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The thin man moved swiftly to the phone and dialed a number.
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The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The thin man said, `` That-a-way ''.
The thin man waved the gun again.
The thin man stopped his pacing long enough to glance at the clock.
In the basement the sheriff took him to a small, dingy office occupied by a tall, thin man informal in rolled-up shirt sleeves.
Next to the Blackwells, Titus had owned the island most, and she and Adelia had often stood in front of him, silenced by his terrible years -- a scanty man with a thin beard and very deep-set blue eyes like a mariner, more aged than possible.
Abu Bakr was a thin man with white skin.
He was a man with fair skin, thin, emaciated, with a sparse beard, a slightly hunched frame, sunken eyes and protruding forehead, and the bases of his fingers were hairless.
Mozart's physical appearance was described by tenor Michael Kelly, in his Reminiscences: " a remarkably small man, very thin and pale, with a profusion of fine, fair hair of which he was rather vain ".
* " A man came up to me today and said, ' Doodles, your hair is getting thin ," and I said, " Well, who wants fat hair?
Gaiman crafted the new character from an initial image of " a man, young, pale and naked, imprisoned in a tiny cell, waiting until his captors passed away [...] deathly thin, with long dark hair, and strange eyes.
Morpheus usually appears as a tall, thin man with bone-white skin, black hair, and two distant stars looking out from the shadows where his eyes should be.
In the writings of Derleth and a few other latter-day Cthulhu Mythos authors, the King in Yellow is an Avatar of Hastur, so named because of his appearance as a thin, floating man covered in tattered yellow robes.
Blofeld is described physically as a massive man, weighing roughly, has black crew-cut hair, black eyes ( similar to those of Benito Mussolini's ), heavy eyelashes, a thin mouth and long pointed hands and feet.
Grave of Samuel Dashiell Hammett in Arlington National Cemetery, ( Section 12, Site 508 ) A lifetime's heavy consumption of alcohol and cigarettes worsened Hammett's tuberculosis contracted in World War I, and then according to Hellman " jail had made a thin man thinner, a sick man sicker.
Thanks in part to experimental archaeology, it is generally believed that the pilum's design evolved to be armour-piercing: the pyramidal head would punch a small hole through an enemy shield allowing the thin shank to pass through and penetrate a distance sufficient to hit the man behind it.
* Don Chuma: Condorito's best, most loyal friend, he is a tall, thin, kind man man who helps Condorito to solve some of his problems, especially the ones related to money.
* Chuleta: A tall, thin, jolly man with huge teeth, long sideburns, a thin mustache and green skin.
Balaclava revealed the allied weakness ; their siege lines were so thin they did not have sufficient troops to man them.
A scene of her swimming underwater wearing only a thin, white T-shirt and bikini bottom helped make the film a box office success, leading the producer Peter Guber to say, " That T-shirt made me a rich man ".
The second young man, now in a meadow, dies while swiping at a nude figure which suddenly disappears into thin air.
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Her long thin arms moved in a slow rhythmical gesture over the family possessions which were placed in front of her.
Villages were moved about every ten years as the soil became less fertile and the nearby forest, which provided firewood, grew thin.
The Magentas editors declined Dean Burney's advice and moved forward with a biweekly paper, " a thin layer of editorial content surrounded by an even thinner wrapper of advertising ".
If the layer of water is thin and is moved around the dry lake by wind, an exceedingly hard and smooth surface may develop.
Just north of the Mull the land narrows significantly, forming two bays ( the East and West Tarbets ), here in ancient times boats were brought ashore and moved across the thin strip of land by man power, with the aid of log rollers and lubrication.
Arnold said the objects moved as if they were a saucer skipping across water, but also described the shape as thin, flat, and disc-like or saucer-like ( also like a " pie-plate ," " pie-pan ," and " half-moon shaped ")-- see Kenneth Arnold article for detailed quotes.
I would spend countless hours studying the grooves I would cut under the microscope that was attached to the lathe and loved the way music looked, moved and modulated within the thin walls.
The nickel plated phosphor bronze tapes were very abrasive and to counter this problem, a thin plastic wear tape was slowly moved over the recording head, between the head and the tape, preventing the recording head from quickly wearing out.
The figures are usually moved behind a thin screen and is not entirely a show of shadows as it is more of a silhouette shadow.
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Compared to the basaltic lava of the Hawaiian plume basalts at ~ 1200 ° C which behaves as treacle or honey, the komatiitic lava would have flowed swiftly across the surface, leaving extremely thin lava flows ( down to 10 mm thick ).
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It is also used to transfer small amounts of data between hosts on a network, such as IP phone firmware or operating system images when a remote X Window System terminal or any other thin client boots from a network host or server.
Once the plate is completely covered with a thin layer, a tarlatan cloth is used to wipe away excess ink, and paper ( typically pages from old phone books ) may be used for a final wipe of the lightest areas of the image.
Because of its striking appearance and thin profile, it was initially marketed as an exclusive fashion phone, but within a year, its price was lowered and it was wildly successful, selling over 50 million units by July 2006.
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The domains are separated by thin domain walls a number of molecules thick, in which the direction of magnetization of the dipoles rotates smoothly from one domain's direction to the other.
One of the main challenges to galaxy formation is the great number of thin disk galaxies in the local universe.
The Lambda-CDM model of galaxy formation underestimates the number of thin disk galaxies in the universe.
The second is two thin ' stripes ' of off-color fabric which were added to each midseam of the jersey, curling up to the neckline on the front and below the number on the back.
This model proposed an open floor plan consisting of concrete slabs supported by a minimal number of thin, reinforced concrete columns around the edges, with a stairway providing access to each level on one side of the floor plan.
Saladin promptly impressed the inhabitants of the town by publishing a decree that ordered a number of taxes to be canceled and erased all mention of them from treasury records, stating " the most miserable rulers are those whose purses are fat and their people thin.
It is possible that the thin line between office and the status that accompanied it were dismissed in Palmyrene court, especially when the circumstance worked against the interests of a regime that were successful in doing what a number of Roman emperors could not: defeat the Persians.
* Tunica intima ( the thinnest layer ): a single layer of simple squamous endothelial cells glued by a polysaccharide intercellular matrix, surrounded by a thin layer of subendothelial connective tissue interlaced with a number of circularly arranged elastic bands called the internal elastic lamina.
Young performed and analyzed a number of experiments, including interference of light from reflection off nearby pairs of micrometer grooves, from reflection off thin films of soap and oil, and from Newton's rings.
Sprouting broccoli has a larger number of heads with many thin stalks.
* Diaphragm shutter, a type of leaf shutter consisting of a number of thin blades in a camera
It is usually made in a wood-fire oven with a thin, flexible crust, very little sauce, and a number of interesting toppings.
# Differences in number and position of satellites, which ( when they occur ) are small bodies attached to a chromosome by a thin thread.
The thin woody cone scales number from 4-6 pairs and are persistent and overlapping, with an oblong shape, they are also basifixed.
Having a Biot number smaller than 0. 1 labels a substance as thermally thin, and temperature can be assumed to be constant throughout the materials volume.
Ayres ' early works are typically made with thin vinyl paint in a limited number of colours arranged in relatively simple forms, but later works in oil paint are more exuberant and very colourful, with a thick impasto being used.
The " Panaplex " is a gas-discharge display, using 7 segments to represent each number, within a thin glass " sandwich ".
For flows of large Prandtl number, the temperature / mass transition from surface to freestream temperature takes place across a very thin region close to the surface.
The British Supermarine Spitfire used as thin a wing as possible for lower high-speed drag, but later paid a high price for it in a number of aerodynamic problems such as control reversal.
König had observed a number of very fine silver objects from ancient Iraq that were plated with very thin layers of gold, and speculated that they were electroplated using batteries with these as the cells.
The movement of a such a large bubble to the legs can be a problem for a number of reasons: It balloons the legs, and it may inflate thin rubber booties enough to cause fins to pop off ; a diver without fins has more restricted ability to move and become upright, and also loses the ability to kick downward to maintain depth, so that the bubble expansion problem does not grow worse.
Needle sluice: A sluice formed by a number of thin needles held against a solid frame through water pressure as in a needle dam.
The terrain is punctuated by a large number of limestone or granite rocks and boulders and a thin layer of topsoil, which makes the region very dry and prone to flash flooding.
Intuitively speaking, part of the graph of a function is rotated around an axis, and is modelled by an infinite number of hollow pipes, all infinitely thin.
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