In order to make Kermit work through delicate front ends and cantankerous communication devices, its packets were deliberately kept short, with all data encoded as printable ASCII characters.
He didn't make a mistake at a fence, didn't bow a tendon, didn't wrench an ankle, didn't fracture one of his delicate front legs, didn't do one of the things on the endless list of mishaps that can befall a thoroughbred in a race.
To make a documentary, "Fragile Legacy," we are on a quest to lure these elusive and delicate invertebrates in front of the camera lens.
Bob showed me some of the nineteenth-century American antiques he collects — a delicate bevelled-glass-front walnut secretary, an immense Barbary Coast-style sideboard, and so on — and took me into a basement room where he keeps his HO-gauge model-railroad set: an entire railhead in miniature, with yards and sidings and a downtown terminal, complete with surrounding streets and buildings.
Finally, she put the still-warm cakes on delicate china plates in front of them.
All looked effortless, especially a dress in blond chiffon with delicate pleating down the front, and a silk wrap dress with bits of feathered chiffon at the neck.
The cornea, the clear, delicate membrane in the front of the eye, helps protect itself through its many nerve endings - approximately 70 -that signal when irritation is taking place.
Completed in 1518, two years before Raphael's death, the painting features a finely dressed Lorenzo de' Medici in gold and red brocade with delicate fur trim in front of a dark green background.
She pulled over her head a transparent lace dress that covered up nothing, and demanded my assistance — "Not you," she said to Mr. Kiefer, who was bent over trying to help her — to stuff her feet into a pair of black Givenchy heels that were zipped up the back and tied with delicate laces in the front.
The latest versions, which bear little relation to your mother's heavily beaded sweater from the 50's, have a tracing of beads around the neck or a delicate spattering down the front, so they can go out by day or night.
Light and delicate with a narrow front end, racing boards can run to 18 to 19 feet in as little as 21 pounds.
