Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.
"A little layer of rubber -- it will protect you from a stone or a glass, but a nail could puncture that, " Thompson said.
Combined with prominent red brick chimneys and a brick or stone base, the effect is a three-color scheme.
Founded in 2006, the chamber orchestra does not have a set-in-stone season or a salaried company roster.
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The most dangerous asteroids contain a lot of stone or iron, according to NASA. 1998 QE2 contains a good bit of carbon and well as amino acids, the building blocks of protein.
Archaeologists first discovered the 1, 300-year-old fort 10 years ago and concluded it was engulfed by a ferocious fire that fused together - or vitrified - the stone walls during a siege.
With those sparks, any adversity or affliction is another stepping-stone to a better life.
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But with a 95% penetration of the SAR's 1.4 million or so homes, HKT has fiber optic cables a stone's throw from just about every housing block in the territory.
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Of course, it's no secret that HDTV prices in general have been sinking like a stone over the past half year or so, and while the boutiques are banking on customers finally coughing up the extra dough for "knowledge staff" and better all-around service, we're betting that price still remains king in the land of HDTV.
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Or is it really a kind of pidgin, a stepping stone to a language?
Guests can look forward to a Camelback Signature Facial complete with a hot stone hand and foot massage, or explore the Camelback Golf Club, featuring two-championship 18-hole courses and a 36, 000-square-foot pueblo-style clubhouse.
Whether it's an iPhone at work or a copy of Sports Illustrated at home, let he who is without a magazine in his bathroom cast the first stone.
Sometimes stone knives would be lashed onto a bone or wooden handle for easier use.
The 17-stone powerhouse, normally a full-back or wing, has been training in the centre position for his region, with the new season two weeks away.
At first, employers were wary, presuming that her consulting business was failing or that she just wanted to use a job as a stepping stone to head back to her own business.
Or is producing a luxury watch fit some modern form of luxury stepping stone that brands feel they need to achieve to.
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Nan Madol comprises a set of almost 100 stone and coral fill platforms or artificial islets separated by narrow channels and enclosed by an outer sea wall.
One face of the hill had been almost completely excavated, exposing four stone circles, each made up of a dozen or so pillars with two larger pillars in the middle.
Newcomers, many of whom have been tutored in the ways of Fletcher's England at the Academy or in one-day matches, also enter a world in which no stone is left unturned in an effort to help them fulfil their potential and play to their strengths.
Like what needs to be sort of written out or in stone to allow that to happen, to allow Copenhagen to be a success, springing from this bilateral meeting?
Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.
It's debatable whether this dollar-book Freud tells us more about the president or about Oliver Stone, but it's an insight -- if a mundane one -- into a subject who may not be complex enough to justify a multifaceted portrait.
Or there is the apocalyptic version, where a world has been bombed back into the Stone Age -- and somehow still has laser weapons.
"Even a stone can be an effective symbol when the company makes a great product or offers a great service, " he says.
Neither does Boilly's head of an intense young woman or Corot's delightful cow, elegantly silhouetted against the freely painted stone wall of a barn.
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So if a patient asks for help with their weight problem, most GPs have little to offer beyond conventional diet for the person who needs to shed 10-15lbs (4.5-6.8kg), or referral for surgery if there is a need to shed, say, more than five stone (31kg).
The "stone" walls are actually a mix of cement powder and crushed beer bottle or windshield glass.
Stone Barns Center is not an attempt to re-create a Shaker village or a Norman Rockwell painting.
There are various inlets where visitors can rent a rowing boat or hire an oarsman to take them to the mysterious rock known as Zhumbaktas stone.
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