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Two internal glands at the bottom of their tails produce a thick and oily liquid made of particularly smelly chemical compounds.

It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other.

A few months after the defeat of the Metarex, Tails remains waking up to the same dream about Cosmo at the day of the defeat.

To let the thin- ribbed mule browse in stall grasses, its long ears waggling like the tails of two happy dogs?

They say how much easier it was to pass the evening in a coat without tails.

'It had two tails, one curving slightly away from the other at the top. It was like a beacon or a laser shooting up into the sky.

But from the point of view of the fund manager and his bonus, it's a case of "heads I win, tails the investor loses" .

Too slow to be a meteor, too bright when seen at dawn or dusk to be considered contrails, and with a signature flare of two tails.

In trying to find long tails everywhere, Mr Anderson risks diluting some of his idea's meaning and novelty.

Many a night she stood by open window , and looked up through the dark water at the fishes splashing with their fins and tails .

John is so strange. I can't make heads or tails of him.

"It's routine, " he said, adding that demand often tails off toward the end of the year.

"Not worn out, " cried the recruit, " Why, if I step on a dime I can feel if it's head or tails. "

The heritage business is riding the coat-tails of a general boom in domestic tourism, a result of the recession and a weaker pound.

Tail Ends, Tails: The end of a film. The film must be rewound before projection if it is tails out.

After all, it's starting to look as if the rule is heads you win, tails the taxpayers lose.

Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky.

It was going to be a very formal affair , white tie and tails for the men , sweeping gowns for the women .

Any school kid can tell you that comets are made of ice. That frozen water burning off is what gives comets their characteristic tails.

We keep part of the commandment and (pardon the pun) never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

There, a part of the audience recognizes that any series is equally probable, so they are more likely to put down all heads or all tails.

I also know that sticking tails straight out and having tongues hanging out the other end to maximize space is nothing but sarcasm.

Other specific attributes and elements included the shapes and positioning of tails, ears, eyes, and buttons.

Toss a coin and get heads 100 times in a row and use superstitions to conclude that the next toss is more likely to be tails than heads.

Dispersed shareholdings and misaligned incentives meant many of the senior staff were on a "heads I win, tails the bank loses" deal.

You can see that the dash distribution I drew has more out in the tails, so we call it fat-tailed.

Snowball also threw onto the fire the ribbons with which the horses' manes and tails had usually been decorated on market days.

It is going to be a very formal party, white tie and tails for men, full-length gowns for women.

It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot.

They're called that because their backs and tails are covered with an armor made of plates of bone.

We keep part of the commandment and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Ms Wang, who died of cancer in 2007, was known as "Little Sweetie" , thanks to her trademark pig-tails, heavy make-up and mini-skirts.

The PMI perspective omits one side of the coin from consideration, calling "heads" when there just has to be a tails and an edge there, too.

Having won the President Cup, the team got their tails up for the final of the league championship.

You and target opponent each flip a coin. Mana Clash deals 1 damage to any player whose coin comes up tails.

The German chemist Kekule dreamed of snakes biting their tails, therefore discovered the ring shape of the chemical compound benzene.

All the other mongoose species have bushy tails but the mongoose has a long thin one which tapers down to a tip, often of a reddish color.

If computer monitors can shrink to almost the width of a piece of paper, and mice can evolve to lose their tails, then what about keyboards?

But telling me all this, Rosie's voice gradually tails off and she shakes her head sadly.

If being a toastmaster, the usual dress would be crimson tails with a white waistcoat, and evening- suit trousers.

The conductor, too, was kind. Often when he went his rounds I clung to his coat tails while he collected and punched the tickets.

Ned came in, looking scared. He was not at all like a dog with two tails.

Then he looked to the horizon and saw a swarm of small objects descending, trailing tails of smoke from behind, and he knew.

Just as every cop is a criminal and all the sinners saints, as heads is tails, just call me Lucifer, 'cause I'm in need of some restraint.

Dust tails are created when small particles from a comet are swept backward by the Sun's radiation pressure.

the stargazers also observed comets with sparkling tails , and meteors or shooting stars apparently falling from the sky.

It was not the farmer's wife, but the mini-radio transmitter which cut off their tails, rendering newer mouses wireless.

The expression " coattails " is an allusion to the rear panels ( "tails" ) of a man's coat.

On the tails-we-lose side are companies like New York-based PS Brands, one of the biggest American importers of socks.

No wonder the public feels that Wall Street's current fortunes are a case of heads I win, tails you lose.

The scientists measured the length of telomeres, the tails on the ends of chromosomes, in sample groups in the Glasgow area.

Here you can see the deep blue sea, This is the boat and this is me, All the little fishes down below, Waggle their tails and off they go.

Some fish less than one year have completely outstretched tails. These fish can adjust themselves to lower temperature weather of England.

Give my husband an old motorbike to tinker with and he's as happy as a dog with two tails.

Soaring through the air these creatures are often mistaken for flying hamsters or bats with tails.

They use their tails to stun fish or to round them up ready for attack .

Their high, narrow tails with swept-back tips are almost perfectly adapted to provide propulsion with the least possible effort.

Phil then whispers his prediction in Groundhogese to the man in coat and tails, the president of the Groundhog Club's Inner Circle.

Use the jar as a mold and wrap the newspaper around the jar, then fold the tails into the base.

Tuxedo is in Orange County, north of New York City. The tuxedo, a black formal men's dinner suit without "tails" , was first worn here.

The effects of the tails, which would blur the OCT images, were tremendously reduced with a retrieval algorithm.

but without fishing rod. How do you make it to fish up such a big fish? Look, the fish is still waving its tails in the water.

It's bad luck to pick up a coin if it's tails side up. Good luck comes if it's heads up.

The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest .

This kind of goldfish strech their tails up and down to a fan shape.

I can't make heads or tails of your email. Were you having problems with your computer?

They might also use construction paper to add feathers, curly tails, or other interesting characteristics.

come home , wagging their little tails , happy to see you kind of.

The tetra shows equal interest in getting at both sword tails. Like humans, tetras are unable to register UV light.

The old man pinched their heads off with his thumb and forefinger and ate them chewing up the shells and the tails.

Since comet tails are shaped by sunlight and the solar wind, they always point away from the sun.

Curbing state companies means taking on all of the well-connected people who ride on their coat-tails, including parts of the middle class.

The sky was dark with birds , the drain-pipes were full of birds' tails, and our house became birds salon.

Birds and planes are able to adjust their directions by moving their wings and tails slightly.

None of us could make heads or tails of his handwriting.

When Dr. Thornton tried to return the receptor to its original form, these twists and tails got in the way.

Well, me, I don't get her: half the Kingdom worships her and the other half despises her! I can't make heads or tails of it?

When my first play, A Cyst for Gus, was produced at the Lyceum, he attended opening night in tails and a gas mask.

But in a world where protest often fizzles down to nothing, or tails off to a whimper, we need Ruskin's voice.

Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you but to your bread.

Others stretch out their necks, raising their heads and closing their eyes; their curved tails ACT as the handles of the utensil.

A kitten does not discover that her tails belongs to her until you tread upon it .

Two red squirrels, with long bushy tails, came down the pine tree, chattering, their claws making a scratching sound.

Squirrels in South Africa have also been studied and found to be using their tails in another temperature related way.

An experimental model with two cavities was made of concrete, ore fines and tails in the laboratory.

The horses, unseen before, were visible to the tails now, and through the leafless boughs there could be seen a watery light.

they began to lose their feathery gills and develop longer tails.

Two horses will stand together, head to tail, and use their tails to keep flies out of each other's face.

Let me ask the evolutionist a question --- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?

The Rolling Animals are in the forms of a dog, rabbit, cat and mice, and their tails are connected to their bodies by metal springs.

Eventually, tails began to sprout on their bottoms!

The methylation of histone lysine is an important covalent modification at its tails and plays a key role in epigenetic regulation.

Their name refers to the long tails produced by a galactic tide.

His temper was as short as his coat-tails. coat-tails.

If moorings are wires, are they fitted with synthetic tails at least 11 metres in length?

That night she stayed awake long after bedtime, long enough to hear the rustling of long tails under her bed.

Native to the Mediterranean, this water plant looks like a bundle of slimy, greyish -green rat tails.

Dogs not wagging their tails can survive in this world unless they do not serve as dogs.

If docked, the tails length should be in keeping with the overall proportion of the adult dog.

So the monkeys grabbed each other's tails, and got ready to rescue the moon.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

Trust me, the thought process does alter over time. Hanging on to the tails of youth isn't on my mind at all.

Most Egyptians cannot make heads or tails of the strangest evening since the crisis began on January 25th.

I wondered if they would carry their tails so high if they could see what was thought of an ass here.

Earlier in this section, we noted that the tails of the normal distribution approach but never touch the horizontal axis.

Their tails wagged moderately, again more to the right, when faced with an unfamiliar human.

wagging their little tails, happy to see you.

It was the deer's suddenly raised tails that tipped me off: tiger time.

After dangling in mid-air on the swinging rope, DD and BB untied their tails and leapt to each other's rope and got hold of it!

It's one explanation for why humans no longer have tails, birds and turtles are toothless and snakes have stayed limbless.

Human embryos, for instance, develop, then lose, gills, webbed feet and rudimentary tails, reflecting their ancient aquatic life styles.

Cyberattacks are one of the biggest fat tails (along with climate and North Korea).

He also recounts tails from another home of his - his country of birth Ukrainian.

When confronted by a rattlesnake, squirrels' tails heat up, getting hotter by almost four degrees Fahrenheit.

they were about the size of a pony and where very beautiful with their long , flowing manes and tails.

Devils are armed with a trident and their barbed tails can sting opponents in close combat.

Never: China was viewed as one big opportunity, even if shirt tails no longer top the list of Mancunian exports.

They keep their muscles tense and their tails in straight lines with the rest of their bodies.

We sent the enemy home with their tails between their legs.

Covalent modifications of histone tails play a key role in the regulation of chromatin structure and control of transcriptional activity.

Covalent modifications of histone tails play a key role in the regulation of chromatin structure and control of transcriptional activity.

For the next six weeks, your tails belong to me.

The process was used to whittle the original 19 genes down to just three, which were then tested on skin cells from the tails of adult mice.

This globule, however, has ruptured. Cometary globules are typically characterized by dusty heads and elongated tails.

I gave buildings tails by hanging black plastic garbage bags at the back of each building.

Tails wagged and wet noses pressed against the glass as the day's first customers wandered in.

Their tails when they spread them to the sun are like disks of ivory and like gilt disks.

Two head-tails hung elegantly in front of her plump chest and stretched to the slender waist.

The wings and tails of the drone can be easily dissembled for transportation.

The flicking tails of the shrimp stir up the water, which stirs the microbes so that each bug has a chance to catch the sunlight.

This radiation pressure is thought to shape the tails of comets and is useful for pushing solar sails in space.

Great whites are torpedo-shaped with powerful tails that can propel them through the water at up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) per hour.

Any of various small slender parrots , usually having long tapering tails and often kept as pets .

As Mexico's rainy season tails off, dogs are stepping out of designer shoes to show off painted claws.

That's why comet tails always point away from the sun.

The aircraft's canted vertical tails improve aerodynamic efficiency, provide lift, and reduce airframe weight.

Some may have pin heads, others have two heads, some lack tails, a third don't move at all.

However, he was tired of wearing the accepted formal attire of a coat with tails.

Then, they went away. They both had tails. It was the fox and the cat!

a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long tails, white summer frock, and embroidered pantalettes.

They were crowded together in a corner, their tails pointing the same way.

A second requirement was to find a way to eliminate tails and prevent unwrapping, which causes particular problems in automated warehouses.

Then he fastened a torch to every pair of tails.

Birds' tails got shorter, their flying skills got better and their brains got bigger than those of dinosaurs.

Some liberals say that more extreme Islamist groups are riding on the more moderate Brothers' coat-tails.

Meteors, also called shooting stars, normally begin as bits of dust from the tails of comets or even small pieces chipped off asteroids.

Apes have no tails, unlike most monkeys. They have muscles, nerves, and organs that are similar to man's (1).

The new finds suggest that the fish could have held onto floating clumps of seagrass for weeks or months with their prehensile tails.

Sculpted by wind and radiation from the cluster stars, their tails trail away from the cluster's central region.

Elephant tusks , monkey tails and salt were used in some parts of Africa.

He sat and smiled , and the water dripped off his coat tails . Mrs. Tittlemouse went round with a mop .

Democrats riding on his coat-tails swept four of the five other statewide races.

So he went out and caught three hundred foxes and tied them tail to tail in pairs. He then fastened a torch to every pair of tails.

The tails of both T. rex and modern animals are given their shape and strength by rib bones attached to the vertebrae.

Those in favor of the procedure claim this benefits their pets' health, as dogs' tails harbor bacteria.

A man's formal daytime coAT, with front edges sloping diagonally from the waist and forming tails AT the back.

hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails.

You might say the probability that you toss a coin and it comes up heads is a half, because it's equally likely to be heads and tails.

He's learned to tie pony tails, inadvertently shrunk sweaters in the wash and knows which grocery store has the best price on milk.

It was not immediately clear when the whales were photographed being hauled by their tails aboard the harpoon ship Yushin Maru 2.

The Dolan breed has a distinctive curved nose and twin tails, as well as a long floppy ears.

Then others came, each with one additional tail, but all were turned away until finally one came who had nine tails, just like old Mr. Fox.

Elephant tusks, monkey tails, and salt were used as money in parts of Africa.

During your upkeep, you may choose to flip a coin. Target opponent calls heads or tails while the coin is in the air.

Other characters being changed include that for "new" (xin) and "dear" (qin), which would also lose their "tails" .

These artificial discs were implanted in the tails of laboratory rats, where they performed much like natural discs.

If a player throws four heads, he moves forward four spaces and has another turn; if he throws four tails, he throws again.

The police are close on their tails, so when the women find three sacks, they immediately jump into them.

Any duck tails blasting around in hot-rods after midnight get a fast shuffle around here.

Known as " The Mice" because they have such long tails, each spiral galaxy has likely already passed through the other.

Carp use squirrel tails jumped over the obstacles themselves !

You can ask the boss since you cannot make heads or tails of it.

He wanted something more informal. So he asked a tailor to make him several jackets in black without tails.

With their eyes, tails and love, dogs can provide the listeners for a beginning reader to gain confidence.

Taking tails which are consolidated with high water material as backfilling is a new type backfilling method.

A new experiment suggests that behind all the waggy tails there really is something deeper going on.

"The people who did that didn't have horns and tails, " said Tutu. "They were human beings like you and me. "

Seeds very numerous, minute, fusiform, always winged, or both ends with appendages or thread-like tails.

Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing. If heads, prevent all effects of attacks, including damage, done to.

They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.

From time to time they would stalk, press their bodies to the ground, swish their tails and give every sign of going for the kill.

A light-hearted, appealing graphical adventure from the creators of Santa's Secret Valley and Twisted Tails.

So it is that even to this day Bears have short tails, hibernate all winter, and have no love at all for Fox.

breed of medium-sized terriers bred in Tibet resembling Old English sheepdogs with fluffy curled tails.

This thesis is devoted to the study of asymptotic ruin probabilities in the presence of risky investments and heavy tails.

Striped tails are a common feature of many animals.

Suppose we meet and decide to pass an hour tossing a coin, playing heads-or-tails - heads you win, tails you lose.

Useful for mammals that use tails for balance, species-to-species signaling, and support, the tail is missing in apes and in humans.

Many New World monkeys have prehensile tails, and all have broad noses with sideways-opening nostrils.

Earth, in fact, has passed through the tails of occasional comets without measurable effect.

If I say "heads I win ; tails you lose " , I will win whatever happens.

Their policies were like tails of poisonous scorpions stinging and agonizing people.

but I don't think you would advise us to do away with our tails if you hadn't lost it yourself first.

Frostbite - dogs that are left too long in cold conditions can get frostbite, usually on their ears, tails and feet.

And on weekends he likes to put on the boards, throw up rooster tails.

The Republicans really have their tails up since their surprising election victory.

Its spire is formed from the entwined tails of three dragons. They represent Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Labour leader Ed Miliband is also believed to be planning to wear tails.

The bicolor mane is not common; usually these horses have black manes and tails.

Some point out that neither elephants nor giraffes sport long, thick tails to obstruct male access.

Third, key players had an incentive to take big risks, because it was heads they win, tails someone else loses.

Ma: Men were usually required to wear men's formal attires or swallow tails for every formal occasions.

Hanging up dead rats by their tails wards off the plague.

When he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back.

The fishes always stay together wherever they go with the tails swaying regularly.

Called the Urban Tails, the new facility is seven star pet resort and is the first of its kind in the UAE.

Most other fish have tails that are essentially symmetrical from top to bottom.

What can be learned from 8 legs, 4 eyes, and 2 tails?

The initials, finals, rhyme tails, tones in Chinese dialects can have a direct impact on the formation of the customs of homonym.

Looking back, I saw a two fierce tigers to their tails like a rough whip.

The Dow has been up eight days in a row. Try flipping a coin and catching tails eight times in a row.

They weigh about a half pound when born and grow to as much as 50 pounds. Their tails account for half of their length.

Professor: We think meteors that crashed into the moon or tails of passing comets may have introduced water molecules.

Tails too short, or with clumpy ends due to ankylosis, are serious faults.

The feet and tails of the kitty and puppy rattles are small enough that they can enter into and become lodged in a child's throat.

We just have to make sure we stay on their tails and try to make the gap smaller.

home made egg noodle pasta with prawn tails, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, curry.

Experts say it is rare for beavers to attack people. Usually the shy animals just run away or slap their tails on the ground.

There they can watch the huge whales. the whales dive, jump out of the water, and even "dance" on their tails.

hippopotamuses spread their scents by whisking their tails.

"Heads they win, tails they break even, " is how Barney Frank describes the current setup.

The parts of the tails were colored in red.

"I'm not surprised, " said Valerie Muggli, who runs Tails of Gold, a golden retriever breeding operation near Clearwater.

I can't make heads or tails of his handwriting.

Disdain for holier-than-thou lefties who ride their husbands' coat-tails to power and wealth.

Butterfly tails by cutting lengthwise through centers of hard top shells and meat.

Their long, prehensile tails allow them to grab onto branches and give them superior balance.

Dog are lousy poker players. When they get a good hand they wag their tails.

Many birds have a variety of colors throughout their body, changing from the tops of their heads to the tips of their tails.

In some cases he was even possessed of a muzzle, and long rat tails were not uncommon.

Long legs increase the stride when hopping. Forelimbs and tails prop them up when they crawl slowly to feed.

He says to cut one of their tails off. So she does.

Watch the dolphins play with the underwater ball, sometimes poking it with their nose, and sometimes with their tails.

The slide in emerging stock markets on Wall Street's coat-tails appears to endorse their view.

Monkey's prehensile tails allow them to cling to trees in seemingly impossible position.

After one month, it can be pointed out whether their tails shape is good or not.

Curve A is skewed to the right , because it tails off toward the high end of the scale .

Guard Alright, slide up. Paws on the white line. Tails in the air.

Lovely pandas'faces look like cats', but their fat bodies and short tails are like bears'.

I have JD and an MBA from Harvard and even I can't make heads nor tails of this deception and fraud. It's deception and fraud!

Today in the New York Stock Exchange, all the brokers are tails up.

heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position.

Such propellers as we have recently designed for small ships are actually modelled on fish tails.

Can have any result to none of tails from the beginning!

To communicate dominance, the alphas carry their tails high and stand tall.

In either case, these five mutations added twists and tails to the receptor.

I can't make heads or tails of this report! It's just too confusing!

A human has a bone just after the spine ends, which helps proves that humans once had tails (possibly).

Until that gap is bridgeable, China's stray dogs would best be advised to keep their tails down.

If you wear pony tails, do a lot of heat styling, or otherwise physically damage your hair, it will negatively affect hair growth.