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...So was the scorpion on the table and some other creepy things that were part of the invertebrate “petting zoo”....
...In fact, the ability to cut grass neatly gave rise a few decades later to Britain’s most successful cultural export: field sports, including football, tennis, rugby and cricket....
...The gathering of around 500 executives a stone’s throw from the city zoo was a chance to gossip, lobby, and network — at least during the coffee breaks between rather drab sounding breakout sessions in airless...
...For the residents, the court ruled, it was “much like being on display in a zoo” — presumably without the free food. The legal question is whether the Tate’s platform constituted a nuisance....
...Only the hollow eyes of second world war pillboxes still watched over the shingle bank: guarding a place that was not quite England, nor yet the sea....
...Crickets thrum. Then two elephants steal silently out of the forest, announcing their arrival with a sloosh as they surge into the water....
...She made a wonderful cricket for me, but it had a bad feeling I couldn’t use, so she took it away again....
...For his pro-Taliban stance, he was ridiculed by critics who said his positions were hollow and half-baked....
...Afterwards we walk with Pujan through the village as he points out beehives fashioned from hollow tree trunks and ginger and cardamom plantations....
...The sounds of the 18th arrondissement flow through “Chateau Rouge”, with shuffling hollow drum-machine beats and thin guitar riffs....
...“It is in our interest that our soil is not used to carry out terrorist attacks in other countries, nor do we want outsiders to come and carry out terror attacks here,” the cricket-star-turned politician...
...As a result of this record, India says that “promises of ‘guaranteed action’ ring hollow”....
...But it’s only the oldest rivalry in cricket suffering a bit of sunstroke....
...For something nearby and a good deal cheaper, consider the four-bedroom house in the Cricket Club, the neighbourhood just to the west of Hogg’s Hollow, for sale with Sotheby’s International Realty Canada...
...Some residents feared that the loss would hollow out Burpham, already isolated at the end of a long no-through road just a few miles outside Arundel....
...He’d provided more than enough eclipse viewing dark glasses (by contrast, friends in Washington queued for three and a half hours to get some from the National Zoo)....
...Among Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children is one about a boy named Jim, who runs away from his bothersome nanny at the zoo only to be devoured immediately by a lion....
...As we head back into the silence of the night-time streets, our footsteps hollow on the cobbles, the smoky smells of gourmet dining linger....
...Our family spends Christmas Day playing cricket and snorkelling in search of Clovelly’s famous blue gropers, a fish that grows to more than a metre in length....
...We threw them worms and crickets and, as I peered over the barrier, one inquisitive aardvark hopped up on his back legs, poked his furry snout in my face and gave me a sniff....
...They create the forward thrust while also pushing air through the 100 hollow fingers that make up the machine’s neoprene skirt. As the pressure builds, the machine rises like a magic carpet....
...late in this ode to decadence inspired by the Ballet Russes and the heiress, arts patron, living muse and “dandy” Marchesa Luisa Casati: the models had dark kohl smeared across their eyes in homage to her hollow-eyed...
...One visiting scientist calls the islanders’ situation “learnt helplessness”, the fate that afflicts wild animals brought up in zoos....
...Thomas Heatherwick’s and Bjarke Ingels’ plans released last week for Google’s new Mountain View headquarters, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw’s Eden Project and Sir Michael Hopkins’ design for Lord’s Cricket Ground...
...But the threats have a hollow ring. It takes a strong nerve for a football nation not to compete in sport’s prized tournament....
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