And of course there is the theory that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a mega-tsunami caused by an asteroid. |
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I caught the red mixture of blood and peroxide in the cotton wads and wiped it away. |
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We have wiped out more species than I can name, from the dodo to the moa to the quagga to the thylacine. |
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Her variegated surfaces may be opaque or layered as transparent washes, glazed or scraped, scumbled, wiped down or sanded. |
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She wiped her face with a cool washcloth, hoping that this illness would not last long. |
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Picking up the washcloth beside his bed, she wiped the sweat from his forehead. |
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A number of predatory fish, including the introduced tilapia species, wiped out most of the river's water beetles and bugs. |
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But, no, we just quietly wiped out 30 percent of the revenue of pharmacies. |
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Kieran swallowed his mouthful of chicken and wiped his hands on his jerkin. |
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With the electoral boundaries gerrymandered in parallel, many nationalist council majorities were wiped out. |
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I wiped the smile right off her face, she says, like she used to wipe her school slate clean with a bit of spit and an unwinding jersey sleeve. |
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He wiped her foot again to clean away the blood, then taking the salve, he covered the wound and wrapped her foot. |
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A snowstorm wiped out live racing at five tracks in the Eastern United States on Sunday. |
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These fears are well grounded, as not many years before this city was built, a large flood wiped out the entire known world. |
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As she wiped tears from her eye I finally admitted that it had been rather amusing. |
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My little brother Andrew stopped in mid-step and wiped his mouth still wet with water, as the adults looked at him in absolute surprise. |
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Wildlife habitats, wetlands and watersheds have been wiped out all over the place. |
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Our stocks were wiped out on the first day and it was a full time job keeping the children supplied with their favourite which was bananas. |
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With gentle strokes of his fingertips, he wiped the wetness from her cheeks. |
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Puffins, wiped out by an infestation of rats introduced by quarry workers in the 19th century, are now rebounding, albeit slowly. |
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Nadeem picked up a cloth from the dashboard and wiped the windshield, but the mist was on the outside of the glass. |
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Armagh wiped them out in the provincial decider and then Fermanagh stopped them from stretching their wings in the qualifiers. |
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She gave him a bowl of water with which to rinse out his mouth, then fetched a cloth and wiped his face for him. |
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After inspecting the rifle, the inside of the upper receiver, bolt, and bolt carrier were wiped down with a rag and lubricated. |
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I picked the cloth up and wiped my face as clean as I could, I gave my hands a quick wipe and put the cloth back on the table. |
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Taking a paper towel, I wiped the water from my face and stared again into the depths of the mirror once more. |
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Flushing the toilet and reaching up for a paper towel, she wiped her mouth and closed her eyes, rubbing her temples. |
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She wiped every part with paper tissues and then placed it in the sunlight. |
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Remsi, who was dying a piece of cloth red, wiped his hands clean, though they remained stained, stood up, and held his hand out. |
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Taking his right glove off he placed a finger on her cheek and wiped away the dirt that was there. |
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With the back of her hand she wiped away the moisture from her eyes, mentally kicking herself for getting so emotional over it. |
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He produced a handkerchief from somewhere and gently wiped the dirt, tears, and blood from my face. |
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He wiped the caked red dirt from his eyes, and was able to clarify that he wasn't just seeing what he wanted to see. |
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I brushed it aside and wiped my hands on my jeans before unloading my stuff from my bag. |
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He brushed the dust from his blue waistcoat and wiped his aviator sunglasses on the hem of his shirt. |
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Used instruments should be wiped throughout the surgical procedure with sponges moistened with sterile water. |
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After cleaning the plate, colored ink is rubbed into the grooves and then carefully wiped off the flat surface of the plate. |
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The budget deficit the Legislature ignored was wiped away with a stroke of my pen. |
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Computers containing sensitive information are supposed to be wiped free of data before being sold on. |
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Forbes reports that some encrypted data has subsequently been wiped from the machine. |
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Deleted files will be wiped from the disk as thoroughly as they can to reduce the possibility of recovery. |
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Thousands of e-mail users have wiped a legitimate Windows file from their computers in the past week following an elaborate hoax virus alert. |
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She totally wiped the floor with him, and it was a delight to hear all the other passengers laughing and cheering. |
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And Mulligan had gotten humiliated enough times when Victor wiped the floor with him to know that that look in someone's eyes meant trouble. |
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They got the goal, they got the momentum and then in the second half of extra-time they just wiped the floor with us. |
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Unfortunately my nephew noticed I was better than before and just raised his game a notch and still wiped the floor with me. |
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But hey, he wiped the floor with that 19th placed horse, and let's face it, the race was probably fixed anyway. |
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On other European occasions, we came back and wiped the floor with our opponents. |
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But I'm encouraged by the fact nobody's wiped the floor with us, not even Chelsea. |
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And with 1500 entries and only 6 winners, I undoubtedly wiped the floor with 1493 of them, and finished 7th. |
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Serialism was vital in the way it wiped the slate clean, invoking a new year zero where everything would be up for grabs. |
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But until you can get credit again, you cannot prove you have wiped the slate clean. |
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In recent years, falling stock markets have wiped out a large chunk of many companies' reserves. |
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A profits warning wiped a fifth off the value of the company in one day's trading. |
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But these gains have been more than wiped out by the fall in markets throughout February. |
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Troubled Manchester holiday firm MyTravel plunged deep into crisis today as millions of pounds were wiped off its value. |
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The impact of the global downturn in the construction sector has wiped billions off the value of stocks in the sector. |
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Billions of euros were wiped off the value of shares worldwide yesterday after the extent of losses at WorldCom sent markets into freefall. |
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Literally trillions of dollars have been wiped off the value of savings and retirement plans across America and Europe. |
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She wiped her eyes with the Kleenex he offered her and watched as he went to the kitchen. |
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Tucking a loose strand of hair away from her face, she stopped kneading the dough in front of her and wiped her hands on her apron. |
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But Preston were knocked sideways by the shock of seeing their impregnable lead suddenly wiped out. |
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As Brad wiped the work surface in the kitchen he heard the front door close. |
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His practice time was all but wiped out because of the demands of the media. |
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It is thought that in other parts of the world competition from crocodiles wiped out most labyrinthodont species. |
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Rudolph noted that she sliced her food in a ladylike manner and wiped her mouth daintily with her handkerchief now and then. |
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First, he wiped out their debt, then he tidied up the ground, relaid the pitch and went full-time with a host of players from higher divisions. |
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The English ruling class was wiped out and the character of the nation altered forever. |
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Laying the weigh net and fish in the landing net I wiped the scale face dry, then hoisted the fish on the hook. |
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Her existence had been wiped brutally from the earth, and yet he was already thinking of her in nostalgic reminiscence. |
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However despite everyone's best efforts, all our forest and remnant vegetation was wiped out. |
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The Sixties completely wiped away the notion that virginity was essential to respectability and decency. |
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He wiped moisture from his muzzle and ducked back under the meagre cover his crude lean-to offered. |
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Any remote chance of a recovery was soon wiped out as Newport bagged two quickfire tries after the restart. |
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She wiped Christy's face with a tissue and gave her an animal cracker to cheer her up. |
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Nazier pulled a knife from his boot, wiped it on his trouser leg, and began cutting the skin off the apple. |
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Dull, grimy and rusted, the traffic signals of Chennai don't get even wiped at periodic intervals! |
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When a player has lost ten lives, she buys a round of drinks, the score is wiped clean and the next rubber starts. |
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He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile. |
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The smith looked up from the sword he was pounding on an anvil with a huge hammer, and wiped his eyes. |
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He wiped upwards from where the rivulet of blood was running down his arm and up to the puncture. |
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I reached up, laughing a little, and wiped a smudge of my pale pink lipstick off his face. |
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That roiled his colleagues and, some argued, prolonged a stoppage that wiped out the World Series. |
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Oh good, she said, and wiped the lawn with me, roqueting and croqueting my balls to oblivion. |
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I know of cases where cannabis has almost wiped out pain from such diseases as arthritis. |
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There is no pretense, no artifice, no meaning, other than what you carry out after you've wiped the fiftieth tear of laughter out of your eye. |
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Then about 150 years ago the glacial dam burst, loosing a 100-foot, landscape-scouring wave that wiped out entire villages. |
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He and his passengers were nearly wiped out a couple of times by the driver he referred to as a madman. |
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His house was made of mud and had been almost wiped out, but his fence was perfect. |
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How would you feel if you slipped up and, say, wiped out half of your pot just a few years before you planned to retire? |
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Elaine wiped her tears away as she continued to look at her daughter and Nicholas. |
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He wiped his hands down on a tea towel lying on the table, and tried again. |
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John stood at the foot of the Cross, and wiped the feet of Jesus with his scapular. |
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Some of these areas are accessible now only by helicopter because the roads were just completely wiped off the map by the earthquake. |
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The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado. |
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Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map. |
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As many as 1,000 villages and towns were either damaged or wiped off the map. |
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He said price cuts of this magnitude have already wiped out any possibility of a margin on grazing cattle this summer. |
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She wiped at it furtively, casting a baleful glance around to see if anyone noticed. |
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The horizontal texture of evenly wiped paint emulates the scan lines of a video screen. |
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The bankrupt corporations and banks will be wiped out and their debts repaid by taxpayers. |
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Grant is self-centered and after ten years of massaging his ego, Dana is just about wiped out. |
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Walking through the doorway Kim carefully wiped her feet on the small mat at the door. |
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Large areas of Vietnam were stripped bare of vegetation, and as much as half of the country's mangrove forests were wiped out. |
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So, I took a palette knife to it, scraped all the paint off, and then wetted a tissue with thinner and wiped the canvas as clean is it'd get. |
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The pilot wiped out his flight controls, throttled the engines to military thrust, and quickly checked the instruments. |
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I finished brushing my teeth and wiped the steamy mirror so I could see my reflection. |
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Like Tremblay, he promises to help municipalities wiped out by the megacity maintain their sense of community. |
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She surreptitiously wiped the tears from her cheeks before she gave up and allowed herself to be viewed. |
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She wiped the beads of sweat from her forehead, and continued to daydream of Alaska. |
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History tells us that these knights were wiped out in 1307, when they were arrested to a man on a charge of heresy and put to the sword. |
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Painted walls near the work center should be covered with semigloss paint so they can be wiped clean. |
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Bloodsucking bedbugs are sneaking back between the sheets some 50 years after being all but wiped out in the developed world, a new study says. |
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Because I didn't have a handkerchief or a tissue of any kind, I wrapped the bottom of my shirt around my hand and wiped his eyes. |
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The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal. |
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She flushed the toilet, and then wiped off the drops that had splashed onto the toilet seat with a piece of toilet paper. |
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She wiped herself quickly with a small bit of the toilet tissue and threw it into the bowl. |
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Near the bottom, he wiped his brow before tying the other end of the rope to an American flag. |
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She wiped up the beer with paper towels, swept the dirt out onto the porch. |
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She wiped off any lingering raindrops on her face, toweling her hair and dress lightly, and placing her handbag next to her coat on the floor. |
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Saying they smelled a shakedown, shareholders, who are usually wiped out in a bankruptcy, also jumped to its defense. |
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He wiped a bead of water off my lip, his strong fingers tracing my lips for a moment as he got closer. |
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A lonely tear traced a path much traveled down her cheek, but she wiped it away. |
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She pulled a tissue out of the box on the table beside the bed and wiped her own cheeks with it. |
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But hey, if they wiped out its whole population and moved in transplants from Center City, I wouldn't complain! |
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After vaccination, the skin should be wiped with dry sterile gauze, which is then put into a biohazard waste container. |
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I wiped my hand on the leg of my denim shorts and reached down to tug my backpack into the hut. |
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He took a long drink of yet another sweet black coffee and ineffectually wiped a tear from the corner of his eye. |
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An astronomy satellite that studied black holes and distant galaxies was wiped out by the one star that it did not watch. |
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Then he turned back to his motorcycle, while I wiped away my tears and retrieved his monkey wrench. |
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Our fears that learners would starve was wiped out in a twinkling of an eye. |
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Between the two of us, we scrubbed and wiped and bleached that entire apartment clean over that night and the better part of the next day. |
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We found the still without any problem, the experts set the charges, and BLOOEY the still was wiped off the face of the Earth. |
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Cindy wiped her mouth with a napkin and slid her empty plate away from her. |
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He downed the rest of the wine and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. |
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Isn't it time the designated mouthpieces of the political-financial complex wiped that look of incredulity off their faces? |
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The traces of oil in the waters after the skimmer is deployed are wiped out by use of absorbent pads. |
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He wiped the sweat from under his hat and swiftly put on a little skullcap, then stroked his short white beard. |
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Once settled, he removed his robes and wiped off the snow from his slacks and trousers. |
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He said it was based on an underspend in the past year, and when this was combined with inflation, the increase was virtually wiped out. |
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If the murrelet is rebounding, it's because the park service wiped out native predators. |
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Even if this particular pocket is wiped out, there is more important unfinished business. |
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He wiped the sleep from his eyes and swallowed, trying to clear the musty taste from his mouth. |
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I wiped the sweat away and slogged on up the trail that climbed the summer-shocked hillside toward the treeline. |
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Kyle finished his drink with a big slurp, and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. |
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Scientists fear a whole generation of fish may have been wiped out as many small fry were killed. |
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Then he wiped his hands and mouth, throwing the used napkin on his empty plate. |
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Putting down his plate, he wiped his sticky hand on the picnic blanket and shoved it into the pocket of his bottle-green velvet blazer. |
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He wiped a hand over his graying hair and smoothed his lab coat, then cleared his throat. |
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She wiped the tears away, being careful not to smudge the ocher make-up from her eyes, a tip she had taken from the old Egyptians. |
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Giles removed his glasses and wiped them with his handkerchief. |
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She stroked my hair and wiped a teardrop away from my cheek. |
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Jim tossed the pits into the brush and wiped his hands on his pants. |
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She wiped mud, dirt and tears off her face and snatched the paper. |
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The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out. |
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Within a few thousand years, humans had wiped out most of these species, including camels, horses, saber-toothed tigers, mammoths, giant beavers, and sloths. |
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Since our launch in November 1999, billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of our competitors, and many established names in telecoms have collapsed. |
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If American Golf declared bankruptcy, he could be wiped out financially. |
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She removed her glasses and wiped away the tears around her eyes. |
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I wiped my hands on the tea towel, then turned and kissed her. |
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I grabbed a piece of kitchen roll and wiped at my eyes, nose and mouth. |
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Lying in 20 metres of water she is perfect from stem to stern with the exception of her superstructure which has been wiped from the upper deck in its entirety. |
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Finally he just wiped his slightly sweating palms down his moleskins. |
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For the uninitiated, the film is set on a future Earth whose crops have been wiped out by a mysterious blight. |
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The reality is that it wiped out a lot of illusory gains and replaced them with a lot of illusory losses. |
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She wiped her eyes of the first teardrops and nodded her head. |
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With the final paper towels, we wiped the floor clean one last time. |
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And while I was there, we had a boatload of refugees coming from a town called Chilong, another town that was just literally wiped off the face of the Earth. |
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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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That same night an entire catch crew was wiped out by a truck wreck. |
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She stood to her feet and wiped as much dirt from her hands as possible. |
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Much of the rich, original bird and plant life was wiped out by early settlers, who left behind their domestic animals to create further ruination. |
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It wiped the floor with almost any other action scene I've ever watched. |
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The boatbuilding industry has been affected but not wiped out. |
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I wiped me fingers gently down the rabbit's flank, then, shutting my eyes, I slid my hand beneath its limp head like a kitchen slice scooping up a burst pasty. |
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The identities of generations of people were wiped out in service of the Sublime Porte. |
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But, when Hal is busted for running a Madoff-esque Ponzi scheme, Augie gets wiped out, and Ginger bids him adieu. |
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She put the cloth down and wiped her hands on her crisp white apron. |
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The stranger knocked back half the beaker, wiped his mouth on his sleeve, and coughed heavily for long enough that the barman flicked him a worried glance. |
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Mr. Russo had guided his young son's hand as Dominic gingerly dipped the wide brush into the bucket of white paint and then slowly wiped it over the unprimed wood. |
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Brown then grabbed the cloth and wiped his own forehead with it. |
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For those who don't know, 'Amalek' is the term used to describe those who need to be wiped from the face of the Earth. |
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Scientists fear the blobfish, which can grow up to 12 inches, is in danger of being wiped out by over-fishing in its southeastern Australian habitat. |
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After that he took out a white cloth he wiped his face with it. |
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Schmidt had arrived in California after his family had been wiped out by tuberculosis in his home state of Rhode Island. |
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I found myself getting an absolute killer of a massage that wiped out pretty much all the stress my back and shoulders had received from too much computer time at work. |
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While he managed to fight as far as the fourth line of trenches, by 3.30 pm practically his whole battalion had been wiped out by German artillery. |
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Did you hear, the caddie Retirement Fund at the P.B.C.C was invested with Madoff and is now wiped out? |
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The Middle Passage served not only to erase a slave’s sense of human dignity, but the journey also wiped away the collective knowledge and cultural history of those captured. |
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I wiped my right hand repeatedly on the dark gray material of the skirt. |
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In it, Mather the Elder gave special thanks to God for the devastating plague of smallpox which wiped out the majority of the Wampanoag Indians who had been their benefactors. |
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Once the subject was dealt with, once the interviewee had left the green room, it would be wiped clean. |
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I drew a smiley face, played tic-tac-toe with myself, drew another smiley face, scribbled all over it and finally, I wiped the ink off the plastic table. |
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Silent film has become all but invisible, wiped clean from the collective memory by sheer neglect, and yet it is a world of giants, trailblazing pioneers and hidden delights. |
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In those days players did not sit down at the change of ends, but simply wiped the perspiration away, downed a mouthful of barley water and got on with it. |
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I wiped the tears from my face with a kerchief he offered me. |
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A plane crash at Smolensk in Russia four years ago wiped out the Warsaw leadership. |
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Unfortunately, all such information had been wiped from the computer. |
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A Yorkshire smallholder kept the wolf from the door after her business was wiped out by foot and mouth by selling the fleeces of rare breed sheep over the Internet. |
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Two weeks later, the FDIC seized Washington Mutual and wiped out the bondholders. |
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The folk memory of medieval community life had been wiped out by the industrial revolution. |
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He stroked her hair and wiped away her tears with his shirt tail. |
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Five profit warnings have wiped billions off the market value of Morrison. |
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She wiped her feet on the welcome mat and stepped into the house. |
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As the deadly virus swept through the region, entire families of farmers and harvesters were wiped out. |
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Christie kept her eyes fixed on the girl as she wiped her hands clean on a rag and straightened her apron, finally coming out of the kitchen into the hall. |
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Three cities were wiped off the map in a month because of that war. |
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After the Europeans came to this island, they wiped out countless babbling brooks, streams and rivers that flowed throughout the island down from the mountain. |
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She wiped her nose and smudged her eye liner and hated herself. |
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Anything left standing will be wiped off the map by the resulting tsunami. |
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Science has wiped out many killer diseases and may soon zap the rest. |
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So the mingling dinosaurs spread diseases and wiped each other out. |
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All that Huck Finn innocence was wiped out with one ear-piercing pig-like squeal. |
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Emma wiped away her tears and took the small sapphire ring from the box. |
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So, she wiped away the misty fog covering the driver side window. |
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The decision to continue operating meant IFI continued to accumulate major losses and wiped millions off funds available for pension and redundancy packages. |
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The hard drive on a BBC laptop was erased and memory cards were wiped clean. |
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Her colonic had wiped out much of the beneficial bacteria that protect against the bacteria that cause food poisoning. |
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The virus was last seen on British shores in 1988 when it wiped out 18,000 common seals and 300 grey seals in northern Europe. |
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The sector is recovering from an all-time low in 2006, when the honeybee population was almost wiped out by the ferocious Varroa Mite. |
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But his smug smile is soon wiped off his face when Tony drags him in to the ginnel to administer a beating in revenge for his attack on his son. |
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After various unctions were rubbed in and wiped off, Michelle put a couple of paper circles on my eyes and painted on a face mask. |
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But these tasty fish, sold by chippies as rock salmon, are slow growers and have been virtually wiped out in some areas by commercial fishing. |
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I wiped around the leaking component with a lint-free cloth as the pilot continued to cycle the rudder. |
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I wiped the crusties from my eyes, threw on a sundress, and wandered out into the living room. |
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Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid. |
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Because of the familicide that wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with six counts of murder. |
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Eelgrass, formerly common in the entirety of the Wadden Sea, was nearly wiped out in the 20th century by a disease. |
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As they are unzipped and swept away by powerful wind machines, hair becomes freed, and make up is wiped away. |
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The Danes, heavily outnumbered, would have been wiped out if the tide had not risen. |
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The disease repeatedly wiped out the rodent carriers so that the fleas died out until a new outbreak from Central Asia repeated the process. |
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He looked through the glass at the fire, set it down on the end of the desk and wiped his lips with a sheer lawn handkerchief. |
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James saw the Gaels as a barbarous and rebellious people in need of civilising, and believed that Gaelic culture should be wiped out. |
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Her sweat would be wiped from her body using raw fish, and the fish would be cooked and fed to the groom. |
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In 1872, five years after they wed, Louis died, but not before being wiped out financially in a stock market crash. |
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Tolkien's battalion was almost completely wiped out following his return to England. |
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In AD 9, Germanic tribes wiped out three full legions in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. |
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This may be because Severus' campaigns were so successful that the Caledonians were wiped out, however this is highly unlikely. |
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For instance, the population of most Caribbean and several Pacific Islands have been completely wiped out by diseases. |
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Menendez proceeded to massacre the defenceless Huguenots, after which he wiped out the Fort Caroline garrison. |
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Furthermore, the Gospels contain numerous attacks on the Sadducees, a sect of Judaism that was wiped out with the destruction of the temple. |
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Chesapeake Bay once had a flourishing oyster population that has been almost wiped out by overfishing. |
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However, extensive hunting had wiped out the whales in that region by the early 20th century. |
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On the other hand, scientists and conservationists push for stringent protection, warning that many stocks could be wiped out within fifty years. |
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During the beginning raids of Operation Barbarossa the Luftwaffe wiped out the majority of the Soviet air forces. |
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They were as plain and homely as a table-top dancer when the rains had wiped the paint and powder from her face. |
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When the first pandemic finally struck in 1519 it wiped out much of the remaining native population. |
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Before teak is glued the natural oil must be wiped off with a chemical cleaner, otherwise the joint will fail. |
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Caesar claimed that the name of the Eburones was wiped out after their failed revolt against his forces during the Gallic Wars. |
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Two of them, the Alans and Siling Vandals were virtually wiped out in 418 by the Visigoths at the order of the Romans. |
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The Cimbri were not completely wiped off the face of the map or from the pages of history. |
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Introduced diseases, notably smallpox, nearly wiped out the native population of Easter Island. |
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The invasion was a disaster for the Portuguese, with their entire army wiped out by Kandyan guerilla warfare. |
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The latter especially was criticised, with claims that uncompetitive Thai industries could be wiped out. |
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Historically, whales had been abundant in the gulf before commercial hunts wiped them out. |
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On July 1, 1916, nearly the entire regiment was wiped out at Beaumont Hamel on the first day on the Somme. |
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Haiti's brief tourism boom was wiped out by the rule of Papa Doc Duvalier and his unstable government. |
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Nearly the entire party were wiped out in the battle and Juan de la Cosa sacrificed his life so that Ojeda could escape. |
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With just 168 men, one cannon, and 27 horses, he often talked his way out of potential confrontations that could have easily wiped out his party. |
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Pineapples were grown until 1895, when freezing weather wiped out crops and ended commercial farming. |
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By the death of Louis XV in 1774, French Calvinism was almost completely wiped out. |
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Many communities were entirely wiped out, resulting in an abundance of land, allowing farmers to switch to more animal husbandry. |
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The collapse of Enron wiped out the life savings of many people, leaving them poor in their retirement. |
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We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out. |
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She wiped something with a cloth, wiped at the wall shelf, and put the something on it, clinking glass. |
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Usually, in a Thermidor, the democratic reforms that appeared early in the revolution are wiped out along with many of the radical policies. |
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Back at his canvas he drew some more with Prussian blue, wiped his hands on a turpsy rag, and went over to the telephone. |
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Three-quarters of the skylark population has been wiped out while half of all song thrushes and yellowhammers have disappeared. |
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Newcastle United's boardroom bigmouths wiped pounds 9million off the club's stock market value yesterday. |
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That user's posts were being wiped completely from existence. |
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If the international community does not stand up, we will be wiped out. |
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Andrea Murray got the shock of her life when a simple jumpstart wiped out her car's computer system. |
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It wiped out the entirety of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team. |
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When the powerful antibiotic ciprofloxacin and its relatives were initially used, a single dose generally wiped out the infection. |
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It may be spray applied to ambient surfaces or simply wiped on with a pure cotton cloth. |
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It serves as a safe house for the bacteria that can recolonize the gut after an intestinal disease, such as cholera, has wiped it clean. |
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Undergoing an excruciating procedure, Scryer has his mind wiped clean so he can infiltrate the Movement undetected. |
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The species was probably wiped out in the mass-extinction astroid collision that was also responsible for killing off the dinosaurs. |
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The blaze wiped out power on board the 944-ton Russian trawler Marginella about 16 miles south of the Isle of Wight, Hants. |
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The Cretaceous ended 65 million years ago, the time of the mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and most birds. |
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He wiped out Gary Ballance's off stump then dismissed in-form Joe Root for one run as the English top order collapsed. |
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In two years, via radio and TV blacklists, the McCarthyites wiped Tzena, Tzena and everything else by the Weavers from mainstream consciousness. |
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With the front path one big cow pat and not one of them wiped their feet when they came in. |
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She wiped her hands on the dishtowel and pushed her eyeglasses up to take a look. |
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But her real name was all but wiped from history after Florence Nightingale branded her a brothel-keeper. |
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He was offered a tissue for his sniffles and he wiped his nose and eyes. |
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The colourful Carolina parakeet was wiped out by 1920 because it ate farmers' crops. |
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They were eventually wiped out by small pox and other diseases brought by the Europeans. |
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Rifkind is carpetbagging in leafy Kensington now having been wiped out in the Scottish backlash against Thatcherism. |
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Expect H1N1 flu to feel like most flu symptoms but your fever may be a little higher, your cough a little deeper, and you may feel even achier or more wiped out. |
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The tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 wiped out 16-year-old Misaki Murakami's home and swept all his belongings out to sea, including his prized soccer ball. |
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All too often, the spout of a soap dispenser rests over the counter and leaves trailings of soap that must be wiped up frequently if a clean appearance is to be maintained. |
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She sniffled and wiped her nose on her already tearstained blouse. |
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Back at the yard, Dato Star is untacked, wiped over and rugged up. |
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Previously painted surfaces should be wiped down with sugar soap solution to remove dirt and grease, and any rough patches or holes should be filled and sanded. |
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Although it is not so documented, it is likely that the 1808 Russian expedition to Bodega Bay that nearly wiped out the local otters and fur seals hunted in Bolinas Lagoon. |
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This concentrated, soapless, multi-purpose cleaner attacks the molecular structure of dirt, grease, and oils, rendering them helpless as they are rinsed or wiped off quickly. |
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The Massacre caught most of the Virginia Colony by surprise and virtually wiped out several entire communities, including Henricus and Wolstenholme Town at Martin's Hundred. |
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The Mongolians wiped out the Chinese army and captured the emperor. |
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In 396, he wiped out the last remnants of the Mysteries at Eleusis in Attica, ending a tradition of esoteric religious ceremonies that had lasted since the Bronze Age. |
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