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A flock of sea gulls is set down in the field of alfalfa recently harvested, a study in green and white.
At one point, all 10 multi-instrumentalists set down their axes in the middle of a piece and sang in gentle, unearthly harmony.
Teddy set down his cup, a definite clink resounding throughout the office, and leaned forward.
After the silence continues, the golden-haired woman set down her coffee and stepped behind her husband, resting her arms around him.
And yet Vermeer seems willing to set down the areas of light and shade just as they occur.
In the quiet twilight, the cobbler slowly set down his tools, laying the wooden shoe at the foot of his stool and rising slowly.
They were set down with neat penmanship on small pieces of white paper decorated with hearts, flowers and blue ribbons.
The dozens of sports that set down this weekend left a wake of destruction and ruin.
The others nodded in mute agreement, assenting to the terms set down by the car's owner.
The floors were made from highly polished white marble that appeared to be as new as the day it had been set down.
In order for his margraves, especially, to rule the conquered peoples, Charlemagne had their customs set down in writing.
Passengers will be set down on request at all recognised stops along the route.
Davies, last year's beaten finalist, came back from a set down to secure a 3-2 win against the England captain.
Some new rules have been set down as a result of this year's congress meeting.
He said the Council couldn't increase the level of fines imposed on people, who illegally dumped rubbish, as they were set down in legislation.
For nearly as long, pilgrims with a bent for writing have felt compelled to set down what they experienced.
While making a hasty exit, Mike and Debbie come face to face with some of the scariest clowns ever to set down this side of the midway!
He set down his fork with an awful finality, a sign that had always heralded the start of an argument, but his voice was mild.
Mr. Harding carefully set down his glass tumbler without shifting his gaze from his son.
He is set down to watch the play that follows, performed solely for his benefit by strolling players.
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She set down her bag and kicked off her tan suede mules as she walked back to her bedroom.
They took about three hours to set down some new gripper strips, and lay down the new underlay and carpet.
He smiled as he set down a tray of mugs in front of a few ladies, who giggled at him and made polite small talk.
Tyler set down the basket and unrolled the blanket, intent on setting things up himself.
The helmet was unstrapped and set down on the body of the bike, revealing a young woman's face.
So off we set down the beerhouse, in the name of duty, in pursuit of dirty snogs.
For no sooner had Blair's vision been laid out in the Commons on Thursday than his own counter-proposals were being set down.
Sighing, Valerian set down her needlework and followed the seven year old to the window of the solar.
Maria had to come back from a set down against Ai Sugiyama, too, but that doesn't make her a slow starter.
It consists of small, handleless, intricately decorated cups of the kind used for Turkish coffee, set down simply in a circle on the floor.
He set down one of his items on the floor and stretched his hand for a handshake and I shook his hand as firmly as I could with my free hand.
The waitress set down a small gas range on the table, stuck an oiled tray on top, and poured on a mixture of greens and spicy chicken.
It is rather pitiful that Cork hospitals are being so slavish in considering following the lead set down by Dublin.
He set down his wineglass and, taking her by the shoulders, turned her to the cheval glass she'd avoided up until now.
Babies are christened according to the principles set down by the Lutheran Church of Iceland.
He's going abroad, he tells me, and ettles to set down about Dunkirk in France.
It wasn't really codification, because Congress did not set down a legislative rule to supplant the judicial one.
They had bent to accept the rules and diktats set down by the powers-that-be.
If you set down a face card, an ace, or a joker, then next person has a certain number of chances to set down one of those cards.
Christopher set down his cards, exposing a three, five, and ten of spades and the ace of diamonds.
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I myself am lifted onto another stretcher, carried into the ambulance, and set down beside Michael.
At last I could knit a few rows, enjoy the process and then set down the needles.
The appeal was not set down until 17th June, so at best the application was just under two months late, and at worst three months late.
I sighed, wished for an electric heater, then set down to the task of rekindling the fire.
It was important that the public were kept informed about the sludge plant proposal and it was vital that the sludges to be treated would be clearly set down.
I noticed as he set down the box he'd been carrying that he was wearing a faded black shirt with holes ripped in the short sleeves and bottom hem.
And this peculiar Camelot is set down in a vast natural desert, forbidding, unknowable.
But if he would scarcely answer, because it was set down in his notebook.
Gradually a system of obligations and service emerged, especially relating to manorial agrarian management, and set down in records called custumals.
They set down a policy to introduce initiatives, including the presumption that the council will consider prosecution in every case of fraud it uncovers.
I smiled and cheered inwardly as I set down the telephone receiver.
That process will be set in motion, as I've already mentioned, next Tuesday and once set in motion, and once the rules are set down, it will all simply follow automatically.
Listening in on the tap, a man laughed, putting his head set down.
I grabbed the pot she'd set down and scooped the grains onto my plate.
He set down his mug and looked steadily across the table at me.
Finally the fugu is set down in front of us to hushed anticipation.
I set down the wooden spoon I'd been stirring the hot chocolate with.
He set down one foot after the other with the heaviness of a somnambulist.
Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
If all the poets in all those old magazines were set down in one Parnassian table of contents it would be at least as long as the list of the year's runners.
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James set down his glass cup on the edge of the sink, unclenching his fist, and the clash of metal and glass seemed to reverberate harshly in her ears.
Just before we are crushed, he swings into a tiny hotel set down point, before swinging back across the road, over the traffic island and back into the correct lane.
Or, for that matter, could the intertribal warfare be reconciled with the intertribal peace requirements set down for the buffalo hunters by the Stevens treaties?
She set down the seal, climbed up to the hole that was four feet above the ground and slid feet first into the opening that led to a small cavern.
I set down my glass deliberately and traced the rim slowly with my finger.
The new Vidal Sassoon Ionic Sensor Touch Hair Dryer, for example, turns itself off when it is set down.
To set down somewhat circumstantially, not only the events, but the manner of my trials.
I set down a fishy can of tuna, which in Catlandia is as enticing as foie gras to gourmets and shooting speedballs to junkies.
He set down in his notebook a series of 'Quaestiones' about mechanical philosophy as he found it.
I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
If each contradiction be set down as a lie and retailed at breakfast, life is not easy.
The associations of the four Home Nations met in Manchester on 6 December 1882 to set down a set of worldwide rules.
At this conference Welsh law was codified and set down in writing for posterity.
There are also a number of special courts, which will hear a narrower set of cases, as set down by legislation.
When Atlas set down the apples and took the heavens upon his shoulders again, Heracles took the apples and ran away.
European Union law is codified in treaties, but develops through the precedent set down by the European Court of Justice.
Divorce also would be governed by the secular law, and maintenance of a divorced wife would be along the lines set down in the civil law.
Before he returned, he answered a challenge set down by Effie Gray, whom he later married.
Since it was first set down in the late 19th century, the story attached to the grave has changed and has been greatly embellished.
The box was set down, the stiff buckles of its mildewed straps tackled by a dozen thumby hands, the lid hurled back.
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I hope that the few details set down here will induce more worthly contributions along the same line.
The OOD, however, told the CO if he was concerned about being set down on the anchored vessel, he should order a left rudder.
We set down in a desert without the sinuous sands of the movies, in a camp, by the gateless Jericho.
One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.
Larsson was not lacking in courage either, he twice fought back from a set down before one spectacular passing shot from the Aussie in the last set provided the final twist.
The British No1, pictured right, went a set down for the second day in succession after a woeful final service game, but levelled after a second-set tie-break.
The British number one went a set down for the second day in succession after a woeful final service game, but levelled after a second-set tie-break.
There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.
We barely see the world at such a level, for we are surburbing in our splanches, looking for ledges to set down our plastic menorahs for all the gentiles to see.
I set down this account so others may benefit from my experience.
Some rules were to be set down for the government of the army.
Its rules were set down in 1699 by King Louis XIV, when it received the name of 'Royal Academy of Sciences' and was installed in the Louvre in Paris.
He set down the pictures and pulled out a minialbum. The first page was her senior picture, with her swirly handwriting documenting important events.
Mandatory Committees are committees which are set down under the Scottish Parliament's standing orders, which govern their remits and proceedings.
The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.
Gradually, however, English, Penglish, and other host country languages have become accepted, as filmmakers and audiences have evolved and set down roots abroad.
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Us Goshen people kind o' kept together when we set down in the amp'itheater.
Therefore it is not usual to commence mixing a sweet or souffle omelet, till after the company has set down to dinner.
To do as you advise would be to change all the rules set down for promotion.
Perry slowly set down the ice-cream cone on the lid of the trash-can beside him.
When she set down on the stat field she would be flaming a banner of trouble.
I want to set down what happened in case there's ever a kickback although I don't think there ever will be.
A few remarks and results relating to the differential geometry of plane curves are set down here.
Next, a gray-frocked Belgian friar, sandaled and shaven of crown, set down on parchment the northern trend of the same river.
Being set down, she casts her face into a platform, which dureth the meal, and is taken away with the voider.
A certain cheery impertinence which characterized Charlie was fondly set down as savoir-faire and dash.
Ms Galvez came in and patted her hair and set down her schoolbook on her desk and powered it up.
So they picked the details of that final chapter from the hot sands of the Sulphur Springs Valley as they are set down here.
The valuation must be duly set down in writing, and there is a certain fixed scale of charges for the appraiser's services.
The woman stared, looked at Kyra Agatha's sleeping face, set down the pan upon the floor, and came forward.
Since he had been set down there his eyes had not strayed from the statue of the virgin.
Each basket is carefully weighed, and the nett weight of cotton set down upon the slate, opposite the name of the picker.
When the litter was set down in the courtyard of Las Palmas it carried only a corpse!
The Atharva-Veda adds that he set down a stone on the ground, asking the bride to step upon it for the obtainment of offspring.
William Jaquith went to a certain corner and brought out a teapoy of violet wood, which he set down at the old lady's elbow.
After Mr. longways had finished, he smacked his lips and set down his glass with a great air.
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The manner of the production of souls, or rather their non-production is admirably well set down in Plotinus, See, ennead.
On these charts he set down lines connecting those localities at which the magnetic variation was identical.
In the bald, simple forms here set down, the syllogism and enthymeme are hardly suited to delivery in speeches.
Such Quotations of Places to be marginally set down, as shall serve for the fit reference of one Scripture to another.
It does not enter into our plan to set down here the proofs of transformism.
Soon as the noise of banquet ceased and the board was cleared, they set down great bowls and enwreathe the wine.
Sir Charles needed a moment or two after he had set down to recover his equipoise.
The cost has been set down at 65,000, or about one-thirtieth that of a suspension bridge, and one-third that of a bascule bridge.
She had set down the knitting, and was fidgeting, first with her cap and then her apron.
The stretchers were set down in the bottom of the trench and hasty examinations made by the light of a flash lamp.
After that, you and quist stay in this cabin with the door locked until the ship has set down.
Pamina, Papageno, and Papagena are set down as types of the people, and Monostatos as the fugleman of monasticism.
Of our ragweed not much can be set down that is complimentary, except that its name in the botany is Ambrosia, food of the gods.
They set down the bier and waited, that a mass might be sung for the lady's soul.
Certainly this was no place to set down the full weight of Astro nor to protect the crew and equipment from abrasive dust.
If approached from the religious standpoint, it will be set down either to Jesuits or to the Great Schism of Luther.
In society, high advantages are set down to the possessor as disadvantages.
I saw that, and set down the anxiety he expressed that I should write to him at its proper value.
Hence the former is set down as a migrant in England, while the latter is thought to be a permanent resident.
Here peke set down his basket of herbs in a corner, and addressed the company generally.
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There they set down the palanquin with the queen in it, and started home again.
In real life all might have happened just as it is set down, but real life is sloppily constructed.
Indeed there is another reason why complementaries should not be used, but merely their approximations set down.
Therefore, as it is a million you want, sire, and that million is not set down here, it is forty-six millions your majesty stands in need of.
He was set down, that Netherfield, as being of Blyth, Northumberland.
The ankh and mummy-case were set down right in front of him.
We never said a word, but went straight up onto the hurricane-deck and plumb back aft, and set down on the end of the sky-light.
It is very frequently set down as pusillanimity and cravenness of spirit.
Howorth, the picture cleaner, may supply a not unnecessary proof of the authenticity of the facts here set down.
The musters for Derbyshire were set down at fifteen hundred.
Trent set down his glass without a word, and called to some Kru boys in the square who carried litters.
The Chancellor took it haughtily, drank it off thoughtfully, smiled benevolently on the happy waiter as he set down the empty glass, and began.
An' then she set down in a chair, an' fanned herself with a newspaper.
On the stage they would be set down at once as some old Oriental band of brigands.
Tobe set down the pitcher as gingerly as if it had been a soap-bubble.
I set down in the rockin' chair and took the Gloucester paper.
Well, I'd let him set down a spell in Solomon's temple an' look round him.
Green means the problem is solvable within the conditions set down.
He felt that this was to be set down as one of the good Thanksgivings of his life.
Let us be set down at Queen's Crawley without further divagation, and see how Miss Rebecca Sharp speeds there.
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The judge was irate, and determined to give the intruder a set down.
Jacob set down his milk pail, and followed her into the Veaseys' kitchen.
The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate.
It was put into a large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the ground.
She set down the glass and rubbed the sunstone on her finger.
The tireless femme-de-chambre set down a tray with coffee cups on the table.
Another group, Swing Sista, puffed as its members maneuvered a giant contrabass and a four-piece drum set down the stairwell.
The traditions of Tongan immigration are too numerous to be set down here.
You can set down Mr. Melville's name with perfect confidence.
So the stranger of undeclared intentions was set down to a mighty feast.
His was probably the most uninspiring funeral that is set down in history.
The different divisions of that kind of news are set down in their order, which varies but slightly in its arrangement of concise headlines.
This, I set down not vauntingly, but fully realizing what I owe to Heaven.
Lady Lydiard, in the act of pouring out a second glassful of beer, suddenly set down the jug.
Two of them bore a small chest which they set down on the wharf.
At the same time, she did not forget to set down his discontent to the right side.
Your house is so full of these little plagues, now, that a body can't set down their foot without treading on 'em.
Pyncheon set down the emptied glass, he thought be beheld his grandfather frown.
In the West Indies he would certainly have been set down as a quadroon.
We will set down, however, what we have heard to have been said by the Pythia concerning Homer in the time of the most sacred Emperor Hadrian.
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I set down fifty-two distinct repetitions, and then the echo got the advantage of me.
Lee saw the result, 3,650 set down with the dollar sign in front of it.
He was no better than a troglodyte, set down in a new wilderness.
I only set down these figures and these remarks to suggest the prodigious labor the carving of it so elegantly, so symmetrically, so faultlessly, must have cost.
As I write there is in the passage below a sound of many tramping feet and the crash of weights being set down heavily, doubtless the boxes, with their freight of earth.
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant.
Ray's launch barge, the Intermac 650, from a fabrication yard in China to the offshore installation site as well as the launch, upend and set down of the jacket.
They are here set down, most holy father, upon a cantle of sheep-skin.
He set down his teacup and smiled at her for a moment gravely.
But as this is history, and not fancy, there must be set down the very surprising fact that the young newcomer received no welcome and no notice from the great business world.
She went by mistake to Stratford-on-Avon, finding Stratford set down in her list of places, and then she was told she had come a long way out of the right road.
They resolved, also, to keep along the river, instead of taking the short cut recommended by the fugitive Snake, whom they now set down for a thorough deceiver.
Not only the members of the Reform, but the general public, made heavy wagers for or against Phileas Fogg, who was set down in the betting books as if he were a race-horse.
Passionately devoted to literature, he might, like Li Po and Tu Fu, have set down the seals of office and lived for art alone by the mountain-side of his beloved Hsiang-shan.
My visitor, who had watched these metamorphoses with a keen eye, smiled, set down the glass upon the table, and then turned and looked upon me with an air of scrutiny.
Then there came up through the floor of the room a three-headed Giant with a trough full of meat, who saluted her as his sister and set down the trough before her.
From these, arranged in chronological order, I have set down the following account of the further adventures of David Innes at the earth's core, practically in his own words.
