When Kitty was 9 years old, her father taught her a trick to measure the height of the windmill on her grandfather's farm: Measure its shadow and compare it with the shadow of a yardstick.
The walks prompted vivid memories which he included in his blog Walking on Planet C which is a frank and often uncomfortable account of life in the shadow of a potentially fatal illness.
Law and Foreign Affairs Minister S. Jayakumar also said the details of the investigations showed "without any shadow of a doubt" that the problem was serious.
Awe aside, locals are skeptical of living under the shadow of a three-floor behemoth of a house and their grumblings may spell an end to Duffield's plans.
The Christian Democrats are still in the shadow of a party-funding scandal.
Over the years, Giuliani has often spoken of his childhood in Brooklyn, giving special place to a story about the discordance of growing up a Yankees fan in the shadow of Ebbets Field.
Once a potent symbol of American frustration with the Vietnam War, the prison is now a tourist attraction, in the shadow of an upscale high-rise building owned by a Singapore businessman.
Stand in an orchard as the glow of late afternoon is filtered through the laden branches, sending a lattice of pale shadow onto the fruit-covered floor, and it is easy to understand why the orchard holds an elevated place in British mythology.
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Unfortunately, the Free Democrats will be lucky once again to wield patchy influence in the shadow of a bigger partner.
It was on the summit that Professor Lidenbrock and Axel made their camp, waiting for the shadow of a nearby peak to pinpoint the crater where they were to begin their descent.
No British pier has gone as far as the Pier Shops at Caesar's in Atlantic City, where, in the shadow of a gigantic Roman-style casino, an enclosed street of glittering boutiques winds over the waves.
He will be sadly missed by all in the road racing fraternity, but most particularly by his family, and the absence of the 'number 45' will leave a massive void in the paddock and cast a shadow over the forthcoming North West 200 and Isle of Man TT.
And the West Indies team is a shadow of the sides that dominated world cricket in the 1960s and, under Sir Vivian, in the 1970s.
Italy were able to hang on for the win but they look a shadow of the side that defeated both Scotland and Wales in this year's Six Nations and their inability to claim a bonus point could prove costly.
But somewhere between nuclear ambition and the wellbeing of the villagers living in the shadow of the mine, there has to be a healthy compromise.
The dogs saw him first, sensed him, perhaps, because he lay partially obscured in the shadow of a tree.
Liberal Democrat spokesman David Laws said the rights had been drawn up "on the back of a fag packet" and shadow schools minister Nick Gibb said the process was a "complete waste of time".
But that is just the beginning of an ambitious to-do list from the Fund, which starts from recognising, in the words of the staff report, that "incomplete economic and financial and fiscal integration is casting a shadow on the future of Economic and Monetary Union".
One of the things that went missing in the shadow of that volcanic dust was a sense of human power.
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Manchester United is running away with the Premier League title but looks a shadow of the side that reached the Champions League final two years ago.
England defender Gary Neville, meanwhile, claimed the victory achieved with a shadow squad of players after a rash of substitutions from Eriksson proved the squad's strength.
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Santa Rosa is a sun-dappled gem of a city, which served as the main location for 1943's Shadow of a Doubt.
The church sits in the shadow of Mesa Vouno, a gigantic rock that dominates the northern edge of the beach.
By the time the World Cup arrived, Vieira looked a shadow of the player we see running match after match at Higbury.
In fact, there's a scene early on in the series where Nicola Murray is chairing a disastrous meeting of the Shadow Cabinet.
In the meantime, the integration of the two companies may offer a competitive boost to start-ups living in the shadow of Microsoft and Yahoo!
The treaty signed on April 2nd was but a shadow of the ambitious draft.
Neither golden nor very tasty, the hash browns are a shadow of what they used to be, and only look good insofar as the scrambled eggs quite simply look inedible.
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Trying not to breathe, I turned my head and saw the moonlit shadow of a lioness.
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