglar, Drury instructs over 50,000 each year at live presentations and through video tapes.
But here there was no credit, and our good-natured Lübecker having doled out a fourth zwanziger on account, was scarcely surprised to see it pounced upon and totally appropriated by the host in liquidation of some ancient score. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
In dry, open woodlands, thickets, and roadsides, from August to October, we find the dainty White Wood Aster (_A. divaricatus_) -- _A. corymbosus_ of Gray -- its brittle zig-zag stem two feet high or less, branching at the top, and repeatedly forked where loose clusters of flower-heads spread in a broad, rather flat corymb. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
His own works, stimulated by the folk music of his native country, include fantasias, romances, and transcriptions, of which Zigeunerweisen, Jota aragonesa, and the four books of Spanish dances are still played.
They weave through the tangled branches of the forest, zigging and zagging, the goshawk right on the thrush's tail, like a shadow.
The highway then passed through two river valleys before again crossing the divide, which zigzags through the territory.
Females will fly to their nests in zigzags or semi-circles to avoid leading a predator directly to the nest.
If you actually look at the weathermaps you will see that the Jet Stream is radically looping north and south zigzagging across the continent bringing actic air to zones that don't normally recieve it. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
He was zigzagging through the impressive downtown area of Pittsburgh with its myriad tall buildings. Arcane Circle
Known Forms of Gonorrhoea_), Vienna and Leipzig, 1907, that the painful erections (chordee) which so commonly accompany gonorrhoea in adults, are very rare indeed in the case of gonorrhoea in children, and even in the case of older children are hardly ever observed. The Sexual Life of the Child
Back from summering in their Malibu palace, Mary and Vince Kickerillo joined the party along with Regina Rogers, Renee and Ben Danziger, Sybil Balasco, and Jerome and Nadine Moon of Who Made the Cake!
She excelled at music, and in August 1888 left Melbourne with her sister Lillian and her mother for Leipzig, Germany, where she studied piano at the conservatorium.
a franc should be different in weight and value from a shilling, and a zwanziger vary from both, is wanton loss of commercial power. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.
Zig zag a little oil over the top and bake for 15 minutes. Times, Sunday Times
The ornamental details and mouldings of this style generally partake of late Norman character; and the zig-zag and semicylindrical mouldings on the faces of arches appear to predominate, though other Norman mouldings are common; but we also frequently meet with specimens in the Semi-Norman style in which extreme plainness prevails, and the character is of that nature as to induce us to ascribe such buildings to rather an early period. The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
Geometric shapes, classical columns, shrines and sets of zigzagging stairs are combined with stylized landscape elements, such as rocks, a river, fields and mountains.
In 1997 he spent several months studying electrochemical behavior of some Rhenium complexes by cyclic voltammetric at the Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität of Leipzig (Germany). Contributor: Mario Rivero-Huguet
I chuckled lightly as one of the lower balloons disengaged itself from the pole and lazily drifted upward, zigging and zagging on the warmish breeze.
Maybe if he didn't use a sniper rifle at someone zigzaging towards him with a shotgun he would of got me instead of a shotgun to the face. Latest from PALGN
Bizarre bazaar: The classic and 21st-century head shop gear included a $500 sterling-silver, ruby-and-sapphire-studded belt buckle engraved with Jerry Garcia's image; tie-dyed Bill Blass Jeans-label smocks, $50; hemp wallets, $14; and packs of Zig-Zag rolling papers, $2. Expecting Rain
Today, tourists cruise the Singapore River in bumboats while water-skiers zig - zag down the Kallang.
Pennsylvania marks are a coarse incuse or zig-zag border that speak of handmade stamps, and are often large (onequarter inch or more).
At that moment triangular shadows will be cast down the 91 steps in a zigzag pattern. Times, Sunday Times
Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
This section is termed the zigzag tubule; it ends in a convoluted tube, which resembles the proximal convoluted tubule, and is called the distal convoluted tubule. XI. Splanchnology. 3b. The Urinary Organs
Hitler wanted Danzig, which was 95 percent German, and the Polish Corridor, to which the Poles were more attached. LewRockwell.com
My nine-year-old, Sam, is somewhere in that poncho, paddling a zig-zagging course between the vine-cloaked banks of the quiet waterway.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar
His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form.
You can cut the squares into shapes for appliqués and secure the edges with an open zigzag stitch, or cut the squares into pieces and seam them into patchwork designs.
As the speed increased, the zigzagging became more pronounced. Times, Sunday Times
Opposite the ziggurat of technology was a single unmade cot.
And in her front room every inch of wall space was plastered with album covers, clocks, pictures, newspaper cuttings and a large Ziggy Stardust mirror.
There, it is a sharply bent elbow or a protruding knee that becomes a kind of fulcrum and guide for radiating and zigzagging patterns of wrinkles and folds in the draperies.
The girls worked simple samplers in black cross-stitches with upper- and lowercase alphabets and numbers enclosed by a zigzag border.
The symphonium musical box, initially produced in Leipzig in the 1880s, anticipated the record player by using metal discs instead of the cylinder.
We had slept upon hay the previous night, but upon our arrival at Töplitz, which we entered in a cabriolet, three of us inside with five knapsacks, and other two companions hanging on behind, we boldly took up our abode at one of the first hotels, and were, the whole five of us, crammed into a little room on the top floor, and charged a zwanziger (eightpence) a head for the accommodation. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
I adopted a zig-zag pattern, defying her to predict my passage beneath her bough, gave her a wide berth once more and avoided her attack.
Cartons of bottled water for rescue workers rose in charitable ziggurats outside police stations and schools.
Barbed wire zigzagged in front of the small houses and large Alsatians snarled at strangers from behind steel fences.
Press down to seal, and trim with a zig-zag pasta cutter.
He's been zigzagging across the continent for nearly 20 years, non-stop.
Hubris Sonic just brought this to my attention: Richard Danzig is a fellow Bronx Science graduate. Be True To Your School | ATTACKERMAN
The path zigzagged through the now disused Caw Quarry, first past a stone hut and then past the opening of an old level.
The sighting happened at 2: 30 AM, and was announced by a local radio station claiming the object was zigzagging in the night sky.
D alated to commercial ice machines from fireroom practicably his leicestershire that the cuboidal fortunella is to centralised the zigadene and middling poultry flashily unoriginal. Rational Review
A few halls, including the old Gewandhaus in Leipzig, retained the older seating plan with the rows facing inwards towards a central aisle.
From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad. The Black Bag
Follow track zigzagging uphill, keeping wall on right. Times, Sunday Times
Frederick Wilhelm Basilus von Ramdohr, Über mahlerei und Bildhauerarbeit in Rom für Liebhaber des Schönen in der Kunst, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1787), 174 – 76. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
West Sacramento has a giant ziggurat on the river.
Die einzige, die den Zauber wieder rückgängig machen und den Pilzmenschen ihre Gestalten zurückgeben könnte, ist Prinzessin Fliegenpilz , die Tochter des Pilzmenschenkönigs. Super Mario Bros. on Vimeo
In the pre-dynastic period, it was Mesopotamia and its ziggurats that provided the model for the Egyptians.
For those who prefer their tropics oriental, there is the blistering, chili-steeped Thai Beef Salad, with its conflagrant viands sacrificed atop a ziggurat of mixed lettuce, peppers, and cucumber in rather too bitter peanut-lime dressing.
Furthermore, nearly any musician could perform the song ‘Ziggy Stardust,’ but even if it were note-perfect it would lack the authenticity lent by David Bowie's unique personality.
Serge or zigzag the raw edges with matching thread.
Stitch again within the seam allowances, or serge or zigzag the raw edges.
Big black clouds of gnats zigzagged above the water in an oddly beautiful insect ballet. Mercy Kill
There was Parrain, the Deputy Public Prosecutor, Dantziger the examining magistrate, and an old clerk of the court whose name Maigret could never remember, although he had met him hundreds of times. Maigret and the Bum
The lightning made a zigzag in the sky.
Instead of shaking a "mailed fist" at the world, young William of Hohenzollern might have been a mediatized princelet on the lookout for an American heiress; there might never have been a Leipzig or a Waterloo, as there certainly would not have been a Sedan, and the heirs of Napoleon might now have been ruling over an empire covering all Central Europe, from the Tiber to the Baltic. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
Jane whirled around and saw a disgustingly filthy man with a scar zigzagging down his cheek and an eye that sagged in its socket. Uprising
Die blauen Pillen, ich versichere Ihnen, Rechtsanwalt uber Scheidung geworden sind Gegenstand zahlreicher Studien, die Essenz von dem, was ist zhiteyskoy Banalitat: Ehemanner, die mehr als funfzig, mit der Unterstutzung Fleisch Viagra, beginnen sich zu andern Verlust des Interesses an Sex und die Handschellen zu suchen jungere Partner. Matthew Yglesias » What Might Have Been

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