At this point, having no other options, I stopped for a minute on a rock crevice, took some giant yoga breaths, and looked around at the beautiful scenery around me.
"Error, Sir," Laurence Sterne wrote in "Tristram Shandy" (one of Jefferson's favorite books), "creeps in thro' the minute holes, and small crevices, which human nature leaves unguarded".
Dimensions: 250 x 1,244 x 224mm Weight: 2.6kg Suction power: 115AW Bin volume: 540ml Battery life: 40 minutes (30/25 minutes with powered head, seven minutes on max) Charge time: Five hours full charge Dyson claims the V8 will last for 40 minutes without a powered head, using the crevice tool or similar suction-only accessory.
The oral test requires the insertion of a small absorbent pad into the gingival crevice of the mouth for two minutes.
It took 45 minutes to an hour to do a pair, she said, because she wanted to make sure the foundation got into every crevice and covered every bit of ribbon.
"A few minutes ago, her mother almost pushed her down that crevice that threatens to swallow her no matter how firmly she has planted her feet on either side of the yawning gap, each foot on solid ground, one in America, the other in the island of her birth".
The Hawaiian crow is the latest animal to be added to the elite group of species that use tools, after scientists documented it employing sticks to extract hard-to-reach morsels of food from crevices in a log in less than one minute.
For the most part these are minute organisms that thrive in extreme circumstances -- on scree slopes, in limestone formations, in the crevices of a cliff face.
The oxygen deprived environment in the gingival crevice and mature plaque was simulated by flushing the broth with nitrogen for two minutes directly prior to use, to reduce the oxygen saturation in the broth from 80%to20%0%.
The much-traveled Labyrinth Trail, a 45-minute scramble through a maze of boulders, becomes more difficult as it leads through the Lemon Squeeze crevice.
He looked all around the tree for about three minutes to no avail until a television crew worker told him the ball had gone into a crevice in the tree, which was barren of leaves.
