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They and curled
They also began to exhibit other traits seen in some dog breeds, such as color pattern, curled tails, floppy ears, and shorter legs and tails.
They vary in appearance, but all have tails curled over their back, a coat that is hair rather than fur that doesn't readily shed, short snouts, drop ears, and large, dark eyes.
They all have in common the prick up-ears and a curled tail.
Like Mojaris, these are long shoes with the end curled upwards. They have been traditionally handed over generations with each generation contributing some variation to it.
They and around
`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
They would all lie around on the rug during the meal, a very pretty sight as Rob Roy, Prudence, and Calamity Jane were all snow-white.
They rode around and around to trample the figure into the sand.
They all sat around and drank ice water, and the men smoked, and everybody had a good time.
They were pushed gently into the room by Arlene -- whose only part appearing were hands that crept quickly back around to the kitchen side of the door.
They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.
They surged around him, fingers pointing, eyes prying.
They found a large welcoming group -- El Paso policemen, Border Patrol, sheriff's deputies, and FBI men, who surged around the plane with rifles and submachine guns.
They walked slowly past the sherbet-colored cottages -- eleven lemon, nine mint, seven orange -- around the curve to a deserted stand with an `` Eats '' sign jiggling in the wind.
They extend a pair of pseudopodia around food.
They scrape and bite food of many kinds as well as stirring up the bottom sediment, filtering out larger particles with the papillae around their mouths.
They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain ; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats.
They are far more acidic than alkenes and alkanes, which have pK < sub > a </ sub > values of around 40 and 50, respectively.
They are altitudinal migrants, generally nesting in the lower grasslands of an elevation of around 1, 300 to 2, 000 m and moving down to lower altitudes for winter.
They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings.
They include a long line of TV advertisements in the 1990s featuring three frogs named " Bud ", " Weis ", and " Er ", the Budweiser Ants, and a campaign built around the phrase " Whassup?
They are commonly used as filler to depict background activities in an atmosphere like a bar or rec room, but sometimes the drama revolves around the play of the game.
They were reduced to around 65, 000 in 11 combat brigades and the Air Force in 1997, to 63, 601 in 1999, and to 35, 000 in 2005.
They paraded around for a few innings, but Wrigley demanded the goat leave the park due to its unpleasant odor.
They rest around midnight and then continue to graze before dawn.
They are held around the Commonwealth, rotating by invitation amongst its members.
They also accumulated $ 1. 7 billion in short-term debt around this time.
They made him a minor, off-beat celebrity in Los Angeles and around Hollywood, and his friendship with old show-business types like Mae West and rising fringe celebrities like Korla Pandit made Criswell an entertaining presence at parties.
They and cuff
They cushion and protect the rotator cuff from the bony arch of the acromion.
They inflate the cuff and gradually reduce the pressure in the same was as a manual meter, and measure blood pressures by the oscillometric method.
They cuff Steven and Laura and tape their mouths shut.
They were modified service shoes, with an extended, rough-out or, more commonly, a smooth leather high-top cuff added.
They may also, depending on cuff location, improve aileron control at low speed.
They were long baggy pants narrowing to a cuff at the ankles ( worn below a skirt ), intended to preserve Victorian decency while being less of a hindrance to women's activities than the long full skirts of the period ( see Victorian dress reform ).
They are also available in a wider range of colors and cuff lengths.
They and .
They crawled through the north fence and came on toward him, and now he saw that both were young, not more than nineteen or twenty.
They were dirty, their clothes were torn, and the girl was so exhausted that she fell when she was still twenty feet from the front door.
They looked a good deal alike, Morgan thought.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
They were running from something.
They were a pair of lost, whipped kids, Morgan thought as he went to bed.
They killed Big Charlie, dumped his body in my rose garden two nights ago.
They just all cleared out.
They passed ranches that were framed dark gray against the black hills.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.
They neither gained nor fell back.
They dragged him inside the building.
They were tethered, army style, on stable lines.
They had pistols in their hands.
They bawled questions that were not answered in the uproar.
They followed the others toward the east gate.
They realized the truth.
They all flew into action.
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
They grew louder as the Indians charged again.
They could hear the pony's feet on the dry leaves for a while, then the sound faded out.
They weren't sleeping, of course, but they thought they were doing him a favor by pretending.
They expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
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