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He was stripped to the waist, sitting up in bed leafing through a magazine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
When he didn’t answer his door I went to look for him there, and I found him sitting in the windowsill in his undershirt, drinking a cup of coffee and leafing through a magazine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
At that moment, he was leafing through the tables and diagrams. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z
He threw himself in front of the prosecutor, who was spending his time leafing through the typed pages of his speech. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z
As though an invisible hand were leafing through them, the pages of the Parmenides rippled back and forth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
Dad says nothing for the next two blocks, but that’s because he’s leafing through Charlie’s stack of napkins and fingering the yellow envelope. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
With Alfie on one side and Nero on the other, he was leafing through Lassie, studying the pictures. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z
Birds sang in the leafing hazel bushes along the crooked rail fence. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
He’s leafing through a newspaper and only looks up when there’s a raucous burst of laughter. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
Bitter caught the curiosity leafing out from Jam’s eyes and shook her head. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z
Kote was leafing idly through a book, trying to ignore the silence of the empty inn, when the door opened and Graham backed into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
The children opened the packages with the appropriate sense of wonder and spent the morning happily leafing through their new treasures, which of course Penelope promised to read to them at her earliest opportunity. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
“This isn’t a very good translation, you know,” he said, leafing through it idly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z
I had seen these theories before, back when I was researching in Moorland, leafing through the various fights within and without the black community. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z
I said, “Hi,” but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z
Without a word, he sat down before us and opened his book, leafing through the pages and stroking his beard. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z
Kendra plopped down on the bed, leafing through the last pages. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
“Shut up, Ignatius,” his mother said, leafing compulsively toward the classified section of the newspaper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z
Then one day, leafing through Richard Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy, I found, in his description of the scholarship boy, myself. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Eagerly, Riccio kneeled down on the floor and started leafing through the large pages. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z
Hans wasn’t home, and so Sophie waited, leafing through his books and papers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z
Dad was already leafing through his AA Book of British Towns and Uncle Brian'd sent Mum a look that said, If it makes the old boy happy, let him. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
Mo opened the book on his lap and began leafing through it, frowning, as if searching the pages for the gold he was to read out of it for Capricorn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
We sit together at the kitchen table, leafing through Sara’s recipe notebook. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z
In May, Louie was leafing through a newspaper when he saw a story on the Compton Open, a prestigious track meet to be held at the Los Angeles Coliseum on May 22. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
He moved into the tree house when school ended and spent a lot of his time leafing through motorcycle magazines. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z
The barkers were all interesting guys, poets manques, most of them, and spent their time off in City Lights Bookstore, leafing through New Directions paperbacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
Mrs. Murry looked up from a copy of an English scientific magazine through which she was leafing. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Miracles for Breakfast,” he intoned, leafing through it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to want to return it at all. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
Joan was leaning on one corner of the piano and leafing through a new issue of some fashion magazine, and DeeDee smiled up at her as if the two of them shared a secret. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z
“Maritain has some profound things to say about the religion of racists,” he said, leafing the book. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z
“No,” he said softly, leafing through the book. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z
He consumed hours each day leafing through law books, compiling research that he hoped would help reverse his conviction. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z
He pulled another comic book off his shelf and started leafing through it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z
Perhaps one of them would soon vanish into the book through which Mo was leafing so undecidedly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z
She had applied a bright blue mask to her face, was smoking and sipping some bourbon with ice and leafing through a fat paperback book whose pages had buckled and turned gray from the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z
Sprawled on the floor, standing around in small groups, or sitting on desktops, they were leafing through old newspapers, looking for the editorial pages. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z
The good news is that at some future date, as her young male friends are leafing past Starbucks cards to find their AAA number, Yancey will just spit in her hands and get ’er done. To Campuses Without a Compass 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z
Casablancas is leafing through a copy of Noam Chomsky’s How the World Works, then notices a book about CBGB, the historic punk club that closed in 2006. Julian Casablancas' Radical Reinvention 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z
Beginners and even confident wine drinkers will find much of value, even leafing through rules at random. Five Wine Books to Give This Holiday Season 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z
He was leafing through a proof of the M.E.P.’s catalog, and asking himself if the invasion had nullified this summation of his life’s work. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z
Watching it is like slowly leafing through a giant scrapbook whose contents include the individual stories of a large extended family. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z
I came to her food writing after her death, leafing through my mother’s old issues of Gourmet magazine. Marvin Gaye, the Venona Project and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z
We stop at the Crown hotel in Southwold, where Sebald, who taught German literature at the University of East Anglia, had sat leafing through the Independent as a grandfather clock ticked. WG Sebald: Darkness on the edge of Anglia 2011-01-25T21:31:00Z
Later, when I get back home, I find myself leafing through a catalogue of Goya's paintings. How the Chapman Brothers became the brothers grim 2010-08-03T20:31:00Z
Eugenie, who announced her engagement in January, worked closely with Pilotto and De Vos for the bespoke dress, with the designers leafing through archives of frocks worn by British royals to pick a silhouette. Princess Eugenie weds in Peter Pilotto dress and queen's tiara 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z
There was a moment, before around 2010, when Istanbul felt especially hip, at least to those of us whose main engagement was leafing through the weekend supplements at a remove of a thousand miles. Back from the brink: new breath for tourism in Istanbul 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z
A scene from the doc shows Ledger’s father, Kim Ledger, leafing through a diary his son kept while preparing for the role. Heath Ledger's 'Joker' Diary Revealed in New Documentary 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z
At home, he would sit with his grandfather, leafing through the big and small news of days gone by. Extra, Extra: Historic newspapers free to all comers 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z
Next to her, her sister, Sandi Kennedy, is carefully applying sizing — a gluelike substance — to a chandelier to which she will later attach delicate silver-colored leafing. This American maker of high-end furniture began as a hobby restoring antiques 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z
Between procedures, I sit in a flimsy johnny in the waiting room, leafing through magazines. I wasn’t supposed to get breast cancer 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z
Brancusi occasionally completely ignored his sculpture, training his camera, for example, on a small leafing tree trunk in his studio to create a study in ambiguous textured shadows. Art In Review: CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI: ‘Brancusi: The Photographs’ 2012-05-31T21:30:38Z
Many of the earlier inscriptions were, I noticed when leafing through these for the first time, in verse, dedicated to “la Terpsichore moderne.” The Countess and the Schoolboy 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z
“You know, it’s the nicest book I’ve ever had,” he says, leafing through its bulk in search of a certain footnoted passage. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes.
A woman in a fedora was leafing through architecture books, a tableau that pretty much encapsulated the current state of Manhattan retail. | Treasure & Bond: Nordstrom Opens Treasure & Bond in SoHo ? Critical Shopper 2011-09-14T23:58:52Z
I grew up in a nonreligious Jewish household and every time I’ve tried leafing through the Bible before, my eyes would glaze over. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z
But one A4 photocopied page of print looks much like another – as I discovered leafing frantically through them while the anchorman looked at me expectantly. Acting the pundit 2010-05-16T18:00:00Z
Once they summon their courage, though, the gravest infraction they can commit starts with leafing through the yellow pages, in search of a nursing home. Review: The Melancholy of Misspent Lives in ‘Autumn Royal’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z
This year’s colder-than-average spring held back the plants’ leafing, which in turn delayed the ripening of the fruit. Finders keepers: Yotam Ottolenghi’s blackberry recipes (and how to make them last longer) 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z
The filmmakers keep leafing through scholarly studies of his clients, hoping to find his name. Antiques: Rooms With a View of British History 2013-05-02T20:02:50Z
I enjoy leafing through the latest Vogue as much as the next woman. My Story: If the Shoe Fits, Don’t Wear It Unless It’s Comfortable 2012-09-26T15:47:45Z
Klimt made the painting during his "golden phase," and it is covered with elaborate gold leafing. Scenic artist hit a masterwork mother lode with 'Woman in Gold'
In a depressing green-walled bedroom, the bare-chested artist, roughly sculptured in high relief, sits up in bed leafing through a book — a photo album, perhaps. Art Review: Llyn Foulkes Retrospective Opens at the New Museum 2013-06-20T23:05:46Z
I spent hours leafing through the pages, reading the quotes from players, coaches and just about anyone who has thought about sports. Athletes and coaches share words to the wise 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z
But Mr. Herzog’s photos of a man leafing through magazines at a newsstand and of the dense forests of commercial neon that used to line Granville Street are not ironic. My Vancouver: An Ever-Unfolding Story 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z
Merely leafing its pages results in tidbits of information like this: When spinach is very fresh and you rub the leaves together, “they should squeak.” A Book That Celebrates Vegetables 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z
But leafing through a stolen book on punk history, “I remember very clearly seeing a picture of Poly Styrene and her braces and being like, what?” How Poly Styrene Broke the Mold 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z
We imagine this new "Anonymous" leafing through Primary Colors, or freeze-framing the DVD of the Mike Nichols movie, and thinking: hm, black campaign worker watches the rise of charismatic but enigmatic white politician. The story of O: A Presidential Novel 2011-01-21T12:15:40Z
What would become of my budding, leafing, flowering and fruiting plants while I was gone? Front-yard garden: At vacation time, drip irrigation and a sitter come to the rescue
Obscenity is an easy enough accusation to level at the publishers of the magazines we've just been leafing through. Readers recommend: songs about magazines – results 2013-05-23T14:00:00Z
We're still looking for an orchestra who will play for beer money, though, and I'm leafing through the Argos catalogue to see if we can afford a few props. Mark Ravenhill's debut opera goes for the gut 2010-08-04T20:45:00Z
“Madame Titeux wanted me to tell you that she says hello,” Aurore said, leafing through the local newspaper on the table. In France, Elder Care Comes with the Mail 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z
But I was reminded of McGlade's rage when leafing through the press releases for this year's Edinburgh fringe earlier this week. When did comedians get so middle-class? 2010-07-21T21:01:00Z
I was leafing through a Christmas present: the complete works of Mad magazine artist Don Martin, Vol. A crime of Frankensteinian proportions 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z
Recreating the gold leafing on the ceiling took almost six months, says Chandarana. Carlton House Terrace: The Hindujas' New $500 Million Real Estate Masterpiece 2013-10-08T14:00:00Z
I was just leafing through a book called “The Wonderful Future That Never Was.” Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z
The texture of this leafing — rich, delicate and tonally varied — can't be reproduced in a print, which is how famous art often is replicated for film. Scenic artist hit a masterwork mother lode with 'Woman in Gold'
Concerned that the world would confuse him with Rocky, he asked to be photographed by the Sunday Times leafing through a volume of Shakespeare. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z
His mother’s brother was leafing through a picture album when a photograph of one of his father’s brothers — his own namesake, Luc — fell to the floor. 2010-02-06T03:52:00Z
In conceiving the LP, Salvant spent more time leafing through her own notebooks than she did the Great American Songbook. Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z
“When you find out who the murderer is and begin leafing through the pages, looking for missed clues,” Tina Jordan recently commented in The Times, “you’ll realize just how completely Christie snookered you.” New in Paperback: ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ and ‘My Broken Language’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z
"Look at this, I show you something," he says, leafing through the pages of the magazine at his elbow. Alejandro Jodorowsky: 'I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul' 2013-05-23T15:47:54Z
I’ve gone a step further by gold leafing, silver leafing, and lacquering it black.” 6 Furniture Brands Employ Grasscloth and Raffia as Upholstery 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z
And as you read it, you feel like a boulevardier in present-day Paris, sitting at a cafe and leafing through a magazine chock-full of revelations. If These Dresses Could Talk 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z
So he covered the whole thing in silver leafing and added horns and fangs. Prop Maker Doug Wright and Tom Cruise’s Codpiece 2012-06-13T21:16:24Z
But it is so vague, cliché-ridden and devoid of surprise and suspense that once you grasp its premise, watching it is like leafing through a design magazine kept in a refrigerator. Review: ‘Equals,’ a Futuristic Tale of Defying Deadly Conformity 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z
That mottled gold in the background of the painting was the most time consuming to re-create, said Mitchell, who used five types of gold leafing to emulate it. Scenic artist hit a masterwork mother lode with 'Woman in Gold'
I am also currently leafing through a stack of meditation books that I bought at a meditation studio I like. Krysten Ritter: By the Book 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z
“I don’t know how he slept,” said Madeleine Thompson, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s archivist, while leafing this month through some scrapbooks that had just been scanned. Antiques: Digitizing Scrapbooks of the First Bronx Zoo Director 2013-08-29T21:12:11Z
Morgan first encountered Viramontes’s work in the late 1990s, while leafing through an old issue of the French fashion bible Le Mode en Peinture in his college library at the Wimbledon School of Art. | The Cult ’80s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes Gets a Second Look 2013-09-03T21:38:57Z
Deborah Staber, the museum’s director, said she was still leafing through provenance files for other specimens there, including fish caught by the author Zane Grey. A Fish Caught by Hemingway Is Being Restored 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z
At night, the family plays music together and reads by firelight — leafing through books one page at a time — before bedding down in the communal tepee. Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z
Recently, visiting family, I spent some time leafing through one of those ancestral histories that Americans in rootless moods feel compelled to write. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z
Before her death, she worked on the Cartier-Bresson Foundation’s exhibition of her work, choosing the pictures and deciding on the chronological presentation, as if visitors were leafing through a book of her life. A New Home for the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
Inside, the vast salon was filled with guests lounging in intimate groups of saddle-stitched leather chairs, nibbling club sandwiches and leafing through international newspapers. A Paris Farewell 2011-03-25T18:55:10Z
But, leafing through the book, it’s remarkable how often other photographers spring to mind. What Vivian Maier Saw in Color 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z
Katherine, it is suggested, is a pediatrician, though she is given this occupation by a writer who appears to be selecting the attributes of his characters while leafing through a glossy catalog of elite possibilities. Review: ‘The Engagement Party’s’ decor is sharper than its wit 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z
After leafing through the book, he realized it was indeed his work. Hinton Publishing highlights ‘underinvited’ authors 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z
After he sat down behind his lawyer, he pulled a pair of reading glasses from his shirt pocket and began leafing through the pages. Prosecutor says Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’ who preys on other men 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z
After he walked under a wide arch framing a set of stairs, Hicks stopped at a lofty dome clad with silver leafing. Seattle’s downtown Banana Republic store to become art space 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z
At the San Marino library, Kelsey enjoyed leafing through its vast collection of Western and European history. Harry Kelsey, former chief curator at L.A.'s Natural History Museum, dies at 93 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z
And now as I'm sitting at MIT leafing through my grandmother’s files, I'm thinking, Hmm, did she play any role in figuring out the cause? Leona Zacharias Helped Solve a Blindness Epidemic Among Premature Babies. She Received Little Credit. 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z
The family have been leafing through a toyshop brochure together and discussing which two toys the children might like to have. Cost of Living: How to talk to children about Christmas 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z
I thought I was imagining things on the set of CNN’s “Election Night in America” show on Nov. 8, leafing through the pages of exit polls just before the returns started rolling in. Independents may not like Biden, but they abhor Trump 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z
The 15-year-old was fond of art, she says, leafing through her youngest daughter's drawing book. Lakhimpur: India family shattered by rape and murder of Dalit sisters 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z
The demonstrators, all of them men, were seen walking on tables of the Parliament floor, leafing through folders, sitting in the chairs of lawmakers and waving Iraqi flags. Protesters Storm Iraqi Parliament 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z
The demonstrators, all of them men, were seen walking on tables of the parliament floor, leafing through folders, sitting in the chairs of lawmakers and waving Iraqi flags. Followers of cleric enter Iraqi parliament in show of force 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z
He was seen standing in the cage and leafing through a sheaf of legal documents as the charge was translated to him. Two Britons, Moroccan risk death penalty after guilty pleas in Donetsk court -Russian news agency 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z
A Gothic arch motif that is designed to direct eyes upward is prevalent in the altars, carpeting, gold leafing and the stained-glass windows. What to expect when the Mormons’ D.C. temple opens to the public 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z
"If everyone in Europe starts leafing through history books where borders used to be, then we have a very unsettling time ahead of us," Scholz added. EU could impose further sanctions on Russia, Germany's Scholz says 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z
“Our recommendations are ignored — it’s a problem,” he said, leafing through piles of manila folders as he read out some of his many recommendations. How Corruption Ruined Lebanon 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z
We spent the morning in the backyard together, leafing through this family history he’d been carrying around in his suitcase. My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z
That’s when the weather warms up just enough for trees to start leafing early. Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z
As he was signing books, Del Bufalo said he overheard two women who were leafing through his book exclaim “This is Helen’s mosaic! This is Helen’s mosaic!‘” after seeing a photograph of the work. Emperor’s mosaic displayed in Italy after stint as NYC table 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
It was a Sunday, the Richmonds’ day for leafing through family photographs in their apartment in Yonkers, N.Y., looking at relatives going back about a century. A Teenager Was Bullied. His Ancestors Saved Him. 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z
“I’m kind of testing myself to see how comfortable I am,” said Ms. Kelly as she dug into a salad while leafing through a script. New Yorkers Can Dine Indoors Again. Will They? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z
Author Lisa See spied something that piqued her curiosity while leafing through a magazine at a doctor’s office. These women divers are living legends. How novelist Lisa See captured their story 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z
Max wore a mask on the subway while leafing through a book about Eleanor Roosevelt. Top Mayoral Candidate’s Struggle: Should He Send His Sons Back to School? 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z
“My wife’s grandfather has given me some old Swansea City programmes and while leafing through them I came across this: ‘On Good Friday 10 April 1936, the Swans beat Plymouth 2-1 at Home Park. Is James Milner the only footballer with a door named after him? | The Knowledge 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z
Some of the clips showed people leafing through the files. Westbury House: Piles of patient data finally cleared from care home 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z
The staff fell back on written notes and faxes, leafing through masses of paper to access vital information. Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left ‘in the Dark’ After Cyberattack 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z
The nearly 50-foot-high lobby, reached by a set of 17 stairs, is bedecked in black and gold-veined onyx with gold leafing. A Cape Town Apartment That Speaks to the Past 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z
In his last video before falling ill after being poisoned, titled “Tomsk is held captive by a mafia of deputies,” Navalny sat in an ordinary Russian kitchen leafing through city utility bills. Poisoned Russian opposition leader Navalny’s team scores in regional Russian elections — while in Berlin he gets out of bed 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z
I happened to be with him, leafing through the Corriere dell’Umbria looking for a report about the Cage festival and conference in the Umbrian capital. How to Listen: A classical music series to open our ears in a COVID-quieted world 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z
"They build these kind of relationships and friendships with each other through social touch in the form of social grooming - which they do by leafing through the fur. And we still do that." Why going without physical touch is so hard 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z
If trees are leafing out earlier, or the vegetation is denser, birds might seek higher song posts to avoid this interference, Dr. Moller suggested. The Sound of One Shrimp Snapping 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z
In her home office, Joyce pulled open a drawer and began leafing through documents. Where science enters the courtroom, the Daubert name looms large 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z
Zohre, who had been promoted to editor in chief of the Uighur newspaper, brought her work home and spent nights leafing through papers. Her Uighur Parents Were Model Chinese Citizens. It Didn’t Matter. 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z
“I would go to flea markets and find old furniture and restore it,” she says, leafing through an album of exquisitely painted work. Vivian Suter: the rainforest-dwelling artist who paints with fish glue, dogs and mud 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z
But he figures that the way his brain flipped some things around actually helped him when it came to gold leafing windows, working backward, from right to left. In a workshop, a bygone trade, a woodcarver and his Santas 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z
Children on a rug in the open-air waiting area entertained themselves by leafing through “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” filling in coloring books and playing with toys. Stranded on Border, This Migrant Became the Camp Doctor 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z
One of them, leafing through the pages of an assignment, said, “I can assume you’re saying something correct in here, right?” “Old Hope” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z
Pitchers work for hours, staring at video, leafing through scouting reports, even losing sleep, to throw one more strike. Nationals force World Series Game 7 with dominant Stephen Strasburg performance in 7-2 win 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z
“She’d be leafing through magazines, circling words she thought would be good to use sometime.” Wendy Lister, grande dame of Eastside real estate, dies at 83 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z
There was a time when law firms in downtown Jacksonville kept him quite busy doing gold leafing on glass. In a workshop, a bygone trade, a woodcarver and his Santas 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z
So he will keep showing up early, keep taking his daily walk around the warning track to zone in, keep leafing through major league scouting reports until he is told to do something else. The Nats spent years testing Paul Menhart before naming him pitching coach. He hopes it sticks. 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z
It sent addled viewers leafing disbelievingly through the records to see whether anybody ever lost a seven-shot lead after 54 holes of a major tournament. Brooks Koepka holds off Dustin Johnson to win his second PGA Championship 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z
Those who dislike Trump are leafing through looking for only that which incriminates, those who like him search only for what exculpates and exonerates. Mueller report: Stephen Colbert and other celebs have a field day with its findings 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z
Subsequent reports of cockpit voice recordings show that the pilots were desperately leafing through the manual. Have the Boeing crashes shaken our faith in flying? | Gwyn Topham 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z
He took a notebook down from a high shelf—he has kept notebooks ceaselessly since he was very young—and began leafing through it. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z
Dunbar flipped through the pages, wistfully pausing now and again, like someone leafing through an old scrapbook. The Enduring Fight Over the First Ironman Triathlon 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z
“There are hundreds of changes of the flowering of plants, the leafing out of trees, the migrations of birds” that can be attributed to climate change, said Boston University biologist Richard Primack. Whale songs and war: The less talked-about climate impacts 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z
On a vacation to England in 1995, he visited a car show and started leafing through literature at one stall. The Racecars Are Allards. He’s an Allard. There’s Just One Issue. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z
When I gave my grandmother the small photo album from my trip, she sat with it for a long time, quietly leafing through the pages without speaking. A Marine’s mysterious death in World War I’s final days still haunts his family 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z
She first discovered the suffragists leafing through a book at her junior high library when she was 13 years old. 'It's about time': Central Park's first historical female monument to arrive in 2020 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z
As spring temperatures warmed, oak trees were leafing out earlier and peak caterpillar season was arriving up to two weeks sooner in some places. 5 Plants and Animals Utterly Confused by Climate Change 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z
I'm sitting drinking tea and eating clotted-cream Cornish shortbread biscuits in my Newquay hotel room, leafing through my 1939 Penguin guide to Cornwall and smiling at author J W Lambert's often irritable tone. 'Nothing but a holiday resort?' Revisiting 1939 Cornwall 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z
“You get into Schmitz Preserve and it feels very far removed. The trees are leafing out and you get that bright green spring color of the new growth.” No fooling, as April arrives: Six great spring hikes in Seattle 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z
The union of the reigning National and American League home run leaders in one batting order has sent fans leafing back through record books for comparable tandems. Baseball’s Unappreciated Power Duo 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z
Imagine a reader from five years ago leafing through today’s Washington Post. Perspective | Politeness can sometimes hurt more than it helps 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z
Madsen, 47, dressed in a black long-sleeved T-shirt, spent the morning calmly leafing through the prosecution’s papers, as Buch-Jepsen ran through evidence including photographs and diagrams of the stab wounds on Wall’s body. Danish inventor takes to stand to deny murder of Kim Wall 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z
“I decided not to buy her balloons and chocolates, to avoid police confiscating them,” the mathematics student said, leafing through a copy of Erich Segal’s “Love Story.” ‘You Can’t Ban Love’: Pakistanis Defy a Valentine’s Day Prohibition 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z
A former school principal, leafing through the photographic record of her student days in the early 1950s, said: “I remember the enthusiasm. Everyone wanted to participate in voluntary construction brigades; there was such patriotism.” Opinion | Remembering Life in the Soviet Union, One Family Photo at a Time 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z
Years of perusing dusty volumes, leafing through court records, deciphering handwritten letters, and making sense of myriad complex treaties and settlements have resulted in a comprehensive study of Detroit’s formative years. Review | A book that will make you rethink slavery and the North 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z
Jutting watched the proceedings from the dock Tuesday, often leafing through a bundle of court documents. UK banker back in Hong Kong court for murder appeal 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z
Austin started leafing through the book, and I saw why it was so misshapen: Every few pages there was a photograph of him with his mother and what they had baked. What Children — and Parents — Can Learn from Baking Together 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z
Listening to the chatter is like leafing through an atlas - a Lord Howe Island here; a Queen Maud Land there. Meeting the world's most-travelled people 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z
Mia says when her daughter recently declared she was going vegan, the family sat around the kitchen table leafing through recipe books for inspiration. Why Delia is wrong about cookery books 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z
“She could wear color,” he said, leafing through old photographs. ‘Cowboy butler’ recalls 16 years on the Circle EW Ranch 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z
In 1982, leafing through Time magazine, he came across an article about a “gay plague”. ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z
In the kitchen area, a mother and her toddler daughter were leafing through coffee table books with titles like Foraged Flora, Sunday Suppers and Dinner Diaries: Reviving the Art of the Hostess. Sex Dust and vampire repellent: a stroll through Gwyneth Paltrow's new LA store 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z
Users would move around the map by leafing through the panels like book pages from left to right, or by flipping them up and down. These Are the Cleverest, Weirdest Mapping Ideas Ever Patented 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z
He said patients with appointments would go directly to treatment rooms that encircle a shared work space for doctors and nurses — no sitting around a waiting room leafing through year-old magazines. A New Brooklyn Clinic for Hotel Workers Who Enjoy No-Cost Care 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z
One manager began ostentatiously leafing through a Greek dictionary during meetings; a rival, not to be outdone, started auditing Greek language classes. Yoplait Learns to Manufacture Authenticity to Go With Its Yogurt 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z
There is a guileless, everything-but-the-kitchen sink quality to these pages that sometimes feels as if we are leafing through Alexie’s private notebooks. Sherman Alexie’s brave new memoir delves into his childhood 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z
Albert grew up in an orphanage, a four-hour bus ride from home, leafing through French and English dictionaries, dreaming of a future in politics. Thousands of women were raped during Rwanda’s genocide. Now their kids are coming of age. 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z
Many of the lots back to a conservation protection area with trees that are leafing out into a green canopy. Corbett Manor in Springfield, Va., to offer ‘a little oasis in a high-tech world’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
“That’s granddad’s 85th birthday,” she said while leafing through a photo album with a visitor. The ANC is Mandela’s legacy. Now his granddaughter has renounced South Africa’s ruling party. 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z
Bell worked as a photojournalist for years, but traces this particular fascination to his childhood spent leafing through Life magazine and the Saturday Evening Post. World War II past meets vets’ present in New Jersey exhibit 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z
But after a mild winter, leafing started in mid-January in some parts of the South and spread northward like a wave — gladdening hearts and possibly wreaking havoc on farmers’ planting schedules and seasonal festivals. International Women’s Day, Kabul: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z
As much as he would like to spend his days leafing through material at the library and sifting through historic records by the Bureau of Land Management, he can’t. Mysteries of Pikes Peak an ongoing adventure for historian 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z
Mr. Pineda said on the Thursday afternoon of BEAM’s second week, leafing through his homework folder to a triangular numbers problem. Equations and Inequalities: Math, Race and Fellowship 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z
I have been leafing through an old copy of Rebecca West’s The Meaning of Treason. Thinking of joining an anti-Trump boycott? Think twice | Emma Brockes 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z
As for who runs for president in 2020, there are plenty of prospects — leafing through the directory of Democratic U.S. senators offers a good start — none of whom rise to immediate advantage. Democrats ask themselves: Now what? Who'll lead the party from the wilderness, and how? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z
“A lot of the Tumbleweeds are of a particular age,” Sylvia said recently, leafing through a book of these autobiographies. Shakespeare and Company, Paris’s famous bookstore where wandering writers are welcome 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z
The gold leafing, he added, is being used only in an addition to the building that is not part of the original: the 13,200-square-foot Presidential Ballroom. Win or Lose, Donald Trump Is Coming to Pennsylvania Avenue (With His New Hotel) 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
At Edmunds.com Inc., an online resource for car buyers, about 700 employees enjoy a weekly break from leafing through agendas and fumbling with speakerphones. No Meetings Allowed: It’s ‘Thinking Thursday’ 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z
Wearing a suit and sneakers, he sat in the decorative-arts section of the warehouse, leafing through a catalogue, unperturbed, as Martin propelled his board over a nearby stack of folded carpets. The Daredevil of the Auction World 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z
The two of them sit side by side at the kitchen table, Ms. Carpenter reviewing her used study guide for the law-school entry exam and her daughter leafing through “Green Eggs and Ham.” After Years of Struggles, Bronx Woman Earns Her Prize: A Criminal Justice Degree 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z
The exhibition hall is thick with prospective clients leafing through glossy brochures, watching slick promotional videos or testing the products on show. Cuba to signal next steps after President Obama's visit - BBC News 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z
One day, he was leafing through abstracts of recent scientific papers when a finding popped out at him. A Radical Attempt to Save the Reefs and Forests 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z
As a teenager, I spent a lot of time leafing through photographic books and particularly admired the bleak and grainy war photography of Don McCullin and the landscape work of Fay Godwin. William Dalrymple's world in black and white pictures - BBC News 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z
“One shouldn’t work like this,” he said, leafing through the pages of dialogue. Is humour the best weapon against Europe’s new wave of far-right nationalism? | Holly Case and John Palattella 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z
One day around this time, Taylor said he was leafing through the mail when he came across an advertisement. The flawed system that allows companies to make millions off the injured 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z
As a music enthusiast, he loves leafing through the Willson collection. Secret stash of music history at Carmel arts center 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z
They used the finest materials, there’s $3m worth of gold leafing. 'No corner was cut, nothing was too expensive': the strange story of the most expensive private listing in America 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z
Others are passed on simply because Luck enjoyed leafing through them. The Andrew Luck Book Club 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z
On this day, 17 employees sit at a bank of computers, leafing through the instructions in a 493-page manual. Landing a mega-merger: The last days of US Airways 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z
Scientists will examine the mountain layer by layer, as if leafing through the pages of a book. 3 Years on Mars! Curiosity Rover's Amazing Journey in Pictures 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z
If you prefer to find interesting and inexpensive camping sites by leafing through a book, this is the one you’re going to want to read. 4 Ways to Find Free and Cheap Camping Sites 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z
My mom was always sewing and gardening and building stuff, and my grandmother knew how to restore furniture — she was an expert at gold leafing. 'Mr. Kate' Albrecht dishes on Hollywood, DIY and her hilarious memoir 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z
On a recent day, she was leafing through invoices and consulting a spreadsheet about sales. In Europe, Fake Jobs Can Have Real Benefits 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z
One day his father was leafing through a sports collectibles magazine in a bookstore when he found an advertisement from Lelands, the oldest major auction house, offering a $1 million bounty for the Thomson treasure. The Hunt For Miracle $3 Million Home Run Baseball Helps Cure Filmmaker's Deep Depression 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z
Scientists will examine the mountain layer by layer, as if leafing through the pages of a book. 3 Years on Mars! Curiosity Rover's Amazing Journey in Pictures 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z
Even if you’re not an ancestry buff, you’ll enjoy leafing through the encyclopedic “New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer,” published by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Books on a Photographer, the Underground Railroad and Ancestry 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z
While leafing through a random newspaper he noticed an article that highlighted fishing as one of the world’s most popular hobbies. Fishing Is Bigger Than You Think (And This Entrepreneur Built An App For It) 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z
East Germany enjoyed higher living standards than the Soviet Union and a former KGB colleague, Vladimir Usoltsev, describes Putin spending hours leafing through Western mail-order catalogues, to keep up with fashions and trends. Vladimir Putin's formative German years 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z
"Our projections reveal that this may lead to a substantial shuffling of the order of flowering and leafing events in temperate forests," they report in the journal Global Change Biology. Signs of spring 'shifting' in trees 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z
Scientists will examine the mountain layer by layer, as if leafing through the pages of a book. 3 Years on Mars! Curiosity Rover's Amazing Journey in Pictures 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z
Eggsy aside, the lower orders are feckless louts, while the look and the sound of their posh counterparts seem to have been devised by someone leafing through a copy of the Tatler from 1983. “Kingsman” and “What We Do in the Shadows” Reviews 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z
Whether you are perusing the Man Booker shortlist or leafing through Zoella, the impact of reading on your sleep is probably the last thing on your mind. E-books 'damage sleep and health' 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z
But for years, the police ignored Mr. Tie’s home publishing, even leafing through copies when officers made one of their regular visits, Ms. Ren said. Beijing Formally Charges Writer Who Published Memoirs of Victims of Mao Era 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z
I’m sitting outside with a glass of rose getting very hungry leafing through Seattle chef Renee Erickson’s new cookbook "A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus." Seattle chef's new 'A Boat, a Whale & a Walrus' celebrates seasons; dinner at L&E Sunday 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z
Currently under construction, the palatial estate known as Le Palais Royal draws inspiration from the Palace of Versailles with gold leafing, stone walkways, balconies and six fountains. At $139 million, newly listed Florida home is most expensive in U.S. 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z
Cabinets in the kitchen will be adorned with 22-carat gold leafing. 'Le Palais Royal' Mansion Hits The Market For $139 Million In Florida 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z
“Parents give dowry because they want their daughter to be pampered and respected by her husband’s family,” Prakash said, leafing through her daughter’s wedding album. India high court’s ‘disgruntled wives’ ruling tests dowry laws enacted to protect women
I was wearing white cotton gloves while leafing through Wills' manuscript – standard practice when handling such old archival paper. The bone collectors: a brutal chapter in Australia's past 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z
He was watching a movie, leafing through an eight-inch stack of more than 2,000 legal documents Salem had obtained by subpoenaing a consultant on the National Geographic project. Tunnel Vision
You can picture him leafing through the book of Jeremiah, one of his favorites, looking for a good text that would support his good idea. Sermon Series: "Getting Smashed for Jesus" 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z
“Certainly, we have to see how the magazine develops,” he added after leafing through an advance copy. A New Magazine for Fans of the Vatican’s Biggest Star 2014-03-05T04:00:47Z
Two-and-a-half miles to the west, at the London Underground's Electric Railway headquarters in Victoria, the network's newly appointed commercial director, Frank Pick, is perhaps leafing through the complaints letters on his desk. The map that saved the London Underground 2014-01-10T01:10:43Z
This rhetoric is nothing new, their father said, leafing through a copy. Jhumpa Lahiri: “Brotherly Love.” 2013-06-03T04:00:00Z
Now, I’ve become obsessed, and spend hours at the Library of Congress and the National Sporting Library in Middleburg, Va., leafing through old copies of the Thoroughbred Records from the 1920s. The Rail: Exterminator, a Long Shot to Remember 2013-05-02T14:05:49Z
It often took Eaton’s distributors several days of leafing through that catalog to find the right solution for their customers. What Makes Tech Investments Sink Or Swim 2013-04-22T14:00:56Z
The image of a bunch of men leafing through “binders of women” is just icky. Romney’s Binders: The Meme Women Love to Hate 2012-10-19T11:48:17Z
"Holding an old book in your hand, and smelling it and leafing through it before buying, is something you can do most easily in a book town!" Book towns adapt to e-reader era 2012-10-06T23:08:49Z
She sat in the outhouse leafing aimlessly through the newspaper, until Sasha knocked on the door with a stick. Lara Vapnyar: “Fischer vs. Spassky.” 2012-10-01T04:00:00Z
Wistfully leafing through pages at his local comic store, he explains that there was a golden era from the 1960s to the 1980s when many titles were household names. Indonesian cartoonists keep up with competition 2012-09-27T10:36:54Z
“New York,” he said, leafing through his notebook, “it has a lot of layers.” Unscenic Walking Tour Goes From Lower Manhattan to J.F.K. 2012-09-17T01:45:34Z
Choose Professors, Not Classes It's a classic picture of undergraduate life: a student leafing through the course guide, picking classes for the next term based on what looks interesting and also fulfills curriculum requirements. | How to Succeed in College 2012-09-06T09:58:28Z
Yet she is still leafing through property particulars in her flat in Castle Vale, and dreaming of finding a house big enough to start a family. The homeowners who cannot move home 2012-08-24T15:04:01Z
Every starlet dreams of being discovered by talent agents leafing through her portfolio. ScienceShot: New Species Discovered, Thanks to Flickr 2012-08-09T21:46:00Z
Donors may dream of tinkling the keys on the family piano or leafing through private photos, but much of the action will take place in the backyard. White House Memo: Obama’s Birthday Party as Fund-Raising Opportunity 2012-08-03T19:38:00Z
So while at the same time that these warmer springs would have caused these plants to flower or leaf earlier, the warmer falls and winters are causing them to delay flowering or leafing. U.K. Farmers Adapt to Climate Change 2012-06-25T16:15:00.243Z
No more leafing through a crumpled manual to find out why the aircon's blowing hot in August. Insight: Look, no hands! Augmented reality gets a grip 2012-06-21T13:39:44Z
“Each runner, I track their progress,” he said, leafing through the pages, covered with a scrawl of names and numbers. Far From Home, Amantle Montsho Chases Olympic Dream 2012-06-01T13:02:57Z
For every 1-degree-Celsius rise in temperature in an experiment, the rate of flowering and leafing would advance from 1 to 1.6 days. Wild Plants Respond to Climate Change Quicker than Science Suggested 2012-05-03T16:45:00.203Z
"Across all species, the experiments under-predicted the magnitude of the advance - for both leafing and flowering - that results from temperature increases," the study said. Plant Study Flags Dangers of Warming World 2012-05-02T20:45:02.117Z
The journal's strange title had caught his eye, and while lazily leafing through the first bound volume he happened to notice Bell's article. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival [Excerpt] 2012-01-30T18:15:00.243Z
In India, refiners are leafing through an unpublished report produced in March to look at fall-back options in the event of a major disruption. Insight: Funds and refiners ponder oil Armageddon, war on Iran 2011-11-30T09:06:11Z
“It portrays the Communist Party in a bad light,” one protester griped on Monday, leafing through the images. City Room: Occupy Wall Street Protestors Dig Through Donations 2011-11-22T12:00:18Z
In nature, advances were four times faster for leafing and more than eight times faster for flowering. Wild Plants Respond to Climate Change Quicker than Science Suggested 2012-05-03T16:45:00.203Z
Caltagirone begins leafing through catalogues for next year’s costumes in December. Four tricks ? and treats ? for small businesses 2011-10-28T22:26:35Z
If you choose a topic on our site that you’re interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you’re leafing through an art magazine. The Boss: Garrett Camp of StumbleUpon, on Start-Up Strength 2011-10-22T17:15:10Z
The players mostly sat off to the side, leafing through media guides or listening to their coaches talk about conference alignments. Big East Coaches Talk About Realignment, Not Basketball 2011-10-20T00:05:57Z
At times, leafing through the book feels like paging through images of deep-sea exploration. Native peoples? concepts of health are displayed at National Medical Library 2011-10-17T19:29:03Z
Flickr’s newest sharing tool, called “Photo Session,” is designed to replicate the experience of leafing through an old-fashioned photo album, even if the people who are browsing are located thousands of miles apart. Yahoo touches up Flickr with photo-album tool, Android app as company shakes off distractions 2011-09-28T21:35:01Z
"No mention of settlement cessation," he notes, leafing through the pages. Palestinians' Political Calculus: Dare Obama Challenge the Arab Apring? 2011-09-19T01:03:10Z
With an amused air the up-to-date farmer was leafing through one after the other of the conglomeration of strange books, when Hamlet Tinkle was ushered in by the ever-grinning Nellie. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z
Calm and serene lay Vesey Street with its rows of leafing elms. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z
"Leafing through one of these is like leafing through the equivalent of the Manhattan Yellow Pages," he says. The B-School Case Study Gets a Digital Makeover 2011-07-25T17:33:40Z
A few months later, as I was leafing through the 1946 volume of The Journal of the London Mathematical Society, I saw a diagram that resembled my highway system. The Mathematician as an Explorer 2011-05-04T13:15:00.247Z
I had to think hard while we continued to walk on beneath the leafing elms, and the village people watched us two as city folks. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z
And after leafing through his first executive budget on Tuesday, lawmakers and others at the Capitol seemed to agree that Mr. Cuomo had indeed kept his pledge. City Room: When a Tax Is Not Really a Tax 2011-02-02T19:55:15Z
In a memorable passage from Jerome K. Jerome's 1889 novel Three Men in a Boat, the narrator diagnoses himself with nearly every possible ailment after leafing through a medical book found in the British Museum. Confessions of a procrastinator 2011-01-19T18:23:06.510Z
Emily Deutchman, 24, of New York City, said she was getting “a crash course in leafing” as she worked on a print of Beijing, based on a Ming dynasty city plan. | Long Island: A Medieval Skill Is Nurtured in Gold-Leaf Splendor 2011-01-01T00:01:03Z
I turn around for 30 seconds to buy some supplies and another customer is leafing through my visa pages. Worlds Apart: China And Silicon Valley 2010-09-22T20:00:00Z
Cricket has always been backwards when it comes to using statistics, though I suppose that would seem a preposterous statement to any of the unconverted who find themselves leafing through the Records section of Wisden. The Spin 2010-08-17T11:52:00Z
"It's not the team I know," he said, leafing though his album of press clippings for any previous examples of Emile Heskey not scoring goals or $tevie Mbe going all sulky on the left wing. The Fiver: World Cup Awards 2010-07-13T15:55:00Z
"The United States spends more than all the other countries together on defense," he said disapprovingly, leafing through papers to check his facts. Fidel Castro appears on Cuban TV 2010-07-13T00:48:00Z
In a similar vein, leafing through the newspaper these days is like crawling through a minefield of makeshift names. | Brittney, Brittny, Brittneigh 2010-05-07T19:17:00Z
Simon Cho remembered leafing through the packet of questions his mother studied for the citizenship exam. For U.S. Speedskater, a Bumpy Path Back to Vancouver 2010-02-26T04:21:00Z
A sudden thought sent him leafing rapidly through the trial transcript to the place where Paul Cordell had told of the disjointed phrases he claimed to have heard before he pushed into Professor Gilmore's laboratory. Twelve Times Zero
Then she sat at the table in the little nook, drinking coffee, smoking a cigarette and leafing through the paper. Know Thy Neighbor
"Very interesting indeed," Hellman said, leafing through the book. One Man's Poison
He spent the next two hours in the ozalid room, leafing through the print files. Felony
I spray the trees when leafing out, and once a week for five or six weeks after that time, to ward off the insects. The Apple
And by each leafing way The sorrel drops pale blots of pink; And, like an angled star a fay Sets on her forehead's pallid day, The blossoms of the trillium wink. The Garden of Dreams
So they climbed up to Paul's hot little room under the eaves and, after leafing through several magazines, Paul chose one Ivo Darcy as a likely candidate. My Fair Planet
Our oak! what a crop of meditations and remembrances must he have thrown forth, leafing out century after century. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings
It seemed as un-needed as silver leafing draped upon some exotic flowering, but somehow enhanced the general effect. Master of the Moondog
Encourage the birds, and spray some years with London purple and Bordeaux mixture before and after leafing out. The Apple
"We'll just get a few facts straight first, professor," he said, leafing through the notebook. A World by the Tale
The newly leafing oaks were a shimmer of bronze-green above her, while she trod on young ferns that formed a carpet such as was never woven by hands. The Side Of The Angels A Novel
After leafing through them once, it had been a while before Barney could bring himself to study the notes in more detail. Gone Fishing
If you would be leafing other folks' business alone, and attending to your own, you would be knowing the law better. The End of the Rainbow
You could have knocked me over with a turkey feather, when I saw the kind of book he was leafing through. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
And for me, it's a great opportunity to use this reading/writing interplay, whereas leafing through a book gives only a suggestion of it — a vague one because a book isn't meant for that. Interviews (1998-2001)
The trees were leafing out again; the meadows brilliant with fresh green; the soft spring airs wooing into full blush and beauty the numberless spring flowers; every breath fragrant with new sweetness. The Old Helmet, Volume I
Bobby was interestedly leafing over the pages of the Bulletin. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
The only hardiness against late spring frosts is the characteristic of leafing out late, thus escaping most of such frosts. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946
Following this, leafing re-occurred, but at a slower rate and somewhat later than normal. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
In the open door, under the leafing vines, stood Aunt Indiana, in cap, wig, and spectacles. In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk
After leafing out the stock does not bleed. Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
The figs commenced leafing with the month: now they are green with broad leaves, and in the axil of each appears the rudiment of a fruit. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science
The catalpa and China-bell trees were in full blossom and the pecans were leafing out. The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion History, Reminiscences, Description of Battle of Irish Bend, Carrying of Pay Roll, Roster
Thus it seems evident that the McKinster tree has the fault, common in Carpathians, of leafing out too early and being injured by late spring frosts, especially when planted too far south. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
The man picked it up and began leafing it over. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
Unless the moss is kept out it gets so dense that it smothers the fruiting and leafing surface, so trees that are densely covered with that are able to make leaves only on the terminals. Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Third Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, December 18 and 19, 1912
They watched as he went back to work, leafing through the notes, one at a time. Ten From Infinity
The name of the third month of the Hawaiian year, corresponding to late January or February, a time when In the latitude of Hawaii nature does not refrain from leafing and flowering. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Then enters the element of suspense, between the time of leafing out and the time when the little nut clusters appear. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
Against the elms and the maples leafing out in airy tracery that reveals the branches bronze among the budding green, stand the silver birches, and the somber hemlocks, and the resinous pines. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom
The Ash is a manly tree, but "dreigh and dour" in the leafing; and yonder stands an Ash-grove like a forest of ships with bare poles in the docks of Liverpool. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
Soon will your Lord make you growing trees in His wonderful vineyard, blossoming, leafing and bearing fruits of the paradise of El-ABHA through the shadow of His Name, the Merciful, the Clement. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
In a hammock hung between two leafing apple trees, a woman lay, so very still that she seemed sleeping. Red-Robin
These trees were planted on low ground and were killed the first year by late spring frosts after leafing out twice. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
My trees that I go to inspect every two or three weeks, at one inspection would be leafing out, at the next would be defoliated. Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917
And, if leafing had no other reward, the thought of the snoozing, snoring pig buried to his winking snout in the bed, would give joy and zest enough to the labor. The Hills of Hingham
He lay with hands clasped under his head, and looked back at the trees visibly leafing in the warm Easter air. The Lady of Fort St. John
He was so completely frustrated that he couldn't read, but he sat there leafing the pages slowly and making a determined show of not lifting his head. The Fourth R
For the experimenters, the McKinster seems to be about "average" in its time of leafing out. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953
On the sloping hillsides, around the leafing hazel “gay-circles of anemones dance on their stalks.” Some Spring Days in Iowa
But leafing like every other humble labor of our life here in the Hills of Hingham has its own reward,—and when you can say that of any labor you are speaking of its poetry. The Hills of Hingham
In her escape from this oppression, she too gathered a freshness, a convalescent pleasure in what they saw; everything had in some way the likeness of the leafing teak trees, tender and curative. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
He turned back to his own work, leaving Mrs. Bagley leafing her way through the assembly manual. The Fourth R
Above, the branches of the nut-trees stretched themselves in the sweet spring air—they too were just leafing. The Mormon Prophet
The keys of the soft maple will soon be ready to fall and send out rootlets, and the winged seeds of the white elm already lie thickly beneath the leafing branches. Some Spring Days in Iowa
Anyhow, for one day in the fall I want to go leafing. The Hills of Hingham
The horse-chestnut and mulberry are leafing; apple trees and peas blossoming. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2
In the chair with the headset on sat the crowning insult of all: Paul Brennan leafing through a heavy sheaf of papers, reading and intoning the words of political oratory. The Fourth R
Well," he said at length, "seeing that human nature's what it is, I can't say I'm surprised any more than I would be surprised at the trees leafing out in spring. Burned Bridges
All is in the most glorious green—a very extravagance of fresh and brilliant color—relieved with the bright purples and tender leafing of the flowering shrubs and vines that intertwine among its heavy jungle. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118
He pointed at the book that Lloyd was now leafing through, and then moved to his high-backed chair and sat down. Scorched Earth
The grass seemed to be growing, and the trees leafing under the spectator's eyes. Helena
The grand saloon is decorated in a singular style, the panels being painted with upright landscapes, the leafings of which are executed with a kind of silver lacker. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832
So, when there were no tales, Only blank silences— When he lay for hours Staring through leafing branches And forgot them Utterly— They tried to arouse him, saying: “The war is over.” Fires of Driftwood
This is the locust tree, and May is its time for leafing out in the tenderest of greens. Among the Trees at Elmridge
As if against his will, Manguino found himself leafing through some papers on the corner of his desk, desperately trying to formulate a plan in his mind to rebuke Brook. Scorched Earth
There was shrubbery in flower inside the iron fence and some of the trees had been leafing out that day and the air was very still and sweet. Mary Wollaston
Eudora's, behind her trees and leafing vines, was gray for lack of paint. The Yates Pride, a romance
If she looks upon the hedge or up the leafing tree, The whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me. Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
The rejuvenation of nature was to be seen everywhere, in springing grass and leafing tree. Purple Springs
In her escape from this oppression, she too gathered a freshness, a convalescent pleasure in what they saw; everything had in some way the likeness of the leafing teak-trees, tender and curative. The Path of a Star
With the first leafing of the oaks Odo's old love for the budding earth awoke, and he rode out daily in the forest toward Pontesordo. The Valley of Decision
There is a famous horse-chestnut in the Tuileries which is named from leafing so much earlier than the others. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1
Sweet as summer days that die, leafing sweeter each to each,— O, happy are the apples when the south winds blow! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2
A wheat field in the spring, leafing maples. The Drums of Jeopardy
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