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Near the docks, I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack. |
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My reading companion is hairy, dirty, rankly fragrant, with holes in his dusty black jeans. |
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I affix a leather saddle to his hairy back and ride him into many righteous battles. |
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The plots were then overseeded with white mustard, sorghum-sudangrass, winter wheat, or a mix of oat and hairy vetch. |
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The first time I saw Wiwin, she looked like a wizened old woman, with wrinkly, hairy skin and big, unblinking eyes. |
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I looked at his red hair and his muscular, hairy legs and decided I wasn't attracted to him. |
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Penny Webb often leads guided walks through the woods here and takes Helen to the huge mounds that are home to the hairy wood ant. |
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All of a sudden, you're face to face with a black, hairy spider the size of a beach ball. |
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It was produced by scary, hairy, lairy Martin Hannett and as a whole the songs drunkenly fall and clatter with wild abandon. |
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Simply put, we've evolved our way out of hairy elbows and furry diapers, now let's lose the lard. |
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He hasn't shaved, and the yellow t-shirt he's wearing is tied round his navel to reveal a hairy, skinny belly. |
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If you ask anybody what their image of the Vikings is it would be of hairy men with blades and axes on board longships. |
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The deep green, hairy leaves make a slightly astringent tea that's similar to a mild, fragrant China tea. |
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I begin practising punches and blocks with Tim, whose hairy arms give me Chinese burns. |
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Other species are burr ragweed, crown-leaf evening primrose, hairy bugseed, rush skeleton plant, and Russian thistle. |
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They were just wonderful, beyond wonderful for such a bunch of big hairy lumps, and it was great to see them playing a small-ish venue. |
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But my concern is that they are doing it on the M4, which can be pretty hairy at the best of times. |
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They had everything from hideous beetles to hairy tarantulas that looked as though they could give an Irish wolfhound a run for its money. |
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They are also known as baboon spiders in Africa and hairy spiders in South America. |
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Others again, like the massive hairy baboon spiders, sacrifice all caution and boldly hunt down their victims. |
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The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegument. |
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There are spotty wellies, hairy boots, bags, long coats, gilets, hats and warm gear for babies along with backpacks to carry them in. |
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It is surely undeniable that the hairy comedian is, in fact, as Scottish as you can be. |
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I just retain the impression of a short, thickset, dark-haired individual dressed in hairy tweed and sitting in silence in an armchair. |
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She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves. |
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In late fall, there are red-shafted flickers, hairy woodpeckers, finches, chickadees, nuthatches, and, of course, jays. |
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Oh my, wild irises and hairy beardtongues, what gorgeous jewels in the woodland green they are! |
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The fantasy creature category contained such imaginary creatures as fairy, hairy Cyclops, and gremlin. |
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He began as a hairy hippie banjo player who took great delight at poking fun at his fellow Scots. |
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To prepare radishes for serving, wash them to remove any lingering dirt, and pinch or slice off the tops and any hairy roots. |
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Wandered through the tourist trap of tweeds and tartan, heather-honey and whisky-marmalade, Caithness glass and hairy Highlander dolls. |
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During the actual weaving, tufts of fleece were sometimes knotted into the weave to anchor them, creating a fabric with a hairy or shaggy finish. |
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They have been sampling the sites for seeds of hairy nightshade, shepherd's purse, burning nettles, and other common weeds. |
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The feature that distinguishes the Bigfoot matter is the purported resemblance of this hairy creature to humans. |
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Giant and apelike in appearance, it would be easy to mistake Bigfoot for a hairy tree or NBA player. |
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The physician should examine the entire spine for areas of redness, scars, blisters, lipomata, hairy patches, birthmarks and cafe-au-lait spots. |
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One hundred eighty million years ago, a small, hairy animal resembling a shrew or a vole evolved a new way to care for her developing offspring. |
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I'd still be tempted to run if we encountered a number of huge hairy apes, but it's nice to know that we're escaping from a shrewdness of apes. |
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But if there were anything to force an uncommon swell of national pride through my cynical hairy chest, this would be it. |
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We comforted ourselves with the thought that in the end these hairy moments aren't the moments they'll remember. |
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Cut the artichokes in half and remove the hairy inner choke and any hard leaves, leaving only the tender base. |
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We cannot recall ever having such large families of cardinals, downy and hairy woodpeckers, English sparrows, blue jays, titmice and chickadees. |
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But the attempt was thwarted when the Russians landed in the town and found it full of aging, hairy, flabby Italian men playing bocce. |
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Marvel as Anne Archer is given a nude body double that looks more like a hairy Sasquatch than our elegant actress. |
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His name was Piotr, and he smelled of garlic, had hairy hands, and gave out nasty boiled sweets at the end of each lesson. |
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Finally the skin sloughs away and the muscles fray out resulting in what resembles a hairy mane. |
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Painted Ladies, which instinctively lay their eggs on thistle plants, also find an acceptable substitute in the hairy leaves of borage. |
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Like many of our natives, these plants have small leaves, often aromatic and sometimes grey and hairy. |
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Weed populations were dense and consisted of common lambsquarters, hairy nightshade, redroot pigweed, stinkgrass, and common purslane. |
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The feet should be examined daily, especially the hairy types of dog such as spaniels, for the presence of thorns. |
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Common bugloss has fleshy, hairy leaves that grow smaller in size towards the top of the stem. |
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Spring-blooming wildflowers are the broad-leaved spiderwort, downy yellow violet, and hairy phlox. |
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In a split second, Ricardo has a hairy moment, and Karagounis gets a yellow card. |
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This is isn't helped by the fact that lad culture deems feminists as mad, butch man haters with hairy armpits! |
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The sweet-looking, big-eyed Stevie is now hairy and muscular, covered in tattoos, and boasts a long rap sheet. |
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The female lays large black or brown oblong egg cases that are covered with hairy tuffs that help anchor them in place. |
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She let out a cry of surprise but her mouth was immediately covered by a big hairy hand. |
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The images of an old cigarette hag and a hairy woman covered in boils appeared. |
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All around the pedestal, black tentacles grew of the mist, thick and hairy, their undersides covered with tiny snapping jaws. |
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In the scratch there were a few hairy moments later on when the speed began to increase as the riders realised the gap was not coming down. |
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If things get too hairy you can avoid the awkward step by an easier route on the south side. |
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Wild horses in the New Forest get along perfectly fine, wandering around outdoors, free and naked and just getting more hairy in winter. |
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An actor friend of my partner's is so all-over hairy that my young sons assume he is a hearthrug and sit on him. |
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Both the frogfish I had been following and the hairy frogfish were striated frogfish, Antennarius striatus. |
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The Doric entablature the herms carry on their hairy heads provided Sansovino with metopes that he could fill with figural sculpture. |
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The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks. |
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Jo Body, of High Road, Benfleet, was horror-struck when she found the black hairy beasts hatching from chrysalises on her neighbour's tree. |
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The cilice mentioned in the novel is a thigh-mounted type, but i guess the original cilices were coarse hairy shirts. |
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He has been evaluating 53 accessions of hairy vetch in the USDA germ plasm collection to identify plants useful as parental material. |
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He ran unto the river Liffey, peeled off his breeches and jumped in, humecting thus his hairy skin. |
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The tropane alkaloids scopolamine and hyoscyamine were extracted and analysed from N. tabacum cultured hairy roots. |
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For instance, plants grew leaves with new shapes, had different pigmentation, or hairy roots. |
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Conversation is however interspersed with the easier compliments on our chopstick skills and disbelief at how hairy the boys are. |
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Being rather a hairy chap, I'm glad that neither myself nor my loved ones suffer from pogonophobia. |
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A simple California point break doesn't require the same moves as hairy Sunset Beach. |
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Its leaves are small, thin, slightly hairy, alternate, cordate and two to four centimetres long. |
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It will be a shock leaving the cosy, fluffy world of working for a university to then leap into the hairy, scary world of Internet commerce. |
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One unique tel sequence was found in sorghum, hairy crabgrass, barley, rye, and pearl millet, as was found in rice. |
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Several species in the genus Agrobacterium cause plant disorders such as crown gall and hairy roots. |
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After infection by Agrobacterium tumefaciens or A. rhizogenes, transformed cells develop either a crown gall or a hairy root, respectively. |
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So it's possible for a dark brown frogfish with a hairy body to be the very same species as a white frogfish with almost smooth skin. |
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The morphologic, cytochemical, and immunophenotypic findings supported the diagnosis of hairy cell leukemia. |
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In preparing edible sumac, the hairy coating is first removed from the berries, which are then ground to powder-like consistency. |
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In dry, open, lowland situations, the hairy and ringed Danthonias, D. pilosa and D. semiannularis, are common. |
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The Balm-of-Gilead has heart-shaped leaves with rounded, slightly hairy leaf stalks. |
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There is another level of embarrassed when you are representing your country and you run like a hairy goat. |
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Took this picture of the tiny gooseberries because they look so cute and hairy. |
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This year we no-till planted corn and pumpkins into hairy vetch, and soybeans into a variety of grains, with rye working the best. |
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The chapter on the challenges of bird identification explains how to differentiate similar species, such as the downy and the hairy woodpecker. |
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He was talking about giving someone the hairy eyeball in the same way you would give someone a venereal disease. |
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From her doorway, one also observed three or four middle-aged guys oiling their hairy chests around the micro-pool. |
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On that basis, we might as well all give up washing and go around smelling like badgers, and nearly as hairy, too. |
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Proving his critics wrong Danny rolled up his trousers and let leg waxers loose on his thick hairy legs. |
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Did you know that sacking-like scratchy large-weave fabric with vaguely hairy fibres, the stuff they put on display screens and trendy flower arrangements, is called Hessian? |
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I hate hairy cushion covers even more than I hate bobbly sheets. |
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A hairy angler the size of my fist starts worrying at the meat of my calf and I can sense a giant gulper eel on its way over for a taste of delicious old me. |
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Especially prized unusual plants such as crested sida, hairy wachendorfia, Norfolk-island lagunaea, prickly-leaved massonia, sweet-scented tritonia, and winged-podded sophora. |
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In quite a few of these species the inner side of the skin that covers the bulb is covered with a thick hairy layer that provides extra protection. |
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The place was awash with yellow anoraks, smelly oxters and hairy legs. |
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He shuddered and pushed himself lower among the rough, hairy blankets. |
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I gawked at the snow on the mountains and squealed over those funny hairy cows as my camera clicked madly, trying to capture the colours and scale of it all. |
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Hairy leukoplakia typically presents as bilateral corrugated, painless white thickening found on the lateral borders of the tongue, sometimes with hairy projections. |
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If you'd like to send the Fronteersmen a nice new saddle or a pint of apple butter or a picture of a hairy Buffalo you can use the information below. |
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As The Guardian noted, Cameron Diaz was telling adorable anecdotes about forcibly grooming a hairy friend just under a year ago. |
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Rocky summit species include the rather rare Huddleson's locoweed, a three-to-four-inch-tall, hairy white plant that produces pink-to-purple flowers and oversize seed pods. |
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Some of the tree species noted included large native olive, ribbonwood, lacebark, large-leaved canthium, hairy muskwood, brown pearwood and soft acronychia. |
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The twigs of the paper mulberry are hairy reddish brown, the bark is tan and smooth to moderately furrowed, the wood is soft and brittle, and it has conical buds. |
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She's going to be a scratchy, hairy traveller, she complains bitterly. |
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Bumper to bumper we proceeded, the road narrowed and things became hairy. |
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The Gunflint Trail bird feeders are still enjoying heavy use, being frequented most often by Canada jays, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and black-capped and boreal chickadees. |
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As the pigs continue to avoid capture, a hairy villain by the name of Wolf arrives on the scene to snare the pigs and send them back to the abattoir. |
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They are able to infiltrate friends and family completely unsuspected, and carefully pull off this ridiculous covert operation, until things start to get hairy. |
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Here, the brainiacs were ridiculed and the hairy nimble beasts ruled the day. |
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Each gig was a different situation, some hairy, some boring, most both in alternating fashion. |
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Though they emphasized some within-plant variation of leaf pubescence, cotton cultivars are usually described as either smooth, lightly hairy, hairy, very hairy, or pilose. |
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Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast. |
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The day belonged to massive Mastiffs, Great Danes, hairy Pomeranians, Rottweilers, German Shepherds, Dobermans, Dalmatians and Miniature Pinschers. |
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In the third and most recently-proposed model, the sidearms are unstructured polyelectrolyte chains, forming a hairy, polymer brush-like layer around the filament backbone. |
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She defiantly speared the last sausage on her plate and began to cut it up when a black, hairy nose appeared in her lap from under the tablecloth. |
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Lad culture deems feminists as mad, butch man haters with hairy armpits! |
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A man and his daughter were riding on a motorbike on a rural road, when a hairy manlike creature ran out of the woods, and stood about 75 feet in front of them. |
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Avoiding the cab tout trap, we take a short and hairy bus ride through narrow and congested streets. |
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A hairy, humanoid brute with a spiked club crushed it to the ground. |
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The morphologic differential diagnosis of mature B-cell neoplasms with cytoplasmic projections includes splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes and hairy cell leukemia. |
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Origanum vulgare, or Wild marjoram, is a perennial herb, with erect, leafy, hairy, purple, quadrangular, corymbose stems, from 6 inches to 2 feet in height. |
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At the station the father, our dad, Mister Stanley by name, greeted us with hearty joviality, bussed my mother heartily and brushed our faces with hairy kisses to our cheeks. |
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How dare you say the northern hairy nosed wombat isn't worth saving? |
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But now that you mention it, yes, one particularly nasty piece of business does stand out like a quarter-sized hairy mole on the airbrushed cheek of a Playboy centerfold. |
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Lately the only people who've been flirting with me are fifty-year old bus drivers with hairy chests and their uniform shirts open to their belly-buttons. |
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As highlighted in the film's ads, he gets his overly hairy chest waxed. |
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Why the deformed and hairy monster can go on to become the slicked down lounge lizard in the sharkskin suit is never given any sort of explanation or reason to accept. |
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The worms are covered in a hairy, gray fleece composed of bacteria. |
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He started to tear off his filthy shirt, exposing his hairy chest. |
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Not very prepossessing to look at but this hard, round hairy ball is so versatile you will never look at it the same way again after reading this column. |
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Plus, he added his own two cents about what might best help someone combat a hairy morning-after experience. |
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I would have given anything to have the workman's hairy chest. |
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He stands, red jumpsuit plunge cut to expose his hairy, middle-aged chest. |
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Fleabane or hairy bittercress would scarcely have had the same appeal. |
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Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster. |
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A new survey says that hairy chests are back in favour, especially on men. |
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You get the odd hairy moment when coming over a ridge and round a corner at the same time as the car kicks down a gear and opens the throttle to maintain its speed. |
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Detection of minimal residual disease by immunostaining of bone marrow biopsics after 2-chlorodeoxyadenosine for hairy cell leukemia. |
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Unfortunately, anchusas have the defect of being coarse in appearance, with hairy leaves and stems which are neither elegant nor graceful. |
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Jeff, Jennifer, Dave and Socko saw a big, black, hairy spider crawling on the wall. |
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The mature fruit is simple, 3-carpellate, dry, dehiscent, of brown color, hairy, and tricocca schizocarp type. |
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To improve soil texture and fertility, plant nitrogen-fixing cover crops like crimson clover, fava beans, and hairy vetch. |
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If dealing with an unexploded bomb wasn't hairy enough, try it with a battery that may conk out in the middle of the job. |
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So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. |
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When the deadline approaches, things can get a little hairy. |
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After vegetables are harvested, spade several inches of manure into beds and sow seeds of hairy vetch, white Dutch clover, or winter rye. |
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A TINY biting midge beats its minute hairy wings an amazing 62,760 times per minute. |
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Alternatively it could be hairy bittercress, which forms a little rosette of leaves and a tiny spike of delicate white flowers. |
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Mammillaria, which are short, fat and hairy, and cereus, which are tall and stately, belong to which plant family? |
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If they go ahead with this ridiculous plan, I'm going to countersue France for allowing their women to have hairy armpits. |
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Scientists used epidemiological studies to identify possible causes and blamed exposure to bristly, hairy eastern tent caterpillars. |
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The buffalo beetle, the hairy larva of the carpet beetle, is the main bug in the ROM's bug room. |
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Thompson plays the title character, a stern woman with a bulbous nose, a pair of hairy warts and a pronounced snaggletooth. |
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Will Ikea be wanting those classy cloth chairs back after Ray and Scott's sweaty clagnut ridden hairy arses have pressed into them for 5 minutes? |
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He is large, bent, black, lean, hairy and old, and his ears hang down to his waist. |
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Another spruce with smoothly rounded cone scales and hairy shoots occurs rarely in the Central Alps in eastern Switzerland. |
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Yeah, some guys like to eat the old hairy pie. Women, too, or so I've heard. |
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The leaves are coarse, green, taper to a point, long, flat and sometimes slightly hairy on top. |
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In Catalan myth, Dip is an evil, black, hairy dog, an emissary of the Devil, who sucks people's blood. |
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He was big and pink and slabby with muscle, but not very hairy, for a white man. |
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Two hairy, soft projections, evidently very sensitive, inform the bee when she is in contact with a stingable object. |
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It just means that some daft wee hairy that gets knocked up the duff has tae get oan the bus tae Carlisle tae get cleaned oot. |
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At the hospital, the sickening pictures of the patient's ear canal revealed a stocky, hairy, four-eyed arachnid peering out at the camera. |
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Beach-stroller Tom Forest found the alleged hairy, two-tongued monster at Druridge Bay. |
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We were on a dive and were looking at a hairy frogfish and my friend was lying on the bottom. |
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I got stuck in the middle of a real barney between a couple of tough coppers and a handful of hairy protesters, and I didn't enjoy it one single bit. |
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The light green leaves, which will drop in winter, are hairy underneath and they are similar in shape to an abutilon leaf with very pointed leaf ends. |
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He was hairy, and his speech of rough gutturals was imperfect. |
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Male azyine ladybird beetles have distinctive pairs of hairy bulblike structures, called parameres, that remain outside the female's body, tapping rhythmically against her. |
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Rachael says she can't stand a man in a beard but I bet if George Clooney, Brad Pitt or Gary Barlow rocked up in the morning with their hairy fizzogs she wouldn't complain. |
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If the air is clean, shrubby, hairy and leafy lichens become abundant. |
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Landing in the romantic city of Jaipur, the hairy lothario and his young lady canoodled in the back of their vintage car all the way to their hotel. |
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Ant. Why thou didst conclude hairy men plain dealers without wit. |
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Big dogs, small dogs, stroppy dogs, soppy dogs, hairy dogs and bald dogs. |
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Use no water but a soft, dry brush to clean hairy, crinkly or matt leaves, like those of the African violet, streptocarpus and maranta, the prayer plant. |
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In one incident, in 1924, a woman camping on the moor with her husband reported seeing a hairy hand attempting to gain access to her caravan during the night. |
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This may also explain bushy eyebrows, monobrows and hairy chests. |
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It is a monoecious annual herb up to 1 m tall with short hairy stems. |
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Tom Forest, of Amble, found the hairy, two-tongued creature while out for a stroll and thought it might have been a distant cousin of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
One was an elderly man, dressed in a smock frock and with a hairy cap on his head. |
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One was an elderly man, dressed in a smock frock, and with a hairy cap on his head. |
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The second glume is ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or awned, 5-nerved, lateral nerves being marginal and hairy. |
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Their antenn, like those of the sphingid, are thickest beyond the middle, and those of the males are slightly ciliated or hairy. |
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It is distinguished from staghorn sumach by its smooth branches, those of staghorn being hairy. |
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Every castle had its tale of redcap, the sly spirit, or of the woman of the hairy hand. |
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Leaves narrower, flat, tending to roll up, scabrid above and hairy beneath. |
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Its leaves are hairy, bipinnate, with lobed and toothed, ovate or oblong leaflets. |
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The foot soles are less hairy than in any other member of the subgenus Mustela. |
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The leaf-sheath is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips. |
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We should ask what a Hairy Ainu was, and how hairy he was, and above all what sort of Ainu he was. |
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Unlike most of its brethren, it has but a short, hairy tail, looking as if it had been docked. |
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Achenes numerous in a head, bearing the persistent styles as naked, hairy, or plumose tails. |
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And by the by, Johns, who's that hairy pirate you've got for your new mate? |
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I have included the down on the human body and the lanugo on the foetus as a rudimentary representation of a hairy coat. |
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Then he hitched up his sweatshirt over the hairy pale expanse of his own belly and tipped to one side. |
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Their knapsacks were hairy, and their belts black, the latter suggesting deliverance from that absurdity of old, pipeclay. |
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He has an enormous head, a walrus moustache, a hairy nose, and feet which flap as they walk. |
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The cops were giving them the hairy eyeball, and Perry screwed in his headset. |
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But the fists he carried in the pockets of his dungarees bulged like coconuts, and his hairy arms were looped brown cables. |
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There are nine stamens, with threadlike filaments, often hairy, and a three-parted style with round-top stigmas. |
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This has no scent, the capsule is roundish and hairy, and the cleistogamous flowers are abundant. |
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Fronds one to several times pinnate, the lower surface hairy, or tomentose or powdery. |
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It is easily recognised by the uneven mixture of pink and ochraceous colors, and the very hairy or tomentose margin of the cap. |
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The shy hairy men who herd the tractile flocks might be, except for some added clothing, the very brethren of David. |
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Do you see that cobwebby nest with all those hairy caterpillars on it and around it up in that tree? |
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The pileus is thin, umbilicate or with the center darker, the surface hairy or scaly, and the margin at first incurved. |
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Ling had seemed so hairy, so misshapen, like a troll out of Gothic legends. |
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The leaves are deciduous, and they are ovate, slightly hairy, and terminate in a mucro or stiff point. |
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In the former species there are five or more joints to the flagellum and the antenn, though hairy, lack the bristles. |
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The fur of the upper parts is a bright chestnut-red or Vandyke brown, excepting the hairy tail, which is black above. |
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There are two varieties of this species, the Port Moresby echidna and the hairy echidna. |
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The Notodontidae are stout, hairy moths with maxillae and frenulum developed. |
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Ridge on muzzle beneath edge of nose leaf low, broad and hairy, not in the least suggesting a supplementary leaflet. |
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The Viper's bugloss is a stout, upright plant, with a curious pale green hairy stem, which is dotted all over with red spots. |
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The palpi are porrect, the third joint almost concealed in the dense hairy vestiture of the second joint. |
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His shirt was open, showing the jagged, ragged hole made by the Malay creese in the broad, hairy breast. |
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The plant is an annual of diffuse habit, with hairy stem, and two-paired, abruptly pinnate leaflets. |
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Its leaves are digitate and long-stalked, with five obovate, serrate, hairy leaflets. |
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The pilous or hairy system was, in the cases recorded by me, uniformly black. |
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The stem is stout, two to four inches long, hairy like the pileus. |
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Barbastel, or barbastelle, a bat with hairy lips, a native of England. |
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He kicked it from the reach of that hairy paw and sprang after it. |
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Schomberg, a brawny, hairy Alsatian, and an awful gossip, assured me that it was all right. |
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Then it is iced by applying warm water with a bit of hairy deerskin. |
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Bromberg rested both hairy fists on the desk and glared down at Puma. |
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The leaves of the Viper's bugloss are rough and hairy, with smooth edges. |
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Suddenly he saw the wolf's hairy tail come through the bung-hole. |
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A single genetic change may have made woolly mammoths fat, hairy and cold-loving. |
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Woolly mammoths, which were about as big as modern African elephants, sported long curved tusks and thick hairy coats. |
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The chrysalides are often hairy, though some of them are perfectly smooth. |
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Cleary wagged his hairy old paw to the chair beside his desk. |
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His strong, white teeth sank into the hairy throat of his enemy as he sought the pulsing jugular. |
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Okay, so it could get a tad hairy in some of its wilder places, but it's hardly the back of beyond. |
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The feet are more or less hairy beneath, and the animals are digitigrade. |
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There were a few hairy moments as we avoided head-on collisions with fellow inexperienced bargees, but it was great fun. |
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The leaf-sheaths are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy. |
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He stuck his nose out of the doghouse and saw four slender, hairy animals. |
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Locals in the Nueva Roma neighbourhood in Casilda reported seeing a hairy black dwarf in the Candelaria canal. |
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They muttered low gutturals of approval as bits of white hide or hairy bloodstained skin were torn from one contestant or the other. |
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The sheath may also be glabrous or hairy, and grooved or not. |
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The hairy ones crowded around him, sensing a change in plan. |
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Both are hairy, but the hairiness falls off before Michaelmas. |
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Then Linda turned and laid a hand on each of Katy's hairy red arms. |
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He was, I could see, a misshapen man, short, broad, and clumsy, with a crooked back, a hairy neck, and a head sunk between his shoulders. |
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Dust clung unpleasantly to its hairy and ill-favoured person. |
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To him Sara leaped, throwing her arms around him and mothering him up to her flat little hairy breast. |
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Calyx ovate-bell-shaped, hairy in the throat, striate, 5-toothed. |
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The surface is velvety, or hairy, and zoned in varying colors. |
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Not sure how free love, hairy armpits and a rather musky lax attitude to deodorant will go down with the iGeneration. |
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The other eye, scarcely larger than a squirrel's and as uncannily bright, twisted up obliquely into the hairy scar of a bone-crushed eyebrow. |
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The stem of the lousewort is hairy, and the leaves grow very close to it. |
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These contacts with the hairy coat gave him instant easement and enabled him to play out the evening. |
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His act seemed to unloose a thousand devils in the hairy creature clinging to his throat. |
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Male adults with hairy antennae and club shaped palpi were separated from females. |
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Here might be seen the Savage Man, well known in heraldry, hairy as a baboon, and girdled with green leaves. |
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The hairy or winter vetch lives through the hard freezing winters. |
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Common annual weeds in our gardens include chickweed, nettles, hairy bittercress, groundsel and annual meadowgrass. |
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A hand closed softly on my shoulder, and at the same moment I felt something hairy and cologne-scented brushing my face. |
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It is readily distinguished by its flat horns and pendulous, hairy muzzle. |
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The periostracum, or epidermis, is heavy and often velvety or even hairy. |
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You'm only a drop o' rainwater,' said the little hairy thing. |
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He was an ill-favoured, undersized, gruff sailor of fifty, coarsely hairy, short-legged, long-armed, resembling an elderly ape. |
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Then, as one, the males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. |
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He stands before me again, his bluff hairy face irradiating with a joyful love and pride, for which I can find no description. |
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His fingers were in that hairy throat, where they had itched to twine. |
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He was glad to see McGinnis back again, for he was most promisingly hairy. |
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A heavy, hairy and rather sullen-looking gardener was hanging up a heavy coil of garden hose. |
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In The Twits, Roald Dahl's story about the world's most revolting couple, Mr Twit was horrible and hairy and his wife Mrs Twit was just plain ugly. |
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By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home. |
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His confidence in the man vanished as he looked at him and saw his insignificance, his dirty appearance, his shiftiness, and his unintelligent, hairy face. |
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In the waist gathered the Southampton mariners, hairy and burly men, with their jerkins thrown off, their waists braced tight, swords, mallets, and pole-axes in their hands. |
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But they had no other clothing except their hairy skins, although many wore gold and silver bangles on their front wrists and bands of different metals on their rear ankles. |
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