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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sat and stared at the desk in front of him, the creamy whorls in the wood, the tanned grain.
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If you have many whorls, few loops, patterned palms the chances are you will develop duodenal ulcers.
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In the whorls of the inflorescence a few juvenile plantlets develop which root readily.
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Other species have squat whorls, the whole ammonoid being so tightly rolled up as to be almost spherical.
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Roz felt the hot tightness within her curling into a whorl of anger.
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The whorls thus formed are smaller than the submerged form.
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The Cucuteni graves contained vases, beads, spindle whorls, and three Goddess figurines in each one.