Lamontagne's voice is strong but with a quaver and a dry, rasping quality that hints at an inside breakability. |
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Her breath was rasping now, and he could hear the pain in her voice when she spoke. |
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Her ears twisted until they stuck out sideways, she took several rasping breaths. |
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Sara ran as fast as she could, her breath rasping in her throat and blood pounding in her ears. |
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Lilly snickered, her breath rasping and grating as she tried to move her head closer to her mistress. |
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The flight station was instantly filled with a deafening, rasping, angry noise, as if a chainsaw had been started at full throttle. |
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Her eyes were closed, mouth hanging open just slightly with her harsh breath rasping steadily. |
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Any flares present at this time are removed by rasping the lower part of the hoof wall from the outside. |
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Most chitons feed by rasping algae and other encrusted food off of the rocks on which they crawl. |
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A hard rasping sound from around the corner caused him to drop into a tiger stance, arms hard and lithe. |
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I just opened my mouth to try and speak and all that I could manage was a rasping croak. |
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Rich made a rasping sound in his throat vaguely like the creaking of bed springs, followed by a lewd slurping noise. |
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Then the restrained growl of a mad dog found its way past her curled lips, rasping at the stranger before her who hadn't flinched. |
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The top of the thumb is covered with nose friendly fabric so you can swipe away those tickles without rasping your shnoz. |
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Meniscal injuries were treated arthroscopically by rasping, suturing, or partial meniscectomy, according to the size and location of the lesion. |
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They will keep out the growling, rasping or fluty snoring sounds from the ears of bedfellows and allow them to sleep peacefully. |
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For all his charm, his generosity, that deep, rasping cackle that rumbles through his conversation, he has a sharp edge. |
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Besides the rasping Cobain-like vocals any other trace of the alt-rock anthem of yesterday has all but faded. |
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They sing a discordant series of sounds that can be alternately tuneful and rasping. |
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When a breaking ball fell to the full forward his rasping shot came off the crossbar but he was alert to fist the rebound to the net. |
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The points of my heels tapped softly against the wood floorings, the boards rasping gently with age. |
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While in captivity, they are very vocal, uttering high-pitched whines and howls, rasping growls. |
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A slice of fortune and a rasping forehand drive earns the Moroccan three break points. |
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These characterful creatures, with their rasping Ee-aw bray, are known to make excellent stable companions for horses, foals, or other donkeys. |
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Radical as ever, Brinkmann listens to the rasping of his lungs, from which his voice rises, wheezes, belches, whispers and shouts. |
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Slugs feed by rasping the plant surface with a tooth-covered tongue called a radula. |
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Food: Attaches itself to the side of a fish, rasping away the skin and eating the flesh beneath. |
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Now I'm talking about it so much it sounds like my life is a constant stream of noxious gases, like I walk around all day pumping, rasping and squelching. |
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Its magic lay in its marriage of brass and piano, of rasping percussion, of the warmth of Ferrer's voice. |
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Pigfish are members of the grunt family which are noted for the rasping or grunting sounds they make in their throat when captured on a hook or otherwise disturbed. |
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Therefore they don't want a rasping concrete surface on which to drive and turn around. |
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The Italian singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa sings melancholy and poetic songs in a deep, gently rasping voice. |
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Jonas Strifler's rasping drive from distance was just off target, while Kevin Wolze dragged a shot off-target when well placed. |
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Jape Devon stepped out of his Warbird as the rasping engines shut down. |
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His second, nine minutes later, was a rasping left foot drive from twenty five yards which hit the stanchion as the Castleton keeper stood mesmerised. |
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There are few traditional musicians in County Sligo and beyond who haven't hammered out some rasping reels or clipping hornpipes on musky summer evenings. |
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Such a structure allows suckermouth and rasping bottom feeders scrap the food of the hard surfaces the way they do in their natural environment. |
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She also takes a rasping free-kick as demonstrated in the thrilling 4-2 victory over Ghana in Dresden on Saturday when she scored from 30 metres. |
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With a flutter of his wings and a low, rasping call, a male hoopoe lands at the rim of the nest cavity, holding a small caterpillar in his curved bill. |
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After a snail has taken in its food, rasping it into tiny little bits with its radula, the food disappears in the snail's gullet to be digested. |
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Time after time he got his head down and ripped through the heart of Newcastle, clipping the outside of a post with a rasping 25-yard drive at the end of one thrilling run. |
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Vocally, Tunstall can coo with the best of them, but she also does a lovely whisky mezzo, rasping smokily through Another Place to Fall and Suddenly I See. |
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A century ago these hills echoed with the rasping sounds of bucksaws, as loggers harvested millions of redwoods and Douglas fir to feed the housing needs of a growing country. |
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One of the geriatric drives in question actually gave a few rasping gasps before giving up the ghost. |
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A pair of boat-billed flycatchers, exchanging loud, rasping calls, perch on a lamp-post. |
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For easy chopping, kneading, cutting, shredding, rasping, mixing, beating up and squeezing? 2 speeds and pulse mode? |
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This machine extracts the juice from oranges, lemons and similar fruit after the essential oil has been extracted in our «Pelatrice» DS rasping machine leaving the fruit whole. |
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They skeletonize the leaves by rasping away the green part of the leaves, then make holes in the leaf. |
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Your breathing turns to gasping, then rasping, and your mind begins to play ever-shorter loops, turning over the same half-nonsensical questions: Is virtue rewarded? |
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His recordings, most of which were produced in New York City, incorporated gospel-derived vocal techniques shouted interjections, an exhortatory recitation, melisma, and rasping timbre. |
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But as I've smelled the dioxins in my bedroom over the last month, as I've felt their sting in my eyes and heard my children's rasping, phlegmy throats in the morning, I've come to believe we have no choice. |
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Such a structure allows suckermouth and rasping bottom feeders feed by scraping the food of the hard surface the way they do in their natural environment. |
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Switch It On is like George Michael caught in a firestorm of rasping harmonica and bizarre Bo Diddley beat, and is definitely a bridge too far. |
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As such, you can hear its call only when it is not flying and you will easily recognise it because it is so annoying. It sounds like a scream or a rasping screech that is strong and croaking. |
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With his high, slightly rasping, voice at its peak, Papa Wemba undertook an international tour from Japan to the United States via Europe based on numerous festivals. |
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I don't find anything remotely sexy about a rasping ditty that sounds like an advert for a dodgy chat line. |
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A corncrake's rasping call echoed across the Bardsey night for more than a week, where the first treecreeper of the year was seen. |
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With a rasping voice, a well-known love of manga comics and a notorious tendency to outspokenness, Mr Aso is popular with voters, including the young. |
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Such wines have no shortage of tannin, but sometimes those tannins are raw and rasping, a sensation exacerbated by the lack of ripe fruit to counterbalance them. |
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The parasitic lamprey, which feeds on the body fluids of other fish, clinging to its victim with a suction cup mouth and rasping though the scales and skin with a sharp tongue, devastated many native fish populations. |
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Paston may have halted those attacks, but the Wellington Phoenix goalie knew little about substitute Moise Poida's rasping, 18-yard drive which smacked the face of the New Zealand crossbar before flying to safety. |
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Ahmed Husain sent a free-kick just past the post and Trinidad shot-stopper Kelvin Jack made a heroic save after a rasping effort from Mohamed Talal. |
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It left them open to the counter and, in the best action of the match, goalkeeper Hitoshi Soghata pulled off a superb save at full stretch from a rasping 25-yarder from Aureliano Torres. |
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Under no pressure, the defender clipped a careless cross-field pass straight into the path of Rossi who, in true predatory fashion, intercepted before despatching a rasping drive into the back of the net. |
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Soon after, Victor Nikiema dispossessed New Zealand captain Gordon Murie just outside the penalty area and the midfielder sent a rasping, unstoppable drive past Turipa. |
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Gabon's Eric Mouloungui had three memorable chances to take the lead for Gabon against Tunisia, twice with his head and once with a rasping shot from some distance out. |
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Egaleo, who lost 1-0 to Middlesbrough FC on Matchday 1, almost regained parity on 33 minutes when Georgios Barkoglou shot wide with a rasping drive from 20 metres. |
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On my way to work one day, sitting on the upper deck of the number 12 tram, I heard the rasping sound of a doodlebug. |
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Others feed on macroscopic 'plants' such as kelp, rasping the plant surface with its radula. |
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He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow. Impeccably dressed and hatted with a dark Homburg. |
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A belated freshman, his oilskin slicker rasping loudly, slushed along the soft path. |
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That said, it certainly looks the part, with its single seat, downwardfacing clip-on handlebars and that classic, rasping, upswept stainless exhaust. |
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Who but Mahler would have thought of opening with a horn call but transforming a romantic cliche into something fresh and disturbing by assigning it to a rasping tenor horn? |
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Hamilton's one lap, the first public appearance of a new car on track, indicated the whinier and less rasping sound would take some getting used to. |
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