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Hern


Definition:

  • (n.) A heron; esp., the common European heron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
  • (2) The Butcher's Arms pub in Herne village, Kent, was saved by community investment.
  • (3) An investigation into undercover policing by the Met, named Operation Herne, is under way.
  • (4) The fall took place at a three-storey Victorian house in Herne Hill, near Brixton, where the group are believed to have lived for about seven years from 1997.
  • (5) Amikacin was shown to have no significant action on the activity of lymphocytes in the intact mice and stimulated both cellular (LT and GVHR) and humoral (the Herne test) immunity in the animals with lowered immunological reactivity.
  • (6) But as my colleague Alex Hern explained on Monday, there are sound reasons to take peer-to-peer, distributed currencies extremely seriously ( even if Bitcoin's rapidly fluctuating valuation suggests we're into serious bubble mania ) History does provide some lessons.
  • (7) Speaking at MCH Arena in Herning, home of FC Midjytlland, Van Gaal said: “It’s difficult to say but he was injured in the game versus Sunderland and has a knee problem.
  • (8) A neighbour of the Victorian property in Herne Hill, south of Brixton, where the group are believed to have lived for about seven years from 1997, said the household was known locally as "something to do with a cult".
  • (9) In one scrap of paper he imagines "as background, perhaps: An electric fête recalling the decorative lighting of Magic city or Luna Park or the Pier Pavilion at Herne Bay ..." So Herne Bay inspired him to realise the iconic work on glass rather than canvas.
  • (10) Herne is also investigating how undercover police used the identities of dead children and developed long-term sexual relationships with people they spied on.
  • (11) This is a report based on the results of an expertise prepared by the "Institute of Sociomedical Research" at the request of the town of Herne (North Rhine Westphalia) at the end of 1989.
  • (12) In his latest report on the conduct of undercover officers from Scotland Yard's Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), Operation Herne, he said: "Operation Herne has identified emerging evidence that in addition to the Stephen Lawrence campaign, a number of other justice campaigns have been mentioned within SDS records.
  • (13) 2.52pm: On Sven Tom Herne muses: "I can see our mate Sven taking over Portsmouth in that difficult summer period before being replaced at the start of the season.
  • (14) The spokesman said the Met had not shied away from issues raised by Operation Herne and another inquiry.
  • (15) Mel Gussow's Conversations With Pinter is published by Nick Hern Books (£9.99).
  • (16) He said he was determined to "keep some balance" in his investigation: "Herne is not about castigating the 100 or so SDS officers that served over 40 years, some of whom were incredibly brave."
  • (17) "It is the intention of Chief Constable Creedon and Operation Herne to inform all of the families involved and share, where possible, the knowledge and information held."
  • (18) For services to the community in Canterbury and Herne Bay, Kent.
  • (19) The two sites – the Carnegie library in Herne Hill, south-east London, and the Minet library nearby – closed their doors on 31 March before planned works to turn each one into a “community hub”, a combination of a largely unstaffed library and a private gym.
  • (20) Operation Herne has also led Chief Constable Mick Creedon to speak publicly about the brave and innovative operations carried out by the SDS, and those courageous operatives who undoubtedly helped save lives over many years.” The Met said it was providing full support to the public inquiry.

Hewn


Definition:

  • () of Hew
  • (a.) Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.
  • (a.) Roughly dressed as with a hammer; as, hewn stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across this relatively peaceful corner of the Horn of Africa, where black-headed sheep scamper among the thorn bushes, dainty gerenuk balance on their hind legs to nibble from hardy shrubs, and skinny camels wearing rough-hewn bells lumber over rocky slopes, people long accustomed to a harsh environment find they cannot cope after years of below-average rainfall.
  • (2) As the heat drained from the city’s black streets, hewn out of lava from nearby Mount Etna , the stream of new arrivals kept coming.
  • (3) Behind him rise the steep, stone-hewn seats of a Roman amphitheatre in Lyon where, later tonight, Sting will play to a packed crowd of French fans as part of his Symphonicity world tour.
  • (4) Though hacked and fragmented, a haunting shadow of the masterpiece hewn 2,500 years ago, it takes your breath away.
  • (5) He swaggers around and gives deeply moving ad pitches that are more like carefully hewn writers' room monologues.
  • (6) Within minutes the bull whale's blubber has been cut away and hewn into thick white chunks.
  • (7) In Arcosanti, which he began in 1970, this developed into tilt-up concrete construction, with panels cast in dug-out troughs in the ground and heaved up into place, giving the effect of the whole place being built of great slabs hewn from the earth.
  • (8) Titan is not interested in the factory in North Amiens," concluded Michigan-born Taylor, nicknamed "The Grizz" and reputed to be hot-tempered and "rough-hewn", according to Forbes magazine.
  • (9) Over centuries, it has hewn an abundance of military strategists, statesmen and polar explorers.
  • (10) Among other Hepworths on show is Sculpture With Profiles, a curvaceously hewn piece of white alabaster on which eyes and noses have been etched.
  • (11) On current evidence – subterranean basements the size of cathedrals being hewn beneath the capital's bigger homes and tax avoided on a massive scale by some corporations and business – the mayor is uttering a forlorn hope.
  • (12) It was a victory born in Mogadishu, hewn on the streets of west London, honed at high altitude training camps in Kenya and plotted in Portland, Oregon, where Farah has worked for the past 18 months with the maverick Cuba-born coach Alberto Salazar.
  • (13) Such is the innate astonishingness of a drama in which historical integrity is hewn from Lego and logic is something to be bummed by one's brother-in-law behind a gossamer curtain (Ye Terry's Fabrics, £3.89 a yarde).
  • (14) None could even agree what kind of stone it was, with the Stone Federation of Great Britain telling the Mail it could be hewn from Portland limestone from Dorset, but another stonemason claiming it might be cheaper, Portuguese limestone.
  • (15) Trademarks: The pencil behind his ear and often a somewhat home-hewn method of display: see week 7 ’s “eclair stair”.
  • (16) Unlike Abbott, I'm a lapsed member of the flock, but if you are hewn and conditioned by the faith, that's who you are, whether you resist it or whether you accept it.
  • (17) Children sat on mud floors or rough hewn logs under grass roofs open to rain.
  • (18) This is smuggler’s Cornwall with a hewn passageway and, five minutes further along the coast, a hidden quay carved from the rocks.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dylan’s best friend is Luke (Daniel Ings), hewn from manicured stubble and the fevered nightmares of feminists.
  • (20) Rough-hewn and reminiscent of one of Giacometti’s lonely figures, the weathered bronze soldier in the middle of a tiny, shady square in the heart of Paris stands stiffly to attention, with the jagged blade of his broken sword pointing like a dagger up to the sky.

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