The words had been scrawled onto the leathery parchment with a crude piece of charcoal. |
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With its armoured shell, thick leathery skin and slow movement, the turtle is one of the most easily recognized creatures on earth. |
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They were not the feathered wings of a bird or the leathery ones of a bat, but something in-between, sharing the features of both. |
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The honeyed brown of the truck matched her skin tone perfectly, and it was leathery soft. |
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On his back, he bore the weight of two long, black, leathery wings that could easily smother a human each. |
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Dry skin can look leathery, dry and flaky, and will lose the elasticity it needs to stay firm and young-looking. |
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They have large, prominent eyes, and metallic green leathery forewings with small light spots and coppery-green legs. |
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Fragrant shield fern or fragrant cliff fern is so named because its leathery, evergreen leaves have a spicy aroma when dry. |
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Marginal shield fern is an evergreen fern, which grows as a non-spreading, vase-shaped clump with handsome gray-green, leathery fronds. |
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The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak. |
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For instance they won't eat anything in the aloe family or leathery leafed plants such as mother-in-law's tongue. |
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It was as if a leathery membrane had slit open and out popped a deluge of technical knowledge I'd really honestly quite forgotten. |
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Superficially, softshells can be distinguished by their dorsoventral compression, leathery shells, and elongate snout. |
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The bulgur wheat and the chick pea-spice mixture are bagged separately, as are chili flakes and a leathery side of fruit chutney. |
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The seaweed-sheet wrapper, nori, could have been more toasty, less leathery. |
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The fruits are rounded, leathery 1-to 2-inch capsules containing one to three large poisonous seeds. |
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The carapace of these turtles lacks scutes and is covered instead with a leathery skin. |
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The man spoke with an outlandish accent, presumably from the desert, judging from his leathery skin and olive complexion. |
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The seascape, essentially of hard corals, is sporadically carpeted with colourful soft corals, sea whips, sea fans and leathery soft corals. |
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Above the head and the arms is a leathery, protective hood, that acts like an operculum to protect the animal when it withdraws inside its shell. |
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A hesperidium fruit is a fleshy fruit or berry with a tough, leathery skin. |
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The hard, leathery tail is short, cylindrical, and stumpy and it is marked by a series of distinct rings. |
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Shy and solitary by nature, tapirs are often hunted in their native countries for their hide, which is tough and leathery. |
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However, any complexion can become blotchy, leathery and wrinkled from continued sun overexposure. |
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It was all black clothes, leathery faces and gold hoop earrings with them, I noted. |
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Based on a woody, mossy, floral accord, which can include leathery or fruity notes as well, chypre perfumes have a rich and lingering scent. |
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The animal can completely withdraw its body into its shell, closing the opening with a leathery hood. |
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Over time, too much sun can age the skin, making it leathery and inelastic. |
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This is characterized by the appearance of wrinkles, dry, inelastic leathery skin and irregular pigmentation. |
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For example, a rubber band that is resilient at room temperature becomes leathery and relatively inextensible when cooled in a kitchen freezer. |
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It was now a tangle of grasping arms, each with a single yellow bloodshot eye on a seven-fingered palm and upwards of eight leathery bat wings. |
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The big leathery leaves of the hostas are an excellent foil for the fernlike foliage of the astilbes. |
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Demons, with their leathery wings spread wide, tore through the angelic ranks like heavy cavalry through green footmen. |
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Golden moles burrow mainly using their leathery snout combined with thrusts of the forepaws, which are held under the body. |
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The frayed ends of the collar tickled her leathery face, and she wrinkled her nose up to prevent a sneeze. |
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His skin was a leathery tan and he had the beginnings of crow's feet at the corners of his eyes. |
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The skin can become thicker and leathery, with more pronounced lines and in severe cases it can even crack. |
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Their leathery wings beat against the blackness in steady flaps, propelling them forward. |
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They produce attractive leathery glossy leaves which, depending on species and variety, add colour in winter. |
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A veritable patchwork of holes had already been punched into the leathery membranes, but it was still not enough. |
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Snake eggs have a flexible, leathery shell, which the hatchling slashes with its sharp egg tooth before slithering away. |
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His black hair was slightly greying and his leathery face well worn and he seemed quite content to sit on the grass, letting the day pass him by. |
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They made the leathery meal soft enough to swallow by alternately sucking on and gumming it. |
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Cold leathery fingers suddenly grabbed Niall by the chin and jerked his head forward as the other High Sablebloods moved in for the kill. |
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The old bur oak's leaves are now large and leathery, the green acorns nearly the size of golf balls. |
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He is 70 years old and has the leathery, weather-worn face and hands of a farmer. |
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A lean, lithe, grizzly looking fellow, supple, agile with a leathery skin and sinewy. |
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The Dragon was roughly humanoid, jet black, and over eight feet tall, with large leathery wings folded behind his back. |
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The leathery sheet object is excellent in water repellency and water resistance in sections formed by cutting. |
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This helps to explain why skin often looks and feels more leathery as we age. |
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An is quite common and presents as a symmetric brown-black thickening of the skin that gradually becomes leathery or velvety in appearance. |
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At baseline and at 1 month, the lesions were clinically assessed as soft, leathery or hard. |
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It grew into a tall, rather leggy shrub with not much to recommend it apart from unusually long, leathery leaves. |
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It looked to be some sort of leathery tissue, but in a strangely rigid shape. |
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This hardy evergreen has glossy, leathery fronds and gradually will reach 3 feet or more in height and width. |
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He is coltishly appealing, brave, leathery, and a West Pointer. |
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Their hide was thick and leathery, with a thin film of slime covering it. |
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They also have a companion animal, in this case a bird, that stays on the back of them and eats small insects that inhabit the rhino's leathery hide. |
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Once your plant has gotten to the point of being limp, leathery, and wrinkled, reviving the plant is usually a long process and often unsuccessful. |
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She was short and as fat and soft-fleshed as he was thin and leathery. |
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All Polish donuts, though, are greasy because the dense dough sops up the fry oil, and they tend to have a leathery paper tear-texture to the skin. |
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Although they have their favourite plants, they will eat almost anything that's not too tough and leathery including leaves, stems, bulbs, root vegetables, even flowers. |
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The stretchy, leathery ring keeps you hard while the eyelashes tickle the vadge. |
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Stick in hand, leathery skin and leather chappals worn to shreds, his dispossession was clear from his finely twirled white moustache and neat beard. |
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Almost no one comes to ride the airboats or stare at the leathery monsters in the gator pit. |
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Here we have concentrated on growing ferns, ranging from the large and leathery Blechnum chilense, to the small and frothy oak fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris. |
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Both atemoya, grown in Florida, and cherimoya, grown in California, have green, leathery skins with either scales or a notched, medallion-like design. |
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Native Americans used the leathery leaves in a healing tea for measles. |
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It would stand at least four meters tall, if it had enough room to stand comfortably in, its leathery gray skin was covered in patches of chitin, and its mouth was beaked. |
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I hear him whisper something in his hood, and then with a rush of air, two massive, leathery wings appear from inside his robes, dark green pinions held up by black bones. |
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Best known for their leathery shells, some species can roll into a ball when threatened. |
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The female will lay only 4 to 10 eggs, which have leathery shells. |
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Her skin is a luminous hazelnut brown and has a leathery texture. |
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A scaly lizard-like creature with gigantesque leathery bat-like wings and, scaly, ridged skin, with an abnormal and slightly captivating black luster. |
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Now a miserly spirit holds us in his tight and leathery grip. |
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Species with leathery leaves such as agaves, aloes, echeverias and sanseverias are the obvious choice because they can tolerate extremes of heat, cold and drought. |
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The shrunken, leathery bag that is 39-year-old Lanegan's face tells you all you need to know about the price to be paid for a life lived on the margins. |
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The leathery visage of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell never fails to sadden and enrage me. |
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They sport a leathery, crackle-textured skin and glow with salt-and-pepper zest. |
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St Tropez conjures up images of topless beaches, the super-rich and their lapdogs, luxury yachts, blondes, leathery millionaire playboys and champagne-soaked debauchery. |
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Instead of scutes, it has thick, leathery skin with embedded minuscule osteoderms. |
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Female water monitor lizards can lay a clutch of between 7 and 35 white, soft-shelled, leathery eggs. |
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High on The Rock of Gibraltar, Benny the Barbary ape and six of his tail-less, furryfaced friends scampered up and held out leathery paws. |
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Native moonworts, including daisy-leaf moonwort, leathery grape fern and rattlesnake fern also have decreased dramatically. |
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They include the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle, the loggerhead turtle, the olive ridley turtle, and the leathery turtle. |
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Camels' mouths have a thick leathery lining, allowing them to chew thorny desert plants. |
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It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces. |
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They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence. |
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Of a similar ilk to the peace lily, isthe flamingo flower, whose leathery spathes in red, pink or white actually look artificial. |
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A thick, leathery exterior makes chewing them as much fun as tasting them. |
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Also described as being like a giant bat, the Kongamato has large teeth, red leathery skin, and a wingspan of four to seven feet. |
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The turtle's common name comes from the leathery texture and appearance of its carapace. |
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Observers have seen spiny lobsters scrape their leathery plectra across scaly ridges below their eyes. |
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Like other reptiles, turtles lay eggs that are slightly soft and leathery. |
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Unlike other oud perfumes, the labdanum absolute in this blend gives a smoky, leathery effect without leaving an overpowering note from the strength of oud. |
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Soft ticks are leathery and nonscutate, without sexual dimorphism. |
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The relatively small, ovoid-triangular nuts are produced in a four-valved, leathery cupule that is usually covered with short, recurved appendages. |
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