| The surface of these texts is too perfect, seamless, wound around itself too tightly. |
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| The grapevine cinches tightly when loaded, adding an element of security lacking with the water knot. |
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| I'm talking about a tightly woven group of citizens united by web cams, blogs, pod casts and instant messages. |
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| We all know the genre, the made-for-TV drama, loosely or tightly based on a sensational news story. |
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| Roll the dough tightly around the marzipan to form a long jelly roll and pinch the seams to enclose. |
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| Shivering from his cold sweat, Erik refused to acknowledge Maria, instead he clamped his arms tightly to his body, trying not to tremble. |
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| Spade's jet-black hair was worn into a bun and her black flight suit hugged her curves tightly. |
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| Wear shirts made from tightly woven cloth, like long-sleeved cotton T-shirts. |
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| Villagers then filtered out the sediment by pouring the water through tightly woven cloth. |
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| With multiple cars tightly packed around racetracks, increased visibility was a natural modification. |
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| You see, all mechanical clocks are driven by a weight, like a pendulum, or a tightly wound spring. |
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| Then run the round part of your hammer handle or screwdriver shank tightly up the joint to seal any gap that may be left. |
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| The intense pallor of his complexion, tightly cropped ginger hair, and prominent Adam's apple, only emphasised his lack of stature. |
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| Less tightly wound and introspective than his brother, he prefers to present a raffish, happy-go-lucky attitude. |
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| It seems to have emerged as a well-ordered and tightly run establishment which is well-liked by most of its students and parents. |
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| They also bear prominent ribs and are tightly adpressed to the body, but are larger than the palmate sclerites. |
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| Rather, you adjust the arm so it affixes to the windshield glass tightly when the unit is resting where you want it on your dashboard. |
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| Take your rag, rolled tightly into the shape of a rat's tail, and begin to roll it from the bottom to the top of the section. |
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| His wrists ached as the rough rope cut into them and even his ankles were lashed together tightly with no room to spare. |
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| The drawing of a woman with big eyes, dark lashes and tightly knotted hair, dressed in a ruffled frock and sporting a fan, gave it away. |
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| The problem for utilities is that they operate in a tightly regulated market, but their raw material cost is fossil fuel. |
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| He held her tightly, and she inhaled deeply, enjoying the scent of his aftershave. |
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| The blue laser is finer and can read data that is packed more tightly on a disc. |
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| Within that tightly compressed time, you are expected to convey a whole lot of information. |
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| Both girls jumped up and cheered, then whooped, hugging each other tightly. |
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| However, the initial whorl of these gastropods is unknown and therefore it is unknown whether it is tightly or openly coiled. |
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| Generally, soleniscid gastropods have smooth, orthostrophic early ontogenetic whorls and a tightly coiled initial whorl. |
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| A blue mohair scarf was wound tightly round her neck, almost covering her face, and she pulled it away to speak. |
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| The mammies all wore the brightly coloured cloths wound tightly round their ample figures, and turban-like round their heads. |
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| He cracked a sleepy smile and leant forwards, enveloping me in his arms and holding me tightly. |
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| People skate in couples or larger groups, tightly holding hands and trying to keep balance. |
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| The tension on the spring can be adjusted using a wing nut so it can grip the line tightly or loosely, whatever the fishing situation demands. |
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| Holding onto the railing tightly, and feeling my heart flutter alarmingly at the unwavering look in his eyes, I stared back. |
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| In the normal lymphoid ontogeny, genomic recombinations occur in a tightly regulated sequence and require an enzyme called recombinase. |
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| His heart constricted tightly in his chest as the wetness seeped into Michael's eyes. |
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| So Alex loved someone, I felt my heart constrict tightly as I registered what he said. |
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| In the early going, Echo Eddie was pinched back in to third as the five-horse field was tightly bunched together in a rush from the gate. |
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| A tall punk with flaming red hair had his arm slung tightly around her waist in a possessive manner. |
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| Justin grinned, staring out into space, his hands still gripping tightly onto the handles of the controls. |
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| The entire body and limbs were covered with a thick fine hair or wool curling tightly to the skin. |
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| He unhooks the bike frame and ties it tightly to his backpack, then doubles its rope round the wires and knots it tight. |
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| Her white sneakers were annoyingly neat and the laces were knotted tightly and securely. |
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| No matter how tightly I tie the things they work loose after about twenty steps. |
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| Sliding down from the car, she wraps her coat more tightly around her and jogs down the street. |
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| Her fingers were tightly wrapped over the edge of the mattress and she watched the clock closely. |
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| She jumped into his embrace, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck as his own encircled her tiny frame. |
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| She clasped the revolver tightly and looked in the direction where the wrestle for the sniper's gun continued between Alex and the captain. |
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| Their flesh was tightly wrapped in fishnets and short, short skirts, with laced bras on top. |
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| There's also an Allen screw tension adjustment to regulate how tightly the pistol is held. |
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| Startled by Theo's sudden arrival, the old lady emitted a little shriek and clutched her alligator skin handbag tightly to her chest. |
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| I concentrated on staring at my horse's reins, which were gripped so tightly in my hands that my knuckles turned white. |
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| Nora tightly clutched the horse's reins as she galloped along the countryside. |
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| In some cases these are fairly tightly drawn and it is relatively clear what must be done. |
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| The shot-out barrel had been relined, the liner carefully and tightly fit prior to being glassed into place. |
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| We screamed and yelped and hugged each other tightly to relieve some of the unwanted stress. |
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| The more tightly you grip the yoke, the greater the tendency to make unintended inputs. |
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| Limited government is a cornerstone of America's political institutions and is tightly yoked to the country's founding ideology. |
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| He put it on, swung down from the sides the cheek-guards, fastened the metal latch tightly. |
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| With Venus so tightly aligned with the Sun, these ideas are likely to be very much in the zeitgeist. |
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| The thermopile used a stack of tightly packed metal plates to amplify the photoelectric signal. |
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| Her white lawn dress with sprigs of green flowers fit tightly at the waist and cascaded to the floor. |
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| The algal structure is a tightly packed series of anastomosing, rounded, irregular ridges rising from a thin layer. |
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| Avoid coiling the leaders too tightly, else they will resemble a clockspring when you come to use them. |
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| He had removed his gloves but the rest of the uniform remained, clinging tightly to the sculptured muscles of his physique. |
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| The director doesn't give her much of a leash in this tightly wound story, but that suits the subject and the actress perfectly well. |
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| She shrank back in her seat, taken aback by the tightly leashed violence in his tone. |
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| When the push button is left hold of, the ball 47 is free to move with the air and is pressed tightly against its seat interrupting the flow. |
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| Jon had stopped the car and I opened the door and tried to step out, only to be tightly restrained by the seatbelt. |
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| She was dressed in a long peachy pink dress that hugged her bust tightly, and was long and loose for the rest of the garment's length. |
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| Suddenly he was behind me, a length of white cord stretched tightly between his two hands. |
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| The possession of copyright in published material may also lead to a conclusion of dominance if the relevant market is drawn tightly. |
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| If you want to braid your softneck crop, allow the tops to wilt for 2 to 3 days and then braid them tightly and allow to finish curing. |
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| Gwen flashed an angry look at her and went around her to the door, shutting it tightly behind her. |
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| His heart began to beat a furious rhythm inside his ribcage and his throat constricted tightly in fear. |
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| He closed them tightly, feeling the bittersweet sensation of stinging dryness and strain wetted with fresh tears beneath the lids. |
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| He should look at the records of repressive rulers who keep the lid on too tightly. |
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| She turned off the TV but held tightly to the remote, as if it would be the life ring that would ultimately decide whether she lived or died. |
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| Her hands were tied together so tightly that the ligature was cutting into the skin. |
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| As with all of his novels, it's tightly plotted, extremely well written, with twists and turns aplenty. |
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| She played with a ringlet of hair which was no longer tightly curled as it had been a few hours before. |
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| He closed his eyes tightly as Marcell slipped a hand under his shirt and tore the material with a vicious rip. |
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| With SEM, the light line was found to be where the secondary thickening bars were tightly appressed to each other. |
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| He gripped the sharp stick, half as tall as he, tightly, his powerful muscles striated and weakened from the terrible fen. |
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| Cholesterol, which is far more lipophilic than the hormones, associates tightly with the bilayer and does not cross it at all. |
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| By focusing too tightly on symbols and archetypes, Werness sometimes neglects artistic process and unique aspects of cultural significance. |
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| Farmers tell him that livestock graze the sward very tightly so there is no wastage. |
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| I sat back, holding his ankle tightly but otherwise not applying the ankle lock at all. |
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| Mold spores adhere more tightly to the rough surfaces than to the smooth skin of undamaged kernels. |
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| In the 75 years before World War II arsenicals were used to treat syphilis in sub-Saharan Africa and syringe use was tightly controlled. |
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| She was wearing loose trousers and a blouse that hugged her figure quite tightly, all her garments were black. |
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| Panting, she was out of breath when she held out her hands and gripped onto his arms tightly. |
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| Suddenly he was hugging me tightly and calling for Mina who came in the small room at a run. |
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| Many families say they do not have enough money to save, but if you manage your money tightly spare cash is usually available. |
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| Measures are usually taken to stop the bleeding by packing the involved area tightly with gauze or suturing the artery with a running stitch. |
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| Her hair was tightly put up and she was again rushed out into the halls, towards the Great Hall and into the royal ball room. |
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| She stood uncertainly in the doorway, her sack lunch clutched tightly in her right hand, wondering where she would sit. |
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| Set in a tightly wound labyrinth, this is where the film's insights about human endeavour are finally brought to light under a luminous moon. |
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| She held on tightly to the side of her seat as the carriage lurched into movement. |
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| She held me tightly while I cried, never saying a word, and the sheer strength of her love was almost tangible. |
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| Now a days, the Tarascans live in small villages that are not as tightly knit as they used to be. |
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| Make sure that both the window sashes and screen sash move smoothly and seal tightly when closed after installation. |
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| Tie the ends tightly with string to form the foie gras into a sausage shape. |
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| It translates in 2005 because this corner of music was always about nostalgia and taut drama constructed with tightly circumscribed language. |
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| The retirement plans offered the advantage of providing deferred payment of compensation that would more tightly bind people to military careers. |
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| With both his small hands Dominic had gripped tightly the end of each board jutting off the sawhorse as Mr. Russo carefully cut through it. |
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| It was bound tightly, suggesting that the one who bandaged it expected her to bleed more. |
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| The lockable drawer usually contained three tinned compartments with tightly fitting lids in which to store tea and sugar. |
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| Stitch four scallops and gather the ribbon very tightly, creating four distinct petals. |
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| A physical encounter is expected to keep the men in white tightly controlling what should be a cliffhanger of a match. |
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| He smiled at her and then gathered her into an embrace holding her tightly with his muscular arms. |
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| These two genes are tightly linked to the left telomere of the X chromosome. |
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| Some cabinet doors are held tightly together with long tenons, while others have short tenons that have loosened over time. |
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| When you're fed up, lash one end to the shroud, wrap the baggywrinkle around tightly and seize on the other end. |
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| To exercise the muscles, tense them tightly for as long as you can, then relax them to their normal position. |
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| Ironically, drawing so tightly, so tentatively, helped my painting to be free. |
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| It was scored for 16 player pianos that were to be tightly synchronised during concert performance. |
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| Two of the paintings were actually diptychs, abutting so tightly that they appeared to be a single surface scored by a palette knife. |
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| Transfer the mixture to the bacon-lined terrine and cover tightly with aluminium foil. |
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| She lets each song breathe, adding in conga solos, DJ scratching and trumpets from her tightly synched seven-member band. |
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| Nicole embraced Kim tightly, the mesh sleeves of her black shirt scratchy against Kim's arms. |
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| Eva screamed with delight, hugging her sister tightly when she opened the door. |
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| Make sure that door and window screens fit tightly and have no holes that may allow mosquitoes indoors. |
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| Filaments are typically tightly twisted and bundled, but may become separated in the middle part of the thallus. |
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| Now my tightly scripted movie falls apart, and it's improvise from here on out. |
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| She covered her mouth tightly and stopped herself from either agreeing or refusing. |
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| Since the shelves would have to support a good amount of weight, I cut Masonite rather than foam board to fit tightly into them. |
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| Their tail is carried over their backs either tightly or loosely curled or curved in an arch. |
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| From this elevated viewpoint the peaks of the Paine massif appeared as tightly packed turrets in some fairyland castle. |
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| For best results, place fumigants in deep runways of the burrow system and seal the openings tightly. |
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| He sells his wicket dearly and always bowls tightly, as a No 3 seamer should. |
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| She lifted the side of the towel and saw she was bare under it and her eyes widened, pulling the towel tightly back around her. |
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| This indicates that the alkyl chain is more effective at stabilizing the more tightly bound thiazole orange molecule in the helix. |
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| A work can be a concert in itself, and a concert as tightly structured as a work. |
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| Anna sunk down onto the steps and hugged her dog tightly, feeling the sticky, matted fur cling to her hands. |
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| It was an American era of big moustaches, buffed-up barnets, industrial-strength sideburns and intimidating, tightly permed chest hair. |
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| The trickiest step is cutting grooves inside the lips to fit the barrelheads tightly. |
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| This applies in particular to their secretariats that are tightly controlled and steered by a handful of developed countries. |
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| However, while a few genes do show rather high transition bias, most of the estimates cluster tightly around the median value. |
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| I laughed a little and opened the door, throwing my arms around his neck and hugging him tightly. |
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| An Afro or wide-toothed comb is ideal for brushing tightly curled black hair. |
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| It's used to create decorative openwork stitching on tightly woven fabrics such as linen and fine batiste. |
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| Slowly everything around him lost clarity as he focused tightly on the thumb prints. |
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| She began to bawl unbearably and leaned into Malachi's chest, clutching his sweatshirt tightly. |
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| A tidal wave of remorse still remained tightly sealed inside him but for now, he had more immediate concerns with which to occupy his mind. |
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| The music is devoid of melody, at least in the traditional sense, but it can grab the listener as tightly as any Big Tune, if given the chance. |
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| If you grab a beanbag really tightly, it goes more solid because the tiny beads have been compressed. |
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| The floors are locally quarried slate, hand-cut to fit tightly together in random patterns. |
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| The aphid feeds within the whorl of the upper leaves, causing the leaf to remain tightly rolled. |
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| The author's study is more tightly restricted to a single saint, John the Evangelist. |
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| The idea was to test his exchange rate hypothesis in a tightly specified model. |
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| How apt that such a rigorous game as chess would play a role in this tightly controlled home. |
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| The San Francisco firm cut its campus housing teeth on a pair of tightly budgeted graduate residences at the university. |
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| It is useful to have such an overview in one volume, though I regret it was not more tightly edited. |
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| Their design process was tightly coordinated with construction management, including repeated cost estimates and subsequent adjustments. |
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| The painting is tightly designed, with an emphasis on line and a pale, fresco-like surface. |
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| I shut my eyes tightly, not being able to bear the look of anguish on Adrian's face. |
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| I smiled tightly and moved passed him, heading for the corner of the library that had a set of beat-up paperbacks that were generally good reads. |
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| In Japan, few rituals are as tightly scripted as the send-off for the dearly departed. |
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| Special multiwall or tightly woven bags are recommended for seed that has been treated with mercurials or similarly toxic substances. |
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| Tomorrow she would be on her way home, she thought, eyes closing tightly, ignoring the added heat of the bedclothes. |
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| Her bedcovers were pulled up tightly around her knees, her pillows propping up her head, and her reading lamp on. |
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| I guess today marked another piece of childhood, wrapped up in tissue paper and tightly packaged, being moved into the loft. |
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| I sighed and reached for her, taking her into my arms and holding her tightly, as her slim frame shuddered and shook with the erupting tears. |
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| These early sauropods, however, had not yet evolved the tightly arched arrangement of metacarpals diagnostic of neosauropods. |
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| Breviparopus taghaloutensis may have had metacarpals I and V more tightly connected to the central metacarpals. |
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| Now, as I hear that same toneless voice, fear grips me so tightly that I can barely breathe. |
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| Musical set pieces are more integrated into the action, and the focus is kept tightly on the Gordon-Pandey relationship. |
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| Within a few seconds, its forelegs were bound together tightly, and its tail was fastened to its hind legs. |
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| Two individuals had probably been bound with their legs pulled tightly into their chests, a position not commonly found on archaeological sites. |
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| To prevent fluid buildup, she used bandages to bind her legs tightly, from toe to thigh, for 10 hours a day. |
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| At the same time, compress the area with an elastic bandage without binding it too tightly. |
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| She noticed that she was wearing what appeared to be a long, white dress, and her arm was bound up tightly and placed in a sling. |
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| Uttering a muttered curse, I yank off my shirt and rip it into strips, which I bind tightly over the wounds. |
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| In the case of very tightly woven microfibers, you may wish to tip the pattern slightly off-grain in order to prevent puckered seams. |
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| One source cited in the column found the positively charged microfibers attracted and tightly held negatively charged dust and dirt particles. |
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| A lone tear traced its path down Serena's face as she set off into the forest, holding Gideon's hand tightly. |
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| The top was bright green, and fitted tightly to her body, leaving her midriff, arms and neck bare. |
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| This spectacular hairstyle combines a sleek crown with a neatly tucked side swept front and a tightly sculpted fan shaped chignon. |
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| So I got dressed and slipped a shawl over my shoulders, wrapping it around myself tightly. |
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| Neyl wriggled out of the window and held on tightly with both hands, his face betraying his shock. |
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| In neurons, calcium entry through voltage-gated channels tightly couples an action potential with transmitter release. |
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| The fibre supply was now tightly committed to the operations of three large transnational pulp and paper corporations. |
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| The trip to Norway was so tightly budgeted the team spent their first evening at a transport cafe making merry over a slice of cake between four. |
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| When I came to, I found myself tightly tied to a steel chair guarded by a few shifty men guarding me with loaded guns. |
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| She had ropes which crossed her ankles, shins, thighs, waist, hands, collarbone and throat, each pressing tightly against her. |
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| Put your ticket, passport, credit card, traveller's cheques and essential numbers in here and fasten it tightly around your waist or thigh. |
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| Flagellar length in the unicellular, biflagellate, green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is tightly regulated. |
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| The muffled sound of the melodic minuet being played by the orchestra could be heard behind the French doors that had been tightly shut. |
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| His strategy of hitching Mexico's economy even more tightly to that of the US has only mired the country in a deeper slump. |
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| He gathered her against him, felt that she was as cold as ice as well, and held on to her tightly. |
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| His ankles, as well, were tightly bound, although not manacled like his wrists. |
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| Consequently, the shot leaves the wad as a tightly controlled column with minimal dispersion. |
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| Grace rushes across the room, jams her feet in a pair of heavy boots, and runs from the room with the blanket still held tightly around her. |
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| The male reproductive system contains four pairs of accessory glands, the most prominent of which are the tightly coiled spiral accessory glands. |
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| There was a sudden flicker of light, so blindingly bright that Cinaed had to turn away and close his eyes tightly for a few moments, until it faded. |
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| Carefully shake off excess moisture and pack tightly in a strong box. |
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| That was accomplished by cops such as the one whose picture was clutched so tightly by his widow on Sunday. |
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| It might be on a closet shelf or perhaps in the attic, wrapped tightly in thick twine. |
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| The tightly controlled choreography stirred the emotions while celebrating the unsung heroes of the backroom. |
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| I got him down to the ground, took off his belt, and cinched it tightly around his biceps to stop the bleeding. |
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| He bunches himself up tightly, one leg entwined over the other, with the crossed leg dangling, limply, languorously. |
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| She then tightly attaches to one's wrist a plastic bangle of the sort that it is put on to the wrists of the inmates of mentally challenged places of abode. |
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| Because turbinates reduce respiratory water and heat loss, they are tightly linked to high rates of lung ventilation in these terrestrial endotherms. |
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| If the door still does not seal tightly to all sides of the jamb you either installed the weatherstripping badly or the door is bent and in need of replacement. |
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| Check boxes and lids to ensure they're still tightly sealed. |
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| The way in which the cell packages this genetic material is by tightly coiling it up and bundling it around proteins to form a structure called the chromosome. |
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| Swaisgood's research project required that the snake comfortably slither, coil, and strike but still be tethered tightly enough that there was no chance it could escape. |
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| One classic puzzle, for example, starts with six coins packed tightly together in a rhomboid formation, made up of two nestled rows of three coins each. |
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| Gun ownership is tightly controlled in China, where mass attacks usually involve men with a knife, cleaver, or machete. |
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| The steering wheel was bent forward, indicating that she was probably holding it tightly when the car hit the concrete wall. |
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| Silsden eventually came into the game but their front men, Hoyle and Hedges were tightly marked throughout the game and had to play much of the time with their backs to goal. |
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| He didn't grip her tightly but barely let his fingers touch her body. |
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| This heavily furnished, tightly buttoned film has all the familiar tommy guns, antique automobiles, snap brim hats and heavy suits, but it's very unusual. |
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| You pack it tightly inside a sturdy container, it is extremely flammable. |
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| The new Italian state was tightly centralized, highly militarized, and incompetently expansionist. |
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| The serviceable track undulates and crosses many gullies, the trees are thinned, you can see out north over pretty fields, tightly bound by the curving wooded escarpment. |
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| Very little odor will be released from tightly covered storage structures. |
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| Revelers were all smiles as they proudly waved rainbow colored flags, held up signs supporting marriage equality and hugged their loved ones tightly! |
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| I love that you hug me tightly before I put you down for naps. |
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| The big change is a frame designed along an asymmetrical last to more closely fit the anatomical sole of a boot and lock more tightly into the boot welts. |
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| Here, as elsewhere, Berg focuses tightly on contingencies but underrates the contexts which give them meaning. |
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| A juvenile green turtle was found with a plastic bag wound tightly around its right flipper, cutting off blood flow, aquarium curator Willie Maritz said yesterday. |
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| His eyes were wide, with the whites visible so starkly against his skin, and he was pushing his other hand onto his mouth, tightly, until the knuckles turned pale. |
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| Thorn tightly strapped the bags and items to her mare's back. |
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| She sniffled and hugged him tightly, tears rolling slowly down her cheeks. |
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| The more tightly the tube is rolled up, the harder it becomes to see that it has a circular cross section, since this circular dimension gets smaller and smaller. |
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| His breathing was shallow, and his eyes were tightly closed. |
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| His arms dove forward as, clutching the rope tightly he made for the bottom, the dark mass that was the keel of his ship blocking out the beams of light from the sun. |
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| Religion and art are tightly bound together, interpenetrating each other. |
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| Then I lit the candle and held the stick of sealing-wax in the flame, letting the red drops fall round the bottle cap until it was tightly sealed. |
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| Problems arise when chemical reactions change the arsenates into arsenites, which don't bind tightly to other minerals and can therefore enter the underground water supply. |
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| The fabric's tightly woven fibers naturally wick perspiration and body vapor from the skin and absorb as much as 30 percent of their own weight in moisture. |
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| While women also wear the mawashi, a belt some seven to eight metres long wound tightly around the lower body, it goes over a leotard and, sometimes, Lycra shorts. |
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| I responded by tucking the cover in too tightly for your wiggle. |
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| The little dog was found with a cord tightly wound around its neck. |
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| Once this is dry, fine threads of beeswax are tightly wound around it. |
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| I put my arms around her and pulled her closer to me, holding her tightly. |
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| Days later, pictures of the residents' ashen faces were plastered over the papers and broadcast on the news every night, invariably showing tightly strapped face-masks. |
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| The boiled suet pudding which would have accompanied it on land, on shipboard became a suet paste layer laid on top of the stew to steam gently under a tightly fitting lid. |
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| My knuckles were white from clutching the loose-leaf paper so tightly. |
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| Legumes generally grow for some time past the corn harvest, and can take land away from the tightly scheduled sequential cropping typical of Asian agriculture. |
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| Instead he frowned and stared at the floor, lips tightly sealed. |
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| Videos show food lines bulging with tiny bodies pressed together so tightly you worry as much about suffocation as starvation. |
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| They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two. |
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| The whole residence was blanketed in a dusty atmosphere that made me sneeze often when the windows were shut up tightly as they were on this particular day. |
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| With the Woodlands complex at Carlton Minniot starting to thaw out entries are gradually creeping up again and with the water still cold the fish are tightly shoaled. |
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| This enables the dyer to create hanks of yarn that aren't too tightly wound together, ensuring that the dye bath can penetrate all of the fibres and preventing streaking. |
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| He held my hands tightly, digging his fingers into my knuckles. |
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| Dr Conrad took a blanket from the bed and wrapped it tightly round him, then gently fished a tissue out of a box and wiped the tears from Danny's face. |
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| The video is accompanied by a photograph of a young black girl wrapped tightly in Kevlar, and a pledge card asking people to vote. |
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| Though my cloak was tied tightly, my hood kept coming off, and I would stop to put it back over my head, until finally I gave up and just rode bareheaded. |
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| All three components are tightly linked in a cooperative research program to reforest Missouri floodplains once dominated by oaks and other native trees. |
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| Don't try to compensate for a gaping shoe by tying the laces too tightly. |
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| She finally grabbed a piece of cloth and tightly bound up the cut. |
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| Her mare strained against the current but did not falter in her strength and all Sadie could do was hold tightly to the reins and trust the horse to make it across. |
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| It turns out that I was there for the last home win in Montreal Expos history, a small claim to fame that I'll hold onto tightly as the team fades down the memory hole. |
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| Sara clasped her fingers tightly around the tatting shuttle and thread. |
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| There aren't many homes that make you feel you're both the tightly corseted heroine of a romantic costume drama and a lady of the night about to embark on a seedy affair. |
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| Reality shows are as tightly storylined and produced as drama, the genre they displaced. |
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| The darkness and dissonance of these tightly constructed tales reflect something of the political turbulence of Soviet Russia. |
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| As a Blue Hawk, she was the best medic available, and with neat motions she tore her tunic into bandages and bound the wounded limbs tightly to staunch the bleeding. |
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| You're part of the web of tightly woven relationships, some blood, some not, that hold together a rural community. |
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| Begin first by blending out the color tightly alongside the lashline. |
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| He zigged and zagged and she went with him, arm clenched tightly to his. |
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| Iron, an essential requirement of bacteria, is tightly bound to glycoproteins such as transferrin and lactoferrin in the serum, making it unavailable for the bacteria. |
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| A trench is dug, seedling bundles are placed side by side, the trench is refilled and soil is packed tightly around the roots up to the root collar. |
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| Shell units are tightly packed but separated in the mammillary layer. |
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| My mom smiled and wrapped her bathrobe around herself more tightly. |
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| It was five o'clock in the morning and she was muttering to herself and holding the fuzzy white bathrobe tightly closed, as if her life depended on it. |
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| After opening packets of dried foods, such as flour, rice and breakfast cereals, reseal them tightly or transfer the contents to storage jars with tight lids. |
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| This tautly written, tightly plotted time bomb of a fiction covers two generations and 50 years in under 90 pages. |
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| However, as these QTL appear to be tightly linked in coupling phase, the combined intercrosses do not provide sufficient resolution to separate the effects. |
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| Gerald used an angle grinder with a 4-inch diamond blade to very carefully cut the tightly curved lines of the pattern into the surface of the slab. |
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| Alternating T-beams and angle irons, he spliced and overlapped their junctures, tying them together with chicken wire that he then tightly wrapped with wire mesh. |
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| Gripping the rifle tightly, Shawn thrust himself into the corridor. |
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| After making several miles of this you lash the end tightly to the steel cable and wrap the baggywrinkle tightly around the cable like the example at right. |
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| If the film is not held tightly against the paper, the results will be disappointing because the print will either be out of focus or show Newton's rings. |
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| The availability of fully anonymised material to others in order to pursue the full scientific and therapeutic potential of the study will be tightly controlled. |
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| He had to belt the girl in more tightly so that she would not slide. |
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| A long knife was in the doeskin belt that supported the doeskin skirt tightly about her lithe limbs. |
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| Could this rocklike imprisonment symbol stand for teosinte's hard, nutlike seeds wrapped tightly in individual fruit cases? |
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| Between 1520 and 1550, printing presses in Spain were tightly controlled, and any books of Protestant teaching were prohibited. |
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| Often the ships, also known as Guineamen, transported hundreds of slaves, who were chained tightly to plank beds. |
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| Most landfills are fundamentally anaerobic because they are compacted so tightly that any biodegradation takes place very slowly. |
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| In living organisms, DNA does not usually exist as a single molecule, but instead as a pair of molecules that are held tightly together. |
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| If the DNA is twisted in the direction of the helix, this is positive supercoiling, and the bases are held more tightly together. |
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| Genomic DNA is tightly and orderly packed in the process called DNA condensation, to fit the small available volumes of the cell. |
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| Access from landside areas to airside areas is tightly controlled at most airports. |
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| Individuals have a subcutaneous fat layer, dense down and tightly overlapping feathers that help them withstand low temperatures. |
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| A simple criterion is that live mussels, when in the air, will shut tightly when disturbed. |
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| These specialized feet allow chameleons to grip tightly onto narrow or rough branches. |
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| These are tightly packed, and the birds tend to take off and dive together. |
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| The tightly packed array of narrow individual beams provides very high angular resolution and accuracy. |
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| Schools of fish are much more tightly organised, synchronising their swimming so that all fish move at the same speed and in the same direction. |
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| The shells of live oysters are usually tightly closed or snap shut given a slight tap. |
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| Large species nest very close together and sit tightly, making it difficult for aerial predators to land among them. |
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| Kas is awakened by the furious pelts of rain hitting the tin roof, and he rolls over, pulling his sleeping wife tightly into his arms. |
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| Despite being a lively community, Henry's court was more tightly controlled than those of previous kings. |
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| Border security here consisted mainly of tightly packed, relatively small cohort forts. |
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| The Dutch have remained a tightly knit community, especially in the large cities. |
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