Sentences with phrase «poring over old»

Poring over some old - fashioned maps in our hotel room in Como revealed that the Engadin Region was the closest and easiest to get to from where we were and ideal for a day trip and so we headed out to St. Moritz, the most glamourous of ski resorts frequented by the rich and famous when it comes to skiing holidays.

He spent months poring over old studies to see how these tiny, pure - silicate particles form on Earth.

I'd pore over old National Geographic magazines and holiday brochures from my small town travel agent.

In his spare time he pored over old books.

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Really a 13 - year - old should probably not be poring [over] Leviticus.

In my 20s, I started collecting old magazines and really poring over the food ads and becoming strangely obsessed with them.

More often than not Corbett receives his inspiration while poring over sports pages and record books with 14 - year - old Brad Jr..

In the past, people flipped through old phone books, explored overgrown churchyards, and pored over immigration records and birth certificates to build their family trees.

«All of these Cassini mission measurements are changing our view of the Saturnian system, as it turns our old theories upside down,» said Radwan Tajeddine, Cornell University research associate in astronomy and a member of the European - based Encelade scientific team that pored over the Cassini data and published a paper in the astronomy journal Icarus (January 2017).

However, there is not a single page that I haven't pored over (usually along with my 24 year old sister and 6 year old niece).

While Haynes and the cast were off shooting the film, the 60 - year - old composer was at home poring over the script, waiting to see a rough cut before he started filtering his ideas.

After poring over contracts, old interviews, and character evaluations, here is a guide to which superheroes you might want to start mourning

I'm afraid there's no need for the old guard, obsessively poring over reports and reducing every learner to a number in the system.

And at Public School 24 in the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx, a fifth - grade teacher, Walter Rendon, has found himself soothing tense 10 - and 11 - year - olds as they pore over test prep exercises.

Brooks Brierley tells the sad story of America's most expensive vintage thoroughbred / Driving a boat - tailed AC — The Editor gets to grips with a rare Anzani - engined survivor from the early days of the Thames Ditton marque / Magic Morris Minor — Alec Issigonis's postwar masterpiece is as collectable today as ever — Michael Worthington - Williams inaugurates our new series of expanded and very comprehensive Buyer's Guide / Wizardry in the land of Oz — There may not be many bushes in the Bush but you can trust Nick Baldwin to find a rusting relic / Prescott in 1950 — It's spot - the - celebrity time as Brian Heath pores over a newly discovered hoard of old hillclimb photos / Brighton revisited — Tom Threlfall describes the other Brighton Run while Peter Corrana gives us his driving impressions of one of the most covetable contestants in the main event / Immortal Austin 7 — Bill Boddy (who has owned nine of them) tells what it is about Herbert Austin's little wonder that keeps it at the top of the old - car parade / A summer affair For Vitoria Ainsworth — marriage meant an adventurous initiation into the joys of owning a Roesch Talbot / The real McCurd — Michael Worthington - Williams researches yet another obscure but fascinating UK motor manufacturer of the 1920s / Styled by the Wind — Touring 4 - seater lightweight bodywork on the Alfa Romeo 6C 2300B Mille Miglia was one of the first attempts at introducing aero technology to automotive coachbuilding.

Foundling, the first in the planned Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy, sucked our then twelve - year - old son in on the first page and spat him back out a couple of days later only after he'd read the book cover to cover (including the glossary and the 100 page appendix which particularly fascinated him) and pored over the maps and illustrations In the intervening period we did see him from time to time - for meals and breathless plot updates - but in essence, although his body was with us, his mind was somewhere in the Half - Continent!

Reading new versions of old nursery stories is always fun for a beginning reader, and Me and You is especially satisfying with all the visual elements to be pored over.

Atopic allergies most commonly affect dogs and cats over six months old and occur when particles from allergens such as pollen, dust and mold are inhaled or penetrate the skin through the pores.

As visitors to his full - dress, full - floor Whitney retrospective will perceive from the moment they get off the elevator and are confronted by the mural - length 1999 painting Das Erdbeben in Chili [M # 3], the 79 - year - old artist has evolved to embrace riotous colors, unwieldy materials, and explosive forms in his recent work — even as younger artists with an interest in abstraction obsess over the rigorous formalism of his early years and pore over the compositional strategies in his 1986 book Working Space.

I meant to give her a tour of the collection galleries, but we ended up poring over the contents of a folder marked «Carolee Schneemann» from the old Film Section files.

Although it seems a bit tedious to pore over your router in such a fashion, by carefully checking and cloning all the settings from your old router onto the new one you avoid running into connectivity issues, failed connections, and missing devices later on.