horst

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• By the fin de siècle this view of high-end consumption had so exploded that Thorstein Veblen unloosed the first modern sustained attack on luxury in his thoroughly entertaining Theory of the Leisure Class.
• Of Scharnhorst's crew of 1,968, just 36 were rescued from the icy waters as their wrecked ship sank.
• Thus the Coastal Ranges take on the appearance of an uplifted horst, bounded, particularly to the east, by normal faults.
• Conrade Horst forced his way over moat and wall, must thou be malapert? — Quentin Durward
• A thinner series of these rocks occurs on top of horsts of Jurassic rocks.
• The servant at Blackwood Castle (Grimsby, played by Artur Binder) tries to frighten Jane by placing a snake in her bed (one of many he cares for in the cellar); a neighboring inn begins to see unprecedented seasonal business from visitors (Horst Tappert as "Douglas Fairbanks," CARMEN, BABY's Uta Levka) showing unusual interest in Blackwood Castle... and each other; and the two seemingly harmless old fogies playing chess in the inn's tavern are using a tricked-out chesspiece to send messages to the snake-caring servant. Archive 2006-04-23
• Surrounding this lowlying area are ‘horsts’ of Palaeozoic rocks, and outcrops of Triassic conglomerates that drain into the basins of the Trent, Warwickshire Avon and the Severn.
• His captain, the enormously experienced 35-year-old Giovanni van Bronckhorst, did not need to italicise the contrast with past tournaments when he spoke of the closeness of the squad. World Cup 2010: Dutch learn to put function above flair
• Hydrocarbons may be trapped in anticlines draped over deeply - buried horsts in the pre - deltaic basement.
• Fault movements by which blocks of terrain move up or down relative to each other, as when horsts or grabens are formed, can also produce inliers and outliers.