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1. Experience has taught me that there is a thin line
2. She had a light knit-wrap with her, but she hung that on the rail, leaving only her thin jersey covering her long and elegant body
3. Finally, satisfied, her face broke into a thin smile, but her eyes were still cold and lifeless
4. Sprinkle thin layer over lawn and water well
5. A simple trip to the grocery store will be filled with episodes of bad drivers, poorly-timed traffic lights, crowded aisles, indifferent checkout clerks, and thin plastic grocery bags that rip too easily
6. He pulled out a thin glove from his pocket and put it on his hand, pressing the glove against the door and listening
7. The walls in the house are pretty thin, and I sometimes heard him pacing up and down in there in the middle of the night and I swear I heard him call out Liz’s name once
8. When dried it will leave a thin film for the cockroaches to run into
9. He had a bushy beard but a thin nose, squinted eyes and a hearty smile, a huskier, rougher version of Kulai
10. There were a few scraggles of thin ribbonleaves and some sap-nubs trying to hold the fine red sand together
11. Your lawn will benefit by having a thin layer of aged (at least 6 months old) horse manure spread over it (using a manure spreader), and then watered well
12. “Your lawn will benefit by having a thin layer of aged horse manure spread over it
13. · Wear shoes that give good support and have thin non-slip soles
14. a weak and thin smile, turned on his heels and walked back towards the bar shaking
15. defined by the contours and ripples of a thin white sheet
16. Add a thin layer of rock dust to the compost pile, alternating between layers of grass clippings, manure, kitchen wastes, etc
17. The Marchese flicked out his long tongue to moisten his thin dry lips
18. drawl, just a hint of Tara, to go with that pencil thin moustache and film star grin
19. He cuts the rest of the raw meat of the fish into thin strips, hands a piece to John, puts some in his mouth
20. amongst the shoppers seemed to thin around her
21. it were thin air
22. thin scars, as if a large tom cat had raked talons across his skin
23. quiet and, frankly, pretty boring, providing a thin string of tavernas and bars set back
24. Despite years of neglect made visible by thin,
25. Out on the hard shoulder, cocooned within the thin metallic hull of his
26. My patience is wearing very, very thin with you
27. He offered up a thin smile
28. mouse stood hunched in his jacket, his glasses perched on the end of his thin nose
29. Thin, craggy, shaven headed, a good fifty years of age with a small white goatee dangling under his chin
30. Gingerbread was used as a structural element in some styles, hair thin was the hallmark of others
31. It was a fast and spartan little catamaran with a tall, thin sail
32. moon rose, he thought he could hear a familiar voice, but it was so far off and so thin
33. pale white hide, which was soiled and bruised, shone ghost white in the thin reeds of
34. "I thought they were supposed to be thin in this sector
35. I squatted on a thin mattress on the floor of a small, underground room
36. Ridges of crumbling stone and cement bit into the thin skin covering my knees and I waited, letting the reality of this simple and basic reaction to the physical world wash through me
37. On the other hand, large areas of the planet's surface are more than five miles below sea level where the air acts a whole lot different than it does where it's as thin as on Earth
38. "What the fuck, Tig?" Parker’s voice was thin and far, far off
39. They told me that The Kid even sat with me during the dark hours, watching blood pound through the artery in my thin skinned neck as my body fought for oxygen under the onslaught of fever and infection
40. My heart thumped against the thin, pale skin that barely seemed to cover my ribs
41. Knowing how thin the margin is between victory and defeat, Ram Devlin races to the Squidies' homeworld moon with a weapon of mass destruction that could end the war in seconds
42. I grabbed at thin air
43. Right below him on the desolate plain was an endless field of dogs, mainly dobies, stiffs and weilers; too thin, a little bloody, with dripping mouths and crusty yellow teeth
44. Without unfolding the message, I stuffed it into my trouser pocket, and then, frantically, I rubbed the mirror down with my towel, smearing a thin layer of wax everywhere
45. Menachem looked up at the thin strip of night sky that we could see
46. Since they arrived, a very thin coating of fine dust had settled on the ship
47. They'd had to use motors and pumps meant for industrial use, but they were able to fabricate a hull and a burner thin enough to heat a high-tech flash boiler that could run two big water-park pumps and fit in the bilge under the helm
48. His fingers traced the ragged grooves of three long but thin scars, as if a large tom cat had raked talons across his skin
49. "We're going to land as many atmosphere landers as we can safely produce in many areas where Alan has found the vegetation thin
50. She sat with her back against the tree, revealing a shapely if thin alabaster leg, and pulled him towards her
1. At this unfathomable depth of day and night, where darkness and light merged into one long, monotonous passage of time, my blood thinned and cooled
2. Forward and backward across the deck they pushed and pulled like giant inch worms, rubbing the thinned varnish into the grain of the wood, being careful not to step on the deck planks already coated
3. The Smoking car's habitues had thinned by the time they reached it, so they tarried a bit
4. I also thinned out the bunches
5. The crowd had thinned considerably and, by the
6. downstream and the congestion of buildings had thinned
7. The atmosphere thinned and I was in
8. Though her body was thinned from her long years of slumber, Rafe could tell there was a definite toughness to every bit of her scrawny muscles
9. thinned to a trickle as I headed east
10. The herd was thinned by the time Bri Lynn leapt into the street
11. In the last skirmish that I had with them I would venture to say that we thinned their numbers a little but there are still close to two hundred of them
12. “It"s thinned with water and simmered in lead vats
13. ‘Thought I'd given up on my rebellious daughter?’ His gruff voice thinned by the poor quality of the scrambled signal
14. somewhat thinned down version of Soot, the irascible one had finally returned
15. The gang brand on the young man’s hand almost made Amaranthe reject him without further consideration, but the clouds started unloading snow, and the crowd thinned in response
16. His old man hand-made the thing; stained black with shoe-polish thinned down with mineral spirits
17. And what now? How did she feel about him now, this Faery Prince who had seduced her in dreams that Hallowe'en night, Samhain, the night when the veils between heaven and earth thinned to nothing, when anything could happen
18. When they sprout, they need to be thinned
19. Within a few minutes his hair was back to his real colour, his faced thinned and his nose returned to it true shape
20. They could visibly tell because the vegetation thinned out to small bushes and insignificant groves abruptly
21. We could see the forest stretch out with tiny beautiful variation until it thinned out and ended at the peaks of mountain
22. Where she pointed the forest thinned out as it approached a valley, cut through my a wide but slow river, sided by green pasture populated by sheep, tiny white dots so far below us
23. The towns and villages thinned out as they continued onward until at last they saw the outlines of tall mountains in the far distance
24. After only a few hours, the forest thinned and finally they could see open land ahead
25. The houses thinned out and a little later, they ran across a field
26. The crowd that was here before has thinned
27. As the remaining kids thinned out, the director ordered Buffo to stay in the gym while she called an ambulance using her cell
28. That way the young Maya men were too thinned out to stage any sort of revolt back in Anahuac
29. Seeing their ploy didn’t work, they came after us again and we again thinned their ranks while staying out of closing range
30. His lips thinned and he sighed
31. light where the clouds must have thinned, or a few layers had
32. The clouds thinned out a little more
33. I noticed a ring of thinned hair and exposed, chafed
34. As I climbed higher, the grass thinned, and the rocks
35. the garments of adoration thinned out by moths
36. He woke from a brief snooze to find the time near two, and the diner crowd considerably thinned
37. Farfan thinned his mustache
38. Trovert‘s lips thinned and his eyes became mere slits of anger
39. sometimes murder thinned the herd ever so slightly
40. Battle and raid had thinned their crew; only some eighty spearmen remained, scarcely enough to work the long galley
41. Jasra surveyed the scene, her lips thinned so that she looked anything but beautiful
42. Gregg poked another log into the fire, making the small blaze even larger so that their small cave was well lit as well as the forty feet out into the wood line where the trees thinned and the mountain began
43. The Sheriff’s lips thinned but he said nothing
44. The crowd thinned out and soon the food tables were empty
45. His hair is thinned and white,1
46. A mile away in that direction the forest thinned out and ceased abruptly, giving way to a cactus-dotted plain
47. As the villages thinned, the land grew more rugged, and the keeps that frowned from eminences told of centuries of border war
48. I thinned my lips as the officer nodded, called out and a pair of guards in camouflage uniform snapped out of the hallway beyond the gates to double-team to our side
49. His eyes have begun to bulge, lips gradually become a part of the skin, nose and ears have begun to sink in his head and his arms and legs have thinned
50. When they reached the top of the hill, the snow thinned considerably
1. then and so we limped along with the damned thing for years, eking out ever thinning
2. For Afternoonday they trudged on in front of the Troarar hills, some greener humps in the distance across dun plains of thinning ribbonleaves in rough gravel
3. gusting hard on the heels of Autumnal thinning
4. The air seems to be thinning as he approaches the gates
5. Somewhere in the process, he’d lost his hat, allowing his thinning hair to encircle his ears
6. And that's not all; the atmosphere of Clive House was thinning and getting thinner
7. We ran through the thinning forest and
8. His dark brown hair was thinning on top and the hair of his magnificent beard covered most of his face
9. He was in his fifties, average build and a pleasant face, but seemed to have too much forehead, an effect which was exaggerated by his receding hairline and thinning brown hair which seemed to want to stand straight up
10. Both are rounded and both hairy but thinning
11. This will eliminate thinning of the skin and bulging veins
12. Flowing to his waist was his well-kept beard, which was as white as his thinning hair
13. His thinning blonde hair exposed the stress lines around his almost black eyes
14. The chairs of the lecture hall rose up in ranks around him so that Tara, at the top of the hall, was treated to a view of his shiny scalp through his thinning hair as he bent over the roster
15. He had a thin nose, dark eyes, and his hair was thinning a bit on top
16. His hairline was receding and he had thinning hair
17. “It’s large,” another scientist—this one a man with thinning hair—says
18. “It’s much larger than average,” the man with thinning hair corrects himself
19. ” She also warned that besides wreaking havoc on nature, for instance, thinning bird shells and thereby leading to a “silent spring,” the increasing use of synthetic chemicals would cause a cancer epidemic among humans
20. It turns out that there are a lot of things that cause thinning of eggshells, as demonstrated with controlled studies such as those conducted at Cornell University
21. We again pulled up behind the cannon and they again fired off two rounds of shrapnel into the thinning ranks
22. rendezvous point was thinning by the second, his heart
23. thinning grey hair receding from his round face, but had not once
24. his wisps of thinning grey hair, the Director of Space
25. She awoke to see a tall, dark figure coming through the thinning fog, his broad shoulders stooped with weariness
26. A tall, large boned, extremely thin man with thinning blond
27. I am quickly thinning
28. Darlington had thinning brown hair, brown eyes in a narrow face with thin squint lines drawn on his forehead and around his eyes
29. The trees were thinning and her path became easier
30. from his hair through the wound, thinning the colour and
31. noticed a few stars pulsing between the thinning clouds, and
32. As he spoke, a ray of pale sunshine came wavering out between a gap in the thinning clouds
33. were blotches of white skin that could be seen under its thinning
34. and beard were thinning, his stance was stil one of sheer pride
35. Swann resisted the impulse to drag him to his feet by his thinning hair
36. 7 billion years; that the first stars lit up just 200 million years after the cosmos was born; and that it will expand forever at an accelerated pace, thinning and cooling-off until it eventually disappears into nothingness
37. Brink touches and gently pats her thinning scalp
38. Then I recognized the tweed jacket, the thinning brown hair, the scraggly beard
39. In the harsh light of morning he looked his age; face lined and pale accentuating his obviously dyed and thinning hair
40. on hair include preventing thinning hair, and promotes
41. Desolé checked her thinning hair, patiently rearranging strands to cover the head evenly
42. Slightly less than average height, Jack was tough with a muscular, sun dried body, and thinning hair
43. So I started thinning out the worst cases
44. He was a tall well built man with a warm personality who had thinning fair hair and a red complexion
45. She may experience a significant drop in estrogen, which in turn can create a thinning of the vaginal walls and could give her difficulty with lubrication, which could make sex uncomfortable, and therefore less desirable
46. He was at tall stout man with thinning grey hair who had a round chubby face that never seemed to lack a grin
47. Tim opened his weary eyes and saw the bronze, ageing face of the Sub-Commander, his long grey hair combed over a thinning scalp, his pristine uniform and shiny medals on show, for all to see
48. They had noticed that their numbers were thinning out after about the 4th was called for and didn’t return
49. He had thinning grey hair almost white and spoke with a soft voice
50. `She is not like him, is she?' Ryan asked brushing his thinning hair
1. The crowd on the sidewalk thins, and I look up to see why
2. But that fades from my mind when the crowd before me thins and I see the rest of the room
3. Filtration thins out the number of combinations in a given wheel
4. Thins on the corner in the rain when I had an idea! Within days, I made $50,000
5. flashes of thins that occurred when I was a child
6. They worry now, as blood thins cold
7. Evening thins to water
8. Thins wisps of red
9. The genetic code is the informer of structural thins related to the body
10. For a short period, the fog thins out, and you can actually
11. Uncle Dylan thins out the Revenants on the opposite side of the room, leaving only about half a dozen for me to take care of
12. Because your subconscious knows that it is being observed all the time by unknown undead foul thins who are insane and have evil intentions towards all living creatures and upon the living earth: civilized people have duplicated the condition they live under: they began to observe the world and each other… in the same inhuman cold evil fashion as they are continuously and destructively being observed by these undead filthy things
13. of Geirrod had proved strong but eventually blood thins,
14. „The alcohol in hot water thins itself out and draws the peppermint into the deeper tissue
15. As the cervix dilates and thins, you will pass the mucus plug
16. Out of nowhere the jungle thins out and large stone walls appear before them
17. Besides, speech is a rolling-mill that always thins out the sentiment
18. “There’s nothing to be done right now that can’t be done more efficiently when that crowd in front thins out
19. His voice thins out when he says, “Is that why you decided to hire me?”
20. If the number of the species included within a genus, or the number of the genera within a family, be represented by a vertical line of varying thickness, ascending through the successive geological formations, in which the species are found, the line will sometimes falsely appear to begin at its lower end, not in a sharp point, but abruptly; it then gradually thickens upwards, often keeping of equal thickness for a space, and ultimately thins out in the upper beds, marking the decrease and final extinction of the species