There were piles of dishes caked with egg foo young in the sink.

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The problem began when we decided to drive not back south, where the temperatures were warmer, but north, where the roads were caked with ice.

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In another part of Moore, Lando Hite was shirtless, his hair and body caked with mud, as he described what happened at a horse and entertainment farm.

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Residents carried the injured into ambulances and one man carried a small child caked white with dust from the wreckage.

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Homes in the area are buried in snow drifts as high as five feet, with snow caked on windows.

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In this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's revered 2006 novel, Viggo Mortensen, caked in grime, plays the father with a fierce physicality and tremulous woundedness.

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She had to use a toothbrush to scrub where it had mixed with green soap from the dispenser, then caked in mineral crusts around the base of the taps, around the plughole and the overflow.

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When going for a conservative, professional appearance, stick with basic black or brown dress shoes that are free of scuffs or caked mud.

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