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Their and heads
Their heads were preserved in salt, and identifying tags pinned to their ears.
Their heads are narrower, their ears longer, higher placed and somewhat closer to each other.
Their back legs are slightly longer than their front legs, and their muzzles are blunt with eyes, nostrils, and ears on top of their heads.
Their heads are eyeless and noseless, with a gash of a mouth.
Their ant-like heads included two antennae and two mandibles.
Their performances also featured absurdly comical stage props such as oversized fezzes and large cardboard cutout heads of newspaper editor William Allen White.
Their sons Joseph M. McCormick ( known as " Medill McCormick ") and Robert R. McCormick both served as heads of the Tribune.
Their corpses are decapitated and their heads carried to Rome.
Their heads are round with full, chubby cheeks.
Their travels abroad on behalf of the United Kingdom ( called State Visits when the sovereign officially meets with other heads of state ) draw celebrity-like attention to amicable relations within and between the Commonwealth and other nations, to British goods and trade, and to Britain as a historical, vacation, and tourist destination.
Their lack of activity is possibly a defence against predation ; trogons on all continents have been reported to shift about on branches to always keep their less brightly coloured backs turned towards observers, whilst their heads, which like owls can turn through 180 degrees, keep a watch on the watcher.
Their eyes are placed on the sides of their heads, giving them a broad radius of vision with minimal binocular vision.
Their main advantage is flexibility, as the user can attach different heads for different tasks, and maneuverability ( the head can reach under furniture and makes it very easy to vacuum stairs and vertical surfaces ).
Their feet are covered with curly hair ( usually brown, as was the hair on their heads ) with leathery soles, so most Hobbits hardly ever wear shoes.
Their heads are made of rubber, their tails are made of springs.
Their heads were on display on the four corners of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, in Guanajuato.
Their heads were exhibited in the Forum.
: Their heads are green, and their hands are blue
Their physical appearance is somewhat different from that of ordinary humans, with enlarged heads and wasted bodies.
Their uncommonly large ears are set low on the sides of their wide heads, their eyes are large, and their noses are slightly upturned.
Their chief ( Abe Vigoda ) asks one last time if anyone else will volunteer, but there are no takers and Joe heads for the volcano.
Their bodies were buried in graves just outside the Kåfjord church graveyard in Alta, but their heads were sent on to the Anatomisk Institute at the Kong Medical Frederiks University in Oslo, where they were kept for more than a century as part of the university's skull collections.
Their outward appearance is marked mainly by bony crests located on their chest and disproportionately large heads, giving them a generally gangly appearance.
Their heads are large and their necks are short and thick.

Their and were
Their conversations were, almost invariably, accompanied by the same gestures -- arms and pointed forefingers darting toward each other in arclike semicircular motions.
Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.
Their President, Jefferson Davis, interpreted their Constitution to mean that it `` admits of no coerced association '', but this remained so doubtful that `` there were frequent demands that the right to secede be put into the Constitution ''.
Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.
Their ham butts, cured in oak-log smoke, were also esteemed when roasted or boiled, and served with this original sauce:
Their two boys were `` well adjusted '' and, like their parents, always did the right thing at the right time and damn the consequences.
Their old errors of judgment were equated, in the curious logic of the time, with present treasonous intent.
Their props were two stepladders, a chair and a palm fan.
Their cars weren't small enough, they didn't have the power, they were old-fashioned.
Their meditations were approaching a violent cusp that would shape Martian art for many millennia.
Their skins were exposed to harmful ultraviolet rays that had previously been absorbed by the water.
Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.
Their most famous battle against Rome took place in Argentoratum ( Strasbourg ), in 357, where they were defeated by Julian, later Emperor of Rome, and their king Chnodomarius was taken prisoner to Rome.
Their territories were small and mostly strung along the Rhine ( although a few were in the hinterland ).
Their children were born at various places throughout the Roman Empire and Agrippina acquired a well-deserved reputation for successful childbearing.
Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.
Their aunt tried to teach the girls how to run a household, but their minds were more inclined to literature.
Their return was blocked, and they resolved to march on Athens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the Battle of Tanagra.
Their answers to the problem were similar, with the United States developing the M56 Scorpion and the Soviet Union developing the ASU-57, both essentially air-droppable light anti-tank guns.
Their turretless construction bears similarity to later tank destroyers and they were used as an anti-tank component of the reconnaissance units.
Their best finish of this period was under the management of Englishman Jesse Carver, when in 1954 – 55 they finished as runners-up, after Udinese who originally finished second were relegated for corruption.
Their duties at first were simply ministerial.
Their offices were compatible with other offices, i. e. they can hold two benefices or offices at one and the same time, some conferred by the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, others by the Holy Father.

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