If there was imbalance, if the heart of the deceased weighed more than the feather, he or she was denied admittance to the afterworld. |
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The compounds generally referred to as feather waxes consist of fatty acids condensed with alcohols to form esters, such as triglycerides. |
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The students took the test, writing down the answers with feather pens as best as they could. |
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Remember, this was a time of horse and buggy, feather quills and the most sophisticated appliance in the family home would've been an oil lamp. |
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Her interests were sewing, knitting, cooking, gardening, carding wool for quilts and making feather pillows. |
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The feather is a classic quilting pattern that was in fashion on embroideries by the beginning of the seventeenth century. |
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She brought the feather up to look at it and it quivered in the slight breeze. |
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However, we may consider a simple model in which the feather is assumed to be an isolated, flat, rigid object in a uniform airstream. |
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Cloth and feather adornments were painted bright red to bracket the people's nakedness, and to expose their bodies more fully. |
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But hairy-leaved plants, such as African violets, should just be dusted with a dry feather duster or a makeup brush every once in a while. |
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The sharpened feather made a small blot of ink as the tip touched the yellowish paper. |
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One could surely demonstrate yaw with engine failure since the props didn't feather. |
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I felt sure it was something physical like a virus, so you could have knocked me down with a feather when he diagnosed depression. |
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When it is blown, the feather acts as a reed, producing a deep, resonant sound. |
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Licata is currently concentrating on feather fiber's unusually high potential as an absorbent of heavy metals. |
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James Joyce, for one, used to quest exhaustively for every fresh word as if it were a phoenix feather. |
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He shifts, muttering about a stupid feather, and I crack a weak, watery smile, my lip trembling. |
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We were especially careful in excluding specimens in molt by checking all specimens for the presence of feather quills. |
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In one arm, he cradled a stack of books, and in the other, a leather satchel full of feather quills and dozens of tiny glass bottles. |
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Today he was wearing the same garments he had donned then, a green tunic and leggings, with a brown belt and shoes and a cap with a bright pink feather sticking out of it. |
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Expression of combs and wattles is directly connected to androgen production, whereas feather ornament size seldom depends on current levels of testosterone secretion. |
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A contour feather, as a typical feather, has a complex morphology consisting of a central shaft or rachis to which barbs are attached on two margins to form a vane. |
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His hair was black, but its sheen was like a raven's feather. |
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Prince Edward was there with his wife Sophie, who wore an electric blue suit and a peacock feather hat. |
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But when I read it, you could have knocked me down with a feather. |
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Now no-one's suggesting that we all go back to the old leather bound ledgers, with the day's business written in copperplate with a feather quill. |
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Other times and places he wore elk antlers instead, or the fibrous horns of a rhino, dancing about the walls of torch-lit caverns with feather and paw, fin and claw. |
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The fruite is long, flat, and thinne, almost lyke to a feather of a small birde, or lyke the whing of a grashopper. |
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All artificial florists are not good feather dressers. Feather dressing is an art by itself and has to be learned by apprenticeship. |
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Parrot's feather floats on the surface with a lacy delicacy that makes ferns look clumsy, while it works as a wonderful aerator for pond fish. |
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Severe feather loss and abnormalities in a juvenile free-living white-tailed eagle from northern Germany. |
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The animal residues found included possible blood residues, hair fragments, bone or antler fragments, and a feather barbule fragment. |
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She has immense white teeth that snap, and a bugly bonnet, with one dismal ostrich feather wobbling sternly on end. |
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If a crew feather much under water, it is a good plan to seat them in a row on a bench, and give each man a stick to handle as an oar. |
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Nesting birds pluck some of their own feathers to line the nest, but feather plucking in pet birds is entirely different. |
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Notice, too, that the shaft is not straight, but bent so that the upper surface of the feather is convex, and the lower concave. |
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They stuck not to say that the king cared not to plume his nobility and people to feather himself. |
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He thinks it is quite a feather in his cap that he figured it out for himself. |
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He wore a feather in his hat, doeskin breeches, lisle hose and an iridescent waistcoat. |
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When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both. |
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The target is an unmovable feather or metal plate on the ground, instead of a small ball. |
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The latter culture was thriving, and it included arts such as sculpture, painting, and feather mosaics. |
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Yet, in December 1967, snow fell in the city and in January 2007 feather light snow fell in the east of the city. |
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Their feather bonnets carry a red, white and blue hackle denoting the colours of the Royal Corps of Transport. |
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More traditional highland dress may be worn, sometimes with a feather bonnet. |
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Edward III occasionally used ostrich feather badges, as did other members of the royal family in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather. |
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External parasites include chewing lice of the genus Saemundssonia, feather lice and fleas such as Ceratophyllus borealis. |
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This is used while preening and helps in plumage maintenance by reducing bacterial degradation of feathers by feather bacilii. |
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Juveniles have broader buff feather edges, and tend to have looser, scruffier plumage, like moulting adults. |
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The feather adaption that allows silent flight means that barn owl feathers are not waterproof. |
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Freyja agrees, and says she would lend it to Thor even if it were made of silver or gold, and Loki flies off, the feather cloak whistling. |
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The common ostrich is farmed around the world, particularly for its feathers, which are decorative and are also used as feather dusters. |
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When feather fluffing, they contract their muscles to raise their feathers to increase the air space next to their skin. |
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At low ambient temperatures the common ostrich utilizes feather flattening, which conserves body heat through insulation. |
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These feather heavy areas such as the body, thighs and wings do not usually vary much from ambient temperatures due to this behavioural controls. |
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They were dressed in clothing of white and yellow, and one wore a sword at his side and a feather in his hat. |
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A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing. |
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Process development for the removal of hazardous anionic azo dye Congo red from wastewater by using hen feather as potential adsorbent. |
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A little koa wood here, some woven lauhala there, bamboo, grass cloth, shells and glass floats, Kona hats and feather hatbands. |
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Feathers also have barbules that fit together almost like a zipper to keep the feather flat and smooth. |
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True, few contain roll-top desks and feather quill pens anymore, but so what? |
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The more you have the more you get in an economy feather bedding the wealthy and creating a bed of nails for everybody else. |
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The traveller was in Erewhonian clothes to keep him inconspicuous, a conical felt hat with owl feather, yellow tabard, tasselled perizoma, belled sandals, and umbrella. |
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Once the swelling rises to a head and is red in appearance and not deep in the flesh, it can be broken with the use of a feather from a young pigeon's tail. |
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Specialist feather lice of the genus Piagetella are found in the pouches of all species of pelican, but are otherwise only known from New World and Antarctic cormorants. |
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I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi-officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat. |
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The wings have a silvery appearance due to white feather edgings. |
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She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels. |
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A soft feather pass is easier to receive and control over a hard pass. |
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You simply lift your heart to a paean with a tilt in the hat-brim, and leap from misery into merriment with a Rosalind feather in your Juliet cap. |
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Pinching off syndrome is a feather abnormality in which all remiges and retrices become malformed and are lost during the nestling stage, rendering the bird unable to fly. |
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Large birds exhibit several remigial replacement strategies detectable within a year and between years by wear patterns, contrasting feather appearance, and retained feathers. |
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No feather, or dowle of a feather, but was heavy enough for him. |
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Common ostriches display a feather fluffing behaviour that aids them in thermoregulation by regulating convective heat loss at high ambient temperatures. |
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