A weathered tree stump serves as an occasional table, river rocks adorn tabletops, and branches are used as sculpture. |
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Does any other team have opening bats who spend more of their time swishing at flies outside the off stump? |
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The sign of a great ride is when you peel yourself off a mud splattered stump after a 30 mph endo and come up smiling. |
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I thought it was a difficult wicket but it was slightly easier for the left-handers as the soft spots were outside the right-handers off stump. |
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The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth and the smoke encircled his head like a wreath. |
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No hitter has ever cut so well, and his footwork enabled him to cut balls even on his leg stump, or pull them to leg from outside his off stump. |
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There is plenty of time for our patented 10-point-plan yawner of a stump speech as we move into the next election cycle. |
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Lewry kept pitching the ball on middle stump, yorking Mark Ealham and Swann. |
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Helicopter bounces forward and keels over on to one side at a 45 degree angle as it comes to rest on a tree stump. |
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Some good bowling, attacking his leg stump, kept him cramped him up at first. |
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To restrict Bradman, the English captain Douglas Jardine instructed his bowlers to direct their attack short on or outside the leg stump. |
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In India itself he used Ashley Giles to bowl at or just outside the leg stump when Sachin Tendulkar was batting. |
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Gayle floated one outside the off stump and Afridi couldn't resist having a dip. |
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A few days later, so the story goes, a large growth resembling the stump of an animal's horn sprang from the guilty man's forehead. |
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Last summer our glorious 25 ft-high golden robinia had to be cut down to a foot-high stump and the garden looked very bare without it. |
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You can also drill several holes in the trunk, near the root ball, and inject stump killer into the holes with a baster. |
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Just as the rounded curve of the lake, and the lodge came into view, they saw two shadows huddled together on a stump. |
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On the political stump, the example of the buckskinned Whig congressman and Tennessee rifleman Davy Crockett was widely imitated. |
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If they miss, the man backing up collects and has a shy at the next stump along the line. |
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Car owners will moan, but such is the attachment to our vehicles we will probably stump up the extra amount. |
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Linda watched Karen as she sat her new doll carefully on a tree stump and placed tiny china plates, cups and saucers before it. |
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And old man with more beard than face spat a trail of baccy across the stump of a felled tree. |
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But as the terebinth and oak leave stumps when they are cut down, so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. |
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However, unless you stump up the balloon payment at the end of the agreement, you never own the car. |
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Leaves of the drumstick plant and the core stump of the banana plant, which are available locally, are a rich source of nutrients and fibres. |
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Can the second banana deliver a rousing partisan stump speech guaranteed to excite the party faithful? |
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They climbed on to a tree stump and squeezed through barbed wire to get over a concrete fence next to their hideout. |
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It swam round the boat until its master, leaning over the bow, caught the animal by its short stump of a tail. |
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He barked his shin on a hidden stump and swore softly but continued on toward the scrap. |
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At nights, he was forced to sleep on a thin mattress against the stump of a tree. |
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The result was an exact plaster mould of my stump, which Ian will use to make the socket onto which my artificial leg will be attached. |
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All you want to do now, apart from sip wanly at the dregs of that satisfying Shiraz, is stump upstairs and crash into a nicely turned down bed. |
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He tried to pull a short ball from Sami from outside off stump, top-edged it, and was caught by the bowler running towards midwicket. |
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A stump grinder was on hand, and two high-powered vacuums sucked up leaves. |
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The trees were tall and towering though there was a stump in the middle where a tree had been felled. |
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I found myself at an event with no working Wi-Fi and the kind of mobile reception you'd expect to get beyond the black stump. |
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Soil microbiology may lie beyond the black stump separating chemistry from its cousin biology. |
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Your average sheila and bloke, be it in Sydney or beyond the black stump, doesn't have a lot of time for earbashers. |
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Historians have had little to say about the lands that stretch beyond the black stump. |
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If it was a little further west it could fairly be described as being beyond the black stump. |
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Maybe it's all right that he is as beyond the black stump when it comes to common sense. |
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He dabbed at a ball outside the off stump and Boucher picked up a regulation catch. |
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The bare stump of a tree, obviously cut down to aid the rescue work, pointed accusingly at the sky. |
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Come on Walter, now we've had to stump up the ackers, lets get our moneys worth out of Thomas and let him prove he is one of Europes finest. |
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The light source was a microscope halogen lamp, which unilaterally illuminated the protruding stump. |
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From now, there's a mad dash to election day, and the candidates are just going to do their stump speeches. |
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An inquest heard his glasses had probably misted up, causing him to veer into a tree stump. |
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But its not socially acceptable to even discuss whether those views originate from the almighty or a drunken guy whizzing on a tree stump. |
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This tether prevents the nerve from retracting too far into the stump and keeps it near the center of the developing blastema. |
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Shifting to the pavilion end, reverting to over the wicket, he speared one on middle stump and managed to break it just enough. |
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The sweater vest was the same, as was most of the God-and-country stump speech. |
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Neonatal umbilical infection, or omphalitis, is characterized by redness, induration, and purulent or malodorous drainage from the umbilical stump. |
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Romney appeared to try to take some of the sharper edges off his stump speech Wednesday. |
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Playing a ball pitched on the off stump to the on side was satisfying. |
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Minutes later, he pitched one slightly short of a length on off stump. |
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Before the umbilical cord stump drops off, you can just top and tail your baby, using a bowl of warm water, baby lotion and a soft cloth or cotton wool. |
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I was surprised to find that my snorkel had melted almost down to the mouthpiece, leaving a stump that would have allowed me to dive in two centimetres of water. |
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The artificial limb, in a white sock and brown flat shoe, was bound in a heavy material like canvas and ended in an ugly jointure where it was attached to the stump. |
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Large numbers of consumers and small businesses swap software, and they're not about to stump up the readies to convert their current unlicensed software to full product. |
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They are model citizens, the kind of people whose lives might be used as exemplary stories by a politician in a stump speech. |
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I've been in Australia beyond the black stump for a month now. |
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He was very brief and general about his plans, reiterating the standard five points from his stump speech. |
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While Millard did not shift from log cabin to White House, he did transport himself from beyond the Black Stump to strike it rich at Stawell. |
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We want to head out way beyond the black stump and see the National Park. |
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Extraction of the tree stump is achieved with this known uprooter by manual rotation of the screw threaded spindle which requires great expenditure of force. |
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The land beyond the black stump lay two hundred miles to the west. |
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She took to the road to stump for her son John in 2008, and she quickly became one of the fixtures of the presidential campaign. |
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Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself. |
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When Schwartz finally arrived, she gave a version of her sunny stump speech. |
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One year, each competitor had to tote around not only a tree stump but also a bicycle frame for hours. |
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Palin went to Georgia to stump for Karen Handel, but Handel finished a distant third in the Senate primary. |
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And none of that really mattered anyway, because he was just forgettable at debates and on the stump. |
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The light source was a microscope halogen lamp, which unilaterally illuminated the protruding stump, via a light guide at a site 2-4 cm from the lower cut end. |
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Quarry is eaten on the ground or on a stump, the hawk standing with both feet on its victim, drooping wings to form a tent and spreading its tail as if to give support. |
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He pitched one just outside the leg stump and I confidently let it go. |
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He moved forward to become the top scorer in the innings with 71 when he played a somewhat loose shot outside the off stump to edge Alex to the wicket-keeper. |
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In Parr's days most of the lbw errors must have been mutteringly referred to as a fifty-fifty one as there was no stump vision to highlight just how bad the decision had been. |
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Meanwhile, Cain takes great delight blackmailing Robert and gets the little toerag to stump up some much-needed dosh for the farm. |
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The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech. |
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Dad had placed a cob of corn on a stump for the jays, who bickered over it non-stop. |
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As a result of Lumpy's protests, the middle stump was introduced, although it was some years before its use became universal. |
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These were the overall dimensions and the requirement for a third stump was unspecified, indicating that its use was still not universal. |
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The stumps are placed along the batting crease with equal distances between each stump. |
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Always an eloquent speaker, Polk became known as the Napoleon of the stump. |
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Sycamores make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down and can therefore be coppiced to produce poles and other types of small timber. |
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Nash pinioned his arms behind while Boland seized a long cabbage stump which was lying in the gutter. |
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But it is Mr. Romney who has most thoroughly incorporated such sunbeamy phrases and anecdotes into his repertory on the stump. |
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Fog turned ev'ry tree stump into a huddled Kona sentry, but still I was thanksome to Sonmi for the camo. |
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Just today I gave his history class a few questions to answer and hand in, but when it came time to answering the last two he was up the stump. |
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Science is up the stump. She can't find out why green sorghum should be so quickly fatal to cattle, says an exchange. |
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The old maple stump shot sickly pink switches from her roots, new switches every year. They crept yearningly toward the little square of window. |
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How the wounded stump regrows into a leg is poorly understood, but now researchers have identified a key protein behind this regenerative power. |
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A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow. |
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On the other hand, Roma coach Rudi Garcia revealed that Manchester United must stump up E100 million to sign Kevin Strootman. |
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The Golcar venue is hosting a display of goldwork, blackwork, cross-stitch, stump work, needle lace and patchwork. |
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Now members who stump up club fees of pounds 1,100 a year are so browned off they are thinking of quitting. |
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A CHAINSAW artist turned a plain tree stump into a jaw-dropping piece of art featuring Sulawesi macaques monkeys. |
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Republicans and Democrats love bashing lobbyists on the stump. |
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Since the goal is to educate and not merely stump readers, you should find the multipart question challenging, but not impossible. |
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The groom's cake was a chocolate tree stump with butterflies and a heart and arrow around the couple's initials. |
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Mechanized single-grip harvesters fell, limb, and buck the trees at the stump and pile the logs at trailside. |
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Rubio's problem is that he seems unable to say very much that is not in his stump speech. |
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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda canceled his stump speech in Tokyo and returned to his office to deal with the temblor. |
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Convincing City to stump up pounds 60,000-a-week while he plays for Spurs will not be easy. |
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A Treat the stump with root-out, based on ammonium sulphamate which will eventually kill it. |
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Mathews was soon sent on his way for 63 as Philander's short-pitched ball kept almost unplayably low and struck him in front of off stump. |
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It worked as Harmison removed Kallis in his second over when a swinging full toss clipped the base of his off stump. |
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The muscular Cairns struck five fours in a 72-ball 43 before aiming to hit Scott out of sight and was bowled off stump. |
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He wiped out Gary Ballance's off stump then dismissed in-form Joe Root for one run as the English top order collapsed. |
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The large ossicle encompassed the entire width of the proximal stump of the ruptured peroneus longus tendon. |
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As I cross the mouth of another cove, a great blue heron glides in to roost on a nearby stump. |
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A quick glance at the BCCI's hawk-eye and it was hitting middle stump halfway up. |
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Influence of cutting methods and dates on stump sprouting in Holm oak coppice. |
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It is particularly important to note abundant spillage of indigo carmine solution when the proximal tubal stump is opened. |
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The harsh desert wind and sand had chewed the stump into ragged strips of wood. |
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The president used the address as a stump speech for his re-election, and he hit a populist tone on the theme of income inequality and unfair tax policy. |
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Few overs after this incident, one of the Broads reverse swing dislodged well settled Asad Shafiqs off stump, dipping inside from more than a foot offside the off stump. |
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The issue with these funding settlements would not have changed even had the Government managed to stump up 10 times this piddling PS143,000 increase. |
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The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap. |
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You're up the stump, Edith Fulton. You're going to have a baby. |
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When re-entering of the endoneural sheath by the distal stump occurred with time, the hyperaesthesia sensation might be restarted but gradually reduced to a lower level. |
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Whereas your ordinary middle-ranking persons, they never had the least notion of what it was, so naturally they were up a stump every time they come across it, you see. |
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I stump down my field, not the lane past Mike's, and the ewes think it's feeding time. I let them bombard me, grateful for the noisy bleating of their cupboard love. |
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In fact, Darwin was unable to decide on a suitable present, telling his roommate that he was up a stump about what to get for his sister and new brother-in-law. |
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After all, a pill bug normally spends the sunlit hours when diurnal birds are about coiled away like a petite armadillo, often beneath some unpeckable tree stump or stone. |
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Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. |
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Large boles emerge from a common stump in such overgrown coppice stools. |
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Old Harry's Wife was another stack which was eroded through corrosion and abrasion, until the bottom was so weak the top fell away, leaving a stump. |
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Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. |
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On the stump, notably at his Limehouse speech in 1909, he denounced the Conservatives and the wealthy classes with all his very considerable oratorical power. |
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The pitch offered bounce and swing from the start, while Matthew Hoggard got a ball on line to swing between Matthew Hayden's bat and pad and into his off stump. |
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Later it became increasingly common for surgeons to perform a resection of the tumour, oversewing the rectal stump, and fashioning an end colostomy as the initial operation. |
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Masood drove uppishly to be caught in the slips while Ali misjudged a sharp incoming delivery which hit the off stump as he tried to leave the ball. |
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If a pedicle is damaged during antler development, antler tines may grow around the base of the pedicle, similar to the sprouts around the base of a freshly cut tree stump. |
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His hopes of more runs evaporated when he was drawn out by Bishoo, pushing at a delivery tossed up at off stump and feeding Jermaine Blackwood at second slip. |
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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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