It was a mosaic of an elephant, his trunk raised to the sky, head tilted back, tusks raised. |
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Suddenly, the cyclone rose up off the ground and tilted sideways toward them, looking like a long snake. |
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I tilted my head to one side and started twisting my dirty blonde hair around my fingers. |
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A shimmering iridescent image showing bauhinia flowers appears when the banknote is tilted under a bright light. |
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I glanced worriedly at Rora, her long flaming hair covered her face that was tilted towards the cold ground. |
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But I also tilted my head a lot, like a cat straining to hear a really weird sound. |
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These extrusive rocks are tilted and rest unconformably upon metamorphosed limestone, shale, and slate. |
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Although tilted on one side, the deck is recognisable from bollards and railings. |
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She had a rather broad face and a short neck with her head slightly tilted to one side. |
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She then deposits a little into a honeycomb cell, built and tilted upright, so that it won't spill. |
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She held it to his mouth and slowly tilted it forward, letting him gulp down the tea. |
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At one point in Act I they all stand on the tilted stage, in a straight line, during one of the interludes. |
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Khaddad dismissed as an unproven assumption the notion that the final status referendum would be tilted in Morocco's favour. |
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The trailer came to rest tilted on its offside wheels, the nearside wheels raised off the road by about two feet. |
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She stopped and tilted her head to the side, but her dark hair remained plastered to her forehead, a few frizzy strands escaping her plait. |
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Whispering my name once again, he tilted my head to the side, and kissed my bare neck. |
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If a pretty, snowy mountain slope is tilted steeply and bereft of trees, it's an avalanche zone. |
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Once the truss landed, workers tilted it to the correct angle and installed permanent bracing struts to the building. |
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With the mouth wide open and the patient's head tilted back, the hard and soft palates should be carefully inspected and palpated. |
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The right pedicel projects ventrolaterally, and its plane is tilted approximately 30 degrees outward from the median plane. |
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The hei-tiki is a stylized human figure with head tilted to one side, hands on hips, and feet tucked under the body. |
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You will then be tilted on a special table allowing the fluid to pass up and down the spinal canal. |
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She thunderstruck the audience with her grounded, undulating attack and startling series of parallel, tilted cabrioles. |
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The receiver was slightly off the hook, tilted, but on enough that it was connected. |
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Andy had often sat there, like she was now, and had always tilted her head to stare at the oak tree. |
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Positive camber means the tire is tilted away from the vehicle's center line. |
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Ikeda was slouched in a stuffed chair, head tilted back and supported by a pillow as he slept peacefully. |
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With grazing incidence diffraction a monoclinic tilted chain lattice is found in the condensed phase. |
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His head was tilted back, his hands splayed out as if to catch drops from a leaking firmament. |
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Barnes on-drove for two and then three byes followed which once again tilted the scales. |
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He recognized that all of the beaches had been tilted by postglacial uplift. |
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When the axis is tilted up or forward, the track of the ball is rotating more horizontally than perpendicularly to the lane. |
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Sitting on the stone bench now she tilted her head up towards the sky and the welter of bare branches overhead. |
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Purely on impulse I leaned forward, my eyes closing of their own accord as Winter tilted her head up just a fraction. |
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This implies that the chain was tilted with respect to the surface, while the adenine group was perpendicular to the surface. |
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As expected, the sympathy factor has tilted the scales of a nation already dissatisfied with the government. |
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I tilted my head back, letting the water wash the dust and sweat off my face. |
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Rotating drums can be tilted forward or backward, hydraulically, to adjust for litter condition. |
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He tilted his head lightly to the side, his wavy blonde locks falling sideways from his eyes. |
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He tilted his head and cocked his foxlike ears at an angle that mirrored the devilish sparkle in his brown eyes. |
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He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall. |
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The dash is neatly laid out and a pop-up panel houses the screen for the sat nav which can be tilted to remove glare. |
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Liv tilted her head to the side as if the weight of thinking about all that she was obsessed with was weighing her down. |
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Her gaze traveled along the curve of his neck, over his Adam's apple to his jaw line, as he tilted his head back to drain the rest of the bottle. |
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With the boat beached and the bow tilted up, a guard rail prevented him from taking aim at the enemy. |
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But I pulled the wrong thing, instead of the throttle I tilted the joystick. |
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We had to be strapped into our seats because they tilted and bucked and juddered in response to the action on the large screen. |
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The other stocking waves shyly from its precarious perch atop a tilted lampshade. |
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In most cases, the damage included tilted roofs, broken groundsills, and broken walls and tile. |
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As a nun she is beatific, her head, in a wimple, tilted toward heaven, a prayer book clasped to her breast. |
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He muttered something in angry fluent French, as he tilted his head back and looked up at the star-dusted cobalt sky. |
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Lisa tilted her head back as he trailed butterfly kisses down her neck and across her jaw. |
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Other more localized areas appear to have melted over broad regions and blocks of ice have foundered, tilted, and become refrozen. |
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The commander laced his fingers together, resting his hands on his stomach as he tilted his head and stared at the wall. |
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She tilted his face to look at her to check for signs of life, finding thankfully that the lad was indeed still in the land of the living. |
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The skull has an broad, tilted zygomatic plate that serves as the attachment point for the lateral branch of the masseter muscle. |
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Instead, a portion of the stick slid down and tilted at an angle, like a hockey stick. |
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The man tilted the book upwards at an angle so I couldn't see the contents and turned back the cover. |
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It would start off tilted at an angle and would gradually straighten up as the glasses filled. |
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Rocks that lie at an angle must have been tilted after the sediments were consolidated. |
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Oddly, he cannot run in human form, instead he walks with a strange, goofy prance of sorts, head and body tilted back, and led by his tiny feet. |
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Scarring from adhesions as a result of endometriosis or fibroids can also cause the uterus to shift to a tilted or retroflexed state. |
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But if you are a fan of the Senator, you will find much of the rest of Indiana tilted demographically in her favor. |
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Five video projectors beam onto small screens, all aboard a huge, tilted white tabletop. |
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I think I walked around with my head tilted all day, as if I was listening for a sound no one could hear but me. |
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The two main parabolic arches of the bridge create two continuous, tilted, tied arches as the support spans for this unique steel structure. |
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She watched as he tilted his hat back on his head and drew on his cigarette. |
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Depressing a button on my armrest, I tilted my seat back for a little comfort. |
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I watch as he tilted his head to one side giving me that same infuriating lopsided grin of his. |
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Amy tilted up his face and soothed the cool gel onto his cheekbones with her fingertips. |
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The man's upturned eyes and tilted head play off traditional saintly poses in Spanish religious sculpture. |
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Carefully lifting the bowl, she tilted it ever-so-slightly, and the water poured slowly into his mouth. |
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The tilted hillsides were dotted with cows, and the cypress and eucalyptus trees were exquisite. |
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He lay sleeping on his king-sized bed, covered under a crimson sheet with the sanguine hat tilted forward onto the bridge of his nose. |
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His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes. |
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One, a work in progress, showed an old-style baby carriage, leather and steel, crumpled and tilted, in a small dark stone building. |
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A trio of cats gazed up at her, curiously eyeing her approach with heads tilted one way or another. |
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He pushed his fringes behind his ears and tilted his head, expecting an answer. |
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Ichiro froze as Neo's icy fingers took hold of his neck and tilted his head to the side to get a better view of the wounds. |
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When the desired amount of metal is melted, the remaining electrode is quickly retracted and the crucible tilted to pour the metal into the mold. |
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The girl tilted her head back, once again hoping for that shooting star, for a flicker of hope of a granted wish. |
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She glanced back along the corridor to where Hank still stood watching, and a crafty smile tilted her lips. |
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A small moan escaped her pink lips as she tilted her head to allow him better access to her throat and neck. |
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Lia tilted her head to the side, allowing his fingers to brush against her cheek, lightly. |
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Her smile was coy, and she playfully tilted her head, an inquisitive glimmer in her eyes. |
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Isabella tilted her head again, in the same pose she had assumed when he first saw her. |
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Would I really have to get a full top set of braces to fix one tooth that has slightly tilted to an angle? |
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He sank back down onto the floor and tilted his head slightly, resting his chin on the back of his hands. |
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Yet it is not difficult to understand why the balance has tilted towards athletics. |
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Her head tilted, only slightly, and she looked to the floor, speaking towards her side. |
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His Russian prose, too, though full of ironic tricks and intricate detail, tilted toward the sentimental. |
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Under the protective shield provided by the central bank, the US financial system has became tilted toward relentless expansion. |
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The readership of this list is tilted toward power users, not normal people. |
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It complained that the terms of the distribution deal were tilted too heavily in the other party's favor. |
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The regulatory playing field is tilted distinctly in favour of the cigarette manufacturers. |
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Even before the senate voted, the White House attacked the plan, saying it's tilted more towards lenders than homeowners. |
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But people overseas know how the political playing field was tilted in his favor. |
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This means that the camera, once mounted, can be panned and tilted through a full degree range in all directions. |
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But he's already tilted at, and failed to land, Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria and Germany's Commerzbank. |
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Smiling, I tilted my head toward him and fluttered my eyelashes in what I hoped was a flirty manner. |
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If she tilted her head back she could see a hawk circling in the air, its magnificent wings beating steadily to keep it in the air. |
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The pool of available people doing opinion writing is still tilted toward men. |
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His world had tilted off its axis, but her presence made it more tolerable. |
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She gently tilted her head and smiled a full-hearted smile in admiration of him. |
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He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question. |
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It is an asymmetrical oval slice of toroid, tilted out of the ground towards the south to catch the sun's heat. |
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I had torticollis, a neck condition where my head tilted one way and my chin went the other. |
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The boy poses for the camera, fingers in pockets of tight white pants, no shirt, leather jacket, tilted cap, shades, cool. |
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A single trailing wheel not only becomes obstructed less, but can also be tilted out of a pothole. |
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A great deal of time is spent studying the sun's seasonal angles, capturing or controlling it with clerestories and tilted roof planes. |
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Push the grout diagonally across the tile with the float tilted at a 45-degree angle. |
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He tilted his head, admiring the view and the way her jeans hugged and pulled. |
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The minority community generally feel that the scales of justice are tilted widely against them. |
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I tilted my head backward from its position on his shoulder and looked upward at his strong suntanned face and intoxicating blue eyes. |
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Her face was a delicate oval shape with slightly tilted amethyst eyes and a pert nose with full lips. |
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To her side is an ironing board, an iron perched on it, the face of the iron tilted toward the camera. |
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Tiger has tilted the playing field from one based on finesse and shotmaking to one in which power is paramount. |
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The shrill voice echoed in the earpiece and Judith automatically tilted the phone away from her ear. |
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The fact that older rocks progressively outcrop on the plateau surface to the NW suggests that the tilted surface is not a dip slope. |
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The boat was tilted almost vertically into the turn, and my fingers scrabbled for purchase in the slippery wood of the deck that I was careening down. |
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Most people try to act cool, like nothing is awry, when nearly everything is tilted. |
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She squinted, blinked sporadically, and tilted her head, as if straining to wrestle answers from her brain. |
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We think we're viewing the accretion disk at a slightly tilted angle, and we see the light from each of these flares rise and fall in energy as they orbit the black hole. |
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He cocked his ears and tilted his head to study the other with cold eyes. |
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I tilted my head back, sighing, wondering again how I had come to be like this, one of the many young well-born and well-dowered hostages in court. |
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The entire stern section of the wreck is tilted aft and to starboard. |
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Circular clockwise motion of a cilium can generate directional leftward flow if its axis is not perpendicular to the cell surface but tilted posteriorly. |
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There have been certain exceptions, but the policy is tilted heavily to excluding Sikhs because of their beards and turbans. |
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She swung the blade in a wide arc, the edge tilted slightly. |
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At a glance, the house seems relatively liveable, but on closer inspection, the structure is tilted to one side and the floor has completely collapsed. |
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Typical projection optics designs feature NAs of around 0.25 and consist of at least six aspherical mirror surfaces, with reflections tilted off-axis. |
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The basic pulsar model involves a magnetic dipole field tilted with respect to the rotation axis, beaming radio waves along the dipole axis as the star spins. |
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He stands in the middle of the sidewalk, eyes closed, head tilted to one side, the harmonica cupped in his hands. |
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She tilted her head back to smile at him through teary eyes. |
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He tilted his head slightly, scanning his surroundings carefully. |
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He tilted his head up revealing a long beard and scraggly hair. |
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In other parts of the Selendi and Usak-Gure basins, the group contains only tilted sedimentary units due to the extensional tectonics in the region. |
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The impact tilted it about four inches, not such a big deal to fix. |
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Kain was sitting crossed armed in a chair, head tilted slightly forward. |
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National Guardsmen regularly tilted with protesting workers convinced that they were once again, as in 1830, about to be cheated of their revolution. |
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Several times a day, you'll catch them gazing at it in unapologetic fascination, heads tilted to one side, eyes filled with wonder, smiles beatific. |
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He looked a little hot around the collar, then his eyes narrowed and the corners of his mouth tilted up in an expression that told her she was in for it. |
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The tilted stage, much like The Kostelnicka's life, is reminiscent of a deChirico painting with two chairs and a sunken mill wheel occupying the environment. |
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He tilted his head to one side in an almost bird-like manner. |
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The wolf just sat there and tilted its head with an inquisitive whimper. |
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Porter's Hobart skulks beneath a starry crucifix that has tilted sideways. |
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Srebrenica was overwhelmingly Bosniak before the war, but refugee flight has tilted the balance and now Serbs form a majority of people living there. |
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She tilted the girl's neck to the side, leaving the jugular exposed. |
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A cloud of fog obscures the tunnel mouth they are about to plunge into and, because the track is tilted, it is also hard to see how the vehicle will be guided. |
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It was only three weeks since he'd seen her and he was still feeling off-kilter, like the world had tilted backwards and he couldn't find his balance. |
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There was one other guest by the pool, an old, old woman in a one-piece with a skirt, wearing a sunhat tilted to shade her from the last of the pounding Florida sun. |
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Evan strolled ahead, hands in pockets, cap tilted forward on his brow. |
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She tilted her head, her long, hennaed hair rustling against her cheek. |
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Coming to a halt, she rested her hands on her hips and tilted her head upwards, sucking at the air like a claustrophobic who'd been trapped in an elevator for too long. |
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In the centre of the image is one woman sitting on the piano stool, head tilted and eyes closed in proper appreciation of a tune whose name shall forever remain a mystery. |
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I am extremely irritated when people take photos with the camera tilted. |
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She turns to the flyspecked oval mirror, tilted against the wall. |
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The nearest vertical post shattered in a cloud of steam, and the tower tilted at a crazy angle, before ponderously toppling on those poor souls beneath it. |
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Rose tilted her head back and let the blisteringly hot water soak her hair, rinsing away the mountains of frothy bubbles that coated her luxurious chocolate-coloured tresses. |
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The reverse Galilean telescopes are tilted relative to each other. |
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One wall displayed a slightly tilted, multicolored outline of a triumphant half circle, establishing the proscenium arch, accompanied by two straight lines of unequal length. |
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His perspectives, building across the paper horizontally, were slightly tilted and cut by occasional diagonals, almost as if caught by an amateur's camera. |
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The dock is like a tilted U, and the keyboard slides into its curve. |
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The filter tip had also become tilted and was embedded within the IVC wall. |
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Here was a sober young Harlemite in a gamely tilted bowler with a little French mustache. |
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The rotor hub could also be tilted forward a few degrees, allowing the aircraft to move forward without a separate propeller to push or pull it. |
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A study from 2016 suggested that Planet Nine tilted all solar system planets, including Earth's by about 6 degrees. |
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Earth's axis of rotation is tilted, producing seasonal variations on the planet's surface. |
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Once in a while just coming upon a tilted snowbank in the midst of a feeding area is enough to send a band boogieing away downhill. |
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If the Earth's axis were not tilted toward the sun, a vertical rod at the equator would have no shadow. |
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On the feetfirst top-top with a 19-inch hole, your body is tilted to about a 35-degree angle on entry. |
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Additionally, the blades are placed a considerable distance in front of the tower and are sometimes tilted forward into the wind a small amount. |
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The whole sequence may later be deformed and tilted by further orogenic activity. |
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However, the arrival of craftsman and supplies transported by the Genoese to Jaffa tilted the balance in their favour. |
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Thus, the system of international justice may appear on the surface to be impermissibly and inalterably tilted towards the prosecution. |
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The statue of Lady Godiva is wearing an orange traffic cone, tilted at a rakish angle like an especially pointy rainhat. |
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This phase of deformation tilted the chalk strata to the southeast in the area of the Chiltern Hills. |
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The old hop kilns and oast houses make the quirkiest homes with their distinctive, tilted caps, designed as efficient dryers. |
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Rumours also suggest that icons in some apps will appear unlabelled until the phone is tilted. |
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They have two speed settings and are fully oscillating, with a swivel joint allowing the head of the fan to be tilted up and down. |
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By using local bottomgates, a p-n interface tilted with respect to the current direction can be formed. |
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This defined the geometry of a large tilted fault block closed by a major normal fault. |
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In running, an anteriorly tilted pelvis results in overlengthened hamstrings while the quadriceps and hip flexors are short and tight. |
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The experience of smoking a larger ring gauge is tilted in the favour of the filler. |
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Only two exploration wells have been drilled so far, and there remain numerous undrilled targets in tilted fault block plays. |
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If the axial plane is tilted or offset, then the anticline is asymmetrical. |
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The tilted plateau of the north ridge is triangular in plan, narrowing to a point at Fairfield in the west. |
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Flat Crag includes the Great Slab, a remarkable tilted sheet of rock which looks exactly as it sounds. |
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Therefore, the rotors had to be tilted slightly in opposite directions to counter torque. |
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Leaving the autoroute after a ninety minute drive north from Paris, the motorist initially sees three tilted masts that hold the roof of Tschumi's project in place. |
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Commission of India, who has argued that the firm abuses its monopoly to arm-twist customers into inking unfair deals that are tilted heavily in favour of the coal supplier. |
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Astronomers know today that the Earth revolving around the sun is tilted on its axis, bringing each hemisphere now closer to the sun, now further away. |
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Beside him Lady Partridge, her head tilted up, her face a mask of blusher and brown powder, like someone just back from a skiing holiday, was also clearly elsewhere. |
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Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon in which the North Pole is tilted furthest from the sun leading to the day becoming the shortest day of the year. |
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The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out. |
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The seam is tilted to symbolize the axial tilt of the Earth. |
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The ship tilted to starboard, the bridge crew shouted for everyone to go to the port side and Lancastria came level again, then keeled over to port. |
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In geology the term is more specifically applied to a ridge where a harder sedimentary rock overlies a softer layer, the whole being tilted somewhat from the horizontal. |
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Steam locomotives built for steep rack and pinion railways frequently have the boiler tilted relative to the wheels, so that the boiler remains roughly level on steep grades. |
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An oyster's mature shape often depends on the type of bottom to which it is originally attached, but it always orients itself with its outer, flared shell tilted upward. |
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Warm summers in the Southern hemisphere occur when that hemisphere is tilted toward the sun and the Earth is nearest the sun in its elliptical orbit. |
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Outside a big wooden bull wheel was tilted against the wall. |
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From-time to time the book tilted and wobbled in his lap, and the weight of the deckle-edged pages pressed on his erection through the sleek black nylon. |
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Because Mercury, unlike Earth, is not tilted relative to its orbital plane, there are areas near the poles where the sun would never come up over the horizon. |
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This causes a Coriolis force to act on the rim in such a way as to tilt the gyroscope at right angles to the direction that the external torque would have tilted it. |
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The Lower Old Red Sandstone is unconformably overlain by Upper Old Red Sandstone, where the Upper Old Red Sandstone is tilted close to the Highland Boundary Fault. |
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The whole system cycles through bright and faint phases, with the central stars playing a sort of cosmic peek-a-boo as the tilted disk twirls around them. |
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