If a rock collection sounds dusty and dull, you probably haven't toured the Funk Gem and Mineral Museum yet. |
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The place smelled musty and damp, even though it was at the end of a hot, dusty canyon. |
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Always wear a dust mask when you apply bonemeal, guano, or any other type of fertilizer that's dusty. |
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You walk in, and there are rows and rows of books on tall dusty bookshelves. |
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Mix in foliage plants such as dusty miller, ferns, liriope, or dwarf nandina. |
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Their names are recorded in small print on the backs of dusty album sleeves or frayed concert programs, as sidemen and women. |
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She sat in a very undignified position, with only the dusty ground on which to rest her bottom which condemned her to exceptional discomfort. |
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He navigated the boat onto the dusty sand and switched the noisy engine off. |
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Indeed, within the Tarantula complex many such dark and dusty clouds are seen in silhouette as they obscure bright nebulosity behind them. |
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A loud snore suddenly filled the room and Tomas leaped back and tripped over a dusty, plastic covered chair. |
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So many untold stories, so many surprising facts are hidden away in dusty towns and remote villages. |
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The same colours ran up the striated bark of the pine trees whose needles were beginning to acquire the sated, dusty green of summer. |
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All of the tables and chairs were covered in dusty old sheets and blankets. |
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The camera enters a living room with scraps of wallpaper clinging to old plaster and dusty unvarnished floorboards. |
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This carbonation results in dusty and weak surfaces and can occur when unvented heaters create high carbon dioxide environments. |
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I followed him down the dusty stairs while he closed the door snugly behind us. |
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Under the moon and stars, far from any city, with the horses neighing and music playing, the Americans and Mexicans danced in the dusty roadways. |
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Each footstep raised a small cloud of dusty ochre Virginia clay, turning the olive drab of my fatigues a rusty red. |
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With breakfast and the pale morning sun finally starting to warm our frozen bodies, we hit the dusty track once more. |
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I wandered down dirty streets, past vacant looking vagrants, and across a railway line. All was dark and dusty. |
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The floor was dusty and Carmen cringed at the sight of her dirty, torn nightgown. |
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On the dusty road in Peru, the clean-up consisted of some sweeping with brooms. |
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Desert spaceports and dusty workshops cluttered with rocket nozzles and airframes have sprung up across California and Canada. |
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His eyes were brown, speckled with gold, his hair a dusty brown, and his skin a deep tan. |
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It was a dusty and incredibly bumpy journey to Kabul, along roads whose tarmac had been destroyed by tank treads and missile attacks. |
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Can MP3 really send CDs to the same dusty bin as vinyl records and cassettes? |
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They sway slightly with the breeze and range in hue from cinnamon to dusty violet. |
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Spiral galaxies such as NGC 4414, a dusty spiral galaxy, form from fast spinning hydrogen gas. |
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There's something wrong with the dusty old ranch house, though, as strange sounds and spooky visions begin to haunt the crooks. |
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There was hardly enough light from the stage, where spotlights illuminated the still drawn, dusty curtains somewhat half-heartedly. |
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The poor quality amateur-looking footage showed two bodies lying spreadeagled in a dusty road next to what looked like a Land Rover. |
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And there, in the dusty noonday sun, the kids beheld a glittering pile of golden coins. |
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The man heaved as he piled the stack of six books onto Roy's already dusty lap. |
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The album and the artist slid into obscurity, forgotten by all but the few who stumbled across a copy in a dusty cellar. |
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On the low, dusty dry pitches, normally graveyards for seamers, he persevered in the stifling heat bowling off-cutters and holding up one end. |
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It was almost four in the afternoon when two oldsters faced off in the dusty tinku plaza, shuffling their feet almost shyly. |
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I got home safe, with a carful of dusty camping gear and a camera full of memories. |
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Other shops sold dusty rolls of fabric, my favourite being run by a one-armed tailor. |
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The floor is painted in whirls of dusty white, so we seem to be viewing a performance on ice. |
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The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter. |
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I'd be heartily sick of dusty decorations by then, so I've some understanding of the reason behind the withering glance. |
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The epicentre of Kerala's spice trade is the dusty straggle of rickety warehouses and open-fronted shops known as Jewtown. |
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Her skin was a dusty brown running to a straw yellow about the eyes and nose, around the startling red of her lips. |
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Like a flashbulb illuminating fog, light from the outburst of a star has revealed its dusty surroundings. |
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Giovanni Picchi's Toccata showed off the chamber organ beautifully, sounding more like a church organ in some dusty, out of the way Italian town. |
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The tasting room has a glorious view of shining Lake Mendocino, set off by the dusty chaparral all around. |
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The character from children's television is a sad Chaplinesque figure with a droopy walrus mustache and a dusty suit. |
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A few overstuffed chairs were laid against the walls, and several bookshelves held old, dusty volumes that Liq had probably never even opened. |
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Set in a dusty, sun-drenched Spain in the 1970 s, and interesting for that even if the acting weren't good as well. |
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The road was dusty, dry from the summer heat and churned by the passing of hooves and feet. |
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The smiths, resplendent in the full panoply of Tuareg costume, had organised a dance in a dusty street that backed onto the hotel kitchen. |
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Let's hope it also restores Sirk's dusty reputation and puts him in the pantheon of all-time great film-makers, where he belongs. |
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So like the ubiquitous beer can opener of old, looks like screw drivers and such might soon be headed for some dusty shelf in the Smithsonian. |
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After the prayers, Hamad Qadduri stood in his auto parts store, a dusty hovel off a muddy street. |
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The wind was swirling up leaf litter and the dusty snow together and they made a dry hissing sound. |
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Zatoichi is sitting by a dusty country road, his swordstick lying negligently next to him. |
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Their dusty browns, light tans and crimson reds were like a magnificent patchwork quilt covering the city. |
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A short distance from the coal mine, two rows of cramped houses face each other divided by a small dusty road. |
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His head pounded with each pace and his mouth felt dry and rough, like the dusty cobbles of the street. |
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There is a cobweb hanging from a long strand of grass by the dusty dirt road that leads us to our destination. |
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The place was dusty and filled with cobwebs as if it had been abandoned for years. |
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The place was very dusty and cobwebs hung like a massive veil over the shelves of aged books. |
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The only curtain on view had been woven by spiders, and their silky cobwebs obscured a stage of damp walls and dusty floors. |
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Yes, I know that archives exist, but archives are invariably dusty, filled with cobwebs and virtually uninhabited. |
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Sure enough, there it was, nestled in a corner along with a cluster of dusty cobwebs and long deceased spiders. |
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They emerged in the dusty, cobwebbed cellar full of old crates and barrels. |
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Does the creator of these twisted tales inhabit dank, cobwebby rooms with dusty velvet curtains and candles everywhere? |
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His grey polyester slacks have white diamond shape imprints from leaning against the dusty fence. |
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Rather, they are produced by bits of dusty debris shed by orbiting comets and asteroids. |
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His elbows brushed against the dusty surface of the desk as he inclined his head forward, awaiting her response. |
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Inside, there are dusty shelves stocked with classic felt fedoras and poor-boy caps against every wall. |
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He then turned away to pick a dusty old book off of his shelf and open it indolently. |
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This has caused a tremendous increase in the rate of soil erosion which then led to the soft, dusty and infertile land that you see now. |
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The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert. |
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For her part, Eliss found Ciaran dusty and hidebound, carrying as he did a clipboard, a stylus and a pair of pince-nez on a steel chain. |
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The film goes on to show a vast concourse of refugees, trudging along a dusty road, from Ferozpur into Pakistan. |
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Light was filtering in through the dusty windows, as impossible as it seemed. |
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Not many responders had a history of dusty work, such as experience in road and building construction and the cement industry. |
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But snobbery aside, could it be that a fashion for interrogatory esotericism does not stop with dusty academics? |
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The waves rolled towards the beach, as the dusty winds blew wild sands into the air. |
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They conjure up images of dusty old offices, arcane inventions and oddball inventors. |
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A special brush is supplied with the monitor to clean the ionizer as its gets dusty with use. |
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As the cars raced along the dusty streets another Iraqi police vehicle converged on the Nissan, forcing it to a halt. |
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This one will require thought, expertise, and flipping through dusty volumes. |
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This bubble protected us from the dusty cosmic debris that shoots through space beyond the Solar System. |
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The foundation was a dusty, difficult process with days of labor laying out the footings, then building forms for the concrete. |
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Paint covered everything except for the dusty green chalkboards at the front of the room. |
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Passive form oils usually do not leave a dusty layer on the form or the concrete. |
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It didn't sound like the creaky door, or even footsteps on the dusty floor. |
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The ceiling arched up to a height of thirty meters, and the entire room was a pale, dusty cream colour. |
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A dusty orange color, spotted with crunchy hazelnuts and translucent golden raisins, the bread was tender and moist with a very delicate crumb. |
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As the three of them walked, they saw old statues and buildings, broken, dusty and crumbling. |
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But crusty scholars in dusty rooms are not the only source of mathematical ideas. |
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Thankfully someone had the bright idea to water down the dusty potholed road between Laborie and Piaye. |
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If they're right they can pull their dusty prediction out of the archives and look prophetic. |
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He either locks himself inside that dusty old library, or remains in that putridly small studio of his. |
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We climbed a narrow staircase that led to a dusty office lit grayly by one narrow window. |
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Glazed cabinets retain the airiness of open shelving, without the hassle of dusty, greasy dishes lingering on an open shelf. |
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Their water pots are a sudden burst of colour against the dusty grey of the road. |
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The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as Jacob laboriously climbed off his mattress. |
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The lamp on Albert's desk glowed golden orange, dimly illuminating the dusty, disorderly office. |
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They grouped together at Half-London, a collection of little shops lined along a dusty road at the bottom of Tank Hill. |
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You turn up a bit grubby, with a dusty old backpack, and they look rather alarmed. |
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As they entered the guildhall, he saw the guild master standing over the altar and turning the pages of an old, dusty book very quickly. |
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Midland is of course a flat, once dusty Texas oil town closer to gushers than geysers. |
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My closets are full of rolls of dusty concert posters in foreign languages. |
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This script, dusty, dirty, covered with filth, is my most prized possession, my only companion. |
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The fireplace is dusty inside and covered with the webs of spiders that made their homes in its corners. |
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Off to the side of a dusty gravel road, a car plastered with election stickers begs the curious to stop. |
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It was very dusty, and was covered in wood shavings, giving it a feel and smell like a high school shop classroom. |
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As I glanced up a round, balding man was hurrying toward me, wiping his pale hands on a dusty apron. |
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On a return visit I noticed the spaces on the shelves had been refilled with more, equally dusty, bottles. |
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Inside the tent it was dusty, somehow the dust was coming through the nylon. |
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The video ends with a view of the stove, dusty and full of ashes, where the ballots will be burned. |
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The box room at home quickly became a sound library and every available inch was taken up with dusty old records. |
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The dusty road was covered with small rocks and it seemed to go straight up the side of the mountain. |
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There were two windows near the front door, and dusty, old blinds covered them so no light got in. |
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The dusty canvas that covered it was worn through in several places, leaving small holes in the fabric. |
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I flew thousands of miles from somewhere hot and dusty to cover a story in a place where there was pain, grief, death and fear. |
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Bagged cement is manufactured in a dusty environment and surface dust makes bags slippery. |
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I cleaned the glass coffee table, dusted all the dusty spots, and then scrubbed the stove. |
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Focusing on soft pastels, Smith also sent a compelling range of leather trousers in dusty pink and black down the catwalk. |
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Keep it loose and wispy over dusty coloured, patterned dresses and skirts, or soft worn-in jeans. |
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All of his clothes were colored to match the dusty hues of the sand on Malchishua. |
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Get close enough to see its pale and dusty blue bloom and you get a lovely whiff of the Mediterranean. |
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The blooms of this variety are dusty pink on the back of the petals and greenish on the inside with pale, dull yellow stamens. |
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I go back to the gate to eat my scone, which is a creepy dusty rose colour, and also just gross. |
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She wore a vest like corset that was a darker pink with ribbon that crisscrossed in front showing the dusty pink top. |
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Now the dusty beige surface of the mosque wall is nearly invisible under the black of death announcements. |
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The strips of clouds around the glow were a dusty pink, the sky above the still dotted with fading stars. |
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Light to medium shades of brunette would do well with mauve pinks or pinks that have a dusty or brown undertone. |
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She noticed that his skin was a pale, dusty white and his breath was shallow. |
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Her gown, once a dusty shade of pink, had been dirtied by the dust of the plunder and turned a faded brown. |
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He had a light complexion and dusty blonde hair that suggested he was from somewhere in Europe. |
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My crown is off to them but the movie is a little dusty and more than a little dull. |
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But with the right attitude, lectures do not have to be dusty, dull affairs. |
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There is nothing dull and dusty about any of the attractions and there are plenty of opportunities for hands-on experiences. |
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But wanting a game console and a mobile phone for a birthday got a pretty dusty answer. |
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They tried to force a political blueprint on to the North East and they got a dusty answer. |
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Artemesia, plectranthus, snake plant and dusty miller are often used in summer for the color and texture of their foliage. |
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The foliage of dusty miller, ivy, and lamb's ears also dries nicely and contrasts well with the blooms. |
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When he talks to sixth-formers, he starts off by saying that they probably think he's a dusty old dodderer. |
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Then, elated with the tranquillity of aloneness, I sat upon dusty shoes extracting ideas from my brain to be written painfully into my journal. |
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Yet still panic lurks in dusty corners and slips through locked but drafty doors. |
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Many days had stretched out in front of Mort, dry, dusty and dull, but not this one. |
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Moreover, we were dissatisfied with the Journal of Penal Law that was old and respectable but dusty and dull. |
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In those days the laws were still sound, and in those days, law was not closed up in dusty and dull rooms. |
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The two started down the dusty road and John was quick to follow, but his father's words pulled him aback. |
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The Weib river has become a dusty wadi for the first time in living memory. |
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Albeit dusty in appearance, the movie is abloom with the fresh influence of imported pop. |
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And I probably could have walked it if I hadn't consigned all the really depressing stuff to a dusty corner of the web where you can't see it. |
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Heavy infestations of acarid mites indicate that storage conditions are too damp or dusty. |
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Although dry and dusty in fall, come spring these rock aquariums will shelter baby shrimp and serve as wildlife watering holes. |
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Walking on the dusty roads we were waylaid by a woman looking for passengers for her bus. |
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Besides the well worn dusty cowboy boots he was also packing a gun under his green T-shirt. |
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Out of curiosity, he glanced back at his rear view mirror, and felt relieved to see nothing but the dusty little trail framed by weeping willows. |
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He’s wearing a beaded, multicolored short skirt, dusty slippers, while the rest of the attendance flashes ties or broided shirts. |
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The ragged sound of tapping valves beneath the dusty hoods of several trucks fills the air, which smells strongly of diesel fuel. |
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The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona. |
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My reading companion is hairy, dirty, rankly fragrant, with holes in his dusty black jeans. |
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Heading up to the top of the mountain for the afternoons finals the athletes were pummeled by high winds and dusty whirlwinds. |
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White-haired gentlemen haunt grand old cafes from days gone by, sipping coffee under dusty chandeliers. |
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Sara stood there dressed in dusty rose and ivory, mahogany-brown hair aglow in the light of the sun as she stared behind him to the easel. |
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Vermeer's paintings come to life in the dappled light of wintry landscapes and the dusty darkness of candlelit interiors. |
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The room's ceiling was very high, with beams of knotty pine that looked dusty from neglect. |
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The other gods were dusty with what looked like incense ash or vibhuti powder. |
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The ancient, dusty floorboards groaned miserably as he laboriously climbed off his mattress. |
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He yawned and inhaled the dusty, musty air that he had become so familiar with over the last five years. |
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Lampless, they climbed a ladder into the dusty hay-rick, and nestled in a corner under the eaves. |
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On the dusty streets of Addis Ababa, O'Sullivan is at home trading banter with hawkers and children in Amharic, the Ethiopian language. |
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So I did what Pa asked, and leafed through the book, its pages heavy and dusty, well-inscribed and made to last for centuries. |
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Remember, all-over dusty pink chiffon looks too flat, but teaming it with leaf green lifts it. |
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The stamens are a dusty yellow and each flower has a ruff of leafy bracts at its base. |
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A houndstooth wool anchored the season, with touches of dusty rose and pale lemon. |
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So you rummage around hopefully in the drinks cupboard and sure enough you find the dusty bottle of Romanian Liebfraumilch. |
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The land was no longer rich and green but desolate and parched, gaping with hard, dusty cracks splitting deep into the earth. |
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It was bare and whitewashed, with a small square aperture glazed with one cracked, dusty pane at its further end. |
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The album opens with pair of songs that might very well have been recorded on a huge, old organ in a dusty roller rink. |
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There was a dusty children's playground at one end of the park, but the middle was dense with tall sycamore-maples and lindens. |
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In this show a deep, clear blue predominated among white, aqua, buttery yellow and dusty or radiant pinks. |
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The film is grainy and rich, you can almost feel the old dusty wood, the waterfalls, the rocky buttes and scrubby plains leap out of the screen. |
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Along the planked floor of the porch, benches, wooden rocking chairs, and old metal lawn chairs lined up, facing out to the dusty fields. |
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The premises consisted of a single dusty room, with a desk, two filing cabinets and one chair. |
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Aquamarine is the new lime green, coral is the new taupe, dusty rose is the new periwinkle, shell is the new cream. |
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Madame sighed and lifted the hem of her long, dusty rose pink dress out of the snow with her free hand. |
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We find a small office space up three flights of dusty stairs in a building overlooking a big roundabout. |
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Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage. |
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She had thick framed, black glasses perched on her nose, and she was carrying a pile of dusty books. |
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Luther walked down the dusty streets of Cantrip, runnels of sweat trickling down his back. |
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Ever since my forced childhood stint in Sunday school, I had associated the Gospels with stories about ancient men in dusty tunics. |
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The air was stale and the dusty atmosphere was enough to make all of them hesitant to breathe. |
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The famous crop of the dry and dusty Tundzha Valley makes Bulgaria the world's largest exporter of attar of roses. |
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The table saw was untouched and dusty, and there were no misplaced goggles, moved blocks of wood, or signs of sawing action anywhere. |
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Her dusty auburn hair was long and wild as she stepped down from her horse. |
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It's a long way from the dusty western Saharan city of Laayoune to Manhasset in leafy New York state. |
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The camp is a level, dusty wilderness, the barren sameness of the plain broken only by row upon regimented row of bleached canvas tents. |
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The strings are so old they sound like dusty clothes lines that are grossly out of tune. |
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In consequence the autumn colours are muted, just soft dusty yellows for the most part. |
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He discovers that donning the dusty drapery magically transforms him into a genuine vampire. |
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The generous owner of Le Vigneron had opened a dusty magnum from his dimly-lit vault. |
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Long, drowsy, dusty days when the shade of trees calls the saunterer into the woods to seek out dark, cool places by small streams. |
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They stood on the dusty grass together, blowing brown slime from their noses and hawking it up from their throats. |
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His hair, a dusty blonde color, fell in medium tight waves over his ears, and almost into his baby blues. |
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The leather was dull and dusty, and the metal of the bits and stirrups of the English saddle seemed to be tarnished. |
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At the hotel entrance, the former heavyweight champion rolls up in a dusty black cab to a scattering of cheers. |
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We drove through the dusty backstreets of Dangriga until we pulled up outside a sun-bleached wooden house on stilts. |
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His dusty shirt was offset by a dull leather vest, and a broad, ten-gallon hat sat atop his bushy hair. |
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His serenity makes you feel like a clucking chicken, scrabbling and pecking at the dusty ground, while he sits back and watches. |
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We gathered on a dusty patch in front of the playing fields for a game of marlies. |
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Students at Manchester University no longer need to thumb through dusty texts when reading classics of English literature. |
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He reappeared a moment later, clutching a rather dusty and battered deck of cards. |
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Will and Ben deserted Jim at the gate to the dusty yard to pay tig with the chickens they had to put in the coop. |
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A tiger moth swooped down and brushed Anna with its dusty wings before gliding off into the distance. |
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For there, high on a ledge in a dusty corner of the upstairs room, was a kestrels' nest complete with five eggs. |
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Even in the dim, dusty filtered daylight I could see the intricate detail of the carved stone and molded gold. |
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You had to scan the microfiche or even thumb through dusty tomes at the local library or tax assessor's office. |
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The little girl's soft, dusty blonde locks brushed the screen and her high-pitched protests sounded like a kitten mewling. |
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People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path. |
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She trailed her finger along a row of dusty books until she found the year she was looking for. |
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Every new dusty setting calls for more energetic sharpshooting, whether picking off an angry mob or firing at targets from horseback. |
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How often have you sat in an English class buried in some dusty tome, bored out of your mind? |
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A dusty pile of sheet rock tumbled from one of the high, unsteady shelves and landed beside Barbara. |
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It's dry and dusty with red dirt and big skies and broad acre paddocks of wheat and sheep. |
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North we walked, three abreast, a mile and a half along a dusty track that penetrates and bisects the moor. |
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On Sunday afternoon, the two girls left in Vanessa's small dusty car, trundling slowly down the rutted driveway through the field. |
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The broken flyscreen door shut slowly behind her as she let go of the rusted handle, scraping across the dusty fly filled verandah. |
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For slightly dusty blinds, put a clean, old cotton tube sock over one hand. |
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Dozens of black kites wheel around the spire surveying the dusty gardens for dead meat and the church walls bask in sunshine. |
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High on the dusty, sun-baked sierras Pedro's whistle barrelled and echoed off the forest-covered hillside. |
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Bridget was riding her bicycle on the sidewalk when the silver-haired old man called out to her in his sweet but scratchy, strangely dusty voice. |
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I stared at the women's bloomers, dirt-covered toes and dusty feet, and marveled at streets. |
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I relished each snort and stomp from our mounts as we rode along the grey dusty road. |
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I have a host of similarly faded and dusty memories of my boyhood that pop up unbidden when I'm in a situation that stimulates my memory. |
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The floors were hardwood and uncarpeted, and there was an old, dusty smell lingering in the air that made me sneeze. |
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Amongst the muckiness of poverty, walking past shops with aisles of dusty goods, along an empty road, I come across a man whistling. |
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More rumor on the dusty street pointed to a new integrated disc brake mount. |
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We finally have our homes decorated in charming hues of country blue, dusty pink, and seafoam green after being stuck in shades of avocado green and gold for years. |
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We negotiated a ride with a well-connected local, sardined into the back of his jeep, and he drove us straight past every dusty roadblock with a grin and a wave. |
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Waiting on the tarmac at Mehrabad Airport to board the flight that would take me south to Kerman, on the dusty edge of Baluchistan, I studied the plane. |
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The broad lofty walls were hung here and there with dingy paintings, and curtains, once splendid and gaudy, but now mouldering, dusty and dull, swept in massive folds from the ceiling to the floor. |
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During the dry season, wind blew the cracked, dusty topsoil off his land. |
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A severe, disapproving look flashes across the dusty figure's face. |
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Driving a dusty VW, with the seats covered in plastic, Riahi was wearing blue jeans and sneakers and a white winter coat. |
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Some taxis are dusty and oily on the inside, soiling passengers' clothes. |
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Mandela came of age politically in a mass movement based in the dusty streets of South Africa's townships, before finding himself forced underground and eventually jailed. |
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The 11 travelers speed north on dusty trails running through farmland. |
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The men push and pull carts through the dusty streets of the city. |
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A navy diagonal pinstripe over a dusty pink and gray background creates this picture-perfect diagonal striped tie by Gucci, boasting flawless design and timeless style. |
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Here is a large pile of spectacles, a spidery mass of rusted wire-frames and dusty lenses. |
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She chose dusty pink color this time and faded that into a silver color. |
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From the flickering, uncertain light of the wall sconce, she could only see that he was tall and dark-haired, dressed in dusty but well-made traveling clothes. |
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Although the causes of the variation remain unclear, the star's interaction with the gassy, dusty environment in which it was born certainly plays a big role. |
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This was the golden age of steam and his first job was cleaning locomotives inside and out, which meant scraping the ashes out of the fireboxes, a hard, dusty and dirty job. |
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This former sleepy, stuffy tavern has banished stained beer mats, pork scratchings and dusty dead flower arrangements and is now welcoming, modern and plush. |
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This week I've spent 40 minutes sitting in my living room pretending I'm back at Burning Man, sitting in the sun outside camp, gazing across the dusty playa. |
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I was also reminded that after Tony's last big birthday affair, the skies opened up and the normally dry dusty Todd ran a banker for a couple of days. |
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When the gong and clappers on a doorbell unit or the plungers on a mechanical chime unit get dirty and dusty, dip a cotton swab in alcohol to clean them. |
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The floor mats have also accumulated their share of dirt and crumbs, the paint job and hubcaps have a few minor road dings, and the dashboard is dusty. |
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Excuse me, I have to get the keffiyeh out of my dusty suitcase and pack a kilt. |
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The desk was a little dusty in places and it housed a stationery holder containing three pens and a pencil, there were also several documents strewn across the desk. |
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You find yourself lying prone on a cold and dusty floor made of stone. |
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He was naked from the waist up, only wearing his dusty black pants. |
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Wires hang from its ceiling, its marble floors are chipped and trash is strewn across the dusty corridors. |
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The dry wash is dusty and shouldn't be attempted after rain, but the view of what was once a primordial lake bed, particularly at sunset, is worth the trip. |
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Located in the dusty backwater of Datong, a provincial city in northeast China, the movie depicts a global village in the throes of millennial malaise. |
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With their aching melancholy, these a cappella numbers for three voices are the perfect accompaniment to the understated drama unfolding in this dusty terrain. |
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Shale gas, which has begun to bring profits to some counties in Ohio, has yet to take off here, and downtown is a grid of empty storefronts behind dusty glass. |
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Pulling into Pol-i-Alam, the small, dusty provincial capital, we made our way to the plain, weather-beaten building that serves as the office of the governor. |
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At first light, when alpenglow fires the high summits with radiance like the burn of a gigantic campfire, the dusty surface of the old snowpack glows with eerie luster. |
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Alf Adams did not want to talk rats but he did want to show me his bottle collection preserved in a dusty shed. |
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Heliotrope is never invasive, so it can be grown in patio containers where vinca, dusty miller, or marigolds make attractive companions for its delicate flowers. |
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Bird's-eye primrose has pink or lilac flowers and dusty looking leaves. |
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His parents are so dull and dusty, you wonder whether he was a foundling. |
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We are all very happy to be out of the hot, dry, dusty flatlands and in the cool, moist hills and mountains with fields that actually have grass in them. |
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We all look at the huge dusty pink crayfish still wriggling their legs. |
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These two types of fungus leave a dusty or cottony coating on grapes and leaves. |
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Peer through the dusty glass and you might catch sight of the two thick yellow metal doors behind, jammed tightly shut with no obvious opening mechanism. |
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After a day-long drive with three young children, we emerged from our minivan cramped, cranky, and dusty with junk food. |
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As a result of the dusty conditions the flare set the entire night sky aglow in a wash of brilliant red which faded gradually to orange, then to black. |
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Men and beasts have retreated up the hillside, haloed in dusty sunshine. |
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It silenced his critics, confounded his doubters and forced those knife wielders to return those implements to their dusty habitats for another day. |
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A line of dusty, panting dogs, yellow and black, brought up the rear. |
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Conventional beer filters are made of either densely packed fibres or a dusty material called kieselguhr, which consists of fossilised hard-walled algae called diatoms. |
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It's a testament to the professionalism of the engineers that they kept the aircraft airworthy in the field, where hot dusty conditions plagued the helicopters day after day. |
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Nearby we find other men with big Akubras squatting on the dusty ground, strong faces, strong veined hands, while a third page shows a team at a bronco panel toppling a steer. |
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Even tumbleweed can't go on blowing down dusty streets for ever. |
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The very word, redolent of dusty, don't touch displays inside glass cases, would once have brought howls of protests from children simply wanting to enjoy an afternoon out. |
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This year, says Griffiths, Johannesburg City Parks will continue greening the many treeless and dusty suburbs of Soweto, Lenasia and Eldorado Park, with indigenous trees. |
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Most of these characters are, spiritually speaking, kicking a dented can down a dusty road. |
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Romantic images and bucolic country scenes of happy grape pickers, hillside vineyards, and dusty bottles in old cellars are featured in all the brochures. |
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And how does this past, with a mere gesture or a simple regard, haunt and torment you as you wander along an empty cotton field or a dusty country road? |
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I saw market stalls full of produce, dusty papaya skins speckled by rain. |
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The players made their way up the dirt road to the prison in a jolly convoy of dusty Jeeps and Land Cruisers. |
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In the dusty corridors of power, Disraeli was an exotic orchid whose drag enlivened many a boring wet Monday. |
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She parted the drapes of the canopy wider and sat upon the dusty bed. |
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A few bullets twanged off of the dusty corner of a building a few paces behind her, and she sped up a little, taking another turn, and another, hoping to lose their trail. |
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They kept to the shadows, slinking along beneath a dusty shelf of rock. |
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His body is swept away with all the others, like a dried-up fly in a dusty corner. |
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Many of us remember the former Smithsonian exhibition on human culture in Africa, with its pale walls, dusty cases, fluorescent lighting, and yellowing labels. |
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It made the dusty, dismal main street of Bleak seem somewhat melancholy. |
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