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To give the feeling that someone is watching and guarding over your spooky home, make a dummy or scarecrow.
A team of Canadian scientists gave either an active drug, apomorphine, or a dummy drug to a group of six Parkinson's patients.
Mum wasn't wanting to supply such a thing naturally but she had been wondering how to wean Graham off his dummy which he still took a shine to.
Never dip your baby's dummy or teething ring into fruit syrups, honey, fruit juices or anything containing sugars, particularly at bedtime.
The patients were randomly assigned to either 200 mg daily of thalidomide or a dummy drug for a period of 24 weeks.
We control for unobserved heterogeneity across townships using a set of dummy variables representing the 15 townships in the county.
When he agrees to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge for a bet, it is only because a dummy will be substituted at the crucial moment.
West knew that there would be four hearts in the dummy, however, and was unimpressed by his holdings in the minor suits.
The men when gambling rarely spread out the shinplasters thrown on to the table, and the dummy was accepted in play.
I gave him another stare, did a bit of a dummy, and blasted the ball as hard as I could.
This was a fairly common feature in early computer games for personal computers, when most boss keys were used to show dummy DOS prompts.
South plays the winning King of Diamonds, ruffs a Diamond, and plays three rounds of Spades ending in the dummy.
A freakish ventriloquist dummy with the face and voice of a small child told us where to go.
Your friend's need for validation is somewhat odd and it's understandable that you do not relish being the ventriloquist's dummy.
But they obviously liked it, and Mark spits the dummy, says all the performances sucked, and storms off.
The most sinister of these is a ventriloquist dummy Joey found in an old abandoned house.
Of course I should have probably looked through the spy hole because staring me in the face was a ventriloquist's dummy.
To me, this is the sort of person who has taken about as much personal responsibility for mental development as a ventriloquist's dummy.
The narrative may be a ventriloquist's dummy's dream, or the dream of a woman dreaming she's a ventriloquist's dummy.
In it, you produce a wooden ventriloquist's dummy, carved to look a little bit like you.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A dummy Bell Vireo elicited both agonistic and epigamic behavior from nesting pairs, depending on the phase of the nesting cycle.
He walked over to Spud, lifted the dummy into position in the crook of his arm.
All I have to do is daub a little phosphorus on the dummy and it will be in shape to do the ghost dance.
The pyramid was then a dummy, made of rubble within a revetment of heavy flint nodules, which was faced with fine limestone.
And it means popping the individual into a mould, and dishing him up as a dummy.
They are serving the writs in ejectment and putting the dummy buyers in possession.
Stuff a retrieving dummy in your gamebag, let M-M out of his crate, and heel him to the field's edge.
He walked over to the dummy and touched the wooden head with his hand.
He ran a hand across his eyes, dropped the dummy onto the desk.
I suppose they were exercis ing and developing their racial sentimentalism by the means of that dummy.
I have suggested making a gutta-percha dummy to be the first arrival!
He said he did not keep two suits of the same kind in stock, but manufactured a second when it was needed to reclothe the dummy.
Tom said it would take him days to get so he wouldn't forget he was a deef and dummy sometimes, and speak out before he thought.
And because his face was not pale, but had that waxen bloom still upon it that belongs to a barber's dummy.
Hup pup where you wish, walk a good 20 yards away from him and toss a retrieving dummy a good distance away from pup, but don't be excessive.
Martin Patrick believed he was staring at a tailor's dummy as the London Midland train from Liverpool pulled into New Street station.
He thought her body was a tailor's dummy, but knew something was wrong because the dogs ran away from the scene.
They initially thought it was a tailor's dummy until they saw ink on a pair of human arms.
In practice they spend much of their time working on individual creative projects, which may involve designing on a Mac or tailor's dummy.
To the untrained eye, only the tailor's dummy opposite reveals the true purpose of this room.
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