The gravel-pit is very large and wide, with grass growing round the edges at the top, and dry stringy wildflowers, purple and yellow.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

Somehow, though, Toshiba managed to keep the edges round, similar to lots of other machines in the company's lineup.

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He designed and installed cameras intended to operate year-round at the edges of glaciers in Alaska, Iceland, Greenland and Montana, ones that would take pictures repeatedly, throughout the year, year after year, in order to catch an ice sheet in its death swoon.

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The new handset puts an emphasis on ergonomics rather than style by featuring a comfortable and a friendly shape, with soft edges and round corners.

ENGADGET

It differed from related mosses because of its round-tipped leaf tips and flat leaf edges.

BBC: Welsh Bristle-moss

The gravel-pit is not really dangerous if you don't try to climb down the edges, but go the slow safe way round by the road, as if you were a cart.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Five Children and It'

By his own account, he is trying to strike a more positive profile this go-round, obviously seeking to sand away some of the rough edges left over from his time in the national spotlight in the 1990s.

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