The vision inside the mirror waved like a reflection in the water distorted by a ripple in the glassy surface. |
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Water spills in glassy sheets over the copper-topped wall, as well as from three keyhole notches along its facade. |
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It occurred as trapezohedral milky-white microcrystals in small vugs and as clear, colorless, glassy masses up to 1 cm in size. |
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The river's glassy surface mirrors the surrounding forest in perfect detail. |
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His trim body was covered from head to toe with symmetrical beads of sweat, which looked like little, glassy jewels sprinkled on his ebony frame. |
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Its glassy surface gently scintillating with a myriad of colours, the monocle seemed to hold unfathomable power within its relatively small size. |
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In a twinkling, the broad, tall figure was reduced to thin, glassy shards that dissolved in the air. |
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The deformities of his body are magnified by his motley, and his glassy eye stares all the more blankly for the surrounding grease paint. |
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A few moments after he spoke, an elderly woman, glassy eyed from a trance, reeled uncontrolledly through the dimly lit room. |
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Suddenly, instead of skimming the glassy surface, you could be struggling with the deep, dark world of potential disaster. |
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She could feel his grip on her slacken and saw the glassy look in his eyes. |
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He looks down at Tristan, who still gazes silently at him through glassy unfocused eyes. |
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As an added bonus, the lava would simultaneously pave roads and sidewalks when it hardens into a glassy smooth surface of igneous rock. |
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The water, 300 feet below, was unseasonably glassy, which made it hard to separate aircraft from watercraft. |
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Her eyes were glassy with unspent anger and her hands were clenched into fists. |
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Trehalose tends to form a noncrystalline glassy solid state, which probably is what happens inside the cells. |
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Aislinn and Christopher rose up into the air with the other flyers, swinging their blades and stabbing at the glassy robot eyes. |
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I looked in the rearview mirror to see two glassy dilated eyes staring back at me. |
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In addition, the isomerization of olefins with small molecular weight in glassy solvent at 77 K have been proposed to proceed by H-T mechanism. |
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His friends, spread out on various couches and ottomans, stared back at him, all of their eyes glassy. |
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His glassy eyes turned to stone and she felt a sudden chill of apprehension. |
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He shrank from the bravura and slashing impasto of his master Rembrandt, and imposed a glassy surface on his paintwork. |
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We moved away from the slope to an astonishing Magic Rock covered in cleaning shrimp and crowned with shoals of glassy sweepers. |
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The walls that weren't glassy were adorned with autographed sports photos and pennants. |
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Thus, during laser ablation, the laser beam may penetrate below the thin glassy surface of a grain into small inclusions or phenocryst phases. |
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The glassy expanse of the curtain wall opens the concourse areas to the sky and the drama of arriving and departing aircraft. |
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He then dissolved the glassy residue in dilute hydrochloric acid, boiled it, and left it to stand for several days in a corked flask. |
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He was travelling through the mountains with a buddy in a car when they crested a hill and hit a sheet of glassy ice. |
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The sea is glassy, frozen into blurry fuzz by time. I want to leave all this and play drums for some semi-famous group. |
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To make them, Gissler first builds up layer upon smooth layer of gesso on a thick wood panel, achieving a dense, glassy surface. |
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Yet when we look again, they are simultaneously pale, frozen, ghostly and glassy eyed. |
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The concourses are glassed in and the station waiting area is quite large and also glassy. |
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The very crust of the planet had been fused into one massive, glassy solid. |
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Barley sugar is simply sugar which has been slightly caramelized and then abruptly cooled to solidify it to a glassy state. |
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The cerussite crystals are bright and glassy and range from colorless to pale gray. |
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It seemed to be made of Obsidian, and its glassy back surface shined like a shadowy mirror. |
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Black, glassy metamict material from each of these locations has historically been referred to as samarskite. |
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Volcanoes of the western Hungarian volcanic field also consistently comprise basal glassy pyroclastic units overlain by lavas that cap buttes. |
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The outer selvages are glassy and the interior tends to be vesicular under low-water pressures. |
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Most of the large crystals have glassy terminations formed by an overgrowth of a thin layer of clear quartz. |
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The mineral crystallizes in the monoclinic system and commonly forms glassy complex crystals of varied habit. |
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Whatever cataclysmic collision forged the glassy rocks occurred about half a million years ago. |
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Marion poked at the water, making ripples on its glassy surface, but nothing happened. |
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Her fingers grazed the glassy surface of the water, causing ripples to from her touch. |
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The winter offers still glassy waters with pink morning skies reflected on their surface. |
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Rafts of puffins and guillemots bobbed on the glassy surface of the water, and I decided to stay here until we passed the bows of the Inverlane. |
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The sea was its usual calm blue, a glassy liquid surface stretching till it fused with the horizon in a spectacle of colour. |
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To the uninitiated, Orkney's Scapa Flow harbour is one square mile of untroubled, glassy water. |
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On your left is the glassy surface of an enormous lake, the sky a deep shade of blue that you thought existed only in crayon boxes. |
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Sonics are excellent, although higher notes occasionally have a glassy sound. |
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My only complaint is that the upper register of the piano sounds unfortunately glassy. |
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Witness said he got a strong smell of drink from the driver, whose speech was slurred and whose eyes were glassy. |
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An undefined emotion passed across Wind's glassy eyes before fading back into the depths of his light brown pools. |
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With skin the colour of milky tea and glassy eyes that betray his misery, there's never any pretence towards polished musicianship. |
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I almost started to question his shoe color preference when I realized his eyes were glassy, his face was flushed, and he seemed distracted. |
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You could see in everyone's glassy eyes, that people were genuinely having fun, opening up and talking to complete strangers. |
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The glassy living area holds a compact galley kitchen and great room with built-ins that fold out for overnight guests. |
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At the end of the morning, we stood on a bank at the nature sanctuary overlooking a glassy cove with a distant raft of big black ducks. |
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He was looking up at me with his glassy blue eyes, lying on a bed sheet wrapped around an air mattress. |
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Initially, the glassy brown crystals associated with quartz and tennantite were misidentified as anglesite. |
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His body was limp in her arms and his eyes were glassy and lifeless. |
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His glassy eyes stared at the ceiling in a permanent expression of horror. |
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I see beyond the glassy eyes and into the person trapped inside, desperate, scared, holding on to what little is left, knowing there will be less tomorrow. |
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They had landed on a crystalline, turquoise lake that was glassy smooth. |
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There are glassy piano chords, deep bass guitar riffs, and a rattling snare played out across a constantly evolving and shifting pulse in four-four time. |
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A field reporter was decked out in a lavender pressure suit giving an account in a desolate-looking field of scorched and blackened rock with a glassy texture. |
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All melt inclusions and matrix glasses chosen were completely glassy, i.e. they had not undergone any devitrification and did not contain microlites or microphenocrysts. |
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Despite the gloom of the grey mist around us, with our boats and their bodies bobbing about on a still, glassy sea, the experience could not have been more perfect. |
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Slowly, he raised his waxy head and fixed me with his glassy eyes. |
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I gathered up all of my courage and peered into the glassy water. |
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It gives me a pointed blink then bends its long, slender neck down and laps up some water with a snaking, scarlet tongue, making delicate ripples in the glassy water. |
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Volcanoes form glassy rocks such as obsidian, and in recently formed volcanic rocks scientists have found tunnels that seem to have been created by hungry microbes. |
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The artist was not very interested in the water in the canals of Venice so he usually showed it with evenly painted ripples on an otherwise glassy surface. |
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When you talk to many developers today about Web services, you'll get the glassy eyed stare of someone who has dealt with vaporware for far too long. |
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Delicate lily-pads had been carefully placed on the glassy mirror of a thousand reflections, and clumps of reeds, bullrushes and gorse made forty-one shades of green. |
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The sun set behind the ridge leaving a spectrum of deepening light to settle around us in the cool air among the tumbling sound of the glassy water. |
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The clear sky was a startling pink colour, and, as there was not a breath of wind, the glassy surface of the water shone with the same beautiful hue. |
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The newsreader forced a glassy smile and essayed a limp defence. |
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Flint looks glassy and impervious, but in fact is quite porous. |
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She wears no make-up, her eyes are glassy, and her feverish cheeks are aglow. |
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Using abrasives, such as steel wool or abrasive powders tends to permanently scratch the smooth glassy surface, and make it harder to clean thereafter. |
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The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly. |
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Upstream of the weir the River Wharfe was glassy smooth with rising trout and cruising ducks, down river the water boiled amongst the smooth white rocks. |
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His bright green eyes were glassy, and bore a worried expression. |
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It's not a major drawback since the notes generally come through clearly and realistically, but in louder passages the upper register has a bit of a metallic or glassy sound. |
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The CO band thermal broadening stems from the anharmonic coupling with motions of the heme environment, which, in the glassy state, are frozen in. |
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Exquisitely poised in space, the pool is a tranquil, glassy mirror, reflecting a luxuriant green wall of bamboo sprouting above the retaining wall. |
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Through the glassy outer layer a primitive life form can be seen. |
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Though they still appeared glassy, they no longer seemed so lifeless. |
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This crystal was glassy and was found associated with smoky quartz, microcline-perthite, biotite, zircon, bastnasite, and limonite after siderite. |
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Amy approached the glassy water, rippling with the waterfall's motion. |
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The view is not of the standard Chicago skyline in which gleaming skyscrapers rise like the Emerald City from the glassy expanse of Lake Michigan. |
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Paddling across the glassy flat surface feels like sliding through warm butter. |
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The sea reflected our good fortune in hues of glassy green, turquoise and cobalt blue and into this unearthly vision we quietly launched our sailing barque. |
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The smooth glassy surface has no crevices for dirt and spills to hide, but it has to be kept clean to avoid soil burning on and staining, as stains show up visibly. |
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But then the screen showed him for a second, and they could plainly see it was a little boy, no older than eight, with milk-white skin and glassy, distant eyes. |
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Then the outside of the lava freezes to form a glassy, vesicle-free skin which inflates like a balloon until the surface is ruptured and a new pillow begins to form. |
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Stunning view out the window now, glassy harbour, sunshine, no wind. |
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Hyaloteuthis pelagica, the glassy flying squid, is the smallest ommastrephid, reaching a maximum mantle length of 90 mm. |
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Basically, the enameling process involves the application of a glassy coating to a metal substrate. |
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Little Hossein was pale and his eyes looked glassy and expressionless. |
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Iron made from bog ore will often contain residual silicates, which can form a glassy coating that imparts some resistance to rusting. |
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Explosive cooling and the sedimentation of glassy fragments results in a rock with a characteristic speckly texture known as hyaloclastite. |
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The study of vitriol, a category of glassy minerals from which the acid can be derived, began in ancient times. |
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The top of the lava will tend to be glassy, having been flash frozen in contact with the air or water. |
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Rhyolite tuffs contain pumiceous, glassy fragments and small scoriae with quartz, alkali feldspar, biotite, etc. |
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Moreover, the State flower Palash is flaunted on internal glassy dividing walls. |
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At that very moment on this recent Friday night, though, it was a roasted branzino with glassy eyes that was ogling her. |
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An adder stone is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally occurring hole through it. |
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Her big, blue, heavily-lashed eyes, glassy as a corpse's, batted open and shut and frankly, she gave me the heebie-jeebies. |
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Glaze is a glassy coating on pottery, the primary purposes of which are decoration and protection. |
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The effect of the length of the fluorinated sidechain was studied on the glassy coating formulations. |
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The lustrous appearance, subtle as the play of light on the glabrous skin of a human palm, evokes the living body in a way that the glassy obduracy of glaze cannot. |
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The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless, and seemingly pupilless, and I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to the contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips. |
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Essentially, the solid fraction, consisting of the crystalline domains and other glassy matter, is not devitrified at this transition temperature. |
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Its cogenerator at One Bryant Park, a glassy 54-story skyscraper rising at the corner of 42nd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, is scheduled to come online this summer. |
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