People come to pick over the beach wrack for the coiled, weather-revealed shells. |
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Competing against a friend to see who can wrack up the highest score is what makes pinball fun. |
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Saw wrack is the main seaweed used, taken fresh from the shore, washed in seawater and stored briefly. |
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However, McLachlan and McGwynne quantified algal wrack as a nitrogen source for beaches as a whole. |
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Its eggs are laid in May and June, primarily on rock surfaces that, at low tide, are covered with the knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum. |
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We are told about a man whose life went to wrack and ruin because of his gambling. |
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Old people think the world is going to wrack and ruin, the young are optimistic. |
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Closely related species in the Atlantic may be referred to as oarweed or more loosely as kelp or wrack. |
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On 28 July 1914, with the black wrack of imminent war rolling in from the east, Churchill requisitioned them both for the Royal Navy. |
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Deposited wrack may decompose in place or may be removed by subsequent tides leaving an unvegetated patch of bare soil. |
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Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack, boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water. |
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Finally the tears fall, fast and hard as the sobs wrack her slim body with their force. |
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In such turbulent environments wrack plays an important role in the recycling of nutrients. |
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There is an enormous interest within the fossil-fuel industry to prevent change for even a few more years while they wrack up records profits. |
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The vanishing budget surplus, campaign-finance reform and the rest have come and gone, leaving not a wrack behind. |
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It survived 530 often-turbulent years before it finally fell into wrack and ruin. |
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Rockweeds and knotted wrack dominate the rocky intertidal zones of Placentia Bay. |
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The attack seems to have been intended to cause maximum loss of life and to further inflame the sectarian divide that continues to wrack Iraq. |
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Short of actual hostilities, it is an ingredient in the poisonous racial and religious rivalries that wrack so much of the world. |
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As much as it was fun to watch the team wrack up pinball numbers against Nigeria, basketball gets better when the stakes get realer. |
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Scavengers that feed on the plant and animal matter in the wrack such as beach fleas, mites, spiders, bacteria, and flies live in the wrack. |
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And while politicians wrack their brains on how Europe can grow together, European unity is already reality at TimoCom. |
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There is a new wrack bed immediately following the full moon and the new moon. |
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The inhabitants of the decomposing wrack beds are an excellent source of food for the shrew. |
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The wrack line changes composition with the varying tides and winds found along the coast. |
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So I began to wrack my brain to come up at least once a day with a pearl of wit or wisdom. |
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Isopods and amphipods spend low tide buried in wrack, where variation in temperature and humidity is strongly damped relative to the exposed intertidal surface. |
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Together, they collect flotsam and wrack that tell of shipwrecks, shifting undersea tectonic plates, the birth and death of sea creatures, their migrations and molts. |
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Kelp, bladder wrack, Irish moss and kombu are chock-full of iodine, and they can stoke a sluggish thyroid, speed up metabolism and assist in cellulite reduction. |
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To kick off the 4-month plan, I started Gail on a botanical thyroid formula combining coleus, bladder wrack, guggul, kelp, ashwagandha, Siberian ginseng and Chinese skullcap. |
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Right here in front of her I begin dry-heaving, and sobs wrack me. |
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Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack. |
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A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. |
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These birds are able to find invertebrates in the wrack on cobble beaches. |
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They live in tent cities spread across over 1,000 temporary settlements, vulnerable to the storms, flooding and hurricanes that wrack Haiti on a seasonal basis. |
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Currently, the largest commercial industry in the Nova Scotia is the harvest of knotted wrack in southern Nova Scotia for the production of liquid fertilizer. |
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I wanted the album to have real staying power, so it was essential to sit down and wrack my brains until everything sounded exactly the way I'd imagined it. |
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The rocky and boulder shores toward the south of the lough are dominated by the seaweed knotted wrack Ascophyllum nodosum. |
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The response of macrofauna communities and shorebirds to macrophyte wrack subsidies on exposed sandy beaches of southern California. |
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Some people may suffer an allergic reaction to the iodine in bladder wrack. |
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Almost everyplace I went along the shoreline in Staten Island after the hurricane, the chaos of junk and drift and wrack contained mats of dead phragmites stalks. |
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The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm wrack and spindrift of the tempest-tossed sea. |
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Some feed on the wrack or the strand line. |
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Later the picturesque laneways and boreens went to wrack and ruin due to neglect. |
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After an eventful history and several owners, among them the Bishop of Trient, the defensive installation which had been left to wrack and ruin for centuries, now belongs to Reinhold Messner. |
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Below the white-railed back porch, the sea-slick rock slopes down to a lumpy low tideland of eelgrass and bladder wrack, as slippery as a knot of snakes. |
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Chop and roll to wrack up bonuses, combos, and upgrades! |
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Horror, then, is the response to the Earth as a body of scars, contorted on the wrack of post-Enlightenment instrumentalism. |
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Plant species in the North Sea include species of wrack, among them bladder wrack, knotted wrack, and serrated wrack. |
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It may also refer more generally to any seaweeds or seagrasses that wash up on beaches and may accumulate in the wrack zone. |
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It is understood that the algae product is a dried meal made from Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean, also known as Norwegian kelp or bladder wrack. |
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