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en A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice

en He's trying the dirt for the first time, so whatever dirt turns up it will be new to him. Tomorrow we'll take him to the track to see how he likes it. He'll have a faster canter on Thursday.

en It's one of those things, you can read all you want, but until you actually put your nose to the dirt and spend time at it, you're not going to be able to track across all mediums. You have to put the dirt time in.

en You can also have problems with the wind on that end of the stadium. If it is blowing east to west, it hits the stadium and turns around in your face. The dirt isn't too bad when it is drizzling. When it is wet, you don't know what will happen. Every year is a different set of conditions with the dirt.

en I remember watching the game later on TV. The camera was on Mike. He was just pacing back and forth. If you can just picture a bull in the old cartoons, with the smoke coming out of his nose. That was the image you got from him -- a bull with smoke coming out of his nose, scratching the dirt.

en French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
  Stephen King

en This is their Kennedy Space Center. All they've got connecting the building where they assemble the missiles and the launch pad is a dirt road through the middle of a rice paddy.

en This is a form of tunnel boring. It turns the rock in front of a machine into dirt.

en Why not come out and push (an opponent's) nose in the dirt until they stop it. If they don't stop it, keep doing it. That's what Virginia Tech does.

en I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

en She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, grey eyes, which appeared to see everything, and were by turns fierce, funny, or thoughtful,

en Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.
  Francis Beaumont

en He has always trained well on the dirt. His half-brother was a stakes winner on the dirt. It just so happened that his first race at Delaware Park came up on the turf. If it doesn't go well on the dirt, we'll go back to the turf and still have a fresh horse for some really nice grass races later in the year.

en NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.

There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:
"No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!"

So the lawyers applied For injunction. "Denied," Said the Judge: "the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction." --Arpad Singiny
  Ambrose Bierce

en I can't really put my words into sentences to say how it feels, ... (Rice) has been around for a long time and done a lot of great things. I don't really put myself next to Rice.


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