How To Use Stilt In A Sentence
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In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
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Yes, I know it's rather stilted, nay overwrought, prose.
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You stay in simple but comfortable thatched wooden houses, built on stilts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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And what caps this dizzy display is not seriously ordered fugato, let alone a full fugue, but a comically stilted allegro dance in duple rhythm, with octave leaps, mostly in two parts with chordal intrusions.
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The natives congregated in front of the main gate, or would peer over the walls, standing on makeshift bamboo stilts.
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And it took them three years to construct their own crannog, a timber dwelling built on stilts over the water, which links the way of life of people in 600BC with ours today.
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In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon.
Banking On the Future
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One pretty little wader, an avoset, appears as if standing on stilts, its legs are so long; and its bill seems bent the wrong way, or upward.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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David Hagerman for The Wall Street Journal The characteristic colors of Pulau Ketam's stilt structures might be described as "beachy" -- the likes of bottle green with electric blue, salmon pink and violet, carrot orange and gold.
Island Living
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Our ability to foresee and avert techno-terrorism or bio slip-ups may be more like Skating on Stilts over ball bearings in quicksilver.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Smallpox in the garage
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I also remember an issue of Champions where the team discovers Black Goliath poinding on Stiltsky.
DAREDEVIL #102 Marvel Comics, 1973
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The section of the island inhabited by the women is finely manicured and dotted with wooden houses on stilts.
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Odin walked stiffly, like a head hung between two heavy stilts draped in striped Viyella and white towelling.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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The group's send-ups of Latin American soap operas on stilts and unicycles have also drawn attention.
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It will include floats, vintage cars, majorettes, stilt walkers, dancers and music.
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It's wonderful to work with someone whose changes and ideas for the art are obviously concerned with the success of the illustration itself and how it works in the book, and not simply one-sided fiddling and rearranging based on individual preference or a stilting focus on the exactness of how a scene was imagined originally.
The art of Leviathan, Part Two: An interview with Keith Thompson
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There is the further expedient of "stilting" the cross arches, that is, making the real arch spring from a point above the impost and building the lower portion of it vertical, as shown in Fig. 98.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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His delivery is stilted, stiff, uninflected - except when he's permitted to shout, at which point he relaxes and seems to forget to be inhibited.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were a dozen black-winged stilts, two spur-winged plovers, a common sandpiper and my new life bird, a great snipe.
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(A hootch is a long, single-story, stilted wooden building of typical Thai rural design.
Thud Ridge
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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In those days, his stilted style, forced delivery, and wonky timing were virtues, reinforcing our sense of his hypothetically heartwarming kidness.
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A proposal to raise Luas onto stilts at an additional cost of €20 million is unlikely to go ahead due to planning problems.
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Besides their historical interest Cicero's letters are models of what good letters ought to be -- the expression of the writer's real thoughts and feelings in simple, unstilted language.
Early European History
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Worldwide, stilt bugs are a relatively small group of unusual hemipterans, or true bugs, in the family Berytidae.
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The Alphonse hotel complex is a recently-built collection of ‘A’ frame chalets on short stilts.
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He was taken entirely into her confidence, as will presently be seen, and she even called him in to assist her when she was conducting an elaborate and stilted epistolatory flirtation with Lord Peterborough.
Life And Letters Of John Gay (1685-1732)
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He also said something about a stilt walker on loan from the Big Apple Circus, two beggars at a butcher shop, even a bear.
Suiting Up for the Met
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The New Yorker essayist George Plimpton also remembered that invasion of the Harlem peacocks in their enormous purple Cadillacs: "I'd never seen crowds as fancy, especially the men – felt hatbands and feathered capes, and the stilted shoes, the heels like polished ebony, and many smoking stuff in odd meerschaum pipes.
The night Muhammad Ali's legend was reborn – and the party that followed
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Stilton or a very mature Cheddar have enough of a tang to be interesting, Caerphilly or Wensleydale slightly less so.
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I shall type in stilted sentences, where humorous.
September 5th, 2005
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You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
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At higher levels, and with greater dexterity, stilts have been used as entertainment props since the fairs of the Middle Ages, and probably long before then.
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he was so tall I thought he was on stilts
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Among the hot dishes on their menu were seared loin of pork in honey and thyme, with Stilton and pistachio sausage.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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His voice sounded unnatural and stilted, but I barely noticed as I thought about making out with Dmitri against the rough bark of the tree in the forest.
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The unidentifiable objects mouldering in the fridge were successively replaced by jars of pickled onions, Cheddar cheese and Stilton.
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The action scenes were cheesily done, preposterous, and stuck together in a stilted fashion.
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Family groups of black-necked stilts chatter, the calm water reflecting their long red legs and black-and-white bodies.
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That's what comes of trying to satisfy them fellows," one City Father observed, in an indignant and unstilted speech to his colleagues.
The Philistines
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Not unless you want to stagger around all summer in stilty shoes, which tends not to look fabulous or relaxed.
Times, Sunday Times
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These roots, dropping into the surrounding mud, also become stilts that support more stilts and new trunks nestled in the tangled mass.
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In addition to stilts duties at Universal, he was a greeter at the Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios and a "grouper" - as in, "How many in your party?
Gazette.com :
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Like the 1939 classic it adores, Australia is stiltedly comical, sweepingly starry-eyed, and melodramatic in its approach to war and racism.
Buzzine » DVD Roundup
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What began as a group of shaggy street performers and itinerant stilt-walkers now commands huge audiences and premium prices in Las Vegas.
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Other spectaculars include a fire-breathing songololo (centipede), fire dancers, soccer mobiles and puppets and stilt walkers dressed as African animals.
IOL: News
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Alsop likes buildings on stilts, that start a long way up in the air and allow landscape to flow beneath.
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When holidays came , there were Yangko and stilt shows with people eager to participate.
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In the run up to special occasions, I always buy a large Stilton and stand it on a dish in the fridge.
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DRB: Do you see internet as an empowering or stilting creative force?
Exclusive: Interview with Nancy Kress
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'I would like to have a round wi' you, that's certain; -- but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.
Redgauntlet
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You can stay in a grass hut with sunset views for a few pounds and it's wonderful, but for just shy of £50, you get into Bon Ton, a beautiful resort of antique stilted fishermen's houses overlooking a water-lilied lagoon.
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These canids were certainly attractive, but we wanted the red fox on stilts, the maned wolf.
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Chest out, glowing with pride we return to base with labrador on lap and conversation stilted.
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Because of a tradition of teaching English formally through grammar, translation, and literature, spoken usage is often stilted and bookish.
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‘I can't remember when I got my very first pair of stilts, but I was very young, and I just went from there,’ she said.
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There are 91 villas at this new spa hotel, half on stilts built around a long jetty.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've been reading some Mexican newspapers on line and on paper lately, and I find that their language is a sort of stilted, circumlocutious style.
Mexican Newspaper Language
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In such cases, the gait is stilted, that is, there is incomplete advancement of both members and, of course, the period of weight bearing is correspondingly shortened; hence the short strides.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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So, skip the stilted villa and make a romantic escape of your own.
Times, Sunday Times
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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A translation that is clumsy or stilted will scream its presence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Stilton cheese, and coffee in transparent little china cups, and sugar in a silver bowl, and then cigars, -- everything of the best and purest; and as we passed from one thing to another, I became at length persuaded that the Arctic Circle was a myth, that my cruise among the icebergs was
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
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You can circumnavigate the island by kayak, search for black-necked stilts, sail small boats, and snorkel the reefs off White Bay beach.
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If you fancy a blue cheese, chose Roquefort over Stilton - the difference is 40 calories an ounce!
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Whenever you run across a name carded in this stilted fashion, "A. Thingumy Soandso", you may make up your mind at once that the owner is ashamed of his first name and is trying manfully to live it down and eventually forgive his parents.
Man on the Box
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I started near the north pond where a couple black-winged stilts came flying out of the reeds.
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She will be staying with the Karen people in their stilted houses in the bamboo and teak jungle where there is no electricity.
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The entertainers stood out from the crowd, especially the drag queen on top of an eight foot high pair of stilts.
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Stilt houses are unique to the Tonga people, and hill homesteads are found in the Zambezi River flood plains.
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“A form of language spoken by millions of people … can surely not be called undignified,” he argued, finding “real dignity … in the colloquial language of the people, not in the stilted artificial style of books.”
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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On all three walls the shafts in this storey stand on a kind of kerb or parapet, which is interrupted in the middle of each bay, and the stilt of the round arch is treated almost like a classical entablature, and has a moulding or cornice above it, while the uppermost part of the wall is thickened, thereby necessitating over each bay a comprising arch, which on the north wall is round, but on the other walls follows the shape of the three sub-arches, and forms a kind of upper order to them.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
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Clustered around it are a choice of ecodwellings, including wooden cabins on stilts, clay huts with thatched roofs, large tepees and round tents sleeping one.
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Serves 6 (with accompaniments)2 large parsnipsOil, to grease1 small savoy cabbage, 4–6 outer leaves only 150g hazelnuts40g butter1 red onion, finely chopped150g chestnut mushrooms, finely chopped100g cooked chestnuts, roughly chopped100g stilton, crumbled (or other vegetarian-friendly cheese of your choice)100g brown breadcrumbs2 tbsp chopped fresh sage1 free-range egg, beaten1.
How to cook the perfect nut roast
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The veined octopus under study manages a behavioral trick that the researchers call stilt walking.
Impact Lab
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The new hide here is far from that - built from Welsh Oak in a distinctive heron shape, it stands on stilts in one of the lakes, providing visitors with a commanding position from which to view the birdlife.
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While waiting, do check out these buildable 3D papercrafts of the characters namely Rumpelstiltskin, Donkey, Shrek, Fiona and Puss in Boots by HP.
Shrek Forever After Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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I know that generally strained and stilted conversations can't really be described as compelling, but this was a unique situation.
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The stilted atmosphere would strike outsiders as disconcertingly weird, but these women are oblivious to the awkwardness.
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Common species of shorebirds, such as yellowlegs, dowitchers, black-bellied plovers and ‘peep,’ are often joined by pectoral, stilt and solitary sandpipers.
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If the weekend turned out to be a horrible mistake, at least I wouldn't have to endure five hours of strained stilted conversations on the return journey.
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An initially stilted conversation is oiled by wine, and the pair open up and discuss their lives, their loves and their politics.
Times, Sunday Times
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However used or modified, I believe stilts have earned the designation of a legitimate and very unusual tool.
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The stilts are just long enough to keep the floorboards out of the water during a high-tide.
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Some of the dialogue is a little stilted, and is the stuff that looks great on paper but rings odd when spoken aloud.
Review: Majestic XII: Top Secret/For Majic Eyes Only #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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How could your reviewer let the writer's stilted portrayal go unnoted?
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An amazing, inspiring and amusing man of 53 who had begun performing as a teenage accordianist, fire-eater and stilt-walker in a Quebec park in 1983, joined with some twenty acrobatic friends to create a unique assemblage of street artists who first came to Los Angeles next year for a show, not even knowing if they had the fare to return home.
Jay Weston: Cirque du Soleil's Ovo Drove Me Buggy... In a Nice Way
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It was a night of art, drama, music, amazing costumes, stilts, fire, fun, and fear.
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More than half a dozen species of birds have come to roost, which include black-winged stilts, cattle and little egrets, little stints, common sandpipers, pond herons and little winged plovers.
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Shy, somewhat stilted conversation is made in the shallow end or the showers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Where the centre is at a point above the diameter, it is called a stilted arch.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Hughes -- when you've finished your Stilton, of course -- how does one go about that sort of thing?
THE SCAR
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Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade.
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The "piscatory flavor" of the air and the hat like a wheel of Stilton definitely got me, too.
The WritingYA Weblog: TBR3: A Tale of Two Cities - Ending the First Book
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The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
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Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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And M. Amis on Nabokov in toto in the prenominate The M.ral Obligation to Be Intelligent, edited by Leon Wieseltier {The style is dated and stilted, but the insights are not.
Snarksmith: new york. gossip. art. politics. pop culture. literature. etc.
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I'd seen a few stilts upstream, but now clumps of them were swooping and diving over the water.
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On one side of the river there is a fishing village of mat and attap hovels on stilts raised a few feet above the slime of a mangrove swamp; and on the other an expanse of slime, with larger houses on stilts, and an attempt at a street of Chinese shops, and a gambling-den, which I entered, and found full of gamblers at noonday.
The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
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Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds.
II. Waferfowl
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Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river.
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Fire-eaters, escapologists and stilt walkers will all be on hand to provide entertainment.
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He recited the words and managed to keep it from sounding hokey or stilted, and the rest of his speech was genuinely inspiring, not just the usual catch-phrases.
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Hopefully, as Nintendo localizes this RPG for other territories, the King Arthur-like story is fleshed out not with overly stilted dialogue, but with fast, smart exchanges that keep us interested in the characters.
Nintendo Wii 2010 Line Up Part 2 | CurveHouse.com
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In both the English dub and subtitles, the dialogue is a bit wordy and stilted, but it's rarely distracting.
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This excerpt is a good example of Hemans's style, which is either "false stilted and trashy" or "sweet and elegant," depending on your point of view.
Contesting the Heterodoxy: Mrs. Hemans vs. Lord Byron
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Dougie is not a musician but he can be seen walking on stilts at street carnivals and festivals as he is a professional clown.
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Michael Lerman at indieWIRE: "Sweet, saccharine and stiltedly hilarious, Eagle vs Shark, though downbeat, hits many of the right notes to reach a wide audience and still feel charmingly small in scale despite the fact that it is co-funded by Miramax.
GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Eagle vs Shark.
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Add the Stilton, milk and cream and heat gently stirring often until the Stilton has melted and the soup is hot.
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From Australia comes the Stalker Theatre Company, where Four Riders will take to the streets on giant stilts.
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(See mele beginning _Ko'i maka nui_, p. 228.) _Ko'i honua_ (ko'i ho-nú-a) -- a compound of the causative _ko_, _i_, to utter, and _honua_, the earth; to recite or cantillate in a quiet distinct tone, in distinction from the stilted bombastic manner termed ai-ha'a (p. 58).
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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Think no-frills wooden huts on stilts on the sand, complete with hammocks and mosquito nets and secured with a padlock.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scriptwriter's Danish, right, and because they haven't corrected his dialogue a lot of it sounds really stilted and forced and unnatural.
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Walk on stilts and barrels, create human pyramids, learn acrobatic and aerial skills, balance on a rola-bola and learn to juggle!
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‘The main buildings are raised on large steel stilts, but the snow build-up and ice movement still cause considerable problems,’ he said.
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In a stilted encounter, the political enemies sought to bury their differences, at least in public.
Times, Sunday Times
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A sofa with a baldachin is forced onto its stilted knees.
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It is a stilted glitch house that emerges- and one that maintains a different kind of funk- one that is cut off at every opportunity, one that is not free flowing, but one that demands attention.
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The US court documents also lays bare the stiltedly textbook spycraft used by the Russians to identify their own side.
Russian spies row raises diplomatic tensions
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Some highlights of the film involve Shrek being gross, Fiona being tough, Donkey talking endlessly, Puss being fat, and Rumpelstiltskin trying to suck people into his contracts.
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There were dykes (and bykes), dogs, flying condoms, fairy drag queens on stilts, go-go dancers in bulging underwear, and many, many, many hot gay men wandering around in packs, all primped and coiffed and shaved and ready to hit the city.
Happy Pride
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The same could not be said of my fillet steak with a Stilton and red wine sauce.
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The duck was lovely and the pork, apricot and Stilton stuffing gave a piquant twist to the flavour.
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Krzerszonese Milesia asundurst Sirdarthar Woolwichleagues, good tomkeys years somewhile in Crimealian wall samewhere in Ayerland, during me weeping stillstumms over the freshprosts of Eastchept and the dangling garters of Marrowbone and daring my wapping stiltstunts on Bostion Moss, old stile and new style and heave a lep onwards.
Finnegans Wake
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The Alphonse hotel complex is a recently-built collection of ‘A’ frame chalets on short stilts.
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To at least be dull and pedestrian in a way that seemed natural and unstilted.
The Guardian World News
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This year the traditional parade will be replaced by a colourful street carnival, complete with fire-eaters, trapeze artists, stilt acrobats and costumes galore.
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Herons, Egyptian geese, stilts and sandpipers are already frequent visitors to the site.
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However, due to the presence of stilt roots, samples were not collected at the base of the tree, but at 130 cm height above ground level.
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He hoped the pile of rust standing on four unsteady landing stilts wasn't the ship he planned to hire.
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And while you may not swear or shout aloud, your writing slows, words dropping stiff and stilted.
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‘I would like to have a round wi’ you, that’s certain; — but a farmer, and with a hand that never held pleugh-stilt or pettle, that will never do.
Redgauntlet
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It is a decent hour of telly, although the host trio's terribly stilted conversations appear scripted.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tiny, wood and straw stilt hut, it stands close to the ground to allow easy access for amputees.
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Children can have a go at circus and other fun pursuits, such as stilt and slack-rope walking, hula hoops, juggling, magic and boomerang throwing.
The Advertiser
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Later the group realised that its acrobats, walkers, gymnasts and stilt walkers needed a high protein diet.
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Conversations become stilted and whispered, the drinks were poured stronger, they removed the tarps disguising the twin Brownings and walked the deck with revolvers in their belts.
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In the southeast of the state is Inle Lake, where the Intha people live in stilt houses above the water and grow vegetables on floating gardens.
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Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met.
Shrek Forever After Movie Trailer #2 | /Film
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They have voted for her despite her unsteady singing voice and a stilted stage performance.
Times, Sunday Times
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You will end up listening to their stilted conversations and trying to guess how long they've been together.
Times, Sunday Times
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This should be part of the stilted conversation we are having with the rest of the EU.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, decked in expensive ‘kasavu’ saris, teamed with stilts or platform heels, the pretty young things on campuses look no different from fashion models.
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This Sally is nothing but a yawning cavity walking on hollow stilts," declared Nell, who "fussed" good-naturedly, just as her father did.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air
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So, skip the stilted villa and make a romantic escape of your own.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were lots of black-winged stilts, avocets, Red-wattled plover and black-headed gulls.
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There will be magic, stilt walking, fire juggling, competitions with prizes and a tombola.
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The dialogue sounded stilted and unnatural, perhaps because of the translation from the original Russian.
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a hard-pressed, whole-milk English cheese which is available in two versions: an expensive and prized blue kind which some consider superior to Stilton; and an almost unmatured white variety which is produced and sold on a large scale.
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Name Rumpelstiltskin, and he falls through the floor cursing.
RIDDLE ME THIS
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Some things I ate or tasted included a salad with roasted pears (wow), romaine, arugula, toasted pine nuts, stilton and some other gorgeous cheese (creamy, English, not cheddar), and an incredible and mysterious dressing ... tortoni with a "lobster" sauce and huge chuncks of perfectly cooked lobster and giant, tender scallops, a spicy linguini thing ... my stomach is starting to hurt.
Toast:
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Spirits were high, the alcohol was free or subsidized, there were fire twirlers, drummers and men on stilts moving around the Victorian Arts Centre forecourt and I was feeling on top of the world.
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You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck.
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The mysterious beauty of hundreds of handmade candle lanterns and the haunting figures of stiltwalkers are glowingly reflected in the placid rippling water of Trout Lake.
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The title, McMillen explains, "... is both metaphoric and a bit literal," as the installation includes a looped screening of his new short film "Quotidian Man" which projected onto the billboard of the "Hotel New Empire," a kind of tilting film set raised on a catafalque of stilts over a tray of water.
John Seed: Michael C. McMillen: Every Dream Is New
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In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
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It was stilted, formal and embarrassing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Too often, the record sounds forced and stilted, which is unfortunate, since jazz/hip-hop fusion need a musician of Redman's caliber to make it credible in the jazz world.
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Pete's was the pie country, the rolling meadows of Middle England where foxes trot along the edges of ancient hedges before disappearing into rooky woods, and hilltops boast the spires of Norman churches, marking villages with names such as Branston and Stilton.
A visit to pork pie country
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Despite the weight of the office, vivacious men such as Churchill, Clarke and Jenkins remained unstilted: in April 1929, the Spectator praised Churchill’s final budget speech both for its content and for its “mesmeric and witty delivery”.
Brown is either fleet-footed or indecisive – he cannot be both
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Often described as looking like a yellowlegs and feeding like a dowitcher, the Stilt Sandpiper is a medium-sized, long-legged wader.
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He shook my hand somewhat stiltedly, as if he was uncomfortable touching people.
Chocolate & Vicodin
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unstilted conversation
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It was once a water tank on stilts, fed by the windmill across the mud track that runs just past it.
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a circus performer on stilts.
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Stilt-like steel columns cross-braced by tensile wires hold up the roofs.
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So far Stilton and Cheddar are doing good, but they would love to have us eat more Sage Derby, Leicester and Double Gloucester cheese too!
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The conversations between characters, using this Norse style language became stilted and detracted from the story's natural dramatical element.
Reader reviews of The Thrall's Tale by Judith Lindbergh.
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The 300 year-old half-timbered stilted building in the High Street has been a focal point for the town for many years.
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With your organic Stilton, he recommends a single vintage tawny port.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sadly, in the sober light of day, conversation is stilted.
The Sun
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Attempts to generate supplementary material to help those coming to it as a medium for the first time, to give some insight into how productions are created, but still evolve, can just seem stilted and off-putting.
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The humor, if one may call it that, consists of having Anna and Claire exchanging, in endless one-upmanship, insults whose flowery and stiltedly archaizing language is periodically littered with today's grossest obscenities.
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How much developmental stilting is caused by inadequate prenatal or childhood care?
Archive 2009-06-01
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By the riverside was a house on stilts, with an open door, from which the tourists saw two girls dive into the stream, and swim away as though the water were their natural element.
Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
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Look out for the wooden houses on stilts along the riverbank, in which many families still live, using the murky water of the Chao Praya for everything from drinking to washing.
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Like most buildings in the region, these must be raised off the ground on low piles or stilts to ward off termites and rot.
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Another Balkanski group act involves trampolining and stilts.
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Port is immediately suggested by Stilton; cognac by coffee.
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Crush Stilton with a fork and work until creamy, then mix with the Shape soft cheese and skimmed milk until smooth.
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Most people cluster on the peaks of mountains and build their houses on stilts, hoping to keep their youth as long as possible.
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Schizophrenics frequently speak in a stilted, manneristic fashion, and the fluency of their speech may be intermittently disturbed, with paucity of speech, verbigeration (associations repeated in a stereotyped manner, palilalia in the aphasia literature), or perseveration (words or phrases repetitively inserted in the flow of speech).
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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The connected structures are built from recycled materials and rest on stilts above Darby Creek.
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In the Adyar river, black winged stilts, three varieties of egrets and migrants such as golden plovers, sand pipers and little stints are to be found.
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Struck by Switters's persistence-he kept at it literally for hours-and delighted by his improvement-by late afternoon he was stilting with authority, if not exactly grace-Pippi beckoned him over to the roofed but open-air area at the rear of the storehouse where she maintained a small carpentry shop.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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He made a diced bacon, sun-dried tomato and grated Stilton salad, followed by a rack of lamb on a bed of sweet potatoes with roasted vegetables.
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No, I could not smell the pungent pong of a mature Stilton cheese.
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Not content with this bit of high-altitude aptitude, the equilibrist re-crosses the falls, first blindfolded, then on a bicycle, then on stilts, then pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back.
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Marie also remembers him learning to ride a bike, them both walking on stilts and playing at the beach.
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Marvellous actors have to deliver stilted, arch and laughably clichéd dialogue.
Times, Sunday Times
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After a taste of higher education at SUNY-Purchase, she dropped out, nannied on the Upper West Side, walked on stilts in Midtown with a Dixieland jazz band and waitressed.
Actress Melissa Leo, of 'Treme' and 'Frozen River,' talks about her career
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The restaurant guests seem to be a lot of older foreign tourists, so the atmosphere is a little stilted.
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He writes in a formal and rather stilted style.
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The slightly stilted animation and cheesy synthesized pop music are here in all their glory.
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One of the strangest sights I've ever seen was a fully made-up clown on six-foot stilts interrupting his street act to answer his mobile phone.
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And the motion of these characters is positively stilted and looks like marionettes on strings as they bob and nod about.
