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When the effused lymph is not absorbed it organizes, either forming a sort of internal cicatrix which is harder than the surrounding tissues or increasing the density of the part by augmenting the amount of plastic material within it. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
They are very much secluded from the rest of Chiloe, and have scarcely any sort of commerce, except sometimes in a little oil, which they get from seal-blubber. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Fred Wye seemed like a decent sort of cuss, Peter thought, too bad his brother wasn't more like him. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
Letters from my family are sort of depressing, though sometimes my cousins write a few words that makes me laugh.

From a pure box-office point of view, all of us can surely relish the sort of muscular macho, the one-on-one confrontation on view when a Phil Vickery meets a Christian Califano.
You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
And Mr. Buckner's best-known moment—a game-ending fielding error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, after which his Red Sox lost to the Mets in Game 7—can be seen as sort of the ur-"Larry David moment. Showing His Enthusiasm
_merit-thermometer_, a sort of _Aeolian-harp-test_; in the flat parts his voice was unimpassioned, but if the gust of genius swept over the wires, his tones rose in intensity, till his own energy of feeling and expression kindled in others a sympathetic impulse, which the dull were forced to feel, whilst his animated recitations threw fresh meaning into the minds of the more discerning. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
Was he genuinely not aware of the sort of law-abiding person you are? Times, Sunday Times
This sort of enamel work on a faceted metal body was copied from the enamelled European watches.
I'm pleased I didn't get that job, in a funny sort of way.
Do they have to change their diet, is there a dietary intervention as well to get that sort of weight loss, or do they just continue as before?
I had always envisioned a sort of heroic rescue, but those were only dreams.
The endotoxins exuded are cell - wall constituents that are sort of like pheromones or germ sweat. T.S. Wiley: Can Sleep Loss Destroy Your Immune System?
What's more, the mountain was haloed by phosphorescent blue bands of some sort of energy crackling all around it.
It's the sort of thing I tend to call a batshit story, and though this term has not caught on as the latest literary, uh, movement, it's the only label that seems to fit so much of the sort of writing I love. Archive 2005-12-01
This link is sort of off-topic but really not, as it's yet another case (as in the present one) of the media doing their level best to shout down "the critics" -- the nattering nabobs of negativism -- and then, years later, admitting that the "gadflies" were right all along, and that what looked like a scam, walked like a scam, and quacked like a scam was -- quelle surprise! Funky math with Mark Larabee (Jack Bog's Blog)
I have a feeling that someone has all the email from both accounts, and they are right now in some sort of shady deal to sell the data to $someone (or perhaps to Palin herself). MetaFilter Projects
If you were to take out two or three shrubs to let the remainder breathe, what sort of rhythm would be left? Times, Sunday Times
I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously. Archive 2008-02-01
It's easy to see how their pictures might have some sort of religious significance. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
I think you could get aroundthe police strategy discussed above by Orin Kerr arrest the potential non-consenting guy first with this sort of blanket prohibition. The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Georgia v. Randolph Apply to Computers?
Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
Most fledgling parents or parents-to-be feel duty-bound to invest in some sort of guide to looking after a new baby, and publishers, naturally, feel duty-bound to take advantage of that by churning out one guide after another.
According to John Ralson, who apparently has some sort of Avatar-like connection to all living things in the Silver State, Berkley had been weighing the decision for a while but ultimately decided that the opportunity was too good to pass up. HUFFPOST HILL - Congress Passes Budget, Catastrophe Postponed
As such, the set was both heavy on the new material and encore-less, a sort of brilliant means of creating a Pavlovian effect on the assembled concert-goers.
There were hosts on it and about it, and then Dr Duthoit forgot all about what we call the realities and facts of life, forgot that this sort of thing does not happen, and watched what was happening. Dr Duthoit’s Vision
We live in a mixed society now and this sort of thing is disgusting and shouldn't be tolerated.
Bianca had on the same sort of top as me but the one she wore had sleeves while mine was sleeveless and she had on a short denim mini.
Use the rest of the butter to grease a large baking dish (the sort of thing you would make lasagne in). Times, Sunday Times
MAGGIANO: The two others are sort of what I call refinance roulette, where someone comes in and convinces you that the way to get out of your mortgage problem is to refinance again. CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007
They shook hands in a very male, unaffectionate sort of way.
I was about to dismiss this as a sort of think-tanky special interest political advocacy group, but then I remembered that mothers are good. The Volokh Conspiracy » Mothers Against Debt
This sort of detailed description is of limited use. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
The touch of ice wine lends the drink the slightest honeyed, apricot sort of nose, but doesn't interfere with the brisk essence of the classic martini, which is, above all, dry.
His ponderous declaration: "I write by the light of two eternal truths, religion and the monarchy," was a sort of cheap-jack recommendation of the so-called philosophy in his _Comedie Humaine_. Balzac
He drives a top of the range Mercedes but has not indulged himself with a fleet of the sort of flash cars favoured by some in the football world.
What sort of music would you listen to if you did have a whizzy waterproof iPod and didn't have to concentrate and count? Rebecca Adlington | Small Talk
Anyway, she was a vivacious, ebullient sort of girl, and I took an immediate liking to her.
I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children. Outfoxed Diary Entry
It all makes me feel rather sorry for men: as if being present at the birth has become some sort of test of moral fibre.
I had refastened it in a simple bowknot, a sort of knot which on Gor, in certain contexts, as in the present context, is spoken of as a slave knot. Renegades Of Gor
It's not sort of limp, it has a voluptuousness to it. Opulently Hidden, In Plain Sight
This sort of decentralising of empowerment would be welcome if it was not for the government's ambitious home-building programme. Further urban sprawl solves nothing | Editorial
What the seller is asking for is some sort of deposit. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Health and education are the sort of bread-and-butter issues that people vote on.
Then her arms come under the back to form a sort of strap and she holds on to her thighs. Times, Sunday Times
For instance, a viola da gamba is sort of cello, and a rebec is a kind of violin. The Golden Age of Publicity #7
What sort of unarmed combat skills do they teach in the KGB? Times, Sunday Times
In contrast to less specific methods of treatment, the social skill training approaches have the advantage of lending themselves to this sort of concise, nonmystical explanation. Planned Short-Term Treatment
The actress let out a scream as she tobogganed down a hill at the ski resort of Banff in Alberta, Canada.
But for all its glories, Victorian was also a time of grinding hard work, belching mill chimneys and the sort of poverty scarcely imaginable today.
This was the sort of lean and mean memo an entrepreneur has to love. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
Assuming that I don't have some sort of malignant brain tumor *knocks wood furiously*, it must be that this alien life-form, this adorable-but-nonetheless-parasitic superbeing, is sucking every nutrient from my body and turning these to his own nefarious supergrowth purposes. Pass The Smelling Salts
To be a man's name it would have to be a contraction of Junianus, of a sort of contraction which is otherwise unattested.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, the "telescreen" compulsorily present in every house is not only a television broadcasting from the outside, but a sort of CCTV camera, observing the people in the room, shouting at them if they fail to meet the standards ordained by the state of which Big Brother is the dictator, always watching them. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
There is serious reason to believe, though the details cannot be gone into here, that the lorum is represented by the "armill", though this is now a sort of stole which two or three centuries back was tied at the elbows. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
The status of a character trait as a virtue need not be a fixed matter, but a matter complexly interrelated with the sort of society in which it appears.
Detmar is the sort of chap who would once have been described as a milksop; when Issie met him in 1988 he was 25, but so close to his mother he used to shop for her sanitary towels. Blow by Blow: The Story of Isabella Blow by Detmar Blow
Its Awesome Foursome weekend, based in the Austrian resort of Zell am See, in the Kitzbühler Alps, features white-water rafting, canyoning, mountain-biking and glacier-skiing.
You have to have some sort of engagement, some sort of a carrot that not only entices that actual government but makes sure that other forces within Iran know there's an alternative. A Firmer Hand
This sort of immense architectonical precision does not stop the piece from revealing candid airs here and there. Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
Fortunately, she was lapping the soup up with great neatness and delicacy, which was sort of a relief: Jinx had been afraid she was going to slop it all over the table.
What you are putting forward is a pluralistic, 'there is no real right and wrong' sort of view.
He seems to be an actor perfectly suited to kitchen sink dramas in an age when demand from that sort of awkward, angry character is declining.
It's the sort of consignment Jan takes with her whenever she visits Romania, along with contraceptive coils and coffee.
It's a falling off sort of place where the ‘real’ slides into a chthonic state of being.
He took to antiquarianism, which is a sort of philtre, driving its votaries mildly insane, and filling them with emotions which, on the whole, are probably more often happy than grievous. Hawthorne and His Circle
There is, if I can use the expression, a sort of gangmaster cultural phenomenon in this, that you recruit top people who really do make a difference, who really do move markets and get business and are really high achievers. Evening Standard - Home
(Soundbite of kalimba) Mr. BERGMAN: And then there's another one, this is the - the one that I was just telling you about, the street sweeper tines from the Eastern Market, and this one is very sort of strange instrument, but it's not one that we use on too many songs. NOMO: The Sonic Maelstrom Of 'Ghost Rock'
This exceptionality allows the establishment of a sort of democracy: we are all equal because we all have the right to break the law’.
A harpoon is a sort of a spear, to which a long rope is attached. The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
I'm still worried that it implies that I'm the sort of crazy guy that stands in the pub quoting catchphrases from well-known British comedy programmes.
The doctor could not help laughing at the sort of "moue" she made: when he laughed, he had something peculiarly good-natured and genial in his look. Villette
Many other sketches featured similar hard-men, many of them caricaturing the sort of psychopathic gangsters who would become prevalent in British films of the late 1990s.
The fulgurator was a sort of auto-propulsive engine, of peculiar construction, charged with an explosive composed of new substances and which only produced its effect under the action of a deflagrator that was also new. Facing the Flag
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
What sort of shampoo do you use?
All in all it was the sort of night to make Edgar Allan Poe salivate at its possibilities. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
This was the sort of lean and mean memo an entrepreneur has to love. Going For It!: How to Succeed As an Entrepreneur
That made him careless about liberty and willing to use the authority of the state to create the sort of society he wanted to see.
More than 50,000 "kissing fish" have been put into the hot spring pool at the tourist resort of Holiday Beach in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province. Kissing Fish Therapy | Impact Lab
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own
And as an ancient sage once said, ‘Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.’
But while it's consistently interesting and hypnotically watchable, its manipulative techniques should remind us what sort of thing a movie is.
They all do so wearing the right sort of clothes. Times, Sunday Times
I don't think people really mind about that sort of thing unless there's been a really grisly murder on the property. The Sun
There is a man, approximately my age, attractive in a scruffy, academic sort of way brown corduroy jacket, one of those narrow, stripey, many-coloured scarves that men are wearing this season coiled around his neck, tufty brown hair, sitting across the aisle to my right on a strapontin. Power, corruption and lies
Maison Française which is sort of a monthly event we started some two and a half years ago in which we applied a conversation between a French writer and myself and which is devoted to his actual work. Blog of a Bookslut
The mist hung in a sort of cocoon about them, blotting out the rest of the forest.
What follows is a sort of addled odyssey fuelled by comic self-aggrandisement and rage against the various machines of money-making. Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Les Miserables
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
So did you find that there was any sort of optimum age for starting school?
And "The neoconservative hubris, which sort of assigns to America some kind of geo-strategic responsibility for maximizing democracy, overstretches the resources of a free country. Firedoglake » Can Republicans Put Country Before Party?
'It had a grand effect when Arthur stood on the second landing-place, and raised it above the balusters -- a sort of bodilessness rising from vacancy.' Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife
Most of the hadjys were mounted in the Shebrye, a sort of palankeen placed upon the camel. Travels in Arabia
At some schools, I am told, there is a sort of dyarchy. Surprised by Joy
Anyway, as you can see, the moc is sort of a slip-on walking shoe with a sneaker-ish sole.
I don't think he's really experienced enough for this sort of job.
A hammer is a sort of tool.
There is also a swifter motion of a different sort of fire which strikes and dilates the ray of sight until it reaches the eyes, forcing a way through their passages and melting them, and eliciting from them a union of fire and water which we call tears, being itself an opposite fire which comes to them from an opposite direction — the inner fire flashes forth like lightning, and the outer finds a way in and is extinguished in the moisture, and all sorts of colours are generated by the mixture. Timaeus
Synths, banjo, trumpet, and anything else found around the studio gets thrown in, creating the feeling of some sort of strange, postmodern hootenanny.
Beneath, where even in August noonday, the sun cannot find its way by a chink, and babies lie stark naked in the cavernous shade, Allen Street presents a sort of submarine and greenish gloom, as if its humanity were actually moving through a sea of aqueous shadows, faces rather bleached and shrunk from sunlessness as water can bleach and shrink. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
In short, if the US government said the person was a civilian -- not a member of a foreign army or an irregular, but some nebulous sort of 'combatant' entitled to no more rights than a civilian -- it is estopped from claiming otherwise now. Discourse.net: Nation Mag Claims ICE has Network of Secret Detention Faciilities -- in the USA
This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
The matter was urgent and he crept out, trying not to make the sort of noise which would waken fellow guests. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Exhausted and semi-conscious, my peripheral awareness of a sort of beige abyss was occasionally punctuated by explosions of extreme color.
I was actually pleasant sort of but then his companion came in to view and I nearly gagged on my own spit.
All animals that could not be made to perform some sort of service to society were completely killed off.
And here we are in these floor-length indigo-dyed cotton culottes that have 25 pleats in them, and this sort of heavyweight double-stitched cotton top.
Happily, children are resilient and this sort of familial chaos will have no effect on them.
You mean to say someone scooped this from off the floor of the labs and said, yes, this blue one here, let's see what sort of monstrosity it will blossom into if brought to term?
Getting any sort of fleshy pulp was very difficult, so I squeezed the fruits to get decent amounts of liquid.
In this sense, can we say that the dismissal of Schoenberg et al had its roots in a sort of century-long "me, me, me, emotive"/composer-becoming-the-subject of historical inquiry -- where the "forward looking" or the "next new thing" was the prescient objective -- came to a violent collision with the unfamiliar, one which is unreconcilable with nostalgia? Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep
Training imparts a sort of grace to their movements and timbre in their voice.
And he left it to the sort of ovation that makes your whole body tingle. The Sun
'' She's actually taking the listener with her, unlike Rudd who tended to sort of put words out there, often with a kind of syntactical convolution, and you had to try to keep up with him, '' he says. The Age News Headlines
WHEN I was a youngster I used to be quite a superstitious sort of person -- I suppose because I had a nurse till I was rather large, who was the sort of Scotchwoman which believes in fairies and red devils and those things. The Lake of Devils
I do not think it is healthy in any democratic parliament to have that sort of a majority.
Some find themselves utterly transformed by their longing for each other, and they dwell in a sort of blissful paradox, imprisoned, yet unmoored from the structure of their outside lives, so that their mutual captivity becomes a new kind of freedom. Best of 2009
Meanwhile those with the cash can still do the sort of degree that will be a passport to higher earnings.
There are also curious red-painted contraptions known as pedicabs, a sort of cycle-and-sidecar.
Her main accomplishment is sort of shifting the rhetoric of the administration's foreign policy away from this kind of unilateralist, "with us or against us" approach that we saw first term. CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2006
And it was just that sort of encomium that gave fodder to writers who disdained her response to movies, many of those writers whom she in her turn disdained. David Finkle: Easy Reader: Kellow's Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Throws Radiant Light on the Renowned Movie Critic
It was the pursuit of total ingratiation with the media and it sort of bothered me a bit.
'Oh, no, 'said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny,' the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap. He never eats dumplings, he don't -- he eats nothing but steaks, and likes 'em rare. ' Moby-Dick, or, The Whale
It's very much the sort of thing you assign students as a practice run, like reshooting, shot for shot, a famous scene.
Ace had this sort of stupid, empty-headed look on his face.
This would be better with some sort of backplate or translucent filling for the laser to shine on or through. Aurora Watch Concept by Jihun Yeom » Yanko Design
The radiation of birds from the theropod stem may be an example of this sort of thing.
A man could get used to that sort of lifestyle.
They had lobster bisque which Thea had made, and a bouillabaisse which held almost every sort of fish available that morning in St Just. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
Do a bumps, kinda get talking about stuff, yourself going and into some sort of for a song. The Sun
I have, too, a sort of spiritual gaucherie which makes me unapt to participate in any rite.
Yeah you really believe in him, is that the sort of thing you wanna do?
In the end they just give up and they go and sniff petrol, and so that sort of neo-colonial, ethno-centric attitude of ‘we'll educate the kids and change the cultural group’ is creating the next generation of petrol sniffers out there.
Once Jaymes left his side Mikel was vulnerable to this sort of manipulation. HARSHINI
We're looking for a very specific sort of person and this woman seems to fulfil all of our criteria.
There was some sort of anomalous weather pattern that went through eastern Pennsylvania.
Zanavykai is sort of subregion of Suvalkija, not Žemaitija. Girls Go Postal! | Lithuanian Folk Clothing
Macaws, owls, monkeys and agouti were in cages draped in foliage - a sort of home away from home - and watched closely by officials of the Emperor Valley Zoo.
Tell me about the sort of products you'd get out the sandalwood tree.
Although the oil-rich kingdom has escaped the sort of unrest unleashed in Egypt, Libya or Tunisia, there have been signs of domestic discontent over high unemployment, as well as some nervousness that Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim minority could be inspired by the protests of their co-religionist neighbors in Bahrain. Saudi King to Return Home as Turmoil Sweeps Region
They were capable of galloping off down this sort of a tangent for hours. TIME OF THE WOLF
Is it some sort of erotical thing or a thing you have to do in this scene, like make trackstand for at leat 30sek to be allowed to buy a shirt as seen here: Enhanced Performance: Oiling the Squeaky Wheel
It has the savor of disease about it and you immediately wonder what sort of agenda lies behind it.
Gretchen our Doberman was the best friend and pet a person could want and Bernie was sort of her chew toy, the dog to keep her entertained while we were away. Undefined
This sort of increase simply cannot be justified.
Uncle August was married to my Aunt Avice, a pudgy and round sort of woman.
_Agesilaus_ hauing a great sort of little children, was one day disposed to solace himself among them in a gallery where they plaied, and tooke a little hobby horse of wood and bestrid it to keepe them in play, one of his friends seemed to mislike his lightnes, o good friend quoth The Arte of English Poesie
All the exquisite, surrounding obscurity was animated by that music, which continued in the distance, in the mystery of the leaves and of the stones, in the depths of all the small, black holes of rocks or walls; it seemed like chivies in miniature, or rather, a sort of frail concert somewhat mocking -- oh! not very mocking, and without any maliciousness -- led timidly by inoffensive gnomes. Ramuntcho
The wether is a sort of sheep with worms in its head. Archive 2008-08-01
It seems Reese thinks he's not handsome enough and must correct some sort of minor orthodontic imperfection.
It's particularly contemptible that these sort of people prey on the elderly.
This sort of reckless intellectual adventurism is not surprising, coming as it does from someone who affected surprise that rising petrol prices have an effect on the economy.
So-and-so was always a name important enough for her to recognize, and he always said it in a sort of fake bored way that irritated her. Something Unpredictable
If practiced often and with attention, this practice really can be used to envigorate the body, and actually correct certain ailments due to structural misadjustments - the sort of thing chiropractic is said to address- as well as other ailments. 越命十句観音経
My hope is that it's not a liquidation," Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, said this morning on the "Early Show" on CBS, "but what they call a debtor-in-possession, sort of Chapter 11 filing, which would allow for the reorganization of these companies. Lsj.com - News
She has a remarkable likeness to an unknown figure who appears in his recurrent dreams, a fact that Paul takes as some sort of omen.
After salesmanship, Bunbury tried his hand at a sort of teaching. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
It's sort of a twist and twirl as he's bending down. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, they were sort of old fashioned in the way he would post the quotes, and yet it was a very skillful use of medium and I thought, you know, politicians kind of quaked when they went on there. CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2008
Just the day after he and his team had scooped a Best Documentary trophy at the prestigious film and television awards, the director found himself at a very different sort of party.
Gradually a sort of entente seemed to grow between it and the colonial enemy.
He's the sort of person who only cares about money.
Yet, I would venture the admittedly broad suggestion that their eccentricity and passions prepped the ground in a weird sort of "lowering-the-threshold" way for the likes of Einstein, Freud, Ibsen, Althusser, Sartre, Mapplethorpe, Serra, etc. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue: SFMOMA's The Steins Collect Documents a Life of Art Collecting
Expects to be there for two weeks, then take a climbing holiday in the Hindu Kush Tax write-off sort of thing. CORMORANT
KURTZ: But that goes to the broader point, which is one of the reasons this story has resonated, there is a widespread belief among critics, the BBC was sort of against the war, its reporting has been biased, and that they seized on this weapons of mass destruction story to kind of vindicate their point of view. CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2003
David might some day come to know that there was a fogyish, bachelor doctor who was almost a father in the same sort of way -- almost, but not quite, for the child had been left not to him, but to her. A Melody in Silver
The monotonous words sounded fake and insincere, as if they were predetermined and he was only reciting the memorized lines in some sort of play.
Here, because the second sentence contains no verb to orient it in time and may plausibly be attributed to either the narrator or the character, it acts as a sort of atemporal link between the voices of narrator and character.
It is the kind of joint development ideal for us both and a model for the sort of project we must instigate. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
This had led to a lengthy series of negotiations over the sort of contracts which should bind printers in his new plant.
This day is one that typically Americans pay sort of attention to cursorily in the most off-handed ways.
I note that skrimslis an Icelandic monster, chronicled in Fortean Times, possibly a sort of reptile living in lakes.
“But Gemmy, like every cartoon heroine, was dressed in a soft tunic, a sort of peplos that bared her shoulders and arms and part of her bosom.” callipygian. More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books
None of these were terribly successful over any sort of long run period, though they did cause a fair amount of suffering by limiting economic freedom and growth. woolie says: Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia
Why does my hair, which is short on top and usually stands up in a jaunty sort of manner at home, go flat whenever I go to London?
Despite that, he seems happy in a writerly isolate's sort of way.
We talk so much about female empowerment and yet we don't feel able to admit to having any sort of cosmetic enhancement. The Sun
That sort of warm repartee - delivered, as always, with a hearty guffaw - is one of the things Beazley detractors are suspicious about.
Sunday was the day I had fun and laughed without any sort of trouble or lingering worry.
I guess that sort of clean-slate ingenuity is something else America has claimed for itself as time goes on; no wonder Pyotr Ilyich is a perennial honored guest. Archive 2009-07-01
She had a bad stomach upset, the sort of thing that today you knock off in a day. Times, Sunday Times
But the sort of lying implied when you speak of manipulative people is something I find abhorrent. Times, Sunday Times
It is often used to refer to a sort of social meeting in which it is pleasant to be together.
SHAPIRO: You know, you mentioned that Kim Jong Il's older son was sort of shut out of the power structure and is now sometimes spotted in casinos in Macau, and I have to wonder whether that's a better fate than ruling North Korea. Little Known About North's Korea's Heir Apparent
I set up a sort of base here where I can slip back and keep a change of clothes and so on.
Her progress towards some sort of peace of mind involved literal journeys, including long solo trips through Europe. Times, Sunday Times
Now it looks as if the taxpayer will have to foot the whole bill and what sort of result is that?
The Hills heartthrob and one-time Orioles farmhand, meaning, possibly, a one-time former part-time Fort Lauderdale resident, sort of), spent $10,000 to buy South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
A person cohabiting with another may succeed to some sort of tenancy on the partner's death.
Put it back in the basket, and into some sort of container to catch further drippage, and refrigerate. Toast:
How do you establish some sort of symmetry between those ideas about civil society and what happens in the institutional church in your country?
No Sin Left Behind yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'No Sin Left Behind'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Public interrogations of piety and faith, such as undergone by the Democratic candidates earlier this week, amount to a sort of religious litmus test for public office. No Sin Left Behind
Inside was an arctic roll, sort of. Times, Sunday Times

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