Here and there, where the bark had cracked or been abraded, hard-skinned blisters had exuded.
The vegetation on the banks is so thickly planted that the surface of the earth is not abraded by the torrents.
Then she freed herself with an abstracted air, a half smile, and an unchanged color except where her soft cheek had been abraded by his coat collar.
Thus they flow away over the rim rock in a perfectly pure state—a state in which, as we have noted before, water has no capacity for abrading firm rock.
When a shaft and the bearing in which it rotates are made of the same metal, the two surfaces are in certain cases apt to "seize" and abrade each other.
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These materials continue to be fragmented and abraded as visitors to the site walk around the hut.
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The birdsabradethe seed surfaces in the gut, enhancing germination, and then disperse the seeds when they defecate.
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These materials are continually abraded and fragmented as tourists walk over them and the coarse scoria breaks and grinds down the materials.
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The former gel is designed to provide good conductance and the latter gel is used to gentlyabradethe scalp.
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They defecate, dispersing the seeds, andabradethe seed surface, enhancing germination.
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Infection may be brought about under experimental conditions by the inoculation of blood containing trypanosomes, or by applying blood to abraded or intact mucous membrane and skin.
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Without foregoing any conclusions, the progressive rock fanzine appears able to move across discourses, partake of aspects of all of them at various stages and at times evenabradethem.
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Other forms of engraving are stipple and drypoint in which the surface of the glass is abraded with the use of small diamond tipped burrs.
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The body is covered in minute cycloid scales and its silvery, iridescent guanine coating is easily abraded.
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Laminating paper products, such as photographs, can prevent them from becoming creased, faded, water damaged, wrinkled, stained, smudged, abraded, or marked by grease or fingerprints.
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Once these valves reopen, the microwelds pull apart and leave the valves with a rough surface that wouldabradethe seats, leading to valve recession.
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While smaller particles are readily transported by the lubrication system, larger carbon particles mayabradecomponents with close tolerances.
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As the sediment is transported, the unstable minerals are abraded or dissolve to leave more stable minerals, such as quartz.
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Too rough, abraded the back of the tape.
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Germination occurs when the hard outer seed coat is abraded by waves on sand and gravel.
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