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He found tepid water in a pitcher and a last bit of soap, and he lathered his face and stood stropping the razor on his broad leather belt, its buckle held firm by a knob of the bedpost.
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found and tepid
While Hassam found these works artistically satisfying, they received a tepid public response, as he commented, " some sell and some of the best do not.
The texture of the sinter formed resemble those found today in freshwater streams at Yellowstone which are typically alkaline ( pH 8. 7 ) and tepid.
found and water
But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.
Where an opportunity to enjoy boating has not been created by bringing bodies of water to the people, means have been found to take the people and their boats to the water.
Directly across from the Gardens I found a bus stop sign for T 4 and rode it down to the Bosphorus, with the sports center on my left just before I reached the water and the entrance to Dolmabahce Palace immediately after that.
When I looked up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15th, I realized that Roy was born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist: the water sign of Pisces ( February 18 thru March 20 ).
In parts a repeated sponging was needed, but everywhere we found that water alone was enough to restore the original brightness.
They are not found in the sea with the exception of one or two frogs that live in brackish water in mangrove swamps.
He experimented with samples by adding vinegar or brandy and found that this resulted in the immediate immobilization or killing of the organisms suspended in water.
They are the most common heliozoa in fresh water, and are especially frequent in lakes and rivers, but a few are found in marine and soil habitats as well.
Actinosphaerium are several times larger, from 200-1000 μm in diameter, with many nuclei, and are found exclusively in fresh water.
The Overland Telegraph line was constructed in the 1870s along the route identified by Stuart, who had found enough water to support the needed repeater stations.
He travelled to the inner wilderness for three days, until he found a spring of water and some palm trees, and then he chose to settle there.
Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming for various forms of water and related substances in several European languages, that might have been originally associated with colors found in swamps.
Among the branchiopods, only some cladocerans are marine ; all the other groups are found in continental waters fresh water, including temporary pools and salt lakes.
One of the densest natural sources for phages and other viruses is sea water, where up to 9 × 10 < sup > 8 </ sup > virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface, and up to 70 % of marine bacteria may be infected by phages.
Key evidence of Baltic language presence in these regions is found in hydronyms ( names of bodies of water ) in the regions that are characteristically Baltic.
And there are several non-biblical historically and archaeologically attested details that can only be found in Chronicles, including the account of the Egyptian Shistak's campaign in the late 10th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 12: 2 – 4 ), and Hezekiah's preparing and safeguarding Jerusalem's water supply prior to the Assyrian attack in the late 8th century BCE ( 2 Chronicles 32: 2-4 ).
It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.
Culloden especially required assistance: having finally dragged his ship off the shoal at 02: 00, Troubridge found that he had lost his rudder and was taking on over of water an hour.
Dabormida's remains were never found, although his brother learned from an old woman living in the area that she had given water to a mortally wounded Italian officer, " a chief, a great man with spectacles and a watch, and golden stars ".
found and pitcher
Plants such as pitcher plants ( Heliamphora ), Campanula ( a bellflower ), and the rare Rapatea heather are commonly found on the escarpment and summit.
In the 2009 World Series, Pedro Martinez once again found himself hearing the " Who's your daddy " chants from the Yankees fans, this time as a starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies in Games 2 and 6 of the series vs the AL Champion Yankees.
However, the tensions below the surface were exposed when, during the second game of the series, Angels pitcher Brendan Donnelly was found with illegal substances on his glove.
The rare, carnivorous white – top pitcher plant is unique to the Gulf Coast and found only between the Apalachicola and Mississippi rivers.
Among the many trophies in the State Police Headquarters, in Boston, is a pewter pitcher, seized at a saloon on Causeway street, which is inscribed: “ Presented to Daniel Pratt, Jr., Chelsea, the Great American Traveller, Orator and Patriot ; the Friend of Humanity, the Ladies, and a Free Country generally ; the Defender of the Rich and Juicy, wherever found, and however bound.
The yellow pitcher plant readily hybridises with other members of the genus Sarracenia: the hybrids S. x catesbaei ( S. flava × S. purpurea ) and S. moorei ( S. flava × S. leucophylla ) are found in the wild, and are also popular amongst collectors.
Nickell mentions that Bentley's robe was found smoldering in the bathtub next to the hole, and that the broken remains of " what was apparently a water pitcher " were found in the toilet ; he adds that the doctor had dropped hot ashes from his pipe onto his clothing previously ( which " were dotted with burn spots from previous incidents "), and that he kept wooden matches in his pockets which could transform a small ember into a blazing flame.
Cat found her way back to the diamond in fifth grade, when she was filling in as a backup pitcher for a little league team.
In 2002, after Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was found dead in a Chicago hotel room, a game between the teams in Wrigley Field was postponed.
With some aid from fairies, who also give her gifts, Zoza found the prince and the pitcher, and nearly filled the pitcher when she fell asleep.
The gladed land is highly acidic and supports plants commonly found at higher latitudes, including cranberries, sphagnum moss, skunk cabbage, and two carnivorous plants ( purple pitcher plant, sundew ).
found and last
Much progress has been made in the last two decades in developing techniques for understanding children, yet in almost any classroom today can be found children whose needs are not being met by the school program.
In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.
Both of them were overcome by the horror of the world in which they found themselves, because at last they could no longer overcome that world with the weapon of a purely lyrical art.
Actually, the types of infection that could attack a warm-blooded mammal were not infinite, and over the course of the last few hundred years adequate defenses had been found for all basic categories.
However, details of these beliefs can be found in almost everything he wrote, from his early Summa de bono to his last work, the Summa theologiae.
He adds that this last has been controversial in that it has been claimed that this aspect of the doctrine is not found before the time of Augustine of Hippo, while others allege that it is implicit in the Church of the second and third centuries.
One of the last remaining Sunday closing laws in the United States that covers selling electronics, clothing and furniture is found in Bergen County, New Jersey.
Fuller's last filmed interview took place on April 3, 1983, in which he presented his analysis of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers as a unique embodiment of the structural principles found in nature.
Bouldering's documented origins may be found in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy in the last quarter of the 19th century.
Another example of text from the last chapter or epilogue of Job can be found in the book The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation, showing examples of how fragments of The Book of Job found among the scrolls differ from the text as now known.
Many characterizations of the Bernoulli numbers have been found in the last 300 years, and each could be used to introduce these numbers.
Lighthouse keeper Victoriano Álvarez ultimately found himself the last man remaining on the island, together with 15 women and children.
In the last quarter of the 8th century BC there is a steady increase in artifacts found at the settlement site in Delphi, which was a new, post-Mycenaean settlement of the late 9th century.
The last vestiges of cultural affiliation in a diaspora is often found in community resistance to language change and in maintenance of traditional religious practice.
Elf-shot ( or elf-bolt or elf-arrow ) is a word found in Scotland and Northern England, first attested in a manuscript of about the last quarter of the 16th century.
" The Imperial Household Law of 16 January 1947, enacted by the ninety-second and last session of the Imperial Diet, retained the exclusion on female dynasts found in the 1889 law.
After Elizabeth's own death, a note from him was found among her most personal belongings, marked " his last letter " in her handwriting.
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