The silver quality in her hair had kept it from being singed, but the leather piece holding it had been burned away. |
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While it was grinding it smelt like the grinder's motor had burnt out, all singed rubber and smoking grease. |
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Onlookers who had gathered hoping to see the future of postal deliveries were showered with singed letters falling from the sky. |
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One old man looked up at her and a tear rolled down his singed and wrinkled old face. |
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Called nopales or nopalitos, the spines and glochids are singed off over a flame or scraped off before cooking. |
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After the pig had been bled, it was scalded or singed to loosen the bristles, which were scraped off. |
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His fighting gear was singed and tattered, and his face and exposed flesh was scorched. |
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The dough is wrapped in the broad leaf of the banana plant, which is singed in boiling water and allowed to steam until cooked. |
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I've instantly singed the hair from the upper joints of my fingers through misjudgment of these little details. |
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Anyone who has ever singed their eyebrows lighting a gas fire could have predicted that trouble lay ahead. |
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I wasn't burned, but the gently flowing grass was definitely singed from the fire. |
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The edge of her ear was singed when the firing pin struck the primer and blew sparks out of the gap at the front of the cylinder. |
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After making sure none of my limbs were singed or charred, I decided it was time to make a simple request. |
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Come autumn, the leaf colour warms up, becoming singed with red, a real treat to witness. |
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Most of the trees and grass, splintered and singed 10 years ago, have grown back to lush green. |
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As if flushed by the cold, the flowers are singed pink, resembling the dog roses of its common name. |
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His perfect pedigree was singed by stories in The New York Times that he exaggerated his Vietnam War record. |
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The fire also singed a turret of Holy Trinity Cathedral on Hart Street. |
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A second tongue of flame shot over his blue helmet, and it singed his eyelashes. |
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Quality guide-lines: dried mushrooms must not have signs of mould or extraneous matter, they must not be worm-eaten, decayed or singed. |
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The latter curl up as the season progresses but remain on the tree a year or more, so giving the latter a singed appearance. |
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Then you see an old singed advert for the absent Ruby's Restaurant, and you know. |
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The engine continued to run after impact and singed the exposed grass in the area below the exhaust tail pipes. |
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Until the contracts have been singed, they will be funded from the State budget and will operate as national institutions. |
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Fire singed and burned some of the surrounding vegetation, but did not spread beyond the circumference of the aircraft. |
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Also, it is worth noting that from 1975 todate BADEA singed 388 loan agreements. |
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We provide a variety of glazed and singed finishes to inhibit fiber migration. |
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Each polyester bag is scrim-supported and singed for more surface loading and longer life. |
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Stand back when you light it or you'll have singed eyebrows. |
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Its frame bears evidence of several singed areas where candles charred it. |
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We in New Zealand, you know, used to be able to relax a bit, to be able to think that we would sit comfortably while the rest of the world seared, singed, withered. |
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And the whole town smoulders damply under a haze of burnt burger, singed sausage, and evaporated candy floss, all slightly sticky and redolent of the smell of pink bubble gum. |
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Their hairs are a bit singed and their faces are black from soot. |
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There are no dramatics, no singed eyebrows, no binned masterpieces. |
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The griffin's feathers and fur were singed and much of his tail was black. |
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Townshend's hair was singed and his left ear left ringing, and a camera and studio monitor were destroyed. |
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These foods include smoked and salted lamb, singed sheep heads, dried fish, smoked and pickled salmon, and cured shark. |
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The look of hurt fury which she hurled at the Bishop's back might have singed his clerical broadcloth. |
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The greening can also be singed off with fire. |
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Passengers had their hair and eyebrows singed by the fire. |
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Barbed wire is going up around some diplomatic compounds, and border sweeps are pushing escapees back into North Korea. In this section An economy singed Moi? |
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Most of the 66 customer complaints that Mitsubishi Electric had received since the sets were made in 1987-90, officials explained, were not so serious, although some involved singed curtains and blackened walls. |
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Of the plotters, only the singed figures of Catesby and Grant, and the Wright brothers, Rookwood, and Percy, remained. |
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In the shadow of a teaching hospital whose windows had been blasted out, diggers began moving sheets of metal, rubble and singed clothes from the streets. |
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As the clay slowly baked, the wind blew the fire into Oochigeas' face, and in time her hair was singed close to her head and her face covered with burns. |
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Stunned and singed, you went below decks and helped jettison bombs. |
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This was then singed over a gas flame, then bleached and or dyed. |
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The cloth was singed to remove superfluous fluff by being passed over heated copper plates and then boiled in bleaching keirs with lime or caustic soda. |
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She planted me with a smacker so scorchy it singed my socks. |
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