In those days the staid, solitary Christmas tree on The Mound with its handful of lights was the highlight of my year. |
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The first major civilization was the Mound Builders, known in Oklahoma as the Caddoans. |
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Imagined revenge for the Clearances and the totem abolition of private lairdship is the prevailing fantasy on The Mound. |
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Mound soil into foot-tall beds, then lay drip tubing or soaker hoses down the center. |
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They made me miss the Mound for the Test match, but at least the Windies won! |
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No wonder there's an air of trepidation deep in the bowels of the new Mound complex as they look forward to seeing the entries. |
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Scans of many of these have been amassed by Vieira on his Facebook page, Stone Builders, Mound Builders and the Giants of Ancient. |
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Most intriguing of all will be the many guns lurking around the Mound from the days when bank clerks routinely settled disputes with their customers by fighting a duel. |
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Two currently protected middens in this study, Green Mound and Tomoka State Park were mined for shell use for road building during the first half of the 20th century. |
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Bullen and Sleight analyzed the shellfish content of Green Mound and reported that it was comprised of shells of oyster, clam, coquina and other species of shellfish. |
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I grew up in Mound but went to Orono High School through open enrollment. |
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She was born in the downstate Illinois town of Blue Mound in 1972 and still carries traces of the Midwest in her voice. |
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He was disgusted by the recent events with four players partying in the Red Stripe Mound immediately after posting their worst score ever at Sabina! |
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Mound densities were 33 percent less in sites with the parasitic ant, and the number of fire ant queens was 47 percent less in parasitized colonies. |
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The Ting Mound or Thing Moot at Fellfoot Farm is a deliberately terraced mound situated close to the Roman road and other transport routes. |
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Originally centred on Old College the university expanded to premises on The Mound, the Royal Mile and George Square. |
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Paleomagnetic determination of the age of the Serpent Mound impact structure. |
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In two other reports last year, Terry and Mound described thrips carrying pollen for palm-shape cycads. |
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Ornithopod dinosaur cranial and postcranial material has been reported from the Woodbine Formation of Flower Mound and Lake Grapevine. |
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The corporate headquarters of the group were located on The Mound in Edinburgh, Scotland, the former head office of the Bank of Scotland. |
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The Group's headquarters is located at 25 Gresham Street in the City of London and its registered office is on The Mound in Edinburgh. |
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Meetings are usually held in the Assembly Hall on the Mound, Edinburgh. |
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Good examples of this culture are the Medora Site in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and the Emerald Mound, Winterville and Holly Bluff sites in Mississippi. |
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Napoleon's defeat in this battle marked the end of his military adventures, and the Lion's Mound was built to monumentalise the moment in history. |
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So, off they went with the water truck, torches, and assorted gear down the service road, past the eagle protection gate to the Calusa Indian Mound trail. |
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Slight changes between the two mounds are visible and expressed by the increase of sheep and cattle ratios, and by the decrease of carnivores and mesofauna in the East Mound. |
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Its offices and theological college remain on The Mound, Edinburgh, although the denomination no longer holds the original Free Church College buildings. |
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And, he also can take comfort in the fact he's got a pretty smart pitcher on the mound who thrives on mental challenges. |
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I heard her filling the stove with wood as I shook with cold beneath the mound of blankets. |
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People came and went, and a mound of gifts was slowly piling higher in the halls of the castle. |
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Like a little aardvark discovering a termite mound, her tiny nose twitched ecstatically. |
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The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens. |
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Cold-water coral mound dominated by Lophelia pertusa and colonised by orange actinians and a white anthipathrian. |
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The water level has receded to expose the entire site, leaving the work as a low white spiral mound embedded in blindingly white salt flats. |
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The Astros were shutout four times during this period and have been whitewashed a total of five times with Roger on the mound. |
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The passage tombs are most often set on a hilltop inside a large circular mound surrounded by kerbstones. |
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The domed stupa of Buddhist architecture recalls the simple mound of earth while its gates memorialise the forest cleared for the monument. |
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The new mound seems to have been built in stages producing the effect of a stepped cone. |
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The owner of the shovel grunted and wrenched another mound of dirt out of the ground. |
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Serve the rice hot, in a mound, with the pine nuts, pistachios and almonds sprinkled on top. |
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In some anterior time, the burial mound had been desecrated, its jeweled contents taken away. |
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As her hand slides into the cool mound of lentils, the camera cuts to her face, which is glowing. |
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They were doused in a light tomato sauce that seeped into the big mound of rice below. |
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The tuna tartare was mixed in a light cream sauce, and served with a mound of black caviar. |
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Move the entire root ball to the new planting spot, plant as usual, and mound the entire plant with soil. |
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They were infilled with rubble and sodded to create a low rectangular mound. |
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Here's a rundown of some of the most glaring failures at bat, in the field, or on the mound in a single World Series. |
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I turned away and slid back down the mound, only to feel a lump of something at my feet. |
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A scramble to the top of the mound gave a good view of merry little red-sailed dinghiess tacking this way and that. |
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The tagliatelle had been sitting under a hot lamp for so long that it looked like a mound of bleached bootlaces, only crispier. |
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And when we landed, a tamandua was busy breaking into a termite mound beside the runway. |
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Next to that there's a mound of smoked salmon, thin curls of air-dried ham and artisan-looking saucisson and soft cheeses. |
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The Baby Blue eyes will produce a delicate, sky blue, cup-shaped mound of flowers with white centres. |
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Serve the scallops on top of a mound of garlicky hummus or buttery savoy cabbage. |
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From Tmolus, the sacred mound, comes the exotic god of Bacchanalia with we disciples gathered round! |
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And beneath that, of course, is a detailed technical drawing, presumably of the principles of mound construction. |
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He's now tackling a mound of pancakes and bacon and eggs, washed down with endless cups of coffee. |
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The termite mound, or termitary, consists of hard, thick walls that seal in moisture and keep heat out. |
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This clever housing arrangement is also guarded by soldier termites that protect the mound from invading ants. |
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This is essentially the mound we see today made of chalk from the outer ditches and terracing of the adjacent slopes. |
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Place a mound of caviar, seasoned with lemon and onion ju ice, on each and garnish with shrimps. |
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With runners on first and second, the batter hits a slow roller between the pitcher's mound and the third baseline. |
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He seemed genuinely thrilled to be back on the mound, even without a blazing fastball. |
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Anna held a tea service and Sarah bore a tray with a small mound of sandwiches from which the crusts had been delicately cut. |
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Instead, I had the mixed greens, a fresh mound of mesclun topped with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. |
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At the most basic a round barrow is simply a roughly hemispherical mound of soil, stone, and redeposited bedrock heaped over a central burial. |
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He pours libations at his father's tomb and a seven spiraled serpent slithers from the mound. |
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Important individuals were typically interred in log-lined tombs which were burnt and then covered by a conical earth mound up to 20m high. |
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It consisted of two scallops, a small mound of microgreens and a tiny Parmesan basket filled with more microgreens in a bacon vinaigrette. |
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He was despicable, missing teeth and looking very shaggy with the messiest mound of hair resting atop his head. |
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The ship was beset and drifted for months in bitter cold, heaved upon a mound of ice. |
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I estimated colony size from the volume of the nest mound, which increases with total ant biomass. |
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Grace selected two lilacs and placed them on the fresh mound of dirt before picking up her shovel and moving on to dig the next grave. |
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The tuber cinereum is an elevated mound of gray substance between the optic chiasma and the mamillary bodies. |
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Silbury-Hill, the largest tumulus or artificial mound of earth in this kingdom was begun to be opened by the miners of Mendip, on Thursday last. |
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It is constructed to resemble an ancient burial mound, called a tumulus, sitting atop a ridge and overlooking the Magaliesberg mountains. |
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The nest is usually located on top of a low mound or small island, under a small shrub or in a sedge tussock. |
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Prepare the pasta by sifting the flour and a pinch of salt into a mound on a board. make a well in the centre and add the eggs. |
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I'm having the most enormous fun sifting through the mound of accumulated poems and haiku, bringing order and accord where there was none. |
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The traditional way to blanch asparagus is to mound mulch or sand around the spears as they emerge. |
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If you like a lot of white on your leeks, you can simply mound the soil up a little higher on the stalk to blanch more of it. |
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The dish came with a creamy mound of morels and was the favorite of my old-time waiter, who delivered it to the table with a little bow. |
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To make the base sift the flour and salt into a mound on a work surface and make a well in the centre. |
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The male appears to select the site, and both parents build the nest, a mound of muddy tundra vegetation with a depression at the center. |
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He protects the eggs from the hot summer sun by adding sand or soil to the mound as a shield. |
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Skulls, clothing and limbs still protrude from the mound of sand, more than six months after the event. |
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The first signs of growth are in late winter when tight buds of foliage make a neat mound on the surface of the soil. |
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The male gathers nesting material, and the female builds a shallow mound on a shoreline. |
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The garden seemed to be doing fine, except for a foot-high mound of chewed-up dirt on the grass near the edge of the garden. |
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He noticed Hunter and Brandon heading up a slight incline to the peak of a small mound, and chased after them. |
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Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas. |
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Goff's Caye, a dark green mangrove island a quarter-mile to our south, is only a low mound rising up from the water. |
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Within minutes you will see our first objective, Wath Hill, a grassy mound with a copse. |
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They knew that a wooded mound nearby hid the legendary tomb of the great emperor and so they thought this, too, was a part of it. |
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With clean hands, mound the rice into a cone shape about four inches in diameter and about five inches high. |
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As with so many Beaker burial sites of this date, the mound was not raised to commemorate a single grave. |
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The new circle is bigger than Seahenge and has been interpreted as the remains of a Bronze Age burial mound. |
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The oldest known ancient monuments at Coate are the Neolithic Stone Circle and the Bronze age burial mound along Day House Lane. |
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The batter hits a ball toward the mound that the pitcher deflects toward the second baseman. |
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He walked right up to me on the pitcher's mound, interrupting a baseball game I was playing with some young boys. |
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Connie Mack signaled his pitcher off the mound and we all looked toward the bullpen to see who was coming in. |
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On the top of the mound was a worn-down house cottage, made of wood and braced by a large tree. |
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Out on the field, he watched the opposing pitchers as they warmed up, noting how they set up on the mound, toeing the left or right side or middle of the rubber. |
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And neither is the termite mound a heap, a haphazard pile of dirt. |
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He and his colleagues in the Tadcaster Fraud Squad were confronted with a mound of paperwork, huge piles of loose papers, all of which had to be read and understood. |
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Christine and I came and piled a huge mound of sand for a castle, adding turrets and walls and digging a moat that filled anew with every wave that reached it. |
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Spoon some lobster bisque onto a plate, set a mound of tomato jam on top, and stand a potato ring in the center, anchoring with the rouget on the base. |
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On the western end of the beach is a large, grassy mound with a shallow depression in the top. This is the site of a prehistoric fortification, or broch. |
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He lobbed an object that made a soft landing in a mound of grass a few yards away from us. |
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The rush I get whenever I step onto the pitcher's mound is just amazing. |
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Johnny looped thirty yards to the left, below the mound, then he turned and picked up speed. |
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The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes. |
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I had a soft, steaming mound of it with some of the butcher's pork and leek sausages the other day, but it would have gone just as well with a Sunday roast. |
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Morgan hypothesizes that the mound shape was first outlined by a line of posts set in a wall trench, which served as a retaining wall for the fill. |
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Our pasta festival continued with a mound of linguine vongole, a mild tomato sauce simmered with garlic and shallots and peppered with pieces of clam. |
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In the middle of Northstead was a conical mound with the ruins of a stone building, said by some historians to have been the Manor House, by others to have been a magazine. |
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On the bread was a mushy mound of lentils, rice and carrots. |
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In a survey of anti-vax parents the US journal Pediatrics found that they typically make their decision based upon a mound of books and source material. |
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This volume on the Mississippian town and mound center called Bottle Creek is a must-read for scholars, researchers, and students of Mississippian culture. |
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A mound, or motte, was raised up to one hundred feet in height. |
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Through the dust we saw the bricks in a mound upon the floor. |
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The centerpiece of the meal, a juicy autumn vegetable ragout with white beans, butternut squash, and kale, is served over a mound of soft polenta. |
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Scobie took the mound for the seventh, retiring the first batter. |
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In the digital elevation model the small conical mound of a tell is represented by a characteristic point pattern, superposed onto the natural topography. |
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The Island of St. Germain, the objective of the action, is a low mound of earth surrounded by swamps and was athwart the division zone of advance. |
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My signature dish at the time was a thin slice of farmed salmon, seared until crisp on one side and served atop a mound of avocado salsa, surrounded by a herb butter sauce. |
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Form the mixture into a mound and create a well in the center. |
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Salama al Sersawi leans on a bench, waiting to get his mound of matted hair reined in. |
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To serve place a mound of jicama salad in the center of a soup plate, arrange two shrimp and a quenelle of salmon roe on top, and spoon some lobster saffron broth around dish. |
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The motte was an earthen mound, conical in shape and the bailey was a level area around the motte, both of which would have had a wooden stockade surrounding. |
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The pad is used to store a mound of ore through which chemicals percolate to leach out the gold ore, which is then collected and processed into bullion. |
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But during the downpours last November, the mound only succeeded in accumulating a huge expanse of water which had run off from saturated fields nearby. |
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Yezidis play a sort of basketball game here, balling cloth up and tossing it onto the top of the mound. |
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Jake flipped over and spread his arms across the grassy mound he lay upon. |
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The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside. |
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This, he said, is backed up by remnants of nibbled grass in the mound, which he thinks shows livestock were brought to graze on land that was once boggy marshland. |
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The roast lamb was a scrumptious mound of tender, smokey meat. |
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In response, English Heritage funded excavation of the prehistoric barrow mound at Woodnesborough, near Sandwich, in the field where it was uncovered. |
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Believing that associated cremation burials might be lost, archaeologists cleared the barrow to the top of the original earth mound, which was only 50 cm high. |
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The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface. |
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It bored four holes from the top of the hill to its base to allow sensitive recording equipment to be lowered inside the mound to provide a 3D image of the hill. |
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There were about thirty tunnels in the mound complex, some as deep as three feet underground and snaking among the tough roots of the salt plants. |
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After another half hour, kilt Man leaned his full weight with his palm onto the soft mound above my pelvic bone. |
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Little or no mound fill was added to the westernmost edge of the mound with the contours of this area remaining essentially the same as the natural bluff ridge. |
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Eat hot with warm sponge cake or madeleines or eat thoroughly chilled aside a little mound of equal quantities of thick yoghurt and whipped cream. |
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A mound of flowers to those killed by real bullets is heaped in a memorial on the road to the parliament. |
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Here Luqman also pointed out a curious structure, a mound rising on the side of the wall in front of all the urns. |
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There was a toppling pile of presents on the dining room table and a mound of pancakes waiting for her. |
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A simple mound and unwrought headstone by the roadside marks the site of a more modern grave. |
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As part of her mound accomplishments, she threw her screwball for a strike for the first time in her career. |
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Three of the stones, visible within the cairn mound, are thought to be from the stone circle of that time. |
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There were Mojave mound cacti and blackbrush, widely spaced bunchgrasses and iodine bush, and treacherous, heavily armored cholla cacti. |
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Kerbstones for the mound were also found, but not in a complete sequence, and aligned more to the pits than the stone chamber. |
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The stone chamber was at the southern end of the long mound, which stretched off to the north. |
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Some of the kerbstones, marking the edge of the mound have been identified during excavations. |
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They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound, which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides. |
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There's even a mound where he is believed to be buried at Mornington Straddle. |
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Soon I was sidestepping up a threefoot mound, skiing down and using my newly learned V-shaped snowplough to stop. |
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A short distance from this town lies Bryn Celli Ddu, a Stone Age burial mound. |
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Differences in worker size and mound distribution in monogynous and polygynous colonies of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren. |
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According to Welsh tradition the region of Kyle was named for Coel, and a mound at Coylton in Ayrshire was regarded as his tomb. |
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In the claggy mud of the field the barrow reappeared initially as a grass-topped mound running in a west-to-east direction. |
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Wayland is associated with Wayland's Smithy, a burial mound in the Berkshire Downs. |
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The tower was terraced into the side of a mound, so the northern side of the basement is partially below ground level. |
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St. Malo, seized with pity for the lost soul of the heathen, opens the mound and raises the dead to life. |
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Further west is Hillsdale mound, a large glacial interlobate area composed of outwash material. |
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Jesse starts Year One in September and already my sugar paper mound qualifies for a gastric bypass. |
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After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound. |
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The cairn consisted of an earthen mound with a surrounding ditch 28 metres in circumference and over 2 metres tall. |
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The grave is fitted with a series of concentric stone kerbs to protect the central mound from slippage. |
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It is possibly a reference to a mound or slightly raised place in an otherwise marshy region. |
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There is a mound of stones there and one stone placed above the pile with the pawprint of a dog in it. |
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Unfired pots are first brought to the place where a mound will be built, customarily by the women and girls of the village. |
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When a mound is completed and the ground around has been swept clean of residual combustible material, a senior potter lights the fire. |
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A handful of grass is lit and the woman runs around the circumference of the mound touching the burning torch to the dried grass. |
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Radially symmetrical, star dunes are pyramidal sand mounds with slipfaces on three or more arms that radiate from the high center of the mound. |
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In lace monitors, the young hatch close to 300 days and the female returns to help them escape the termite mound were the eggs were laid. |
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A shell midden or shell mound is an archaeological feature consisting mainly of mollusk shells. |
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One must exercise caution in deciding whether one is examining a midden or a beach mound. |
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The supposed place of his murder is traditionally on, or near, the castle mound. |
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Crocodiles lay eggs, which are laid in either holes or mound nests, depending on species. |
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A hole nest is usually excavated in sand and a mound nest is usually constructed out of vegetation. |
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An inconspicuous rock mound marks the reburial site where close to 80 boxes of various sizes are buried. |
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An artificial mound was found near the dunes which they partially uncovered and found to be a Native grave. |
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Commercial growers plant potatoes as a row crop using seed tubers, young plants or microtubers and may mound the entire row. |
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A postern, dismantled from its original position and rebuilt into a wall by the station, and a part of the keep mound are all that remains. |
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The name Pool How was derived from the Old English word pollr plus the Old Norse haugr meaning hill or mound. |
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How is believed to derive from the Old Norse word haugr meaning hill or mound. |
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How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound. |
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Artificial hills may be referred to by a variety of technical names, including mound and tumulus. |
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In July 1958, a group from the University of Manchester excavated the central mound only to find it had been excavated 250 years earlier. |
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The second mound was found higher up the hill on the southern edge of Noon Hill. |
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Outdoor ranges without a covered firing point are usually grass, often on a slightly raised, flattened mound. |
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The dull mound now cuts off the sportive infancy of the Stour from its sorely-tasked term of useful riverhood. |
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Whilst the pillar itself dates to the 9th century, the mound is thought to be significantly older, possibly prehistoric. |
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The grave is still distinct, and the mound of earth over it is decently kept. |
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Crossing rediscovered the original site of the tomb in 1882 and said that all that remained was a small mound and some half buried stones. |
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The hand slipped lower to cover her Venus mound, and India felt her breath catch in her throat. |
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The one I had was a mound of steamed and pounded glutinous rice with sweet adzuki bean paste. |
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There's Papelbon on the Fenway mound, dressed in his baseball underthings, doing a jig after Boston clinched its first AL East title in 12 years. |
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Hana Abu Jandal pushed past people until she reached a mound of bright orange dirt in the hospital back yard. |
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The mound which supports the pillar was subjected to excavation in the years 2010, 2011 and 2012 by Project Eliseg. |
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The plant, by this time tightly rootbound, is carefully tapped out of its cup and buried about half way up its stem in this mound of loose dirt. |
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Poking through this crunchy-sweet vegetable mound is edible ecstasy. |
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So the candidate stood up on the fertilizer mound and gave his speech. |
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At the time the mound was surrounded north and west by the Adour swamps. |
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The influence of mound structure on the diversity of spiders inhabiting the abandoned mounds of the snouted harvester termite Trinervitermes trinervoides. |
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The mining bee makes its nest under lawns and paths, leaving a conical mound of earth on the surface, but this can be scattered before mowing and doesn't need drastic action. |
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When Adrian Beltre made a highlight-worthy play on a Scott Rolen nubber to start the seventh, Lima walked off the mound to high-five his third-baseman. |
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If these are the key elements of the monument then, it is argued, the stones were never designed to be buried within a mound, and they never formed a chamber to contain bones. |
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The meeting of the two on a high mound between the camps with the bodyguards a few hundred yards away is surely a rare event in the history of parlays. |
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The burn pile is one of the simplest and earliest forms of waste disposal, essentially consisting of a mound of combustible materials piled on open ground and set on fire. |
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In Dublin, Ireland the Thingmote was a raised mound, 40 foot high and 240 foot in circumference, where the Norsemen assembled and made their laws. |
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These laws include that all the dead are to be burned on a pyre on a burial mound with their possessions, and their ashes are to be brought out to sea or buried in the earth. |
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It consists of a mound with a pyramid base and stairs on the east side. |
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Hogarth explored part of an immense brick structure under the mound of Kom El Deka, which may have been part of the Paneum, the Mausolea, or a Roman fortress. |
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At Warness in the south west there is a burnt mound from this period and there are the ruins of two houses of a similar age on Holm of Faray near the Point of Dogs Bones. |
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In Mali, a firing mound is used rather than a brick or stone kiln. |
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Mount Manisty, a large mound of earth on a narrow stretch between the canal and the Mersey northwest of Ellesmere Port, was constructed from soil taken from the excavations. |
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He nubbed one about halfway between the plate and the pitcher's mound. |
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The nest is built on the ground or on a mound of dirt or vegetation. |
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He helped himself to another mound of well-gravied potatoes. |
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Visitors can get inside the mound through a stone passage to the burial chamber, and it is the centrepiece of a major Neolithic Scheduled Monument in the care of Cadw. |
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Howe is derived from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning mound. |
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She'd scrubbed up. Moved on. Stepped right over Phil, over his grave. For this was not a girl to let the grass grow under her feet, particularly the grass on a mound. |
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It would have been grassed up the sides so from a distance you couldn't see anything other than a grass mound, a bit like the Telly Tubbies house. |
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Cists are often to be found in the centre of a cairn circle although some appear solitary which could be the result of the loss of an original slight mound. |
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Later in his life, Beowulf becomes king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorized by a dragon, some of whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound. |
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He is cremated and a burial mound by the sea is erected in his honor. |
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Outside the tomb, a ring of kerbstones shows the original extent of the mound, and they also follow the line of the ditch of the earlier henge monument. |
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The burial chamber would have been entirely enclosed within the mound, rather than the back wall being open to the air, as in the reconstructed mound now seen. |
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The line of her skimpy panties rested just above her Venus mound. |
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The typical style of these structures is a rectangular or trapezoidal stone and earth mound that encloses a chamber lined with larger stone slabs. |
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