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The easiest way to increase carry off the tee is to widen your stance by moving your back foot an inch or so away from the target.
There are very few actors who could carry off this film, with its sparse dialogue and total absence of voiceover.
It is also proof that the simplest and most fundamental of tasks are the most difficult to carry off.
I mean, he was wearing white palazzo pants and a purple velvet blazer, which is not a look that most men can carry off.
Seaplanes land, lumber is hauled in, oil is pumped onto ships, and trailer-trucks and trains carry off loaded containers headed inland.
They carry off mortals, most often children, if they are beautiful or otherwise exceptional, leaving a changeling behind.
Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches.
Plus, I think I could carry off the pirate look, puffy shirt and all.
Stories of angels, princes and princesses of far-away lands and fairy tales would certainly carry off children to a new world, where their imagination could take on wings.
Rivers and streams provide water for crops and animals and also carry off surplus water.
Many modern directors feel obliged to pose as anti-intellectuals, adopting a facade of stupidity they are unable to carry off with any conviction.
Plus, I think I could carry off navy and luminous yellow with aplomb.
Full of twitches and double-takes, he manages to undermine his usual screen assuredness enough to carry off moments of great hilarity without ever compromising his suavity.
These special profiles were designed to carry off punctual occurring stresses uniformly into covering and base.
For a century levees had been constructed and natural outlets closed until the Atchafalaya River was the only one left to carry off the Mississippi's floodwaters.
The maximum value is defined by their ability to carry off the heat resulting from this overload.
It has always been hard to believe that Bernie Madoff acted alone to carry off his labyrinthine conspiracy.
While she has the hair, the face and the body to carry off a fitted purple silk sheath dress, I unfortunately look like a rugby prop forward in drag.
The applicant points to the danger posed by that sewer and to its obvious insufficient capacity to carry off water.
Who will carry off the national title and who will go through to the European final?
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Examples from Classical Literature
The function of the nephridia is to carry off waste matter from the fluid which fills the body-cavity.
Nessus had betrayed his trust, and was about to carry off Deianira in the very sight of her husband.
Many also enter the formicary, and begin to carry off the young brood that are left in it.
Even on the grass slopes that surround the villas at ancon there are little tile drains laid to carry off the rain.
No, me for where you can carry off things that are too big for the grand larceny statutes.
Drive this, with all the speed you may, to the Isle of bambini, and carry off the six children of Petaldo that are still there.
Ulick naturally thought Paul a bit of a cad to invade his room and carry off his guest without a by-your-leave!
I was forced to carry off this girl, because I had no other means of courting her.
The populace were aroused with the cry that Mazarin was about to carry off the king.
On each side of him is a group of three, a centaur trying to carry off a woman and a lapith striking at him.
For they looked that Midir should come with a great host of the danaan folk to carry off the Queen.
As is true of a coal range, a gas range also requires a flue to carry off the products of unburned gas.
At times she was even able to carry off a rabbit or a fowl given her by Desiree.
The idea at the bottom of the piece is that the devil will carry off the wee boy if he can nonplus him.
The judge remarked that if he could easily carry off a heavy sack of money, he would have no difficulty in stealing a light table.
The fox which will despatch all the hens in the pen and carry off the plumpest bird.
The two elder brothers would have pulled it down, in order to see how the poor ants in their fright would run about and carry off their eggs.
Not so with our old Inspector One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences.
He began by attacking Job's property, which the sabeans carry off.
The object of the process called osmosis is to carry off these salts.
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