It is also a windswept, unwelcoming crumb of land, floating in open ocean far from anywhere and covered with razor-sharp limestone and petrified coral.
If the materials are wildly ambitious and the prices insanely high, if these antler chairs and petrified bark tables are scaled for a Texas oligarch or a Middle Eastern potentate, Owens merely shrugs.
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No, none of those, the message coming from the players is that they are petrified of losing, and petrified of losing their place in the team such is the competition now within the squad.
From that commitment sprang an effort to save the great Redwoods of California and the Petrified Forest of Arizona, the great bird rocks of the Aleutian Islands and the Tongass of Alaska.
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Muir fought to protect Yosemite and later Glacier Bay in Alaska, Mount Rainier in Washington and the Grand Canyon and the Petrified Forest in Arizona.
"She was a nervous wreck and absolutely petrified, " he told the court.
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The court was told Mrs Esack's boyfriend, Justin Khadaroo, begged her to go to the police after Esack sent her threatening text messages and phone calls which turned her into "a nervous wreck and absolutely petrified".
Sadly it is impossible to prove whether her contention is correct: as I've mentioned before, depending on the time of day, investors and creditors seem by turns more frightened by the Scylla of unsustainable debt and then petrified by the Charybdis of possible recession.
She also noticed that the unbeaten boxing champ looked to have smelled his partner's hair during the performance and "looked petrified!"
Word was spreading among employees about a novel way to cash in on the company stock in their 401(k) accounts without triggering Draconian taxes, and senior management was petrified.
Hamza's family was threatened after the video was initially broadcast by other outlets, intermediaries told CNN, and they became too petrified to talk about what happened, even to close friends.
Some of the scenes are filmed in Monument Valley on the Navajo Nation, with trains curving around the spires that Navajos believe are petrified deities, and Depp and co-star Armie Hammer looking out beyond the cliffs.
The impossible-to-replicate dinanderie vases (hand-hammered metalwork with applied metal inlays), the enameled cigarette cases depicting streets in Paris, the spiked walking sticks that are petrified stingray tails and the cocktail goblets dancing on their zigzagging silver stems, won't be making appearances on store shelves.
Unfortunately, Scott, despite his outgoing personality, was petrified of getting up onstage, and, despite his reputation as a cannon, his sleight-of-hand skills were not audience-ready.
The 86-lot sale includes an exotic range of legendary beasts, petrified woods, fossilized fauna, translucent crystals and sculpture-like shells.
The Network includes sites as diverse as Lagkawi Island, featuring the oldest rock formations in Malaysia, the petrified forest on Lesvos Island (Greece) and the volcanic craters of Vulkaneifel in Germany.
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