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The viewer is enticed by the deliberate placement of phrases, formulas, and other elements to try to winkle out the connections.
If England can just winkle one more out tonight they will be firmly in charge.
And after all, there is something to be said for taking time to winkle out the trail's secrets.
One of my favourite snapshots of my son shows him running around, winkle to the wind, naked as the day he was born.
His relentless search to winkle out the new and a youthful ability to keep his ear to the ground is to be taken seriously.
Where Bintley probes psychology lightly, McCabe seems to burrow, and winkle out hidden layers.
He realises the paramount importance of getting all the facts into the public domain before the press winkle them out.
What McCandless has achieved is to winkle out the precise formula for becoming a successful astrologer.
It takes a while to winkle out the details of all the awards Smith has received across her career.
The lesser chink shell has much more of a classically winkle squat and rounded shape, with the male and females sexes able to be determined by sight alone.
With a few accurate verbal strokes, she could winkle out the defining aspect of a personality.
When you know how many there are in the lake, you would think that an experienced angler would be able to winkle out a few trout, but we had found it tough.
This plan proposes, among other things, to tap into emerging species such as the sea urchin, the rock crab, the winkle, as well as those for which there is not a large market, such as herring and mackerel.
Check out Istanbul Eats to winkle out good local places to try.
After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.
Entering the city while letting most of the fighters escape would pave the way for a long partisan war, waged by guerrillas based in the mountains, where they are almost impossible to winkle out.
Poland's geology is different from America's and new techniques may be needed to winkle out the gas. Ukraine has recently granted exploration licences to Chevron and Shell, and Romania has also awarded a few.
Sukarno was persuaded to invest him with emergency powers and then, politely but firmly, was made to stand aside. The better to winkle out the communists, Suharto set up two intelligence agencies.
European and IMF officials warned Greece this month that curbing tax evasion, which costs the government €15 billion each year, would be vital in unlocking more bail-out money. A tax amnesty can winkle out cash.
In a winkle of an eye, the single rings reappear wound around the tube.
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Examples from Classical Literature
For years, like Mr. winkle, we've declared we were just about to begin, and then never began at all.
When Phunky came to winkle, the inexperience of the tyro was shown at once.
At any other time, Mr. winkle would have replied in the affirmative.
Chesterton has now another dog, but he will never get another winkle.
He had gone back to his former state of fuzziness, and looked more like Rip van Winkle than ever.
He stood on the brink much as Winkle, of Pickwickian memory, trembled in Weller's grasp.
Neither Winkle nor Snodgrass started this hypothesis, but Tupman.
If Rip Van Winkle were an economist, he would marvel at the changes in the Custer County economy since he went to sleep for 20 years.
Melton couldn't yet say if the heist was connected with the unsolved 2013 theft of Pappy Van Winkle bourbon and rye whiskey.
Winkle were unfortunate foundlings, deprived of their natural rights, cast loose upon the world, and billeted nowhere.
In the Great Northern Catskills, families can discover the enduring legacies of Rip Van Winkle and Thomas Cole-founder of the Hudson River School of Art.
Winkle bowed, and endeavoured to feign an easiness of manner, which, in his then state of confusion, gave him rather the air of a disconcerted pickpocket.
Winkle with a heavy clothes-brush, indulging, during the operation, in that hissing sound which hostlers are wont to produce when engaged in rubbing down a horse.
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