In mid-August, large hatches of a nighttime mayfly called the pale evening dun begin to appear. |
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I gazed down upon the old quarter, a collage of dun roofs, domes and vaults, pencil and square minarets. |
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After we ate, the servants readied our horses and we rode together, me on Mercy and he on a dun mare. |
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Accepting the cup, she deftly uncorked the bottle and proceeded to cautiously shake finely ground, dun colored grains into the water. |
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But what I saw was a peaceful landscape dotted with one man ploughing with a dun mule. |
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The stark, dun hills of the Hindu Kush cradled plots of corn, beans and potatoes. |
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California fog provides a unifying tonalist palette, especially in the dry season when the hills are dun colored. |
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I gazed down upon the old quarter, a collage of dun roofs, domes and vaults, pencil and square minarets, ugliness and elegance. |
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In summer, the watercourse provides a green belt that distinguishes the town from the dun expanse that surrounds it. |
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He crowed, bringing the dun, Kai, to a skidding halt just feet away from her. |
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The two stallions, a dun and a bay, were bred in Scotland by breeder and judge from Stirlingshire. |
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I caught one of my biggest after-dark fish at this spot late one night on a fly that imitates a pale evening dun. |
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Later they take the emerging fly, the hatched dun and the ovipositing spinner. |
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In trying to dun the states, the cigarette giants are invoking a little-noticed clause in the 1998 deal. |
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The presence of an Iron Age dun on its western edge suggests that it also had a much earlier sentinel role. |
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He wore his deerstalker, and a dirty, dun mackintosh, and a bedraggled tie with stripes. |
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The Yoruba use the same term, dun, for a palatable meal and a memorable spectacle, both arousing a desire for more. |
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Surrounding the cone on three sides were high walls of volcanic rock forming an amphitheater almost a mile and a half wide, a subtle palette of dun, gray, and beige. |
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Several procedures are necessary if you want to dun accounts differently according to the above mentioned criteria. |
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From the dun of the primitive horse has sprung a variety of colours and patterns, some highly variable and difficult to distinguish. |
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This book is an unremitting account of misery, privation, and pointlessness in a world of dun landscapes, tormenting insects, malnutrition, and cultural stagnancy. |
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Finally, he chuckled, and moved his own dun gelding up abreast of hers. |
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Colours are taken from pre-Columbian and colonial houses, and are intended to respond to the endless layers of dry dun dust that blow up and down the coast. |
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A mutt the colour of dun stood near by, barking every now and again. |
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And the insurance fund run by the FDIC is replenishing itself without having to dun taxpayers. |
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He pointed to a dun lionhead that lumbered peaceful as a blimp. |
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We get long, dun patches of inaction, interspersed with startling shows of force, in which men — and it is almost always men — belch forth uncontainable furies. |
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You may need to dun vendors if they have failed to refund credit memos. |
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A good blue dun hackle wrapped parachute style around the wing. |
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Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun. |
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If your payment is delayed, ebay is liable to send a dun or two. |
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Far off on the horizon the cumulous clouds lay with level under-ridges, their upper outlines softly heaped in pearly lights and shades of dun and gray. |
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Look ye, gentlemen, I have lived with credit in the world, and it grieves my heart never to stir out of my doors but to be pulled by the sleeve by some rascally dun or other. |
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Palominos, duns and blacks were popular, led by top class dun, the two-year-old filly Avonvalley Moonshine, who fetched pounds 6,000 for John Llewellyn-James, Worcester. |
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Remains from the iron age are no less present, with the imposing Dun Skeig, a Celtic hillfort, located at the northern edge of Kintyre. |
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A smaller medieval tower house, Dun Mhic Leoid, can be found in the middle of Loch St Clare on the west side of the island at Tangasdale. |
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Malta followed a Romantic literary tradition, culminating in the works of Dun Karm Psaila, Malta's National Poet. |
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Leading figures included Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn and John Erskine of Dun. |
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Ecgfrith's defeat at Dun Nechtain devastated Northumbria's power and influence in the North of Britain. |
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A feigned retreat by the Picts drew the Northumbrians into an ambush at Dun Nechtain near the lake of Linn Garan. |
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There are numerous Iron Age sites including the remains of Dun Ringill fort on Skye, which are similar in layout to that of both a broch and a complex Atlantic roundhouse. |
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Dun Ringill is a ruined Iron Age hill fort on the Strathaird peninsula, which was further fortified in the Middle Ages and may have become the seat of Clan MacKinnon. |
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Until modern times, many ships and their passengers were lost along the treacherous coastline from Howth to Dun Laoghaire, less than a kilometre from shore. |
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From north to south, Dublin Bay features beaches at Sutton Strand, Dollymount Strand on North Bull Island, Sandymount, Seapoint and south of Dun Laoghaire. |
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Further north still lay the great Pictish kingdom of Fortriu, which after the Battle of Dun Nechtain in 685 came to be the strongest power in the northern half of Britain. |
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