Straight-backed indigenous women in bright fabric bestride this wounded landscape.
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At 44, she is a study in contrasts — straight-backed, composed, contained.
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His bedroom contains an enormous straight-backed wooden chair that he bought from Sotheby's.
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She sat on a tall chair before a music stand, straight-backed and unignorably pregnant.
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She sits, straight-backed, at the piano in a glittering sleeveless dress and unfeasibly high heels.
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You: smooth, certain, and straight-backed, forever condemned to the vast, enviable prison of intergalactic adventure.
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Similarly, Sansa has survived her many ordeals to become a straight-backed, leather harness–clad mistress.
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He decides the chair has to go and two straight-backed leather replacements are quickly brought out.
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The cadavers are coaxed into a straight-backed dinner-table posture, some duct tape keeping them from slumping.
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A velour love seat, two small straight-backed chairs, and, in the corner, against the wall, a pump organ.
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He's as rubber-faced and goofy as ever in some moments, but is also straight-backed and stiff with repressed emotion.
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Katharine Hepburn, helplessly luminous, plays Mary with the clipped consonants, straight-backed posture and limited emotional range of a Boston debutante.
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Also looming over him were the straight-backed shadows of his grandfather and father, both admirals, both steeped in duty, honour, country.
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Both stackable and incredibly lightweight, a stackable collection of miniature straight-backed chairs is like an interior designer's perfect version of Jenga.
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With just a few straight-backed chairs inside the small brick-walled waiting area, Royal Rib House is only a temporary hangout.
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Modish, persona-heavy metafiction or fealty to a more austere and straight-backed standard: this was not a difference that could be split.
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Along a diagonal corridor of light, he slowly advances toward a guitarist at the opposite end, dragging and spinning a straight-backed chair.
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He was slender, straight-backed, and youthful in appearance, martially impervious to the cold, with a strict manner that was accentuated by his suit.
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The ashram remained operational for many decades after the band left, housing dozens of straight-backed sadhus, or holy men, in small domed huts.
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I would've sat quietly on that little straight-backed chair, because after all, what is a fitting-room chair for if not to be sat on?
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With his 215-pound frame challenging the elasticity of a dark gray sweater, Mr. Stevanovic, straight-backed and bald-headed, has the look of a Bond villain's bodyguard.
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We sat at the kitchen table in straight backed chairs, and looked out a large window at rows of fir trees outside, a red barn in the distance.
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The portrait of Newton, created centuries later, shows the man straight-backed on his throne, which sits upon a zebra skin, clutching both a spear and an automatic weapon.
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He was, as he often is, the tallest person present, straight-backed and broad-shouldered but still dainty in manner, with unblinking brown eyes that seem to notice everything.
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As first seen, occupied by straight-backed, chanting girls at their desks in a fleeting, imagistic prologue, this would appear to be a contemporary schoolroom of a dreary institutional nature.
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Dr. Wilson, the chief surgeon of New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, was a tall, straight-backed man who wore bow ties and spoke quietly, but with calm assurance and confidence.
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I looked up the trail and everything converged: the helicopter landing, my friends gesturing, the rescue crew clambering out the chopper, the straight-backed Spanish man who'd given me water climbing toward them.
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Sumandeep Kaur, a pale, straight-backed woman of 24, was three months into her arranged marriage when she realized that her husband, from a prosperous farming family in Rajoke, had resumed using heroin.
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As the liveliest member of the shrinking band of ATA veterans, straight-backed and without a stick even at 100, she never missed a chance to wear her uniform, trim navy with its golden wings.
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The starchy, straight-backed and often conservative members of the armed forces, after all, just might be a sharp enough instrument to burst the liberal-progressive bubbles so many of our college campuses have become.
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He had been convicted in the era of Old Sparky, the straight-backed oak chair in which 240 prisoners went to their deaths before 2000, when the Florida Legislature made lethal injection the preferred method of execution.
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She sees herself as incarnating the inner spirit of her country, a straight-backed Buddhist woman with a mission to complete what her father, whom she lost when she was 2, set out to do: unify the nation.
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"Formation" begins not with a siren but with a twang—and with great authority: onstage, Beyoncé wasn't being policed; she was laying down the law as her dancers, straight-backed and stern-faced, performed in a line alongside her.
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You get in Donald Trump's way and you're going to get run over, and I've had people observe to me the straight-backed posture that Donald always seems to affect when he's in public, and he's that way privately too.
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Sheindlin wore a tan jacket, white jeans, Barbie-pink lipstick and diamond earrings the size of my ring finger's nail; she sat straight-backed, fingers clasped before her like a Mafia don, leaning forward and dropping her voice conspiratorially whenever she wanted to underscore a point.
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In sweltering heat he stood straight-backed and sombre-featured at a ceremony in the old Byzantine cathedral, at a wreath-laying at a statue of Emmanouel Pappas, a leader of the Greek war of independence, and at a parade of soldiers and schoolchildren on the town's main drag.
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Sitting upright in a straight-backed chair, her mouth a red gash, she knows who she is because she has ended up here, hasn't she, rich enough to afford B (Laurie Metcalf), her caretaker, and C (Alison Pill), a lawyer who has come to look after her affairs?
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He didn't want a bagel, so I led him into the living room, where I offered him a straight-backed chair, a white oak Shaker knockoff I'd made myself, an extraordinarily uncomfortable thing that gave its occupant the feeling of enduring an inquisition while insuring the brevity of a visit.
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So she did, and I got more and more nervous and shaky as she sat on the edge of a straight-backed wicker chair while I got iced tea from the cooler and poured it into a Mason jar and brought it to her, with the broken ice rattling around and the tea sloshing over the edge.
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There are always outliers: Those weird straight-backed unblinking married couples who've "never had a row," who when you meet them—at weddings or parties or at your mom's open-house Christmas bash, hands tangled together, faces curiously similar—always freak you out in a way you can't quite put a finger on, as if they can only love each other when they are murdering crows.
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The Kabeala has a straight-backed blade with a somewhat convex edge. The blade broadens slightly towards the tip. Its back curves towards the edge at the tip. The hilt is solid, curving halfway at an angle of 45 degrees.
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Christabel died 13 February 1958, at the age of 77, sitting in a straight-backed chair. Her housekeeper found her body and there was no indication of her cause of death. She was buried in the Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery in Santa Monica, California.
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The dance in tumba francesa is similar to Haitian affranchi, which involves a series of straight-backed, held-torso, French style figures followed by African improvisation on the final set, but tumba francesa is danced to drums instead of string and woodwind instruments. The clothes of the dancers are colorful and flamboyant.
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Neosilurus hyrtlii has been given many common names, including common eel-tail catfish, Glencoe tandan, Hyrtl's tandan, inland catfish, moonfish, moony, Morton's tandan, mottled tandan, salmon catfish, silver moonfish, straight-backed catfish, white tandan, yellow fin tandan and yellow-finned catfish. Austrian naturalist Franz Steindachner described the species in 1867, from the Fitzroy River in Queensland.
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The tower contains eight bells, five cast in 1792 by Thomas Mears, and three in 1899 by Mears & Stainbank at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. The church is furnished with straight-backed panelled pews with rounded ends. The communion rail is made from green/brown marble. An octagonal panelled pulpit dated 1917 was given in memory of Richard and Martha Ann Popplewell.
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The first seven rows of the main grandstand are numbered box seats. General admission seating is available in the upper rows of the main grandstand on straight-backed benches. Down the left and right field lines are several bleachers that are accessible for general admission use. There is table seating down the third base line as part of "Turkey Mike's BBQ Area".
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In November 1971 the Denver label Tumbleweed Records, which had been newly created by Larry Ray and Bill Szymczyk, released Collins's album There's Gotta Be a Change; it was the label's first official release. The single "Get Your Business Straight", backed with "Frog Jumpin'", was released by Tumbleweed in February 1972. In 1973 Tumbleweed closed because of financial problems, leaving Collins without a record label.
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250px Đ (lowercase: đ, Latin alphabet), known as crossed D or dyet, is a letter formed from the base character D/d overlaid with a crossbar. Crossing was used to create eth (ð), but eth has an uncial as its base whereas đ is based on the straight-backed roman d. Crossed d is a letter in the alphabets of several languages and is used in linguistics as a phonetic symbol.
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Sukhothai, Thailand depicting monks during walking meditation. In various traditions people meditate in other postures. People who find sitting cross-legged uncomfortable can sit upright on a straight-backed chair, flat- footed and without back support, with the hands resting on the thighs, in what is sometimes called the Egyptian position. Orthodox Christians may practice the meditation of hesychasm sitting on a stool, as was recommended by Saint Gregory of Sinai.
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There were two single doors entering the worship room that were replaced by double doors in the center because of difficulty experienced in passing through single doors with a casket. The narrow straight-backed pews have also been replaced, although two originals pews are still kept in the vestibule. Most of these updates were done in the 1940s.“August 1952 Paper Prepared for the Aurora Historical Society” by Mrs.
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Most abundant remains of the predator species belong to cave hyena Numerous remains of aurochs were excavated in all cave strata Made of light-brown compact sediment. Artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic were discovered: bladelets, unretouched blades, straight backed points and combined tools. They were characteristic for the Gravettian and early Epi-Gravettian periods. The layer is disturbed by the rodent activities but also as the later inhabitants leveled and dug the terrain.
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The earlier pattern was a Walker carry-over with a cut-out in the back to accommodate the round contour of the grips and the second was straight-backed. Another distinctive detail were the very slender "Slim Jim" grips. Note: Due to serial number gaps between the "Transition" model and the First Dragoon, of which Colt later "backfilled", as well as the details of the production and delivery of the Second Government Contract, The "fluck Dragoon" was erroneously derived.
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Asinus is a subgenus of Equus (single-toed (hooved) grazing animal) that encompasses several subspecies of the Equidae commonly known as asses, characterized by long ears, a lean, straight-backed build, lack of a true withers, a coarse mane and tail, and a reputation for considerable toughness and endurance. The common donkey is the best-known domesticated representative of the subgenus, with both domesticated and feral varieties. Among the wild ass species, several never-domesticated species live in Asia and Africa.
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The castle is set on a slight mound. We enter by a steep wooden stairway, and find ourselves, having passed through the considerable thickness of the wall from the narrow doorway, into the Great Hall on the first floor. Rushes cover the stone flags, and besides the usual furniture, such as a trestle-table, benches and the straight-backed, carved, oaken armchair of the Lord of the Manor, we note on our left a heavy green and white curtain covering one wall of the Hall. Opposite us with its sloping stone hood is the fireplace with logs burning in the grate.
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A shorter type of flyssa in the form of a long knife or short-sword The Flyssa is a traditional edged weapon of the Kabyles, a Berber tribe of Algeria, produced during the 19th century and earlier. These weapons have blades of various sizes from , and can be classed as varying between long knives and full-sized swords. Whatever their size, flyssas are characterized by narrow, straight-backed, single-edged blades, which come to an acute point. The blades of sword-sized flyssas often widen gradually around the point of percussion, which enhances their cutting ability.
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This meant a servant had to remain on duty within earshot at all times (straight-backed uncomfortable hall chairs designed to keep servants awake date from this period). However, the early 19th century invention of the bell pull, a complicated system of wires and chains within ceiling and wall cavities, meant a servant could be summoned from a greater distance, and therefore also kept at a greater distance. From this time on it became fashionable for servants to be as near to invisible as possible, which fitted exactly with the next change in architectural and aesthetic fashions. These new fashions made sweeping changes to the life of the servant.
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Since pupils were few, interest lacking, and the school spirit low at this school, it was decided to attempt to move this school to Eylau and build a new school building. Mr. L.H. Sorsby and Mr. R.L. Nelson led the fight for the union of the two schools and in 1886 a majority voted for the move. Blue Matthews, a sawmill owner, donated an acre of ground from the M.H Janes headright survey for this building. The building and the furniture were very crude. The seats were long, straight backed, home-made benches and as one old timer declares, “very hard, straight, and uncomfortable.” Drinking water was obtained from the nearby branch until the following year when a well was dug.
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Battle Blades: A Professional's Guide to Combat/Fighting Knives (Hardcover), pages 210 The earliest such knife, made by Jesse Clift at Bowie's brother Rezin's request resembled Spanish hunting knives of the day, and differed little from a common butcher knife. The blade, as later described by Rezin Bowie, was long, thick and wide. It was straight-backed, described by witnesses as "a large butcher knife", and having no clip-point nor any handguard, with a simple riveted wood scale handle. Bernard Levine has reported that the first known Bowie knife showed a strong Mediterranean influence insofar as general lines were concerned, particularly the shape of the traditional Spanish folding knife, then often carried by immigrants to Mexico and other territories of the Old Southwest.Levine, Bernard. (2002).
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An early description of Killeen Castle reads- The date is 1 August—the feast of St. Peter's Chains—As we approach the castle we are faced by four tall battlemented towers with five storeys of slit openings linking the curtain walls of the building. The castle is set on a slight mound. We enter by a steep wooden stairway, and find ourselves, having passed through the considerable thickness of the wall from the narrow doorway, in the Great Hall on the first floor. Rushes cover the stone flags, and besides the usual furniture, such as a trestle-table, benches and the straight-backed, carved, oaken armchair of the Lord of the Manor, we note on our left a heavy green and white curtain covering one wall of the Hall.
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Eventually, however, he found the burden too heavy due to increasing costs, Lloyd George's taxes on inherited wealth, and the impossibility of hiring enough labour during and after the First World War. In 1930 he approached the government Forestry Commission but drew back when he recognised that surrendering control would probably bring on an invasion by ranks of straight-backed conifers. Eight years later the commission became more open to the suggestion that recreational uses might be as legitimate as commercial ones and agreed to the special conditions the sixth marquess had stubbornly laid down. As a result, after 800 years of wardenship, the family surrendered control and the public, because of Lord Ailesbury's dedication, gained a handsome amenity.Peggy Walvin, Savernake Forest (Cheltenham: privately printed, 1976), pages 35-36 Savernake is a coppice-with-standards forest and an Ancient Woodland.
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Kilby prison was the site where Alabama executed prisoners who had been sentenced to death, and when in the 1920s the method was changed from hanging to electrocution, an electric chair, "(Big) Yellow Mama", was constructed in Kilby. The chair was built by a master carpenter, Ed Mason, a man born in London, England, who had been convicted of burglary; he was convicted of having broken into six homes in Mobile to pay off gambling debts. After being promised a furlough or perhaps even parole by Kilby's warden, T. J. Shirley, he built the chair ( tall, straight-backed, weighing ) from maple, and named it "Plain Bill" for Alabama governor William W. Brandon, who he hoped would pardon him. Mason was granted a furlough by Bibb Graves, Brandon's successor, and promptly left the state never to return.
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There is a bookcase on the left and a straight-backed chair on the right and screens and a ceiling lamp in the near background. > Ozu told me to come [back] in the room [after she, Hara and Ryu had exited] > and circle around. So I did as I was told, but of course it wasn’t good > enough. After the third take, Ozu approved it… The reason [Aunt Masa] > circles around the room once is that she’s nostalgic for all the memories > there and she also wants to make sure she’s left nothing behind. He didn’t > show each of these things explicitly, but through my smoothly circling the > room—through how I moved, through the pacing and the blocking—I think that’s > what he was trying to express. At the time, I didn’t understand. I remember > I did it rhythmically: I didn’t walk and I didn’t run; I just moved lightly > and rhythmically. As I continued doing it, that’s what it turned into, and > Ozu okayed it.
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The movement evolved differently because it brought a certain element of daintiness to the Aztec dances since the steps were smaller and the movements were less forceful. Combining African styles along with the Native and European influences is what truly makes Latin possible. The movement and rhythms of African influences left a permanent mark in Latin dance. When the African slaves were forced to Europe in the 1500s, their culture brought styles such as basic, simple movements (putting emphasis on the upper body, torso, or feet) and intricate movements like the coordination of different body parts and complex actions such as “fast rotation, ripples of the body, and contraction and release, as well as variations in dynamics, levels, and use of space.” The difference between the African and European styles was that it included bent knees and a downward focus (grounded to the earth) rather than a straight-backed upward focus like the Europeans, and whole-foot steps than toes and heels.
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