The pilot asked air-traffic control for permission to climb from 32,000 to 38,000 feet to avoid the bad weather. |
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They made his clothes, sat at his feet while he ate, made love to him whenever he wished, did whatever he asked. |
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They were up on their feet so often to applaud the Texas senator that his speech was practically an aerobics class. |
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Weaving through glacial debris, he ascended a thousand feet into the snowline, followed by two Hunzas. |
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An NYPD spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the lead suspect is a black man, approximately six feet tall. |
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Louis sprang to his feet and I arose also, and flung the paper marked with the Yellow Sign to the ground. |
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When he felt anxious or needed to think, his feet carried him, once again of their own accord, to a station. |
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Safety officials believe it snapped, sending both acrobats and apparatus hurtling 25 to 40 feet to the floor. |
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As he gets his feet wet at City Hall, he's likely to rely on Daley apparatchiks and influential donors for guidance. |
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By contrast, a gun will allow a pilot to attack hostile forces that are less than 300 feet from friendly ground forces. |
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At 6 feet 3 inches tall, he resembles the patrician Carlton Fisk more than the squatty Thurman Munson. |
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I was scrambling to my feet when I saw the car sliding back toward me, having not quite made it to the crest of the hill. |
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The stones stand 150 feet from the A1 and it is thought that the alignment originally included up to five stones. |
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These were mere tracks worn down by the feet of humans and animals, and possibly by wheeled carriages. |
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The whale sounded and eight hundred feet of heavy line streaked out of the line tub before he ended his dive. |
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He stood with feet splayed, fists resting on his hips as he stared at us from beneath the brim of his Smokey Bear. |
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The performer's feet rarely leave the ground for long, as the step is fast, typically performed at a speed around 116 at feiseanna. |
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To keep the end of the smoke pole from going too far through the hole, a small cross-piece should be lashed to it about two feet from the end. |
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Scott had a forest set built on the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with trees 60 feet high and trunks 30 feet in diameter. |
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On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high. |
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The structure was approximately fifty feet high with the peak of the roof reaching almost seventy feet. |
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Other players mainly use their feet to strike or pass the ball, but may also use their head or torso. |
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Lok got to his feet and wandered along by the marshes towards the mere where Fa had disappeared. |
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They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine. |
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Some boxers fight from a crouch, leaning forward and keeping their feet closer together. |
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Boxers are taught to push off with their feet in order to move effectively. |
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Those who prefer to embrace the elements can investigate the open-air skywalk 1,000 feet above the street. |
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She twisted out from under the claim of his palm to settle her feet on the floor. |
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Lewis returned to his feet at the count of six, but stumbled forward into the referee in a daze. |
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Although Miss Kim is often described as semidwarf, this popular late bloomer can become 9 or 10 feet tall. |
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Lead singer and writer Richard Ashcroft said that Blake had influenced the lyric 'Will those feet in modern times' from the song. |
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My restless sock feet stopped midtap, on the very floor those gentlemen trod in their calfskin shoes and spats. |
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The wheels were spoked, shod all round with iron, and were from three to four and a half feet high. |
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. |
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As MPs prepared to divide, Gladstone rose to his feet and began an angry speech, despite the efforts of Tory MPs to shout him down. |
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The cliff face goes up to 350 feet and the cliffs stretch for 8 miles of coastline. |
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The rail tunnel stretches 31 miles, and at its lowest point the tunnel is 250 feet undersea. |
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Mara watched her misshod feet with fey detachment as the person that was herself left the glade. |
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During the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. |
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The sand is cold beneath our bare feet and the dunes damp and spicy with marram grass and saltbush. |
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Pound has shaken the dust of London from his feet with not too emphatic a gesture of disgust, but, at least, without gratitude to this country. |
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The dancers feet bounce off the floor and they leap and swirl in patterns that reflect the complex rhythms of the drum beat. |
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He slips the clean shirt over his muscled-up black shoulders. Takes his shoes and socks off and slides his feet into Nike sandals. |
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During her set it was reported she was unsteady on her feet and had trouble remembering lyrics. |
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The dry desert of my native land, her men grey and gaunt, their spines twisted, their feet shod with rowel and spur. |
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The goals, at opposite ends of the field, measure 12 feet wide and 10 feet high and a net is affixed to catch the ball when a goal is scored. |
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A player may only stop the ball with the stick, the chest, two feet together or one foot on the ground. |
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Bulldogs actually do most of their sweating through the pads on their feet and accordingly enjoy cool floors. |
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Large structures are usually made of very thick walls, so that castles and cathedrals possess walls which may be up to 12 feet thick. |
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The river rises at a height of 1500 feet on the southern side of Ben More Assynt, and flows just over 35 miles. |
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The scaffold that was erected in the Great Hall was two feet high and draped in black. |
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The colour of the feet is usually grey, but it is in some roseous, brown, or black. |
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The four toes of their feet are joined by a membrane that can vary from dark grey to dark brown. |
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A reduced blood flow in the webbing on their feet outside of the breeding season also helps to maintain body temperature when they swim. |
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They rarely land on water with their feet stretched forward like pelicans or cormorants. |
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The first mammals were small, nocturnal, rodentlike creatures that skittered around the feet of dinosaurs for 140 million years. |
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The landlady reported a visit by a man in black with cloven feet riding a jet black horse. |
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It had 34 wooden arches and was 1,671 feet long, which made it the longest wooden bridge in England when built. |
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A pedestrian footbridge, 320 feet long and 65 feet above the carriageways, carries the Pennine Way above Windy Hill cutting. |
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Potholes can grow to several feet in width, though they usually only develop to depths of a few inches. |
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John Lambert initially fell a few feet and was made comfortable on a ledge by his companions. |
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It has a throw of 3000 feet and the area is still geologically active and subject to earth tremors. |
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A facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south. |
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His friends worked to set him on his feet by organising courses of public lectures for him, drumming up an audience and selling guinea tickets. |
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Once prey is spotted, it begins its stoop, folding back the tail and wings, with feet tucked. |
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The Barbary falcon's shoulder and pelvis bones are stout by comparison with the peregrine, and its feet are smaller. |
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Consequently, the length of a territory may vary from about 300 metres or 1,000 feet to over 2,500 metres or 8,200 feet. |
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The bill is black, with a blue cere, and the feet are white with black talons. |
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The ashes vary in size from large blocks twenty feet or more in diameter to the minutest impalpable dust. |
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This walk is a little over four miles and involves about a thousand feet of climb. |
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Its near neighbour, The Old Man of Coniston is within a few feet of parity. |
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Examination of the area around the outlet showed that Thirlmere had previously overflowed at a level 65 feet higher than at present. |
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The thickness could, therefore, amount to several thousand feet of sediment. |
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It takes three to five days to resand and refinish 1,000 to 1,200 square feet of flooring, he said. |
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Immediately after the Concord joins the Merrimack, the Merrimack descends another ten feet in Hunt's Falls. |
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Hosiery, also referred to as legwear, describes garments worn directly on the feet and legs. |
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It was 108 feet high, and consisted of 27 arches, each 50 feet wide, with a total length of over 1600 feet. |
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The lamp becomes unsafe in a current of from 8 to 12 feet per second, about twice that of the Davy. |
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Drift mines in eastern Kentucky are subject to roof collapse due to hillseams, especially within 100 feet of the portal. |
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Brunel had planned the tunnel to pass no more than fourteen feet below the riverbed at its lowest point. |
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Over time, as the surface of the earth changed, these deposits were covered by thousands of feet of earth. |
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The end result was a craft nearly thirty feet long, twelve feet wide and weighing some seventeen tons. |
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Sometimes his feet rased the surface of water, and at others the skylight almost flattened his nose. |
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John is very quick on his feet during interviews by using his rapier responses. |
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By 1882, levees averaged seven feet in height, but many in the southern Delta were severely tested by the flood that year. |
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Before the American Civil War, the earthwork levees averaged six feet in height, although in some areas they reached twenty feet. |
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My feet were firmly lodged in the quicksand, and the more I struggled the more I sank into it. |
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The surface of the peninsula is generally level, broken by conical hills and glacial moraines usually not more than a few hundred feet tall. |
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The pulse wave travels over the arterial system at the rate of about 29.5 feet in a second. |
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Canadians measure property, both residential and commercial, in square feet exclusively. |
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David Crystal has estimated that it is responsible for 257 idioms in English, examples include feet of clay and reap the whirlwind. |
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The lock mechanism held within a clamp a two to three feet long length of smoldering rope soaked in saltpeter, which was the match. |
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This is transported up an apron chain consisting of steel links several feet wide, which separates some of the dirt. |
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For the protection of the hoof under certain conditions, some horses have horseshoes placed on their feet by a professional farrier. |
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However, it is the only living marine mammal with powerful, large limbs and feet that allow them to cover miles on foot and run on land. |
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The bridge curves and rises to a height of 200 feet above the water so that Navy ships can pass under it. |
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His army crushed the weak defenses of Zutphen and put nearly every man in town to death, hanging some by the feet while drowning 500 others. |
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The feet are narrow, the toes being more separated than in the camels, each having a distinct plantar pad. |
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The palms of the hands and soles of the feet were involved in the majority of cases. |
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The new powerhouse comprised two tube turbines with a total capacity of 4,500 kW under 18.3 feet head. |
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Flat feet may be important to the patrolman who must pound a beat, but in cities with patrol cars, should mild cases of flat feet disqualify? |
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The rhea's body is marked by the four main stars of Crux, while its head is Gamma Centauri and its feet are the bright stars of Musca. |
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The player, armed with a pommel, stands from two to three feet from the spell, places a knur in the cup which is held down by the rack. |
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The camels' gait and widened feet help them move without sinking into the sand. |
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The temperature of their beak, neck surfaces, lower legs, feet and toes are regulated through heat exchange with the environment. |
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In 1962, a large rudderpost indicating a rudder area of 452 square feet was unearthed at the Longjiang Shipyard. |
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The head of Christ was depicted at the top of the map, with his hands on either side and his feet at the bottom. |
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They tattooed their foreheads, and had their feet turned toward each other. |
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Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something. |
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In contrast, arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless. |
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In walking he would raise the toes of his feet above the heads of the Phobians to a height of five hundred feet. |
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The basic movement is a backdrop on the trampoline and then the feet touching the wall at the top of the bounce. |
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Running is considered to occur when at some points in the stride all feet are off the ground in a moment of suspension. |
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Walking is the most common gait, where some feet are on the ground at any given time, and found in almost all legged animals. |
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Webbed feet are an advantage in shallower water where the animals sometimes move around by walking. |
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The blue jay was having a fit, and the sapsucker perked his bright-eyed little head at him not more than a dozen feet away. |
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Within the walls is a well 200 feet deep and another in the centre of the keep is reputed to have been still deeper. |
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The coins were eight feet below ground together with some cow bones, and are now in the Penlee House Museum. |
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The feet have no hind toe and the three anterior toes are completely webbed. |
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Amphibious turtles normally have limbs similar to those of tortoises, except that the feet are webbed and often have long claws. |
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He had put his feet out on the floor and was feeling for his slippers with blind pedipulations. |
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In the feet the big toe moved into alignment with the other toes to help in forward locomotion. |
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We sit there, drinking some suburban cheap-shit passion-pop alcohol she brought, and I rub my feet on the Doorman. |
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She attended to charitable works, serving orphans and the poor every day before she ate and washing the feet of the poor in imitation of Christ. |
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The hind legs are short relative to other frogs' legs and the hind feet have long, unwebbed toes. |
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They have corpulent bodies with a rounded snout, webbed feet and long hind legs adapted for swimming in water and hopping on land. |
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Lizards typically have four legs feet and external ears, though some are legless, while snakes lack both of these characteristics. |
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These snakes can perform a controlled glide for hundreds of feet depending upon launch altitude and can even turn in midair. |
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Compared to the closely related geese, they are much larger and have proportionally larger feet and necks. |
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Their feet are plantigrade or semidigitigrade and short, with five toes on each foot. |
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To facilitate quick movement, a rabbit's hind feet have a thick padding of fur to dampen the shock of rapid hopping. |
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Like all squirrels, the eastern gray shows four toes on the front feet and five on the hind feet. |
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The forepaws have five digits, while the hind feet have only four and lack dewclaws. |
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Guru has graduated from the Harvards of consciousness and sits at the feet of God. |
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The body would be placed with the head towards the northwest and feet to the southeast. |
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A bull boat's framework was made of willow branches bent in a huge bowl shape about four feet across the top and eighteen inches deep. |
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Small padlike feet appeared at the rim, and then the creature heaved itself out of the goblet and hopped away to the south-southeast. |
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Finally they put him on one of De Soto's packhorses, but even on a packhorse his feet hung down to within a few inches of the ground. |
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Shuffling his feet in the sand, head bowed low, Joseph stopped at the paanwallah for tea. |
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Pilots reported being able to smell the stench of the battlefield hundreds of feet above it. |
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Exxon Mobil's drill rig there had reached 30,000 feet by 2006 without finding gas, before it abandoned the site. |
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It was also reported that the gas field could hold a potential 30 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. |
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As well as standing in the water, flamingos may stamp their webbed feet in the mud to stir up food from the bottom. |
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However, since their feet are located posteriorly on the body, loons cannot walk. |
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Loons are excellent swimmers, using their feet to propel themselves above and under water. |
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When eating fish, they will dive up to several feet deep to retrieve their prey. |
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In some areas without detailed study information, structures may be required to be elevated to at least two feet above the surrounding grade. |
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Like a modern otter, Puijila had a long tail, short limbs and webbed feet instead of flippers. |
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It took some time for the lady to get back on her feet after the death of her husband. |
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These specialized feet allow chameleons to grip tightly onto narrow or rough branches. |
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This area, called the peristome, also includes five pairs of modified tube feet and, in many species, five pairs of gills. |
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Although adults do not use their tube feet for locomotion, very young stages use them as stilts and even serve as an adhesive structure. |
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He also recognized Peregrin Took's feet underneath a troll and saved the young hobbit's life. |
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As long as he was on his feet at the end of the ten rounds, he could not lose his title. |
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Staggered, Ritchie was laid open to a battering, but stayed on his feet until the end of the fight. |
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And men come to measure the grave and find it sometimes six feet in length, sometimes nine, sometimes twelve, sometimes fifteen. |
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Although porpoises do not possess fully developed hind limbs, they possess discrete rudimentary appendages, which may contain feet and digits. |
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Although dolphins do not possess fully developed hind limbs, some possess discrete rudimentary appendages, which may contain feet and digits. |
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Crossbreeds between the two animals typically have a distinct white throat patch, white feet and white hairs interspersed among the fur. |
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The feet are moderately long and more robust than in other members of the genus. |
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Known as Nordics, these extraterrestrials are said to have blond hair, blue eyes, and pale skin and are anywhere from 6 to 8 feet tall. |
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Most have sharp claws on their feet and all except the sea otter have long, muscular tails. |
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The razorbill has white underparts and a black head, neck, back and feet during breeding season. |
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Gannets lack brood patches and they use their webbed feet to warm the eggs. |
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The observation deck includes an enclosed glass balcony that extends 10 feet out on the side of the building. |
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This was intended to be 50 feet high with cast iron blowing cylinders, rather than the traditional bellows. |
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His hands and feet were also cut off and sent to diverse places to enemies of his as a great mark of dishonour to the deceased. |
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He fasted before commemorating Edward the Confessor's feasts, and may have washed the feet of lepers. |
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Summa crusta of silex or lava polygonal slabs, one to three feet in diameter and eight to twelve inches thick, were laid on top of the rudens. |
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Ramie is a perennial from the Orient. The stalks grow 6 to 8 feet high, are about one-half inch in diameter, and are straight and nonbranching. |
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Servant Nanak begs for the dust of the feet of that GurSikh, who himself chants the Naam, and inspires others to chant it. |
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The webbed feet are also used to cover the chicks, which are only rarely left alone by their parents. |
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Individuals often suffer damage to their legs or feet when they land on the ground if there is not sufficient wind. |
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She sat on the edge of the pool, dangling her feet in the water. |
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This kind of tree can attain a height of 20 feet within just a few years. |
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The table measures eight feet long when it is fully extended. |
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The fronts of the houses abut on the pathway, which is about four feet wide, and are unequally places, following the contour of the ground. |
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You can press your feet more strongly into the floor in adho mukha svanasana by shifting your weight away from your hands and toward your feet. |
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He wavered on his feet from adrenaline aftershock, blood loss, and from the fact that he was ruined. |
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The mahout used his feet and an ankhus to direct the elephant, as his voice might not be heard in the din of combat. |
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Well, Mable, Id have bet anybodies money before I went out that none of those shots had lit more than ten feet away. |
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As it happened, I had progressed only some few feet out onto the snow when a clean-cut section stripped off the surface and avalanched. |
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The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. |
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The Commandant was a big man about six feet and muscular, like most of the ruling Bambara tribe. |
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Reaching up to 65 feet in length and up to 100 tons in weight, the bowhead whale is a baleen whale that lives in Arctic and sub-Arctic waters. |
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I can lick a whole regiment of them beerheads with one hand tied behind me an' my feet in a sack. |
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The weather forecast says we are in for three feet of snow over the next week. |
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Pitrodie's woods beskirt the feet Of heath-clad Ben-na-chie, And through their shade the breezes fleet, And hum from tree to tree. |
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He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water. |
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He always has his blue heeler dog in his office tucked away under his feet or near the door. |
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So we all stuck our feet into cow-pats, and after walking over the frost it was bosker and warm sure enough. |
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All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart. |
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Bulettes can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground. |
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The little windows, fifteen feet up, were darkened with wasp-nests, and lizards hunted flies between the beams of the wood-ceiled roof. |
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It is only 100 feet across but it now has the honor of being the solar system's fastest-spinning celestial object. |
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Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two. |
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The wreckage lies no more than around 100 feet down in the Java Sea. |
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The opening goal, a wrister by Cal Clutterbuck over Pogge's shoulder from 30 feet out, was certainly one he'd like back. |
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Wolfkin are humanoid wolves. They have long wolf faces and thick fur. They walk on the tips of their long feet and have thick ragged wolf tails. |
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When Sarah pointed at the door, Thea took a few steps toward it, clomping her feet with each stride. |
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A ramp area of 2,500 feet by 600 feet at the APOD could store approximately 100 modules containing 6,100 tons of war materiel. |
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The walls are of cob, the external ones being about 2 feet 8 inches thick, and rest on a stone foundation. |
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Because of the Depression, many people came to associate bare feet with poverty, indolence, or general white-trashery. |
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He stood full six feet in height, with noble shoulders, and a chest like a coffer-dam. |
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Descend some twenty feet through the pleasant warmth of the ocean's upper layer and you are in water as cold as a witch's kiss. |
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Lou Brent rolled from his cot, got to his feet on the floor of the tiny coop. |
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He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit. |
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Looking up the face I could see directly into the Japanese and Hornbein couloirs, an almost direct 9000 feet to the summit. |
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Don't be such a frightened little creepmouse. I take a deep breath, look at the feet again, and giggle. |
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My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory. |
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The spring diving board is four feet above the water, but there is another diving board five feet higher than this one. |
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And that German donkeydick must'a been three and a half feet long and five inches across. |
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The basic weapon of the hoplite was the dory, a wooden-shaft spear six to nine feet long with a metal point at each end. |
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Went to bed with 2 downies on the bed, but the heat finally kicked in and ended with one cover and my feet sticking out. |
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When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him. |
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Its light came from thirty feet to the left of it, and the moon itself rose audibly until a stagehand juggled it, whenceafter it ceased to rise. |
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Nicholas and his black-masked companions waited with feet planted apart as the dungeon master fumbled for his key ring. |
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The hands and feet were small, the proximal phalanges broad and the nails small and dyschromic. |
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Wetus ranged in size between about 10 to 15 feet in diameter. As many as ten people lived inside. |
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There was a gigantic electrolier, ten feet high, with upward-curling gilt branches opening into cloudy glass lilies of light. |
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Then again, I knew that shareholder democracy meant only that I should vote with my feet if I didn't like what management was doing. |
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The presence of eponychium on the feet is indicative that the foal has not yet stood. |
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The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous. |
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Everybody knew I was an extraordinary person. When I was born my beard was three feet long. |
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Curled underneath the beading table with the unshoed feet of women, you hear things you'd never want to know. |
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Acrocyanosis, which was present on admission, had progressed to distal necrosis of the toes in both feet and part of the right hand. |
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He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday. |
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We think we can trust John with this new position as he has his feet on the ground. |
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Then Christmas Day dawned, and there was Vicksburg lifted two hundred feet above the fever swamps, her court-house shining in the morning sun. |
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A kind of fine Norwegian hay, used as packing in the finnesko to keep the feet warm and to make the fur boot fit firmly. |
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Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again. |
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The brakes on my bike failed, so I had to come to a Flintstonian stop, that is, by dragging my feet on the pavement. |
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The town flooded when the waters were just three feet over flood stage when the sandbags were washed away in three locations. |
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The sketch inclosed is for a barn 42 x 34 feet with 8 feet foreshoot and the same back shed. |
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For years, abutters have had the protection of 20 feet from their property line for safety and environmental reasons. |
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The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. |
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Frostwork keeps its place on the window within three feet of the stove all day in my chamber. |
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The base area is adorned with an immense gelande jump, off which qualified skiers regularly catch 200 feet of air. |
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A strong undertow may sweep a returning swimmer off their feet but it does not carry them far from the shore. |
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A geofence could be a mile or more around a store or it could be fifty feet from the front door, whatever the business decides. |
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Should your dog abrade his feet before you can protect them, he needs rest until his pads heal. |
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Iraqi policemen stacked bodies several feet high in a pickup truck, but some fell out of the truckbed when they drove away. |
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Internet Hindus and fans of Narendra Modi would bury you six feet under and do a gravedance on your grave with surreal pleasure! |
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The wax is for gription, which is a word I invented. You rub it on top of the board to keep your feet and hands from slipping off. |
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Swedish massage techniques applied to your feet have reflexology effects, too, and give those tootsies the break they need. |
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He was six feet tall and strong, but without the gnarled gym muscles Helen hated. |
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My sister has hammertoes on both feet and consequently avoids the family hiking expeditions. |
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On her feet are jewelled toerings. Her ankles are linked by a slender fetterchain. |
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Her dainty feet were covered with toerings and tinkling anklets while glass bangles covered her arms. |
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He rocked back a little on his feet and tucked his chin so I heel-palmed him across the bridge of his nose with my left. |
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He stood above Colin and pointed the AK at his face from five feet away. |
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Hogwort is an erect, stout, sparingly branched annual that grows up to 4 feet tall. |
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He kept tabs on presidents, monitored members of Congress, held bureaucrats' feet to the fire. |
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We want to hold the Administration's feet to the fire to secure a decent agreement. |
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On the Tuesday, two days before Bede died, his breathing became worse and his feet swelled. |
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For all the horribles that his legs and feet endured, they weren't the root cause of his suffering. |
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The hall rang with the hosannas of the faithful, while the women knelt at his feet to ask for salvation. |
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The instant his feet touched the cold metal floor of the storage room he felt a hot-flash pass through his body. |
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When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. |
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Shapes included square, rectangular, triangular and round, and the largest bricks found have measured over three feet in length. |
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Like Cinderella, the girl in rags was swept off her feet by a handsome Prince Charming. |
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The straight and inswung feet are the most prevalent types, and no difficulty should be found in procuring shoes of either type. |
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Let us go on to the Rotunda, a hall of fifty feet diameter, with ten windows, richly intercolumniated, and a vaulted roof ornamented with stucco. |
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The northern shore, between 1851 and 1970, lost 928 feet because of erosion. |
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The attribution gave rise to an apocryphal story in which Charles II, who was over six feet tall, complained about the low ceilings. |
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Bryanthus, a beautiful flowering heathwort, flourishes a few hundred feet above the timberline, accompanied with kalmia and spiraea. |
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The wind was tearing it up, the waves at least eight to ten feet high as the surf crashed on shore. |
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John wants to climb the wall, but the kicker is that it is thirty feet tall. |
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Boy, the fellows said he just knocked the living daylights out of him, bounced him six feet across the ground. |
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That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high. |
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All of us who have been to the beaches this year have encountered tarballs that stick to our feet and mess up our rugs. |
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But the next day, Mr. Dey saw a second gigantic figure, the three-legged, swastikalike form with curlicue tips, about 300 feet in diameter. |
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On sale next to dried fish and chicken feet were rats and bats, plus cut-up pigs and monkeys, their faces intact. |
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In the first field tests, a series of holes 2 inches in diameter and 12 feet deep were sunk with the rock-melting device, or subterrene. |
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How much of our current agricultural policy can we lay at the feet of the Iowa caucuses? |
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Though our clayey feet still press the earth the levitant soul may saunter among the stars. |
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Some kinds of ducks in lighting strike the water with their tails first, and skitter along the surface for a few feet before settling down. |
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Lindwyrms are wingless dragons that look like huge snakes. Some lindwyrms have two tiny feet that are almost useless. |
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When a lizardfolk chooses this ability, he can detect opponents within 10 feet and may take a move action to determine the direction of a scent. |
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His own reluctant namesake, Mount Beckey, rises some 8,500 feet in a largely uncharted subrange near the Cathedral Spires of southeastern Alaska. |
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He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him. |
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He leaned back and put his expensively loafered feet on one of my chairs. Apparently he was willing to cough up some change for footwear. |
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If any of his party are mad, they'll try it, and be stogged till the day of judgment. There are bogs..twenty feet deep. |
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If he is lame in both feet the gait is stilty, the shoulders seem stiff, and, if made to work, he sweats profusely from intense pain. |
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After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem. |
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She simply sat smiling her smile of bliss, nursing her husband's feet Madonnawise on her lap. |
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Apsara Dance, famous for strong hand and feet movement, is a great example of Hindu symbolic dance. |
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In Pakistani mythology, a common perception of a witch is a being with her feet pointed backwards. |
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Their feet steady, their hands diligent, their eyes watchful, and their hearts resolute. |
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Silently obeying the order, the three harpooneers now stood with the detached iron part of their harpoons, some three feet long, held, barbs up, before him. |
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Beyond the river, an arduous slope rises 3286 feet in 13 miles. |
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A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel. |
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By the time it was over, Stone had been blown thirty feet through the air by a beehive round as he was running across a field, knocked out by the concussion of the blast. |
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Sometimes when I'm bored to a frazzle, I sit at her feet and watch that dumb hillbilly program, rubbing lotion on her smooth legs and bunioned feet. |
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And the 23-year-old brought the crowd to their feet when he castled Gayle's stumps, signalling the direction of the pavilion to his friend for good measure. |
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She hopped out of the van, and waited calmly as Mr Gray approached. His feet crunched on the chuckies and as he walked, he took out his wallet, again counting the money. |
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A PUNT FOR SALE, thirty-four feet long, twelve feet broad, and three feet ten inches deep, chunamed, sheathed, and coppered, carries about fifteen tons. |
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On my feet were golden anklets and diamond toerings made of huge diamonds. |
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Kurt Fuehlen's brother, Helmut, waited at the basement doorway behind the cathedral, stomping his feet and clomping his mittened hands against his beefy arms. |
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I shoved the door closed and took off running for the steps. The clogs were too big and not the best shoes for sprinting. My feet clomped along the broken sidewalk. |
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