These are plaited into single strands and a loose wad of silk tied to the end. |
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People think poetry is waffly, loose and vague but actually good poetry is utterly precise, no word is wasted. |
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Johnson reported that he was stunned when Brown just grabbed a box of cigarillos and then two handfuls of loose ones. |
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There was a sense of ease in the loose white shirt-dresses, billowing skirts, and roomy pajama pants. |
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Cheri Young bristled in her stylish blue dress, her shoulder-length hair let loose from the ponytail of the day before. |
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In a traditional abdominoplasty, an incision is made along the bikini line from hip to hip, the loose skin is removed, the muscles are tightened and the incision is sealed. |
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There are many loose ends surrounding the crime and the bickering, even though somewhat abated, will undoubtedly flare again. |
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I turned and saw my better half, Emily, letting loose like no one was looking. |
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We came across men in loose djellabas riding tiny donkeys, and others scything by hand, leaving piles of barley under olive trees. |
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As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France. |
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Cooper and Renner are solid as the loose cannon Richie and the upstanding carmine, respectively. |
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Zealots on motorcycles are throwing acid at women whose veils are deemed too loose in the ancient city of Isfahan. |
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Wales fostered a loose system of collective management, in which he played guide and gentle prodder but not boss. |
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. |
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The duledge pegs worked loose and dropped behind. Wheels began to break up. |
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Timing in the offered fingernailful of cocaine, well cut and loose dropped into the hollow between my collarbones. |
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Furtling amongst the loose change and accumulated junk, he finally found what he was looking for. |
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Such as are not swallowed, but only kept in the mouth, are gargarisms used commonly after a purge, when the body is soluble and loose. |
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I'm in serious need of some ugandan activities. Any of you birds out there at a loose end and want to get the dirty water off your chest? |
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There I began to breathe a little freer, and to give a loose to those warm emotions which the sight of such an encounter had raised in me. |
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However, it is sometimes used as a loose synonym for the United Kingdom as a whole. |
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It may be that pulling on a heddle string has involved an unheddled thread that can be pulled loose. |
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The boat came loose from its moorings and floated out into the harbor. |
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As his black, naily fingers dug loose the scaly pig's skin, wandering tears came to the bo'sun 's eyes. |
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Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering. |
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It could be a loose clamp on the car, but not sure where i need to be belooking. |
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Little acquiesced, and Ransome disguised him in a beard, and a loose set of clothes, and a billicock hat. |
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Venom is spine-tingling brain candy about a deadly snake on the loose in a London townhouse during a kidnapping attempt. |
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He unhitched and unharnessed the team, turned it loose with the horse herd, remuda, and helped the cook gather cow chips for fuel. |
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Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth. |
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England cut loose at the end of the half, Ashton, Mark Cueto and Mike Tindall all crossing before the break. |
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The pizza chain was forced to close several locations and cut employees loose. |
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Genus Riccia L. Plants are thalloid, forming rosettes or loose, dichotomous patches. |
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Hold a length of drainpipe vertically and stuff a loose wad of metal gauze up into the lower end. |
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The object of loose blockade is to lure the enemy into venturing out but to stay close enough to strike. |
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Similarly, the brumby descended from horses strayed or let loose in Australia by English settlers. |
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This sediment is often formed when weathering and erosion break down a rock into loose material in a source area. |
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Some of those processes cause the sediment to consolidate into a compact, solid substance from the originally loose material. |
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Common pheasants are gregarious birds and outside the breeding season form loose flocks. |
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When Captain von Trapp first kisses Maria, they let loose a hail of party poppers. |
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And then, thankfully, the stream slowed down, until it was nothing more than a few loose dribbles shaking themselves free from her peehole. |
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The men wore loose loincloths that did little to conceal penes like pendulums on grandfather clocks. |
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As she leaned over, equipment, ammunition, supplies and storage containers shifted and came loose, adding to the general chaos. |
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Scrim is a loose weave or lattice of strands, typically bonded where they cross to maintain the grid pattern. |
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As Ronnie approached him, he let loose a barrage of verbal abuse and cut him below his eye with a piece of broken glass. |
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The Boers formed loose militias, which they termed commandos, and forged alliances with Khoisan groups to repel Xhosa raids. |
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The Goths appear to have established a loose political hegemony over the existing tribes in the region. |
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The loose monetary policies of the early 1990s pushed inflation to hyperinflationary levels. |
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By the Late Middle Ages, the whole of the Nordic Region was politically united in the loose Kalmar Union. |
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Smaller tribes began to form loose confederations of smaller, more autonomous villages. |
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I cannot say that there were any outright lies in the editorial, but it does play fast and loose with the truth. |
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Although Bismarck had led the transformation of Germany from a loose confederation into a federal nation state, he had not done it alone. |
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The Mani Peninsula, on the Morea's south end, resisted under a loose coalition of the local clans and then that area came under Venice's rule. |
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The dishdasha is worn over a pair of loose fitting trousers, tight at the ankles, known as a sirwal. |
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In other cases, loose alliance networks were formed around a dominant city. |
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Beads can be purchased prestrung on lengths of thread or loose in vials or plastic bags. |
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Passenger Robert Cushman wrote that the leaking was caused by a loose board. |
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Due to clothing being loose and garments were known to be layered, fur was primarily used for visible linings. |
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He's just another one of Leo's thugs from the east side. Too much pumping iron jarred his brain loose! |
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Also, due to possible pinch points on the front of machines, loose, baggy clothing is prohibited. |
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The module feeder's loose cotton is then sucked into the same starting point as the trailer cotton. |
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The rivet can then fail before it can redistribute load to the other loose fit fasteners like bolts and screws. |
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A rivet tightly set in its hole returns a clean and clear ring, while a loose rivet produces a recognizably different sound. |
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Luddism was in fact a prototypical, insurrectionary labour movement involving a loose coalition of dissenters. |
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For example, to remove overburden that is loose or unconsolidated, a bucket wheel excavator might be the most productive. |
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For safety, it is common to mouse a threaded shackle to keep the pin from coming loose. |
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In some places, depending on geography, region, climate, and culture, hay is gathered loose and stacked without being baled first. |
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Much hay was originally cut by scythe by teams of workers, dried in the field and gathered loose on wagons. |
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On some farms the loose hay was stored in a barrack, shed, or barn, normally in such a way that it would compress down and cure. |
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Haystacks are stacks of harvested hay, stacked in many different ways, depending upon region of the world, climate, if baled or loose, and so on. |
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I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able. |
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On the ridges the general terrain is of loose stones, but elsewhere all is grass and heather. |
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The top is rounded and mainly of grass, but there are two low outcrops of rock with loose stones between. |
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A climb up these is neither pleasurable nor safe as they are extremely active loose rock channels. |
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The highest point carries not so much a cairn as a rearrangement of some loose rock at the apex of the pyramid. |
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Among the loose beds of ash that cover the slopes of many volcanoes, three classes of materials are represented. |
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In Brocchinia, the urn is a specialised insect trap, with a loose, waxy lining and a population of digestive bacteria. |
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The female chooses a nest site, where she scrapes a shallow hollow in the loose soil, sand, gravel, or dead vegetation in which to lay eggs. |
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The summit is all rock with many loose stones lying amid the small outcrops. |
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In November 1938, in an incident of mass hysteria, many residents believed a serial killer, the Halifax Slasher, was on the loose. |
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The small flowers are arranged in inflorescences of loose cymes, but also in rather dense heads or corymbs at the top of the stem or at its side. |
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In medieval Europe, loose fresh rushes would be strewn on earthen floors in dwellings for cleanliness and insulation. |
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A slight breeze picked up, sending a few loose rizlas skimming along the sand. |
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The button-down shirts and plain coloured skivvies were replaced by beads, fringed shawls and loose fitting Asian-style tops. |
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Another West Adelaide player soccered the loose ball off the ground in the direction of the goal. |
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A longing after sensual pleasures is a dissolution of the spirit of a man, and makes it loose, soft, and wandering. |
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Apply cement and stitch as necessary. A hot knife can be used to seal down loose seams. |
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You think they exaggerate sometimes? You think they embellish things, stretch the truth, play loose with the facts? |
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He did not himself care for the loose little talkings, half flat and half sharp, of men when they meet together in idleness. |
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Removing her name from the mailing list was her way of tying up loose ends. |
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Tuco-tucos groom themselves to remove loose sand from their fur by combing with the stiff bristles that grow near the bases of the hind claws. |
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He's so creative, and I'd love to turn him loose in my garden sometime and see what he dreams up. |
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Don't turn the dog loose in the yard before you check whether the gate is closed. |
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If the value is loose, despite the abundant availability of packets at the receiver, most of them are corrupted and thus undecodable. |
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After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight. |
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My hair is super thick so the most a half hour with a curling iron can do is give me loose wavyish curls, but that's enough. |
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The muscle under his left arm pit was ripped, and the flesh was torn loose from his right biceps. |
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Leave the ends loose to hang down and then backcomb using the cushion brush. |
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When they turn brown and break loose in the fall winds, they roll like giant beach balls, sometimes scattering their seeds for a mile or more. |
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Expect moshpits, crowd surfing and Wall of Death and be prepared to loose your shoes. |
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Buff with wet and dry abrasive paper until the loose paint has been removed and the edges smoothed over, then just apply a metal paint. |
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We were sweaty and bedraggled, shirts untucked, ties yanked loose. |
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First, the head mechanics have to check him for loose wing nuts and determine if his IQ meets or exceeds his shoe size. |
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Emotions once suppressed, emotions once channeled, now are let loose. |
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Based on these results, parakeet auklets and other alcids should not be housed, or at least fed, on a loose stone substrate. |
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This was due in part to The Anarchy and Stephen's loose rule resulting in the reduction of royal authority. |
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Through alliances with various Native American tribes, the French were able to exert a loose control over much of the North American continent. |
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In the early months of 1998, Kabila's army was a loose pastiche of kadogo, Katangan Tigers, and new recruits. |
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The very loose seroual trousers were made in both sand-khaki drill, and in winter-weight khaki wool for wear with the M1946 battledress blouse. |
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He leaned the mixture in an effort to cause a backfire through the carburetor, the generally accepted method of breaking the ice loose. |
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Between the two of us we choked her hold loose, but she brought Jones' leather leggin in her teeth. |
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Mardy Fish walloped the final shot of the match for a winner, and he let loose a jubilant roar of his own. |
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May God's curse rest upon the arrogant men and the unholy ambitions which let loose this horror upon humanity! |
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I can imagine the man... prepared to oppress rival firms, overthrow inconvenient monarchs, and let loose the dogs of war. |
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As if a giant ape weren't enough to get Jack Black going in King Kong, the actor says he let loose one time while making the film. |
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Thus encouraged, the Tijuana Brass let loose with its patented version of The Lonely Bull. |
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The glue is an enzyme called ligase, which stitches together loose sentences of DNA whenever it comes across them. |
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The composition of the riverbed at Rotherhithe was often little more than waterlogged sediment and loose gravel. |
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A special pair of forceps failed to remove it, as did a machine devised by Brunel to shake it loose. |
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As this list demonstrates, the loose versions of the specification are maintained for legacy support. |
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Investigators acknowledged that the cat's eye bodies occasionally came loose, but added that such an accident was previously unheard of. |
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Jack is considered a loose cannon due to his volatile personality and his track record of being unable to maintain his composure. |
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The sanidines were loose macrocrysts and their difference in ages suggests that they were derived from two separate flows. |
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Men are supposed to come to the mosque wearing loose and clean clothes that do not reveal the shape of the body. |
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The wattle may be made as loose panels, slotted between timber framing to make infill panels, or made in place to form the whole of a wall. |
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Western horses are asked to perform with a loose rein, controlled by one hand. |
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Hunt and Millais were students at the Royal Academy of Arts and had met in another loose association, the Cyclographic Club, a sketching society. |
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Many of his other works were very loose translations of, or simply based on, works from continental Europe. |
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He commissioned the creation of ballad collections, such as The Bagford Ballads, and he purchased loose poems from all corners. |
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A loose label given to the shoegazing scene and other affiliated bands in London in the early 1990s was The Scene That Celebrates Itself. |
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The Holy Roman Empire was a loose confederation of large and petty principalities under the nominal suzerainty of the emperor. |
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Instead of the predicted disaster, cutting loose from gold proved a major advantage. |
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The European Union has made loose organisations and meeting with some other countries and regions. |
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The path is regularly maintained but running water, uneven rocks and loose scree make it hazardous and slippery in places. |
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These states formed a loose German Confederation under the leadership of Austria and Prussia. |
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The seats are designed to withstand strong forces so as not to break or come loose from their floor tracks during turbulence or accidents. |
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Nevertheless, mentions of his early life and extended family paint a loose biographical picture of the detective. |
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I stress that a golfer cannot ever be too boneless or too loose, nor too muscleless. |
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Choosing among repeated drafts, revisions, corrections and loose notes editorial work has found nearly one third of the total suitable for print. |
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The predominantly loose and flowing, but covering, garments are suited to Saudi Arabia's desert climate. |
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The first stone walls were constructed by farmers and primitive people by piling loose field stones into a dry stone wall. |
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However, a federation is more than a mere loose alliance of independent states. |
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A loose connection between earls and shires remained for a long time after authority had moved over to the sheriffs. |
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It often preserved complete specimens of organisms only otherwise known from dispersed parts, such as loose scales or isolated mouthparts. |
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It is territorial and normally seen alone or in pairs, although loose flocks may form on migration. |
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In practice, Hong Kong follows a loose, unnamed romanization scheme used by the Government of Hong Kong. |
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Each series includes both standalone and multiple episodic stories, linked with a loose story arc that is resolved in the series finale. |
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Parabolic dunes have loose sand and steep slopes only on their outer flanks. |
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Also, traversing the nose is very difficult as well because the nose is usually made up of loose sand without much if any vegetation. |
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Their distinctive, flattened tests and tiny spines were adapted to life on or under loose sand. |
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Mature males sometimes form loose bachelor groups with other males of similar age and size. |
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Closely related matrilines form loose aggregations called pods, usually consisting of one to four matrilines. |
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There were reports of a giraffe that escaped from the zoo, on the loose in New York. |
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Chalk is not easily consolidated and the Chalk Group still consists of loose sediments in many places. |
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At the end of June, James Bay was generally open water except for loose ice persisting over its northwestern section. |
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Within that loose structure, smaller groups with their own hierarchy are believed to form. |
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The oldest are carved on loose objects, while later ones are chiseled in runestones. |
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A Viking legend states that Vikings used to take caged crows aboard ships and let them loose if they got lost. |
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Jeff et al pursue the loose hoodla on Galaxy Gliders at Maximum Speed. |
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Whitney's gin used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. |
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Under each foreleg, sea otters have a loose pouch of skin that extends across the chest which they use to store collected food to bring to the surface. |
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There were no large animals on Santa Maria, so after its discovery and before settlement began, sheep were let loose on the island to supply future settlers with food. |
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He sported long red hair, starting to thin, a red beard, sandals, loose kaftanlike shirts splotched with colors, sometimes a gold chain around his neck. |
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A peace treaty with Japan was signed in 1951 to formally tie up any loose ends such as compensation to be paid to Allied prisoners of war who had been victims of atrocities. |
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It was no other than the young woman who cut loose the treebound captive! |
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As tide current pulled the boat, the spikes scraped seabed material loose, and the tide current washed the material away, hopefully to deeper water. |
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Their tighthead is a great scrummager, but is not very good in the loose. |
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The practical application of what I have said is very close to the problem which I am investigating. It is a tangled skein, you understand. and I am looking for a loose end. |
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Pete Campbell would be just another irritating office brown-noser, a prep school Sammy Glick, except that he too has a screw loose and a mystical rapport with firearms. |
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The Rasulids kept the southern coast under loose control up to Dhofar, even holding Hadramawt to some extent and maintaining an antipirate squadron. |
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Then he could kick the loose ball by soccering it, but not handle it. |
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Protect the crowns of dormant plants such as agapanthus and alstroemerias with a loose covering of straw, held in place with wire netting and pegs. |
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In the late afternoon when the ground is squishingly soft and soggy and the grass can be peeled loose from the earth, along comes Mother's aunt, puffing down the road. |
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Protect the crowns of dormant plants like agapanthus and alstroemerias with a loose covering of straw or dried leaves, held in place with wire netting and pegs. |
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They let the hog loose, and the squeal subsided into a grunty moaning as it wandered erratically, the red draining pink into the snow around the yard. |
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On land, strong winds can damage or destroy vehicles, buildings, bridges, and other outside objects, turning loose debris into deadly flying projectiles. |
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Folds of loose netting, much like a window drapery, snag on a fish's tail and fins and wrap the fish up in loose netting as it struggles to escape. |
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Yet he also says that the cenobium is the better way for most. Monastic history began with hermits and developed from loose colonies to formal communities. |
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We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose. |
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I would have liked to stay later and tie up some of the loose ends. |
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In other areas, hay is stacked loose, built around a central pole, a tree, or within an area of three or four poles to add stability to the stack. |
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Construction of tall haystacks is sometimes aided with a ramp, ranging from simple poles to a device for building large loose stacks called a beaverslide. |
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In 1970 a loose timber was located and on 5 May 1971, the first structural details of the buried hull were identified after they were partially uncovered by winter storms. |
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Along with loose mallets and tar pots used for caulking, this variety of tools belonged to one or several of the carpenters employed on the Mary Rose. |
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British brewers have several loose names for variations in beer strength, such as best bitter, special bitter, extra special bitter, and premium bitter. |
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He felt bone-tired and twitchy, the way he did in the final stages of putting a video-game project together, almost ready to go gold and turn a new game loose on the public. |
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In geology, bedrock is the lithified rock that lies under a loose softer material called regolith at the surface of the Earth or other terrestrial planets. |
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The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs. |
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On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. |
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All of them were dressed vaguely, genderlessly alike, in loose, flowing pants or willowy skirts, wide-sleeve shirts, long hair and sandals, and a variety of homemade jewelry. |
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Rotary driven steel scrapers are normally employed to remove loose scale from C or low alloy steel pipe that has been hot bent. This method is called turbanizing. |
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They were joined by Godfrey of Bouillon and his brother Baldwin I of Jerusalem in leading a loose conglomerate from Lorraine, Lotharingia, and Germany. |
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When placed in the four foot it should be so arranged that a loose carraige coupling shall not strike the box, as such a blow might possibly break it. |
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In 2006, Tsang introduced food safety procedures to Hong Kong in light of loose vetting standards, contamination and counterfeit food issues of PR China. |
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Some investigators recommend touching the corneal epithelium at the slit lamp with a microsponge applicator in patients with suspected loose epithelium. |
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In the Qing dynasty titles of nobility were still granted by the emperor, but served merely as honorifics based on a loose system of favors to the Qing emperor. |
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And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. |
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In order to improve their chances against the Roman Empire the Ostrogoths and Visigoths began again to unite in what became a loose confederation of Germanic peoples. |
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He had seen many people die in accidental shootings or, as happened on border duty, someone went bosbefok and let loose with a machine-gun, screaming at an imaginary enemy. |
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The Chicago White Sox opened with a 4-3 win over Oakland on Monight, and the goals for the season are keeping things loose and winning more baseball games. |
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Germans, for the most part, had been a loose and disunited people since the Reformation when the Holy Roman Empire was shattered into a patchwork of states. |
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Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us. |
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His morality was such as naturally proceeds from loose opinions. |
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The loose regulation over the transportation of illegal drugs and the failure to prosecute known drug traffickers and gangs increased the growth of the drug industry. |
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She had a trishul in one hand. Her long raven-black hair was left loose. |
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She came out, standing a head taller than him, tugging a loose cotton shift into place, and made for a rough brick fireplace beside a pile of rusting pots and pans. |
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In 1810 a wreck near Margate was raised in this way but there was a dispute over payment and Trevithick was driven to cut the lashings loose and let it sink again. |
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Constitution was written as a reaction to the Articles of Confederation, under which the United States was a loose confederation with a weak central government. |
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The result was a loose collection of regiments which in general were more effective in the field, if not so smart on parade, than their regular counterparts. |
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The linings of most pitcher plants are covered in a loose coating of waxy flakes which are slippery for insects, causing them to fall into the pitcher. |
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To know whether sheep are sound or not, see that the felt be loose. |
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Often when something doesn't work for me, I just restart the computer and try again. Often this jars something loose, akin to the ole Fonzie touch. |
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Of course in a party of loose and diverse opinions, the essential nature of the organisation and its programme would always remain a matter of debate. |
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There is a poopetrator on the loose in Brooklyn, responsible for smearing feces on a number of doors and keyholes in the Prospect Heights and Crown Heights areas. |
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There is a common belief that graphite's lubricating properties are solely due to the loose interlamellar coupling between sheets in the structure. |
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The glacier abrades the smooth slope on the upstream side as it flows along, but tears rock fragments loose and carries them away from the downstream side via plucking. |
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Their system of gods and goddesses was loose, there being certain deities which virtually every Gallic person worshipped, as well as clan and household gods. |
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Congress evidently saw the wisdom of this and dealt with the matter in the Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960, which took care of various postadmission loose ends. |
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More a loose collective or even a state of mind than an actual aesthetic movement, mumblecore concerns itself with the mundane vacillations of postcollegiate existence. |
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The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft. |
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Likewise, it is recommended that women at a mosque wear loose clothing that covers to the wrists and ankles, and cover their heads with a hijab or other covering. |
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The required proportions of fat and aqueous phases may be continuously stirred in a premix tank to create a loose emulsion suitable for pumping into the votator line. |
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She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy. |
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Two of the bolts were loose, but every other bolt I checked was fine. |
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Be careful not to wrench your ankle walking along those loose stones! |
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It says something about the girl's ability or luck in shaping and securing the tent that not once did it begin to fold or come loose from its cinchings to the raft. |
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With five minutes remaining Hennessey was down well to block another Vukcevic shot, while Gunter was smartly in to punt away the dangerous loose ball. |
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I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. |
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Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness. Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest. |
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