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thin and man
The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.
The thin man said, `` That-a-way ''.
The thin man moved swiftly to the phone and dialed a number.
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.

thin and gun
The limit is the point at which the powder gas temperature and pressure starts to melt the base of the bullet, and leave a thin coating of molten and re-solidified lead in the bore of the gun — a process called leading the bore.
Unfortunately, the armor was thin enough to be penetrated even by heavy machine gun rounds, and when hit by a rocket propelled grenade the vehicle would " brew up " due to the main gun propellant being stored in cardboard tubes.
One type is a conductive energy device ( CED ), an electroshock gun popularly known by the brand name " Taser ", which fires projectiles that administer the shock through a thin, flexible wire.
They were demonstrating a new type of color television based on the Chromatron system, which used a single electron gun and a mask of thin wires instead of a shadow mask.
When these divisions were sent to Korea at the end of June 1950, they soon found that the 75mm gun on the M24 could not penetrate the armor of North Korean T-34 tanks, which had no difficulty penetrating the M24's thin armor.
Its main failings were comparatively thin side armor, limited ammunition stowage, poor gun traverse, poor internal layout that made operating the vehicle difficult, as well as torsion bars and drive wheels that were prone to failure due to the increased weight.
As with nearly all tankettes built in the 1920s and 1930s, they had thin armor that could be penetrated by. 50 caliber machine gun fire at 600 yards range.
Although the Crusader was faster than any tanks it opposed, its potential was limited by a relatively light QF 2-pounder gun, thin armour and mechanical problems.
When the second was tested at Lulworth, it was criticized that, although it would be effective at long range against the current best-gunned tank in German service ( the Panzer IV " Special " with the long 75 mm gun ), at shorter ranges it would be at a disadvantage due to slow firing rate and thin armour.
The T-26 was a light tank assigned to Infantry units and thus fulfilled the infantry tank role, but in it had the relatively thin armour of light tank, but with a potent 45 mm gun.
The T-70 was an attempt to remedy some of the shortcomings of the T-60 scout tank, which had very poor cross-country mobility, thin armour, and an inadequate 20-mm gun.
Peter Stack, in his review for San Francisco Chronicle, wrote, " The Way of the Gun attempts to be poetical Peckinpah, but it's a pointless exercise in gun violence with characterizations so thin they vaporize ".
Driving backwards away from an enemy is even safer than driving forwards towards them since driving forwards over a bump can throw the front of the tank up in the air, exposing the thin armour of the underside and taking the gun off the target due to its limited angle of depression.
As the hydrogen gas reaches maximum pressure, a coupling holding the projectile in place is destroyed, driving the projectile down a 4-in diameter barrel at extremely high velocities until it bursts through a thin plastic sheet covering the end of the gun.
The tank served with the Red Army in the Winter War with Finland in 1940, but was unsuccessful due to its light armament and thin armour, which was easily penetrated by rifle and light machine gun fire.

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As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.
Notably, during this time his physical characteristics also change dramatically, and by the time Arthur Hastings meets Poirot again in Curtain, he looks very different from his previous appearances, having become thin with age and with obviously dyed hair.
These two thin slices are then toasted again to make Melba toast.
Pumps further up the thin ascending limb, pump out from 400 mOsm into liquid at 600 mOsm, so again the difference is retained at 200 mOsm from the inside to the outside, while the concentration both inside and outside are gradually decreasing as the liquid flow advances.
Each scale on a cone contains a single winged seed approximately 5 mm by 8 mm and attached to a thin wing perhaps half as large again.
Spalling caused by the reflected energy can be partially prevented by a malleable thin graphite layer on the face of the ceramic absorbing the energy without making it strongly rebound again as a metal face plate would.
20 % of oocysts have thin walls and so can reinfect the host by rupturing and releasing sporozoites that start the process over again.
* Hitting the thin outer portions of these sections, again coloured red or green, scores double the points value of that section.
Once again the Australians repelled the Chinese assault and Gravener decided to begin to thin out his position before the situation deteriorated further.
The human skin has a somewhat elastic property as a self-defense ; when the human body is stabbed by a thin object such as a kitchen knife, the skin often closes tightly around the object and closes again if the object is removed, which can trap some blood within the body.
Still needing to perform to pay her creditors, she was again in London in 1750, where Burney heard her " thin cracked voice " in a concert on 18 May.
Once again the Christians were confined to a thin strip of ports along the Mediterranean coast.
Very thin strands of albumen could be soft and fine enough to allow the trapdoor to close completely ; these would not be drawn in any further unless the trigger hairs were indeed stimulated again.
An animal long enough not to be fully engulfed upon first springing the trap, but thin and soft enough to allow the door to return fully to its set position, would indeed be left partly outside the trap until it or another body triggered the mechanism once again.
When calcium is no longer present on the thin filament, the tropomyosin changes conformation back to its previous state so as to block the binding sites again.
A two-page color picture of the thin pillar coupe and pictures of the again standard bench seat interior were included along with equipment descriptions.
With so many new ingredients, results were again thin on the ground although Capelli often qualified and raced well.
Carmichael was cautioned by the Social Credit Party of Ontario that he was " skating on thin ice " and would not be permitted to stand as a candidate again.
Now riding a-shorter wheelbase (), the-long Sixty Special continued as a pillarless hardtop with its own distinct moldings-including a side-mounted dummy air-scoop on the rear fender, and a thin chrome bead that ran from the front fender back to the rear bumper, and then forward again to the front wheel well.
They get the bladder and blowe it great and thin, with many beanes and peason put within, It ratleth, shineth and soundeth clere and fayre, While it is throwen and caste up in the eyre, Eche one contendeth and hath a great delite, with foote and hande the bladder for to smite, if it fall to the ground they lifte it up again ... Overcometh the winter with driving the foote-ball.
Each candy is wrapped in a printed waxed paper wrapper, but within this, the sticky candies are again wrapped in a thin edible paper-like wrapping made from sticky rice.
A less immediately painful variation, often dubbed the wooden pony, is a single plank of wood supported ( either again with wooden legs or suspended from the ceiling ) horizontal from the floor on its side, with the thin edge up.
It is produced by cutting tofu into thin slices and deep frying first at 110 ~ 120 ° C then at 180 ~ 200 ° C again.
Stacking these slices and again cutting lengthwise into thin ( 1-2 mm, equal to the thickness ) strips creates thin uniform square sticks.

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