One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly. |
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Even the purportedly daring offerings had about them a certain politesse that left only a gossamer impression. |
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Lung tissue is a gossamer net where the blood exchanges gaseous waste for oxygen. |
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Her gossamer spirit clings to the gales, another ghoulish mist chilling the Chinese countryside. |
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The gossamer threads of the shahtoosh make a shawl so warm and soft that it passes through a ring. |
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A gossamer thread issues from her enormous abdomen at a steady clip, wound by a motor onto a revolving spindle. |
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The darkness shrank back before the light of the flames, dissipating like shredded gossamer in the wind. |
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It was thin and wispy, like freshly spun gossamer in the early morning light. |
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But the cold made the sky shimmer like gossamer, and outside it felt crisp and fresh in a way that can only be described as bracing. |
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The lines in the dirt clung to his heels, not with the delicate gossamer of a spider's threads, but with the thick grume of sucking mud. |
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So I made a classic cross-hair from spider's gossamer and used it to pinpoint a cell in the area I wanted to watch. |
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He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace. |
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That day she was dressed in a long, flowing skirt of black along with a blue top that had a pouting cherub on it and sleeves of gossamer. |
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But he fell into a sleep light as gossamer, and a dream that seemed equally light. |
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A smile touched his blue lips as he patiently waited for the fragile wings of gossamer that would carry him to the heavens. |
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The dark blond which usually shone like gossamer, hang lankly against her head and down her back. |
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How exactly is she going to wrap those gossamer vocals round this ball-breaking pop anthem for 1980's working women? |
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The short Scherzo is very Mendelssohnian and might, therefore, have been played with a tad more gossamer lightness. |
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As a top layer, a special coating is applied which makes the print as fine as gossamer. |
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My ivory limbs glisten under the weight of the lightest gossamer. |
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It looked to have been crafted from gossamer, or light itself. |
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You roll your mind around enough in that stuff and gossamer becomes shellac, and your worldview hardens to the point of impermeability. |
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Not even a gossamer thread can be seen, almost like a conjuror's trick or something out of Starship Enterprise. |
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On every Fourth of July he and the grown-ups would release these gossamer spirits, blue, white and red. |
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Distant echoes of the principal theme dissipate into a web woven with stealthy pizzicato and gossamer piano staccato and trills. |
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Forced Rhubarb's colour is enhanced by the technical process which also results in a gossamer skin with white inside flesh. |
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The evening began with a welcome drink in the cocktail area, which was enclosed by gossamer curtains bathed in blue light. |
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Jupiter does have a ring, consisting of three components, called the halo, the main ring, and the gossamer ring. |
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Eighteen red roses and gossamer greens are the heart of this beautiful flower arrangement. |
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The fine line between loyalty and betrayal is like gossamer. |
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This political configuration is no more than a gossamer ideal whose formation neither he nor his MMI confederates seriously espouse or actively promote. |
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The English name refers to the gossamer veil which protects the gills when the cap is in its unexpanded state, and which bears some resemblance to a spider's web. |
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The film will remain to me nothing more than a vehicle for her to look gorgeous swanning around in the flower fields, or looking suitably rubenesque floating in gossamer. |
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Glittery, white snowflakes hung from the ceiling, while along the edges of the bleachers was white gossamer that was also draped over the bleachers. |
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She and danced her first solo with gossamer lightness and fluidity. |
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If you would like to know which Ammi varieties are available right now, please take a look at the range on offer and surprise your customers with these gossamer flowers in a summer bouquet! |
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This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. |
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In Ireland daddies are collected like Mayfly and dapped on the loughs with gossamer fine blow lines. |
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This is possible because the new technique reduces the formation of the H-dimers, the result being gossamer thin films which show varying intensities of color. |
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This sari features a gossamer thin warp and slightly thicker weft. |
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Watching her being flawlessly lampooned – her hypocrisy and pomposity laid bare with a clarity that only comedy can achieve – felt like a gossamer lifeline of hope and sanity to which we could all cling. |
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The film has a geographic authenticity that makes its narrative all the more enveloping and its director spins a rich, hypnotizing tale as enchanting as the gossamer thread after which it is named. |
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String hopper kottu, or gossamer rice-flour noodles, are molded with vegetables into a pyramid. |
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Without the hassle and expense of buying a bottle of Cointreau or brandy, or fretting about whether you have achieved the correct gossamer lightness. |
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Habit starts like the gossamer thread of a spider's web. |
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