Last week, a man called Lloyd Case was in the witness box - a gravel-voiced, slightly weather-beaten figure from Fargo, North Dakota.
Either way, there were few visibly tear-stained faces among the 6,507 members of the loyal Adams family who made the final trip up Lane End Road, past the biscuit factory and the slightly weather-beaten industrial units.
On this occasion, he had gone with the vest — the preaching coat is usually reserved for more formal occasions — a slightly weather-beaten black leather number, worn over a black shirt and jeans, topped off with his customary black Stetson and the first of eight or ten cigars (Montecristo No. 2s) that he smokes each day.
Skeletal soils are formed where outcrops of the underlying rock have been slightly weathered or where they have been covered with a patina or chalky crust.
Though the Plymouth is old and slightly weathered, no one would mistake it for a vintage racecar — not even Mr. Atallah.
Slightly weathered, a tinge overexposed, perhaps just out of step with the rest of the frame, back projections have become ingrained in our cultural ideography.
But at a news conference on Tuesday, Jerry Patterson, the Texas land commissioner, said the tar balls were only slightly weathered, suggesting that the oil had not drifted so far on its own.
The new production of the 1958 Jean and Walter Kerr musical, "Goldilocks," features the fresh -- and in some cases, slightly weathered -- faces of 14 actors and actresses who can belt out a song, sell a dance number and pull off a slapstick sequence or a love scene.
"They need to be looking slightly weathered at the corners".
⑥-11 Limestone 4.00~7.10 5.00 Grey in color, and slightly weathered.
The shear strength is between that for highly weathered and slightly weathered rocks.
