Spines rammed by table legs busting the strings of ukuleles curling into black lumps.
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A leaf or leaflet was defined as curled if over 30% of the leaf edge was curled upwards.
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The eager boy-men are crouched over its curling exhaust formed by the electric-car track,34 with the electrical toy the satirical equivalent of the electronic countermeasures in the real bomber.
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B: during diastole, massive pulmonary regurgitation is directed toward the right ventricular free wall, u'hich curls around, and then moves back toward the right ventricular inflow tract.
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When the rigid object is moved, it appears to flex and change shape, and be more or less curled as the elevation above eye level is increased or decreased.
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In the experimental crosses all the progenies were non-purple, non-chubby and curled winged, showing that they carried one copy of the numb gene, the nb2\b2 genotypes being lethal.
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After lying dying with his legs curled up in a foetal position, he retreats into the bath, then starts all over again, never managing to deliver himself from the womb.
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To-day, one gets a horrible piece of paper which curls up in three months.
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She sat curled up in the middle of a bed that was made up with clean linen.
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By the time we came to office, that solution was already curling at the edges.
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Every opportunity to increase drink sales is seized; in restaurants, night clubs, "pubs", hotels—even the nineteenth hole, even the curling event, even the bowling club.
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My wife tells me that to uncurl a curled hedgehog it is necessary to offer it a saucer of hot milk.
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I have seen piles of human hair, even the little curls of babies, piled high.
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I am happy to inform him that not only are wigs tax-free but also eyelashes, eyebrows, curls, ringlets, plaits and switches.
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I refer to the effect on sporting clubs, golf clubs, rugby clubs, and curling clubs, for instance.
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