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.
Reflecting off of the thorns is a shadow of a modern crown "to represent the King of Kings, " said Mr. Burnett.
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.
Now it is accused of putting its own interests first, at the expense of nations in Eastern Europe which fear they might again fall under the shadow of a domineering Russia.
In another picture, a black man and a white man stand over a dead body in the shadow of a lynch mob.
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.
The surprising scale of the defeat (Labour has a parliamentary majority of 66) not only casts a shadow over the new anti-terror legislation, but raises big questions about Mr Blair's grip on his party.
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.
The plan looks more like a budget proposal of a shadow president than the guidance and procedural strategies required by a legislative budget committee chairman.
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".
The army, starved of funds for a decade, is a shadow of the force that tyrannised Argentina in the 1970s.
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".
Sixty-four years ago, a group of nations emerging from the shadow of war joined together to light a path toward lasting peace.
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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His main official post was running the Commonwealth of Independent States, a zombie-like shadow of the Soviet Union.
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