Sentences with phrase «like dead leaves»

The small pieces of paper that blanket the piece curl up and peel away from the canvas, like dead leaves or sunburnt skin.

At the end of September, these slugs turn red and yellow and look like dead leaves.

On the contrary, the lesson of the Bible seems to be that nations are swept away like dead leaves and that occasionally, almost by accident, one might endure rather longer.

The spider's back resembles a green, living leaf complete with veins, while its dull, brownish front looks more like a dead leaf.

Not exact matches

«If you're just dead tired from when you walk through the door to when you leave, and never feel like at any point during the day you're getting into «the zone» and firing on all cylinders, you're probably getting burned out,» warns Henry.

The steadily bubbling dead - money controversy has created a counterintuitive alliance between Carney, labour economists like the CAW's Jim Stanford and left - leaning equality activists.

Republicans called for prayers, but argued that no single fix to the nation's gun laws would deter a shooting like the one on Wednesday in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead, many of them children.

Last week, Sen. Marco Rubio stood on the Senate floor and announced a plan he said could prevent mass shootings like the Parkland massacre that left 17 dead.

(Aal - e-Imran, Chapter # 3, Verse # 45) And will make him -LSB-(«Îsa (jesus)-RSB- a Messenger to the Children of Israel (saying): «I have come to you with a sign from your Lord, that I design for you out of clay, a figure like that of a bird, and breathe into it, and it becomes a bird by Allah's Leave; and I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I bring the dead to life by Allah's Leave.

Sorry to disagree with you but I have no problem with putting muslim «tradition» on the back burner and if you don't like it that's tough, heck, we didn't leave a single intact church steeple in Europe in WWII because they were used by enemy artillery spotters and snipers, why should muslims get a pass, Tradition did not stop muslims from dragging dead US soldiers through Mogadishu nor did it stop them from hanging contractors from under bridges, Osama's body should have been brought back and put on display is a glass box at all three of his sites, allowing those who wanted to view him ample time to do so.

Seeing Elijah leave was like seeing the dead body of a loved one — it helped bring home the reality.

Here it comes again, after shimmering dead all winter, stretching, flexing, limbering, unleashing hordes of feather - cut leaves that look like dragon tongues, a silty river bronze, before they flatten to assume their summer - long, grass - emulating green.

Faith is something you must have for an instance such as Jesus showing up and dying for sins, because everyone there at the time, is dead, and only words describing what happened are left, words that match hidden prophecy given to those that don't believe the one dying (the Jews don't believe Jesus)... which is self proving in a hidden manner... like finding gold where someone says it will be, near another person that says it's absolutely not there.

The merman has lifted her up in his arms, Agnes twines about his neck, with her whole soul she trustingly abandons herself to the stronger one; he already stands upon the brink, he leans over the sea, about to plunge into it with his prey — then Agnes looks at him once more, not timidly, not doubtingly, not proud of her good fortune, not intoxicated by pleasure, but with absolute faith in him, with absolute humility, like the lowly flower she conceived herself to be; by this look she entrusts to him with absolute confidence her whole fate — and, behold, the sea roars no more, its voice is mute, nature's passion which is the merman's strength leaves him in the lurch, a dead calm ensues — and still Agnes continues to look at him thus.

This paste tasted musty and flavorless, like dead tree leaves.

Mert is far too slow — he should play in a snr league where he is capable of keeping up with the game.Players like Hazard of Chelsea are going to leave him for dead every time.

Ridding the roster of players like Richard Seymour, Carson Palmer, Darrius Heyward - Bey, Michael Huff, Rolando McClain, and Tommy Kelly left the team with copious amounts of dead money that couldn't go toward the roster in 2013, but eventually became usable cap space in 2014 and 2015.

its Money cause if it was trophy's it have be Man City my guess I think pep don't like how Sanchez is acting if I was Man City fan I wouldn't want him I use love Sanchez but he's true colors are showing arsenal have try offer nice package now I think he's been bit greedy with everything but who can blame him we're shambles from top too bottom I don't care where he goes I don't care we're ozil goes and by looking at lacasette he looks like he wants out as promises have been broke he came play with Sanchez and ozil and he gets welbeck and iwobi not fair really, I just want wenger gone because them players are not playing for him a lot is not rite and we as fans are paying for it but I don't care anymore don't care who leaves who comes in club is dead watch Liverpool yesterday boy was I envy ahwell let's see what happens

Who wouldn't cheer like maniacs for a team like this, a team that has gone so far, after being left for dead on multiple occasions?

The point is that thanks to this we are now in a better position, instead of being left for dead completely by Man City and Chelsea and their unlimited resources we will now be able to buy players commanding transfer fees like Sanchez or Ozil every season or two, we achieved this while staying in the Champions League year after year.

I do not blame players who want to leave the club, they should all go before they become dead wood like the owner, mediocre board of directors n d senile coach.

Wenger is naive, stupid, stubborn and eager to drag down Arsenal to his grave... It's like we have a dead manager on the bench whenever we playin a big team... Why Wenger Why???? U hev lost yo touch dude, just leave pliiizzzzz....

We should have additional squad space with the dead weight of Pod leaving (though I'd like a LW please) but I imagine we'd need to offload 1 midfielder just for play time.

The Spaniard was nutmegged and left for dead, with the Sevilla man ghosting past him like he wasn't there.

The likes of Jefferson Montero and Raheem Sterling have left Branislav Ivanovic for dead and the usually reliable Chelsea star has looked off the pace and there is speculation that Jose Mourinho will look to move Cesar Azpilicueta from left - back to right - back in order to accommodate new signing Baba Rahman.

The Van Dijk deal was dead from the point Liverpool publically apologised and Southampton reiterated their stance that, like Coutinho, under no circumstances would he be leaving the club.

Iv attempted to leave a few times but my family have talked me out of it and we both own our home which we want to leave to the kids but im gone like the dead walking, liveing with a man I adore and its like I repulse him that he wont have sex with me.i am now 51 he is 58.

But it's also made me remember that while there are some baby things you'd have to tear out of my cold dead claw hands before they leave the house, there are others that I have happily waved goodbye to... the baby things that have mostly already gone and I definitely WO N'T miss... like all the following:

Like the bacteria Enterobacter Sakazakii, which contaminated baby formula that left a one month old baby dead.

Could it be simply me or does it appear like a few of these responses look like they are left by brain dead folks?

I'll leave off counter-examples like Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley as being rather trivial (they didn't run for third terms because they were dead).

Former President Barack Obama's three - part tweet of a Nelson Mandela quote in the wake of the Charlottesville rally that left one counter-protester dead is the most liked tweet ever.

They had warnings that an attack like this could happen,» the former House Homeland Security Committee chair told John Catsimatidis on his «Cats Roundtable» radio show on AM 970 of the March bombings in Brussels that left at least 32 dead and scores of others injured.

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This artist's concept shows what the young, dead, disk galaxy MACS2129 - 1, right, would look like when compared with the Milky Way galaxy, left.

«The fact that they take nutrients that are not available to plants — because they're tied up in the dead leaves — and make them available to plants is something you might like to have happen in your garden,» Turner says.

A pile of dead wood, leaf litter and soil might look like garden waste to us.

The truth is, your heart is dead center in the middle of your chest, though it feels like it's tilted to the left because the largest part of your heart is on the left.

Over time your body adapts to this «hunched back» position leaving you looking like a dead ringer for Quasimodo.

Last summer I put this little guy outside and kind of left him for dead like I said, with the exception of a little water every now and then but then he started to thrive again so when fall arrived I brought him inside and then recently put him in this new planter for spring since he was outgrowing the plastic pot he came in from the nursery.

Could it be just me or does it look as if like some of these responses appear like left by brain dead individuals?

I can be a total prep one day and the next look like I just left a Grateful Dead show.

I would love to bring in a large potted tree, like an olive or fiddle leaf fig, but I'm still perfecting my green thumb and until I know it will thrive I don't want to risk another dead houseplant on my hands.

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It's not Left 4 Dead 2, not Dead Island, not even something like that.

Be warned though, don't come looking for a shooter like Left for Dead... this game is more an interactive story... Just one technical issue, sometimes it shows hickups while saving or loading a new area, but this doesn't interrupt the great experience you'll get from playing this game.

Too much effort went towards giving Chucky life in this film, while other things like the writing, acting, and direction were left for dead.

After Jen is left for dead, her reemergence could fairly be written off as absurd, but its sheer unlikelihood gives her an almost supernatural quality, like she's animated by the souls of wronged women past.

It's a superb experience made from the ground up to be purely cooperative, and it creates a unique sinergy that even coop classics like Left 4 Dead can't come close to achieving.

The Silent Hill 2's of the world have been replaced by games like Dead Space and Left 4 Dead which emphasize action over scares.