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Chitin is the second most abundant polysaccharide on earth and, as such, a great target for bioconversion applications.
All sounds of life die out upon the earth, the last notes of the sleepy birds have sunk away, the Angelus of the church hard by has rung the close of day.
Due to the revolution of the earth, heliacal and acronical phenomena are separated by six months of time for a given star.
At that time it was giving the full 50,000 volts, as measured by the needle spark-gap between the antennae and earth.
That which is concreted by exsiccation or expression of humidity, will be resolved by humectification, as earth, dirt and clay.
The moisture will eventually fall to earth in the form of rain or snow.
Yet the wholly enlightened earth radiates under the sign of disaster triumphant.
Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Owing to the Russian army's scorched earth tactics, the French found it increasingly difficult to forage food for themselves and their horses.
On the French side, owing to the greater permeability to water, earth pressure balance TBMs with open and closed modes were used.
The laminar bands of color to the west bleeding out under the hammered clouds. A sudden violetcolored hooding of the earth.
Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations.
It was built, in the late 11th or early 12th century of earth with timber palisades for defence and a one or two storey wooden dwelling.
Historically a nautical mile was defined as the length of one minute of arc along a meridian of a spherical earth.
Points on the real surface of the earth are usually above or below this idealized geoid surface and here the true vertical can vary slightly.
A leafstorm cascaded upon the cavalry and the earth rent open to the angled winds. The forest canopy sprawled above them full of holes.
Though our clayey feet still press the earth the levitant soul may saunter among the stars.
Today space activities are pursued for the benefit of citizens, and citizens are asking for a better quality of life on earth.
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
Of ancient Kings, and the frown of the eternal lion was hid from the oppressed earth.
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The plow would dig up the earth and the harrow would smooth the soil and break up any clumps.
Simultaneously, a contract to link the M6 with Manchester was underway, which required land drainage and the removal of unsuitable earth.
Early Bronze Age Britons buried their dead beneath earth mounds known as barrows, often with a beaker alongside the body.
Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.
After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening of the earth.
They prepare the tin, working very carefully the earth in which it is produced.
Thus, also, you pass from the lumpish grub in the earth to the airy and fluttering butterfly.
In 1534, the Act of Supremacy recognized Henry as the only Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England.
It gathered strength from the postmillennial belief that the Second Coming of Christ would occur after mankind had reformed the entire earth.
Thus passed away two lustra of her life, and, as yet, my daughter remained nameless upon the earth.
Tremendous magmic pressure built up beneath the earth, causing a volcanic eruption.
Finally, the bowl of mead is poured onto a fire, or onto the earth, as a final libation to the gods.
During the Middle Ages, standing stones were believed to have been built by the giants who inhabited the earth before the biblical flood.
Milecastles in this area were also built from timber and earth rather than stone, but turrets were always made from stone.
To prevent the festering ditch posing further health problems, it was ordered that the moat should be drained and filled with earth.
Many castles were originally built from earth and timber, but had their defences replaced later by stone.
In earth and timber castles, the gateway was usually the first feature to be rebuilt in stone.
An earth and timber castle was cheaper and easier to erect than one built from stone.
Possibly coerced into working for their lord, the construction of an earth and timber castle would not have been a drain on a client's funds.
It is certain that stone castles cost a great deal more than those built from earth and timber.
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Aggregates give the mix its bulk and dimensional stability through materials such as earth, sand, crushed chalk and crushed stone.
In the Idylls, Arthur became a symbol of ideal manhood who ultimately failed, through human weakness, to establish a perfect kingdom on earth.
Lewis claims that people all over the earth know what this law is and when they break it.
First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it.
Pratchett also collaborated with British science fiction author Stephen Baxter on a parallel earth series.
Under the full moon of the month of Mehr, with the torches hissing, the African and the Frank circled an ambit of packed earth.
No one on this earth can be compared with your courage, merciness and your devotion towards Dharma.
He missed, and the chunk of earth landed in the Irish Sea, thus creating the island.
The system is connected to the mainland by two submarine cables and an Intelsat earth station.
The mid-ocean ridges are where new crust is added to the earth, so MORB is the basic building material of our world.
However, the idea that the earth moved around the sun was doubted by most of Copernicus' contemporaries.
Using an early theory of inertia, Galileo could explain why rocks dropped from a tower fall straight down even if the earth rotates.
Hydrogen is highly soluble in many rare earth and transition metals and is soluble in both nanocrystalline and amorphous metals.
Keramat brought out a murha, a low stool made of woven cane. He squatted on the earth beside me.
People can enter from both sides and walk along it, viewing the earth void within.
A nanoelement compares to a basketball, like a basketball to the size of the earth.
As they retreated, Iraqi forces carried out a scorched earth policy by setting oil wells on fire.
Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains.
While stones and tiles were used in some parts of the Liaodong Wall, most of it was in fact simply an earth dike with moats on both sides.
Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from rammed earth, stones, and wood.
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The size and weight of the bricks made them easier to work with than earth and stone, so construction quickened.
Additionally, bricks could bear more weight and endure better than rammed earth.
In Eburacum in 71 AD, a wood and earth military camp was built by the Legio IX Hispana to secure the northern region.
The legion later rebuilt the old wood and earth camp into a stone fort and also operated a lead mine there.
Wet prominence assumes that the surface of the earth includes all permanent water, snow, and ice features.
Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.
I neither fear nor eschame to say, is the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth since the days of the apostles.
May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress.
The earth is currently in an interglacial, and the last glacial period ended about 10,000 years ago.
Since the earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we are currently in a glacial minimum of a glaciation.
Nests are made from seaweed, plants, earth and all types of object that float on the sea.
This places the golden eagle as the one of the two fastest moving living animals on earth.
The female takes a clump of earth and drops and catches it in the same fashion.
Dolmens were typically covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus.
The earth covering and the upper part of the cromlech have been removed, leaving the passageway and lateral chambers fully exposed.
Although they are disasters at the time, mass extinctions have sometimes accelerated the evolution of life on earth.
Traditionally, landscape art depicts the surface of the earth, but there are other sorts of landscapes, such as moonscapes.
Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.
The stadium was built with one stand before the opening of another in 1928 which could hold 18,000 people to replace an earth embankment.
In a number of regions of the earth, entire sectors of a country have become erodible.
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Batumi bottleneck in the Caucasus is one of the heaviest migratory funnels on earth.
The alkaline earth metals were precipitated either as sulfates or oxalates, leaving the alkali metal in the solution.
Mining engineering is an engineering discipline that applies science and technology to the extraction of minerals from the earth.
The plane of ecliptic is the orbital plane of the earth and the other planets in the solar system.
Their chief mineral product was the red earth, called sinope, which was used by painters.
The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl.
A series of successive social reforms transformed the country into one of the most equal and developed on earth.
Ammophila arenaria is a perennial plant, which can live for a lot of years in the earth.
About autumn bate the earth from about the roots of olives, and lay them bare.
Incessant bellowings fill all the earth, Mingled with inextinguishable mirth.
I had no idea what on earth you were on about when you started using those scientific terms. I was totally confused.
And every living substance that I have made will I blot out from off the face of the earth.
He could see the men in the bonfirelike glow of the second Kiowa, which had slammed to earth just beyond the inner perimeter fence.
The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.
On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
One can prepare the organo-rare earth complexes by rather easy bucket chemistry.
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.
The glow was there now, a citreous smudge on the hardpacked earth below him and to his left.
The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.
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For this reason, the collier took constant care to keep the covering of earth in good order.
The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt.
That particular day, walking along the streambed by the church, they came to a fresh cutbank where the earth had caved.
We are on earth to dance to our own tune! We have to know who I the individual is.
The next doomsdate is scheduled for March 21, 2014, when an asteroid will hit the earth.
The dragon came low to the earth. It defied every image of a draconian being Kulp had ever seen.
The fear of you, and the dread of you, shall be upon every beast of the earth.
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Aric had heard improbable tales of earth drakes eating entire mekillots. Seeing this one, however, he no longer had reason to doubt.
She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
As mentioned before, modern geodetic datums rely on the surfaces of geocentric ellipsoids to approximate the surface of the earth.
Eccentricity of the earth is the distance between the focus and the center of the earth's elliptick orbit.
He'd vanish off the face of the earth before he'd follow orders from an espiocrat.
It is at the core of the Vision Quest, the solitary period of fasting and closeness to the earth to discover one's life path and purpose.
On the earth underneath is grown a crop of finnochio, or asparagus, or berries.
Nothing on earth so delights the Mexican heart as a real flabbergaster of a funeral.
Myths and religions often ascribe natural forces to supernatural beings, as acts of god or hero shaking the earth, raising a storm or flood etc.
So strange a revolution never happens in poetry, but either heaven or earth give some forenotice of it.
By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos.
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When Kadmi was full-burned we covered him with soil, the heat of his bones making the very earth hiss and steam.
The treasures in this case are geocaches, those little plastic boxes of goodies that are hidden all over the earth.
Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy.
And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic.
Political borders are often classified by whether or not they follow conspicuous physical features on the earth.
They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.
After the seeds were inserted, the earth was hilled up all around into a smooth little mound.
A plough may be made of wood, iron, or steel frame with an attached blade or stick used to cut the earth.
Instead of hoeing, some cultures use pigs to trample the soil and grub the earth.
Some buried hoards of jewellery are interpreted as gifts to the earth gods.
The early castles were simple earth and timber constructions, later replaced with stone structures.
I was terribly scared by Idi Amin's animosity that iron handedly ravaged the earth as if he was from a different planet.
The floor was made of crushed ant-heap, the hard dome of excavated earth above an ant colony, and was kept smooth by smearing it regularly with fresh cow dung.
Aside from the observation that, as any fule kno, rockets launch satellites, but themselves fall to earth, one wonders why this was ever considered to be helpful.
This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.
Assuredly a Dudley Sowerby would be immensely startled to find his bride a young woman more than babily aware of the existence of one particular form of naughtiness on earth.
Haggis located his draft's climax in the Swiss Alps, but Forster wanted the action sequences to allude to the four classical elements of earth, water, air and fire.
But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth.
The fossils found in the area and the coastal geomorphologic features of this dynamic coast, have advanced the study of earth sciences for more than two hundred years.
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More than that, perhaps the worst thing, was a sort of mephitic fog, moistureless and invisible, that came and went like an exhalation of the arid earth itself.
Glacials are characterized by cooler and drier climates over most of the earth and large land and sea ice masses extending outward from the poles.
Hunts may also use terriers to flush or kill foxes that are hiding underground, as they are small enough to pursue the fox through narrow earth passages.
If it is, it is the northernmost permanent known land on earth.
A practitioner of hydrology is a hydrologist, working within the fields of earth or environmental science, physical geography, geology or civil and environmental engineering.
So go with me on a short timed, multi-millioned mile journey with the earth as it spins neatly on its axis and revolves lazily in its elliptical sweep about the Sun.
The Polish Jura Chain is one of the oldest mountain ranges on earth.
Flory crossed the brick-like earth of the yard between the hospital sheds. All down the wide verandas, on sheetless charpoys, rows of grey-faced men lay silent and moveless.
In Clark Street, where all the nations of the earth dwell together in harmony, one has but to go downstairs to find a Chinaman. And when found he is washing.
These shadows, black as the earth they emerged from, were wearing what looked like dull German helmets, their webgear and canteens chinging as they ran.
The floors were generally packed earth, though planks were sometimes used.
And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licencing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength.
Indeed, prior to this, the observatory had to insist that the electric trams in the vicinity could not use an earth return for the traction current.
The disparate threads contained are, in the cloth of a religious society, ready to revolutionize the world and bring the Kingdom of Heaven into its full reality on earth.
The typical style of these structures is a rectangular or trapezoidal stone and earth mound that encloses a chamber lined with larger stone slabs.
We want to know exactly how the first cells came to life on earth.
The red colour also represents the red earth of Herefordshire.
Squatting, Dewey Dell's wet dress shapes for the dead eyes of three blind men those mammalian ludicrosities which are the horizons and the valleys of the earth.
Why had he not killed himself long ago? Why cumbered he the earth?
The earth shook itself like an animal on whose back a predator has lodged. It spasmed, curvetted, tossed and writhed, to throw that malignity from its shoulders.
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Awakening, he sends his men all over the earth in search of her.
There are often mounds of earth outside the entrances to the burrow.
She would have perhaps ten more minutes in darkside. The earth itself was a massive radiation shield between the station and the sun, and she would be perfectly safe.
Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.
And by the same token it was plain that there had also been a hundred and seventy-five floodings of the earth and depositings of limestone strata!
A few seconds later, Luna Lovegood emerged, trailing behind the rest of the class, a smudge of earth on her nose, and her hair tied in a knot on the top of her head.
Man the creature seemingly following his desires and ambitions is held in check and swayed from his blind lungings about the earth by the Spirit of the God who made him.
Salt water, drained through twenty vessels of earth, hath become fresh.
It is taught that Christ's mission on earth included giving people his teachings and providing his example for them to follow as recorded in the four Gospels.
The sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
After his three earth orbits in 1962, American astronaut John Glenn successfully landed in the nearby ocean and was brought back ashore to Grand Turk island.
The houses used earth sheltering, being sunk into the ground.
This assimilates them more nearly to the natural conditions when the hen nestles her chicks on the earth, whilst the warmth is given chiefly over their backs.
When the supply falls short he employs his powerful effodient feet to hurl the earth from the roots of the tree and bring it down by his colossal strength.
To us who dwell on the uttermost confines of the earth and of freedom, this remote sanctuary of Britain's glory has up to this time been a defence.
Firstly, the force of gravitation would be so great that light would be unable to escape from it, the rays falling back to the star like a stone to the earth.
Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills, And ever will, the children of the earth.
This land had previously been the site of reservoirs which were filled in, reputedly with earth excavated during the construction of the Victoria line.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Rail services were severely disrupted in August 2012 when the retaining wall between the tracks partially collapsed, spilling five tonnes of earth.
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Near the bottom here, I found what I think to be a few small pieces of burned wood or charcoal, also some dark unctuous sort of earth, a sample of both I brought away.
He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy.
The lower cup represents the earth and the upper cup the heaven.
At Mount Lorette in Alberta, approximately 4,000 golden eagles may pass during the fall, the largest recorded migration of golden eagles on earth.
For Suess, summing up folding and thrusting in a dozen mountain chains, orogenic events happened when the earth shrugged violently and pulled itself together.
Look at 21st-century Britons, tongue-tied in conversation, groping for some PC euphemism in what was once the most iconically free-spoken country on earth.
These could be built from earth or stone and were used to mount weapons.
I've more muscle than you, and I'm used to greater gee, being from earth.
Few details are available about the ghost, but it is generally believed that she committed some terrible misdeed in the past and now her spirit must roam the earth in penance.
Eleven years later, in 586, after another senseless revolt, Jerusalem was destroyed and Yahweh's temple, his objective correlative on earth, was burned to the ground.
The capital, Ninus or Nineveh, was taken by the Medes under Cyaxares, and some 200 years after Xenophon passed over its site, then mere mounds of earth.
This can occur in some of the driest places on earth, like Death Valley.
According to Jains, there was a time when giants walked upon this earth.
Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.
Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle's depths.
The Greeks believed some of them, like Enceladus, to lay buried from that time under the earth and that their tormented quivers resulted in earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
In Germanic mythology, a dwarf is a being that dwells in mountains and in the earth, and is variously associated with wisdom, smithing, mining, and crafting.
The color that designated them as prostitutes could vary from different earth tones to yellow, as was usually designated as a color of shame in the Hebrew communities.
She made manioc pie, got water, got wild banana leaves and pounded manioc. She made the earth oven and later she opened and took out the manioc pie.
For the inconcealable imperfections of ourselves, or their daily examples in others, will hourly prompt us our corruption, and loudly tell us we are the sons of earth.
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Genocide. Flooding the valleys and stripping the limu clean from the rocks Sweeping away the 'opae from the streams the ulu from the land and the maoli from the earth.
The City of the Sun was a model in petto for the whole earth.
The clergy were seen to have an elevated status among ordinary people and this was partly due to their closeness with God, being his envoys on earth.
Later Ovid produced his Metamorphoses, written in dactylic hexameter verse, the meter of epic, attempting a complete mythology from the creation of the earth to his own time.
Although Rousseau wrote that the British were perhaps at the time the freest people on earth, he did not approve of their representative government.
Edison helped to turn the first shovel of earth for the museum which serves as a museum to display both Paine relics as well as others of local historical interest.
The main characters, swept by tumults of the earth, the skies and the hearts, are strange and often possessed of unheard of violence and deprivations.
Since it is the Hindu belief that 1 day of the devatas is equal to 1 human year, the Kumbha Mela takes place every 12 years to celebrate the spilling of the nectar on earth.
Built to withstand the attack of small arms such as swords and spears, these walls were made mostly by stamping earth and gravel between board frames.
These buried TBMs were then used to provide an electrical earth.
Dry prominence, on the other hand, ignores water, snow, and ice features and assumes that the surface of the earth is defined by the solid bottom of those features.
Unlike the earlier fortifications, the Ming construction was stronger and more elaborate due to the use of bricks and stone instead of rammed earth.
The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
More recently, seismologists have been able to create detailed images of wave speeds inside the earth in the same way a doctor images a body in a CT scan.

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