Next came a stringy youth who said he had just defected from the Syrian army.

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The gravel-pit is very large and wide, with grass growing round the edges at the top, and dry stringy wildflowers, purple and yellow.

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The stringy branches floated in a cool breeze, while the leaves, like a swarm of arrowheads, flickered in the soft rays cast by the street lights.

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Elkwood and Tobin use new collagen nerve tubes as fasteners, tucking the fibers of the stringy cavernosal nerve into the tube for easier connection to the sural nerve.

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At a pool near a covered bridge on the East Branch, Charlie and I once ran across two old men wearing beat-up rubber waders and stringy, woolen wading socks.

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The plates are icy cold, there are no other diners, and there is no radio music but only the clink of our cutlery as we try to separate parts of the stringy chicken.

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Her brown hair is stringy white.

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