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So you see, you are assuming that there have been people up in the Alps that where there to witness his previous thawings over the last 5,000 years, when that is very unlikely.
Think Progress » Senate Committee Launches Taxpayer-Funded Misinformation Campaign About Gore Movie 2006
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To people at home there these changeful tricks had their interests; the strange mistakes that some of the more sanguine trees had made in budding before their month, to be incontinently glued up by frozen thawings now; the similar sanguine errors of impulsive birds in framing nests that were now swamped by snow-water, and other such incidents, prevented any sense of wearisomeness in the minds of the natives.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Yaguachi and all the fish floating dying even as far as Guayaquil; everywhere along the Pacific slopes there were land-slips and swift thawings and sudden floods, and one whole side of the old Arauca crest slipped and came down in thunder, and cut off the Country of the Blind for ever from the exploring feet of men.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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The inevitable coarsening during storage is due to repeated partial thawings and freezings, which melt the smallest ice crystals completely and deposit their water molecules on ever fewer, ever larger crystals.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The inevitable coarsening during storage is due to repeated partial thawings and freezings, which melt the smallest ice crystals completely and deposit their water molecules on ever fewer, ever larger crystals.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The second Saturday in March when flowers would already be blooming at Chenonceau great mounds of ice lay in the courtyard at Holyrood, their surfaces granular from the repeated thawings and re freezings Little ice nuggets sparkled like diamonds in the grey crust.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The second Saturday in March when flowers would already be blooming at Chenonceau great mounds of ice lay in the courtyard at Holyrood, their surfaces granular from the repeated thawings and re freezings Little ice nuggets sparkled like diamonds in the grey crust.
Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987
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The idea is to keep the vegetables frozen or to have very few freezings and thawings, and those few should be gradual.
Every Step in Canning Grace Viall Gray
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For small acreage if one inch can be put on as soon as the ground is frozen a half inch, it will save the many freezings and thawings before winter sets in.
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Whether the transformation of snow into ice be the result of pressure only, or, as I believe, quite as much the result of successive thawings and freezings, these structural features can equally be produced, and exhibit these relations to one another.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various
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