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We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.
Center panel, hand-screened wood, actually is a back of one of the tall bookcases.
`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.
She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall.
Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.
" Counting tray "), is typically tall and comes in various widths depending on the operator.
An aardwolf is about 55 to 80 centimeters long, excluding its bushy tail about 20 to 30 cm long, and one stands about 40 to 50 cm tall at the shoulders.
She is tall and weighs, matching the average figure of a Korean women in her twenties.
He is tall and thin and, as Tarrou observes in his journal, " his small, beady eyes, narrow nose, and hard, straight mouth make him look like a well-brought-up owl.
The urn is made of terracotta and is about six inches ( 150 mm ) tall and may originally have been a perfume jar.
The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.
Haie is described as being tall and strong, and a peat-digger by profession.
In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.
* In the episode " 11: 59 " of Star Trek: Voyager's fifth season ( original air date: May 5, 1999 ), Earth's first self-contained ecosystem known as " The Millennium Gate " is referenced and described as one kilometer tall and having begun construction in 2001.
The founding of the United States is often surrounded by legends and tall tales.
The tall tale is a fundamental element of American folk literature.
A tall tale is a story with unbelievable elements, related as if it were true and factual.
The line between myth and tall tale is distinguished primarily by age ; many myths exaggerate the exploits of their heroes, but in tall tales the exaggeration looms large, to the extent of becoming the whole of the story.
* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.
The Funkturm Berlin is a tall lattice radio tower at the fair area, built between 1924 and 1926.
Bigfoot is described in reports as a large hairy ape-like creature, in a range of tall, weighing in excess of, and covered in dark brown or dark reddish hair.
Beside each " living creature " is a " wheel within a wheel ," with " tall and awesome " rims full of eyes all around.

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There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
After it has been seen, have the child start on a mat on hands and knees ( a thin, inexpensive mat is quite sufficient for anything that does not require falling ).
One simple method of measuring the expansion of the heart is to tie a thin rubber tube, filled with mercury, around the heart and record the change in resistance as the tube is stretched.
The copy itself, including any text or illustrations, is reproduced in full color directly on a thin Mylar polyester film by a photo screen process.
Finish your plumbing before you frame it in ( most economical framing is a thin non-bearing partition on either side of the pipes ).
The pleura is extremely thin in type 2 and septa are absent.
Often it is thin and fragile and gives way readily to the male organ at the first attempt at intercourse.
Usually this is a thin band of wire attached to the molars and stretching across the teeth.
As well as breathing with lungs, they respire through the many folds in their skin which is thin with the capillaries close to the surface.
The aardvark's coat is thin, and the animal's primary protection is its tough skin.
The ovary is inferior with often a thin tubular portion at its apex formed by joined tepals or the tip of the ovary.
Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.
In general, external alpha radiation is not harmful since alpha particles are effectively shielded by a few centimeters of air, a piece of paper, or the thin layer of dead skin cells.
Often, the fact that sometimes only a thin surface layer of violet color is present in the stone or that the color is not homogeneous makes for a difficult cutting.
Authentic Cantonese Wonton Soup is a full meal in itself consisting of thin egg noodles and several pork and prawn wontons in a pork or chicken soup broth or noodle broth.
The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.
Throughout the book, Paul frequently remarks on how much of an eater he is, yet somehow manages to stay as " thin as a rake.
Pizza -- made with very thin, and sometimes thick, high-rising doughs, with or without cheese, cooked in the oven or a la piedra ( on a stone oven ), and stuffed with numerous ingredients -— is a dish which can be found in nearly every corner of the country.
The most common type is a piezoelectric pickup, which is composed of a thin sandwich of quartz crystal.

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