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1. My man, Wrigley? My man down on the prospecting console? He can read the distortion a foil wrapped prophylactic makes in a stellar mag field from 120,000,000Ks out
2. How many chances for manhood could I foil here?
3. • Line the base of the smoker with foil, placing wood shavings on top of the foil
4. • When the smoking is done wrap the foil with the ashes and any of the juices that have dripped
5. Before Lemoss and Tristan went home, Beauty lifted up the thin foil cup and then handed it back to the winner
6. It clearly had the ability to foil her traps if it was vigilant
7. Over empty foil food containers and beer Rita held court recapping her last few days of partying with the group Dutch people
8. When cool, cover with foil and refrigerate overnight
9. LIFT from pan; remove foil
10. Place 3 pecan halves in a Y shape on the foil
11. Use foil to lift fudge out of pan; peel off foil
12. Line one 8x8 inch square pan with foil
13. Lightly butter the foil
14. Line a 13x9 inch baking dish with foil and butter the foil
15. Butter a 12x15 inch sheet of aluminum foil and dust generously with confectioners' sugar
16. Form the candy into a roll about 1-1/2 inches in diameter and wrap in the prepared foil; refrigerate until firm
17. Line a jelly roll pan with foil
18. Roll the edges of two 16 inch square pieces of heavy duty aluminum foil
19. Sprinkle the foil very generously with confectioners' sugar
20. should wrap thermistor with aluminum foil, keeping in
21. Lewisohn and obtaining his advice and authorization, Colling gave the men injections of penicillin, and packages of the new penicillin tablets, reminding them that they would have to unwrap them from the foil they were sealed in, and hold them in their mouths to get them to work
22. Fred would be having a couple of frozen Salisbury steak TV dinners, eaten off of a plate instead of out of the shiny foil trays
23. At first I missed the point that the author was making in this second quoted line and I wondered, Is the author using this opinion as an expert source or as a foil for his own purposes?
24. So I went over there and without tearing the foil or the wrapper I lifted the chocolate bar out of there
25. When I got done, I carefully put the foil back in the wrapper and squared the corners of the foil along the lines they’d been before I removed the bar
26. Then I sort of pushed on the sides of the wrapper so it puffed up with the foil giving it the appearance of a wrapper with a full chocolate bar inside
27. Top with grated cheeses, cover loosely with foil, and bake for 45
28. Line a 9×9×2 inch baking pan with nonstick release foil
29. Barack Hussein Obama and his “golden oratory” were the perfect foil for the hard left that now has its hands around the necks of America and the Democratic Party
30. Lay out pork steak on aluminum foil and cover with carrots, celery, potatoes, onions, squares of butter, and whatever seasonings you enjoy
31. Double wrap in foil, place in loaf pan, and bake in oven for about 1 to 1 1/2 hours, at 350°
32. Re-cover with foil to keep warm until serving
33. When using gas grills it’s best to put presoaked wood chips in a smoker box or wrap them in a piece of aluminum foil with a lot of holes in it
34. As the 90-day listing period dragged along, we figured out slowly that he was showing our home to others as a foil for his other listings that he thought were more appropriately priced
35. foil interior of the warmers
36. Laura’s father held out a piece of fish he had been grilling over the fire and offered it to David, opening the foil it had been wrapped in and placing a sprig of parsley on top
37. from a plastic bucket, wrapped them expertly in foil and placed them on sticks over the fire
38. her now if she was grilled and served up in foil with parsley for decoration
39. Then cover with a tin foil and cook medium
40. Place a square of foil on a cookie sheet
41. Put the hamburger mixture on the foil
42. You may need to place aluminum foil over the pie for the last 10 minutes to prevent over
43. Place a 2 1/2-foot-long sheet of aluminum foil on a 12- to 14-inch pizza pan
44. The final touch Becky added was a star, cut from a cardboard box and covered with tin foil
45. But the oak-leaves were all made of silver foil -- delicate, shiny, beautiful -- and in the wind the silver leaves all moved together and glittered, like sunlight on rippled water
46. The branches of this pine -- cut from the forest near the sacred waterfall -- were decorated with bits of silver foil and shiny iron bells and sea-shells
47. And you'll notice on the mockup we're not using plate but store-bought heavy aluminum foil this time—two layers
48. Connie wraps the rest of last night’s TV dinner’s in foil and puts it in her bag each day for lunch
49. was gold, but it must’ve been a thin layer of foil covering wood, because
50. Cover with foil and bake at 315° - 320° for 15 minutes or until cheese is melted
1. It foiled the enemy’s current
2. have foiled my plans, but now that I knew about it, it’d be a
3. If they had only been after Jean, their attempt was foiled
4. Thus was the crafty Negro foiled; a man of undoubted talent, whose cleverness and education, if directed properly, might have made him a leading light on the Gold Coast
5. So thick was the cover that the American officers knew nothing of the foiled charge, though I followed the line of retreat later by the carcasses of accoutred horses, torn clothing and discarded equipment
6. Maria at Camp Crame regarding the serial murders and the foiled bomb threat
7. You killed one of their agents in that foiled effort to kill the President's wife in Iran
8. Audiences always became audibly excited when Bassanio wins Portia by artfully choosing the correct casket, and when Shylock is foiled by Margaret’s coolly efficient Portia
9. The fisherman looked up, foiled by the uncooperative instrument
10. Then suddenly…disaster! – the “alleged” Equatorial Guinea Coup foiled by bad luck and bureaucratic fumbling
11. President Obiang, after the foiled coup, increased the national security ten-fold and ruled with an iron fist – he was determined not to be robbed of power - as he had robbed and executed his uncle, the nation’s ruler in 1979
12. Then came along the tin foiled, colorful explosive confetti’s, through which Suraj burst onto the stage, followed by the other dancers
13. We have read of a foiled love turning a hero into a villain
14. These took place, but some plans were foiled such as the Bojinka plot and the assassination attempt on the Pope
15. The millennium acts of terror were also foiled thanks to the good efforts of people in intelligence
16. In fact if others had listened to him and worked as diligently as he did, more plots would have been foiled
17. Later, Elizabeth told me the story of how I was saved and how Sergei's plan was foiled
18. that he, with the help of his loyal friends, had foiled their plans to
19. It had only been bombed once, and two attempts were foiled –
20. ‘’So, that hijacking was foiled by the actress Nancy Laplante, the same actress who went to Pakistan a year ago to deliver a CNN anchorman, slashing open the throats of over twenty Taliban extremists in the process
21. Some would have accused her of possibly being an enemy ninja in disguise if not for the fact that she had killed two ninjas and foiled what could have been a very damaging night attack on Hara Castle
22. Clueless blackmail attempt from otherwise hot ass receptionist foiled before 9am
23. drive- time will reveal tempest blind trickster stories old and wise, coiling heretic foiled
24. If the outcome is so different from our aims—if, instead of freedom and prosperity, bondage and misery stare us in the face—is it not clear that sinister forces must have foiled our intentions, that we are the victims of some evil power which must be conquered before we can resume the road to better things?”
25. Al’lah foiled their plans and saved him, along with the believers who followed him (pth)
26. We all knew we should have run the second we saw the zombies entering the back yard, but the two sasquatches had foiled that little plan
27. The horse foiled D’ata’s plans to turn and flee by thrusting him more into the open
28. Thinking it was random circumstance—a hunting party, perhaps—he convinced himself they’d been following the same prey, and he’d foiled them
29. The boy’s plans could be foiled unless, he thought, many others were involved; however, he knew Denver would know early enough of their arrival
30. We parked the car and walked to the building holding hands; the early exchange of cuddling and touching of bodies and lips and tongues foiled when another man entered the elevator with us, and our flirtation turned ethereal, just looks and smiles
31. He is the one who sends help so the buccaneers are foiled in finding Jim and his mother, he instantly organizes the entire adventure, a secret cabal between the squire himself and Jim: as a secret council to run and get rich fast before anyone else does it!! So they can all become fat! And gouty red faced corrupt Olde English landlords living off their ill-gained gold and living in ease for the rest of their life while beggars starve to death in front of them and they do not give one cent to help any of the poor
32. shows up after his plot is foiled and tries to get revenge
33. He was watched in all his movements by Heyward, who, however, remained firm, still folding the fragile form of Alice to his heart, at once too proud and too hopeless to ask favor of an enemy so often foiled
34. “Does the FBI routinely investigate foiled burglaries?”
35. Caris could not help enjoying the look of shock and outrage on Godwyn ’s face when he found that his deception had been foiled
36. With night-vision gear, they wouldn’t be foiled by the density of the trees, as they had been among the cottonwoods
37. But he can’t just sit here like bait on a hook, so he takes a hit off his inhaler and finds the stairs, the foiled walls, the front hall
38. foiled by his hidden coat of mail
39. The assailing hosts halted, foiled by the silent menace of rock and
40. the attempt to break in through the culvert had been foiled
41. His madness foiled his reason, and a puzzled look spread over his face as, shaking his head with a decision which I had but seldom seen in him
42. Sir Thomas gave up the point, foiled by her evasions, disarmed by her flattery; and was obliged to rest satisfied with the conviction that where the present pleasure of those she loved was at stake, her kindness did sometimes overpower her judgment
43. By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost all the known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to descending upon the Line in the Pacific; where Ahab, though everywhere else foiled in his pursuit, firmly counted upon giving battle to Moby Dick, in the sea he was most known to frequent; and at a season when he might most reasonably be presumed to be haunting it
44. Thus was the devil foiled in securing recruits for his army; so he returned to Ivan and said: “Your fools will not volunteer to be soldiers
45. The mother appears quickly on the scene, and Renard retires, foiled and chagrined at the loss of his dinner
1. “So, you have – again – been instrumental in foiling a plot that
2. even with me for foiling their plan on the first day, they would
3. Or he could be foiling the attempts of the others from escaping
4. ‘’Ladies and gentlemen of the medias, as you know very well by now, I was instrumental in foiling the attempted hijacking of the private yacht of multi-billionaire Roman Abramovich last Friday
5. I wouldn’t be surprised actually if the YUKON’s main computer has been switched off, in order to prevent it from foiling this ramming attack
6. Foiling again the surveillance of the men of the Duchess of Longueville, who were watching the royal apartments, she left via the window of her room before the Sun rose up and climbed down the stone façade with the agility of a spider, then disappearing at a run in a nearby street
7. Couple that with the height of the driver’s cab and the ability to move fast through trees, which would be no barrier to them, they could be a real danger to foiling her escape
1. The Motion Picture industry has enjoyed a long running fetish with strong, physically intimidating women routinely beating up on or otherwise skillfully out-maneuvering the obnoxious designs of pretentious, self-centered males filled with a heightened sense of their (own) self-importance; convenient foils portrayed as anachronistic, insensitive, chauvinistic types deserving an occasional thrashing every so often from women scorned or in response to inopportune or unsolicited (sexual) banterings or harmless wisecracks intended to make a definitive statement about strong women coming of age
2. The swords we used were little more than foils, whereas Ria here is a light saber, but she hefts about the same
3. � Meanwhile, the Wellington bombers feigning a raid on Cologne would first attract the attention of the German air defense system, then confuse it by releasing in midair tons of strips of aluminum foils which would create massive false echoes on German radar screens
4. I will be there, of course, with Marian in support, working the view foils and flip-charts and so on, and we shall have to pretend to be surprised if they should mention Jim’s activities to us
5. He knew he was embarking on one of the most important briefings of his career, but without the comfort of notes or slides or view foils or video clips or auto-cues - nothing but his own memory
6. Even if some enterprising were to venture regardless, our way of life foils their bid to find a place for lovemaking
7. encounter a witch who wants to eat them, but Gretel’s quick thinking foils her plan
8. “I deny it this victory! I deny it this trophy, this triumph! As of this moment, I do not step here willingly! And it is vanity—supreme boastfulness—that foils the demon now!”
9. man adjusting the aluminum foils covering Neil’s head
10. foils that rustled as Neil moved
11. Spike handed over the paper and I took in the Vulcan with those steely green eyes and that silver spot on his forehead as well as his jet black hair done with indigo blue foils
12. Greenhouse Insulation - Aside from the glazing, the greenhouse could use insulation made of bubble sheets or poly bubbles in combination with foils and other reflective materials to reduce heating costs
13. Will not peruse the foils; so that, with ease,
14. Give us the foils
15. These foils have all a length?
16. "If you did not pique yourself more on your dexterity with those foils you carry than on dexterity of tongue," said the other student, "you would have been head of the degrees, where you are now tail
17. He would lead an artist's life there! He would take lessons on the guitar! He would have a dressing-gown, a Basque cap, blue velvet slippers! He even already was admiring two crossed foils over his chimney-piece, with a death's head on the guitar above them
18. There were collected and piled up all Albert's not a taste but a fancy for music; easels, palettes, brushes, pencils—for music had been successive caprices, hunting-horns, bass-viols, flutes—a whole orchestra, for Albert had had succeeded by painting; foils, boxing-gloves, broadswords, and single-sticks—for, following the example of the fashionable young men of the time, Albert de Morcerf cultivated, with far more perseverance than music and drawing, the three arts that complete a dandy's education, i
19. A dark-blue oar crossed with a cherry-pink one above his mantel-piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man, while the foils and boxing-gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each
20. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils
21. One day, the buttons were removed from the foils
22. In the Rue du Cimitiere-SaintNicholas, an officer of the National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to emerge at nightfall and in disguise
23. This was the ability, and the inclination, through a trick in the use of the foils, to disfigure his opponent's face badly, without at all endangering his life
