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A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.
However, it was later reported that a sea anemone had been scooped up from the seabed mud by the Russian team and that video footage from the dive showed unidentified shrimps and amphipods.
This elaborate procedure, requiring the maintenance of pots of opium at just the right temperature for a globule to be scooped up with a needle-like skewer for smoking, formed the basis of a craft of " paste-scooping " by which servant girls could become prostitutes as the opportunity arose.
Bradshaw scooped it up and rolled to his right, looking to pass, but Henderson wrapped him up before he could throw, while Hegman ripped the ball out of his hands and returned the fumble 37 yards for a touchdown, giving the Cowboys a 14 – 7 lead.
Legend has it he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet ; he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the Irish Sea — the clump becoming the Isle of Man, the pebble becoming Rockall, and the void becoming Lough Neagh.
They are characterised by a long beak and large throat pouch used in catching prey and draining water from the scooped up contents before swallowing.
In the royal resort of Ulhu, the wine-cellar of the Urartian kings was plundered ; wine was scooped up like water.
She claimed that in her haste, she had also scooped up most of Cooke's clothing by mistake.
McCarty scooped up Ollinger's 10-gauge double-barrel shotgun.
The same young female just scooped up handfuls of wheat and sand and dumped them in the water.
This method is used to catch small pelagic fish called kapenta, originally from beaches but now using lights on boats at night to attract the fish which are then scooped up in fine nets.
Customers scooped up their nickels, then slipped them into slots in the Automats and turned the chrome-plated knobs with their porcelain centers.
* Legends of Fionn mac Cumhaill also known by many other names including Finn MacCool, have it that he built the Giant's Causeway as stepping-stones to Scotland, so as not to get his feet wet ; and that he also once scooped up part of Ireland to fling it at a rival, but it missed and landed in the Irish Sea — the clump became the Isle of Man and the pebble became Rockall, the void became Lough Neagh.
The mixture is then scooped up with a spatula, pressed into the roll, and cut in half.
The idea is that one scooped wine or water from a storage vessel or similar source, held it up, unstoppered the hole with one's thumb, and let the fluid run into the mouth ( or onto the ground in libation ) in the same way wine is drunk from a wineskin today.
They scooped it up with oxhorns, instead of cups which had not yet been seen, so that ever after the cup of mixed wine took this divine name of ' Winehorn '.
An old Irish story tells how the Lough was formed when Ireland's legendary giant Fionn mac Cumhaill ( Finn McCool ) scooped up a portion of the land and tossed it at a Scottish rival.
He scooped up the sailing ball just before it hit the ground ( 3 ).
The blade scooped up the soil, instead of merely pushing it along, and ran along a C-shaped bowl which could be adjusted in order to alter the angle of the bucket to the ground, so that the dirt could be deposited in low spots.
They failed to open a box of the payroll of the General Electric Company but scooped up everything else.
When Soriano Jr. died of cancer in 1984, Cojuangco scooped up the chairmanship of San Miguel in 1984.
By using a huge, hydraulic-powered rotating rake with large steel tines, refuse was scooped up from the loading hopper and forced through a set of stationary tines.

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" Not Chaos, notThe darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped outBy help of dreams — can breed such fear and aweAs fall upon us often when we lookInto our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My Haunt, and the main region of my song.
When the filtering process is complete, the remaining slag granules, which now give the appearance of coarse beach sand, can be scooped out of the filter bed and transferred to the grinding facility where they are ground into particles that are finer than Portland cement.
Beeswax was heated in a small bowl on the stove ( піч ), and then scooped into the stylus as needed.
A 99 Flake ice cream, or more commonly a 99, is an ice cream cone, usually made with soft serve ice cream rather than scooped ice cream, into which a Flake bar has been inserted, typically at an acute angle to the cone.
Once a suitable placer deposit is located, some gravel from it is scooped into a pan, where it is then gently agitated in water and the gold sinks to the bottom of the pan.
Rubio scooped up the grenade, ran through the deadly hail of fire to within 20 meters of the enemy position and hurled the already smoking grenade into the midst of the enemy before he fell for the final time.
The bandits locked the employees and customers into the safe and scooped up $ 6, 000 in cash and $ 4, 000 in bonds from the vault.
The yolk mixture is then scooped with a spoon or piped back into each egg " cup ".
One of the young men scooped some water from the bath into his glass, at the bottom of which was a small piece of toast or crouton ( later known as a sop ) from the Master of the Toast at the banquet he was attending.
By chance, Peter finds that his empty sack will consume objects and creatures that are scooped into its open mouth.
For example, 1 cup of all-purpose flour sifted into a cup and leveled weighs about 100 grams, whereas 1 cup of all-purpose flour scooped from its container and leveled weighs about 140 grams.
The Garbage hears a rumbling and declares that God has arrived, and is then scooped into a garbage truck and driven away calling " Fuck this city!

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The Veddas also scooped the trunks of the Gadumba tree and laid the body between the scooped out wood planks and then buried.
In a The New York Times article ( correction printed January 3, 2002 ) " No president has ever used the current system or its technical predecessors in the last 50 years, despite the Soviet missile crisis, a presidential assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, major earthquakes and three recent high-alert terrorist warnings ... Michael K. Powell, the then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, which oversees the Emergency Alert System, pointed to ' the ubiquitous media environment ,' arguing that the system was, in effect, scooped by CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel and other channels ... activates the alert system nationally at the behest of the White House on 34 50, 000-watt stations that reach 98 percent of Americans ...
In a jack-o '- lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out ; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved out, and the lid replaced.
Today, the Swedish-Finnish semla consists of a cardamom-spiced wheat bun which has its top cut off and insides scooped out, and is then filled with a mix of the scooped-out bread crumbs, milk and almond paste, topped with whipped cream.
If the last seed sown lands in one of the player's eight inner pits, which is occupied, and furthermore both the opponent's pits in this same column are occupied, then all seeds from these two pits are captured and sown starting from the pit where this capturing lap began ( i. e., from the last pit scooped, NOT from the original hole from the very beginning of the turn ).
The softened flesh is scooped out, squeezed or salted to remove excess water, and is then pureed with the tahini.
Nevertheless the rescue was effected, and he then scooped cover for the wounded, thus saving their lives.
Sensors can detect how much material is being scooped onto the conveyor belt, and the automation system can then vary the speed on the conveyor belts in order to feed a continuous amount of material.

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