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  • She brushed an auburn curl from her face and sighed.
  • Gently he brushed the curl from her face again and looked into her eyes.
  • Brushing a blond curl from her face, she reined him toward the buffalo pen.
  • The calming intensity around him tugged at her, made her want to curl up in his arms.
  • Her body hurt, her head pulsed, and she wanted nothing more than to curl up on a warm rock outside and go to sleep.
  • She wanted to curl up in the pod and sob until he rescued her, even knowing he'd never know where to find her.
  • These segments are very mobile, and as the rove-beetles run along they often curl the abdomen upwards and forwards like the tail of a scorpion.
  • They are of a similar nature to the caracul lambs, but looser in curl, ranging from a very light to a dark grey.
  • Hair having a property of mutual cohesion or " felting," which depends upon a roughened scaly surface and a tendency to curl, as in domestic sheep, is called " wool."
  • She will insist on having her hair put in curl papers when she is so sleepy she can scarcely stand.
  • He tucked an errant curl behind her ear, enjoying the brush of her soft skin.
  • His black cat leapt from the ottoman onto her chest, content to curl up and sleep.
  • Megan pushed a stray curl away from her forehead and smiled.
  • Why don't you curl up on the couch and get your bare feet off this cold floor?
  • She wanted to curl up in a ball and sob until she fell asleep, relieved and ecstatic to be with him again.
  • Mongolian lambs, size 24 X15 in., are of a short wavy loose curl, creamy white colour, and are usually exported from China dressed, the majority being ready-made into cross-shaped coats or linings.
  • Lamarck in 1809 altered this into the hybrid form Cirrhipoda, meaning curl-footed, which was subsequently improved into Cirripedia or Cirrhipedia.
  • One hand gracefully held the folds of her dress and the other brushed a wayward curl from her forehead.
  • She kissed Jonny goodnight and crossed the bay to curl up with their father.
  • She stayed the urge to curl up in her chair, jumping when a shadow with lopsided shoulders emerged from the corner dressed like an executioner in black hood and gloves.
  • Tonight, I'm going to curl up with a book and wait for Connor to call.
  • The flat leaves are arranged in two regular, distinct rows; they are deep green above, but beneath have two broad white lines, which, as the foliage in large trees has a tendency to curl upwards, give it a silvery appearance from below.
  • When dressed and dyed they should have regular, close and bright curl, varying from a small to a very large one, and if of equal size, regularity, tightness and brightness, the value is comparatively a matter of fancy.
  • Those that are dull and loose, or very coarse and flat in the curl, are of far less market value.
  • She tugged the curl from his hand and turned to the old piano as a diversion tactic.
  • These cave flowers are unfolded by pressure, as if a sheaf were forced through a tight binding, or the crystal fibres curl outward from the centre of the group. Thus spotless arches of 50 ft.
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  • In dry-country grasses the blades are often folded on the midrib, or rolled up. The rolling is effected by bands of large wedge-shaped cells - motor-cells - between the nerves, the loss of turgescence by which, as the air dries, causes the blade to curl towards the face on which they occur.
  • The mane and tail should be silky and devoid of curl, which is a sign of impurity.
  • Astrachan, Shiraz and Bokharan lambs, size 22 by 9 in., are of a coarser, looser curl, and chiefly used for coat linings, while the Persians are used for outside of garments, collars, cuffs, stoles, muffs, hats and trimmings and gloves.
  • Thomas Dickson of Edinburgh long ago observed that the most healthy and productive crop was to be obtained by planting unripe tubers, and proposed this as a preventive of the disease called the "curl," which sometimes attacks the young stems, causing them and also the leaves to become crumpled, and few or no tubers to be produced; in this connexion it is interesting to note that Scottish and Irish seed potatoes give a larger yield than English, probably on account of their being less matured.
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