Anthony Road Pinot Gris: light-bodied, dry but soft, some light fruity tones with a hint of mineral.

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Its belly was white as an egg, soft, dry and shiny like polished leather and undulating with breaths.

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This was quite easy, because the sand at the bottom of the hole was very soft and fine and dry, like sea-sand.

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If he receives the go-ahead from Rosenwasser, Teixeira expects to spend New York's six-game, seven-day homestand working his way from dry swings to hitting with a fungo bat and then soft tosses.

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But building a giant battery using dry-cell technology would require thousands of individual cells - about the size of a soft drinks can - to be strung together in a massive installation.

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