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If you slyly take an extra shower at 2 a.m. or such ungodly times you will have to dry your wet butts by hanging them out the window.O Now if they conveyed this maybeN They heard two shells of petrous, ice-glazed snow simultaneously strike into a lower part of the faade of the house unlike a one-time thud of a bird or the distinct sounds of thawing ice when falling from the roof and gutter.— Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
121 The inner projection of the temporal bone is known as the petrous process.— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools
), supraoccipital and "petrous" (_rocher_), developed from the nuchal plate; the ali- and orbito-sphenoids developed from the trabeculć; the "cranial ethmoid"[229] developed from the facial plate; (2) the parietals, frontals and nasals formed from the "superior" protective plate; the "anterior" and "posterior" frontals and the temporal, from the "lateral" plates; the body of the sphenoid and the vomer from the "inferior" plates.— Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
The angle between the RWM and the external auditory meatus was below 30 degrees in 97\% of the petrous bones and thus had a nearly parallel course.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
2.321), and this lies in the middle of the petrous bone of the skull.— The Evolution of Man — Volume 2

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