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1. · Remove throw rugs and tack down the edges of carpets to prevent falls
2. I'll have to try a different tack
3. The stabling and tack room was well-organised, there
4. Chrissie had been inclined to stay, taking the tack that the devil of a boss she knew was better than the devil of unemployment, but her opinion changed when Masa had a go at her after the last show of the day
5. He reflected upon his own request and attempted another go, but from a different tack
6. This was more reach than tack now, but it wasn’t a very fair reach and the Balloon should be making about half his speed
7. He would take a completely different tack, try to take her mind off the case and just learn about her for personal reasons
8. The tack room had sufficient saddlery for all of the mounts
9. The priest had loaded the hard tack first
10. “Not the window Grimes, its the board above it I’m after, got to tack this banner up
11. ‘So Monty old chap, this is it then?’ Alistair noted dryly, changing tack
12. Mother was changing tack again
13. ” He changed tack and told me
14. Can we wonder, then, that these ignorant Negroes were demoralised at the sight of hard tack and bacon? They broke open the boxes and devoured the first square meal of three years, with so much gusto that certain gentlemen looked on with disgust and called them pigs, and energetic pressmen were speedily making copy on the “lazy Cubans' hate of work and love of eating
15. He was always taking the opposite tack
16. Annie Tack, who’d grown up in the Netherlands, had developed a technique which combined aspects of German lieder with those of Italian bel canto
17. On the seventh day of the northwest tack, we crossed a large frozen river and turned due north for the next four days
18. Jack took a different tack this time, lying was his forte; he had mastered it over the years with apparent conviction, much like politicians, especially the old bruisers
19. It would be paid back when the returns came in, leaving the joint resources of the women in tack, just in case they were ever needed
20. "Anyway, Russoo," I say, changing tack, "tell me about this picodust, this strange material that the Administrators and scientists placed all their faith in
21. I would imagine that is the tack they would take,
22. I spat out the piece of blue tack that had been in my mouth and smiled at my toothy reflection
23. Appearing to take another tack, the Egyptian captain, lowering his voice a little as if in
24. or lower it… and it would be hard to tack with, but… it would
25. Plus medical equipment, and extra tack and fodder for the horses
26. However if she could change her tack and engage him in a lasting conversation, he might actually start to see her as a person and not just his prisoner
27. But instead changed tack by investigating his words further
28. Adam picked up the tack for his horse and walked from the tack room
29. Caroline ran to the deserted tack room
30. " She told herself aloud and grabbed the tack for their horses
31. In her rush, she didn’t notice the envelope falling from her pocket as she stepped out of the tack room
32. Dave followed me into the barn and opened the wooden latch to a small tack room
33. Company "accidently" invented a low tack, reusable adhesive
34. As they couldn’t fall asleep, Clarity started playing tick, tack, toe with Lanai on the wall, using a metal spoon rescued from the sink to mark the squares
35. A silken strand tethers you to the tack
36. I could still see the place where the hay bin was, and on the wall there were hooks to hold the tack
37. muddy the waters before I change tack once again
38. ” They carried him into the barn and inside the tack room, placing him on the couch
39. Sharp as a tack he is, very good mind
40. Often, cruise ships will automatically tack on tips to
41. As Siri continued to tack up their mounts, May Ling sagged in defeat
42. Fishmael would change tack erratically, “following my nose,” so he said
43. “The fish has changed tack – she's going with the current now, not against it
44. tack the rule of Herod
45. Though he may be old and decrepit, he was certainly not ignorant or apathetic—his mind was still as sharp as a tack which would make dealing with him all the more interesting
46. Though he still wore his pinstripe jacket, his vest was completely unbuttoned and flapped rakishly as he moved, revealing his shiny gold tie tack that appropriately depicted the scales of justice
47. I must admit that I was quite surprised by the sudden change of tack in
48. pace on a northern tack
49. We were on the same north-south tack, and I had no idea where we
50. He continued on this tack for another hour
1. The balcony was tacked onto the side of the building and hung about two thousand feet in thin air above the sea
2. It was late in the shift when Byia tacked to a different subject
3. responsiveness, and a few new clauses tacked onto the forthcoming
4. cover tacked to the partition
5. We searched the neighborhood and, at Dad’s insistence, tacked signs on telephone poles and put an ad in the local newspaper
6. Getting hit hard running out of bounds, and the refs tacked on another 15 for unnecessary roughness
7. His tone didn’t change to suggest it was a question, and it wasn’t until he tacked on the last two words that Amaranthe realized it was a statement of disbelief
8. my way out, I saw a white envelope tacked to the door with
9. He tacked a cab, peeling off
10. 31, 1517) Luther tacked to the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Wittenberg 95 academic theses ‘On the Power of Indulgences’…The point of his theses was that indulgences made sense only as release from temporal penalties imposed on the faithful by the priests; but if indulgences were understood as release from the temporal punishments of God or from pains…from guilt, they ran counter to the very spirit of the Christian religion which, Luther said, according to the teachings of Jesus, enjoins the believer to practice repentance throughout his whole life” (ibid
11. Bruce studied the chart and briefly surveyed the other information tacked on the walls and ceiling of the boy’s bedroom
12. And taxes tacked on everything, even the air and Sun
13. on the walls that looked like it had been tacked up over lath and
14. tacked the spread up over the big window
15. As he explained while it floated in the air above them, it was heavily spelled, and could be sailed by one person at the tiller while it tacked and adjusted for the wind automatically, or it would even navigate itself to any port in the world on command, evading storms, rocks and other obstacles
16. Most of the other boats were out sailing on the round lake, their colorful sails waving as they tacked in the warm breeze
17. You move to the fridge, tacked to the side is what you are looking for, the most conspicuous place, it is clear the other team is still outside of your circle
18. She tacked the rest of her hair beneath it
19. expect to see a few dog pelts tacked up on the door of Howie's shed
20. When Reuben arrived, Rachel had prints from scans intercepted from the tracking satellites tacked all over the walls and ceiling of the conference room
21. The headquarters were a peculiar bricolage of different styles with bits tacked on willy-nilly as the company had grown over the years
22. Little Davie’s kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station where they saw pictures tacked to a 72
23. tacked and killed, which is the reason for his upbringing by his uncle
24. “Where was I? Oh, yes! We had some lunch, then he noticed a couple shingles on the room that needed tacked down
25. But the way Januarius was tacked on the end of the old Roman calendar, it begins about ten days after the beginning of the sun’s annual apparent northward journey
26. numbers tacked to the boards, which indicate the skate size
27. and, in doing so, stirring whatever isn’t tacked down—such as our
28. tacked to the door
29. This kind of a birth certificate has all the necessary ingredients upon which we could now phrase out the qualities that that we all possess but an appropriate modem upon which this cleavage has to rest has still got to be tacked and traced out as well by ùs`
30. This kind of a birth certificate has all the necessary ingredients upon which we could now phrase out the qualities that that we all possess but an appropriate modem upon which this cleavage has to rest has still got to be tacked and traced out as well by `us`
31. “Lhasa Hotel, Lhasa Hotel,” shouted the driver as he pulled in head first toward the curb in front of a very non-descript building that sported a tonka, about as heavy as a carpet, tacked over the doorway to keep the wind out
32. The Symbol tacked on that telephone pole
33. blue sheets at a department store and tacked them all over the
34. is pretty clear even though it is tacked on as the end of a parable: "But those
35. She tacked this last part on for good measure, even though she had no intention of following through with it
36. They had tacked for an eternity and had landed at Greenwich on an outgoing tide
37. It stretched almost to the ceiling, at least five feet in height, and was delicately stuffed and tacked with bright gold tacking
38. slave shantytown that looked as if it were tacked on as an afterthought
39. 2] amuró, has tacked
40. The next morning, Ravan spoke to the giant as they tacked the horses out
41. A blonde Swede brushed her teeth while studying the notices tacked to a decaying corkboard; a black backpacker with bright red braids kicked back reading a Lonely Planet guidebook; and a waif of a girl who looked like she couldn’t have been more than sixteen pecked out an e-mail at an aging computer terminal
42. she led Granite, fully tacked, from the barn
43. This will involve not only catching up your payments, but most companies will have a repossession fee that will be tacked on
44. She continued up the ten posts tacked to the trunk and I followed, but with misgivings
45. down…highness,’ the last word was tacked on with great effort
46. Her bullets tick tacked off walls, railings, and the bodies of the enemy with brutal inefficiency that was still proving effective somehow
47. The Celestia’s Prize hung over in the water as she tacked over to a head on course once more with the other two ships
48. "What's the most secure part of any castle? Besides the dungeons," she tacked on, before he could suggest them
49. And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him reenter directly!
50. Thomas tacked up the picture of
1. the deck of the Shenandoah, and as they were tacking about, they had no thought that a dangerous foe was in their midst
2. "The wind allows what the wind allows, but I will be tacking northeast soon
3. The ship sailed on westward, tacking all the way
4. What effective thinking requires is tacking back and forth
5. The oars were for use in tacking out of creeks and bays, and during calms
6. To maintain his heading at an acute angle into the wind, Siri had to be constantly tacking, and it took two days and a night of constant wakefulness to reach the island of Mallorca
7. As soon as he had finished tacking up the horses, he found some heavy-duty adhesive tape and, after taking Jai in her baby-sling, May Ling helped him to tape it securely against his chest
8. They felt that by taking the path of least resistance, and tacking into the wind, so to speak, you
9. lower rated bonds at the top of the business cycle would warrant tacking on four points
10. how he was sailing with Flynn, tacking back and forth
11. tacking impulses of the mind and the senses, the regulation of the incom-
12. It stretched almost to the ceiling, at least five feet in height, and was delicately stuffed and tacked with bright gold tacking
13. And so, pared down, we fit in here quite nicely, and after a day or two conceded to the suavities of life, such as the tacking up in appropriate places of muslin curtains and the tying of them with bows, I intend to buy a spade and a watering-pot and see what I can do with the garden
14. Her father had built it a decade before; tacking it up around the Mulberry tree
15. Jeff was tacking a new poster to his wall when Rich Runyon burst
16. At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking, At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the
17. He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier
18. "Then why, instead of tacking so frequently, do you not sail nearer the wind?"
19. Experience had taught him that a full frontal attack on this hill was liable to failure, so on this occasion he followed his usual plan of making diagonal movements, crossing the road repeatedly from right to left and left to right, after the fashion of a sailing ship tacking against the wind, and halting about every twenty yards to rest and take breath
20. Meanwhile, JRA was still tacking on its beloved monthly service charge, which for some mysterious reason had been increased to $45 per
21. Andrew West, the Hair Guy, was never there, of course, and she would have to punish herself by tacking the minutes she’d wasted onto the end of her workday
22. ‘I’ll arrange it,’ and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off
23. “I’ll arrange it,” and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off
24. You find them, sir, tacking with every gale, displaying the colors of every party, and of all nations, steady only in one unalterable purpose: to steer, if possible, into the haven of power
1. Caderl very kindly tacks up Sefir for me and, within the hour, we are setting out
2. Jock gets down to the brass tacks
3. “No, what I asked was how come you are here at this precise minute chasing my Harvest Festival poster around my window with a big hammer in your hand balancing on the top of an unstable ladder brandishing a political banner in the other hand, throwing tacks about
4. While Wyll and Cheeryup were barely twelve years old, Dorro still valued their insights—both children were sharp as tacks and fine sleuths in their own right
5. The admiral changed tacks
6. Picking up the controller from on top of the applicator unit’s shrouding, Fred got down to brass tacks; and began to run the machine back and forth, around and around on the Wheatley’s extensive lawn
7. Film canisters can be used to collect small items such as change, tacks and buttons
8. bedspread and using a few tacks and one of Mick’s hammers she
9. Crystal goblets in the richly ornamented mahogany cabinet, thick Persian carpets, burgundy red leather dining room chairs with brass tacks, silver candlesticks with hallmarks stamped underneath, oil paintings under diminutive wall lamps, paper-thin Meissen porcelain cups with real coffee and cream
10. I'd been trying all sorts of tacks for years
11. Taoist: The Sailor who skillfully tacks into the wind and uses the energy of opposites to effortlessly
12. Arriving in front of Sheriff Tramell's office he stopped the horse and dismounted with a flyer, a small hammer and some tacks in his hand
13. Nevertheless, getting down to brass tacks is different
14. I was tired and I had a belly full of tacks
15. However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him
16. Werner tacks across the room and stirs the coals to life
17. There was less work for the people to do, no outgate in the army for roving and idle spirits, and those who had tacks of the town lands complained of slack markets; indeed, in my own double vocation of the cloth shop and wine cellar, I had a taste and experience of the general declension that would of a necessity ensue, when the great outlay of government and the discharge from public employ drew more and more to an issue
18. “Hands to sheets and tacks
19. But sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of mine in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a time let one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see
20. He takes another man's idea, tacks on to it its antithesis, and the epigram is made