Rambling and anecdotal, the dysfunctional family's tale is charming if you allow it to move at its own pace. |
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The first national grouping, the Federation of Rambling Clubs, was formed in London in 1905 and was heavily patronized by the peerage. |
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And most of what he said was rambling, incoherent and quite clearly not said with me as the listener in mind. |
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There are numerous rambling barns and outhouses, and the gardens and two ornamental lakes are exquisite. |
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The previous campus home for the arts program was a series of rambling barns. |
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He braked outside a rambling Tudor-style house that had been recently converted into apartments. |
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The owners, Gregory and Celeste Shade, bought the huge, rambling house on Brookover Street more or less on a whim. |
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Although in poor condition, refurbishment has already begun on this rambling residence. |
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Evacuated in wartime to the rambling country house of kindly Professor Kirk, they can't resist exploring its huge stairways. |
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Over the course of his life he built this great series of vast rambling palaces, one after the other. |
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Lose a spouse and find another, lose a job and retrain for another, give up mountaineering and take up rambling. |
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After much leisurely rambling, we made tracks for Provincetown, a charming seaside town. |
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Here he appears to have been caught off guard a bit by the question, rambling a bit as he seeks to vocalize a responsive answer. |
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Anyhoo, before rambling on I will answer the questions that have been posed. |
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After all, who cares about the appositive colon or out of control apostrophes or the 17 uses of the comma or rambling apostrophes? |
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Had a busy week dealing with drunk rambling boyfriends celebrating St David's day and generally loafing about. |
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Most of the estates include salmon and trout fishing rights, grouse moors and deer stalking grounds as well as rambling lodges and outbuildings. |
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How rude of me, rambling on about my brother when you don't even know my name! |
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Read on, for a compilation of rambling late night thoughts, mainly about unionism and loyalism but with a fair bit on republicanism. |
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Borley Rectory, a rambling, ramshackle Victorian barn of a house, sprawled on an Essex hillside, had little to offer. |
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This statement is either deceitful or the egotistical rambling of a megalomaniac. |
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Five months after her transfer, she sent a rambling 15-page handwritten letter to two journalists at the Adelaide Advertiser. |
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I pitied the poor souls who would listen to the rambling of the senile teachers on this most lazy day. |
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He slumps in the auditorium, worrying that his mother is rambling or sermonising. |
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So forgive me if I polish up the script of this interview a little by removing some of the most rambling parts. |
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What I need is a website which condenses long rambling works into easily-understandable bite-sized morsels. |
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When he is done rambling, a wistful expression comes to him and his eyes moisten over. |
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Shug has no material prepared, but launches into a rambling monologue about his journey to the class. |
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Why not drop in daily for your regular dose of nonsensical blather, rambling introspection and stolen links? |
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Eventually, she starts rambling in a dazed sing-song about fat women walking up a hill and thin women walking down. |
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In hiding, his only human contact are glamour-chasing girl friends, snidey, shady minders and the builders renovating his rambling house. |
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To reduce the height of a fast growing rambling rose on an upright trellis, try looping and tying the flowering canes as shown. |
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She gave a long, rambling explanation, the upshot of which is that her mom works there, and got her the job. |
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Other accessories include beards and sideburns and for your feet there's desert boots, brogues and Chelsea boots for extra comfy rambling. |
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What was it like to try to pin them down, because they both, kind of, come off as space cadets and give these long, rambling answers? |
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After the standard rambling walk following his contact he found himself at another nondescript West End hotel. |
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They couldn't go rambling about or fishing or playing cricket on the green or burying themselves in books. |
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Here he appears to have been caught off guard by the question, rambling a bit as he seeks to vocalize a responsive answer. |
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I'm bursting with much emotion here, so please bear with me if it sounds like I'm rambling like a mad man! |
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As always, my answer is rather long and rambling, and approaches the topic in a very oblique manner. |
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Those who return the call can expect to be kept hanging on while listening to a rambling message. |
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The rambling website of the Royal Institute of British Architects is good in parts, especially its library catalogue. |
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He is a shoo-in for any quick-witted verbal gameshow that requires surreal rambling and a straight-faced delivery. |
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Most outdoor pursuits are popular, in particular shooting, rambling, sailing and windsurfing. |
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Sure, the conversation offered by a chatbot is rambling, disconnected, illogical, and unable to follow a topic for more than a sentence. |
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The passing of the post office was a great loss to the community but let us not forget the rambling houses. |
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Listening to this elderly cleric, rambling on about the woes of the world, he can scarcely believe his luck. |
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With his rambling between-song patter he fills in much of the background to his tale. |
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Much of the rest of the e-mail is rambling, incoherent, badly written, nonsensical, fanciful, and downright unbelievable. |
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. |
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The badly drawn one has stuck to a signature script of music-box melodies, shuffling instrumentals and rambling lyrical tangents. |
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It is primarily a financial decision, as they co-own a rambling property in Yorkshire and another in Italy. |
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Historians will be rambling on about the hippie movement and the summer of love and flower power, and all that stuff, for decades to come. |
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The couple are hoping to take up residence in a seven-bedroom rambling Cotswold house by Christmas. |
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You'll forget the rambling opening, in which storm clouds sleepily gather for the length of a normal full-length feature. |
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She laid a hand on his arm, stilling the flood of jumbled thoughts and rambling words that poured from his mouth. |
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The book is set in the 1960s and tells the story of four generations of one family living in a rambling old house. |
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It was a dark, rambling, badly-lit Victorian pile, but at the time its ponderous gloominess appealed to my over-developed taste for the Gothic. |
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Also, its clear that he's rambling and full of emotion, not making some sort of planned publicity stunt. |
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Huge oaks, cedars and wisteria grace the 1,300 acre stretch of rambling greens known as Deer Park. |
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It is set in more than 200 acres of forest, with a golf course and leisure pursuits such as riding, cycling and rambling. |
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Now I'm rambling, but these thoughts distract me from concentrating on my work and I must let them out. |
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The little distractions and diversions that once seemed to add to the richness of the texture now feel like unfocused rambling. |
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The topic du jour was Childbirth, not a subject Miss E or I introduced, but once Sue got rambling there was no stopping her. |
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At this point, I'm very tempted to fall into a rambling rant of some form, but for some reason today, I just don't feel like it. |
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Liberation simply travels, picking up junk and jetsam along the way, discarding it somewhere downstream, and rambling on. |
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He was whining and rambling about the shortage of coal imports in his country. |
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Trisha looked out the window, ignoring the boys rambling about old fights and stupid bets. |
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Amid the rambling dialogue and semi-lucid metaphors we become privy to a sense of the director's desperation to conjure up some kind of meaning. |
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That all changed with The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the gently rambling tale of the writing of the Oxford English Dictionary's first edition. |
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Condensing lengthy, rambling stories written in different styles into a coherent narrative is a difficult task. |
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I hope that my rambling answer fully addressed your thought-provoking question, Matthew. |
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It's tough reading through rambling speeches, but he has some worthy food for thought. |
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Though he wasn't trying to delay congressional action, his rambling speech had that effect. |
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Corbett never swears on stage and is most famous for his gently rambling monologues and long digressions. |
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I feel like writing a long, rambling sort of entry, with lots of tangents and absolutely no warnings as to when I'm going to change the topic. |
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I can tell that this is going to be one of those long-winded, rambling posts about nothing at all. |
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In front of the world's golf media, the 13-time PGA Tour winner gave a long, rambling and often confusing account of his own life and times. |
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He began to write rambling letters about black holes and plagued his mother with unanswerable questions. |
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Large-leaved vines and white rambling roses will clothe the walls of the castle to give a romantic effect. |
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His brother Richard's cremated remains are in the same garden, under a white rambling rose bush planted by him and his mother, Estella. |
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Deter intruders and enchant your neighbours with rambling roses on walls or fences. |
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At first, weeding the garden pained me as I had grown to love the rambling weeds and all the wonders that they had to offer. |
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For many, roses are the symbol of a well-cared-for home, evoking images of that picket-fenced cottage awash with rambling roses. |
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In the distance you can see a number of rambling, overgrown hawthorns with a tree growing through them. |
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Prune rambling roses by cutting down to ground level growths that have flowered this year. |
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We've kept it simple, warm and welcoming, and have avoided the urge to dress it with rambling roses and ornament of any kind. |
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Around the barn a flagged terrace is encircled by cottage garden plants, such as delphiniums, rambling roses, geraniums, dianthus and lupins. |
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As a teenager we lived in a large, rambling old house which creaked and groaned like an old man's knees. |
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Leaving his rambling ranch house in fashionable North Dallas, he drove his Jaguar to his psychiatric offices. |
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They renovated the dilapidated and rambling buildings as much as they could afford to and began to update the studio's ageing equipment. |
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At the corner of Pottery Road is the large rambling house well over 100 years old belonging to K G Shashidhar. |
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After the war the rambling building was turned into an hotel by the Ferruccio family. |
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This rambling home has a sumptuous interior and manicured grounds but is not particularly close to any large urban centres. |
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This rambling temple complex is the largest wooden building in the world. |
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Their atrophied sense of integrity and largely incoherent rambling suggested that this would prove a far more difficult task than I first imagined. |
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Carnival by Rawi Hage A cab driver roams an unnamed city as its rambling poet of the freakish and weird. |
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While she had been rambling on, I noticed Leo give me a pointed look. |
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Playing on the idea of urban ruin, the garden will evolve to become rambling and overgrown, allowing the omnifarious grasses, low level creepers and fragrant plants to really grow into their own. |
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With their two children grown and gone, Rosie and Bob Clark wanted to create a home within a home at their rambling old summerhouse on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee. |
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Renvyle House Hotel has an idyllic setting, with its own stretch of beach, superb grounds including a croquet lawn, and rambling but beautifully maintained gardens. |
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King himself made what some present described as a rambling speech. |
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As talented vocal impressionists, they spoofed many identifiable targets, including rambling elder Jamaican characters, rap artists and smooth-talking Lotharios. |
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Alex had been found hiding in the boys changing rooms rambling on about something invisible in the dark, something that had killed Lizzie and he couldn't stop it. |
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If I could sum it up in a few choice words, I would, but instead I hem and haw, before stumbling through some rambling rejoinder. |
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The History of Britain was rambling, shallow and patchily informed. |
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For example, I recall once rambling on for a bit about semanticians, until a friend gently inquired whether I might be talking about semanticists. |
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Why I was rambling a spew of unintelligible garble, I had not a clue. |
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Yet the show has gotten a deal of negative criticism for being inchoate, unselective, too rambling, and uneven. |
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It boasted three rambling houses, a school and a post office. |
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At a fundraiser in Sun Valley, Clint had gone way off message, talking about taxing Olympic medals and rambling on. |
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In rambling posts, he called himself a loser, and wrote that he must be either bipolar or a psychopath. |
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But first, I will string you along with some largely unnecessary details presented in a rambling, discursive manner, so as to build suspense and fulfill my word quota. |
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The family lived in a large rambling house on Hamond Street. |
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After about one minute of rambling, a woman runs up on stage and directs someone to turn his microphone off. |
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Once again, my inane rambling doesn't have an answer at the end of it. |
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Guess I didn't really answer the OP's question in my long, rambling post. |
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Nobody can teach the way he twists rambling phrases into musical stories. |
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Street savvy but compassionate, mystical but agnostic and above all, brilliantly idiosyncratic, Fly is a rambling poet of sorts. |
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The rocker posted a rambling video on his Facebook page claiming he's broke and penniless. |
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The rambling old beach house had a dozen or more rooms, attics, walk-in closets with hidden panels and a widow's walk that gave a view of the ocean. |
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That splendid, rambling rectory with its quirks, quorns and corbel tables, beyond the graveyard, had gone, and so, for that matter, had the graveyard itself. |
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The doctor, who can understand Hungarian, realised that the inmate was rambling and gibbering not in Russian but in Hungarian, which is not a Slavonic language. |
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Their rambling villa, once a model of gracious elegance, was now a paradise of dry rot, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards. |
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Like a Jack in the Box just sprung from coiled captivity, he begins rambling excitedly. |
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When I was at school, we went rambling in the Kent countryside as part of our activities week, something we did before we broke up for our summer holidays. |
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A full-length commentary features Hill and McDonald offer a rambling, mumbling discussion of the real events behind some of the film's plot points. |
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Contrast living in a small flat with a gorgeous rambling house. |
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This rambling, undirected story is about as far from a pub conversation or earnest late night chat as you can get, but it's closer to the real, deep Tom than either of those. |
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His cinematic influence is to the fore again with a number of tracks, usually using Peveron's rambling raps, as vehicles to keep the album moving. |
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Their rambling villa once a model of gracious elegance was now a paradise of dry rot and borer, with its skeletal verandah, rickety walls and warped weatherboards. |
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The documentary is around 30 minutes long, and is a rambling look at the making of the film, with interviews, film clips, and behind the scenes footage. |
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In contrast, his essay on coffee offered no more than a rambling and trite presentation of the arguments against anticoffee legislation. |
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Unfortunately, there were moments of pure indulgence, drunken boorishness and rambling unintelligible poetry midway through the evening. |
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Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors. |
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Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries. |
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The Commission works with various associations involved in rambling, cycling and horse riding to promote the use of its land for recreation. |
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They would escape the confines of the city by rambling about in the countryside. |
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Except that the house had an immensely large rambling loft at top, I made no other discoveries. It was moderately well furnished, but sparely. |
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In fact, Wild West Weekly, a popular pulp magazine, published 430 of his rambling tales. |
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Perfectly charming and at ease on stage, he's equally rambling and yakky in an interview. |
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Among the most effective plants are pyracantha, common hawthorn, rosa rugosa rubra, holly, berberis Julianae and rambling rose. |
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His testimony this week, considering he has been silent for so long, was at best rambling and at times grudgeful. |
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Of the Choral Symphony completed in 1924, Matthews writes that, after several movements of real quality, the finale is a rambling anticlimax. |
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Leisure activities available in the county include beach activities, rambling, cycling, sea fishing, canoeing, sailing and horse riding. |
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Pinkerton's arguments were often rambling, bizarre and clearly motivated by his belief that Celts were an inferior people. |
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The original narrative can be found in the rambling chronicle El Carnero of Juan Rodriguez Freyle. |
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Although it was often turgid, rambling, and inaccessible to most readers, it ran for 25 issues and was republished in book form a number of times. |
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For use at weekends and during school holidays, Holst and his wife bought a cottage in Thaxted, Essex, surrounded by mediaeval buildings and ample rambling opportunities. |
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It's a creative partnership that plays out on the potter's wheels, in the woodworking and metalworking shops, and other spaces in the rambling building on Sagamore Street. |
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In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he was not a political person and that his rambling remarks that night were not appropriate. |
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Andy Mahler and Linda Lee hosted the first Pow Wow in 1987 at their rambling house on a gravel road that deadends in the Hoosier National Forest in southern Indiana. |
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The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator. |
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Enjoy more than 200 different selections of shrub, climbing and rambling roses, along with a wide range of herbaceous underplanting, such as geraniums, violets and achilleas. |
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Super League Backchat Sky Sports 3, 10pm FOOTBALL started it, cricket followed and now it's rugby league's turn to indulge in a spot of fireside rambling, writes Steve Davies. |
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