Out of this bewildering tangle, we are fortunate to have extracted a few points of clarity. |
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The streets are a tangle of stinted electricity pylons and cat's cradle power lines. |
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I sat up in a tangle of sheets and eiderdowns, trying to get my breathing back down to a more reasonable rate. |
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The cat fell into a tangle of leaves and vegetation growling in pain and anger. |
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She's getting enmeshed in a tangle of lies, and Tom is certainly going to find out about it. |
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The lawsuits consist of an immensely complicated tangle of legal proceedings, which need only be outlined here. |
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A few steps later I found a cluster of wild strawberries, and then a tangle of wild raspberries. |
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She fought through the tangle of brushwood trying to catch up with her fleeing friend. |
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Her music was neither primal punk nor introspective blues but a more complex tangle of emotions shared by both. |
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My knees ache, my legs are in a tangle, and every inch of my untoned body feels as if it has been put through a vigorous exercise routine. |
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I've spent some time watching the bands, all heaped together in a tangle of charity shop clothing, talking about their music. |
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The matrices tangle and entrap understandings of creation and knowledge to expose their threadbare construction. |
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All she wanted was to sleep for a week or so and then try sorting out this catastrophic tangle of events. |
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Back toward the stern, the engine room was a claustrophobic tangle of boiler and pipes and driveshafts. |
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I had marinated herring with gravadlax on a tangle of leaves and thought the herring was particularly good. |
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One agency attempting to unravel the tangle is the U.S. Department of Agriculture. |
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The real evil is the muddle, the tangle of evasions, words, intrigues by which he instinctively seeks to dodge reality. |
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They are renowned for having a slippery relationship with the truth, but this week's goss mags are in an even more loathsome tangle than usual. |
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With her ruling early in November, the five-year legal tangle over the future of the Corporation has ended. |
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With low tides, tangle is the first of the kelps to be exposed by the tide. |
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Resonant of medieval folk tales, it conjures up the image of a wizened old hag casting spells on innocent children lost in a tangle of forests. |
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Then she took a tangle of rope, tied all their legs together, and wove a long cord through those bonds. |
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The British press always gets itself in a tangle over abortion, largely because it tries to follow public opinion and public opinion is muddled. |
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She extended the claws on both her hands, then, in a sudden movement, grabbed each end of the tangle and pulled, ripping it apart. |
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Hair can also tangle when piled on top of the head during shampoo treatments, around various types of curlers and in hair brushes. |
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Here's a typical view of a tangle of octopus arms, all covered with circular suckers. |
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I looked up, and between the buildings pressed close together and behind the tangle of tram lines, the sky was pink and gold. |
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He got himself involved in an unsightly tangle with the home striker and both were sent off. |
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He was standing in the center of a beautiful garden boasting blooming lilacs and tulips lost in a tangle of exotic plants, fruits and vegetables. |
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Still, they are highly imaginative and even funny, involving the team's tangle with a cosmic bureaucracy known as the Time Variance Authority. |
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Eventually that dense tangle will get worse, causing a top-heavy tree that can break under heavy snow or in high wind. |
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I love to tangle my hands up in the strings, let them go free, then tangle them up again. |
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If the bait spins it will inevitably tangle these short snoods and the baits will not be well presented. |
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Our tangle of wires and insulating tape enabled us to connect our mics and minidisc recorders to the satellite equipment and broadcast. |
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The delicate traceries of individual drawings mingle and tangle with each other, creating labyrinths of wings, teeth and sinewy limbs. |
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So it should come as no surprise that, five minutes into lunch, a giant tangle of grilled onions landed right in my lap. |
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In the 1970s, the tangle of federal and state provisions in incoherent plans for environmental protection complicated local options. |
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He was smaller than the man at the door, his hair tied back in a tangle of dark curls. |
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She nearly yanked a handful of her hair out while trying to get the brush through a rather large tangle of knots. |
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The site could be in a woody crevice or tree hollow or tucked into a tangle of vines. |
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Some cats have an undercoat that will tangle badly if you don't dry them after a bath. |
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Since the fur is only semi-long and lacks the downy undercoat, the coat doesn't tangle and even show cats require little grooming. |
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Chapter 3 examines the confused tangle of existing and proposed pipelines, which is far too complex to summarize here. |
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Stretching along the front of the stall was a tank of murky water in which a tangle of long, dark eels writhed. |
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Again, either way it is quite easy to anticipate an enormous tangle of legal disputes if this proposal were adopted. |
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The postwar years brought a vast urban sprawl and a tangle of freeways, along with increasing ethnic and class divisions. |
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Near the outhouse, a tangle of wires snakes out of the roofs and is attached to a utility pole. |
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In the yard a tangle of horses were being bridled and arranged in rough rows. |
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She stuck her staff under her arm then reached towards the tangle with her now-free hand. |
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The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood. |
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No songbirds to tangle in the hedges, in shrubs, up above your head in the crowns of cypress and in the branches of chestnut trees, plane trees. |
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It was rather comical watching girls and boys alike tangle with a new skill as old as hand sewing. |
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The machine occupied a whole room, filling it with a tangle of piano wires and pulleys to move its various wheels and gears. |
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This is how you'll end up, kids, if you tangle with doughnuts and cough medicine. |
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As they pushed through a tangle of stinging nettles and brambles, they made sure to keep heading in the right direction. |
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What if, like so many others, I was caught up in this terrible tangle of lives that led nowhere? |
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Most cases proved far more difficult, and never escaped the tangle of legal complications that surrounded the issue. |
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The images of the electric eel and the popping tangle of seaweed convey something of the speed and surprisingness of William's mind. |
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I'm sure floor sweepings swept out doors and vacuum cleaner dust spilt outside also have these threads in them and tangle in wagtails' feet. |
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Now it was a tangle of vines and trees, punctuated occasionally by stone facings buried in a sea of leaves. |
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In the midst of digging a ditch for a new fence line one summer, he pickaxed into a massive tangle of hibernating snakes. |
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In the end I had to take off my jacket, wedge it into the footing and make my way down in an inelegant tangle of legs and arms. |
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After my release from the tangle of ropes, we finned past broken windows along a companionway, and found a door ripped from its hinges. |
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It was now a tangle of grasping arms, each with a single yellow bloodshot eye on a seven-fingered palm and upwards of eight leathery bat wings. |
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It also discourages people from saving and contracting out adds further to the complex tangle. |
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There was a convoluted tangle of coloured threads around you, some of which seemed to be paths. |
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They are smoother than mesh rollers and less likely to catch the hair, causing it to tangle or frizz. |
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She had desperately tried to tame her hair by running a comb through her tangle of curls, but with no avail. |
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Fear, greed and sexual obsession tangle in a plot that has more twists than a curl of smoke traveling through a double helix. |
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Small damselfishes make a new reef-style habitat in the tangle of branches. |
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Ignoring her greeting card preface, the trio around me began to weave a tangle of memories, Lily's going farther back than the others. |
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Inside them I could dimly make out a tangle of wires, a bulging plastic bag, and an old dustpan. |
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For the Delphic Oracle to perform, it must tangle itself in a web of predestination. |
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The notion that the tangle of potent and conflicting interests in Americans' medical information could be resolved over such a short period now seems little short of quaint. |
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The reason for the delay is the mess ministers are making of the terrible tangle of complicated regulations in an already rotten piece of legislation. |
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Given the tangle of alliances and expectations, this led to war. |
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They're lost in a tangle of their own enthusiasm and self-deception. |
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The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers. |
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He had dragged himself from the bed in a tangle of blankets, his hair tousled and bedraggled like a farmer's hay stack that had been left out in the rain. |
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Pettet threw his head back and laughed as he recounted his tangle with the police. |
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The bloodshed began at the end of the bridge amid a tangle of flyovers near the Egyptian Museum. |
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The process was a maddening tangle of unreliable tracking, delays, and confusion, the family member said. |
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The money shot is a breathtaking Southwestern rockscape amid a tangle of colorful wildflowers, a scene worthy of mention in America the Beautiful. |
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Far below that was the massive tangle of the intertwining lower skyway tracks, which supported hovering vehicles and the network of maglev trains. |
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A long, green swath of wilderness beckoned, and I eagerly began working my way through a tangle of muscadine vines and palmetto, beneath a hammock of arching live oaks. |
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Large gold hoops dangled from her ears to tangle in her unruly hair. |
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Seemingly knowing she was petrified, he removed his grasp, let his hand slide up her arm to tangle with her hair, and Linden felt gooseflesh prickle her skin. |
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He lowered his massive head like a buffalo and charged, butting Quinn in the ribs, which caused them both to fall to the hand-pegged floor in a tangle of arms and legs. |
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Half revolted and half curious, I plucked a wriggling little worm out of the tangle. |
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Or, more specifically, the two-toned tangle of tonsorial madness hanging off of Keisel's face. |
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The orderly wheeled up another suction device, trailing a tangle of extension cords and plugs and exposed wires. |
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If you do take off with a line knot or tangle, try to get clear of the ground and any traffic before taking corrective action. |
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Plot: As it opens, in the lower-class working quarter, two seedy young lovers tangle with an older paramour. |
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It's still not clear who's minding the store, with a tangle of federal agencies involved in environmental management. |
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Tax breaks will make no difference to that but they may, the church fears, enmesh the welfare system in a tangle of government restrictions. |
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The lyrics are an echoic tangle of taut pun and babytalk, hiding pain behind joyously silly misdirection. |
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It also gives them a bonus when they manage to get an apartment and supports them when they tangle with the law. |
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First of all, do you agree with this and, in this case, was it a genre you particularly wanted to tangle with? |
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So, get the latest SVN version, have a look at the code, and see if there is something you'd like to tangle with. |
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Unique right-angle oxygen tubing connector swivels 360 degrees to facilitate positioning and minimize tubing tangle. |
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His tangle of legal troubles and a bunch of conflicts of interest have evidently left a large portion of the electorate unbothered. |
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For those who embrace it, the long putter can be a double-edged sword, creating a tangle of emotions that is difficult to unknot. |
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If the knot or tangle is too tight to pump out, immediately fly to the landing zone and land safely. |
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Dressed in shades of green from lime to olive, she had a tangle of glittery chains around her neck. |
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Salty air assaulted her nostrils and whipped her hair into a tangle. |
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A tangle of silver pipes and concrete structures cover the rutted ground from which the central naphtha cracker is starting to rise. |
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The planned single currency, the euro, should scythe through Europe's tangle of D-mark, French franc and lira interest-rate futures contracts. |
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With such a tangle of religious and moral opposition, change seems a long way off. |
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Thanks to a complicated real-world tangle of film rights it probably won't be any of the X-Men or Spider-Man, though. |
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Two minutes later, Werner Kohlmeyer, under pressure from Kocsis, and his goalkeeper Toni Turek got themselves into an almighty tangle in the box. |
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Over the last 23 years, I have wound through countless waterways that cut through the tangle of mangrove roots and branches. |
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So it makes it a bit of a tangle for the other boats that are coming in behind. |
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I will conclude my comments by saying that the bill as it is before the House is really in a complete tangle. |
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Something I wish to address is the tangle of problems relating to public institutions. |
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The present tangle of railway lines, bus corridors, cars, pedestrians, and bicycles is causing congestion. |
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Leblanc had Raabe has a dancing partner in second when a tangle occurred in turn 2 and the yellow was out again. |
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After the meal, Nathan and Suchart strolled through a tangle of alleys where they found several small shops. |
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The seeds of Composite are planted and will become, later on, an amazing tangle of live bootlegs. |
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The track system would make it possible to cross trenches with ease and the weight of the contraption would destroy any tangle of barbed wire. |
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It then becomes a matter of introducing a little order into this tangle of concepts, metaphors and the connections that link them together. |
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What happens between now and then is an epic bureaucratic tangle, the details of which are difficult for anyone to tease out. |
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The cables on this one are probably too long for a minitower case like this, so expect a bit of a tangle unless you cable-tie them out of the way. |
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At 6 am one day this summer, a tangle of garments and half-eaten plates of food, which volunteers had doled out the night before, strewed an entire sidewalk block. |
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Aphids, whiteflies, hornworms, and even field mice are more visible and more easily controlled when you don't have to battle them in a tangle of ground-hugging vines. |
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Certainly, if grammar collapses and language unravels into a tangle of meaningless, ill-considered phrases, we will have lost something that should be treasured. |
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Nevertheless he followed, stones punishing against his tough foot pads, the silvery cloak of daemonthread threatening to tangle his legs, the breath rushing in his lungs. |
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She yanked out the brush and began combing through that lock of knotted hair vigorously, her eyes watering slightly every time the brush hit a stubborn tangle. |
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The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb. |
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Squash bugs probably get on my winter squash but there is such a tangle of vines and no need to get involved with them on a regular basis that I don't see them. |
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His long hair was a filthy tangle, the left side of his face was bruised black and he swayed a little on the stool as he sat, reeling with pain and exhaustion. |
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Alvarez and Marx watched as bright orange columns of flame rained down upon the wretched tangle of vines and smoke started to trail up behind them. |
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Galt climbed into the old claw-footed bathtub, which was scuzzy and stained, its tarnished drain a tangle of hairs. |
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Now its tangle of Andalusian alleys hide simple whitewashed homes, with long walls screening gardens as luxuriant as anything the Caliphs lovingly tended. |
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The deck here used to be intact but now it has peeled off and fallen to the seabed, leaving a tangle of debris from below the deck and exposed ribs poking up from the hull. |
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The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels. |
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Fifty miles southwest of the town on a tiny island in the delta, lies the Adziogol Lighthouse, an important beacon for ships navigating the tangle of sandbanks. |
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Together with their messy tangle of wires they further despoil the view through The Village already made unsightly by the telecom company's previous assaults. |
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The flashbulb, developed in the 1920s, is a transparent envelope filled with oxygen and a tangle of fine aluminum, magnesium, or zirconium wire ignitable by an electrically heated filament or, rarely, a chemical deflagrator. |
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In New Politics, you tangle with yourself. |
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It's a tangle of suck holes, alder blowdowns and clinging fern and, depending on the rainfall, over-the-boot wet spots or springy peat moss. |
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A great disadvantage is the fact that the variety of agreements for the export-oriented dairy industry would lead to a wholly impenetrable tangle of regulations and mass targets. |
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The main threat to porpoises is static fishing techniques such as gill and tangle nets. |
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Five actors are dressed in workout sweats, the better to tangle with the nonrepresentational, noncorresponding text and images. |
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The remainder represent a tangle of over 30 smaller denominations. |
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For the cybersleuth, hunting evidence in the data tangle of the Internet, the problem is different. |
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We must be careful not to create a bureaucratic tangle of rules and subsidies that generates more barriers to trade or administrative costs than doing nothing at all. |
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She's not somebody I'd want to tangle with. |
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Their trek around the world, the strength of will of young people who want to tangle with new experiences, is for me symptomatic of a generation who seeks and dares. |
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Physicists still tangle with its ramifications. |
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As yet, the legal tangle which may arise where alienation of forest lands is forbidden, but hypothecation is permitted, has not been addressed in any of these countries. |
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With a mezair and a cut to the left and a pair of caprioles, Zelikman danced the horse through the tangle of men. |
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A tangle of spidery filaments stretches outward from the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 1275 as if they were dendrites of an intergalactic nerve cell. |
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Firstly, to an informed reader chapters appear as anachronous, while a non-connoisseur of the Balkans tangle could be misled. |
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Political opponents who tangle with the mayor often get bruised. |
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She doffs her titular cap to Sir Noel Coward with a third novel called Mad about the Boy, which will see our loveable klutz tangle with these social media thingies. |
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The tori pole should be set as high as possible so that the line protects bait a good distance astern of the vessel and will not tangle with fishing gear. |
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New technologies call into question the dichotomy between center and periphery, formal and informal, modern and traditional, causing a tangle of relationships, economies and spaces, and a reinterpretation of time. |
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In Old Politics, you tangle with your opponent. |
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Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared. |
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I try to unsort this big tangle of things that all of a sudden I've tripped over. |
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After a tangle with a brown recluse spider, Linda Zumbusch needed a little medical attention. |
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Beyond was a tangle of undergrowth fringing a pocket of rainforest. It seemed a place where a dog could wuffle to his heart's content. |
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He should have knowed better than to tangle with you, Miss Lindsay. Where did you learn to be an amuser, then? |
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But they are also deeply disturbing and psychologically complex, standing stiffly in their matching grey blazers, glaring mutely ahead, or fighting each other ferociously in a near-incestuous tangle of limbs. |
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Also, when fish gilled there wasn't as much extra twine to tangle in, so they were easier to release from the net. |
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His main idea is: headphones tangle because the separate cords between the actual headphone and the jack work up a sweat, and get all higgledy piggledy. |
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Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused. |
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During the Bruno Hauptmann trial WNEW had installed a commentator, A. L. Alexander, in the gentlemen's room of the Flemington court house, amid a vast tangle of wires. |
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This morning featured a walk through a tangle of internet, boiler and burglar alarm wireless rays just to boil the kettle, those same waves zinging my soft-boned children. |
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Race officials docked the Manx missile for a mid-race tangle with Norway's Thor Hushovd on the 198km ride from Olonne-sur-mer to Redon. |
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I should like to point out, however, that, for the benefit of the developing countries, we have to beware of ending up in an inextricable tangle of regional and multilateral initiatives. |
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Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun. |
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They also tangle with their rivals, the Gashouse Gang, and catch tire thieves and gas bootleggers. |
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Where big companies have their own legal department to look after such things, smaller companies have to expend a lot of effort and money to navigate their way through the tangle of new laws. |
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Home to leopards, Indian bisons, gibbons, slow loris, wild boars and a variety of reptiles and birds, the tangle of deep forests gives you an otherworldly ambience. |
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An orange extension cord hangs from the top of the photo and forms a tangle on the ground, as if linking the daydream of heaven depicted on the wall to a sadder reality. |
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Turn your back on a length of rope in the bottom of a boat, and it will have convoluted itself into a tangle of reef knots, clove hitches, sheepshanks, even grannies. |
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The reader is continually distracted by a tangle of tenses and the personification of inanimate objects with inappropriate use of the possessive case. |
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Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums. |
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Here, in a decaying cluster of buildings, the Winnipeg train turns gratefully back to the south and hurries to leave behind it the anonymous tangle of forests and muskegs. |
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This is not a neatly trimmed park but a stream-laced tangle of grasses, wild grapes, and oaks, nearly as multilayered as the gallery forests of the tropics. |
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