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They are plucked idiophones, such as the jaw harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box or mbira ( lamellophone / thumb piano ); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one ; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone, daxophone, styrophone, musical saw, or nail violin ( a number of pieces of metal or wood rubbed with a bow ).
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They are preoccupied riding herd on control panels, switches, flashing colored lights on pale green or gray consoles that look like business machines.
They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.
They are mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.
They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.
They recognized that slavery was a moral issue and not merely an economic interest, and that to recognize it explicitly in their Constitution would be in explosive contradiction to the concept of sovereignty they had set forth in the Declaration of 1776 that `` all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among them are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
They are in general those fears that once seemed to have been amenable to prayer or ritual.
They are non-conformists on principle.
They are full of contempt for the institution of matrimony.
They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police.
They for their part are convinced that Holmes is too `` unorthodox '' and `` theoretical '' to make a good detective.
They are presumed to have plunged to a common grave in this fatal embrace.
They are determined to prove something.
They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.
They are very small, and in the form of haystacks, without either chimney or windows.
They are situated in the midst of trees, which hang over them, and appear truly romantick.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.
They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
They are longing to see you ''.
They are not true because scientists or prophets say they are true.
They and plucked
They were struck, plucked, and eventually bowed.
They distinguish the struck ( yàle ), including both beaten and plucked, and the blown ( fêe ), as revealed by Ruth Stone in Let the Inside Be Sweet: the interpretation of music among the Kpelle of Liberia, 1982, Indiana U. Press ( Kartomi, 1990 ).
They construct simple nests from whatever material is close to hand, often lining them with a layer of down plucked from the mother's breast.
They are usually composed of small feathers, as the larger ones are plucked and not consumed.
They plucked out their hair from the forehead to the crown, as a tribal mark.
They stuck the plucked white roses in their coats as a tribute.
They were often accompanied by the two most prevalent Ainu musical instruments: the tonkori, a plucked zither, and the mukkuri, a jaw harp played by women.
* They should be plucked only after having bath.
They were kept for their wool, which was plucked, not shorn, and made into tweed.
They are plucked from the Shi Da Cha, a large leaf-variety found only in Anhui Province.
They were custom-built for him in Piraeus by the luthier Kyriakos Peismatoglou, and differed in one important respect from other plucked long-necked lutes in use in Greece at this time, in that they were not fretted according to the equal temperament division of the octave into twelve identical semitones.
They will oscillate at approximately 40 Hz when the web is plucked — thought to be a response to a potential predator.
They are kept at a fairly low tension in comparison to the guitar and other European plucked instruments.
They and idiophones
They are a kind of percussion instrument ( idiophones ), usually played in pairs, consisting of a dried calabash or gourd shell ( cuia " koo-ya ") or coconut shell filled with seeds or dried beans.
They include all idiophones which are made to vibrate by being hit, either directly with a stick or hand ( like the wood block, singing bowl, triangle or marimba ), or indirectly, by way of a scraping or shaking motion ( like maracas or flexatone ).
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They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.
Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.
`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.
They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.
They insist they are ashamed of such violence and intimidation as occurred in Alabama when the Freedom Riders sought to break down racial discrimination in local bus depots.
They do our country great harm by such actions.
They are laid a minimum of 24'' '' deep and in some areas four feet down, particularly under roads, to stay clear of all other piping such as water and sewers and to minimize shocks from heavy trucking.
They argue further ( and somewhat contradictorily ) that our knowledge and resources in preventive medicine would make it possible to control such an outbreak of disease.
They may be caused by poor health habits, such as faulty eating and sleeping habits.
They were reluctant to appoint sheriffs to protect the property, thus running the risk of creating disturbances such as that on the Vermejo, and yet the cowboys protested that they got no salary for arresting cattle thieves and running the risk of being shot.
They seemed happy at the delay in unloading, glad at the chance to go ashore in a lively liberty port such as Bari.
They would be particularly displeased with the State Department if it were the source of such reports.
They were coming on at reckless speed for such old vehicles.
`` They cannot do otherwise than live in dread of each other since these weapons imply the possibility of such grisly surprise attack.
They have not done so for the simple reason that such appeals have hardly ever been made.
They do not understand how a small magazine with no advertising and no newsstand sale could have achieved such a following.
`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.
They possess a cranium, spine, rib cage, long bones such as the humerus and femur, and short bones such as the phalanges, metacarpals, and metatarsals.
They have various colourings such as mottled browns, greys and olives to blend into the background.
They will often memorise the location of such nests and return to them to save the trouble of finding a new one.
They occur where sedimentation proceeds slowly or where currents sort the deposits, such as in the Hewett Curve.
They are likely the sister taxon to the crustacean stem lineage, and, as such, part of the clade Crustaceomorpha.
They do not include earlier states of language, such as Middle Mongol or Old Japanese.
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