They are rock hard and anchored deep in the ground, the golden red of their trunks perfectly offset by the bottle green of their foliage. |
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Lichens colonize a broad spectrum of niches in the forest, including fallen boles, and mature trunks or branches of a variety of tree species. |
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Occasionally heads sit oddly on their bodies, and swollen limbs meet their trunks awkwardly. |
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For healthy apple trees, plant some nasturtiums and mint around the trunks to deter woolly aphids. |
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One side was fence, the other a swamp, a mire skewered by rotting birch trunks bracketed by hard tinder fungi. |
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Most people are likely to think of winter landscapes as pictures made up of stark contrasts, of dark tree trunks and branches against white snow. |
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The main nerve trunks linking the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system are known as the vagus and splanchnic nerves. |
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I removed the lower limbs on our 15-foot vitex to maintain a vase-shaped, shade-tree form with five trunks. |
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The steel columns holding up the roof will resemble the trunks and branches of trees. |
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Of special interest are the bromeliads that grow on trunks and along branches of big trees. |
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These gray or gray-green plants live on the branches and trunks of the trees, but they are not parasitic. |
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Longitudinal sections of tree trunks contain knots that preserve the history of branching and can be used to interpret stand dynamics. |
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The sittellas often forage head-downward, and the tree-creepers climb up tree trunks seeking prey under the bark. |
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These cells appeared mainly as thin and bipolar cells closely related to the hypertrophic nerve trunks. |
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Looking out across the pond one sees a cherry tree in palest pink, and, farther away, the glistening white trunks of an old birch tree. |
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Trees with large trunks and deep anchoring roots represent the ultimate challenge in withstanding oxygen-deprivation in wetland habitats. |
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We have also strange and artificial echoes and we have means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes in strange lines and distances. |
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With their gnarled trunks, silvery green leaves and branches weighed down with small greeny black olives, they look as old as the world. |
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The elephants nosed their trunks toward the stream, taking sips with two finger-like appendages. |
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So one day Bibbo's luggage was packed up, two tin trunks, and bedding rolled up in a dhurrie. |
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The mammals investigate remains with their feet and trunks, paying special attention to the skulls and tusks of even long-dead elephants. |
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The action in the second act is set in a forest glade framed by tall, bare tree trunks. |
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Two trunks with property are stored under the bed, and also two TVs, one on a fold-out desk, the other on a shelf for the top bunk. |
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Hairy Woodpeckers forage primarily on the trunks or main limbs of trees, where they probe into crevices and scale off bark searching for prey. |
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One man, clad only in a pair of dated swim trunks, is slowly edging himself into the water. |
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First came surfboards, and right on the heels of that came surf trunks and wetsuits. |
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All around us, the massive, bell-shaped trunks of the cypress trees spread into a lacework canopy trailing veils of Spanish moss. |
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Clothed in nothing more than my bathing trunks, I was seated on a stool in a natural enclosure in the jungle. |
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Finally, stripped to brown trunks and a white shirt, Houdini made his entrance in the pool area. |
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The men's change room was empty and I slipped out of my shorts and into my trunks, then I slipped off my T-shirt and flexed my muscles. |
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The trunks are undisturbed, full of my film reels, video tapes, scripts and potpourri of neglected promotional materials. |
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One of the other moms ran home and grabbed some trunks for the boy and he quickly went to romp with the other kids. |
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These plants looked similar to modern cycads but contained cones in their trunks instead of on top of the plant. |
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Police say 60-year-old Kenneth Jagger had been walking on tree trunks across the River Roch when he slipped, falling 10 feet into a side stream. |
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The best thing to do with old cherry trunks is to let them lie in the woods, rotting down to feed fungi and invertebrates. |
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Sadly, when logging is carried out, smaller plants and fruit-bearing vegetation is often crushed by falling trunks. |
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Branches and trunks twist and bend as they grow, creeping horizontally along the ground as well as reaching toward the sky. |
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Mammoth tree trunks stretch across ceilings above hand-carved lintels, mortised into place in elaborate structures. |
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Most of its buildings are made from soft unbaked sandstone, clay, straw and palm-tree trunks. |
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White-headed Woodpeckers forage for insects on trunks and limbs as well as in clusters of needles. |
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Dresses were strewn across the bed and draped carefully over the trunks, the soft folds inviting Gwin's caress. |
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The first day was clear of contacts, but we saw a lot of flotsam, tree trunks, containers washed off ships, etc. |
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He had a white puka shell necklace on with light green flame swim trunks and that was it. |
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The trees have two to four inch thick trunks of corklike material which was very soft and spongy inside with a green colored bark on the outside. |
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Two trunks grew close, one sprouting strange corky warts and the other deeply furrowed. |
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Tree trunks of green banana or plantain stood in ranks, some as tall as me. |
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Included are partial remains of large trunks up to 33 cm wide and over 8 m long, variously disarticulated foliage, cones, and seeds. |
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Flame crashed into tree trunks, burning moss and driving away moles and field mice. |
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Few Vietnamese go in for swimming trunks, so instead you see fully clad people venturing into the waves supported on inflated black inner tubes. |
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We're standing in a deserted picnic grove among the cinnamon-colored trunks of incense cedars. |
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The heavy impasto of the grove obscures the legibility of trunks and ground. |
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Similar features have been seen in Permian and Triassic conifer trunks from Antarctica and North America. |
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The two main ganglionic trunks of the sympathetic nervous system are the cervical and lumbar trunks. |
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Jay stood in his navy blue swim trunks and white shirt that must have just been thrown on to look decent walking through the hotel. |
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These items include a beach towel, bottled water, sunscreen, proper footwear, and in most cases, swim trunks. |
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He showed up about a half and hour later in blue swim trunks and a cut off shirt. |
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Your awesome day at the beach has drawn to a close and you want to switch out of your wet trunks. |
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He was wearing swim trunks and no shirt, and his bare chest was tan like his face. |
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Rescue workers rushed injured people dressed in bikinis and swim trunks to waiting ambulances. |
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I ran back up the stairs before he could answer and put my blue swim trunks on under my jeans. |
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How long do you think it would take to pick up a pair of shorts and put them on over swimming trunks? |
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Yesterday I couldn't find my shorts, so I went running in my swimming trunks. |
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He was wearing navy blue swim trunks and a white tee shirt with the sleeves torn off. |
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Some would have you believe that certain surfboards, wetsuits, trunks, or sunglasses make you 22 forever. |
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As the thin trunks are piled onto trucks, other workers throw branches into a chipper, which sprays thumb-sized pieces of wood into a dump truck. |
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Hikers may however see leopard tracks in the sand and scratch marks on the trunks of old waboom trees. |
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It looked like it was a single car that had no hood and two trunks, with an accordion design in the middle. |
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And high on the wall he spotted the framed pair of boxing trunks worn and signed by world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis. |
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I usually get a major bruise in that area while surfing when I am just wearing a rash guard and surf trunks. |
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In many places the straight trunks of the kapok tree are used to make dugout canoes. |
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They are made of hollowed out tree trunks with cowskin stretched on either end and tied with rawhide strips. |
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The receptionists were all half-awake, and the bellboys didn't look too happy either when they carried our whole group's trunks. |
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I have seen some kinnikinniks out in the wild that do have some pretty good trunks on them, but I have no idea how long it took to get that way. |
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Both the foot and the parapodia are innervated by nerve trunks originating most often from the pedal ganglia. |
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Nobody's strolling by with trunks full of smoking jackets and silk pyjamas! |
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For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks. |
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Unlike most other woodpeckers, Northern Flickers are principally ground feeders, though they also forage on tree trunks and limbs. |
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Brown Creepers spend most of their time on main trunks or major limbs, bracing themselves with their tails like miniature woodpeckers. |
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Trees help prevent flooding by intercepting raindrops on their leaves, branches, and trunks. |
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Up the bare trunks of trees were grown passion flowers, flaming nasturtiums, jasmine, and honeysuckles to finish the picturesque scene. |
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All rooms in the house were thoroughly searched, including the almirahs, bed boxes and trunks. |
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Through the thin trunks of birch and larger oaks, she could hear the flat chimes of running water, and knew she was close. |
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Porters stagger towards the First Class under a mountain of smart packing cases and trunks. |
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the ubiquitous storage trunks began to be replaced by wardrobes and chests of drawers. |
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The earliest hives were hollowed out of tree trunks, and this practice still survives in some societies. |
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Leafy green ones surround us, their trunks covered with a chalky white bark that has fallen away in sections to show sturdy crisp brown beneath. |
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When the forest floor is blanketed in snow, the birds use their powerful bills to dig out ant nests from tree trunks and tree bases. |
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This consists of a nest of polished steel tubes that have been likened both to organ pipes and to the pine trunks of the Finnish forests. |
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You can also see a henge, with wooden trunks staked in a perfect circle around a central trunk for use as an astronomical calendar. |
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The rentable sober drivers ride scooters that are collapsible, so that they fit into car trunks. |
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Indirect sunlight filters into the cool, shadowy space and creates a reddish glow off the smooth boards and knotty trunks. |
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Swimwear included ultra minimal sexy trunks with zipped fronts for men and 50s bathing suits with flared skirts for women. |
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Spindle-thin trunks of Douglas fir and western larch stood in anemic, dying thickets, toppling like the flagpoles of small, failed nations. |
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Large broken tree trunks are found randomly distributed through the coal in many different orientations. |
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I want to put white lights around their trunks and red lights along the main stem of the leaves. |
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It was, according to Grant, a bit like contemplating climbing into a pair of wet swimming trunks. |
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As the current champion, he resides in and represents that nation, even wearing its symbol on his boxing trunks. |
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I pulled the sewing machine and my wood trunks full of patterns and materials. |
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Prior to data collection, samples of lichens were collected from tree trunks at twelve of the study sites. |
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A profusion of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns cover the woodland floor and festoon tree trunks and branches. |
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One admits that apart from his papers, his briefcase also contains a pair of swimming trunks. |
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I used to watch them felling trees, and sometimes I would be allowed to rind the tree trunks. |
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In exchange, Rocawear gets placement in the game, via ring signage and a tag on Afro Thunder's boxing trunks. |
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In fact, in one of the students' favorite trunks, pots and pans, lids, funnels, strainers, and other kitchen utensils rest. |
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At both locations, you can see various types of bamboos, from those as thin as an index finger to stout trunks that are thicker than an arm. |
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Walking hand in hand, we passed several other people on roller skates, in bikinis and swimming trunks, with shopping bags in their hands and all. |
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We rose the next morning to a litter of downed branches and crooked trunks. |
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All of her cases and trunks were put in one of the biggest rooms that the school had. |
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Soldiers use micro-terrain, perhaps a fold on the ground only two or three inches high as well as the more visible tree trunks, logs, and bushes. |
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It spends most of the day under stones, but can also be found under logs or tree trunks, though this is less common. |
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Small, pale brown leaves covered the ground, and the tortured mesquite trunks twisted and cracked on their upward ascent. |
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A group of tree-size species with stout trunks and stiff, broad-based leaves, growing in arid semi-desert areas, and known as dragon trees. |
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Raymond sat in a chair, stripped to only swim trunks and a towel looped over his shoulder. |
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For best results apply mulch to a depth of least 15 cm thick, avoiding the area immediately around plant stems and tree trunks. |
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Once plants had built strong stems and trunks, they could stand upright and reach for the sun. |
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Before you head out for the sand and surf, make sure you've got the hottest trunks, hat, T, shades, and attitude. |
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African elephants at a Wiltshire safari park are to pack their trunks over fears the creatures could become too amorous. |
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Bodyboarders are a captive audience for trunks and wetsuits, so there is no need to market to them. |
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Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings. |
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The elephants are taught to paint by their mahouts, who give them a paintsoaked brush and guide their trunks over large pieces of paper. |
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Aborigines originally used the gnarled trunks and roots of local camphor trees as a base for their carvings. |
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Minimalists will love the temple stone garden in which sawn tree trunks weave a path through unadorned gravel. |
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At low elevations, charred trunks today stand sentinel on steep slopes where fire burned very hot, consuming every needle and pine cone. |
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And what this ingenious man did was section the trunks of mastodonts and mammoths and read their life history. |
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Most manchineels have red warning bands painted round the trunks and danger signs attached. |
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Hundreds of aliens Eric's age crowded the marketplace, all of them carrying bags, suitcases, backpacks and trunks. |
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The trunks of some trees have been headed which causes several branches to grow from just below the cut. |
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These roots, dropping into the surrounding mud, also become stilts that support more stilts and new trunks nestled in the tangled mass. |
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Some were running around in bikinis and trunks, jumping in and out of what looked to be an indoor hot tub far off to my right. |
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Jared climbed out of the pool and walked over to the towel pile, leaving a trail of water, as his swimming trunks dripped water all the way. |
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Usually, touring bikes have hard-shell trunks on either side of the fender, windshields, full fairings, in-dash audio equipment and a dashboard. |
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Castilla also has plagiotropic branches that are arranged continuously along monopodial trunks and bear distichous leaves. |
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Nests are most often built in decaying tree trunks, but epiphyte root masses and occupied termitaries are also used. |
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These are the terminal growths from major limbs and not short-shoot stalks growing directly off large limbs or trunks. |
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Buttressed trunks are telltale signs of mature bald cypress, like these champs in the Cypress Preserve in Greenville, Mississippi. |
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The frog's brown and yellow coloring, as well as its rough texture, allow it to blend in with the mud and tree trunks in its environment. |
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The stage is bare except for three slender tree trunks, a few clay pots and a basket. |
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Mandibles clashed, clacking together like snapping tree trunks, and spittle drooled from its fangs. |
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At first, we bunkered behind fallen tree trunks and heaved spear-like sticks until a birthday party ended in blood and stitches. |
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The snow had drifted on the ground, swelling up against trunks and rocks, and parchment thin beside the water. |
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My garden in Arizona is filled with strange succulent plants and small thorny trees with green trunks. |
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To give your palms an instant face lift, remove any dead fronds, heavy seed heads and remnants of dead stalk from the trunks. |
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The most informative specimens were three-dimensionally preserved trunks with leafy shoots still attached. |
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Fallen tree trunks toss about the stream, presenting mortal dangers to swimmers and bathers. |
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These bulky albums are now spread across bookcases, cupboards, trunks, and attics. |
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Callistemons and melaleucas are often tricky to tell apart as they are both evergreen trees or shrubs with papery trunks. |
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His distinctive brushwork is particularly evident in representations of foliage and tree trunks. |
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Streams and becks were strewn with tree trunks, branches and litter which would all block the watercourses during heavy rain. |
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Without vaulting or trusses, Yemeni traditional architecture had to rely on the usable length of palm, acacia or tamarisk trunks for spans. |
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In the silver glow of a full moon, trunks of enormous sequoias rose up all around us. |
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The sugary trunks and leaf bases of Wheeler sotol have been used to feed cattle during droughts. |
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In the region under dispute were several bee trees which the settlers valued because of the honey stored in the hollow trunks. |
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So he mounted the blocks in his resplendent blue trunks and did a massive belly flop on the starters gun. |
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Jim, for example, was wearing classic black trunks and a dinner jacket that showcased his chest quite nicely. |
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Boards nailed on tree trunks frequently advertise computer training institutes, he said. |
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Their trunks, though smaller, had delicate and fine traceries of bark, showing an age far beyond their size. |
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Elephant trunks are so powerful, they can kill a person with one swipe, Fay said. |
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Petioles of huge solitary leaves of mature plants of Amorphophallus resemble tree trunks supporting an umbrella-like crown. |
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Carved from large pieces of minimally worked tree trunks with nailed-on extensions, his sculptures are almost always monumental. |
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For twenty years Joe has weighed, marked, and released flying squirrels that enter live traps attached to tree trunks. |
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Cross-country fences are traditionally made out of solid materials such as tree trunks, and do not collapse like show jumps when struck. |
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The scouts barricaded themselves behind tree trunks and threw up breastworks of fallen trees. |
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There are attractive upsweeping crooked trunks with small white flowers and small deep green leaves. |
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She had pulled up the lower edges of her trunks and exposed half moons of untanned flesh. |
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The rescue efforts were also hampered by huge boulders, broken tree trunks and thick mud. |
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By the end of that century, the ballerina's long tutu and the premier danseur's tights, trunks and maillot became de rigueur and virtually standardized. |
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With a nod of reassurance, I would trot off in my little blue Adidas shorts that doubled as swimming trunks, clutching fifty pence for a drink or an ice cream. |
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Both have woody trunks and woody roots as well as stipulate leaf bases. |
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Talented fashion all-rounders are bathing trunks and shorts in quick-dry fabrics offered with colour co-ordinated shirts to complete beach outfits. |
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Cinnamon continued onto the pool deck just as George exited from his changing room in his swimsuit, dark blue trunks with a patriotic splash of red and white. |
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They come out from the trunks of trees at twilight to forage. |
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Unlike forest fires in other areas, the sight of smoke and flame here means that the roots and lower trunks of cajeputs have caught fire even as their canopy remains green. |
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The wanderer ventured forth into the eternal pass of cragged rock, worn with lines of age, yet stalwart and strong with thick trunks of stone bolstering the walls. |
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I listened to great spotted woodpeckers drumming on the trunks of trees. |
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Fragments of wattle and daub used in the house construction plus a trackway lined with tree trunks leading to the entrance have also been uncovered. |
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The trees, with their gently curving trunks, offer a sense of repose, while the references to art history establish Otnes's dialogue with the art before his own. |
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Sculptures depicting serpents, reptiles, fowl, and other animals were fashioned by Doyle from tree limbs and trunks, driftwood, and scrap pieces of lumber. |
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There they climb into a series of wooden constructions three metres high, made with tree trunks lashed together with lianas like tree houses perched above the flood. |
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Despite picking the widest route, the travellers found their clothes being snagged on sharp twigs, and they grazed their knees on passing tree trunks more than once. |
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The trunks of the cherry trees were thicker and the bark darker and greyer than the apple tree trunks. |
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He and I were already wearing our trunks and she was wearing a tankini. |
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On 18 May, spitz led Moore to Prien, where they located a large collection of trunks and crates belonging to Schwend. |
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A tornado does not just topple trees, it tears off their branches and twists their trunks until they splinter. |
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Farther along, we could see scorch marks rising up the trunks of trees. |
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The steamer trunks under the windows are for storing toys and for dressing up clothes. |
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Wallpapers decorated more than walls in earlier times, so examples in the collection were found lining trunks, covering pamphlets and bandboxes, and decorating fireboards. |
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Now of course when it comes to pulling on our togs, cozzies, bathers or trunks and swimming competitively, Australians never seem to be too far from the medals. |
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Dead moths had been glued to tree trunks, or moths released in desired positions during daylight, when they are torpid and remain where they land. |
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Yet there were no pictures of Harry in his swimming trunks being kissed by lithe beauties on Ipanema Beach this week. |
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The curling movement of the smoke is echoed in the arabesques formed by the curving trunks and branches of two trees, which are also reflected in a pond in the foreground. |
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Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls. |
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Most species find food while climbing on tree trunks or branches. |
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The Border Patrol checkpoint rarely catches drug mules making their way from Mexico or border crossers hidden in trunks. |
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Gradually, the patient developed dystonic posturing of limbs and trunks, had difficulty in walking, dysarthria, drooling of saliva with tremor of limbs. |
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Elephant trunks and tongues are other examples of a muscular hydrostat. |
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As this was going on, a clown dressed in a prisoner uniform was led out by two baby elephants, their tiny trunks holding him by his powder white gloves. |
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I was allowed to follow her into the tiny rectangular storeroom where everyone's clothes and certificates were kept in many sized boxes, trunks, cartons and files. |
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Hurriedly, he slips his bathing trunks on, then charges out of the room. |
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There were lots of people partying in the garden, especially around the pool where some boys in trunks and girls in bikini were playing water polo. |
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In addition to flash and floral, cargo pockets are a popular addition to many trunks, as you might have noticed in this year's fashion collections. |
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Endless and uneven rows of rich brown trunks rise fifty feet into the air before any full branches grow, and from there the green tufted canopy reaches another forty feet. |
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Trace amounts of iron oxide impart vibrant red, red-orange, orange, and yellow colors that sometimes contrast markedly with browns and blacks in these silicified trunks. |
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She wore a yellow two-piece, which matched my yellow trunks. |
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Bare silver tree trunks beckon you into the lost world of hooded cormorants, stone curlews, crimson dragonflies and rare herbs that inhabit the Bolata marsh. |
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But it turns out that the moths do not rest on tree trunks during the day. |
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Butter has been found in hollowed trunks of trees, where it had been hid so long, that it was become hard and almost friable, yet not devoid of unctuosity. |
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But the gentle slope soon became much steeper as they straddled fallen trunks of mulga and mallee, sidestepped unstable boulders and clambered over perilous rock ridges. |
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Some support for this is seen in entombed trunks where individual trees have been partially buried and the trunk forms an expanded bole at the top of the new sediment surface. |
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Two thick palm trunks lie across its width and its concrete block walls have tumbled to the ground. |
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Both are brilliant bottle green and flourishing despite having an impervious tar pavement surface right around their trunks which would do nothing to keep them watered. |
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The trees are known as Sydney red gum or snooze bark apple and if left to grow naturally would have tall thin trunks with a high canopy that would not hinder views. |
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These men were observed to be of various statures, considerably variegated, and carried their worldly possessions in bundles, boxes, trunks, valises, and suitcases. |
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Then in the gloaming I can just make out a series of variegated camouflage sheets, the size of lonely single beds, strung between the trunks about 2ft off the ground. |
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Both had wide platforms built around them in stone and mud, with three images of entwined snake gods embedded in the mud, close to the tree trunks. |
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Sucrose can be converted to all other forms of carbohydrates, such as starch, as a storage compound in the roots and trunks, and cellulose, which is present in all cells. |
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They did headstands, armstands, they became trees, the trunks and limbs of trees, then bodies crawling over each other like larvae, then upright with the prowess of panthers. |
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The costumes, which have to be rather opulent to fit the period of the play, fill eight trunks and that is not counting all the turbans they wear on stage, he adds. |
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Clad in only a loose shirt and white underbreeches, she burst into the courtyard filled with wagons and pack animals laden with supplies and the trunks of nine thousand men. |
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With their papery bark, aromatic leaves, red sap, and rapidly tapering trunks, elephant-trees are as absurd, beautiful, and intriguing as their namesakes. |
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He then removed his shirt and pants to reveal his swimming trunks. |
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But then he appeared to be wearing swimming trunks and flippers! |
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He was still in his swim trunks and a sweatshirt, with messy hair. |
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He was wearing a red collared shirt with some blue swimming trunks. |
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The coachman heaved their trunks out of the carriage and into the hall, my brothers were already in the lounge, relaxing on the comfortable sofas. |
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Large trunks of permineralized wood attest to the latter at least. |
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The fissures between allowed only thin, precise shafts of pale light to strike the trunks and grass, as if the trees were fashioning the sun into a gallery of shapes. |
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The main wheels are retracted into the trunks of the engine air intakes. |
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An avenue of pleached limes has the lowest branches springing out from the main stem a good 2m from the ground, allowing a clear view through the young trunks. |
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The leader, an Italian, was dressed in swimming trunks, a mask and snorkel and flippers and the children were exploding with giggles at the sight of this extraordinary man. |
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From the ground, the flowing lines of the columns that used to rise skyward to a height of 1,360 approximately looked like the slim trunks of a closely planted row of trees. |
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However, the paucity of modern cycad trunks to cycadeoid trunks in the fossil record suggests that the modern cycad trunks did not fossilize as readily as the extinct variety. |
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The men no longer wore the stiff skirt or tonnelet of the 18th century but simple tights, trunks, and tunics which gave them more freedom to move. |
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These two genera are common crustose lichens on coniferous tree trunks. |
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Framed by the bottom seam of his white trunks and the tops of his white socks and boxing slippers, they were the equivalent of her legendary gams. |
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I gestured to the pile of unopened trunks at the foot of my bed. |
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Plants play a key role in cycling water through the basin, taking moisture up through their roots, then giving it off as water vapor through leaves, stems, and trunks. |
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Stylists at Cartoon Cuts wash as well as cut their customers' hair, dousing the suds with hoses that emanate from the trunks of green fiberglass elephants. |
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Flowers explode with color, tree trunks pulse with thick veins of sap, stones appear almost like living cells in the drowsy heat of the mid-afternoon sun. |
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As a typical dendrophile, Lasius Fuliginosus builds nests in holes at the base of tree trunks and under the roots of old but living trees of different species. |
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Only agile snorkellers with waterproof cameras tucked into their swimming trunks can capture the idyllic spot. |
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Honeysuckle, bougainvillaea and jasmine ramble round the lower trunks over phlox, nasturtium and hollyhocks, all in full bloom in February. |
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Each filament of combustible pulp is ensheathed in an isolating tube, and these tubes are then bound into cable-like trunks. |
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The swim wear line includes swimming trunks and shorts as well as board shorts. |
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It was a terrifying bombardment of rocks, palm trunks and flaming naphtha. |
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All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken. |
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And elephants do occasionally use their trunks as snorkels while swimming. |
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The peeling bark of river birch, paperbark maple and crape myrtle and the smooth steel-gray trunks of American beech are also eye-catching. |
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However, the number of pupae and the amount of sawdust was higher in the trunks of trees with DBH more than 30 cm. |
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At other times, they use the offcut wood to build their own furniture for their home u wooden trunks to store clothes, or bedside cabinets. |
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Traditionally didgeridoos were made from eucalyptus tree trunks which were hollowed by termites whilst the tree was still alive. |
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There is a speculation that the game originated among soldiers throwing short arrows at the bottom of a cask or at the bottom of trunks of trees. |
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Don't think all surfers have this problem, but every time a wave crashed over me, my swim trunks tried to introduce themselves to my ankles. |
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The only disappointment for the girls was that his thighs were hidden in a huge pair of Abercrombie and Fitch swim trunks. |
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Scott had a forest set built on the 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with trees 60 feet high and trunks 30 feet in diameter. |
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The actor, who posed in tight yellow swim trunks during the hit movie Sexy Beast, uses sunbeds before jetting off on his holidays. |
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On the smooth, pale trunks here and there, are the clear handmarks of bears, climbing up and coming down. |
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Maybe, they should be forced to have medical treatment for the rest of their lives at the hospital and provide their swimming trunks to boot? |
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The actor, 41, is back filming the latest series of Mad Men, in some pretty special swimming trunks. |
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In Barcelona it is against the law to don a bikini, swimming trunks or go bare-chested away from the beach front area of the city. |
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With a security guard in hot pursuit, he managed to pull off his tracksuit and strip to swimming trunks before jumping into the pool. |
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Their trunks were gnarled beyond belief, like those in fairybooks. They were covered with the cuneiform of woodpeckers and yellowhammers. |
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Big enough for a pair of trundle beds, this tent also has room for a couple of beanbag seats, storage trunks, and bedside tables. |
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Clubmoss spills from tree branches and knobby trunks as if applied with a giant Christmas flocking machine, draping off at lengths up to 5 feet. |
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But this is still politically correctness gone mad from a country where people spend every December in swimming trunks round a barbecue. |
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Speedo Mick watches every Toffees match from the stands in tiny trunks, goggles and a swimming cap. |
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There were also spruce pine, red oak and white oak, hickory, and the twisted reddish trunks of sparkleberry. |
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The effect of gigantism is increased by the burls often seen on the trunks. |
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The Boyzone star lost his trunks on more than one occasion during the live show, giving viewers at home an eyeful. |
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Another weepy that will leave your hard-done hanky soggier than Michael Phelps trunks. |
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In fact this custom may indicate the historicity of the monasterial tradition of preserving aged tree trunks for carving divine images. |
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And, inexplicably, by 55 many think they look good in a pair of itsy bitsy teenie weenie trunks. |
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One morning, an elderly local, resplendent in bathing trunks, told me how a turtle had been up on the beach earlier. |
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This is Ned Flanders' idea after an unfortunate incident with some bathing trunks spurs him to try to save his neighbour's mortal soul. |
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This is Ned Flanders' idea after an unfortunate incident with some bathing trunks spurs him to try and save his neighbour's mortal soul. |
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Ladies swooned, apparently, when Daniel Craig emerged from the sea wearing these bathing trunks. |
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Vigorous trunks are infested by both basidiospores and vegetative mycelium of the pathogen. |
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The presence of conspecifics was simulated by playback through portable MP3 reproducers and speakers installed on tree trunks. |
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Coconut palms with white-painted trunks surround the lagoon, which is lit by flaming torches at night. |
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On the beach he always wore a straw hat with a red band and a brief pair of leopard print trunks. |
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Old settlers learned from the bees and built their own beehives with two-foot sections sawn from the trunks of hollow black gums. |
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In positioning the branches, remember that the foliage should be arranged to give snatchy views of the two trunks all the way to the top. |
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Under a smaragdine canopy of beeches, whose trunks, massive and fantastick, were sheathed in iron grey mail, the afternoon was warm. |
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In November 1956, while staying in Paris, he was reminded of trunks he had stored in the Ritz Hotel in 1928 and never retrieved. |
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In cool damp cloudy climates, all sides of tree trunks and rocks may be equally damp enough for mosses. |
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Larch forests cleared for the reservoir were cut in winter when the trunks are frozen and easily snapped. |
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Australian Aboriginal people made canoes using a variety of materials, including bark and hollowed out tree trunks. |
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This is what allows squirrels to climb tree trunks that are so large to be essentially flat from the perspective of such a small animal. |
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Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks. |
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The often long, straight, trunks were favoured as a source of timber for keels in ship construction. |
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She has found that bear's head tooth fungus, which bursts out of tree trunks in delicate, white cascades, usually whips an artist's conk fungus. |
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Many woodpeckers have the habit of tapping noisily on tree trunks with their beaks. |
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Most of these piles were made from trunks of alder trees, a wood noted for its water resistance. |
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Eastern gray squirrels generally prefer constructing their dens upon large tree branches and within the hollow trunks of trees. |
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He tried to encourage birdlife by planting trees and hollowing out trunks for owls to nest in. |
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It lives in crevices, burrows at the base of trees, holes in tree trunks, hollow logs and bird nesting boxes and sometimes enters buildings. |
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The floors were supported by slender iron columns like the trunks of the trees. |
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Boxers typically wear shorts or trunks with the waistband raised so the opponent is not allowed to strike the groin area. |
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For a third of those surveyed, streaky fake tan is the worst possible look for summer and for almost a quarter, y-front swimming trunks are the biggest turn off. |
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Numerous artificial birch trunks are equipped with additional game services such as mouthpieces, rockers, hammocks, free climbing walls, vibration equipment, etc. |
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The characters in her latest body of work, Desperados, are dressed as school children in the playground, yet textiles or trunks disguise their faces. |
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