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  • A stream idly trickles through football-sized boulders down to the sea, while soothing sweeps of light-brown sand provide a backdrop to jutting rock formations that point arrow-like towards the Atlantic.

    Secret beaches of the southwest: Mouthmill Beach 2011

  • Israel has now developed a tiny arrow-like missile which can be sent to the corner of the roof, making a loud noise and harming no one, in order to scare away the women and children on the roof, before the real bomb destroys the missile collection or the explosive storage place.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Ratmansky employs surprising shifts of the head and sudden arrow-like thrusts of the arm to punctuate his vocabulary while requiring his dancers to keep their footwork brisk and precise.

    ABT's Three New Works at Avery Fisher 2009

  • Ratmansky employs surprising shifts of the head and sudden arrow-like thrusts of the arm to punctuate his vocabulary while requiring his dancers to keep their footwork brisk and precise.

    ABT's Three New Works at Avery Fisher 2009

  • Israel has now developed a tiny arrow-like missile which can be sent to the corner of the roof, making a loud noise and harming no one, in order to scare away the women and children on the roof, before the real bomb destroys the missile collection or the explosive storage place.

    A disproportionate animus 2009

  • His long nose struck out, arrow-like, beneath deep-set eyes.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • His long nose struck out, arrow-like, beneath deep-set eyes.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Those upward curves end in arrow-like points, turning them into an anchor that draws the body of the elusive diver to the bottom of the sea.

    Lovable in Parts Dorment, Richard 2008

  • It took me tens of times re-reading Feynmans presentation on how states change with time or due to external forces before coming to the conclusion that it is a common sense law for any arrow-like object.

    Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008

  • His long nose struck out, arrow-like, beneath deep-set eyes.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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