Its overwater bungalows are strung out like a string of shiny, dark Tahitian pearls in front of a half-mile stretch of vanilla-coloured sand. |
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He fixed up a few more things, and the bottles stood on the ground, tightly strung with a tripwire between them. |
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His voice always seems highly strung, like he's about to crack, yet there's also something cold and unemotional to it. |
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Laundry was a constant bane, so we washed our smalls and hung them on lines strung underneath the top bunk. |
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He's professional, he's smooth, he's never late, he's not strung out, his appearance is immaculate. |
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He'd tied his sneaker laces together, and now had his shoes strung about his neck. |
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He unstrung his bow, which he always strung up to be ready in case of an attack. |
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He strung his neckcloth around his neck and retrieved his waistcoat from the chair. |
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It winds up through rolling hills with stands of poplar trees, distant views of lakes and snowy mountain peaks strung along the horizon. |
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They outlined Allen's grandiose vision of the wired and unwired world inside the home all strung together through the cable wire. |
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The soggy firewood was gathered, tents put up, and a line strung between trees to hang the wet gear to dry. |
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The white bed sheet, punctured and strung between a tree and a utility pole, carries just a few words of hand-painted Arabic script. |
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Tiny houses were strung out along our route, framed in their verdant patch of coffee, banana and vegetables. |
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She strung the yellow measuring tape around my stomach first, making little notes in a green notepad. |
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In Glasgow, pantos are a series of song and dance numbers strung together with a bit of patter. |
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Across the water the grand York Road houses are set back, strung along a hillside skyline, spacing out as you go. |
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They now approached a boy who lay back in a hammock strung between two large maple trees. |
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At night we sleep in hammocks strung between two trees on the bank, and keep our fire lit, to keep jaguars and other animals away. |
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I looked up and saw a man sitting in a hammock that was strung across the ceiling. |
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Everyone else would sleep on the lower deck in hammocks that were strung from one side rail to the other side rail of the lower deck. |
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Sunbathing on the cute white sandy beach hugging the lagoon is slightly congested but pleasant, with hammocks strung among the palm trees. |
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We plunged into the deep, narrow ravine, grasping for handholds on the sheer sidewalls, disturbing spiders' silk strands strung across the path. |
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Clothes were hanging out to dry on the homely wires strung across the higher parts of the alley. |
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Its hotels, houses, and shops are haphazardly strung out along the coastal strip. |
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They have strung together seven straight wins which has propelled them to the top of Division One. |
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These buttons, with no two alike, were then strung on a length of strong string. |
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We strung a piece of concertina wire across the highway 100 yards ahead of our position to warn drivers to stop. |
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Nets are strung on the exterior frame to catch falling objects, and every other floor is planked to stop falls. |
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His subjects include the rugged, interior domesticity of Kgoro, a rock-circled site where laundry is strung on a line like lanterns. |
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No one's outside, though a few assorted articles of clothing are strung up on laundry lines. |
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One of those young men lived on my road, and after he died his parents strung his name in Christmas lights across the side of their house. |
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At first I thought he was unhooking them from a line he'd placed in the water but then saw that he'd strung a nylon net clear across the stream. |
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When they had finished, she strung the creations and hung them up on a window. |
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The necklace was all rubies, strung together to make it look like a line of blood around her neck. |
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Together, they chopped down the Christmas tree, set it up in the parlor, hung the ornaments, and strung popcorn to hang on the piney branches. |
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On this, the Swarovski crystal and pearls are strung like a festoon of flowers, with hanging clusters terminating in big pieces of aqua quartz. |
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The anklet on each foot had replicas of 10 wild chamomile flowers strung together. |
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Dried apple slices can also be strung together to fill a room with fragrance. |
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These would have been strung together perhaps as necklaces or wrist pieces as early examples of a charm bracelet. |
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Decorate a small conifer or other evergreen tree with garlands of unsalted popcorn and cranberries and grapes strung on heavy-duty thread. |
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Currently, the officers must cover Nunavik's 14 communities, strung along 250,000 kilometres of coastline. |
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Moreover, many are strung along vulnerable frontiers which divide them from fellow-nationals across the border. |
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The three or four dive centres are strung along a little lane following the water's edge. |
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There are bright spots, particularly the fishing villages strung along the coast from Crail to Elie. |
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Fifteen rooms in seven simple stone cottages, most with decks overlooking tranquil Muskmelon Bay, are strung along a ridge. |
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Schools look more decrepit than houses, government offices, strung along the road, so run down you wonder if anybody ever visits them. |
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Say they're the towns strung along State 41, south of Yosemite National Park, and suddenly you're no longer speaking Greek. |
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Half a century of romance is actually just a vast collection of five-minute love affairs between the same people, strung closely together. |
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O'Neill has solidified so well, in fact, that he strung together 22 goals in his last 27 games. |
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He slung the quiver over his shoulder and easily strung the bow, checking the string's tautness. |
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Her back arched like a tightly strung bow, and her mouth opened in a silent scream. |
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He stands in the open field just outside the East Hill Village, and newly strung bow in hand. |
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The first bowstring is a very heavy and very long one so the bow can be strung just by slipping the long string on without flexing the bow. |
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All were armed with wooden bows strung with silver strands and all shouldered a quiver full of golden arrows. |
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A minute later, she was crouched behind a boulder, her crossbow loaded and strung. |
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They strung their bows and notched their arrows, expecting and ready for trouble. |
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I was very much in control, which was why I was able to end it rather than be strung along. |
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We have been strung along for nearly seven years with promises of additional rail halts. |
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And secondly, they've strung us along too long without providing enough interesting plot points to hold anyone's interest. |
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Despite the Council being strung along with promises ever since, nothing has materialised. |
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But the NMC only offers guidelines on how employers should carry out the training, so the adaptation period can be strung out for much longer. |
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She said Murdoch had been away for a week, and when he came to see her on his return, he looked strung out. |
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Surely with all their calm, reflective, sober hours, they'd be way less strung out? |
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The only dignified explanation is that maybe he was completely strung out and just sat in the corner dribbling while somebody else made the film. |
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A glorious blast of atonal thrum somehow makes being strung out seem seedily glamorous. |
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Come Sunday night, I'm usually strung out, always broke and dreading five more days of forced labour. |
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Some girls were so strung out on drugs they didn't know what they were doing. |
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How many kids have they left behind, dead and strung out, him and his brother? |
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My brother got out of the army in Germany and came back strung out on opiates, and that's when it began for me. |
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I was homeless, eating out of garbage cans, strung out and whatever, but I wouldn't change anything for the world. |
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They may be strung up to dry in the sun and wind, or sliced and laid out on rooftops to dry. |
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As he spoke, the both of them saw Christmas lights that were strung up in trees on the side of the highway. |
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Christmas cards were strung up, and we all pulled Christmas crackers and listened to the more melodious parts of my Christmas tape from home. |
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A huge banner, which was painted in the Gampingan courtyard over three weeks, was strung up in Victoria Square, central Adelaide. |
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He was jailed for six months five weeks ago after a court heard how he strung the dogs up by their leads until they choked to death. |
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Speaking of music, she says music is what relaxes her when she is all strung up. |
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It wasn't until I had turned onto the hallway where my locker was that I found what everyone was strung up about. |
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The Belembautuyan, made from a hollow gourd and strung with taut wire, is a stringed musical instrument native to Guam. |
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Then there's the honeycomb shades, so called because in profile they look like cells of a honeycomb strung together. |
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By the start of the last century, colonial India's hill stations were strung out all over the subcontinent. |
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The conventual buildings are strung out along a narrow ridge above the water, supported but also overshadowed by solid rock. |
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Stevie Wood and Our Shiraz were early pacemakers, then Dantessa took over, bowling along with the rest of the field of 18 strung out. |
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Out of the blue came a long, beautiful note, followed by more, until they were strung into what sounded like fairies singing and bells chiming. |
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He held out his painty hands as though a cat's cradle was strung up between them. |
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The cables are strung horizontally through a series of intermediate vertical wooden or metal posts. |
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Her agile fingers began working like mad as they strung various wires and chords expertly through the holes. |
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The people responsible should be strung up and horsewhipped and I will personally volunteer for the task. |
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Instead, it's a collection of riffs strung together, with some hot guitar playing. |
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Homemade decorations using cinnamon sticks and whole star anise can be strung together with thin ribbon or raffia and hung from the branches. |
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There is definite documentary evidence that both the citole and the gittern were normally strung in gut. |
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There were large palm fronds strung around the village to protect it from evil and to cleanse any evil person who entered the village. |
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These beads are also strung into pendants, necklaces, bracelets or attached to clothing or furnishings and finger rings. |
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The figures suggest strung puppets, and underline the subjects' impotence as playthings of a malign destiny. |
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Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute. |
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At times, the company had strung fiber-optic cable inside its old pipelines. |
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Aside from a few occasions, we rode in file, all strung out, from the start until Pradollano. |
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Even with three or four episodes strung together and some filler material, it still barely reaches 70 minutes. |
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The reception began under towering oak trees strung with lights, next to a fire pit. |
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During the day, they dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete. |
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They stood by a gallows holding ropes which were strung over a pulley to become a noose holding up a body. |
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Waiters send Argentine barbecue on go-carts, while the Brazilian barbecue is strung on steel forks. |
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There was a rope as thick as my arm strung across the river, running through a heavy pulley on the barge. |
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The deck was flush to the edge with only a waist-high wire guard rail strung along the tops of plastic posts. |
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Her tan fur had been brushed until it glowed and her mane was strung around her shoulders in artful disarrangement. |
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We walked on until we had a commanding view of the upper gulch and the crosses strung out in a long line. |
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More macabre was the tailor's dummy strung up from a noose dangling off scaffolding on a building being demolished on Micklegate. |
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In summer, twine strung between posts supports vining crops like pole beans. |
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The old jerry-built compilation strung together 27 different computer systems worldwide, most of which couldn't talk with the others. |
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The Tennis racket by 1500 was no longer completely made of wood but consisted of a wooden handle with a sheep gut strung head. |
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Stallholders weigh produce on scales strung from a notched rod, balanced on one finger. |
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Laboriously, he strung them on a thread and hung them round his neck by way of adornment. |
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Pierced and strung together by youths, shells also served as ankle rattles for use in masquerades. |
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Always store bead necklaces strung on silk or cotton flat because these threads stretch over time. |
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Imagine about a fifty metre span of wire inexpertly strung, sneaking through those coolibahs, wilgas and whitewoods. |
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Apparently believing this was a real whopper of an idea, he wrote 10 meandering sequences and strung them together into a film. |
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These were either fixed into metal settings or drilled along the prism axis and strung as beads. |
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At suitable sites, mist nets are strung up, and traps laid that harmlessly snare the birds as they come down to roost or rest. |
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Distinction, the 11-4 favourite, takes up the running with about half a mile to go and soon has the field strung out. |
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New office and home construction is under way, electrical lines are being strung, and roads are being paved. |
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A rope ladder was strung between the two 30-metre tall trees, which were several metres apart. |
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The response he received was an angry retort from a man in the crowd holding a longbow, with an arrow strung and ready to fire. |
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This pair of fold away lorgnettes are strung with a dyed coral dragon carving, fluorite beads and small glass beads. |
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His arrows were at his side and a lute was strung over his back with its bent neck protruding over his shoulder. |
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During the day, Team Cobra dug foxholes, strung wire, and filled sandbags, because site defense is never complete. |
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On this, the crystal and pearls are strung like a festoon of flowers, with hanging clusters terminating in big pieces of aqua quartz. |
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Rounding the curve in the road Crow makes a turn and heads straight towards the finish line ribbon strung across the road. |
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A strung bow with an arrow nocked to the string produced itself from behind her back. |
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The light bows are curved outward and strung with black horse hair, which gives the music incisive attacks and lush sustains. |
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The first thing that struck me was the high fences strung with barb wire, electrified and erected around the airport. |
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The posts were set solidly into the ground, awaiting the barbwire strung along the length of the line. |
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Show-jumpers are highly bred thoroughbred horses and as a result they are extremely highly strung. |
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Along with the tree, the main thoroughfare through Mountmellick will be a far brighter place, as rows of lights are strung all along the street. |
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Temporarily, I had strung Janet's ring onto the chain I wore with my medallion of Mary. |
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He has to walk a tightrope, not just one, but many, strung between all the many factions of this deeply divided nation. |
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Lighting was provided by naked bulbs hanging from wires strung up on the cave walls, and fresh air by ventilation shafts unseen. |
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I am careful not to push loose the strand of tinsel Christmas decorations that I left strung across the room. |
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A traditional Bermuda kite comprises a strung wooden frame, onto which are pasted sheets of brightly coloured tissue paper. |
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Workman, meanwhile, got a split in the second frame, then strung seven strikes in a row, pretty much ending the match. |
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In small towns, concrete buildings are strung along the few roads that traverse the islands. |
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Long, golden tresses flowed down past her waist, delicate diamonds and jewels strung between each strand. |
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Soon the boy's bow was strung and his quiver full of arrows. |
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Around 1912, Johnson had his first experience with electronics when his half brother, Charlie Nelson, strung lines between two neighborhood houses for Morse telegraphy. |
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Near the conference centre it is strung with wreaths and garlands of homemade flowers, created from plastic bags, paper plates and wrapping paper. |
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And Williamson so frequently invokes God that she starts sounding like Louis Gohmert strung out on good vibes. |
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It really affects your spirit, and you can rise out of the ashes, or get strung out on drugs and have low self-esteem. |
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Captive and captor emerged from the forest, and the former followed directions to the nearest cottage of twenty or thirty he could see strung along the riverbank. |
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The resulting indirect free kick from the edge of the six yard box cannoned off a Kendal body as all 11 players stood strung out along the goal-line. |
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The white pebbledash house is one of a series of run-down semis, strung along one side of the typical south Leeds street, which are mainly owned by Asian families. |
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Omar and 12 of his students drove down to Spin Boldak and, depending on the version of the story, either ran the offending commander out of town or strung him up. |
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They entered the water at Marbella Beach, one of a series of popular beaches strung along a built-up stretch of coast lined by hotels and restaurants. |
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It's marked by a tender, fragile, carefully contained beauty, strung together like dewdrops on a spiderweb in the dusky half-light the title suggests. |
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Instead of being strung along the building edges, the offices are grouped in pods with their backs to the cross-connections between the labs and the curtain wall. |
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Popcorn, dried figs, fresh cranberries, seedless grapes, or thick slices of a fresh orange can be strung into garlands and hung onto the higher boughs. |
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You do things for money when you're strung out that you regret, you know. |
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Her installation was made of crystal beads strung on transparent threads. |
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She wants to know why he strung her along and then dumped her. |
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By 1,000 BC the first permanent settlements were established, strung along the shore like a long string of muddy pearls that were placed at a days rowing distance apart. |
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Colorful lanterns were strung around lighting up the pathways. |
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In a brief moment of inspiration, I strung some string from the deck to the garage, sliced up some orange and green garbage bags into ribbons and tied them to the line. |
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It's a chain of successful events strung together to accomplish one goal. |
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Her fellow firefighters strung a giant bra across the firehouse ceiling and endangered her life by tampering with her oxygen tank. |
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The children had busily gathered the small red fruit, and strung it upon long bents of grass, to keep it as a dessert to the dinner they were going to eat in the woods. |
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A short walk away in Fordsburg is Business Fun Day, with stalls, a bungee trampoline, a magic show, a petting zoo and other events strung along Mint Road. |
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Fishing nets strung across the walls lend a certain nautical theme. |
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They dug trenches, emplaced minefields and strung concertina wire. |
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The warhead would be strung on a line clamped between each of the unfortunate target vessel's bilge keels, with a timer set to detonate after two hours. |
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The key lies in the fact that the units of meaning, words, can be strung together in different ways, according to rules, to communicate different meanings. |
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These visceral shoot-outs, in buildings of super-realistic detail, are strung together by plot-development scenes in hand-drawn comic-strip style. |
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Laundry was strung on a line across the bow, and on the tarred roll roofing an old dinghy was lashed down, painted with the same lavish decor as her mother ship. |
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And while the identity of the villain might be obvious, the tension is strung out to the bitter end, providing some cracking entertainment along the way. |
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Concentration camps and small forts or blockhouses, which were strung together by 3,700 square miles of barbed wire fencing, became the chief means of achieving this end. |
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On the last day, I was so exhausted that while practicing a new form I saw the form as one object in time instead of a series of techniques strung together. |
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The base resembled a wagon circle of armored vehicles with some razor wire strung around them. |
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Again, random words strung together to look like existentialist poetry. |
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He strung it up by its ankles from the branch of a pine tree, placed a five gallon pickle bucket under its snout, and deftly sliced open its jugular veins. |
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I stood at the front door, waving and smiling, and directing people towards the counter, instead of around the side to where decorations were strung up. |
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Be it chunky beads strung in silver thread or kundan silver jewellery dipped in gold and worked on in fine detail, the jet-set crowd drools over these creations. |
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So it was fun to see how they strung those together and had the hybrid between live-action and animation. |
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Life is a series of seemingly throwaway moments strung together in a peculiar tapestry, and Linklater has captured it beautifully. |
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She didn't dare fly with all the clothes lines strung across the alley, she could get stuck and hurt, then they would catch her and hurt her more. |
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We strung popcorn and cranberries, hung lights and candy canes. |
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Our fellows were nervy, edgy, and in the circumstances it may have been just as well that the Iranians strung eleven men behind the ball when Ireland had possession. |
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Consisting of assorted gold beads that have been randomly strung together, this type of ornament was documented by European visitors in the fifteenth century. |
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How about in each corner, the lights of that holiday can be strung up? |
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Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground. |
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Like most of Sandback's work, untitled, it dates from 1977 and uses seven strands of Venetian red knitting yarn strung taut from ceiling to floor. |
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When the bow is strung, this end was tied using a bowyers knot. |
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We strung up balloons and I bought party hats and noisemakers. |
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The words that are recognizable are not strung together in a coherent way. |
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Glass beads on Maasai necklaces are strung onto thin commercial wire. |
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Factor in his appointment with the neurologist at the hospital this morning and it's no wonder that last night found me more than a little strung out and unable to sleep. |
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There is a group of about 40 men bunched behind the CSC train, a long line of men clinging for dear life, and then little groups strung out here and there behind the pack. |
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The couple drew their curtains yesterday morning to find well-wishers had strung red, white and blue bunting from five trees on the green opposite their home. |
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Everywhere paint was chipping, wood was cracking, piles of putrid garbage were collecting, and laundry lines were being strung anywhere it was possible to do so. |
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Mule strung the two women, with their consent and help, from a rafter with strategically placed soft ropes. |
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Bishop Wilton is a delightful village, strung linear along a sparkling beck, containing old brick houses in a little valley terraced with sinuous greens. |
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The side chapels were deserted, save for an elderly aristo woman who knelt on an embroidered hassock, chanting her rosary as she strung the beads along the string. |
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Borg liked his rackets strung at 80 lb pressure, which was incredibly tight, almost impossible to achieve without breaking a string or twisting the wooden frame. |
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But when the people we put in power strung him up on the gallows his last words proved almost true. |
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Is there anything more cringeworthy than a series of unfunny childhood anecdotes and blatant sexual references strung together in a monotone drawl? |
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Boykin and Payne said Wilson then grabbed a white plastic bag and pulled out a bottle of sleeping pills and a G-string made from Pez candies strung together. |
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So we strung him along, waiting for him to rumble us or get bored. |
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He is nothing if not lovable, a shaggy chatterbox whose run-on sentences resemble the colorful, crowded laundry lines strung between tenement windows in old photographs. |
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Five lures, each a meter apart, were strung on each line, and the whole rig was carried to the bottom by heavy lead sinkers about three fingers wide. |
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Pods strung on armatures and made into shapes that evoke crowns, starbursts and galaxies add human or celestial content and help the natural materials transcend their roots. |
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Bulbs strung among branches in the overhead wild hibiscus tree form a radiant canopy. |
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I've known some very camp gay men through friends and they can be a real laugh to be with if you don't get strung up on your own sexuality when you are in their world. |
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Somehow they strung together three wins in their conference tournament and sneaked into the Big Dance. |
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These fringe bands were also strung in horizontal form across a cotton-knit silk dress, as if suspended on a weaving loom. |
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And all because your racket is strung with a fighting heart of supremely live genuine gutstring. |
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And then the nights in the camp, the meat strung up in the trees and the heavy leadwood logs burning as high as a house. |
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Despite a public image of unflappable calm, Macmillan was by nature nervous and highly strung. |
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He has scars on his ankles, feet and hands from where they strung him up with ropes and beat him. |
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While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered. |
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After the storm the armada was strung out over the ocean, unable to cover each other in battle. |
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A TEENAGER died after he was felled from his trail bike by wire strung across a country track, an inquest heard. |
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Colorful banners commemorating Ramadan have already been strung up. |
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Use mature green ones fresh or stuffed for chile rellenos, or red ones dried and strung for ristras. |
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He is stocky and wore a blue zip-up jacket, dark blue jeans and a silver chain strung from one belt loop to another. |
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The Kabbalists strung together six psalms to set just the right atmosphere for Shabbat. |
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In Arkansas nine men were dragged out of the hoosegow and, in cowboy lingo, were strung up. |
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But when it is strung on a guitar, tuned, and plucked, the string forces the sides of the soundbox to vibrate at the same frequency. |
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In total, 31,000 mines and 517,000 nonexplosive obstacles were strung along the Atlantic Wall to deny the space. |
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Boatsheds and bathing boxes were strung along the beaches of Port Phillip Bay for the shelter of boats as well as the bodies of the affluent. |
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The scum who carried out this outrage should be strung up for attempted mass murder. |
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The bodies were then taken to Milan and unceremoniously strung up in front of a filling station. |
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They appeared to have been strung, but on taking them up the miner let them drop apart. |
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The nets are strung across a stream and allowed to sit overnight, collecting samples. |
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It is popularly strung into garlands that are presented to visitors and dignitaries, and is a common offering to religious images. |
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In its heyday, it sustained an international culture that strung together groups as diverse as the Magyars, Armenians, and Chinese. |
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A chain was strung through the water from the base of the tower to prevent boats from traveling into the river port. |
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My father strung it high in a tree for the manitous to watch over. |
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Anecdotes, memories, funny episodes are strung in a rough timeline, with more emphasis on eccentric characters and lovely scenery than on factual accuracy. |
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Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. |
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Having strung a length of noosed cord to a light pole, Constans threw himself flat along the string-piece of the pier and began angling for the prize. |
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When Billy was finally caught in 1881, Blandina visited him in prison before a lynch mob stormed the jail and strung him up alongside his brother Sam. |
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On the windowed mezzanine level, taxidermy songbirds have been strung from criscrossing wires beneath a steel table spread with hundreds of jumping beans. |
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Bats use supersounds as a substitute for eyes. When a maze of silk threads was strung across a room, bats negotiated the maze at high speed without touching a thread. |
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As the wireless revolution spreads, telephone lines will soon cease to be necessary and both the poles and the wires strung from them can be torn down. |
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And although we tend to associate teenage stroppiness particularly with girls, it's not just the female of the species who are highly strung in those vulnerable years. |
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An awkward recess was strung with horizontal rows of red lights, and the piece looked like in-home Christmas-tree decor, gussying up the walls without altering their geometry. |
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The pair are both entered in the Kingmaker Novices' Chase at Warwick and, more ambitiously, the totepool Game Spirit Chase at Newbury and have each strung up good sequences. |
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If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls. |
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After years of brutal repression, any member of Saddam's palace guard stands to be strung up from the nearest lamppost by a vengeful Iraqi populace. |
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As there was no other hoist and cage to operate, we had to take to the ladders strung down the manway compartment to reach the twelfth level, four hundred feet below. |
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