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They were covered with tiny white blossoms, their scant roots clawing at the stony ground, and wild birds darted in and about and through them so they were nearly alive with the rustle and cry.
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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 expected greater things from him, regardless of how trying the circumstances, and they were disappointed.
`` They were supposed to meet Thor at nine PM for a conference concerning the ad campaign for their soap, a new angle based on this SX-21 stuff ''.
They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.
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They did not complain at the inhuman hour of starting ( seven in the morning ), nor of the tariff, which was reasonable since it covered everything but the tobacco.
They began to meet in the evenings and carry forward various discussions they felt not fully enough covered in class.
They make the whale regurgitate the watch, causing Kif to be covered in ambergris in his attempt to get the watch back.
* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".
They claim that that rainforests 50 years ago covered 14 % of the world's land surface, now only cover 5 – 7 %, and that all tropical forests will be gone by the middle of the 21st century.
They consist of a kerb surrounding an oval mound, which covered a rectangular chamber of stones with the entrance on one of the long sides.
They used torn cardboard boxes as beds, and covered themselves in curtains to resist the low temperatures of the unheated development building.
" They returned to the initial site, measured the creature's stride, made two plaster casts ( of the best-quality right and left prints ), and covered the other prints to protect them.
They first covered the area entirely with white then traced the design in black, leaving out the lights of the ground color.
They were mainly small states, though some confederations of republics seem to have formed that covered large areas, such as Vajjian Confederacy, which had Vaishali as its capital around 600 BC.
They introduced the first part, which covered cowboy music, on German television as " Buckaroo Blues ".
In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies " Havalina " for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire-a tribute to PIXIES compilation.
" They covered history in the making, and sometimes made it themselves: on March 12, 1938, Hitler boldly annexed nearby Austria and Murrow and Boys quickly assembled coverage with Shirer in London, Edgar Ansel Mowrer in Paris, Pierre Huss in Berlin, Frank Gervasi in Rome and Trout in New York.
They are worn to cover those parts of the body which social norms require to be covered, and act as a form of adornment, as well as other social purposes.
One Scottish writer described his Highland countrymen this way: They greatly excel the Lowlanders in all the exercises that require agility ; they are incredibly abstemious, and patient of hunger and fatigue ; so steeled against the weather, that in traveling, even when the ground is covered with snow, they never look for a house, or any other shelter but their plaid, in which they wrap themselves up, and go to sleep under the cope of heaven.
They are mostly concerned with administrative decisions on a regional level for the Districts covered.
They commonly spawn during the spring, when the females lay strings of eggs in covered areas such as near branches or underwater plants.
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