Word: sawley
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...details, as with the fragments of two angels from a demolished late 13th century tomb in Sawley in Derbyshire -- faces and drapery so refined in their carving, and yet so plain and direct that they bear comparison with the sculpture made for the west door of Notre Dame a century before -- one sees the immensity of the loss. One can also sense the sheer range of feeling accessible to Plantagenet sculptors, from the grotesque and grimacing faces on corbels (meant more as effigies of "types" of men than as specific portraits, however sharp and humorous their realism) to the forbiddingly...
...Prauzi, Latvia, Sawley Ivanov, 64, father of 31, appealed to police to protect him from his children when they threatened to thrash him if he married a fourth time...
...launch is laid up for the winter at Sawley's yard, South Boston. The boat is an expensive one to run. She has a coil boiler which has a habit of bursting about every other day. The virtue of being able to get up steam in a few minutes has to be paid for by an uncertainty of keeping it up. The cost of keeping the boat in repair is fully equal to that of running her. She is not a good boat for cold weather. There is no house over the running gear, so that the many water pipes...
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