| After a worker called 911, Alfaro says the plant manager, Michael Leblanc, gathered up the workers to scare them straight. |
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| He makes his way, step by agonizing step, his face red and wheezing, his eyes straight ahead. |
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| On Wednesday, Arvind was at the citywide finals for the fourth straight year, his last, because he is now 13 and will age out. |
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| But this year, the cover image has been leaked, unveiling that Kate Upton has won the accolade for a second year straight. |
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| If Tilda Swinton ate anything for five years straight, it would probably be ambrosia. |
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| He cuddled it, baby-wise, but he looked up from it often to curse with an astonishing utter abandon straight at the noses of his captors. |
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| She had straight black hair with a Betty Boop bob cut and ruby red sweetheart lips. |
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| As the piston rod moved backwards and forwards in a straight line, its linear motion would be converted into circular motion by the gear wheel. |
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| I drew a straight line down the page to separate the two lists. |
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| The school's anthem sang of its many outstanding qualities, and it was hard to keep a straight face while singing. |
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| Dorsal spine curved slightly proximally and distally straight and slightly twisted anticlockwisely. |
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| So you think Gregg is antistraight, but he is best friends with a straight guy. Russell and he have a very close relationship. |
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| However, after Telford was hired the plan was changed to an aqueduct that would create an uninterrupted waterway straight across the valley. |
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| As a result, he lost much of the punching power in his right hand and so had to change his style to rely much more on a straight left. |
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| His first defeat came in November 1962 his 35th fight after 34 straight wins. |
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| The acoustic torpedo was designed to run straight to an arming distance of 400 m and then turn toward the loudest noise detected. |
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| What they want is the long straight hair, olive skin, just enough oliveness to the skin to make them not ambiguous. To make them Hispanic. |
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| However to cross straight over the dune by going over the trailing arms, can be very difficult. |
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| The Spain striker had given Chelsea the lead on 29 minutes but was shown a straight red card 10 minutes later for a rash challenge on Mark Gower. |
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| A tough openeing to our Kettering Area Division 4 season, with going out of the cup in the first round, and three straight losses on the bounce. |
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| Eventually, in 2006, thirteen episodes were released straight to DVD as a collection called On Site with Thomas. |
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| Sometimes the slurry of dredgings and water is pumped straight into pipes which deposit it on nearby land. |
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| He described the distinguishing characteristics as a straight bill hooked at the tip, linear nostrils, a bare face, and fully webbed feet. |
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| After twelve hours straight at the office, he was about out of gas and decided to go home and rest. |
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| In less sophisticated ships short and nearly straight planks were used at the bow and stern. |
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| Possible settings include a long straight beach, an inlet that may be either natural or modified and a pocket beach. |
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| Each run covers between one and two hundred meters, and the ships must move slowly in a straight line, making them vulnerable to enemy fire. |
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| For instance, the first system to be deployed, Chain Home, used two straight antennas at right angles for reception, each on a different display. |
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| In 2009, the number of suicides exceeded 30,000 for the twelfth straight year. |
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| The often long, straight, trunks were favoured as a source of timber for keels in ship construction. |
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| Cherry wood is valued for its rich color and straight grain in manufacturing fine furniture, particularly desks, tables and chairs. |
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| This high vitamin C content can be consumed as a tea from the shoot tips or even eaten straight from the tree when light green and new in spring. |
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| Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth. |
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| Some smaller iris species have all six lobes pointing straight outwards, but generally limb and standards differ markedly in appearance. |
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| The nutlike seeds have straight embryos, flat cotyledons, and soft fleshy endosperm that is oily. |
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| Most of this is ingested through foods or beverages other than drinking straight water. |
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| An object that is moving without being dragged along with this rotation travels in a straight motion over the turning Earth. |
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| It continues to rotate upwards until it is straight up at the South Magnetic Pole. |
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| Its morphology with the left eye positioned on the dorsal ridge of the forehead gives it an appearance of a cyclops when looking straight at it. |
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| Compound fertilizers, which contain N, P, and K, can often be produced by mixing straight fertilizers. |
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| Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several. |
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| On a geologic map, this is represented with a short straight line segment oriented parallel to the strike line. |
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| Deny me still and I shall have you straight from this room to Newgate, then in chains to Devon, for the next assize. |
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| A boat with more rocker can change direction easily whereas a straight keel boat will track well in a straight line but resist turning. |
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| The start line and starting gate assembly is halfway along one of the two straight sections of the track. |
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| In 2001 they were promoted to the Premier Division after winning the Southern League east division but were relegated straight back again. |
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| Lamination also allow fibers to be placed in a straight, uninterrupted paths. |
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| Ronnie went into the pub with Barrie, walked straight to Cornell and shot him in the head in public view. |
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| The shape of the hook shank can vary widely from merely straight to all sorts of curves, kinks, bends and offsets. |
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| A kirbed hook point is offset to the left, a straight point has no offset and a reversed point is offset to the right. |
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| He suggested changing the definition of parallel straight lines to an equivalent statement that would allow him to prove the fifth postulate. |
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| Rumour has it that you once posting something interesting that was pikeyed straight from scrotexes lame troll book. |
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| Between the villages of Osterburken and Welzheim the limes ran for 81 kilometres almost in a straight line southwards. |
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| They had watches that said Gucci or Rolex on them even though it was obvious they'd come straight here from some pirate factory in China. |
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| The upper Rhine and Danube appear to form a funnel pointing straight at Vesontio. |
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| That he'd never had a pizza puff did not deter him. His approach at lunch, as it was elsewhere, was straight ahead. |
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| The country ended 2008 with its ninth straight year of growth, but growth has slowed with the decline in the price of oil and gas. |
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| The Helvetians were forming a massive migration straight through the provinces. |
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| The quandrangular ard has a horizontal sole body connected to a straight, nearly parallel beam by a stilt and a brace. |
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| Much of western architecture emphasizes repetition of simple motifs, straight lines and expansive, undecorated planes. |
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| Dave recorded the information in his pocketbook and looked Gibbs straight in the eye. |
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| The path to modern pogonology was not always straight or even. The dead ends and detours were many. |
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| These would take them quickly straight east, across the South Atlantic, to South Africa. |
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| The principal feature of the projection is that Rhumb lines, sailing courses at a constant bearing, are mapped to straight lines on the map. |
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| From Lambri, the treasure fleet sailed straight through the Indian Ocean rather than follow the Bay of Bengal coastline to Ceylon. |
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| On the chart, one will use the straight edge of a plotter to mark each position line. |
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| Guards were either semicircular or straight, but always highly ornamented with geometrical patterns. |
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| The westerlies will then carry them quickly straight across the South Atlantic around the Cape of Good Hope. |
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| The fleet split at the Azores with Harmensz going to Mauritius and Van Heemskerck heading straight for the Moluccas. |
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| The mixture can be eaten straight from a spoon or used in a variety of recipes. |
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| Certain words can be used as both adjectives and adverbs, such as fast, straight, and hard. |
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| You will probably have to pull teeth to get a straight answer from a car salesman. |
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| Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson. |
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| Some straight legs caught a trooper at the post exchange one day and made him unblouse his boots. |
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| Instead of inserting a straight vertical gap all the way up, he has staggered it so it looks like old-fashioned quoining. |
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| Briefly, the laser beam was rastered along the sample surface in a straight line. |
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| The faces of a wedge are modeled as straight lines to form a sliding or prismatic joint. |
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| The most common use is to machine straight, flat surfaces, but with ingenuity and some accessories a wide range of work can be done. |
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| There is also evidence that the complex housed a pipe boring machine, whereby straight elm trees were bored out for pump dales. |
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| Grains strive to minimize their energy, and a curved boundary has a higher energy than a straight boundary. |
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| It was discovered that the flame would burn brighter if straight metal was mixed with other components, such as porcelain. |
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| There are two important types of shears, straight shears and diamond shears. |
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| Because of the steep slopes, the streams are swift and straight, with very few tributaries, and all flow in the same direction. |
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| This creates long, straight poles which do not have the bends and forks of naturally grown trees. |
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| From the south, the ridge track from Great Dodd leads straight up the long gentle slope to the top. |
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| From the east a very steep and winding path straight up from Kirkstone Pass is very popular with visitors. |
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| It is this ridge which divides Oxendale from Mickleden, making straight for Stool End Farm on the valley floor. |
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| Each day, the musicians started from scratch, often working on songs for 16 hours straight. |
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| A regatta was inaugurated on 12 September 1842 on a straight course from Throstle's Nest Weir to Regent Road Bridge. |
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| Rift-sawn boards have a straight grain pattern as opposed to the circular pattern of the plain-sawn boards. |
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| Typically, rias have a dendritic, treelike outline although they can be straight and without significant branches. |
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| A reave is a long and generally straight boundary wall made of stone that was built during the Bronze Age. |
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| The location of the point x0 can always be chosen so that the edges in the Schlegel diagram can be drawn as non-intersecting straight lines. |
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| But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet. |
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| Gaze is almost never straight ahead but varies between downgaze, sidegaze, and upgaze. Correct fixation of an object does not take place. |
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| Slumpy shoulders went square, back went ramrod straight, and she smiled at the other woman. |
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| His limbs hung limply, and that white sneakerless sock was like a finger pointing straight at the heavens. |
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| First was his straight tapered leg, sometimes with a spade foot, at other times tipped in brass. |
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| I spiffed the turf over the edge and it went straight through the window and hit the officer. |
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| The male, as Dr. Gunther informs me, has a cluster of stiff, straight spines, like those of a comb, on the sides of the tail. |
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| We put everything straight, stepped the long-boat's mast for our skipper, who was in charge of her, and I was not sorry to sit down for a moment. |
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| I didn't think I'd be stepping on my sister's toes when I told my nephew to sit up straight at the dinner table. |
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| There's nothing more annoying than taking a great picture, only to find that the horizon isn't straight. |
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| The other people, I presume, are supposed to be standing to attention, but they're all smiling at me. The lines are not even straight. |
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| I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. I admire them much more if they are tall, straight and flourishing. |
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| It moves them from 17th to 12th on seven points, while Bolton are now bottom of the table with five straight defeats. |
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| The project would seriously go down the pan if Mrs. Foster weren't here to keep it on the straight and narrow. |
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| This morning, I promise cross my heart straight Dinkum will be the last, the very last, of our awful moments. |
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| I don't think I could recite Peter Piper quickly ten times with a straight face. |
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| If you don't believe me, go talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth. It's true. |
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| He's an uncomplicated working-class kid who speaks, jab-like, straight from the shoulder. |
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| After being arrested and humiliated for being straight, Owen organizes a Straight Pride Parade for himself and others to come out of the closet. |
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| You might think your boyfriend's straight, but he sucked me off last night. |
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| He would open that window again and dive straight out, Superman or superfool. |
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| Epert surf-caster Bud Oliver, who can toss a plug more than 150 yards, begins his cast with the rod straight forward. |
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| She skipped the afterparty that night and headed straight home. |
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| Through Monday, Honolulu has set record highs 8 days straight and could again take a run at a record today. |
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| My 10-year-old son Buster headed straight for the agitated water. |
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| Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile. |
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| In fact, few such departments hire tenuretrack faculty straight from graduate school. |
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| You simply should not only put in the re-raise with only a straight. That is terribad poker. |
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| Not one exhibits plane faces or straight edges, being mostly distorted triakis-octahedra or tetrakis-hexahedra with finely striated curved faces. |
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| As his drawers came free, his tinkler leapt straight up. How different he was between the legs from Hindley, who had that darkness! |
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| The runner placement of a tunnel ram allows a nearly straight shot to the back of the valve. |
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| Truth is so easily told, that the veriest fool can give a straight story, where no twistification is necessary. |
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| At the cross point of straight and adjoining hyperboles on this line, abscissa is equal to doubled atomic mass of the element. |
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| It went now between long straight ramparts of hills that showed enormous and dark against a sky cleared to twilight by the unrisen moon. |
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| The rebels found the suggested terms of surrender unstomachable, and went straight back to fighting. |
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| Later though, after about two weeks in untime, Finn began to get confused, and my job changed to simply keeping him straight. |
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| There the man sat, straight as a totem pole and as unwincing, while rain-squalls belabored his bare head and sweatered body. |
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| You want to go to the stadium? Go straight on until you reach the park, take the first left and Bob's your uncle! |
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| Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors. |
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| The bower aims his display straight at the dominant figure, who may reciprocate with a milder version of the same action. |
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| Although I class myself as straight, I occasionally like a little boy-on-boy action. |
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| They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees. |
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| One could then speak of 'cisphobia' or 'heterophobia', claiming adequate protection for cisgender and straight persons. |
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| The cliffed coasts are cut mostly in consolidated rock of somewhat uniform material, which usually results in straight coastlines. |
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| Then she hugged the kiddie clost to her, standing straight and queenly, her eyes ablaze, her lips moist, and red, and scornful. |
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| The previous wall outlet tests at their colo facility ran for 6 days straight without issue. |
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| The columned great hall seemed smaller because there were no straight lines of sight not blocked by a column. |
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| The Conchoid of Nicomedes is the conchoid of a straight line with respect to a point not on the line. |
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| Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall. |
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| Snobs feel it's hard to call it wine with a straight face when the cork is made of plastic. |
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| Or she'd have gone straight, married a dentist, squeezed out a minivan full of crib lizards, and gotten fat. |
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| He had come to town as a child with the old woman who had adopted him, a cronelike granny straight from a storybook. |
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| To achieve straight crossrows, you will need guide lines so that you can align the trees up and down the slope. |
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| The chair and table legs diminished as they neared the ground, and were straight and square in all their corners. |
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| If he were not paid, he would straight go and take a distress of goods and cattle. |
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| Harry Shapiro was crazy about musicians so we headed straight for his dommy. |
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| The Bruins, seeking their third straight NCAA title, are picked on The Times dope sheet with 59 points. |
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| Unlike a drag hunt, where the scent is laid in a straight line, trailers will be trying to mirror the zigzag path of a hunted fox. |
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| It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down. |
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| Not because I hate my reflection or that I suffer from Eisoptrophobia. Mirrors see straight through my facade. |
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| Her arms hung down from the wide tips of her shoulders, straight and elbowless when she walked. She never moved her arms when she walked. |
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| Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave. |
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| Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs. |
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| His eyes sprang open. Umegat stared straight at him for the fraction of a second, and Cazaril felt flensed. |
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| The reference line is a straight line that runs the length of the accident site, such as a fog line on a straight road. |
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| Quickly it taught him to prophesy, to leap over knowledge and wisdom straight into the fire and the glamor of things foretellable. |
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| I brought home from the market a nice bunch of fresh spinach leaves straight from the farm. |
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| Luckily for Giacomo, he had Marzia, an Italian grandmother straight from central casting. |
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| Many ex-gayers are encouraged to bond with an older straight man from their church. |
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| Strictly straight lines through the point at infinity appear as straight lines but are regarded as generalised circles. |
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| Let me get this straight. You want me to go with him all the way to Portland? |
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| Lots of straight guys will pay to see hot girl-on-girl action, and you've got to admit, that was pretty hot. |
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| He's proved very reliable since he was paroled. He's a good kid tryin' to go straight, for the most part. |
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| Another logical method is that of gridironing the field by a series of straight paths that are parallel to each other. |
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| See how praoud an' tall he's growed, with them arms of his'n straight aout an' them leetle chillen of his'n spraouting up raound him. |
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| Whenever you decide to draw to a gut-shot straight, you need to be sure that the pot will not be raised behind you. |
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| I rose accordingly from table, got into a hansom, and drove straight to Jekyll's house. |
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| It was tough cramming for those midterms and finals, staying up 72 hours straight hepped up on caffeine and pizza. |
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| The beginner will instinctively try to stick his toe straight in in a foot hold, which is very tiring on the calf muscles. |
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| There's parts of Mexico they'd take you straight to the hoosegow for just whistlin that. |
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| The students had the chance to hear the stories straight from the horses' mouths in the field interviews. |
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| Although we swore this fellow to secrecy, he went straight to the induna and revealed our secret. |
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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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| Church taxes were paid straight to Rome, and the Pope had the final word in the appointment of bishops. |
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| She couldn't move, not without that extra skeleton, and it was jacked straight into her brain, myoelectric interface. |
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| Their names all sounded the same to me at first, and I had trouble keeping straight who was who. |
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| He kicked up dust about how we really didn't have our facts straight regarding his allegedly loaded gloves. |
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| As they came down the home straight, the jockey gave his horse Larry Dooley. |
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| I have received excellent medical attention in Britain, and I felt it was important to set the record straight. |
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| Standing on those long straight roads with the speed detection gun was like shooting fish in a barrel, somebody said. |
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| Initially these policemen signalled that the line was clear by standing straight with their arms outstretched. |
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| They got a large donation, but the lion's share of the money went straight into paying off debt. |
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| If the graph of the function is not a straight line, however, then the change in y divided by the change in x varies. |
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| On single track, when trains meet, the train that shall not stop often uses the straight path in the turnout, which can be left or right. |
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| Sometimes two of the tracks go more straight and with a little distance from the two other. |
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| It was a long hop, which bounced high and was flat-batted straight to cover to leave the score at 246 for seven. |
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| One of the greatest joys of living alone is the complete freedom to eat Lucky Charms by the handfuls straight out of the box. |
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| A machine politician cannot see why the straight ticket should not be voted by every citizen belonging to that party. |
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| Roman roads generally went straight up and down hills, rather than in a serpentine pattern. |
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| They may be eaten hot or cold straight from the can as they are fully cooked. |
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| Cask beer is the traditional method of service, via a hand pump or by gravity straight from the cask on stillage. |
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| In the miniature portraits of Matthew, Mark, and Luke they are shown writing, while John looks straight ahead at the reader holding his scroll. |
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| He spotted her again weeks later, jumped from the cab he was in and persuaded her to go straight to his studio. |
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| The works staged are predominantly musicals, classic and modern straight plays, and comedy performances. |
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| These theatres stage a high proportion of straight drama, Shakespeare, other classic plays and premieres of new plays by leading playwrights. |
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| I learned that Earl Phillips was playing on those records like a jazz drummer, playing swing, with a straight four. |
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| He was in two straight to video Harry Palmer sequels and a few television films. |
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| It is often difficult for those growing up to find role models who demonstrate that it is equally okay to be gay or straight. |
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| Batters must run in straight lines between bases and fielders must not obstruct their way or stand on bases. |
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| The main carom billiards games are straight rail, balkline and especially three cushion billiards. |
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| In straight rail, a player scores a point and may continue shooting each time his cue ball makes contact with both other balls. |
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| However, coyotes tend to be less challenging intellectually, as they offer a straight line hunt instead of the convoluted fox line. |
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| A typical circuit usually features a stretch of straight road on which the starting grid is situated. |
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| The Canterbury logo was straight and not diagonal it had white lines going horizontally across the chest. |
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| The fight was ended with a single straight left hand, in one of Hamed's most impressive performances and biggest victories. |
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| Picking the winner of three, four, five or six straight races is referred to as a Pick 3, Pick 4, Pick 5 and Pick 6 respectively. |
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| McCain's Amberleigh House came home first, ridden by Graham Lee, overtaking Clan Royal on the final straight. |
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| A new twisty infield section called Luffield was created in place of the Farm straight and the Bridge chicane. |
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| He achieved a second straight victory at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami. |
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| Senna was on 40 points with four straight wins to open the season by the time Mansell gained his first finish with a second in Monaco. |
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| The solo stepdance is generally characterised by a controlled but not rigid upper body, straight arms, and quick, precise movements of the feet. |
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| Some saw it as a stepping stone to independence, while others wanted to go straight for independence. |
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| He dug back in, dragging his knuckles across the keys, and then he held out both arms straight, like a condor in midglide. |
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| The forehead was fairly straight rather than sloping like in Neanderthals, and with only slight browridges. |
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| The largely straight coastline is indented by the Szczecin Lagoon, the Bay of Puck, and the Vistula Lagoon. |
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| He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked. |
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| Using an early theory of inertia, Galileo could explain why rocks dropped from a tower fall straight down even if the earth rotates. |
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| In the absence of net forces, a moving object tends to move along a straight line path indefinitely. |
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| I got into the car and I put the key into the ignition and Lennon's voice came straight out of the radio and it was Starting Over. |
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| Economist David Ricardo set straight some of the misunderstandings about Smith's thoughts on free market. |
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| If one rows with poor technique, especially rowing with a curved rather than straight back, other injuries may surface, including back pains. |
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| Scotland endured a torrid Six Nations in 2000, losing their first four straight games. |
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| Like the modern Grand Slam, the Triple Crown was an informal honour to a team that won the Championship with straight victories. |
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| A straight tail is a more desirable tail according to the breed standard set forth by the BCA if it is facing downward, not upwards. |
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| From the Lake of the Woods, the boundary was agreed to go straight west until it met the Mississippi River. |
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| Alluvial rivers can be further classified by their channel pattern as meandering, braided, wandering, anastomose, or straight. |
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| None was elected, however, with even the popular party leader Keir Hardie going to defeat in a straight fight with the Conservatives. |
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| Jones had three straight no decisions, but the bullpen eventually won all three games. |
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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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| When he returned to professional boxing in 1978, he won two straight bouts, but everything else started going backwards for him. |
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| The reason for this is the taxiway extension route runs straight through the old bomb dump. |
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| Tradition was broken again when Charles proceeded straight from secondary school into university, as opposed to joining the British Armed Forces. |
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| It is distinguished from the harbor seal by its straight head profile, nostrils set well apart, and fewer spots on its body. |
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| From this point on the road becomes narrow and twisting and overtaking is problematic except at a few straight sections. |
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| Bi people hang in straight places a lot, and given that you are also bi, they will probably stand out to you in an indescribable, nonverbal way. And that, my friend, is bidar. |
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| His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle. |
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| The badnjak is central tradition in Serbian Orthodox Church Christmas celebration where young and straight oak, is ceremonially felled early on the morning of Christmas Eve. |
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| A mixtilinear angle is an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. |
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| A grain with six sides will, as mentioned, have straight boundaries while a grain with more than six sides will have curved boundaries with its curvature away from itself. |
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| At least one Tea Party rally took heat from the gay community and human rights groups for allowing the sale of straight pride clothing and paraphernalia. |
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| He bowled Vinay with a with a full, straight ball that castled off stump and then dished up a yorker that RP Singh backed away to and sent onto his stumps. |
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| If a point be taken within a circle, and more than two equal straight lines fall from the point on the circle, the point taken is the centre of the circle. |
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| It would also set to work straight away on bringing in Japan. |
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| This homemade crack tool was known as a straight shooter, which sped up the effects of smoking rock cocaine allowing it to reach the lungs faster. |
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| In cases where the mineral vein outcrops at the surface, the adit may follow the lode or vein until it is worked out, in which case the adit is rarely straight. |
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| It is removed from its attachment to the silverside along the natural seam, and from the topside by a straight cut along the line of the femur bone. |
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| I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it. |
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| Despite her third straight victory she remained a polarising figure. |
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| In late January 2010, Afghan protesters took to the streets for three straight days and blocked traffic on a highway that links Kabul and Kandahar. |
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| The accident sent Bahutule into coma straight away. When he came to his senses, he lay in bed with a fractured right femur bone and a crushed left elbow. |
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| With the straight matter being set on the linotype or monoline, the hand compositor was left with what he claimed was the most 'skilled' part of his old work. |
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| Whilst the eastbound section follows the straight line of the disused Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway, the westbound section has numerous bends with climbs and dips. |
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| By contrast, straight enclosure roads which were laid out between 1760 and 1840 run through the then newly enclosed lands with straight walls or hedges. |
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| The change of momentum of a body is proportional to the impulse impressed on the body, and happens along the straight line on which that impulse is impressed. |
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| But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth. |
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| Exhaust steam was vented via a vertical pipe or chimney straight into the atmosphere, thus avoiding a condenser and any possible infringements of Watt's patent. |
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| Wouldn't grow straight if you put a splint on 'er. She liked the loopholes in things. The chinks, the crooks and nannies... liked to find healthy little plantlets to choke! |
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| Quick buffo comedy requires the clarity of the straight play, while sustained romantic anguish flourishes in atmospheric backlights and crosslight. |
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| He was able to extract from his actors natural, clear performances, which served the Gilbertian requirements of outrageousness delivered straight. |
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| Crossing swords with oligarchs is one problem. An equally tough problem is crossing swords with the straight political elites, particularly the power ministries. |
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| Therefore, there is less time to develop drama in a musical than in a straight play of equivalent length, since a musical usually devotes more time to music than to dialogue. |
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| He had no time to set himself, but his throw was straight and true. Pick slid in, spikes high, and Schang tagged him in the ribs a foot or two from the plate. |
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| The result is a stream system in which streams consist mainly of straight line segments with right angle bends and tributaries join larger streams at right angles. |
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| One is the donkey vote, which is thought to account for three per cent. of all votes cast. Donkey voters mark their papers one-two-three straight down the ticket. |
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| The moment Dr. Reid amened, we rushed straight out of the church off home. |
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| Points and straight lines are underlying elements of geometry. |
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| Egypt is a long country, but it is straight, that is to say, narrow. |
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| I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. |
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| I took a drag. Was she watching? No, thank goodness, she was looking down at the water again. I blew the smoke straight out, without taking it into my lungs. |
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| The Scottish team qualified for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand, but was eliminated after six straight losses out of six matches. |
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| Bulldogs are one of the few breeds whose tail is naturally short and either straight or screwed and thus is not cut or docked as with some other breeds. |
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| The epitrachelion is the Orthodox equivalent of the stole, but it hangs straight instead of being crossed over the chest, as is the case with the stole in Western churches. |
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| Fair dinkum, I'm being straight up with you now, I could have hit him. |
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| Steyn continues and it's all a bit more orderly down his end as O'Brien defends the first three balls with a straight bat and a respectful dip of the head. |
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| Real cowboys know how to rope, ride a horse and drink whisky straight. |
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| It engulfed screaming soldiers who dissapeared before his eyes, their flesh, armor, even bone, flensed into a suspended mist that was heading straight for them. |
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| The crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. |
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| A flirty woman in a straw hat slid through the crowd straight to Snyder. |
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| In her flowy skirt, with her flowy hair, bare feet, and still the single eyebrow, she reads a poem that sounds like it came straight from English class. |
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| For alluvial streams, straight and braided rivers have very low sinuosity and flow directly down hill, while meandering rivers flow from side to side across a valley. |
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| With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded. |
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| As of October 29th, three-month dollar Libor had fallen for 13 straight days and was nearly one-and-a-half percentage points below its October 10th level. |
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| In Germany, the furniture of Peter Behrens and the Jugendstil was largely rationalist, with geometric straight lines and some decoration attached to the surface. |
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| They dive with their bodies straight and rigid, wings tucked close to the body but reaching back, extending beyond the tail, before piercing the water like an arrow. |
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| The Birdman receives straight 6-figure contracts across the board except from the East German judge, who makes him pay for his own lunch and won't even validate parking. |
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| I want everything to be all tickety-boo. I want to marry you properly according to the English law so that your people will know that I'm playing straight with you. |
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| It was hornless and had a square, meaty body with straight top lines. |
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| The first step in finding a real solution was to mount the weapon on the aircraft, but the propeller remained a problem since the best direction to shoot is straight ahead. |
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| For the first time she began poring through her old notebooks, looking at song ideas, unlike her debut which consists mainly of songs that she wrote straight away. |
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| When more than two buffer solutions are used the electrode is calibrated by fitting observed pH values to a straight line with respect to standard buffer values. |
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| The two gownsmen lowered the rigid body. It lay straight as a board, supported by no more than its head on the chair-back, and its heels on the ground. |
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| The Huns used a type of spatha in the Iranic or Sassanid style, with a long, straight approximately 83cm blade, usually with a diamond shaped iron guard plate. |
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| Many materials, including granite from Aberdeen, Arbroath rubble, sand, timber, and sometimes coke and coal, could be taken straight to the centre where they were required. |
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| For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad. |
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| In this way, the Assembly, without having to go to Parliament, could then legislate using the 'Assembly Measures' system instead of making Acts straight off. |
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| It is slightly believable because the stairs are all riot stairs. In other words the stairs are all diagonal so if you walk straight up them you run into a wall. |
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| The valley was blocked by a terminal moraine in the area of the village of Bala, thus forming the lake, which has remarkably straight and parallel sides. |
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