Take one of the narrow closes or passageways that pierce the 17th-century buildings lining the Mile and you emerge on the slopes where once European and Scottish aristocrats cultivated long, narrow strips behind their tall houses.
Alistair Darling, the leader of the Better Together campaign, said he always expected the polls to narrow close to the referendum, saying: "We are in the position now when every voters could potentially tip the balance".
This urban court opened up Edinburgh to both European culture and aristocratic violence; a number of feuds, murders, and even gunfights between rival gangs of nobles and their retainers took place in the town's narrow closes.
Alistair Darling, the leader of the Better Together campaign, said he always expected the polls to narrow close to the referendum, saying: "We are in the position now when every voter could potentially tip the balance".
Even as Sugar beckons him, with an almost imperceptible gesture, to follow her into a dark, narrow close, he turns his head back into the fresher air and sniffs deeply, trying to snatch a second wind.
A low CN indicates a wide spatial distribution of markers, whereas a high CN indicates a narrow (close to linear) distribution.
But materialists find in idealism "a narrow, close, sick-room air," and prefer to conceive of an uncertain, dangerous and wild universe that has "no respect for our ego".
While there is no question that ligands can induce large-scale domain movements that narrow (close) the active-site cleft of the catalytic (C) subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (cAPK), the results from small-angle X-ray scattering, protein footprinting, and thermostability studies are inconsistent with regard to which ligands induce these movements.
The gills are attached to slightly decurrent, narrow, close together, and often forked near the stem.
Many teeth are widest at their midsections and narrow closer to the jaws, giving them the appearance of a teardrop.
