| They are walking eight abreast, so that they take up all of the narrow pavement and spill out for several yards into the road. |
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| The flats currently used appear to be about 0.04 inch too narrow at the waist and 0.04 inch too long. |
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| It has been impossible to go out in my steamboat because it is long and narrow and could easily be rolled over by the wash from speedboats. |
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| Since wars had to be paid for, governments needed a war chest, particularly as their tax base was narrow and financial credit in short supply. |
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| Built on the River Tagus, the medieval quarters of the city are characterised by small houses and narrow streets. |
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| Sheer walls narrow towards the surface and almost meet, progressing vertically above the surface for another 30m or so. |
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| He halted suddenly, making an abrupt left down a narrow alley Nara didn't like the looks of. |
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| In a compact space, a narrow painted wardrobe or corner table and chairs can serve as a unique area of interest within the space. |
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| Many other streams and waterfalls run through this area's rocky escarpments and narrow valleys. |
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| The result is that the typical female form is almost straight, in contrast to the narrow waists and curves of the 1950s woman. |
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| I plaited her hair so that it fell in one long rope of yellow to her narrow waist. |
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| Ducks wake up and quack and swim away as we pass on the narrow walks, little packs of 20 or so ducks. |
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| Alright, all aboard for a time gone by, when narrow pants, octagonal shades, big round hair and teardrop peace medallions were the now thing! |
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| Options are limited because we are in the upper reaches of a river that has a narrow watercourse through an historic town. |
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| The valley is quite narrow and steep-sided, so you do not see out, but it's full of interest. |
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| Here, the barrier winds down a narrow alleyway used 350 years ago by sisters to drive cows out to pasture. |
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| That night, on a long and narrow ledge, I noticed that some of the water knots on his gear were sporting rather short tails. |
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| The narrow entrance hall leads to a larger reception hall decorated in warm colours, with light coming from a glass and pine door. |
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| The original watercourse was blocked by the scree slope we had just climbed over, and now the water disappeared into a scary narrow fissure. |
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| Theirs was a vision that accorded primacy to culture, but in a dangerously narrow way. |
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| His waist was thin and his hips narrow where the end of the shirt tucked into the back waistband of the shorts. |
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| And the narrow victory lifted Wibsey above the east Leeds side into the second promotion position. |
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| Wide angular shoulders filled out his suit jacket, but it hung loosely to a narrow waist. |
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| Who in their right mind would look forward to driving over 60 miles of muddy washboarded, potholed, narrow gravel road? |
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| James nodded understandingly, and led Leanne up a narrow corridor and into a small bedroom where there was a bed, a wardrobe and a desk. |
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| The insurgents still had strongholds in the north-western district of Jolan, a warren of narrow streets. |
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| In narrow inlets and coves, the wave can become focused or amplified, reaching tens of metres in height. |
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| Our American cave dweller will discover that no narrow road lies before him but a fate sealed in concrete. |
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| Poets in this tradition are less likely to abominate the larger society than to ignore it altogether and to concentrate on a narrow range of personal and domestic subjects. |
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| Two parallel fences tipped with barbed wire formed a narrow corridor into the gymnasium. |
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| To establishment Republicans and Democrats, that sounds like an absurdly narrow and implausible vision. |
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| Long before CISPA, CDT had proposed narrow changes to current law to improve the sharing of cyberthreat information. |
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| We contemplated having to prusik back up the narrow pitch, should the wallows be impassable, and soon persuaded ourselves to leave it for another day. |
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| The document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States. |
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| The dominant silhouette in the collection was an A-line, triangular shape with narrow shoulders and a full skirt. |
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| Revolution 2.0 narrates a fascinating but narrow slice of the process through which apathetic and passive people are politicized. |
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| The site is accessible by means of a narrow path on the southern side. |
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| The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs. |
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| Located 32 miles from the Utah desert town of Moab, the narrow rock peninsula juts jaggedly into canyon country, 2,000 feet above the Colorado River. |
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| Lastly, the very short strings of the spinet resulted in a narrow range of harmonics and thus in poor tone quality. |
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| The town, with a laid back ambiance and salubrious climate, has narrow streets with houses painted blue. |
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| Nevertheless, in her daily follow-ups, in addition to anisocoria of her left eye rima oculi was narrow compared to her right rima oculi. |
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| In the final match, American Tiger Woods and Charles Howell held a narrow one-up lead after nine holes against KJ Choi and Nick O'Hern. |
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| True lowland is confined to a few narrow coastal strips along the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Black Sea coasts. |
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| Most of the long coastline is narrow and sandy with unstable dunes, small shifting lagoons and points. |
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| Add a mop, a whiskbroom, spray-on cleaners, and rags, and this narrow storage space holds rescue from many small catastrophes. |
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| Characteristic narrow absorption lines, observed at 380 and 435 nm, are most likely from forbidden spin transitions in ferrous iron. |
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| The most common type of bark is smooth grey in young individuals, developing shallow longitudinal fissures with narrow ridges in older trees. |
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| Oceanic trenches are topographic depressions of the sea floor, relatively narrow in width, but very long. |
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| What's more, that intensity lies within an exceptionally narrow band of wavelengths compared with the emissions from ordinary heated tungsten. |
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| Here he stood for a moment looking up and down the narrow road and the heavy snowflakes covered his shoulders and his tufty, ill-kempt hair. |
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| The southwestern one, between San Marco and Veglia, is too narrow except for small vessels under favorable circumstances. |
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| He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love. |
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| The smaller wheels and shorter wheelbase provide improved maneuverability through narrow streets and congested traffic. |
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| Ventnor station opened with a single narrow platform, but by 1872 a second platform face was provided there too. |
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| Sure, case reports include plenty of ADA claims that lose, and many courts have indeed applied relatively narrow interpretations. |
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| Some astrolabes have a narrow rule or label which rotates over the rete, and may be marked with a scale of declinations. |
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| The present-day rivers have narrow courses incised into the floodplains, with anabranches, or anastomosing distributary channels. |
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| Towards the open country there is another small door, with a narrow staircase, all within the outer wall of the plaza. |
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| He had a narrow escape from death, when in an incautious landing several of his companions were killed by people of Seram. |
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| Downstream of Preobrazhenskoye village the Lower Tunguska flows in a narrow and deep valley with high, often rocky shores. |
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| Although attempts to abolish slavery failed by narrow margins in the legislature, in practical terms, the state had mostly ended the practice. |
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| The driver in the back is called the tillerman. The tillerman steers the rear wheels, allowing the truck to turn onto narrow streets and alleys. |
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| The leaves of this plant are aciform, flat, without fuzz and have narrow and long cuts. |
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| A narrow single roller was necessary to expel the seeds from the cotton without crushing the seeds. |
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| Their long, narrow tongues can reach deep into the long cup shape of some flowers. |
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| The attachment to the stem is formed by a very narrow striplike fold, a few cell rows wide. |
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| Davis is out to remove the slur of moral uptightness and narrow virtue from Malamuds reputation. |
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| Aculeus typical for Tephrellini, elongate, with narrow needle-like distal part. |
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| Zeolites are porous minerals composed of silicon, aluminum and oxygen atoms with narrow channels, like the lift shafts in a block of flats. |
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| The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine. |
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| Barrier beaches form in shallow water and are generally parallel to the shoreline, resulting in long, narrow estuaries. |
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| Dozens of colorful murals line the narrow streets and wide avenues, celebrating pleneros and poets, rumberos and revolutionaries. |
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| Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep or swine. |
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| The narrow mouth of the Dart is protected by two fortified castles, Dartmouth Castle and Kingswear Castle. |
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| It was a narrow ridge, raised above the surrounding turf, with irregular stones along its edges, and at the head an upright hunk of granite. |
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| The street door was open, and we entered a narrow space with washing facilities, curtained off from the courtyard. |
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| He grew thin and ribby, with narrow shoulders and a breast like a plucked chicken. |
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| Cardiganshire, the northernmost part of Dyfed, has a narrow coastal strip and the Cambrian Mountains cover much of the east of the county. |
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| To the east, on the opposite side of the narrow dale, are High Seat and Hugh Seat. |
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| The parish extends as far north as Hellgill Bridge along a narrow strip either side of the Ure. |
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| Both these isthmuses are very narrow compared to the bulk off the landmasses they unite. |
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| In all of them, however, the tail tip is black with a narrow white band at the very end, a pattern possibly plesiomorphic for all falcons. |
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| Like other tubenosed seabirds it has a long narrow area of visual sensitivity containing the fovea across the retina of the eye. |
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| In a narrow sense, the name refers to the range of Old Red Sandstone peaks which lie to the south of Brecon. |
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| Built about 1734, this narrow stone bridge conveyed the packhorse trail from Leeds to Cheshire. |
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| The river bridge at Commins Coch is so narrow and set at such an angle that only one vehicle at a time can pass. |
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| These are long, narrow inlets with steep sides or cliffs, created in a valley carved by glacial activity. |
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| The town contains many medieval and Elizabethan streetscapes and is a patchwork of narrow lanes and stone stairways. |
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| Cold fronts may feature narrow bands of thunderstorms and severe weather, and may on occasion be preceded by squall lines or dry lines. |
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| Larne sits on the western side of a narrow inlet that links Larne Lough to the sea. |
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| The sandbanks and narrow channels did not present much difficulty to the Dunkirk frigates or the local shallow draft cargo ships. |
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| Risso's dolphin has a relatively large anterior body and dorsal fin, while the posterior tapers to a relatively narrow tail. |
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| Narrow bands of schist are interstratified with these limestones, and in turn narrow beds of limestone are interstratified with the schists. |
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| A storm on 3 February 1825 penetrated the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, and thus separated Northern Jutland from the rest of Jutland. |
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| In Norway and Iceland, the usage is closest to the Old Norse, with fjord used for both a firth and for a long, narrow inlet. |
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| They are slender, lightly built birds with long, forked tails, narrow wings, long bills, and relatively short legs. |
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| Some of these programs have a narrow focus in one particular area, while others offer a wide range of programs. |
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| Negen Straatjes are nine narrow streets within the Grachtengordel, the concentric canal system of Amsterdam. |
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| For there, upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs. |
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| A few sets of tooled leather bindings were set out on narrow polished tables, between book ends. |
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| Most 2D surveillance radars use a spoiled parabolic antenna with a narrow azimuthal beamwidth and wide vertical beamwidth. |
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| The water deer has narrow pectoral and pelvic girdles, long legs, and a long, graceful neck. |
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| With the narrow connection to the Atlantic, the Gulf experiences very small tidal ranges. |
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| This is because of both the relatively large fetal head circumference and the mother's relatively narrow pelvis. |
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| It is sometimes applied to rows or groups of garages or, more broadly, to a narrow passage or a confined place. |
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| As these narrow conduits open, the first magma to enter solidifies and provides a form of insulation for later magma. |
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| Lytchett Bay lies to the north of the Harbour and flows into it through a narrow channel near the edge of the suburb of Hamworthy. |
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| When some base level is reached, the erosive activity switches to lateral erosion, which widens the valley floor and creates a narrow floodplain. |
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| Large pleural lobes enclose the male genitalia in ypsolophids but are small and narrow in plutellids. |
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| They have a wide discus, a narrow shoulder and no handle, elaborate imagery and artistic finishing, and a wide range of patterns of decoration. |
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| Along the length of the eastern coast runs a narrow and steep escarpment containing much of the island's remaining tropical lowland forest. |
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| No, sorry, but Jared is plantkin, though he's still searching to narrow it down. |
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| Its long neck gives it a large amount of dead space, in spite of its narrow windpipe. |
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| The coastal plains exhibit more or less flat, narrow terrain with landforms such as beach ridges, sandbars, and backwater marshes. |
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| As you head up it, you'll see how South Boulder Creek sliced the alluvial fans of red sandstone into a narrow canyon. |
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| Boats are long and streamlined with a narrow beam, which makes them very unstable. |
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| A narrow eastern part of the state including Orlando and Jacksonville receives between 2,400 and 2,800 hours of sunshine annually. |
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| Its streets are steep and narrow with old houses built by the Spanish over important Inca foundations. |
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| In the narrow center, the weather changes to be more humid due to altitude. |
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| The western border of the bay is protected from the Pacific Ocean by a long, narrow strip of land called the Silver Strand. |
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| Strong tidal currents occur in the narrow channels between islands and reefs, and large submarine sand dunes migrate across the seafloor. |
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| It comprises a deep water basin, which then rises through a narrow slope into the shallower water above the continental shelves. |
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| The use of the term anaphor in this narrow sense is unique to generative grammar, and in particular, to the traditional binding theory. |
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| A Gill or Ghyll is a ravine or narrow valley in the North of England and other parts of the United Kingdom. |
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| The Appalachian region of Quebec has a narrow strip of ancient mountains along the southeastern border of Quebec. |
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| All the food on the menu looked delicious, so I tried to narrow down my choices to only healthy foods. |
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| On the Red Sea coast, there is a narrow coastal plain, known as the Tihamah parallel to which runs an imposing escarpment. |
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| The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries saw a revolt against narrow spirituality and educators started to focus on the human, rather than God. |
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| This road is very narrow and steep and unsuitable for heavy vehicles or high volumes. |
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| The tunnels were too narrow for electrification and were closed in 1953 when the larger Woodhead 3 tunnel was completed. |
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| In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined. |
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| Some of the narrow gauge locomotives are still in service for tourism purposes. |
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| Still, some governments strive to keep their currency within a narrow range. |
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| Geological mapping has established that the volcanic tuff used for the axes outcrops along a narrow range of the highest peaks in the locality. |
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| Prominent on Ordnance Survey maps is Kilnshaw Chimney, although in reality this is just a narrow gully beneath the summit. |
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| By 1900 India had a full range of rail services with diverse ownership and management, operating on broad, metre and narrow gauge networks. |
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| Escaping prey in terrestrial pitchers have to climb or fly out of a trap, and both of these can be prevented by wax, gravity and narrow tubes. |
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| A particular set of plants and animals tend to be adapted to a relatively narrow range of climate. |
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| The roads are often quite steep, narrow and winding, and ruts can be a problem when it rains. |
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| Finally on the west rough slopes fall below the rocks of White Napes to the narrow valley of Gable Beck, a tributary of Lingmell Beck. |
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| The summit plateau of Kirk Fell assumes a 'figure of eight' shape in plan, the narrow waist squeezed between Illgill Head and Baysoar Slack. |
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| Jokioinen Museum Railway is a stretch of preserved narrow gauge railway between Humppila and Jokioinen. |
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| The 1970s distinction between narrow gauge, standard gauge and steam centres alone is no longer necessarily fit for purpose. |
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| Running south east from the summit is Littledale Edge an airy narrow ridge which connects to the neighbouring fell of Hindscarth. |
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| Descending a narrow tree-lined lane the carriage passed into a leisurely winding road, bounded by market-gardens and the River Val. |
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| They finished fifth in the league after four narrow defeats and Kenya won the league. |
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| Below is a narrow terrace bearing the 'High Level Route' path and then a further wall including Pillar Rock, Raven and Ash Crags and Proud Knott. |
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| Two short and narrow stripes are usually present in the shoulder region, in front of the dorsal band. |
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| Before the season started, Mansell could not fit into the narrow car and was deputised by Mark Blundell for the opening two rounds. |
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| During this time he met Flora Macdonald, who famously aided him in a narrow escape to Skye. |
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| This allows much wider legal boundaries for collective bargaining, compared to the narrow boundaries for individual negotiations. |
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| Labour formed a minority government and went on to win a narrow majority in the October 1974 general election. |
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| Even though every former DR narrow gauge railway has undergone privatisation, the daily steam operations are still commonplace there. |
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| After the 2012 elections, Rufus Ewing of the Progressive National Party won a narrow majority of the elected seats and was appointed premier. |
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| Robed parliamentary clerks often sit at narrow tables between the two rows of seats, as well. |
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| The DR in East Germany placed a similar procurement plan, including engines for narrow gauge. |
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| Below in the narrow valley, a gray stream simmered, no more than a trickle of mopwater in summer. |
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| Many critics have argued that Thomas's work is too narrow and that he suffers from verbal extravagance. |
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| One week later, a referendum in Wales on establishing a Welsh Assembly was also approved but with a very narrow majority. |
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| This was the murderee, a rich young man with narrow lips and the tussock hairstyle that had been fashionable five years before. |
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| The three autumn tests held at Murrayfield during November yielded wins over Argentina and Tonga, and a narrow defeat against New Zealand. |
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| Eventually a horseshoe bend is formed and the river cuts through the narrow neck. |
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| A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal fish and crustacean species. |
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| Examples of these laws are photo ID mandates, narrow times for early voter, and limitations on voter registration. |
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| Suffren arrived off the Indian coast in February 1782, where he clashed with a British fleet under Hughes, winning a narrow tactical victory. |
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| The present day outcrop occupies a narrow zone from Dulas Bay on Anglesey's northeast coast, southwards to the town of Llangefni. |
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| A black and narrow dorsal band starts on the shoulders, and runs along the back, usually terminating at the base of the tail. |
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| A dark and narrow stripe is present on the outer corner of the eye, under the ear. |
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| The dolmens were vaults or safes of stone, with a narrow circular entrance that could be tapped with a round screw of stone. |
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| The slum was based around narrow streets, badly ventilated and full of crowded houses that led to festering diseases. |
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| Carnarvon Castle railway station opened in 1856 as the northern passenger terminus of the narrow gauge Nantlle Railway. |
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| The Rhondda lay within Penychen, a narrow strip running between modern day Glyn Neath and the coast between Cardiff and Aberthaw. |
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| This narrow valley at the head of the River Eden is bounded by Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell to the west and Mallerstang Edge to the east. |
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| Holyhead is located on Holy Island, which is eperated from Anglesey by a very narrow channel, and has a population of 13,659 at the 2011 census. |
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| FishBase in 2015 listed 54 species or subspecies in this genus, many of which have very narrow local distributions. |
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| From this point on the road becomes narrow and twisting and overtaking is problematic except at a few straight sections. |
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| The tightly packed array of narrow individual beams provides very high angular resolution and accuracy. |
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| The historic town centre still retains its medieval street pattern and many narrow passages. |
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| The northern part of the county is a mountainous area, dissected by deep narrow valleys. |
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| Dublin was incorporated into the English Crown as the Pale, which was a narrow strip of English settlement along the eastern seaboard. |
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| Thus, the range of water content within which these clays can be worked is very narrow and consequently must be carefully controlled. |
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| It shares a marine border with Oman, and is separated from Tajikistan by the cold, narrow Wakhan Corridor. |
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| Formation of barrier beaches partially encloses the estuary, with only narrow inlets allowing contact with the ocean waters. |
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| The lough is almost totally enclosed by the Ards Peninsula and is linked to the Irish Sea by a long narrow channel or strait. |
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| Early maps of the bay carefully show narrow shipping channels and mooring areas. |
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| Although some species only live in very narrow environments, most are opportunistic and can live under a wide variety of conditions. |
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| These specialized feet allow chameleons to grip tightly onto narrow or rough branches. |
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| The narrow gauge engines were introduced, and were the focus of a number of episodes. |
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| Of the narrow gauge railways the Ferrovia Circumetnea is the only one that still operates, going round Mount Etna. |
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| The secondary inland and mountain roads are generally narrow with many hairpin turns, so the speed limits are very low. |
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| Novaya Zemlya consists of two major islands, separated by the narrow Matochkin Strait, as well as a number of smaller islands. |
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| In Scandinavia, fjord is used for a narrow inlet of the sea in Norway, Denmark and western Sweden, but this is not its only application. |
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| The existing narrow shelf sea between Norway and Greenland began to widen and deepen. |
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| A narrow deep channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the Rhine in the last Ice Age. |
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| It is divided by only the narrow Bluemull Sound from the south west of Unst. |
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| Protected rocky shorelines usually show a narrow almost homogenous eulittoral strip, often marked by the presence of barnacles. |
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| Hence, over time, dams can reduce the area of wetland from a broad littoral zone to a narrow band of vegetation. |
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| Five years later Bolognini Zaltieri issued a map showing a narrow and crooked Strait of Anian separating Asia from the Americas. |
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| The earliest had either plaited or chequered pattern, with narrow strips sewn together. |
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| But this long and narrow canal was quickly inadequate to handle the growing boat traffic. |
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| Prior to nourishment, in many places the beach was too narrow to walk along, especially during high tide. |
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| As with the rest of Ireland, Belfast has a temperate or oceanic climate, with a narrow range of temperatures and rainfall throughout the year. |
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| During the battle, Fighter Command flew 2,500 sorties over Dieppe, and achieved a narrow victory over the Luftwaffe. |
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| Although Patton might have spun a line across the narrow neck, I doubted his ability to hold it. |
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| Spoiled parabolic antennas produce a narrow beam in one dimension and a relatively wide beam in the other. |
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| These are connected by narrow soaring ridges and shelter dark coombes from the sunlight. |
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| The albatrosses are among the largest flying birds, with long, narrow wings for gliding. |
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| The capillary action refers to the tendency of water to move up a narrow tube against the force of gravity. |
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| It is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia. |
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| In fact, they form the coastline, either sloping steeply directly into the sea, or are separated from it by a relatively narrow coastal plain. |
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| Flow from the Arctic Ocean Basin into the Pacific, however, is blocked by the narrow shallows of the Bering Strait. |
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| The rivers breached these ridges, after possibly being dammed back for a short period, creating a narrow passage through the low rocky barrier. |
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| Mining is considered to be similar to the potato harvest on land, which involves mining a field partitioned into long, narrow strips. |
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| The narrow leat which once diverted water from Brownrigg Well into the gill beside the mine may also be seen, much higher up the fellside. |
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| The Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum displays an exhibition about ball clays, mining and the associated narrow gauge railways. |
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| To minimise drag, these types have a streamlined fuselage and long narrow wings having a high aspect ratio. |
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| Much of the town centre is Victorian and Georgian, with narrow cobbled streets in the area of the quay. |
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| Textile mills and chimneys and gritstone terraced houses are the dominant buildings and roads are concentrated in the narrow valley. |
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| A narrow pelvic outlet indicates that the young were very small at birth and therefore pregnancy was short, as in modern marsupials. |
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| This is a convenient method of manoeuvring in a narrow waterway or through a busy harbour. |
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| Occasionally races consist of six riders but this is rare as most tracks are too narrow to accommodate the extra riders safely. |
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| The track centres can be as narrow and as cheap as possible, but maintenance must be done on the side. |
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| The climate of Preston is of a temperate maritime type, with a narrow range of temperatures, similar to the rest of the British Isles. |
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| Any splices narrow enough to maintain smooth running would be less able to support the required weight. |
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| Until the late 19th century, it was only possible to reach Hallstatt by boat or via narrow trails. |
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| The majority of the public view archaeology as being something only available to a narrow demographic. |
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| Here the narrow valley of the Wachau, with its densely forested escarpments, made access to the riverbank more difficult. |
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| Southern Thailand consists of the narrow Kra Isthmus that widens into the Malay Peninsula. |
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| Conversely, historical developments spanning many current countries may be ignored, or analyzed from narrow parochial viewpoints. |
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| In the United Kingdom, the centre of narrow gauge construction was North Wales. |
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| The 'elas' are fairly wide in the lower reaches of midlands and narrow towards the upper parts of the midlands. |
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| The topography changes drastically, rising from the narrow coastal plains to the highlands of the eastern Sierra Madre. |
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| On the drive I created a narrow strip planted with Irish moss, viola and ajuga. |
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| Limestone has fissures and is soluble in water, therefore rivers have been able to carve deep, narrow valleys. |
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| Flat areas are located in narrow strips near the coast and along the banks of river Apo. |
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| Callaghan had been widely expected to call a general election in the autumn of 1978 when most opinion polls showed Labour to have a narrow lead. |
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| The early mills were narrow and low in height, of light construction, powered by water wheels and containing small machines. |
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| Unlike many industrial areas, typically served by a narrow gauge railway, parks were free from redevelopment. |
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| The last section of the road is particularly narrow and even passes through a farmyard. |
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| He selected a narrow gorge with a forest behind him, opening out into a wide plain. |
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| It was also held that it was not the role of the Court to redraft the subpoena and narrow its scope to those issues in dispute. |
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| The new road replaces a winding, narrow section of the A595 which passed through the village of Distington. |
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| On the Gulf of California, the biggest island is the Angel de la Guarda, separated from the peninsula by the deep and narrow Canal de Ballenas. |
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| However, tidal currents occur in narrow passages in the western parts of the Baltic Sea. |
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| Galicia's many hydroelectric dams take advantage of the steep, deep, narrow rivers and their canyons. |
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| Before they come back and charge jizillions per hour to do what I did, I'd like to narrow it down to keep costs down. |
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| The last commercial carrier, narrow gauge line in Britain was the Ashover Light Railway, opened in 1925 using surplus war equipment. |
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| It is still not a hymn in the narrow sense of the formal and structural criteria of hymnody. |
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| A precise phonetic transcription, in which sounds are described in a great deal of detail, is known as a narrow transcription. |
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| The southern end of the vale is a narrow pass between High Rigg and Great Dodd, just to the north of the small settlement of Legburthwaite. |
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| The use of narrow gauge allows tighter curves in the track and offers a smaller structure gauge and tunnel size. |
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| Carbon arc lamps were started by making contact between two carbon electrodes, which were then separated to within a narrow gap. |
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| The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction only in narrow circumstances, but holds appellate jurisdiction over the entire state judicial system. |
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| The island is dominated by a maritime climate with quite narrow temperature differences between seasons. |
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| The water bed is narrow and the average drop is large, so the flow in this section is extremely turbulent and fast. |
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| Between the kerbs and the snow-banks a freshet of clear blue water rises. Within me a freshet that chokes the narrow gorge of my veins. |
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| Infected trees are stunted, with narrow leaves, often with large enations on their underside. |
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| Many customers live in upstairs flats, down narrow lanes, alongside double yellow lines or have steps to the front door. |
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| The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water. |
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| The door fronted on a narrow run, like a footbridge over a gully, that filled the gap between the house wall and the edge of the bank. |
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| Encyclopedias of at least one volume in size now exist for most if not all academic disciplines, including such narrow topics such as bioethics. |
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| With a narrow cutter and rapid feed rate, these revolution ridges can be significant variations in the surface finish. |
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| Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike? |
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| These webbings are made in innumerable fine patternings, with silk mixtures in the design, in narrow stripings and small figurings. |
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| The Yankees had burned the bridge but she knew of a footlog bridge across a narrow point of the stream a hundred yards below. |
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| At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood. |
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| He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot. |
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| The floor of first story and piazza to be laid with Georgia pine, in narrow courses planed, groved and tongued, and laid in the best manner. |
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| Settlements were often located in narrow valley bottoms, possibly associated with hunting of passing herds of animals. |
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| These shanty towns had narrow walkways between irregularly shaped lots and dwellings. |
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| These two factors limit many species of animals and plants to a relatively narrow region of the Baltic Sea. |
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| The narrow roads present a challenge for traffic flow and, from the 1960s, certain areas have been very congested. |
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| A referendum was then held on the same day as the 1937 general election, when a relatively narrow majority approved it. |
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| The invisible cord... I followed him down a narrow path with a rippling lake of grain on each side, wheat stalks brushing my hosen. |
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| This may be covered by the later village, which has long occupied the whole narrow strip between the steep hillsides and the lake. |
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| The Shambles is a narrow medieval street, lined with shops, boutiques and tea rooms. |
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| Walney Island, to the west of Barrow, surrounds the peninsula's Irish Sea coast and is separated from Barrow by the narrow Walney Channel. |
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| The three R's were abominably taught and the course of work was narrow and juiceless to the extreme. |
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| With a narrow win in the 1951 general election, despite losing the popular vote, Churchill was back. |
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| The Grand Union effectively bypassed the earlier, narrow and winding Oxford Canal which also remains open as a popular scenic recreational route. |
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| And little lathy Charles with his long, narrow white face and obstinate chin, is no A B C of a boy. |
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| Because of the many small farms that have survived on the downs, a network of narrow lanes and minor roads has developed. |
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| He stood in the middle of a narrow part of the road, stopped the horse, and struck Fyot with a heavy cudgel, leaving him for dead in the ditch. |
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| Man was not made so large limbed and robust but that he must seek to narrow his world and wall in a space such as fitted him. |
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| Trains instead had to follow a lengthy route via Gloucester, where the river was narrow enough to be crossed by a bridge. |
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| The longship had a long, narrow hull and shallow draught to facilitate landings and troop deployments in shallow water. |
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| It is separated from Tajikistan by Afghanistan's narrow Wakhan Corridor in the north, and also shares a maritime border with Oman. |
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| The curriculum at Oxford before the reforms was notoriously narrow and impractical. |
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| Among the many notable pastas, mafaldine, a narrow ribbon pasta with ruffled edges perfect for capturing sauce, snags the prize. |
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| The arched windows are usually narrow by comparison to their height and are without tracery. |
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| Marginellas have smooth, shiny shells with an elongate, narrow aperture three-quarters or more of the total shell length. |
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| Gunports were keyhole shaped, with a circular hole at the bottom for the weapon and a narrow slit on top to allow the gunner to aim. |
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| Adventure then turned toward the beach of Ocracoke Island, heading for a narrow channel. |
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| In the Fourth Test, England won the toss and batted first, putting on 238 runs, Australia took a narrow lead scoring 270 in their first innings. |
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| Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges. |
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| Widening and the removal of its houses was completed in 1763, but it remained relatively narrow and needed continual and expensive repairs. |
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| After the narrow failure to qualify for Euro 2008, McLeish left to join Premier League club Birmingham City. |
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| A rematch with Collins took place in Cork, Ireland, and Eubank lost again by a surprisingly narrow split decision. |
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| One of these methods includes placing the cone on the narrow end and observing how the mix flows through the cone while it is gradually lifted. |
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