It swerves around table legs and backs away rather than plunging down a staircase.

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Designers at Dyson put their vacuum cleaners through elaborate impact tests, including ramming them into baseboards and table legs some 21, 000 times, at a rate of 30 impacts per minute.

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Among the pieces the couple has collected, one of his favorites is a set of chairs and a table whose stepped legs are reminiscent of inverted Deco skyscrapers.

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He had collapsed between wicker sofa and African coffee table, his legs hairless and white as wax, his stomach a great pale mound, and his face as pinched and pink as crab shell.

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Joe Tortorella of Robert Silman Associates, the engineer hired to remove the stacks from under the Rose Reading Room while it's still in use, has compared his task to cutting off the legs of a table while a banquet is taking place.

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Seating is hori-kotatsu: diners on floor cushions, their legs tucked into a well beneath the table.

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The Minotaur swung his legs around and sat up on the edge of the pool table.

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If you are sitting, you can still project power by stretching your legs and arms and by spreading out your belongings on the conference table, and claiming more territory.

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She had flitted in like a summer breeze, put a package of square Russian biscuits on the table, and sat down on the edge of one of the desks, not looking at anybody, her legs crossed.

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