• On the lakeshore the wedding guests milled about between the yurts in their finest outfits, swapping salutations and gossip.

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  • Every July 4, local militias got decked out in their finest outfits and paraded through the streets marching to fifes and drums.

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  • They tended to dress in their finest clothes and have serious expressions in order to convey a sense of their good character, Heiferman says.

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  • Each painting and sculpture seemed to have waited for my arrival, dressed in their finest draperies and gilded frames, like flags in an endless procession of gladness.

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  • Car horns mingle with temple bells and villagers dressed in their finest clothes queue up outside the famous Ram Raja Temple to offer flowers to the reigning deity.

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  • He was skilful at getting countries to surrender their finest beaches for new resorts in return for electricity and other infrastructure, and persuading bankers to finance them.

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  • The solemn ritual sacrifice of a goat to the mountain is performed by villagers clad in their finest ceremonial dress, under the careful direction of a shibi (priest).

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  • The crowd was a raucous blaze of colours - the women delighted to be free of the black veils demanded by the militants, and now proudly wearing their finest dresses.

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  • People who experience so much poverty and hardship really knew how to celebrate when their football team won, but really suffered when they lost so many of their finest young men.

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  • Before long, hundreds of thousands were traveling to Washington to don their finest revolutionary war garb and carry signs informing the President that they had come to take back their country.

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  • And although the dining room looks fit for guests dressed in their finest togs, visitors--as few as 12 but rarely more than 24--usually wear gray sweat suits (supplied by the spa) to meals at group tables.

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  • Earlier this year the Irish province celebrated the 10th anniversary of their finest hour - that never-to-be-forgotten European Cup final victory at Lansdowne Road - and while they have continued to dine at the continent's top table ever since, they have been left mostly feeding on scraps.

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  • She would not become a citizen for another three years, at the Federal Court House in Newark, but it was that night, September 12, as she watched the nation draw together, as cities like Chicago sent their finest men and women to New York, that she became an American.

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  • But even Amorim and other quality-conscious producers such as Sabate are going to have to accept that plastic corks and the screw caps used in many cheaper wines in the United States and by the Swiss for even their finest bevvies are going to take an increasing share of the market.

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  • The most physical demonstration of this rivalry is, famously, the annual University Boat Race: one spring Saturday each year the Light Blues (Cambridge) and Dark Blues (Oxford) each send their finest eight oarsmen to row the 4 miles and 374 yards along the Thames between Putney and Mortlake in west London.

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  • Many of the chefs involved are Michelin-starred, and their offerings rate alongside the finest restaurants in their cities.

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  • In order to compile a list of said ideas, we tapped some the tech scene's finest for their input.

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  • On Sunday, Lyon's women's team underlined their status as the finest in Europe with an 11-0 demolition of Soyaux in the Coupe de France.

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  • Pittsburgh is rolling behind a resurgent Crosby and two linemates playing perhaps the finest hockey of their careers.

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  • Firms there have installed numerous Italian looms, as well as developing equipment of their own, but the finest cashmere clothes still come from Biella.

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  • Its social elite commissioned Paris' finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited.

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  • However, they also have to worry about paying off the extraordinary debt they have accumulated in their years of studying at the finest universities across the country.

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  • It was New Zealand's finest Test triumph, surpassing their innings and 185 run success against Pakistan in Hamilton in 2000-01.

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  • The kings and queens of Europe, it was said, blew their noses only on handkerchiefs of the finest Irish linen.

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  • That same black woman lived in a two-bedroom home and saw her parents bust their butts to make ends meet, and scrape together every penny to send their children to the nation's finest schools.

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  • Then Istanbullus realized that they'd been eating one of the world's finest cuisines all along: their own meyhane (taverna) food -- mezes, kebabs, and fresh fish -- to be consumed with raki, preferably in sight of the Bosporus.

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  • Instead, check into the creaky old Palmyra Hotel where luminaries including Jean Cocteau and General de Gaulle once slept, and explore the spectacular ruins of ancient Heliopolis - the "Sun City" - whose Temples of Bacchus and Jupiter hold their own among the Mediterranean's finest.

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  • People looking at Al Gore today see a product of the American upper crust: a presidential contender born in Washington, reared in a top-floor suite of a hotel along Embassy Row, his father a senator, his mother trained in law, the high-achieving parents grooming their prince for political success at the finest private schools in the East.

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  • The Clangers were perhaps Postgate and Firmin's finest achievement though not, apparently, their most popular.

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  • The world's finest yachts often reflect the personalities of their owners.

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