Once, an owl huddled there, pecked at by small birds.
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" Avenatti pecked at the keyboard: "We are just getting started.
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Of the 38 gulls tested, 24 pecked at one of the snacks.
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Scattered their dream-stuff on the ground, to be pecked at, gnawed at, chewed up.
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The turkeys have regularly trapped people in their cars, swarmed them and pecked at their windows.
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As a consequence, the AMC show's huge cultural cachet is being pecked at by newer series that its popularity, ironically, helped birth.
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The Big 28 today can seem like the Ottoman Empire of a century ago: pecked at by rivals, hemmed in on all sides, the sick man of college sports.
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Back in Brooklyn, he ran through the scene yet again, off-camera technical advisers whispering keystrokes ("typing, typing, mousepad, click, click, click, return … ") as he pecked at the salvaged laptop.
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Pablo's wife, Candelaria Sales Garcia, greeted me outside the family's hillside shack, where a duck pecked at a watermelon rind and a little dog called Dollar slept in the shade.
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Later, Hitchcock allegedly "lied" to the actress, saying that he would use a flock of mechanical birds in a scene, but then used live birds that swarmed and pecked at her.
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Washington's sanctions also mean there will be no U.S. buyers, ruling out the flock of specialist U.S. funds that pecked at Argentina for over a decade, although they may have built some stakes already.
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Armchairs that doubled as flea nests relieved themselves of the burden of their stuffing and clustered companionably around rickety side tables, while a red bird in a gold cage depressively pecked at its own feathers.
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The question pecked at me each time the elevator let me out on the 23th floor of the Mandarin Oriental New York, site of the Aviary NYC and its quieter, shadow-filled sibling, the Office NYC.
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He took these pigeons, he put them in a little box, and he gave them a disc to peck at, and every time the pigeon pecked at the disc, they would receive a little reward, a little food pellet.
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The next time they'd peck at the disc, they would receive a reward, and the rate of response, the number of times the pigeon pecked at the disc increased when the reward was given on a variable schedule of reinforcement.
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Even when he finally finds Chris, Kevin Sr. tells a rambling story about hallucinogens, a two-week blackout, "The Itsy Bitsy Spider," and how a chicken named Tony randomly pecked at the "Niagara 81" tape and gave him a renewed sense of purpose.
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I need to tamp down on my enthusiasm for it since I've only pecked at it for a very short period of time, but if I just let myself go, I would say that it is the best thing I've typed on in years.
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But that story is too neat, for politicians outside the mainstream continually pecked at the Republican hegemony, including in 19123, when the Populist Party's surge claimed 8.5 percent of the vote, and in 1912, when another former president, Theodore Roosevelt, ran against his old party.
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No matter how relentlessly the birds had been pecked at and bitten by older siblings, no matter how often food had been snatched from their beaks or how slowly they had grown, on reaching maturity the once-persecuted birds proved surprisingly confident, capable — unflappable.
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It was Geirlug, and she brought the forester's daughters and a closed basket. During the feast, she opened it, and a cock and hen flew out. The cock pecked at the hen, pulling out her tail feathers, and the hen asked, "Will you treat me as badly as Grethari treated Geirlug?" He remembered Geirlug and married her instead of the other princess.
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One day Tangaloa Atulonglongo visited Ata in the form of a plover and dropped a seed from the beak upon the island. the next time he visited 'Ata he found that the seed had grown into a creeper that covered the island. He pecked at the root of this creeper until it split in two. Then he returned to the sky.
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Western gulls are one of the many species of gulls that have been observed to drop their prey on the ground. A study observed that a major factor influencing dropping behavior in these gulls had to do with the mass and size of the prey being dropped. When performing a study using different sizes of Washington clams, smaller clams were normally pecked at. The larger clams however were dropped unless they were too heavy to carry, usually exceeding 268 grams in weight.
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The two shows raised more than $11 million to help with homelessness in the city. The next show was at the Washington–Grizzly Stadium in Missoula on August 13, where Pearl Jam promoted the Rock2Vote campaign, to get young people voting. The poster for the gig featured an image of Donald Trump's corpse being pecked at by a bald eagle outside the White House. It drew some controversy, with the Republican candidate for the Senate election in Montana, Matt Rosendale, calling it "disgusting and reprehensible".
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Pliny the Elder described Parrhasius's contest with Zeuxis in his book Naturalis Historia: The latter painted some grapes so perfectly that a flock of birds flew down to eat them but, instead, only pecked at their picture. Zeuxis had fooled the birds with his picture. Parrhasius and Zeuxis walked to Parrhasius's studio whereupon Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to draw aside the curtain and witness his own masterpiece. When Zeuxis attempted to do so, he realized that the curtain was not a curtain, but a painting of a curtain.
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Animal Behavior, Ninth Edition. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. Using models varying in different characteristics, they tested multiple stimuli and found that gull chicks pecked most at a long, red bill with contrasting white bars at the end. Chicks also pecked at other models; in decreasing order of begging intensity were a two-dimensional cardboard cut-out of the head of a gull with a red spot on its bill, simply a bill with a red spot, and a cut-out of a gull's head with no red spot on the bill.
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He entertains himself by running military simulations, using "armies" of mind-controlled insects that go through maneuvers on the walls of his room. The Dead Man's body weighs about four hundred and fifty pounds and spends all its time in an oversized chair in Garrett's house. He is a little ragged around the edges where the vermin have pecked at him, but Loghyr flesh corrupts extremely slowly. Despite being dead, he does have to "sleep" from time to time, apparently abandoning his body for weeks and even months at a time while he rebuilds his energy.
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As Moeliker observed the couple, the living drake pecked at the corpse of the dead one for a few minutes then mounted the corpse and began copulating with it. The act of necrophilia lasted for about 75 minutes, in which time, according to Moeliker, the living drake took two short breaks before resuming with copulating behaviour. Moeliker surmised that at the time of the collision with the window the two mallards were engaged in a common pattern in duck behaviour called "attempted rape flight". "When one died the other one just went for it and didn't get any negative feedback – well, didn't get any feedback," according to Moeliker.
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Hellenistic art saw a turn from the idealistic, perfected, calm and composed figures of classical Greek art to a style dominated by realism and the depiction of emotion (pathos) and character (ethos). The motif of deceptively realistic naturalism in art (aletheia) is reflected in stories such as that of the painter Zeuxis, who was said to have painted grapes that seemed so real that birds came and pecked at them.Green, Peter; Alexander to Actium, the historical evolution of the Hellenistic age, page 92. The female nude also became more popular as epitomized by the Aphrodite of Cnidos of Praxiteles and art in general became more erotic (e.g.
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For example, it followed canoe builders through dense vegetation, watching them as they searched for suitable trees. They considered it their guardian spirit, an incarnation of their patron goddess Lea, because if the bird pecked at a fallen tree, it was a sign that the tree was riddled with burrowing insects and thus not good anymore, but when the bird showed no interest in a tree, it indicated that the wood was suitable. This is the origin of the ancient Hawaiian proverb, Uā elepaio ia ka waa ("The canoe is marked out by the elepaio"). Due to its insectivorous habit, farmers believed the elepaio to be the incarnation of Lea's sister goddess, Hina-puku-ai, who protected food plants and was a patron of agriculture.
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Thomas Maddison (played by Jeffries) had spent 40 years living in the deepest Cornwall countryside, and hen-pecked at that; his late wife banned him from smoking, drinking, and even casually looking at other women. Upon becoming a widower, Maddison, unable to wait to break free from the shackles that had bound him for so long, heads off to the bright lights of London, where his son Richard (Dick) (played by Ogilvy) lives with his wife Harriet (played by Forsyth). Suffice to say, his rather primitive manners, his disgusting habits, and his womanising creates havoc for his son and his daughter-in-law, both of them being well-manicured executives; him in advertising, her in magazine publishing. However, in the second series, Harriet conceives and (in a rather speedy nine months) delivers Richard a son and Thomas a grandson.
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The college's coat of arms consists of a quartered shield featuring a pelican on a red background in the top left and bottom right corners and three white lilies on a blue background in the top right and bottom left corners. The arms of the college over the main gate The coat of arms was granted in 1570 by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux King of Arms, at the request of the Master, Archbishop Matthew Parker. It was by this that Parker introduced into the college the symbol of the mythical pelican with the body of a swan and the head of an eagle. It was believed in the Middle Ages that a pelican lived in a tree and laid three eggs; and that after they hatched the pelican quarrels with them and inadvertently kills them, while the mother pelican pecked at her own breast, spilling her blood on them and restoring them to life.
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