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straight and black
Charles, also fifteen, was tall and skinny, scraggly, with straight black hair like an Indian's and sharp brown eyes.
He stifled the Comanche yell and let John lead him straight toward the nearby black volcanic mountain.
He had a pinkish-white complexion, a small straight nose, a short black beard, and tightly curled paot.
In the book of " Ainu life and legends " by author Kyōsuke Kindaichi ( published by the Japanese Tourist Board in 1942 ) contains the physical description of Ainu: Many have wavy hair, but some straight black hair.
The Falcons wore the all black combination against the New Orleans Saints for 4 straight seasons starting in 2004, With the last time being in 2007, losing 34 – 14.
* Quality (< span lang = grc > poion </ span >, of what kind or description ) — examples: white, black, grammatical, hot, sweet, curved, straight.
In the inertial frame of reference ( upper part of the picture ), the black object moves in a straight line, without significant friction with the disc.
Its advantage was that it was less corrosive than smokeless powders then in use as the bulkier load carried away more of the primer residue, and somewhat less fouling than straight black powder in that the bore did not require cleaning after every shot.
" Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or conservative value.
In Draw poker, one also hears the terms " 12-way " or " 16-way " straight draw for hands such as < font color = red > 6 ♥ 7 ♥</ font > < font color = black > 8 ♠ ( Joker )</ font >, in which any of sixteen cards ( 4 fours, 4 fives, 4 nines, 4 tens ) can fill a straight.
In particular it attacks the use of sharp binary classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial ; it holds realities to be plural and relative, and to be dependent on who the interested parties are and the nature of these interests.
The finish line is black on white and near the end of the home straight.
The two-meter-wide Yellow – red – blue ( 1925 ) consists of several main forms: a vertical yellow rectangle, an inclined red cross and a large dark blue circle ; a multitude of straight ( or sinuous ) black lines, circular arcs, monochromatic circles and scattered, coloured checkerboards contribute to its delicate complexity.
Eisner said that on one occasion a man who Eisner described as " a Mob type straight out of Damon Runyon, complete with pinkie ring, broken nose, black shirt, and white tie, who claimed to have ' exclusive distribution rights for all Brooklyn " asked Eisner to draw Tijuana bibles for $ 3 a page.
Pants are straight leg and a black or dark-colored belt is worn with them.
Fashions for women included black leotards and wearing their hair long, straight and unadorned in a rebellion against the middle class culture of beauty salons.
The program displayed a two dimensional shape ( a “ biomorph ”) made up of straight black lines, the length, position, and angle of which were defined by a simple set of rules and instructions ( analogous to a genome ).
" The governor [...] said he thought the white men were flocking this way to retake their lost country ; for tradition recorded that the Wahuma were once half black and half white, with half the hair straight and the other half curly ; and how was this to be accounted for unless the country formerly belonged to white men with straight hair, but was subsequently taken by black men?
** In Dough for the Do-Do, after the sun is risen ( with the " Ranz des Vaches " part of the William Tell Overture playing in the background ), it cuts straight to the scene with the black duck passing by Porky and saying " Mammy!
' His long, black hair, his characteristic Indian complexion, his straight manly bearing and genteel manners, gave him a close resemblance of the ideal type of the noble red man.

straight and hair
Her white blond hair was clean and brushed long straight down to her shoulders.
Slender and tanned, her dark brown hair was drawn straight back, simply.
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
In litters of eight mice from similar parents, the number of mice with straight instead of wavy hair is an integer from 0 to 8.
It is natural from the marksman's viewpoint to call a bull's-eye a success, but in the mice example it is arbitrary which category corresponds to straight hair in a mouse.
The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.
Personally, I prefer straight hair like yours, but as they say on the Continent, ' What can one do ' ''??
The shape of the follicle determines the shape of the cortex, and the shape of the fiber is related to how straight or curly the hair is.
Asian hair typically has a round fiber and is quite straight.
During the gradual process by which Homo erectus made a transition from furry to naked skin, their hair texture putatively changed gradually from Afro-textured hair or ' kinky ' ( i. e. tightly coiled ) to straight hair ( the condition of most mammals, including humanity's closest cousins — chimpanzees ) This argument is based on the principle that curly hair impedes the passage of UV light into the body relative to straight hair ( thus curly or coiled hair would be particularly advantageous for dark-skinned hominids living at the equator ).

straight and flopped
On a flop of Q-J-T, a player holding A-K will have flopped an ace-high Broadway straight.

straight and nod
For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

straight and slender
As the axial load on a perfectly straight slender column with elastic material properties is increased in magnitude, this ideal column passes through three states: stable equilibrium, neutral equilibrium, and instability.
The first and most common type consists of two slender, straight sticks tapered to a point at one end, and with a knob at the other end to prevent stitches from slipping off.
It is a slender, straight stick tapered to a point at one end, with a knob at the other end to prevent stitches from slipping off.
The Rufous Hummingbird ( Selasphorus rufus ) is a small hummingbird, about 8 cm long ( 3 inches ) with a long, straight and very slender bill.
An Aes Sedai of the Green Ajah, she is described as being slender and graceful with a straight back and almost white hair, with fine bones and a long patrician face.
Their bill, at up to, is long, straight and very slender.
Their bill is long, straight and very slender.
Its bill is long, straight and slender.
It has a long and slender neck with a straight, pointed bill and like a cormorant, it hunts for fish while it hunts with its body submerged in water.
The executioner's kris had a long, straight, slender blade.
She is slender, with short brown hair cut straight across in back.
His nose was straight and slender, and his chin narrow but prominent, with an unusually deep cleft ... Vance was slightly under six feet, graceful, and giving the impression of sinewy strength and nervous endurance.
A slender, pointed, straight, thrusting sword ; a rapier.
The shape could be that of a baseball bat with a thick heavy end tapering towards a slender handle or they could be straight all the way from the handle to the end, with the shaft being round or multi faceted.
A new form of dagger begins to turn up on the Korean peninsula, straight and slender.
Vikings 1 through 7 were slightly longer ( about 15 m, 49 ft ) than the V-2, but with a straight cylindrical body only 32 in ( 81 cm ) in diameter, making the rocket quite slender.
Early examples were raised on slender cabriole legs ; under the influence of neoclassicism, examples made after about 1775 had straight, tapering legs.
He has a great, full eye, a sharp ear, and a straight leg, which, to an over curious eye might appear too slender -- which is all the fault curiosity itself and find.
Members are characterised by long, slender, usually orthoconic ( straight ) but sometimes slightly curved shells, a central or subcentral orthochoanitic siphuncle that is free of deposits, a long body chamber, and cylindrical or only slightly inflated connecting rings.
Ornithomimus differs from other ornithomimids, such as Struthiomimus, in having a short back, long slender forearms, very slender, straight hand and foot claws and in having metacarpals and fingers of similar lengths.
; Stems and leaves: The slender leaves are not hairy, straight and pointed at the apex ( in some varieties wrinkled ), to long and to wide.
::" Snorri was middling in height and somewhat slender, fair to look on, straight faced and of light hue ; of yellow hair and red beard ; he was meek of mood in his daily ways ; little men knew of his thought for good or ill ; he was a wise man, and forseeing in many things, enduring in wrath and deep in hatred ; of good rede was he for his friends, but his unfriends deemed his counsels but cold.
The neck is slender, running into pronounced withers, a deep chest, and fairly straight shoulders.

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