Or the items have been soaked in fresh water and chemical baths to leech out the saltwater that threatens to destroy them. |
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She's barely come to when she's on him like a leech, but Laz will have none of that. |
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What I was thinking of with Wyatt would be an ability to leech off anyone around him. |
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In classes we had to make pills, suppositories, and powders, and recognize cupping and leech glasses! |
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If you want to leech off someone's Wi-fi to download the update, drive by my house and leech off mine. |
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She clung on like a leech, her fingers tightly gripping his shoulders, and Ben could clearly hear her heart beating as well as his own. |
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Information on 113 trematode, 86 cestode, 13 acanthocephalan, 37 nematode, 5 leech, 12 mite, and 15 lice species is included. |
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While at rest, the medicinal leech lies under large objects on the shoreline, partially out of water. |
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Watch how the inhaul pulls cloth out of the bottom leech which opens the bottom batten's flap angle. |
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The leech is invaluable in microsurgery when faced with the difficulties of reattaching minute veins. |
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On sailboats underway, it may be flown from the aftermost peak or leech in place of other ensigns. |
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Every governmental attempt to ameliorate poverty seems to attract its own breed of parasite and leech. |
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On the other hand, if the luff below the spreaders backwinds first then the leech has to be eased. |
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Ease the traveler all the way and adjust the boom vang to control leech tension. |
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It is in this context that we began our studies of behavioral choice in the leech. |
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You get well, the leech gets fed, and everyone lives happily ever after. |
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Just to make sure there was not a way on at the other end of the last entrance doline, they thrashed through the leech infested jungle, but found nothing. |
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To live with anxiety is to live with a leech that saps you of your energy, confidence, and chutzpah. |
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At 2135, the fore-topmast staysail was struck because it had a large rip in the leech. |
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Existing or new gennakers with long fore leech can be furled with systems as shown in Fig.2, without any modifications necessary. |
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She bore him down and levered herself atop him, fastening to him like a leech, scissoring his legs with her own and wrapping one arm around his neck. |
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Nectocaris, meanwhile, looked a little bit like a leech, with fins and tentacles. |
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The leech, Hirudo medicinalis, is found in the wilds of western and southern Europe. |
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I don't think we mean to leech off society and just take and take and take but we don't know that we can do anything to help or give back. |
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Osteoporosis occurs when the minerals that give bones their strength leech away to such an extent that the bones become brittle and weak. |
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When the kid found out we were going to leave him at home he started up a howl like a calliope and fastened himself as tight as a leech to Bill's leg. |
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If neglected, any system can become a host upon which all other systems will leech. |
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The first invertebrate in which a neuron cell was identified was the medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis. |
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The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood. |
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The horse leech is also quite common in the garden, in damp, marshy areas and can be found under stones and logs. |
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The fats absorb it, and it takes a long time to leech out. |
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Not able to harden the sheet or leech of his mainsail as he would like, because of the repairs he made to his mast track, he is nevertheless slightly faster. |
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Military men, spies and politicians leech away state resources. |
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He's at the heart of things — checking halyard tensions, setting sheet leads in the right place, adjusting leech lines to improve the flow of the sail. |
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Trim the leech of the jib parallel to the main by watching the slot between the mainsail and the jib. |
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Toxic additives used in the manufacture of plastic materials can leech out into their surroundings when exposed to water. |
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Hirudin, the first parenteral DTI to be used, was isolated in the late 1800s from the medicinal leech. |
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It is a recombinant form of hirudin, a protein isolated from salivary glands of leech, and metabolized in kidneys. |
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At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met. |
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As if an expert leech must needs be expert in the physicks the nearest word to fall with our tongue, yet not farre from the thing, was physitian. |
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To help combat these problems, almost all sailmakers trim the leeches of their headsails to a hollow or concave profile and enclose a LEECHLINE within the leech tabling. |
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The leech helps suck out the excess blood and restore circulation. |
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With the main placed perpendicular to the boat to windward, and then pulled in slightly, the leech is allowed to act as the leading edge of an airfoil. |
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