Plume Sentence Examples

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  • The snowy heron is a rare plume bird seen occasionally along the coast.

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  • Pulmonata are widely distinguished from a small number of Streptoneura at one time associated with them on account of their mantle-chamber being converted, as in Pulmonata, into a lung, and the ctenidium or branchial plume aborted.

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  • The young lack the ornamental plume, and in them the head and neck are clothed with short black feathers, while the bill is yellow.

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  • Near the end of Chapter 3, pick up the Paradise Plume.

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  • The air entrained by the fire plume from the lower layer into the upper layer is taken into account.

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  • As he joined her they squinted into the heat waves, shielding their eyes against the bright sun - trying to discern something of the shadows below the plume.

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  • These were written in answer to the widely read pamphlets published over the nom de plume of " A Westchester Farmer," and now known to have been written by Samuel Seabury.

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  • She pulled her hat off, fanning herself with it as she squinted at a plume of dust in the shimmering distance.

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  • The following day, a super market tabloid offered a one million dollar reward for concrete information on the existence of the "Psychic Tipster," Howard Abbott's new nom de plume.

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  • Once again, Dean motored his Jeep to the south, into the mountains and under the sun-dappled aspens, leaving a plume of dust behind him as he climbed higher and higher.

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  • A large plume of black smoke lends some credence to her story.

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  • The models for atmospheric dispersion are based on the Gaussian plume model.

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  • True MORB values and perhaps upper mantle geochemistry can be constrained only by considering data untainted by plume asthenosphere.

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  • For example the vertical spread of the plume may be inhibited by a strong inversion.

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  • There is a rising convective plume beneath the Azores.

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  • She was depicted by Egyptian artists as a woman wearing an ostrich plume on her head.

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  • The exhaust plume looked much cleaner than in previous tests having very little black smoke.

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  • Although dress regulations states black feather plume with ring of scarlet feathers, most pictures show scarlet feathers with black ring.

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  • Which French textbook actually used the phrase " La plume de ma tante.. .

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  • Which French textbook actually used the phrase La plume de ma tante...

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  • It is fluffy and may be carried like a plume above the back.

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  • Plume Poppy (Bocconia) - B. cordata is a handsome and vigorous perennial of the Poppy order, growing in erect tufts 5 to over 8 feet high, with numerous flowers in very large panicles.

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  • He took on his own venture under his own nom de plume in 2004.

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  • Other Twitter managing apps include Seesmic, TweetDeck, and Plume.

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  • A simple peacock plume or spotted fowl feather is a great way to add instant texture and a dose of exotica to your cut and is much more affordable than a full highlight or coloring service.

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  • In addition to numerous monographs and valuable contributions to Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, he published The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America by the Northmen (1868); The Northmen in Maine (1870); The Moabite Stone (1871); The Rector of Roxburgh (1871), a novel under the nom de plume of "William Hickling"; and Verrazano the Explorer; being a Vindication of his Letter and Voyage (1880).

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  • As it was put by Mr Stainton Moses, a leading spiritualist and himself a medium, who wrote under the nom de plume of "M.A.

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  • This is a groove, the edges of which are raised and ciliated, lying near the branchial plume in the genera which possess that organ, whilst in Firoloida, which has no branchial plume, the osphradium occupies a corresponding position.

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  • In Ventose and Germinal he published, under the nom de plume of "Lalande, soldat de la patrie," a new paper, the Eclaireur du peuple, ou le defenseur de vingi-cinq millions d'opprimes, which was hawked clandestinely from group to group in the streets of Paris.

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  • The Molluscan ctenidium is typically a plume like structure, consisting of a vascular axis, on each side of which is set a row of numerous lamelliform or filamentous processes.

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  • Results imply that much of the source of North Atlantic ridge basalts has been contaminated by lateral outflow of asthenosphere from the Icelandic plume.

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  • A shallow cap covers the head, and from the middle of it there is always a sort of tail or plume, blown back by the wind.

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  • Afewyearsafter Constantinople passed into the hands of the Ottomans, some ghazels, the work of the contemporary Tatar prince, Mir `Ali Shir, who under the nom de plume of Nevayi wrote much that shows true talent and poetic feeling, found their way to the Ottoman capital, where they were seen and copied by Ahmed Pasha, one of the viziers of Mahommed II.

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  • Having been conducted to the Afghan camp, he fixed, the royal plume of feathers on the young rebels turban Malmmud S with his own handS and 4000 Afghans were ordered to Usurpation.

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  • Its furry tail stood up firm and round as a plume, its bandy legs served it so well that it would often gracefully lift a hind leg and run very easily and quickly on three legs, as if disdaining to use all four.

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  • To this list we must add the short but incomparable feuilletons (tdrezalevelek) of Dr Adolf Agai (writing under the nom de plume of Porz6), whose influence on the formation of modern Hungarian literary prose is hardly less important than the unique esprit and charm of his writings.

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  • Khosrau (1004-1088), whose nom de plume was Hujjat, the first great didactic poet of Persia, was born, according to his own statement, A.H.

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  • The plumage is white, except the primaries, which are black, and a black plume, formed by the secondaries, tertials and lower scapulars, and richly glossed with bronze, blue and green, which curves gracefully over the hind-quarters.

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  • Abu '1 Kasim Mansur (or Hasan), who took the nom de plume of Firdousi, author of the epic poem the Shahnama, or "Book of Kings," a complete history of Persia in nearly 60,000 verses, was born at Shadab, a suburb of Tus, about the year 329 of the Hegira (941 A.D.), or earlier.

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