• She grasps the Virgin at the knees, beginning a clockwise oval of hot color the Magdalene's vermilion robe to the orange in Mary's group, to the very warm off-white of the man on the left-hand ladder, to the red-orange garments along the top of the cross, and back down to the weeping man's molten vanilla robe.

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  • At sunset, with a warm wind blowing off the desert, we sail Jelal's felucca, the open boat that more than any other evokes the romance of the Nile.

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  • When rubbed between the fingers it gave off a warm, strong, piney smell, a bit like floor polish.

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  • He walked off to warm ovation as Nick Noonan pinch hit.

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  • The stones are usually set off by warm 22-karat gold.

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  • The show-home season typically kicks off when the warm weather sets in, and the homes stay open to the public for three or four weeks.

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  • Tossed with crisp escarole and treviso and set off by the warm, sweet vinaigrette (which should be viscous but not heavy), the fruits complete a dish that illustrates Mr. Kahan's gift for making even the simplest of ingredients feel surprising.

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  • Rohit scored 80 off 53 balls in his side's warm-up match against Pakistan but on this occasion he and Gambhir got off to a relatively cautious start in the face of some disciplined bowling and sharp fielding by Bangladesh.

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  • When the man opened the door, he found the Neil Kane, 49, doing paperwork while he waited for the BMW to warm up before scraping the snow off it.

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  • Given a warm ovation before he walked leading off the second inning, Teixeira had a partially torn tendon sheath in his right wrist, sustained while taking batting practice with the U.S. at the World Baseball Classic on March 5.

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  • That's certainly one way to create a groove, and "Long Way to Go" recalls the wing of new wave that's less interested in synthesized smoothness (whether warm or cold) than in off-kilter shards of sound glued together to resemble pop music.

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  • Then off he went - the warm up act before Leanne Wood's speech, the man given the unenviable task of squeezing out as much cash as he could from the party faithful.

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  • It releases a surge of warm water from the equator which kills off the plankton causing the fish which feed on them to die of starvation and driving the survivors south into Chilean waters.

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  • Egg on your face comes off with a little soap and warm water.

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  • Ryder took slightly longer to warm up, but spectacularly took 20 runs off the first four balls off Craig Wright's over, the third of the innings, before holing out at long-off.

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  • As the party wound down, Chang stepped from the warm glow of lanterns to the cold streetlight reflected off the surrounding skyscrapers.

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  • Do not let the lack of spa-like ambience turn you off, though: the clean, warm and unchlorinated waters are soothing and invigorating, and soaking in them is more about the experience than the surroundings.

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  • Saadane's decision to delay his team's first World Cup warm-up until just a fortnight before kick-off now appears to have been misguided as his team looked rusty and disorganised in Dublin.

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  • As well as using wind turbines to provide electricity, and straw-burning plants to provide heating, some islanders have solar panels on their roofs and others warm their homes using geothermal energy and the heat given off by fresh cow's milk.

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  • Mourinho received a warm welcome from the Chelsea supporters prior to kick-off in the second leg of the last 16 - his first competitive return to the club where he won two Premier League titles in three seasons before leaving in 2007.

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  • In a warm-up match against Gauteng, she thrashed 131 runs off 127 balls, and went on to make half-centuries against Ireland and India in the tournament.

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  • The original fixture had to be postponed shortly before kick-off when the referee pulled a muscle in his warm-up and no suitable replacement could be found.

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  • There was no one else in the tunnel, which was whitewashed and warm, lit by low-wattage bulbs, and branched off into small closets and locked chambers full of brooms and mops and cleaning solutions.

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  • The Bright Young People live on, if only as social shorthand, because so much of their partying and preening was refracted in the press, who fed off the novelty and exoticism as vampires might a warm vein.

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  • When a client's business dropped off, she says, employees were told to "warm-call" them offering free software upgrades and volume discounts.

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  • Both teams needed a positive showing after difficult starts to this campaign, but Villa - for whom Kevin MacDonald is still the caretaker manager after Martin O'Neill's shock exit - were dealt a blow before kick-off as new signing Stephen Ireland got injured in the warm-up.

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  • England set off for Australia next week, and will play their first warm-up game against the Victoria state side on 25 January.

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  • This fabulous value starts things off hints of tobacco and earth, then things start to warm up with notes of bright red raspberry and cherry fruit.

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  • Feedback was "incredibly positive" and when they showed the product off at a party full of Silicon Valley investors, the warm reaction provided market validation, he added.

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  • Birmingham and Solihull Together said those gathering at the centres could "stay warm in convivial company" and help homeless people "keep the chill off" by knitting hats and scarves.

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