How To Use Curvy In A Sentence
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So it was either scurvy-flavored hookers and gin-soaked alkies, or nothing at all.
PAUL IS UNDEAD
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This marks the new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobby carrot, " said E.
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Missy's fans and friends have been dropping their jaws at her newest invention: her retooled curvy figure.
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Not only will you have a curvy figure, you will always find a comfortable seat.
Times, Sunday Times
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I lately had occasion to justify an action to a man," went on Clowes, "but, no, the scurvy fellow would put no faith in my words, insisting that the person I sought to clear was covinous and tricky, and wholly unworthy of trust.
Janice Meredith
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With a curvy frame and bright rainbow colours, this bike folds in seconds and is small enough to fit in a shopping bag.
The Sun
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I'd look at other women and envy their curvy figures.
The Sun
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In fact, it looks like the curvy mountain road on all those car ads, except greener.
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Oh, and further to Lisa's comment, neither is a morphew a "scurvy blister".
Languagehat.com: OLD DISEASE NAMES.
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Picrochole thus in despair fled towards the Bouchard Island, and in the way to Riviere his horse stumbled and fell down, whereat he on a sudden was so incensed, that he with his sword without more ado killed him in his choler; then, not finding any that would remount him, he was about to have taken an ass at the mill that was thereby; but the miller's men did so baste his bones and so soundly bethwack him that they made him both black and blue with strokes; then stripping him of all his clothes, gave him a scurvy old canvas jacket wherewith to cover his nakedness.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
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In Java, poultices of the herb are applied to old sores, scurvy, and other skin conditions.
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He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
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It looks more adventurous, too, what with its curvy rump, flowing lines and funky lights fore and aft.
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We are at the bottom of a chalk-pit, Mr Charles," answered Tom, "the fellows have played us a somewhat scurvy trick, but I cannot but say that it was better than sending us over the cliff and breaking our necks; howsomdever, the sooner we get out of it the better as I'm wet to the skin, and would like to take a brisk walk homeward to get dry.
Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay
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It's sleeker but too anonymous, but the curvy rear is sportier than the saloon.
The Sun
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Suede defied the norm with articles like ‘Jeans, The Urban Fit’ that addressed the needs of curvy figures.
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I have a nice, healthy curvy figure.
The Sun
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It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay.
The Vitamin Fact Finder
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They choose the curvy individual bedlike pods that line the centre of the changeroom.
Globe and Mail
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To enhance control and fun on curvy roads, move the shifter to manual mode and slap it up and down through six distract ratios like the best manu-matic.
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I have English Breakfast tea in a blue and white porcelain cup - not an austere Chinese willows weeping vessel, but an Italian blue flowers happily dancing on white type ceramic curvy cup.
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The most arresting of these was a frozen landscape of pebbles with raw shrimps and strewn with wild beach plants such as sea arrowgrass, St. John's wort, Portulak and the unfortunately named scurvy-grass.
Noma's Spectrum of Flavors
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I am a curvy size 12. What would you recommend?
Times, Sunday Times
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Too bad I would look awful in a matching dress: the twenties were a bad time for curvy ladies as the waistline was too low ...
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Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
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Ty looked over in her direction nervously, admiring her curvy figure and lush lips.
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The curvy, apple-cheeked siren is more than happy to let a new generation of carnivorous Chinese reporters get their nibbles.
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The new one-handed cap and curvy bottle has both convenience and functionality.
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It transpired that the child had weak bones caused by scurvy and certain dietary intolerances.
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Lassa fever malaria measles meningitis rift valley fever scarlatina maligna scarlet fever scurvy smallpox sweating sickness toxic shock syndrome tularemia typhoid fever typhus typhus complicated by bubonic plague/dysentery/yellow fever yellow fever complicated by scurvy
Sometimes, I love being wrong - The Panda's Thumb
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Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
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This is an extremely low level, and it represents only the amount needed to prevent health problems such as scurvy, a vitamin deficiency disease.
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Amos Wentworth is the only member of the party without scurvy.
“I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
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She's as curvy as tabrizi bread, as sweet as sheer moz, as hot as morabaye bahar narenj, and as spicy as a bowl of felfel torshi.
Mahmud Ahmedinejad's Wife--All Woman
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Teheran, where I worked in 1952 and 1953 on rabies, plague, arbovirus infections, scurvy and other epidemic disease in Iran,
D. Carleton Gajdusek - Autobiography
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A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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Apart from these inborn defects, deprivation of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) at any time of life interferes with a step in collagen synthesis; the resulting bleeding, bruising, and poor healing are part of the picture of scurvy.
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As for food, this island produces none; nor is there any vegetable upon it but cellery, which grows here in abundance, and is of great use to us, the men being in general very much troubled with the scurvy.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
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Curvy or busty women look better in belted coats or coats with fairly full skirts than in straight-cut reefer styles.
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While it has some appealing features, I found it garish with curvy lines and bright colors.
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He sat up suddenly, his muscular tensity increasing the hurt of the scurvy.
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At about 4: 00 p.m., she was going about 30 miles per hour and hit a patch of black ice on a steep, curvy section of the road and lost control of her vehicle.
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During our stay in the Sound, we were plentifully supplied with fish, procured from the natives at a very easy rate; and, besides the vegetables our own gardens afforded, we found every where plenty of scurvy grass and cellery, which I caused to be dressed every day for all hands.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
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Biosynthesis, above), a scurvy-prone species like Man, had a tendency to develop damage to the aorta, low HDL cholesterol and high total cholesterol, in a manner akin to typical human heart disease, under suboptimal vitamin C nutriture.
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Following his discovery of vitamine as the preventative substance to beri - beri, Funk had outlined a theory of "avitaminoses" as the responsible cause of several other types of diseases, including scurvy, rickets, pellagra, and beri-beri.
The Vitamine Manual
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They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
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His body was ridden with disease - beriberi, dysentery and scurvy - and his doctor's prognosis was grim.
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As you are small and curvy, you could get lost or look lumpy in anything too floaty.
Times, Sunday Times
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If it be within the [1075] body, and not putrified, it causeth black jaundice; if putrified, a quartan ague; if it break out to the skin, leprosy; if to parts, several maladies, as scurvy, &c.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Once the rainy season began in April, malaria, yellow fever, typhoid and scurvy began to take their toll.
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Disease is rife and diet related illnesses such as scurvy are evident everywhere.
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The newer is the hottest soft porn glossy, featuring curvy breasts, teasing hard nipples, slappable ass, as well as some diversionary violence, chromy car stuff, and pictures of food that other people can sell you if you are hungry.
Archive 2007-10-01
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You jacknape, give-a dis letter to Sir Hugh; by gar, it is a challenge: I vill cut his troat in de Park; and I vill teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.
Act I. Scene IV. The Merry Wives of Windsor
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And finally, there do be help available for ye landlubbers and scurvy dogs who can't talk like Pirates.
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Presumably these poor malnourished souls are therefore more likely to get scurvy and rickets - or to be stuffed up a chimney.
Times, Sunday Times
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It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay.
The Vitamin Fact Finder
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The local Atollers are about to put Costner to death, thinking he's a spy, when they're attacked by the movie's piratical villains, the Smokers, led by the scurvy, baldpated Dennis Hopper.
'Waterworld': It Floats
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Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, a tall, rugged youth with an eye patch stepped out from the shadows, a slender girl with long hazel hair and a curvy figure trailing after him.
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The first part of the drive inand will be mountainous and curvy and as you crest the mountain you will pass a spectacular Zapoteco mountain town on the crest which is quite a sight in beautiful mountainous terrain.
Huatulco to Oaxaca City Road Trip
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I am a curvy size 12-14.
Times, Sunday Times
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She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
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Dam supposed at first that it was a question of scurvy, i.e. a deficiency of vitamin C, but found, on continued investigation, that neither this nor any other known vitamin, nor cholesterin, could prevent or check the hemorrhagic tendency in the laboratory animals.
Physiology or Medicine 1943 - Presentation Speech
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I observe that the physicians in this country pay no regard to the state of the solids in chronical disorders, that exercise and the cold bath are never prescribed, that they seem to think the scurvy is entirely an English disease; and that, in all appearance, they often confound the symptoms of it, with those of the venereal distemper.
Travels through France and Italy
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Stefansson demostrated that fresh, lightly cooked meat contains an antiscorbutic a substance that prevents scurvy, which is lost when meat is cooked to much.
Odds and ends | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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Then, in the bungling hurry of fitting out, the hulls of several vessels were left foul, which made them dull sailers; while nearly all the holds were left unscoured, which, of course, helped to propagate the fevers, scurvy, plague, and pestilence brought on by bad food badly stowed.
The Great Fortress : A chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760
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She is sturdy and curvy with a pert upturned nose and shiny brown pigtails.
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If you are blessed with a curvy, hourglass figure, then a corset or basque will certainly make the most of your assets.
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If you are blessed with a curvy, hourglass figure, then a corset or basque will certainly make the most of your assets.
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I took the next bus out, motoring up curvy roads to the Argentinian border.
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Our sallow skin and lean, ravenous eyes (so suggestive of scurvy) give us away.
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The study of rickets has already progressed to the stage of calculating rickets-producing diets and the methodology is identical with that for scurvy but this phase of testing still lacks evidence of an antirachitic vitamine and in that uncertainty it is hardly worth while to elaborate these diets here.
The Vitamine Manual
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Of the six deaths on the long voyage, only one was from illness, and none from scurvy.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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Her figure was curvy and strong, as her career demanded.
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Chris hadn't remembered the directions perfectly and we drove down a number of wrong roads, curvy tree-lined gravel roads with small animals darting across them.
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The former EastEnder has gone from a curvy size 14 to a trim eight since launching into a strict diet and exercise plan.
The Sun
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There were violas and recorders of various shapes and sizes, plus a lute, a cittern and a curvy wind instrument called a crumhorn.
NPR Topics: News
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She wasn't very tall and looking at her voluptuous body and curvy figure I definitely would have guessed her to be older then a high school student.
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Now as connoisseurs of female gams will attest, female calves, like the rest of the female form, can range from slim to curvy.
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It was rather tight accentuating her curvy figure.
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I get jealous of her because she's physically more mature - tall and curvy.
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A scurvy, vermiform scug with a serpentine twinkle in his solitary eye.
On writing by stephen king
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A curvy girl might choose an A-line in a jersey or other stretch fabric, which will hug curves the right way, while dresses in silk or satin cut on the bias might accentuate problem areas because of the way they catch light.
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Ivy stood up with her curvy hour glass figure and tossed her long blonde hair.
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I kept going through fog, down curvy roads, across damp grass, through the dark house, until he was in my arms and there were kisses and everything was instantly right with the world.
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Several trucks were moving at a snail's pace, wiggling their way along the curvy road, while dozens more waited for their turn to unload their garbage.
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The newcomers driving through the curvy roads, car sick from every right and left turn, looked up at the sky with wide eyes of worry and fear.
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Captain James Cook is widely renowned as an explorer, pioneering navigator and preventer of scurvy.
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The guy in the Corvair is driving up a curvy mountain road.
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Scurvy is still seen, very occasionally, among old people living alone who neglect their diet.
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Cook did, for example, but other captains didn't and it was an imperfectly understood thing, that you had to have antiscorbutics in the diet otherwise you got scurvy.
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Thankfully, the term model now applies to a more diverse profile of professional women ranging from stick thin to curvy and plus-size, blond with Nordic blue eyes, to chocolate brown with thick, curly hair, and they are working alone and alongside one another.
Before You Put That On
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If there had been TV reporters and satellite uplinks on Columbus' voyage, most of the coverage would have dealt with scurvy and the lack of an exit strategy.
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Stunning tweeds of red, lilac and brown were moulded into curvy skirt suits - some with ragged lace underskirts and others held together by large hook-and-eyes.
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The self-righting objects they've found have been smooth and curvy.
Boing Boing: April 8, 2007 - April 14, 2007 Archives
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The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin.
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In 1747 the British naval surgeon James Lind conducted experiments on antiscorbutic substances - that is, those able to prevent scurvy.
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Instead of being a taut, minimal straight line, I'm a curvy, springy, unmarshalled dithering thing, unable to ping, ding or ker-ching.
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Traditional men's haberdashery fabrics will continue their rise, cut into curvy female figure-friendly pantsuits, French-cuffed shirts, balmacaans and trench coats.
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In the springy short turf along the coast grow species including sea pink, spring squill, bird's foot trefoil, sea campion, scurvy grass and sheep's bit which also transform some stretches of cliff into colourful ` hanging gardens’.
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Now, however, the combined effects of scurvy, anemia and exhaustion kept him asleep twenty hours out of the day.
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Overt vitamin deficiency diseases, such as pellagra or scurvy, are uncommon in persons who consume a typical North American diet.
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All this tracked through my mind as I poked down the road to the curvy dirt lane leading up to Zork's daddy's cottage.
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Now, however, the combined effects of scurvy, anemia and exhaustion kept him asleep twenty hours out of the day.
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Modern medicine categorizes diarrhea as a symptom of a disease, such as scurvy, typhoid, malaria, and dysentery, or as a symptom of indigestible substances in the intestines.
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This was an attempt to replace all those nutrients I suspect I have not been getting from raro and cheese toasties, after the discovery scurvy was not just for sailors.
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You are zaftig or voluptuous or curvy or full-bodied, panduriform - a cello
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Like riding in a fast car on a curvy road, most growth stocks make me queasy.
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I went from being on the curvy side of normal to not fitting into trousers; my wardrobe morphed into a sea of leggings and stretchy dresses.
Times, Sunday Times
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The third, the so-called antiscorbutic vitamine because of its action as preventative and cure for scurvy, is found in certain fruits and vegetables.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919
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After witnessing scurvy's dire effects, naval surgeon James Lind decided to do something about it.
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She was the one I saw fighting with Christopher in the street, the one with flowing auburn hair and the curvy figure.
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A close relative of the domestic cow, Banteng have curvy horns and white ‘stockings’ on their legs.
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I followed the curvy roads of Promise City to the corner of Main and Elm, driving as if on autopilot.
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Ascorbic acid/vitamin C. Prolonged deficiency can result in scurvy, poor wound healing and bleeding gums.
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An eighteen-wheeler had been driving on the wrong side of a curvy road, and my dad swerved around it to get out of the way.
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Mortality among women and small children had increased by 50 per cent and hunger-related diseases such as rickets, scurvy, and tuberculosis were endemic.
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In the corner, a dressmaker's mannequin loomed, its hourglass figure a little more curvy than those belonging to the Parisian woman passing behind me, on the trottoir (I could see their reflections in the shop's window, where my nose now flattened up against the glass).
Machine à coudre - French Word-A-Day
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Happell translated this brief into a curvy front counter with bright lights, white walls and little yellow-tiled alcoves, dominated by a large deep red menu board.
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Even scurvy land lubbers can talk like a pirate an’ not be called a stinkin’ bilge rat.
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a scurvy trick
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Gilbert Blane and Thomas Beddoes, highly esteemed authorities on scurvy in the 18th century, rightly doubted that there was any antiscorbutic virtue in malt.
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She has dyed her hair and gone from a skinny size six to a curvy size ten.
The Sun
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It's curvy and modern looking with switchgear derived from the X-TRAIL and 350Z.
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Tall doors open out onto the sidewalk, and diners sit in curvy plastic Knoll chairs or on banquettes upholstered with the same stretchy, Prada-red mesh you find in upmarket running shoes.
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In the eightieth year of her age she was seized with an inward burning fever, which wasted her insensibly by its intense heat; at the same time an imposthume was formed in her lungs; and a violent and most tormenting scurvy, attended with a corroding hideous stinking ulcer, ate away her jaws and mouth, and deprived her of her speech.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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She was of average height and had a curvy figure consisting of the old-fashioned hour-glass shape Wyatt had seen so often in the old 1940's Hollywood movies.
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It took many years before it was realized that adding citrus fruits to the diet of men at sea would keep scurvy at bay.
The Vitamin Fact Finder
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Looks can be deceiving: Our instructor, a curvy but compact and strong woman, couldn't make it through to the end of the triceps dips and, awesomely, admitted it to us, while the lankiest girl with the puniest arms breezed right through.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
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I just happen to have a curvy body.
The Sun
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The entry to one large town was down a long, steep, curvy road, which I weaved down very slowly.
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The garment needs to be curvy and fluid as well as functional, warm and ethnically in keeping.
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It is reported of the Prophet that, when anyone complained to him of a pain in the head or legs, he would bid him be cupped and after cupping not eat salt food, fasting, for it engendereth scurvy; neither eat sour things as curded milk408 immediately after cupping.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Hers is not a label specifically aimed at curvy or plus-sized women, but at all women.
The Guardian World News
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I like the hand held best as it allows me to flip from channel to channel easier than the base unit in the car, but if a break is more than a minute on a curvy road then the transmission is not all that clear.
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I happen to be very short-waisted with a curvy figure.
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When they left after a few weeks, the rest, recreation and fresh fruit having cured the crews' scurvy, they were heaped with presents.
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Call me by that scurvy name one more time, and ye'll be walking the plank, I swear it!
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The spas, also, were claimed to cure ‘dropsy, jaundice, scurvy, greensickness and other distempers not to be mentioned’.
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I happen to be very short-waisted with a curvy figure.
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In trying to unbend curvy lines, there is another way of deciding how to proceed on the ladder of powers.
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She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
Gravity's Rainbow
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The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
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A nurdle is the curvy dollop of toothpaste used by many toothpaste manufacturers to depict their product.
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That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.
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She wasn't very tall and looking at her voluptuous body and curvy figure I definitely would have guessed her to be older then a high school student.
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Some of the men too were occupied in faking of cod; for there being two Newfoundland fifhermen in the Centurion, the commodore fet them about laying in a confiderable quantity of falted cod for a lea-ftorc, though very little or it was ufed, as it was afterward thought to be as productive of the fcurvy, as any other kind of fait provifions.
A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America
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The four young pilots came to a startling halt as they watched the lithe, curvy figure stepping out of the cockpit.
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To be sure it's a nuisance in the average parking lot, but above parking lot speeds it handles well enough, and on the highway is relaxing to drive on both straight stretches and curvy patches.
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Further, he supposed that, just as all the constituents of proteins (i.e. amino acids) belong to the same chemical class, so would the organic trace nutrients whose deficiencies were being envisioned as the causes of diseases such as pellagra and scurvy, in addition to beriberi.
The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins
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That's right, it was the CD release party for those lovable coots, The Scurvy Pirates.
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a settee with only one curvy end
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Low tide exposes many characteristic saltmarsh plants that provide a vegetarian menu, which is equally vital for the birds, including sea arrowgrass, scurvy grass and sea lavender.
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That was a scurvy trick to play on an old lady.
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She is very imaginative and has a fantastic curvy figure.
The Sun
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And you didn't get scurvy?
Times, Sunday Times
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He got stuck in the ice near what is now Quebec city and spent the winter there, saved from scurvy by the Amerindians who taught them how to make thuya infusions… A first attempt at a settlement was made in 1641, by about 30 people, but that ended up in disaster, because they nearly all died from the harsh winter.
Unprecedented Warmth in Sweden « Climate Audit
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The next day, Mr. Nilhammer took the bus across flat, curvy roads that cut through barley fields and hedge rows about five miles west of Saint Lo to visit a monument at La Chapelle Enjuger.
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She works at St. Veronica's hospital, lives nearby at the home of a Mrs. Quoad, a lady widowed long ago and since suffering a series of antiquated diseases-greensickness, tetter, kibes, purples, im-posthumes and almonds in the ears, most recently a touch of scurvy.
Gravity's Rainbow
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If you have curvy hips and are proud of them, Clarkson suggests a super-low boot-cut jean, which sits well on the hips and shows off your figure.
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Then you follow steep, curvy Agency Creek Road down into Idaho's Lemhi River Valley.
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– In the north, scurvy-grass, navelwort and primroses.
Try Anything Twice
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He treated his scorbutic patients with a mixture of plant and vegetable juices made from water cress, brooklime, scurvy grass, all herbs rich in ascorbic acid.
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She's as curvy as tabrizi bread, as sweet as sheer moz, as hot as morabaye bahar narenj, and as spicy as a bowl of felfel torshi.
Mahmud Ahmedinejad's Wife--All Woman
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She was now tall with a curvy figure and good-sized breasts, and even covered in dirt her beauty shone through.
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Vitamin C deficiency can ultimately lead to scurvy.
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The plague, pneumonia, pleurisy, tuberculosis, smallpox, scurvy, the black lung, the yeasty oesophagus, the mildewed mouth; call it what you want just don't call it the common cold.
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It was a photocopy of a letter written in curvy handwriting on lined paper.
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The men…in quest of musk-oxen, caribou, and Arctic hare: for Peary, who never had a single case of scurvy on any of his expeditions, fully appreciated the value of fresh meat as an antiscorbutic.
Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
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And you didn't get scurvy?
Times, Sunday Times
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As we now know, oranges and lemons (and many other fruits and vegetables) are excellent sources of vitamin C, and scurvy is the disease resulting from severe vitamin C deficiency.
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She turned off the freeway and they ended up on a rather curvy mountain road.
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We can start with her curvy figure that could not be hidden from the world, even the all girls' Catholic school uniform and the fluffy winter jacket that she wore could not conceal it all.
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Presumably these poor malnourished souls are therefore more likely to get scurvy and rickets - or to be stuffed up a chimney.
Times, Sunday Times
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She'd finally regained the weight she'd lost under the stress she'd suffered the year before and sported a healthy, curvy figure instead of nearly skeletal look of pain and stress.
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The oily burst of flavor sent fumes up the back of my throat that made my eyes water, but they did cleanse my tongue of the taste of grease and scorch, and would, with the charlock leaves, maybe be sufficient to ward off scurvy.
Dragonfly in Amber
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If these fumes also cause you cancer, scurvy, chloracne, and gout, all the more so.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Kay Hymowitz’s Response to Her Libertarian Critics:
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Essential for wearing under spaghetti strap vests, it has banished the unbecoming sight of curvy women tugging up their strapless numbers.
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She's got a curvy figure.
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Of the six deaths on the long voyage, only one was from illness, and none from scurvy.
VOYAGES OF DELUSION: The Search for the North West Passage in the Age of Reason
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During their rare landfalls sailors would gather any edible green plants, of which several species became known as ‘scurvy grass’.
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As a curvy size 16 I am much happier with my body.
The Sun
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Avast, ye scurvy dogs, Kerry will swing from the highest yardarm!
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But this vitamin was previously called the antiscorbutic vitamin on the ground that the lack there of caused the disease of scurvy, so much dreaded by the polar explorers of earlier times.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1937 - Presentation Speech
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Sour-crout was much more to his taste as a preventive of scurvy, and in 1777, at the request of
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Cook was referring to the fact that Tupaia refused malt, portable soup and all the other remedies against scurvy, and that Green's addiction to drink was precipitating scorbutic symptoms.
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Their absence is probably responsible for certain diseases, such as beriberi, scurvy, and possibly pellagra, as well as much ill health of a less definite sort.
How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
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I appreciate the belt she has on here makes her look more 'waspy' and 'curvy.
Charcoal Ink
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Hugh; by gar, it is a shallenge: I will cut his troat in dee park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
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It felt fantastic to see her natural curvy body.
The Sun
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When was the last time that you met an American-born person suffering from rickets, scurvy, beriberi, pellagra, or any other disease caused entirely by malnutrition.
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Dr. McDonald, assistant surgeon aboard HMS Terror — my counterpart there as it were — has theories that heavily salted food is not as efficient and antiscorbutic as fresh or nonsalted Victuals, and since the regular seamen aboard both ships prefer their Salted Pork to all other meals, Dr. McDonald worries that the heavily salted birds will add little to our Defenses against Scurvy.
The Terror
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She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
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Also, with tea made from spruce needles, with concoctions brewed from the inner willow bark, and with sour and bitter roots and bulbs from the ground, they dosed his scurvy out of him, so that he ceased limping and began to lay on flesh over his bony framework.
LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES
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She's a curvy woman too.
The Sun
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Church — I thought that this scurvy scampish knave might show them the way to the place he mentioned, unless his courage failed him.
Lorna Doone
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In fact, she was a looker from a certain angle, a little bit like that curvy sweetheart who died in a car crash around a year ago.
Archive 2004-06-01
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a curvy young woman in a tight dress
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Corset shirts and rigid cage bustiers accentuate a curvy new silhouette.
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A curvy center corridor links the public rooms that range along Apollon Deck.
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Like scurvy or pernicious anaemia, he puts it down to nutritional deficiencies in the modern diet: the lack of the essential vitamin B17.
