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[001] nly a glance at the lapel gauge on his coverall. The _____ negative field his suit set up would help to repel b
[002] of her bodies in an upright position. Said she, "I'm _____ , too. I can talk. Remember, man, remember. People ne
[003] her head. "I'm sorry, Mr. Morgan. I'm usually a very _____ woman, but I'm awfully tired". "And hungry", he
[004] 's wind- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too _____ to be broken by the will of men. Gavin sighed bitter
[005] Mike debated it, trying to decide whether Fiske was _____ enough to ride. But it at least offered him a chance
[006] in the center of a wide valley. Montero had set up a _____ position, using every bale and box we had in additio
[007] occasion to do so), but he was more wiry than truly _____ . And his relatively small hands and feet gave him an
[008] threw a ten-day drinking spree and dropped some very _____ hints among friends. "Dead center at three hundre
[009] Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some _____ branches to repair a hay rack. Harnessing a team to
[010] and came to a wooden partition. Horse smell was very _____ , and he could hear the crunch of grain being ground
[011] could hear the crunch of grain being ground between _____ jaws. He found a match in his pocket and lit it.
[012] lly his position was correct. Japanese aircraft were _____ on maneuverability, American on speed and firepower.
[013] he glass door. Her form was silhouetted and with the _____ light I could see the outlines of her body, a body t
[014] but I could not get it out of my head that we had a _____ physical attraction for one another and we both fear
[015] of a chieftain on Taui who made much magic and was _____ and cunning. The maku Frayne has inherited this stre
[016] ung man of twenty-four, clothed in muscle, immensely _____ , with a habitual gentleness and diffidence of manner
[017] r the American market, where the competition is very _____ . I must have a powerful representative here, a firm
[018] g: "Come near, let me feel your arms. You look quite _____ and healthy to me, Dandy". Mrs. Lalaurie impati
[019] his own lips. He guzzled down three-quarters of the _____ home-blend and proffered the remainder. The man stal
[020] can't leave the baby with Grandma because she isn't _____ enough and the baby's too young to be put in a nurse
[021] fortunes". "It's too elaborate. And Grandma isn't _____ enough to take on something like that, and to tell y
[022] aw the Mare's foal. Handsomest colt in all Kentucky. _____ too, up on his legs when he was an hour old. What ab
[023] r soul, she was a sweet one. Come on now". She put a _____ hand under the old man's arm and lifted him up, pati
[024] had given her teeth that were white and regular and _____ . Her mouth, soft and full, was something for any man
[025] Strength began to zip up and down his chest. He felt _____ as a giant. He unlaced his high brown shoes and took
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[001] ed gently in their happiness and wondered what their _____ B'dikkat might be wanting to tell them. When he said
[002] rl said, and then seemed to change her mind. "He's a _____ . His name's Joseph Sanchez. Is there anything else y
[003] , those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a _____ in the world. William Lewis made the rounds of al
[004] I sort o' got a corner on the market". "Tom", a _____ asked him once, "how come you bushwhacked them
[005] oy and rancher in Wyoming seemed proud to call him a _____ . No man's name brought more cheers when it was annou
[006] in' or a shoot-down"? "Yeah, I can see that", the _____ was forced to agree. "But ... well, it just don't se
[007] eaded straight for each other on a collision course. _____ or enemy? The same old question. And only a few seco
[008] ave foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a _____ sweltering and dusty and- Well, at least I wouldn't
[009] tcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his _____ , the poet Nicolas Manas, to his
[010] , the poet Nicolas Manas, to his _____ Meredith Wilder. Five days later, on receiving it, M
[011] rippling through their cave had reached Nagamo, his _____ , and with a shriek the man bolted through the entran
[012] rom Charles' revelations (even when he suspected his _____ of exaggeration or invention), so he usually invit
[013] I, who until that day before had been Mrs. Salter's _____ , her equal, was the servant now. It was Dolly and Mr
[014] t rankles; it is when I meet someone who was a close _____ of the family, and therefore of mine, and they nod t
[015] alive. But I think a man needs at least one intimate _____ to communicate with". Pausing, he waited for her to
[016] really upset the first time I discovered that my boy _____ Johnnie was seeing Mrs. warren. I asked him about it
[017] ew York, except that he had replaced his biwa with a _____ . An American student named Charlotte Adams had refus
[018] ation wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a _____ to some meeting in the village, using the recently p
[019] nd herself in. "I'm terribly upset", she told a girl- _____ . "I wrote Bill in my last letter to forget that I ha
[020] s gone". The speaker referred to the whiskey but his _____ thought he meant the cold. It-wit is a misnomer b
[021] reat pain. I CALLED the other afternoon on my old _____ , Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic
[022] human stature, hope, and humor. My unscientific _____ does not believe that human stature is measurable in
[023] nd in the motor; disturbing, as when one says that a _____ is acting funny; and frightening, as when a wife tel
[024] ave told why. But she was. It was in the air. A _____ of my father's came to dinner. He was passing throug
[025] ry, understated, charming, and immensely readable My _____ , the Quizzical Salamander. Done in the modern styl
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[001] . Mercer got the blissful needle. When B'dikkat _____ the head from Mercer's thigh, he felt the knife grin
[002] body. He saw the child-face grimace as the head was _____ ; he felt the far, cool flash of unimportant pain, as
[003] guard's rifle to Fiske. "Dean and myself will try to _____ out horses to ride", he said. "We'll stampede the re
[004] aw in our defense; the Rees undoubtedly would try to _____ down as many of the animals as possible. Wildly buck
[005] the boy. Let's ride". #CHAPTER TWO# BARTON'S MEN _____ the telegraph wires in half a dozen places, carrying
[006] mouth, and politely proffered one to her. "Oh, _____ it out, Tom"! she snapped. "Can't you stop that stup
[007] while cameras rolled. The finished- and drastically _____ - product would begin with a hazy longshot of Joyce e
[008] don't understand", she insisted. "Are you trying to _____ your throat"? "No", I chuckled, "I'm just beginni
[009] lips. He removed his hat to let the trapped sweat _____ rivulets through the dust film upon his gaunt face.
[010] the waves slop against the bottom. The cloudburst _____ off abruptly. They were engulfed by the weird silenc
[011] re. Her stern was down and a sharp list helped us to _____ loose the lifeboat which dropped heavily into the wa
[012] nde, blue-eyes, fair, buxom without being heavy, she _____ a fine figure of budding womanhood as she swished am
[013] xpanse of rock and, seating herself, shook her short- _____ brown hair and tilted her chin far upward. The reedy
[014] th breasts better developed, more obvious in a lower- _____ dress, someone without a mouthful of wire bands and
[015] here! You doctors are all alike- all you want is to _____ up people and what's the good? No, I want out, Joe"!
[016] ry considerate in not hinting that she really should _____ out "one or two countries" and come home in August t
[017] after the ball but it rolled past him. Phil Rossoff _____ over to center from left field to get the relay. Edd
[018] p there"? Phil started to say something but Eddie _____ him short. "Now don't tell me what a good ball playe
[019] way of life, goddamit! And you've got to be ready to _____ to ribbons anybody who want to take your way of life
[020] to leave her now. Everyone would know why; he would _____ a supremely ridiculous figure. He was trapped.
[021] The attempt had failed because, when endeavoring to _____ his wrists, this murderer of seven women had fainted
[022] in solid, unrelieved black, and with her blonde hair _____ so closely, wearing this uniform, she strongly resem
[023] gs, people here seemed to be those who would have to _____ down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly; people
[024] ailor-made" to his specifications, a role eventually _____ down to three short speeches? Did he show the rest o
[025] ve man's’Äù society was. The Iceman's hair was neatly _____ , and his body had numerous tattoos that probably symb
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[001] down, slashing it across his cheek, and he tried to _____ back. She swung the quirt again, and this time he ca
[002] felony for months in advance and knows exactly which _____ to take next in the course of the final execution of
[003] Jess's pistol back into the holster. He retreated a _____ and holstered his own. "All right, Crouch; we'r
[004] runkenly to his feet, lowered his head, and took one _____ away from the wall. Curt caught him flush on the nos
[005] both Sally and Dan. ... And she really tried to go a _____ further and say she hoped they'd be just as right as
[006] davits. Brassnose yelled: "Come on, Sommers, Max ... _____ on it, we got a chance now. Heave on those ropes; th
[007] xamine. "What's this"? the man said, backing up a _____ , still looking down. His words were mostly to himsel
[008] n the horned handles of his pistol. "All right, _____ back"! the patrolman said to no one in particular as
[009] e a drink, fella"? the big man asked again, taking a _____ into the boxcar. Ernie hesitated a moment. This c
[010] son threw himself down, belly first, upon a concrete _____ , taking in the coolness of it, and dreaming of the d
[011] ld square his shoulders and carry a cane before each _____ . He would sit inside the coffee shop and pound a glo
[012] two met in the Captain's cabin. "What is the next _____ , Captain"? "More arrests, I fear". In your o
[013] as not mistaken, for both Small and Cromwell took no _____ toward aiding in the sending up of the new topgallan
[014] he house must be going with her". "She'd better _____ on it. It's a long way to Websterville". Jim's fine
[015] . In matters of exact information, that kept her one _____ behind developments; and so they were consistently t
[016] laughter. He was forced to wipe his eyes. "You don't _____ on the flowers, do you? Eh"? One of the childre
[017] not only showed that paleontologists had been out-of- _____ with biologists for decades, but also that they had u
[018] character, and purposefully so. I would like to go a _____ further than noting her ambiguity. What needs more e
[019] e treatment of diabetes and infertility. A way to _____ on the metabolism gas pedal is to increase the freque
[020] cement. Moments after Ms. Henner had danced the last _____ of her first performance, a prominent CBS newswoman
[021] at used to usher the sitcom characters from the front _____ of their neo- colonial dream house directly into livi
[022] t was once a magnet for trouble. In Burbank, a first _____ was the city's purchase of the gang members' turf. 'W
[023] f confidence and love for the kitchen, it was a small _____ for Teddy (Williams) and Shadonna to don black pants
[024] r now since we were asked, and others were asked, to _____ aside, and I think the community deserves a status r
[025] re delighted by the memorial. They see it as a major _____ toward equality. The issue of total equality is a bu
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[001] uffs hugged the horizon, the color of decaying moss. _____ them, the sky was the black of space, or the almost
[002] f space, or the almost equal black of the winter sky _____ Minneapolis, seen against neon-lit snow. That cold,
[003] her kind. Her initial intelligence tests registered _____ normal and her adaptation index was unusually high.
[004] 's wound. The bullet had torn through the flesh just _____ the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming
[005] y Eyes remained erect. The feathered lance was still _____ his head. As he started to slump over, another warri
[006] s rifle butt. It sounded like a man kicking a melon. _____ me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt i
[007] y a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground _____ the hillside orchard. Yes, there was plenty of water
[008] ighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly _____ it. Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in
[009] was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one _____ the counter, illuminated the entire hall. They, and
[010] oticed the tops of ships' masts and funnels reaching _____ the pier roofs. The sounds issuing from beyond- winc
[011] he guard house without alerting the men on the walls _____ , and Powers slipped through the door. Two men w
[012] osive violence. Creighton Hague sat in his office _____ the Ione pit. The office was of logs, four rooms, ea
[013] son to fear these trees that whispered their secrets _____ her head as she passed. Was it not possible, after a
[014] d over the root of a tree that protruded maliciously _____ the earth. In spite of her attempt to preserve her b
[015] and entered the barn. A match flared, and he reached _____ his head to light a lantern which hung from a wire l
[016] row exuberantly shouting "Glory Be" and "Hallelujah" _____ their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they
[017] by the challenging lure of the great cliff towering _____ them. No matter how many registry rocks they came to
[018] e been involved in this latest tangle. Over and _____ that, however, was his growing suspicion of Chuck St
[019] n to the plane with it. His face was dark as the sky _____ it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.
[020] red in the warm cockpit. The overcast was solid _____ him. As far as he could see there was no hole to cli
[021] man called back, and pulled his four in and slightly _____ Greg. Greg took the formation wide around three
[022] g a case of claustrophobia. The ceiling stayed solid _____ them at about eight hundred feet, and at times the s
[023] tinued to be limited, and Greg was never able to get _____ a thousand feet. It was frustrating. His earphones w
[024] peed indicator was over 350 when he leveled off just _____ the trees. The opposing aircraft continued to come o
[025] y longshot of Joyce entering the suds, then bursting _____ the pool's surface clad in layers of lavender lather
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[001] uld direct the vowel sounds into the most felicitous _____ for proper reproduction through her throat microphon
[002] y Da forced the foremost of her bodies in an upright _____ . Said she, "I'm strong, too. I can talk. Remember, m
[003] center of a wide valley. Montero had set up a strong _____ , using every bale and box we had in addition to barr
[004] ls as possible. Wildly bucking horses would make the _____ difficult to defend against charging warriors. Th
[005] ng body of the man he had shot, then run back to his _____ . The ponies were almost uncontrollable. The pall
[006] brush off at one side. The would-be assassin had his _____ figured pretty close. Dismounting, Russ looked about
[007] pe aircraft. If it were the enemy, tactically his _____ was correct. Japanese aircraft were strong on maneuv
[008] We were back on the road. I regained my squatting _____ behind the truck cab's rear window. Johnson's left h
[009] l as a militarist. She quickly exploited the exalted _____ she now occupied, by harassing the disorganized male
[010] tting on the edge of the bed again, back in the same _____ where the snake had found her. The fear had not enti
[011] ted reaction from the jungle. How stupid to give his _____ away. The jungle did not retort. The sitter remai
[012] was stranded. Chris fretted. "I wish we were in a _____ to offer a little money to tide them over". I s
[013] w moments before Miss Groggins had her in the proper _____ for a vaginal, but I couldn't see anything wrong on
[014] r give in. On the contrary, it would only weaken his _____ if he fumed, while she stayed calm and adamant. And
[015] ment contracts, and installed Freddy in an executive _____ . Shortly after, Freddy had his usual proliferation o
[016] e breach. This creates an amusing effect because its _____ in a sentence seems to make it apply to the wrong wo
[017] he had to breathe kind of funny when she was in that _____ . She made General Burnside's horse's belly do so fun
[018] ds, a black obsidian statuette in the earth-touching _____ , and a large brass figure of the Dying Buddha on a t
[019] The family also confers on children a specific social _____ ; that is, parents not only bring children into the ph
[020] of him or her self. Of course, some aspects of social _____ may change later on, but social standing at birth aff
[021] , a social group whose members have interests, social _____ , and age in common. A young child's peer group is gen
[022] ck pain or felt stiff from sitting or standing in one _____ too long? What could you do to prevent this? ’Ä¢ Ar
[023] nd modern office furniture was designed for that body _____ . Sitting and Standing 2 In the workplace, most emplo
[024] lli , William's Dona Nobis Pacem takes a more obvious _____ against war. Anti-war Music: From the 1960s to the C
[025] This situation leaves Web builders in a precarious _____ . We have to choose between two unacceptable alternat
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[001] by these organs were, therefore, dissimilar. It was _____ that they could be approximated, but would the Ozage
[002] n, and only then, with the Jacksons and Dan as their _____ guests of honor, did the Harrows take time to catch
[003] rtist, accustomed to studying the physical body. The _____ artist is like one of those scientists who, from a s
[004] lor rise to her neck and quickly suffuse her cheeks. _____ , she was my Aunt, married to an Uncle related to me
[005] ecause he was chemically incapable of fear. That was _____ , but only half the truth. The other half he didn't l
[006] y grounded him (over his protests- not including his _____ reason for wanting to fly) and put him in the Comman
[007] d to himself. He couldn't stop killing. That was his _____ love, not Penny. The terrible power of a gun, the th
[008] poor mother was spared this", and indeed it might be _____ that it had been easier for Henrietta to leave, with
[009] n, after a while, she went to her mirror. It was all _____ . She certainly looked Japanese, and perhaps she coul
[010] l, Doc, you old sonofabitch"! Whitey exclaimed, with _____ affection. "Come over and have a drink. We live down
[011] "Nothing to lose, either, Spencer". "That's _____ ", Spencer agreed and withdrew himself from the conve
[012] he inside of you. And in a way the promise works out _____ , for whether he wants you or not, you go with him in
[013] ay because he was so nearsighted. It may have been _____ for all I know, because his glasses were like the bo
[014] it was no bogey she had dreamed up; it was only too _____ . Myra had no intention whatever of sending for Cathy
[015] the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been _____ by now, anyhow ... As usual, Gladdy's bright smil
[016] ld be the solution, wouldn't it? What she'd said was _____ - in all these years, she'd never asked for anything
[017] r, still in diapers), he shuddered to think that the _____ meaning of character might never dawn on them at all
[018] we were sitting in his truck. I asked him if it was _____ . He gave me a straight, honest answer. "Look, Sue
[019] I had also thought a lot about how God must look on _____ love, and so in a way I was keeping my promise to Go
[020] t. The cost didn't matter. No price is too high when _____ love is at stake. And I had no doubts about how
[021] love is at stake. And I had no doubts about how _____ this love was. I'd never even petted with a boy, and
[022] or the tiniest moment to reflect sharp light. It was _____ ; Fudo, the god of wisdom, was also thought of as the
[023] slowly for a trace of veining which might reveal its _____ shade beneath the darkness. So he sought her out,
[024] ouldn't keep being annoyed with him". It wasn't even _____ that he'd said he was sorry that time; he had in fac
[025] the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be _____ . But if
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[001] liquor and professional ladies of Cheyenne, he laid _____ to the killing with the vague insinuations he made.
[002] g, it is not illegal unless a company makes a direct _____ that the picture represents the source of the water.
[003] sity alone, though, is not thought to be sufficient to _____ that chimpanzees have culture. Whether chimpanzees p
[004] s/United States Catholic Conference, to repudiate the _____ . It has been established government policy in the C
[005] s/United States Catholic Conference, to repudiate the _____ . It has been established government policy in the C
[006] United States. But Mr. Gardiner spiritedly stakes a _____ for these efforts. Comparative audio review. TO SITC
[007] settle all of Europe. Not quite as catchy as Clinton's _____ that enlargement will 'erase the artificial line in E
[008] 'Booknotes' (Times Books, $25) is that some writers _____ to enjoy labor. 'I love to write,' David McCullough, t
[009] ines has introduced permanent 'Everyday Fares' with a _____ that as much as 40 percent has been sliced off its
[010] arnett prided itself as being "Florida's bank. " The _____ was not without justification. With 660 branches ac
[011] onceptual channels. Food Diversity Purveyors of doom _____ that plant and animal diversity is decreasing at a ra
[012] ork Life Insurance Company is having application and _____ forms processed by telecommuters in Ireland (the com
[013] xcuse for not paying a ticket in Chicago has been the _____ that the Windy City winds had blown tickets away bef
[014] p. of Cinnaminson, New Jersey. Food researchers there _____ that their first generation of "vegisnax" will be cr
[015] line railway tracks below. The architects can rightly _____ that the inspiration for these modern terraces is dra
[016] nvenience. In calling itself "Classical" it is laying _____ to the artistic inheritance of all architects, not ju
[017] ll themselves Classical. It will need to justify this _____ . For Quinlan Terry, the best-known such architect, Cl
[018] ewery buildings. The developers and their architects _____ that this proposal satisfies the main aspirations of
[019] y while making sense commercially. However, this bold _____ is now to be tested by the hard realities of public
[020] Vicenza. Jones was a peripatetic. In fact, his first _____ to fame was as a great traveller at a time when the t
[021] een eye to eye. After all, Modernists have long laid _____ to Jones's mantle. All the stylistic traits of Modern
[022] most from Olivier's prototype, and Branagh can fairly _____ to have stripped the veneer of jingoism from the play,
[023] made a moving speech denying scientists the right to _____ they were experimenting on her behalf.) Evidently wis
[024] to over-optimism. The Chancellor is now prepared to _____ no more than that the deficit is "more or less flatten
[025] ficit is "more or less flattening out". Not much of a _____ , more than a year after he started trying to turn the
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[001] tsiders. Yet there was some precedent for it. The _____ of disarmament agreements, for instance, had been
[002] e thrashed out later, were commonplace in diplomatic _____ . The trouble with them was that they almost never wo
[003] ed- much like the continent of Antarctica in ancient _____ . "How can a planet with so many neighbors be so l
[004] al hygiene, basic alien psychology, philology, space _____ , law, traffic, codes: all the et ceteras that eventu
[005] that was Kodyke. He knew nothing about the man's _____ . Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a l
[006] g to flatter her vanity. "You must have been good at _____ at school. Where did you go to school"? "What i
[007] wledge of Asian lore, literature, life, politics and _____ . He was awarded a fellowship to continue his studies
[008] force the biwa to remain at just that moment in its _____ when it had given him pleasure. He stole from his ca
[009] es that have flourished and declined throughout human _____ . They have observed how societies change over centuri
[010] book on product design that looks specifically at the _____ and development of the chair. As you read it, pay sp
[011] introductory text on music. It illustrates the long _____ of anti-war music. As you read the following passage
[012] ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The largest economic disaster in U.S. _____ (not due to natural causes) was a $1.6-billion explos
[013] Quirk et al. 1985), in the standard handbooks on the _____ of English (see e.g. Jespersen 1949), as well as in
[014] s by chance. In spite of a training in philosophy and _____ , I was a beginner in thinking systematically about th
[015] ess theories being put forth on important chapters of _____ . This series addresses the need for a sense of order
[016] ess theories being put forth on important chapters of _____ . This series addresses the need for a sense of order
[017] bversive activity on the West Coast. The rewriting of _____ to support a political posture has perpetuated ethnic
[018] dering all of the statements presented concerning the _____ and development of Geography, we are now ready to for
[019] ially by the lack of temples, Demarst looked to Maya _____ and geography to realize that Cancuen's location, wit
[020] makes up one of the most fascinating chapters in the _____ of biology. Heredity was for a long time one of the
[021] uries before Parliament. The only interruption in the _____ of the Monarchy was when the country was a republic
[022] on now than at perhaps any other time in the nation's _____ . Republicans and a few Democrats will push for propos
[023] rated the first multiparty Congress in modern Mexican _____ by themselves, throwing the nation's newborn democra
[024] wrecks. In the most extensive safety check in agency _____ , 80 Federal Railroad Administration inspectors have s
[025] elicited a half-hour infomercial about Ms. Darrow's _____ of impeccable style and satisfied customers. She sug