When I had leafed through the yellowed, musty pages, a pressed pansy, as brittle and brown as a moth's wing had zigzagged to the floor in a papery flurry.
When he arrived at the corner of Dundas and Waterloo Streets, a young man pressed a book into his hands.
The subject is nattily dressed in suit and spats, a little like Johnson himself, who is sporting a crisply pressed blue shirt and a shiny yellow tie.
Scott's win means four of the last six major champions used a putter pressed against their belly or chest, a stroke that might be banned in 2016.
He has since deadlifted more than a thousand pounds and pressed a nearly quarter-ton log above his head.
On it is a book, 101 Places to See, with a leaf pressed into its pages.
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He became testy when a reporter pressed him on whether his initial pronouncements had been too hasty.
The technique is called "deep drawing, " in which a sheet of metal is pressed around a die until it thins out and is joined perfectly.
Smith and Costos entertain so much that they employ a full-time cook, Chris Kidder, whose latest creation, a lemon marmalade cake, is pressed into a visitor's hands.
On 26 January, the anniversary of India's republic, he was returning from the main market in Robertsgunj when a "man, possibly in his thirties" came from behind, pressed a gun sideways to his head, fired a single shot and ran away.
Alberta Investment Management Corporation, a Canadian pension fund, and Jana Partners, a hedge fund, have pressed TNT, a Dutch mail and shipping company, to break itself into two.
But, so far as anyone knew, the two men had not exchanged a word in nearly twenty years not since Carnegie drove Frick out of the business and Frick successfully pressed a monumental lawsuit against his former partner, the first in a long string of vengeful acts.
He said imprisonment, even for a few weeks or months, gave hard-pressed communities a break whilst the offender was inside.
Remove the plastic wrap and bake for about 1 hour and 20 minutes, until the cake is a deep golden brown and springs back when gently pressed and a toothpick inserted into the thickest part comes out clean.
Last year the chief minister of Chhattisgarh, a state where Maoists have a huge presence, pressed India's central government for a 10% surcharge on mining profits so that impoverished rural areas could be developed and people discouraged from joining the rebels.
Replacement Simon Keogh managed a late third but Leinster ran out of time as they pressed for a bonus-point score.
The match continued at a frenzied pace in the final 15 minutes as both sides pressed for a winner, with McDonald firing in a weak strike from 25 yards out after Killen had nodded down.
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Marty then pressed a button on his jacket, and a fan started that air-dried his jacket.
One of the few is that kindness usually cultivates connection, something we yearn for in a time-pressed, ear-to-the- cell-phone culture.
Onlookers and paparazzi were already gathering at Jackson's gate and someone pressed a camera to the ambulance window to get pictures of the stricken star.
One night over drinks he pressed a colleague for career tips.
Another woman said she was warned that she would herself be prosecuted for lying if she pressed a rape charge against a man who attacked her.
They had inbuilt printers, so once your script was finished you pressed a button and it came slowly spewing out of the top on a roll of shiny paper.
But when a FORBES reporter pressed him on the numbers, Forbes admitted that the 70% was not for people who renewed after one year, but for those who had been members for two.
The symptoms of bacterial meningitis are a very high temperature, stiff neck, and a blotchy red or purple rash which does not fade when the side of a glass is pressed against it.
Then there was time for a quick interpreted chat about what I was doing in India and where I lived, before a sweet was pressed into my hands and holy ash dispensed to me.
In an experiment at Johns Hopkins, in 2010, mice were confronted with two levers, one that dispensed a treat after being pressed only once, another that required fifteen presses before it released a similar snack.
The first-generation version of the player actually had two headphone jacks and a button that you pressed so that your listening partner could hear you talk to them via a small built-in microphone.
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In a YouTube video posted on Monday, Trevor Eckhart showed how software from a Silicon Valley company known as Carrier IQ recorded in real time the keys he pressed into a stock EVO handset, which he had reset to factory settings just prior to the demonstration.
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Mr Osborne's main giveaway was a qualified pledge to freeze council tax for two years a nice enough break for hard-pressed households but hardly a magisterial take on the credit crunch.
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