The curved capsule seems improbably fragile, like a giant insect cocoon lodged among the trees. |
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At the beginning, the silkworm spins the outer covering, the floss of the cocoon. |
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A plastic sheet was folded on top, enclosing me in a warm, slightly scratchy cocoon. |
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Stella McCartney turns up the volume on the Paris catwalk with boxy shapes and cocoon coats. |
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He must snap out of the cocoon of cultism and accept that it's time to hand on to his successor. |
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One mourner said her journey through the stages of mourning was like being in a cocoon. |
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It begins by evoking the glamorous life of a young woman who lives happily if callowly in a cocoon of utter fabulousness. |
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The effect is that of a chrysalis in a cocoon struggling to get free and, at points, of a body emerging from its death shroud. |
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Usually, the hybrid variety is sold only between August and March and the regular yellow cocoon is sold in the summer months. |
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At that time, each larva wraps itself in a cocoon, plugs its chamber with silk, and becomes quiescent. |
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The chrysalis is what the silkworm becomes when it finishes spinning its cocoon. |
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Then they spin into a cocoon and either emerge as a second generation the same year or hibernate and emerge the next summer. |
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Many people think that monarchs spin their cocoon but they in fact just shed their skin to form the chrysalis. |
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They are like a pupa waiting in its cocoon for rebirth, ultimately becoming a butterfly. |
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This is once again an animal fibre, but is produced by the larvae of the silk worm moth, as it spins its cocoon. |
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But almost no mainline Protestant congregations exist in a denominationally insulated cocoon anymore. |
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His life seems well in order, as if nicely wrapped in a cocoon of privilege and pleasure. |
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A cocoon of silence and stillness surrounded them as the sleigh cut thorough the snow. |
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Reluctant to leave my now cosy-as-toast cocoon, I bellow for silence, my voice echoing in our still-undecorated rooms. |
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There was a slight shifting, and then Carrie had the sheet pulled tightly around her in a warm little cocoon. |
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Often, the morning after they hooked up with their friend, the couple would cocoon. |
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Many will simply cocoon after having eaten and spent too much over the holidays. |
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Instead of leading the country to an exciting new reality, they cocoon in a scary, paranoid, regressive reality. |
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I'm going to go out and buy delicious things to cook for dinner, maybe a DVD, and cocoon. |
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Nearly every peasant household in the area engaged in cocoon production for the urban-based silk filatures. |
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This cautious strategy allows Frankie to remain in a cocoon, unaffected by the encumbrances of getting close to other people. |
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I want to stay under the protection of the green bedspread and white sheets forever as if it is my cocoon away from everyone else. |
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We'll roll up the carpets, hide the Van Goghs, cocoon the Ming vases and allow only plastic glasses. |
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He can do all this and more, but only if he knows the truth and is not shielded behind a cocoon of manufactured perceptions. |
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She pulled the blankets tighter over her head, tucking the ends underneath herself to form a cocoon, to block out the noise. |
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Silk is a continuous protein filament spun by the silkworm to form its cocoon. |
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The thread that unravels from this cocoon is tangled and nubby, thus producing the texture of the doupioni. |
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Tarantulas also use urticating hairs to establish their territories, and also for making the cocoon. |
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After being encased in a cocoon spun by a spider, the spider pounces on Link. |
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And to think that we used to spend the dark winter months hibernating our legs away in a cocoon of black opaques! |
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The curate's study was an 18th century room that he could not afford to heat, so he would cocoon himself in a cassock and heavy cloak. |
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Hopefully this cocoon of self-deception will be among the early casualties of the campaign. |
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Clothes to cocoon in will be soft and comfortable, stretching and retaining shape. |
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Under the cloak of darkness, they can slip into a cocoon of overhanging foliage. |
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As the tension mounts, Paul must come out of his own creative cocoon to get involved in the real world of decision-making and responsibility. |
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I wondered if I was alone in this emotional cocoon and eagerly sought the solace of expressive uniformity from other movie goers. |
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The whole idea is to expand one's thinking, not stay in the same mental cocoon. |
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She woke to a blissfully comfortable state, smothered in a cocoon of feathery soft blankets. |
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The thing I take away from his description of all these supposedly smart people is that they live in an academic or intellectual cocoon. |
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The mist hung in a sort of cocoon about them, blotting out the rest of the forest. |
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If you want to cocoon for a while to recharge your batteries, this is the perfect place to do it. |
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Each cocoon is fixed in place by two canes: thus you can change the position of the cocoon, or raise it to change the bulb. |
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The moth overwinters as a larva in a cocoon under rough bark on the tree trunk near the ground. |
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The best way to describe this most severe of restraint methods would be to say it is very much like a cocoon. |
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Someday when today's leaders write their memoirs, we may finally learn about the psychological ramifications of living inside this security cocoon. |
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The lungfish is an animal capable of hibernating through the dry season by secreting a form of mucus through its pores that hardens into a makeshift cocoon. |
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It makes a chrysalis or cocoon and then emerges as a beautiful butterfly. |
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My first glimpse of a snow buttercup flowering beneath a thin pane of ice was not unlike my first experience of watching a monarch butterfly emerge from its cocoon. |
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The delicate moth that emerges from the cocoon is a pale yellowish-green. |
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I saw a spider's web and an insect larva beginning to spin a cocoon. |
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She was still curled up in a ball, wrapped into her own little cocoon. |
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I push back the bedspread and the warm cocoon of brushed cotton sheets. |
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His increasingly esoteric songs suggest that the musical cocoon he's been spinning around himself for a decade deflects his sight inward again and again. |
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Once spun, the cocoon takes on a silvery appearance, indicating that it is full of air that seeped out from the slit-like incisions in the root made by the larval hooks. |
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Its underside is covered with a dense layer of very fine, silky hairs that trap air contained in the cocoon to form a thin, silvery cushion, called a plastron. |
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Immersed in the wrap, I was as snug as a bug in a rug and it was it hard to believe how quickly the 20 minutes passed when the therapist removes you from your cocoon. |
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After a stinking, smelly day, the clouds and muck cleared, and wandering down Oxford Street you can feel the sense of a city starting to shed its seasonal cocoon. |
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The lights dimmed, and Mr. Showmanship made his entrance, flying across the huge stage in a cocoon of feathers, enough for a whole flock of purple ostriches. |
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The mask enrobes your skin in a protective cocoon and can also be applied overnight as an intensive treatment. |
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The interior finish is without reproach, and the design of the cockpit gives the impression of enveloping its pilot in a cocoon. |
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The Roadster feels stiff and jouncy, more like a garage-built kit car than like a gliding leather cocoon. |
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The cocoon slides over the peristome, becoming completely sealed as it does so. |
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Happiness is a cork-lined cocoon nestled cozily in an echo chamber, door welded shut. |
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It is also possible to remove cocoon spinning sites on the trunk by using a piece of chicken wire like a bath towel to remove loose scaly bark. |
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Thus, each plant cell can be viewed as making its own cellulose fibril cocoon. |
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The face is enveloped in a cottony cocoon, softly scented with rice steam for delicious delight. |
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Created by a beekeeper, who is often outside in all weathers, this Youthfulness Milk wraps you with a cocoon which preserves your beauty. |
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The Security Council is not a cocoon, a vacuum or an impregnable and fossilized bunker. |
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Thought somnolence inside the cocoon is one of the stages of the metamorphosis of the butterfly. |
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Like the cicada, even if we have already emerged from our cocoon, it still takes time before we understand how to stretch our wings out and fly. |
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There is a very large insect called the cicada, which grows very slowly inside a cocoon fastened to a tree. |
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It will always be a temptation for all of us to retreat into the warmth of our cosy cocoon, or finding a haven of uninvolved serenity. |
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Caterpillars spin a silken cocoon attached to the underside of a leaf, and the brown pupa forms within this structure. |
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It would mean a stalling of progress, because a better life for all cannot be built inside a cocoon. |
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This smooth, nourishing cream wraps the skin in a cocoon of soft, velvety comfort, with a highly feminine floral fragrance. |
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Curving around the plant, these pieces form a cocoon which protects the lower part of the plant from frost. |
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The jet develops a very asymmetrical form and the upstream part of the cocoon disappears. |
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First choose the cocoon, where is written, that you are able to conjure goblins. |
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Mulberry cocoon, raw silk and silk fabrics also enjoy an enormous popularity in many countries. |
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The cocoon covers the legs with neoprene in an aerodynamic shape to reduce the drag during flight. |
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Music and motion were deceptive in their cumulative effect, their offhandedness possessing an innocence and an easy thrum that diverted us from the cocoon that the dancers spun around us. |
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He also becomes aware of his individuality, which expresses his unique personality as formed within the cocoon of the prevailing cultural and social order. |
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They fly private jets into Burning Man airport, then cocoon themselves in ultraluxe trailer encampments. |
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You can find these shimmering fabrics especially in the Drôme and Ardèche departments, where, in times gone by, the cocoon was unwound to supply Lyon's workshops with raw material. |
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It was my first ode to the joy of finding a cozy family cocoon once again. |
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The position of the cocoon can be adjusted to need. |
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And it is from the 'more than this body', it is from there that we should open our eyes in zazen and not be sleepy inside our own cocoon whith daydreams, that has nothing to do, that, with the zen. |
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If you're just emerging from your Christmas cocoon, here's a guide to all the news stories you might have missed while you were trying to come up with recipes for leftover Stilton. |
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By late May or early June, the fat, fully-grown caterpillars fall to the ground, where they spin a cocoon and pupate for six months. |
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When it spins its cocoon, each larva produces an exceedingly long, slender thread of silk. |
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We create this protective cocoon around the worker in the workplace and allow them to deal with the workplace and the work at hand. |
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The saddle is also known as the clitellum, and it forms a cocoon that holds eggs and nourishes a worm until baby worms hatch. |
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Created by a beekeeper who spends lots of her time outdoors in all weathers, the youth milk with French royal jelly envelops dry and rough skin with a true protecting and moisturising cocoon. |
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They remove the cocoon rattles and cover him with his sarape as they continue repeating the prayer and place an old book in his hands. |
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Located near the four stars of the Orion trapeze, the region is extremely active in star formation: it contains in particular a very young stellar cluster, still hidden in the cocoon of gas and dust where it was born. |
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To reduce second generation and overwintering codling moths the trunk of the tree can be wrapped with burlap coated with Tanglefoot® or with corrugated cardboard which presents ideal spots for cocoon spinning. |
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The female lays its eggs on or near the cocoon. |
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After about 35 days and 4 moltings, the caterpillars are 10,000 times heavier than when hatched and are ready to begin spinning a cocoon. |
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A straw frame is placed over the tray of caterpillars, and each caterpillar begins spinning a cocoon by moving its head in a pattern. |
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Harvested cocoons are then soaked in boiling water to soften the sericin holding the silk fibers together in a cocoon shape. |
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After all that fresh air, we went back indoors, to a complete change of scene and a relaxed, cosseting cocoon where experts were waiting to give us a massage. |
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Silk is an animal textile made from the fibres of the cocoon of the Chinese silkworm which is spun into a smooth fabric prized for its softness. |
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Flitting through Bauby's sensuous visions like a signature is the tiny image of a butterfly, the ancient symbol of the soul escaping its earthly cocoon through the power of consciousness. |
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Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon. |
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Now he has chosen as his running mate, on the basis of the most cursory vetting, a first-term governor of Alaska. The reaction from inside the conservative cocoon was at first ecstatic. |
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But just as a caterpillar eventually transforms into a beautiful butterfly, it is now time for the Foundation to emerge from its cocoon and start spreading its wings of good fortune. |
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In the corporatised and coal-company sponsored cocoon of a pre-G20 talkfest in Brisbane, the burst of vocal protest came like a sudden jolt of the reality of life outside. |
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The whitish larva, about 6 mm long when full grown, drops to the ground and spins a cocoon, inside which it overwinters as either a larva or a pupa. |
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It features an impact resistant safety cage which acts like a cocoon around passengers. |
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They also argue that if we shrink ourselves into a cocoon and we make ourselves small and unnoticed, perhaps this menace will not entertain itself upon us. |
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These factors all contribute to the ability of the whole cocoon to be unravelled as one continuous thread, permitting a much stronger cloth to be woven from the silk. |
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Internal herniation of contents within a peritoneal sac of the right paramesocolic hernia formed abdominal cocoon which simulated volvulus neonatorum. |
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His is an isolated, masturbatory existence, but Maso wraps it in a cocoon of enchanting fantasies and sing-song poetry, like a mother cooing nonsense over her sleeping baby. |
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The baby boomers who'd filled its cantinas in the 1980s deserted El Torito to cocoon at home, and the Mexican-food chain had to do some serious retrenching. |
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Contrary to what some people think about inter-county footballers, he doesn't live in a cocoon that exists wholly around the Laois football panel. |
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As the process of harvesting the silk from the cocoon kills the larvae by boiling them, sericulture has been criticized by animal welfare and rights activists. |
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