How To Use Awny In A Sentence
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Threadbare patches in her fur and mane shone dull against the her tawny pelt.
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A gaggle of brawny bikers revs their choppers out front.
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He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair.
BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
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One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
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There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.
CHAPTER VIII
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He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
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The arm is brawny enough for a man, but the nails are very long, like a woman's.
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I have been told that many of them wear patent complexions, "boughten" bangs, and pad out scrawny forms until they appear voluptuous Junos, and thereby deceive and ensnare, bedazzle and beguile the unsuspecting sons of men.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12
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I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
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scrawny cattle
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It was obvious that not only the last, but all the other muezzin calls had come from the scrawny throat of my son.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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Over one million people (about 43% of the total) live in Kingston, Saint Andrews, and Saint Catherine, the main urban centers, while Trelawny Parish has the lowest density with 83 inhabitants/km2.
Water profile of Jamaica
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So that ghostly form that appears in front of your car at night may very well be a tawny.
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In the brawny parlance of the great unwashed: a crunch match.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze.
The Sun
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This conversation is yawny.
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Giant larkspurs thrust up their flower-rods, between the dentated foliage of which gaped the mouths of tawny snapdragons, while the schizanthus reared its scanty leaves and fluttering blooms, that looked like butterflies 'wings of sulphur hue splashed with soft lake.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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She felt to hug him but was afraid to hurt; like a fragile bird, this new scrawny Rab.
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He was a scrawny, chicken-necked sack of bones, but in spite of his handicap he moved faster than the others.
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His once dirty blond hair had become a light, sandy brown and his scrawny build had been filled out with muscles.
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Coming back to True North we see two large tawny nurse sharks circling the back of the boat.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scrawny, stumpy plants - in winter a mass of black aimless twigs with a few odd drops of white fiber still clinging to them - is hardly pure or virgin.
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Industrial progress in Chicago produced loud sounds, whether the thrum of machinery, the clangor of busy loading docks, or the cries of brawny laborers.
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I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, meaningful movies, black cozy couches and the comfort of a brawny shoulder to rest on.
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The males have great lionlike manes of tawny fur.
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The moderate Republican Schwarzenegger had criticized Obama in his only appearance of the general election campaign with John McCain - the Friday before the election in Columbus, Ohio, site of Schwarzenegger's annual Arnold Classic sports festival - as "scrawny" and a big taxer.
William Bradley: Obama's California: The Arnold Alliance and More
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“The original ripsnorter,” said the frontiersman, crossing his arms over his brawny chest.
Nevermore
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In the center of the hole was a brawny, black-gloved arm, its fingers curled tightly into a large fist.
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Staying thin when you're older makes your face look scrawny.
Times, Sunday Times
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They pictured Soviet women as hammer-throwers, brawny six-footers who work in brick factories.
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That's why marathon runners look scrawny but sprinters are built like tanks.
The Sun
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She glanced up to the heights of the castle battlements and saw a tall, tawny haired figure upon the uppermost heights.
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_ Black, with gilded tomentum, which forms two bands on the thorax, and one on each side of the pectus; abdomen with three gilded tomentose bands, the third subapical, first segment ferruginous beneath; legs tawny, femora at the base and coxæ black; wings blackish-brown, dark cinereous hindward; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The man facing them was taller than both by a few inches, and had strong, brawny arms.
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Never on a lead, it waddles beside him as macho, musclebound and menacing as its scrawny owner aspires to be.
Times, Sunday Times
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You can outfly a Tawny if you stay above the tree line, but you must on no account attempt it.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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Other possible wildlife you may encounter in the area are boobok owls, tawny frogmouths, and wambengers.
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The brawny blueliner made his most significant strides by expanding his hockey sense, leadership, and physicality.
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But watch again and something happens: you see a moment both sweet and wry as a couple shyly osculate in "The Kiss," a quiet dignity beneath the brawny bravado in "Sandow: The Strong Man.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
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I was getting very yawny myself, but they kept pressing coffee on me.
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Painted in red, the brawny, no-frills vehicle with a canvas top advertises its military credentials with elan.
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The sun was pouring into the courtyard and his brawny arms glistened with sweat.
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This is where modern California was born, when 19 th-century gold seekers swarmed across these tawny hillsides seeking treasure.
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Port that has been left to age in wooden casks for six or more years begins to take on a tawny colour and a soft, silky character as the phenolics are polymerized.
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Its sweetness is an ideal foil to brawny meats such as oxtail, boar, venison and beef.
NPR Topics: News
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Each bag had a label stuck to it, with scrawny writing listing a grid reference and sometimes a field name, but many labels had lost their glue, slipped off, and gathered in the bottom of the box.
A Year on the Wing
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Lions vary in colour from nearly white to deep ochre brown but tawny yellow is the commonest shade.
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You're established and then, all of a sudden, some young scrawny kid comes out of the youth team and takes your place in the side.
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A few scrawny chickens were scratching around the yard.
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The yellow Spring sun, like liquid honey, fell in benediction on the leafless trees, big with buds, and on the tawny mat of grass through which the blue noses of anemones were sticking.
Purple Springs
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From outside-we see this scrawny bloke in the frame of the doorway, in his grey underpants.
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Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze.
The Sun
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It is most often used to flavor mulligatawny soup.
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Mother hen hatches her eggs in a farmyard and finds one of her baby chicks is a scrawny, ugly duck.
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The rogues come out carrying motorcycle chains to beat up biggs, but biggs transforms into a pale, brawny, red-eyed, enraged and furry version of himself, kills the rogues with aggression and runs away. milo manages to escape from the scene but faints due to fatigue.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Avi’s Forum
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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They were scrawny but muscly trashy types, like my in-and-out, in-and-out of prison psycho cousin.
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He is skeletal and scrawny with his minuscule bones poking through his clothes.
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The gene -- called scrawny because of the appearance of mutant adult flies -- appears to be a key factor in keeping a variety of stem cells in their undifferentiated state, the researchers at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Embryology say in an article to be published Friday in the journal Science.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News
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The way his mother tells it, Allen was a scrawny kid who the high school football players used to carry to class on their shoulders.
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In summer, the wapiti's coat is sleek and tawny brown, with a large buff-coloured rump patch.
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I have seen this with lions and with tawny owls; being a defender is far more natural to us all.
Times, Sunday Times
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step.
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In real life, the sousaphonist is always some scrawny schmuck who only wanted to play concert tuba for the Christmas pageant so his parents would have pictures.
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The smith is a brawny native Maltese, with a form a Hercules might envy.
Miss Caprice
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I mean, OK, this schmoe is about 5'8 , maybe 160# soaking wet; short, scrawny, and greying.
Served
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Governor Schwarzenegger saying he would help Barack Obama work on what he called his scrawny legs and also his skinny biceps as well.
CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2008
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I warn you, though, I had a young Greek last year as playfellow, very brawny and bronzed…
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I had caught a great many terrapins, of course, both the black ones with the thick freckling of golden pin-head spots on them, and the slim grey ones with fawny-cream lines; but Old Plop was something I had set my heart on.
My Family and Other Animals
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The colour palette encompasses charcoal greys, tawny autumnal greens, silver and white.
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A scrawny dog lay in the doorway of a hut, yawning widely.
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Some Negro slaves were brought to Europe by the Spaniards in the fourteenth century, and a small trade was continued by the Portuguese, who conquered territory from the "tawny" Moors of North Africa in the early fifteenth century.
The Negro
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Make the rest of your palette tawny, brown and bronze.
The Sun
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The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Looking scrawny and with full beards, the men wave at the camera, make victory signs and link arms to sing the national anthem.
The Sun
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Thirty axemen raced down toward the beach, brawny men in sleeveless tunics, their axes gleaming in the sun.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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Then the shipmen call upon the sons of great Zeus with vows of white lambs, going to the forepart of the prow; but the strong wind and the waves of the sea lay the ship under water, until suddenly these two are seen darting through the air on tawny wings.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The scrawny swarthy-skinned kid in the mirror blinked back at him.
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A silver-washed fritillary – all tawny orange with black cryptic wing texts and flashes of mother-of-pearl – flew in and was immediately mobbed by ringlet and meadow-brown butterflies.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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The toadstool is tawny yellow, and produces white spores; the gills are decurrent, and the stem bears a ring.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
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a long scrawny neck
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It's a complex drink and though the main distinctions are vintage, tawny and ruby, numerous subtleties range in between.
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`So you Barn owls say," the Tawny drawled in his rather condescending tone.
THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
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_ Head and thorax with bright silvery tomentum, facialia without bristles, epistoma slightly prominent; eyes bare; mouth black, testaceous towards the base, full as long as the thorax; antennæ tawny, not reaching the epistoma, arista plumose; legs black, coxæ and femora testaceous; wings grey, veins black.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, apparently filling in for "Joe the Plumber," told a John McCain rally in Columbus, Ohio, this afternoon that Obama has "scrawny" legs, among other things.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama at Wicker Park - Gary, Indiana
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The massive, brawny man peered at me in bewilderment as I had managed to stop his blade, and he withdrew, smiling shadily at me.
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I'm tired of being the 5'7 115lb runt in a group of much larger kids, and i'm tired of clothes bagging off of my scrawny body.
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Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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After years of wrestling scrawny teenagers, his dedication is actually put to the test when he will have to pick on someone his own size.
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The young soldier's competitor was a big burly man with beefy arms and legs the size of tree trunks, while the young duelist was small and scrawny - barely half the big man's size.
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I always remember him as a rather scrawny kid who used to ref our senior games when the official referee didn't turn up.
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A large, ferocious cat. Panthera pardus)of Africa and southern Asia, having either tawny fur with dark rosettelike markings or black fur.
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On either side of me stand scrawny vines abundant with blackish grapes.
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He looks scrawny and vulnerable.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the Monterey pine belt to bristlecone country, conifers yield cones whose tawny beauty is worth celebrating.
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A little coy now, Alicia sat down on the edge of her mother's bed and began haltingly, ‘Well… we had mulligatawny soup to start with, veal cutlets and leeks au gratin as a main course, Baked Alaska for dessert, followed by coffee.
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Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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I dunno, Hrairoo is a bit scrawny to be served up Peking Duck style, as he may not have enough fat on him to protect the meat while it air-dries.
Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
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I come up out of the low ground onto the highway and I'm imagining I see antelope at play - I can't help it, it's the wind moving the tawny wheat.
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If they're scrawny, they appear scrawnier still.
Times, Sunday Times
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Alexander for the plantation on the security of the payments to be made by future baronets, and empowering them to offer a further inducement to applicants; and on the same day he granted to all Nova Scotia baronets the right to wear about their necks, suspended by an orange tawny ribbon, a badge bearing an azure saltire with a crowned inescutcheon of the arms of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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Buzzard, Buteo buteo, I read in the AA guide to British Birds, a hardback with a beautiful picture of a tawny owl on the cover, which you can still find in many homes.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Kara stared aghast as the brawny Maggie Finch, with a florid complexion like red brick and forearms like a butcher's, rolled up her sleeves and went to meet the threat of the two men in black Greek fisherman's garb.
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At its worst, the catwalk is a place for scrawny beauties in outlandish clothes that often seem utterly divorced from reality.
Times, Sunday Times
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A scrawny opossum foraged along the road, scampering toward the woods when I tried to take its picture.
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Each year, dozens of reports come in from people who believe they have seen large, tawny colored cats in states where no such animals are officially documented.
David Mizejewski: Wild Cougar Confirmed in Connecticut
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The best view of a tawny owl one is likely to get is when driving up to a country house at night.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sure, they are redoubtable opponents, but brawny, one-dimensional teams deficient in natural ability will not seriously challenge the world's best.
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He left the office and road hard for a while before arriving at a ranch, where he was greeted by a tall and scrawny man with a long, thin mustache.
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Brilliantly translated by Christopher Hampton, directed with hair-trigger timing by 31-year-old Matthew Warchus (who staged it in London), "" Art '' takes that yawny old bore, the play of ideas, and jolts it to life.
Paint The Town White
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He raised another eyebrow when he saw his uncle sling his brawny arms around the slender human's shoulders to pull her close to his side.
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He was called tawny because from his frequent walks in the blaze of the sun his face had become much sun-burnt.
Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
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He wrenched him around and grasped his scrawny neck in a dangerously tight headlock.
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By comparison, Frederick looked more like his father, strongly built and brawny.
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He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
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Children were thrilled to be able to stroke a beautiful barn owl, while an enormous eagle owl, a tawny owl, a kestrel and a turkey vulture called George looked on.
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It does not mean by this that a scrawny pullet is of more importance than family honor; it simply means that the man who steals a pullet is a cowardly thief, while the one who ignores the advances of a pretty woman is an incorrigible idiot.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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It's as big and brawny as you would expect, a classic barbecue wine made in an inky, take-no-prisoners style.
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For confirmation I looked up "spawny get" in my dictionary and there was just a ...
Skuds' Sister's Brother
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Frankly, the thought of Rick Rubin sticking his mitts in there makes me yawny.
Can Rick Rubin resurrect ZZ Top? | EW.com
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Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The man facing them was taller than both by a few inches, and had strong, brawny arms.
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In the first act, called ‘Big Sky,’ to music by Aaron Copland, ghosts of pioneers emerge from the spacious, tawny earth.
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If you look up the word bedraggled in the dictionary, there will be an image of my 4 rain soaked scrawny birds, standing on one foot, so close together they look attached.
Chickens, a Beach Umbrella, and HOT Grits
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Only that I look too scrawny.
Times, Sunday Times
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One day a can of mullagatawny soup and a can of apricots were handed out to him simultaneously and without explanations.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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He was scrawny out of the water but pretty sleek in it, though he didn’t kick and neither did any of the other octo- and septuagenarians who swam around me.
In the Fullness of Time
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The fierce glisten of the candle caught the kitten's tawny eyes as she looked up.
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Head with gilded pubescence, cinereous behind and beneath; antennæ tawny, second joint above towards the tip and third joint piceous; thorax slightly covered with gilded tomentum; pectus with cinereous tomentum; abdomen with gilded tomentum towards the tip; legs tawny, femora mostly black, tibiæ with black stripes; wings cinereous, dark-brown about the costa, veinlet which bisects the subapical areolet incomplete, as it is also in the following species; halteres tawny.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Although tawny owls are reputed to have a hoot, this one whistled, which is probably why it is often referred to in the books as a screech owl.
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New lad this, brawny enough but young and without that air of menace as hung about the chucker-out as used to be here.
City of Glory
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Head chalybeous; antennæ red; legs tawny, hind tibiæ piceous towards the tips, hind tarsi piceous towards the base; wings blackish, darker along the costa, cinereous towards the tips with the exception of the costa; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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We will not, then, malign our river as gross and impure, while it can glorify itself with so adequate a picture of the Heaven that broods above it; or, if we remember its tawny hue and the muddiness of its bed, let it be a symbol that the earthliest human soul has an infinite spiritual capacity, and may contain the better world within its depths.
Mosses from an Old Manse
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It tastes beefy in every respect: fleshy, brawny and intense.
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Unable to find it she sank down and sat on the ground with her back against two scrawny trees.
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Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860
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A scrawny dapple-grey mare wearing a battered saddle stood there, reins trailing, lathered with sweat and blowing clouds of vapor.
Conqueror's Moon
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The capuchin is a New World monkey, brown and cute, the size of a scrawny year-old human baby plus a long tail.
Monkey Business | Impact Lab
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The first to reach the crag was a brawny brave whose eagle feather was stained scarlet as a token of chieftainship.
The Conquering Sword of Conan
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Mary admits her youngest son was a scrawny little chap who became a beanpole youngster, so gangly he needed elastic in his school trousers to make sure they stayed up.
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Winds gusting against a brawny sprinter riding a disc-wheel bike at 60 kph round a high bend are a recipe for disaster.
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The beautiful glow in the west died out, where the sun had been ripening his harvest-field of sheafy gold and awny cloud; and the pulse of quivering dusk beat slowly, so that a man might seem to count it, or rather a child, who sees such things, which later men lose sight of.
Springhaven
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Gollum is ugly, scrawny, cunning, sneaky - and, by the time The Return of the King starts, completely irredeemable.
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Fred, somehow, manages to be even more absurd than Eleanor, dressed in a skin-tight harlequin outfit that makes him look like a scrawny fool.
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Beside her the pathetic corpse of the servant, the garotte cord still round his scrawny neck.
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The Barn Owl is a gray-and-tawny owl with a white, heart-shaped face and dark eyes.
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The oarsmen pushed their oars above the water while a brawny man dropped an anchor into the deep.
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Two strong, brawny arms reached down and went under the vampire's back.
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All of which makes this new soup and juice bar in Edinburgh's William Street an extremely diverting place to enjoy a cup of gourmet mulligatawny or a cappuccino.
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I also watched one spawny c*nt of an ex TA blade in 2007 climb the stairs to his room after a few drinks with a woman as well known to you and me as f*cking cornflakes ..
Army Rumour Service
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-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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It’s just the idea of parsnip in a mulligatawny which I rather balk at.
Chris Neill's Dirty Kitchen
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The call of a young tawny owl.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wanted to wring his scrawny little neck.
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Nice? she wanted to scream, wanted to grab those scrawny arms in that cheap white dress and demand, Nice?
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Presumeably she doesn't possess the moral fibre of Superman - or perhaps after years of being married to scrawny Scott Free, she enjoyed the opprtunity for a bit of super-rumpy-pumpy.
Cool Comic Cover Gallery – Super(Ladies)Man | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
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The two we select are brawny with fresh fruit and flavour.
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How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
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Asked for clarification, Nicholson held a big yellow funnel up to his ear and said "Eh?" ah sha-poshe ya teenk dat ees fawkin’ fawny, asch-hoe!
NICHOLSON TO LEDGER: ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ (UPDATE)
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Scruffy and fluffy, these tawny frogmouth chicks are part of six hatched in 2008 and 2009 through a cooperative program of SeaWorld and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
ZooBorns
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There's no more scrawny chicken wings.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tiny girl outdid them all by improvising a skirt from her brawny boyfriend's wind-cheater, with the collar zipped smugly round her waist and the sleeves turned inwards, the cuffs dangling well below the hemline!
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And the belt buckles are sometimes bigger around than my scrawny waist.
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I'm talking the original, manly, 70's Brawny man, with the bitchin 'moustache, not this lame Bruce Campbell wannabe that beat me up in middle school for playing magic cards.
Archive 2008-03-01
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In fact, it is a surefire way to ask for trouble, especially if you are not a brawny entity with plenty of legal and monetary clout to back you all the way.
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White floccose scales on cap (var. coroniferum) and appendiculate veil; caps whitish or brown, tawny, or tinge of ochre.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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As Eve and her friends lingered yet a moment there, watching the picturesque figure splashing barelegged in the shallow water, one of the droll little craft known as Joppa-chaises came up beside them, a fulvous face appeared at its helm, a tawny hand was extended, and they left
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
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A man raked together a little burning rubbish with one hand and dangled a scrawny chicken over it with the other.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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However, instead of wavy tawny hair, his was straight and golden brown.
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His brawny arms glistened with sweat.
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After kicking, cursing and fighting for her life, her fingers were pried off the wheel by the men, whom she described as scrawny but determined as ever to take her car.
News from www.rep-am.com
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Other kinds of sweet wine are forms of fortified wines and ripaso-style wines, such as vin santo or succulent tawny ports.
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If you thought Stoke's away form is bad, check out Hull - without a win away from home since a ridiculously spawny win at Fulham almost a year ago.
TEAMtalk Football News
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So I was marched out and off down the corridor towards the Wing Chapel, tolchocked on the back and the gulliver all the way by one of the chassos, but in a very like yawny and bored manner.
Where's the show?
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The wood of this cartouche is the same as that of the basilisks upon the arms, being very hard and close-grained, and of a tawny, yellow hue, like boxwood.
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
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There were a few scrawny chickens in the yard.
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At their feet their naked progeny played and squabbled, or rolled in the muck with the tawny wolf-dogs.
THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
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With your organic Stilton, he recommends a single vintage tawny port.
Times, Sunday Times
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He returned to Cameroon to visit in 2004, where even friends found it hard to believe that the strapping lad before them was the same scrawny kid who had seen his football dream shattered.
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Bonelli's eagle, the tawny eagle, the brown fish-owl, the rock horned-owl, the raven, the amadavat and the white-throated munia.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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Only a tin of mulligatawny soup has saved me from immeasurable personal pain.
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He had hair so black there was a blue sheen to it, and his eyes were an odd, bright green with a flash of tawny in the center, his skin an even golden brown tan.
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Bebel attracts a five-star clientele and its drinks list, which has more than 60 cocktails, contains many high-end and rare spirits: the Donna Prugna features cognac from Charente in south-west France, 10-years-aged tawny port, and ginger beer, and you'll find drinks featuring cognac from Grande Champagne and Italian choice vodka from the region of Ghemme.
10 of the best cocktail bars in Berlin
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The park has populations of 20 open habitat bird species that are considered to be endangered, including hyacinth macaw Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus (VU), rufous-sided pygmy-tirant Euscarthmus rufomarginatus (VU), black-bellied seedeater Sporophila hypochroma (NT) and black-and-tawny seedeater Sporophila nigrorufa (EN).
Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia
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Losing 4-3 to a 93rd-minute penalty may sound like the unluckiest way to lose but there was nothing spawny about it.
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They deployed into the teeth of a furious dust storm that ended in thunder and rain and left tents flattened and Kuwait City covered in tawny dust and mud.
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Two are "tawny" and two are grey and white, like their ma.
MI, 10 Cent Refund
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These "tawny" colored inks I estimate were products obtained from the "thorn" trees spoken of by the monk Theophilus.
Forty Centuries of Ink
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Tawny golden was she, with golden-brown eyes, and her hair that fell to her knees was blue-black and straight, with just the curly tendrilly tendency that gives to woman's hair its charm.
THE PRINCESS
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She felt to hug him but was afraid to hurt; like a fragile bird, this new scrawny Rab.
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Sir Jonathan Trelawny, Bishop of Winchester, used to ‘excuse himself for his much swearing by saying he swore as a baronet, and not as a bishop’!
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One is hastily procured, and the first captain -- a great, brawny, good-natured fellow, who has spent years at sea -- deftly fastens the bight of the rope to the handle of the breechblock.
A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
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Giggling toddlers play among scrawny chickens and bleating goats.
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Antennæ tawny, arista white; thorax and abdomen with bright silvery tomentum; tarsi whitish testaceous; wings limpid, veins pale.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
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They pictured Soviet women as hammer-throwers, brawny six-footers who work in brick factories.
