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Researchers from the Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology of Henan Province in Zhengzhou found the flutes, crafted from the hollow ulnae (wing bones) of red-crowned crane, among fragments of 30 others at the Neolithic (ca. 8000-2000 B.C.) site of Jiahu in central Henan Province.
Oldest Musical Instruments Still Play a Tune
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Then snatching up some of the flowers, which ornamented the table, he swore that Juba should henceforward be called Anacreon, and that he deserved to be crowned with roses by the hand of beauty.
Tales and Novels — Volume 03
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Old deliberate contemplations, perceptions after long regard ingathered from abundant nature, theories leisurely compacted in sunshine or storm, to stand in the fields of memory, crowned with beauty by the indulgent years.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Beside her stood a crowned man with grey hair, his face careworn.
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Barely 12 hours after the final round of the British Open at blowy, blustery Royal Lytham and the newly-crowned champion and chums were cracking away on the other side of the world.
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The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
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The flat fourth story is crowned by an emphatic cornice, above which is a tall mansard roof sheltering two more stories.
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Other birds that utilize this ecoregion are yellow-crowned night-heron (Nyctanassa violacea), neotropic cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus), yucatan parrot (Amazona xantholora), Yucatán bobwhite (Colinus nigrogularis), and zenaida dove (Zenaida aurita).
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He has twice been crowned road race world champion, most recently in 2002 when he snuck up the inside of the bunch to outsprint his rivals in Lisbon.
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Improvising hastily, the papal legate Guala is said to have crowned the new king with a chaplet of flowers.
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On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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They took a quasi-religious attitude to Confucius, worshipping him as ‘the uncrowned king’ rather than respecting him simply as the greatest of teachers.
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After the battalion commanded by Gyges, there came young boys crowned with myrtle-wreaths, and singing epithalamic hymns after the Lydian manner, accompanying themselves upon lyres of ivory, which they played with bows.
King Candaules
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The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
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Hosts David Asman and Liz Claman practically crowned the mayor an economic genius after he told them he's asking for wage concessions from labor groups, combining departments and trying to "disintermediate" bureaucracies.
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The London Hungarian Committee in 1849 quoted Article X, by Leopold II, of the House of Hapsburg, in 1790, which definitely stated that "Hungary with her appanages is a free kingdom, and in regard to her whole legal form of government (including all the tribunals) independent; that is, entangled with no other kingdom or people, but having her own peculiar consistence and constitution; accordingly to be governed by her legitimately crowned king after her peculiar laws and customs.
Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
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An important development of the early sixteenth century was the Apocalyptic image of her, standing in front of a sunburst, crowned with twelve stars, with at her feet a crescent moon.
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The Under-18 team went on to be crowned champions and the club's Wharfedale League team was promoted to the Second Division.
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At my elbow lies my running - or treasure-bag, surrounded by my cabas filled with hair-pins, starch, and a band I was embroidering, etc.; near it lie our combs, etc., and the whole is crowned by my dagger; - by the way, I must add Miriam's pistol which she has forgotten,
A Confederate girl's diary,
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As genetic blood disorders, hemophilia and porphyria had serious effects on the crowned heads of Europe.
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He also must be crowned by you and receive your blessings, for you are the suzerain.
THE FAMILY
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Black-crowned Night-herons are gregarious at all times of the year, and are often seen in very large groups.
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Watermark: [posthorn in crowned shield (upper portion)].
Letter from Mary Wollstonecraft to Mary Robinson (15 April 1796
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Stretched upon a low child's bed, of the sort called trundle-bed in those days, which could be wheeled under the high-legged bed of the parents, lay the bridegroom, in his wedding-dress and gaitered shoes, with his steeple-crowned hat upon the faded calico quilt beside him, and his face as red as burning fever could make it.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times
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Crowned by two onion-shaped copper domes, it is the second largest synagogue in the world.
The Sun
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And then there were the bones-a bear's digit, with the great curved claw still attached; the complete vertebrae of a small snake, articulated and strung on a leather thong, so the whole string flexed in a lifelike manner; an assortment of teeth, ranging from a string of round, peglike things that Jamie said came from a seal, through the high-crowned, scythe-cusped teeth of deer, to something that looked suspiciously like a human molar.
Dragonfly in Amber
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“Dear child, how late it is!” exclaimed Lady Knollys suddenly, looking at the Louis Quatorze clock, that crowned the mantel-piece.
Uncle Silas
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Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word "crowned," the Stevie Awards will announce the winners during a gala banquet on Monday, Feb. 22 at the Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla.
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Everything hast thou, O wonder-worthy, God-beseemingly prevented, and now art thou crowned with an unfading crown from the hands of the Almighty
The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
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The kiaat is a deciduous, spreading and slightly flat-crowned tree with a high canopy.
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Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.
DARKWATER
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I just was surprised that even if you are to be crowned King, you still are being commanded around by your mother.
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The existing maces have far more in common with the same item that Kings of the period are shown holding when crowned or seated in state.
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So, with all the votes in, which iconic vehicle have you crowned as your all-time favourite movie car?
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the royal (or crowned) heads of Europe
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As the chain roared and surged through the hawse-pipe he noticed a number of native women, lusciously large as only those of Polynesia are, in flowing ahu's, flower-crowned, stream out on the deck of the schooner on the beach.
THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
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The ceremony was an occasion for considerable celebration, but Margaret was never crowned queen.
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While trustless chance me with vain favours crowned,
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Crowned sifaka lemurs are found only in Madagascar, and their survival is threatened by deforestation.
ZooBorns
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The prince will not be crowned until funeral rites for his father are completed, which could take a year.
Times, Sunday Times
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His high-crowned grey hat lay on the floor, covered with dust, but encircled by a carcanet of large balas rubies; and he wore a blue velvet nightcap, in the front of which was placed the plume of a heron, which had been struck down by a favourite hawk in some critical moment of the flight, in remembrance of which the king wore this highly honoured feather.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Before she left, she was crowned Queen, so that her marriage would then make Frederick King of Jerusalem.
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She gave a sharp glance in the direction of the oak, and the now discrowned girl was quickly at her side.
The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century
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There is a falcon hood - the brown leather dome, crowned with a tuft of feathers, is brittle like a little skull - and an envelope contains a watch.
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He knew that he was dicing with Death, but that was the very essence of his ideal; and he knew that if Death won the throw, his ideal was crowned and consummated, for ever safe from the withering touch of time, or accidental soilure.
Poems
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On 2 December Henry VI was crowned king .
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Chateau Robin in the Touraine is a chalk cliff that rises above the road to the height of sixty feet and is crowned by a tumulus.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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Interesting, Orphan thought as she sidled around the corner of her hovel to the stone outcropping that crowned the Oracle's cavern.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Improvising hastily, the papal legate Guala is said to have crowned the new king with a chaplet of flowers.
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Golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli), Madagascar.
Madagascar dry deciduous forests
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He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards.
Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
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The theme of dematerialisation is reprised at the top of the block, which is crowned with a glass belvedere (for meetings-with-a-view), connected to the lower floors by a serpentine spiral staircase.
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Translate the following sentence into Chinese, 'Six years later "The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq", as Bell was affectionately known died in Baghdad, and was buried in the British cemetery there.
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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It brought out his full human qualities and it crowned his career.
Times, Sunday Times
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Enjoy the crowned one†™ s antics in hysterical tales as he gets mixed up with weird science experiments, football foul-ups, and his cousin, Souphead!
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It is an elegant example of what the French call a casque bourgignon, a Burgundian helmet of distinctive design that was the choice of kings and noblemen -- a handsome, high-crowned helmet with a comb and helm forged from a single piece of metal.
'Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America'
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Autonoe whom long haired Aristaeus wedded, and Polydorus also in rich-crowned Thebe.
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
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The island's only village is adorned with whispering palm trees, wide spacious streets and a main square crowned by a vast Mexican-style church that seems plucked from a Clint Eastwood film.
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His words come vividly to mind in reviewing the curious catalogue which a European statistician lately furnished of the number of sovereigns who have perished by violent deaths or been discrowned by disaster.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
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I don't want to be crowned king, rude man, with your laidly moustache: I want to be made knight, and have banderol and baldric.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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He was writing his own song on a crumpled piece of scented notepaper crowned with an ornate A.
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The coin has a crowned lion on its reverse.
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On a wreath, the bust of a man couped and affronte, proper, ducally crowned, or.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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The evening was crowned by her dazzling performance.
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They climbed out of the car at a pleasant-looking park set on a hill, crowned by leafy trees.
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: _A Thistle: a Thistle and Rose dimidiated and crowned_, No. 308, with the motto -- “_Beati Pacifici_” (Blessed are the peacemakers).
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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British kings are crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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At eighteen, Victoria was crowned queen .
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A single altar-shaped rock crowned the summit, from which the continuation of the ridge, right and left, fell away in a singularly graceful outline, the face of the mountain being precipitous with escarped cliffs.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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The home-made Pavlova was a delicious Drambuie-flavoured dish with fresh strawberries, meringue and cream, crowned with a wonderful hot berry sauce.
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There is definitley a school thought that the "stone of scone" that was blagged by eddie longshanks was simply a lump of local sandstone subsituted by the monks at scone Abbey, as they knew edward was coming to get it, as he reckoned that Robert the Bruce could not be crowned legaly or at least traditionaly without the "STONE "you have to bear in mind that to the monks, this stone was in fact "Jacobs Pillow " of biblical fame.
Filmstalker: Stone of Destiny theft gets filmed
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The team were crowned National league champions that year and recently celebrated the golden jubilee of that occasion at a dinner in Westport.
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The railings are broken, the steps descending into Terrace Field are now so wonky that they are impassable to some less agile walkers and many of the trees that once crowned the hilltop have died or blown over.
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The award of the Nobel Prize has crowned a glorious career in physics.
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had many crowned teeth
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For Surrey to miss out on the title nearest challengers Glamorgan have to win their final two games against Surrey and Derbyshire, and even then Sussex would only need three points from their remaining match at Worcester next week to be crowned champions.
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The entrance is crowned with a bas-relief depicting a deer, peacock, some other birds and a rider in the middle who strikes the lion.
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A short steep-up grass hill behind was crowned with a few Scotch firs, and in front, an old orchard of apple trees, just breaking into flower, stretched down to a stream and
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
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A member of the Municipal Corporation for a phenomenal 43 years and four times its Chairman, he was known as ‘the uncrowned King of Bombay’.
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When Henry died in 1135, Stephen rushed to London to get himself crowned king of England.
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Giant crowned pigeons, small wallaby kangaroos, cassowary birds, tree kangaroos, and wild boars are abundant within an hour's walk of the village.
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She crowned the dessert with whipped cream.
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The uncrowned capital of the north, and the world's first industrial city, it has everything going for it from culture to entertainment and sport. ..
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From Unalakleet, the largest town on the Iditarod trail between Anchorage and Nome, mushers drive their teams along the coast to Nome, an area of trail where storms can quickly move in from the Bering Sea and make or break a musher's dream of being crowned champion.
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Because of the concept of kami, Shinto at once affects the way tea is served, the way a package is wrapped, the way a war is fought, and the way an emperor is crowned.
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He was crowned champion after his fight in Atlanta.
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King Frederick William IV, who was crowned in 1840, defused the situation.
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The steak sanga came laced with barbecue sauce and the chicken parma sacrilegiously crowned with a pineapple ring.
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Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. Thomas Paine
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Coat of arms of Galloway: Azure, a lion Argent langued, armed and crowned Or.
Scots at the service of France in the 100 Years War
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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She immediately rejected proposals that she become sole ruler and, in April 1689, she and William were crowned joint sovereigns of England.
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A circular middle section was until recently crowned with trees.
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They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
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The sentiment of travelling is always conveyed in the ancient bas-reliefs and vase paintings by certain conventional signs or accessories bestowed upon the figure represented, viz., a broad-brimmed and low-crowned hat ([Greek: petasos], Lat.
Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Scarlett was crowned Sexiest Woman Alive once again.
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Eight British monarchs have been crowned during his residency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cathedral is crowned by a large golden statue of Mary looking up, with her arms plaintively moving out from her body.
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After passing through a series of lines, we were gathered into a chain-link holding pen, crowned with barbed wire, adjacent to the men.
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On Sunday, he went to a Friends meeting, where he listened to Rufus Jones, whom he called the uncrowned Quaker pope.
Human Smoke
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Fifty years to the day when she was crowned Queen in the historic Abbey - scene of coronations for 900 years - she will retrace her steps.
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The rectory was a fine old house, crowned by a belvedere, with Carpenter's Gothic trim and long French windows, a house that captured and stored the available light.
Incubus
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The first is a battern topaz, same of thistles, emerald, ensigned with an imperial crown proper, and thereon the crest of Scotland, which is a lion sejant guardian ruby, crowned with the like crown he sits on, having in his dexter paw a sword proper, the pommel and hilt, topaz; and in the sinister a sceptre of the last.
Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities
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'a lion sejant affronte gules crowned or, '&c. The adoption of the thistle as the national Scottish emblem is wrapt in obscurity, although an early poet attributes it to a suggestion of Venus. line 153.
Marmion
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At the pond there were a few white-winged terns, a black-crowned night heron, a purple swamphen, and some blue-cheeked bee-eaters.
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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Nicknamed the Stevie® for the Greek word "crowned," the awards will be presented to winners at a gala dinner on Monday, September 27, 2010 in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey.
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Deep under the confessio in a little stone room Saint Peter himself was buried; here the Emperor Charlemagne had been crowned.
The Thorn Birds
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The two other great comedy veterans had crowned their careers with such presentations.
Tommy Cooper: Always Leave Them Laughing
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_jobbernowl_, and shaded his right peeper, while a white beaver crowned the occiput of the Magus.
Rookwood
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One side of this square was entirely occupied by an enormous, lofty, and handsome building, the central portion of which was surmounted by an immense dome, covered with plates of gold, arranged in tiers or bands of different shapes among which that of the lozenge was the most conspicuous, while each corner of the building was crowned with
In Search of El Dorado
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A golden circlet crowned his head with four perfect diamonds that sat with equal spacing in it.
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Tall and heavily built, he had a pompadour of egg-white hair that made him look as if he had just been crowned with a large pavlova.
MURDER SONG
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But as you are a kind of uncrowned queen these days, Kara, I thought you might be permitted to offer a sweet now and then to your ladies in waiting.
The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest
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In the few places where sunlight had good purchase, patches of spiderwort crowned with their blue flowers carpeted the ground.
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Many are carried away with those bewitching sports of gaming, hawking, hunting, and such vain pleasures, as [4526] I have said: some with immoderate desire of fame, to be crowned in the Olympics, knighted in the field, &c., and by these means ruinate themselves.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In 2003 she was crowned European Champion and even stood on the top step of the Athens podium - having won a World Cup event there.
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uncrowned teeth badly in need of attention
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The adroitness and patience of a long line of monarchs and royal ministers, who moved gradually but steadily to centralize both authority and power in their own hands, were crowned with unimaginable success.
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Their wins were not enough to dislodge Salman Al Khalifa from being crowned series champion.
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But very mournful was that fast day at Mizpeh, as the Jews looked along the hillside to their own holy mountain crowned by no white marble and gold Temple flashing back the sunbeams, but only with the tall castle of their enemies towering over the precipice.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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Ironically, a road-paving team spotted the golden-crowned manakin in the heart of the rain forest of Brazil.
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Arranged in a radial pattern, the stone arches are crowned by a shallow domed roof clad in panels of green pre-patinated copper.
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Hip hop's cognoscenti crowned hyphy as the new crunk.
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Suspecting a ruby-crowned kinglet, I confirmed its identity on the app, then hit the birdsong play button.
This App Is for the Birds
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Page 33 bounded the pedimental space, above and below, and finally crowned the whole structure in the acroteria.
The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1
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The summit was crowned by the signing of the historic START treaty.
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In later times, he ascended to heaven to be crowned with stars.
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The cloud stood humbly in a corner of the sky. The morning crowned it with splendor.
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The drama, which focuses on a backstreet abortionist, was crowned British film of the year, while its star, Imelda Staunton, took the best actress accolade.
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There was an exhibition on at the time, a collection of paintings by Titian, the centrepieces of which were, I believe, Ecce Homo and Christ Crowned With Thorns.
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Striking narrow-crowned conical tree with bright red berries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Canterbury should have consented and also have crowned him, wherefore S. Thomas gat a bull for to do accurse them that so did against him, and also on them that occupied the goods longing to him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2
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Gargrave were crowned Craven Football League champions after a thrilling match against their nearest rivals, Embsay.
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A terraced pyramid supported an altar or shrine to the southwest of the palace; at the west corner was a temple, the substructure of which was crowned by a cavetto cornice showing plainly the influence of Egyptian models.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
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The queen was crowned with due ceremony.
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She was crowned queen at the age of fifteen.
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This zygodactylous feet also enable the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot to hang upside down to reach otherwise inaccessible fruits or flowers.
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Competing against ‘in hand’ and ridden horses and ponies, she was crowned group champion to the delight of her watching family.
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On 22 December 1135, Stephen was crowned and anointed king at Westminster.
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Ovary inferior, held in the concavity of the receptacle, one-celled, with 1 seed, crowned by an epigynous disc, above which rises a simple style with dilated stigma.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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It is crowned with a stone shell keep of about 1300, which replaced a timber predecessor.
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Standing at 15,2 hands, the three-year-old was awarded the ultimate accolade and crowned supreme champion of the show.
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Thus, the column of sienite from Charnwood Forest has a capital of the cocoa palm; the red granite of Ross, in Mull, is crowned with a capital of lilies; the beautiful marble of Marychurch has an exquisitely sculptured capital of ferns; -- and so through all the range of the arcades, new designs, studied directly from Nature, and combining art with science, have been executed by the workmen employed on the building.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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Uppon a wreathe golde and sables, a demye-lyon gules, armed and langued azure crowned, supportinge a bale thereon a crosse botone golde, mantelled azure doubled argent, and for the supporters two pagassis argent, their houes and mane golde, their winges waney of six argent and azure.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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When I visited my favorite hat shop, I looked at a shantung and a cheap Panama hat but decided that my head would look and feel better when crowned by a true Montecristi.
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And Tib rises out of that little domestic struggle, covered with glory and crowned with respect; her price so infinitely beyond rubies, that "invaluable" is the only term that can be applied to her; and accordingly Dr. McNab, Mr. Malcolm, and the poor little suffering feverish Dagon himself, unanimously agree that she is invaluable; and the slight rustle of her voluminous silk gown, as she moves across the room to fetch the bottle of colchicum, with the soft slow heavy tread of the elephant, is music to her Dagon's ears.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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He stopped to browse, and, after a few minutes’ immersion in ursine animatronics with names like Smarty Bear, Gabby Bear, and Heart-To-Heart Bear, he crowned one of them his favorite.
That's Edutainment
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Her Majesty sits squat on her throne, her head crowned, a sceptre in one hand, an orb in the other, and two lions stretch submissively at the imperial feet while she stares with bronze eyes at the distant horizons of Empire.
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He was crowned king at the age of fifteen.
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O Pythian rock, with forests crowned, and haunts of the Muses on Helicon! make my city and her walls re-echo with cries of joy; where sprang the earth-born crop to view, a warrior-host with shields of brass, who are handing on their realm to children's children, a light divine to Thebes.
Heracles
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In 800, Charlemagne was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by the pope himself.
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This is the type of thing that will allow brownback to be crowned king.
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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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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Hiring a guide is a good idea, since trained eyes will point out more rufous-tailed jacamars and blue-crowned mot-mots than you'd ever spot on your own.
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an orange-crowned bird
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An animal groomer from Weeley could scoop £10,000 if she is crowned young entrepreneur of the year.
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Her softly rounded face looked absurdly childlike under the tall-crowned hennin, from which a wispy veil floated behind her as she moved.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
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I know only that I was good to look upon, crowned with fragrant maile, clad in Princess Naomi's wonderful holoku loaned me by Uncle John from his taboo room; and I know that I advanced alone to him across the Mana lawn, and that he stepped forth from those about him to meet me half-way.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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Not surprisingly he was hailed as the uncrowned king of Ireland in the 19th century.
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Her honey-brown hair, partially covered by a thin white veil of sendal and crowned with a narrow golden coronet, was dressed in a multitude of thin plaits threaded with jeweled bangles.
Conqueror's Moon
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Our patient is crowned king and expected to sort out this delightfully convoluted muddle.
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Prince John plans, in his brother's absence, to usurp the throne and have himself crowned King.
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South-west, the long spurs of Molli and Catsuperri, each crowned with convents or temples, descended from Singalelah; and parallel to them on the south; but much longer and more lofty, was the great mountain range north of the Kulbait, with the temples and convents of Pemiongchi, and Changachelling, towering in the air.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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Mark McQueen was hired to be the weatherman–slash–music personality interviewer, and I was crowned “sidekick,” a term unused in morning television since they had had a chimpanzee on theToday show.
Fired!
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CRESTS _upon the Imperial Crown, a lion statant guardant, crowned or_
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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The young imperial Maiden of Fifteen has now become a worn discrowned Widow of Thirty-eight; grey before her time: this is the last Procession: 'Few minutes after the Trial ended, the drums were beating to arms in all Sections; at sunrise the armed force was on foot, cannons getting placed at the extremities of the Bridges, in the Squares, Crossways, all along from the Palais de Justice to the Place de la Révolution.
"Trial of Marie-Antoinette." by Thomas Carlyle
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The vessel labouring very much in a heavy sea, had not a stitch of canvass on her, and her bare mast tapered into the air like a cocoa-nut tree that had been discrowned.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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The headland was a precipitous cliff of red sandstone, crowned at the summit with a fringe of forest trees, white at its base were two or three hollow caverns, worn into the solid rock by the action of the surf.
Lost in the Fog
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(Pelet de la Lozère, p. 210, July 17, 1806.) -- Note the word crowned (sacré).
The Modern Regime, Volume 2
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Crowned with a tile roof, the alternating narrow and wide bands of rock face masonry contrast with the smooth finish of the arch and its Rococo embellishment.
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He has no reason to speak to the Queen like that, even if she is uncrowned.
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His large sheepskin hat still crowned his narrow head.
Somewhere East of Life
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The pistil consists of a stigma supported on the style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a pistil, which is in a rudimentary state, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed, and is clothed with hairs as in other compositae, for the purpose of brushing the pollen out of the surrounding anthers.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical)
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Osiris, who also summoned the annual floods, is often represented in the shape of a "canonic" vase with a stopper in the shape of a crowned head.
Al-Ahram Weekly Online
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They would confirm this, by pretending to observe, that a British anus being more narrowly perforated than one of our own country; and many of these excrements upon a strict view appearing copple crowned, with a point like a cone or pyramid, are easily distinguished from the
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
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The pistil consists of a stigma supported on a style; but in some Compositae, the male florets, which of course cannot be fecundated, have a rudimentary pistil, for it is not crowned with a stigma; but the style remains well developed and is clothed in the usual manner with hairs, which serve to brush the pollen out of the surrounding and conjoined anthers.
Darwin and the vermiform appendix - The Panda's Thumb
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Male Ruby-crowned Kinglets have bright red crests (that can vary in color to orange), which can be raised when the bird is excited but which are more often completely hidden.
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When it was completed, this counterwork consisted of a solid stone wall, crowned with wooden towers, and defended in front by a palisade.
Stories from Thucydides
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The latter received all the orders uncanonically without the proper intervals (interstitia), and was crowned pope as Leo VIII.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
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A sweet peanut butter pastry cream is stuffed into homemade or store-bought creampuff shells, which are bathed in melted chocolate and crowned with chopped peanuts.
Kerry Saretsky: Franglais: Peanut Butter Cup Profiteroles
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Scarlett was crowned Sexiest Woman Alive once again.
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The return of Kavanagh after a long absence due to injury is a big bonus for Heys at this stage of the season and he almost crowned his return with a goal when a long distance shot hit the underside of the bar before rebounding to safety.
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Her green satin dress made her look like a slender flower stem, crowned with petals of fiery hair.
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Following the death of Stephen's son, Eustace, he agreed that Henry should succeed him; he was crowned Henry II of England in 1154.
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Standing at 15,2 hands, the three-year-old was awarded the ultimate accolade and crowned supreme champion of the show.
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This rectangular top was crowned by a barrel-vaulted shape of Buddhist origin, crowned with a row of finials.
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He picked up a gong as he was crowned the king of UK hip-hop and grime.
The Sun
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Now, crowned by her loose fair hair, it was released to its element.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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He travels in stratospheric circles with crowned heads, presidents and various illuminati, glitterati and cognescenti.
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In 1954, Pauling's many achievements were crowned with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW.
Berlinski's Wisdom
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You will never enjoy the world aright, till he sea itself floweth in your vein, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.
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United haven't looked that special - they rarely did last season despite being crowned champions - but they are far more assured than the away side.
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When the bee resumes Thursday, Ward will battle 102 other spellers until a new champion is crowned.
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The Big Man took on a fillet steak crowned with Achmore blue cheese (fresh from the dairy just six miles up the road) and crème fraîche glaze.
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Common birds include the mountain bluebird, chestnut-backed chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, ruby-crowned kinglet, pygmy nuthatch, gray jay, Steller's jay, and Clark's nutcracker.
Southern Rocky Mountain Steppe - OpenWoodland - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
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A golden circlet crowned his head with four perfect diamonds that sat with equal spacing in it.
