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Would their children chalk it in doorways before they knew its meaning as a trademark?
Only a third of the economy has been denationalised, which is not considered enough by a long chalk.
Toussaint's most recent novel, Faire l' amour, is by a long chalk the darkest of his fictions to date.
That very successful implementation is going to be hardest of the criteria to fulfill, by a long chalk.
Also, the basalt, directly above the chalk, is locally capable of supporting all the calcicolous species that chalk can support.
Use a plumb bob and chalk to transfer each mark from the string to the ground, and drive a stake to mark the center of each post position.
Calcium is found in chalk, marble, and limestone, which are all forms of calcium carbonate.
The shells of marine creatures are made of calcium carbonate, the same substance as chalk, which is vulnerable to acidity.
They are not as hateful of chalk as are the callunas but they'll be even better where soil is lime-free.
Nelson, like the rest of his Shakers team-mates, was seething at the decision to chalk off his late header because of a debatable offside.
He picked up the nuances of usage of media such as charcoal, chalk, watercolour, oil, and acrylic.
In addition, the kit includes pigments and other substances needed to create real crayons, chalk, clay, paints and adhesive stickers.
Here on planet Earth white chalk on black slate provides plenty of contrast.
Nevertheless, it is via this slow accumulation of calcareous ooze on the deep ocean floor that geologists believe chalk beds originally formed.
Initial deposition above the Base-Chalk reflection is interpreted as formed by pelagic settling of chalk ooze under quiet, low-energy conditions.
Until the end of the 18th century, Great Bustards were widely distributed in England on open chalk downland, grassy heaths and agricultural land.
A cloth stretched over the board is given a coating of chalk powder mixed with a water-soluble adhesive.
The whole class stopped, their eyes on me, and the teacher turned away from the board and pointed a short stub of blackboard chalk at me.
Across the valley from Monkton Combe, high above Bath, you can see the famous Westbury White Horse, the chalk image of mysterious origin.
Winter sweet, Chimonanthus praecox, will grow quite happily on chalk or limestone soils and fill the garden with spicy winter fragrance.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He found the city of chalk and shingles not quite so agreeable as last year.
Flour, terra alba, alum, and chalk are the chief ingredients used in the adulteration of cream of tartar.
It was customary among the Gauls to wash the hair with a lixivium made of chalk in order to increase its redness.
I inclose a sketch in colored chalk of your steamer, which he has just completed.
The great alligators and the tortoises of Maestricht are found in the chalk formation, but these are both marine animals.
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
The pterodactyl of the chalk, a flying lizard, measures nearly seventeen feet from tip to tip of its wings.
Flints from the chalk are used for road metal and concrete, and have been employed in building as a facing for walls.
It has been formed by rainwash from a hill of chalk, which must once have existed to the south.
It was composed of chalk, ragstone, and rubble, exactly resembling the walls of the church.
Powdered French chalk may be rubbed into delicate silk and wool, where there is a grease spot, or an oiliness from the skin.
All their accustomed sports were neglected, and their play-hours devoted to drawing with chalk and oker.
That part of the cliffs which consist of lias, the oolite series, and chalk, decays slowly.
The dome of Knocklayd, capped by an outlier of chalk and basalt, consists mostly of this far more ancient series.
I picked up the billiard chalk, and felt that the Green Paper wrapping was crisp and stiff.
Henry gave his younger sister a gentle pat, as she returned with her workbag and fished for the chalk.
A pastille is a disc-shaped sweetmeat, but a pastel is a pencil made of coloured chalk.
Hubert now saw that the handkerchief was filled with bits of coloured chalk, and guessed that the man must be a pavement artist.
Now look for a pencil or a piece of chalk through the prism, in the same way.
The first thing I saw on the Marylebone platform was the crude picture in green chalk of a stolon of Cynodon dactylon.
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