Surreal, then, to find a table full of fat men upstairs, shrouded by a fug of cigarette smoke, all tucking in to boeuf and pommes de terre. |
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Just outside that a water-slicked tiled roof sloped away, and below that darkness and rain shrouded a small central courtyard. |
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Comprised of a long, sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pull-down is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence. |
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They are nearsighted, and do not see past the aura of bright lies that he has shrouded himself in. |
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Wearing shorts, flip-flops and a ventilator mask, he was shrouded in a swirling cloud of snowlike particles. |
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The great skies are shrouded in smoky, matte tones of dark mocha, cocoa or gunmetal grays, representing night, fog, smog or infinite space. |
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They shrouded the case in a Breton flag and conducted interviews on the museum steps with representatives of the press. |
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She was entirely covered from head to toe, her hands in long black gloves, her head shrouded in a white veil, with two small eye slits. |
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It was a pretty room, with a large window shrouded by thick, red, velvet curtains. |
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The military structures of the base rose up all around them, shrouded in the green mists. |
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The next points of interest are mounds of bulk cargo shrouded in heavy white polythene sheets. |
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The village of Kakariko, a lazy and sleepy town at the foothills of Death Mountain, was shrouded in a tired and laid back theme. |
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A pale green light shrouded the scenery, above a canopy thrived and animals and birds crawled and flew through the treetops. |
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Much of science is based on fairly simple concepts shrouded in incomprehensible notation and mathematics. |
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The past is so distant, shrouded with the mists of heartbreak and the fogginess of time. |
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Even now, a hundred years on, the precise cause and surrounding circumstances of Oscar Wilde's death remain obscure, shrouded about with mystery. |
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A little showman in a candy-striped jacket and straw hat is dancing before an audience composed entirely of shrouded skeletons. |
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The White House stood shrouded in weekend quiet, but the countdown to war was continuing. |
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The chamber pot was shrouded in fog when I began to look for it, and then, as the wind blew stronger, it hove into view. |
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The sun was shrouded by heavy clouds that grayed the bright colors of the earth. |
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Her hair is hennaed to cover the grey and her figure was long ago permanently shrouded in a shapeless dress. |
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The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky and a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains. |
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Filmed from above and below the water's surface, the behemoth station sits immersed like a sunken ship, shrouded in water and silence. |
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The shrouded outline of a humped rock above the water seemed briefly to be a human form, crouching, waiting for a signal. |
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Miles motioned towards the gentlemen of the room, shrouded in a cloud of smoke and the smell of brandy. |
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An imbalance between these two often causes the quest for gender equality to be shrouded in confusion. |
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Thus, when one side was bathed in light and warmth, the other would be a cold, dismal place shrouded in darkness. |
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Although all too often it is shrouded in clouds, Machu Picchu is perched on a mountain 8,000 ft above sea level. |
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Last month, some 460 North Koreans arrived in South Korea in two planeloads in an operation shrouded in secrecy. |
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Within its tomb-like confines stood four faceless forms shrouded in the folds of richly woven and cowled black robes. |
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I am quite an emotional person but I am shrouded in a fairly straight exterior. |
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A shrouded corpse is bound in red cord by an attractively attired woman, perhaps implying that everything can be marketed. |
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All these descriptions of Scotland portray Scotland as a place where the agents of darkness have shrouded the land. |
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Illuminated only by the fire, her figure shrouded in diaphanous clothes, she drifted in a nimbus of copper light. |
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It was high off the floor, curtained by a thin gauzy material and shrouded in dark despite the sunlight filtering through the window. |
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While its history is shrouded, it set the stage for an outpouring of medieval poetry in Tamil, a Dravidian language. |
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Sure enough, the next day dawned bright and sunny, and everything that had been shrouded in darkness was revealed in all its glory. |
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To our right Ben Nevis guarded the loch, but we never saw the mountain, shrouded in low rain clouds and mist. |
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Not all elements of Tent City life are shrouded in gloom and darkness, however. |
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The sun was already high in a cloudless blue sky, a heat haze shrouded the surrounding mountains. |
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The body was washed and prepared for burial by the women of the family, and either shrouded or placed in a coffin. |
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In the distance to the east, partially shrouded in Atlantic Ocean mist, rise a series of rounded granite domes. |
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The planet's shrouded surface has cooled, and this allowed the winds to die down and the fine dust to begin settling. |
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The Dane is truly an enigma whose ever-changing fortunes are shrouded in mystery. |
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The thick mist shrouded them in a gray haze, making it nearly impossible to see. |
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The early morning mist shrouded the motorway as he turned north away from Wellington. |
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Like Ignatieff, McEwan explores the abyss between middle-class lives shrouded in material comfort and the demands of sudden human suffering. |
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In its final throes the decaying rock is whittled down into curious rounded shapes standing in a line, like a queue of shrouded figures. |
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Thousands more thronged to the college where Mahendra's body was laid, shrouded in a red flag. |
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While the execution of the shuffle is straightforward, its origins are shrouded in mystery. |
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His origins are shrouded in mystery, though it seems quite possible that he was the result of a union between a man and a woman. |
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Zemya trudged unawares closer and closer to the edge of the jagged path, everywhere being shrouded by mountain clouds. |
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The stages we set in small pockets of space within the forest, with a back drop of wooded mountains shrouded in low cloud. |
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It rains for much of the evening and our view of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, is shrouded behind dense clouds. |
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His face was still shrouded in darkness, covered by the hood of a cloak, but from his back sprung a pair of wings. |
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Last week Lackabane was shrouded in cloud and soft Irish rain permeated the best of rainwear. |
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The whole mountain is shrouded by clouds and mist, which the wind blows into various strange shapes. |
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It is ironic, then, that the origins of this curious term are shrouded in mystery. |
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The steel passing from the tundishes to the moulds is again shrouded with refractory tubes to prevent reoxidation. |
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The prestige city centre office block has been shrouded in scaffolding and green netting for more than a year as the two huge firms did battle. |
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Perched on a tiny, tear-shaped island in the middle of the lake sat a small, white church shrouded in trees. |
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Outside, dim diffuse light indicated the presence of dawn, but everything was shrouded in a thick blanket of mist. |
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Comprised of a long sinewy pull followed by a spry frog kick, the pulldown is a holy moment of shrouded watery silence. |
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He closed his eyes, reached up a hand shrouded in shadows, and unclasped his cloak, letting it fall off his head and onto the ground. |
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I must have slept badly and was shrouded in a mist of tiredness that, by rights, should have been long gone. |
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In the days when he worked for the CIA, the agency was shrouded in secrecy and cloaked in mystery. |
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Instead, the Moon Beings became like wraiths, cloudy figures always shrouded by a misty covering-willing to do anything their master asked. |
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These murders culminate in his suicide, which is, like the murders themselves, shrouded in empirical impossibilities and supernatural improbabilities. |
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Updated Lower Manhattan is shrouded in soot and covered in ash and debris. |
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Since its early days, train travel has been shrouded in an aura of romanticism. |
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To date, much of the details of the diplomacy and even the interim deal between Iran and the West are shrouded in secrecy. |
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The process for informing the Senate and House intelligence committees is often shrouded in secrecy. |
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Despite its ranking at the bottom of most international development indexes, the conflict is shrouded by confusion. |
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In visible light this star system is completely shrouded in dust, its details hidden. |
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When the towers collapsed, my building was shrouded in a debris cloud that shut out the light of day and muffled the sounds of firemen shouting and sirens wailing. |
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After three years of hard graft, Arden opened her first salon on Fifth Avenue and, in common with her rival, the nature of her financial backing remains shrouded in mystery. |
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It hurtled through a void, an immense cathedral of black pitch, specked with faint pinpoints of light whose pale luminosity underscored the darkness that shrouded them. |
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But his motives for shooting John Paul II have remained a mystery shrouded in multiple conspiracy theories. |
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Hortense has long been shrouded in mystery and critical contempt, in part because so little is known about her. |
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But with official records locked away for many years to come and her life shrouded in a tangled web of secrecy, the real truth has probably died with her. |
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Holly describes it as the naked figure of a beautiful woman shrouded by her beating wings as she lifts the man-child away from some evil which has terrified him. |
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The visit of the barques, brigantines and schooners also seemed to drive off some of the tourism malaise created by a July shrouded in fog, damp and rain. |
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There were the mornings when the world was shrouded in a mist which turned subtly mauve, and then as the sun broke through, the mountainsides all around flamed orange-red. |
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A canopy of hickory, oak and mesquite shrouded the barn and the muddy red clay, pinpointing where the pork, chicken and beef were becoming prize-winning barbecue. |
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It fills a void and feeds a hunger for something that is not shrouded in statistics, task forces, and synergistic partnerships. |
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The trouble is, the whole issue is shrouded in a miasma of mistrust. |
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The reef at once returned to slopes, shelves and indentations, with a host of coral species shrouded in anthias, butterflyfish, angelfish and groupers. |
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The Tuscany hills were shrouded in mist on the morning of departure. |
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The origin of palmistry lies shrouded in the mists of antiquity. |
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The origins of the flat square stone are shrouded in mystery. |
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The city is the first thing I see from my bedroom window when I roll up the blinds of a morning, except on those days when it is shrouded in a thick blanket of damp mist. |
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The creation of life in general and of the human person in particular is a thing we can know a little about, but also a thing which is shrouded in impenetrable mystery. |
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The exact fate of the 45 people on board is shrouded in mystery. |
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They have become almost shrouded in myth but their dedication and unshakeable mindset is no mystery when you consider their starting point on this journey. |
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We rush down the glacier solving its intricacies by interminable weaving, creeping over tenuous bridges, snowplowing desperately below the shrouded rock. |
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The most famous buccaneers have been shrouded in legend and folklore for so long that it's almost impossible to distinguish between myth and reality. |
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We'd boarded the five-masted square-rigger Royal Clipper about 12 hours earlier, but my first evening afloat was shrouded in a somewhat hazy glow. |
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There is a place deep within the Mornington Peninsula hinterland, a place shrouded in mystery and intrigue, a place where, as a child, I used to hide from the big bad world. |
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The whole scene was densely shrouded in thick plumes of sulphur. |
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His career remains shrouded by polemicists' disparaging depictions of him. |
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For the moment at least, things remain shrouded by the fog of war. |
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The artist here sits in the foreground of the picture, his troubled head, larger than life and encircled in red, rises amid shrouded tables, which have the aura of coffins. |
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Although much of the rest of Scotland was shrouded in mist and heavy rain, the deluge which dampened Aberdeen in the morning had abated long before kick off. |
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Despite its grand, stately appearance, this fine city struggles, shrouded in a shadow of gloom and misery, crushed under an iron fist of oppression. |
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We walk down the wooded dunes, and there, finally, is the gunmetal Baltic, Kaliningrad's point, symbolically shrouded in an undulating, enigmatic fog. |
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There has been high interest in the site but its future remains shrouded in controversy as numerous competing plans exist for the last site along the old docks. |
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I sat on a bench shrouded in soft pillows, unaware of time's passage as I stared out the window, mesmerized by the droop and sway of the blossoms in the breeze. |
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A PROTESTER shrouded in flames screams in agony as Turkey disintegrates into violent chaos. |
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However, besides the two basic ingredients, barley and emmer the brew produced in the clay jars of the Sumerians is shrouded in mystery. |
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Abdullah's shrouded body was borne on a simple litter by members of the royal family wearing traditional red-and-white checked shemagh head gear. |
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The events in Naples, a city Mary Shelley later called a paradise inhabited by devils, remain shrouded in mystery. |
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Small poplars shrouded the deer's basketball-sized breadbox, preventing Keith from taking the shot. |
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The project has been shrouded in controversy from its inception. |
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I find them a curiously confronting sight, dressed in thongs, boardies and Victoria Bitter singlets, and shrouded in Australian flags. |
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The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. |
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Much of Hannibal's marches are shrouded in debate, especially the debate concerning the path he opted to employ over the Alps. |
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The outlines of the hovering planes showed by his side, and Lannes called in a loud voice to shrouded and visored men. |
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Angleton is one of those people who will always be shrouded in mystery. |
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More than 40 inches pvc insulated test leads with right-angle shrouded banana plugs. |
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The Turin bid for the 2006 Winter Olympics was also shrouded in controversy. |
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As I write this today,I am looking over the rolling hills of the Tay Valley, shrouded in pearl grey clouds, small snow patches scar the hillsides. |
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The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity. |
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Because the details of the violent row between him and Celine Cawley were shrouded in ambiguity, he may smugly feel he has won the day and beaten the system. |
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The character of the Doctor was initially shrouded in mystery. |
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He tries to 'treat its subject historically', to unravel the mystery in which the great philosopher of subjectivity, and later hero of existentialists, shrouded his own life. |
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