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Slowly, as if a soft, breezeless tide were creeping up a gently sloping sandy shore line, I became aware of waves in the distance, and slowly I tuned into the echo of my exhalations
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As long as she was in the main thoroughfare it would be difficult if not downright foolhardy for anyone to attack her … but there was a stretch just the other side of the river where the pedestrian path separated from the road, sloping down into a sort of culvert … a subway … if I were going to ambush someone, that’s where I’d choose
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sloping into wire caught tufts of white and black,
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Sefir takes it in her stride, appearing to enjoy the exercise presented by the sloping trackway
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steeply sloping in some places
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approached by a long sloping section of the causeway which allowed
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considered, as he walked up the sloping roadway to the main gate
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You couldn’t see down into the canyon itself, but you could see the plot-covered hills on the far side miles away and see that the land was sloping down
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It ran a dozen stories above ground at first, gradually sloping down to five
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It was still guarded by a sloping hillside
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It was paying off as he began to pick up his pace on the up sloping roadway
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Looking down to the trail where it was exposed in some spots, he could see lots of debris, mostly tree limbs mixed with sloping piles of leaves
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The overhang itself was barely half a metre deep, sloping outward at approximately forty-five degrees, but was well beyond his somewhat limited climbing experience
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We walked up that sloping valley of death with bullets whizzing and ricocheting all over the place and it was just as we got closer to the top that we lost Charlie Slater
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The only entrance seemed to be a steeply sloping tunnel
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He had to lean towards Angela to keep his shoulders out of contact with the sloping walls
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The only windows in the sloping walls
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They both had long, blue-black hair, and their faces had the same oval contours, with soft, pale blue eyes, gently sloping upwards at the edges
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small island of stone joined to the path bordering the room by small, thin pathways sloping
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out front was safer than the sloping VW hood
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From this point there was a pleasant meadow field sloping
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The stack exploded in a shower of bricks, and masonry cascaded down the steeply sloping roof
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The creek, crystal clear, unlike the river a few hundred metres away, came out of a little hole in the bushes, across a sloping rock of which no more than a metre could be seen
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Finally he slammed over the bump of the sidewalk and down into the sloping tarmac parking area out in front of the stationhouse
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Open to the black sky overhead, it was a long row of obelisks, with the weird alien runic-hieroglyphic inscriptions running up and down, yet sloping backwards
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On a man, the receding chin, sloping forehead, and buck teeth are bad enough
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“What’s this over here?” He pointed at a blank volume of space with yellow and black sloping bars all over the place
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Both had receding hairlines, sloping foreheads and somewhat bumpy complexions
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The poor guy, with those big round ears, and the receding hairline over the sloping brow, he probably thought he was God’s gift to all the female Lacertabians in the world
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It was a small building in boring white brick, riddled with smoked gray windows, three stories high, with a sloping, brown mansard roof complete with little rows of gabled dormers along it
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Up until now, the sloping ground and our momentum had kept us going, despite the blown tire
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brow, casting repeated glances back towards the sloping rooftops
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sloping edges that merge with normal skin
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With a distinctive sloping roof, the house, sits on a higher level, allowing the best views of the ocean
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and for the poppy fields that filled the nearby sloping hills,
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swerved to the left to avoid the maze, and hit the sloping
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The road was sloping down, it was sloping downhill
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Approaching the sloping bank of the river with Marah slightly in the lead, Moshe noted two
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the uniformity of the walls and only one that appeared on the sloping roof
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Around the mountain, narrow and dark, sloping upward with the curve of the rock
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young children who far on their faces at the sloping shoreline and
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for climbing that it could only access the fruit from a sloping
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as there were already new fruits forming on the sloping trees
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The sloping underwater part of the beach—the submerged area that slows down and diminishes the effects of waves and currents—was dredged and used for fill elsewhere
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Jane and Kaite live in a sprawling Snow White style cottage blown up to monster proportions with oversized wooden mushroom tops crashing into each other, sloping down into the earth, and wrap back around the property line
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The land varied from sloping rough grassland dotted with ancient eucalypts, to low hills and increasingly dense rainforest that became steep forested slopes down which tumbled several streams and waterfalls creating excellent pools
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them, faces aimed upwards at the sloping metal ceiling
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Though he stood on the precipice of the platform, next to the sloping front window, his
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side, and it occurred to her that the floor was sloping downward as
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The sloping roof he made out of sheets of corrugated metal
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It was high of stern, with a tall curving prow; broad in the waist, sloping beautifully to stem and stern
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Joseph could not believe his eyes as he stared at this wonderful machine with wide, sloping wings and a pointed nose section
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Ahead of him, presently, he saw the dim outline of a stair sloping sharply upward, and knew it must be the stair he sought
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He had thoroughly searched this cavern with the sloping tunnel
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As the loose hand slid down the sloping forehead it grasped a hard object protruding from Big‘un‘s head—his brain guessed ‗knife handle
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With sloping masts and dipping prow,
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There were armed figures on the platform awaiting his arrival, and the leading edge of the platform had a row of rails sloping ahead, ploughing into the water
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Bob had built a long, gently sloping ramp beside the porch so that Ed could maneuver his wheel chair into the house
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Henry stumbled backwards and then started to run toward the sloping hills near his house, never looking back, though his father’s screams almost pushed him in the back as he lurched and fell in the barren fields
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my position and sloping below me
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sloping to meet the upward sloping floor
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covering about thirty feet of the sloping ceiling above the
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From the above daily chart, we can see that the USD/JPY is trying to test the resistance level created by the downward sloping trend line
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At the end of the jetty he built a wooden, sloping slipway, designed to fit his Hobie Cat
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At the beginning, when he first acquired the cat, he sailed up to the jetty, got off and dragged the boat up the sloping ramp
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Meanwhile, Mitchell cautiously drove to a sloping hillside overlooking Waimea Bay Beach
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She sat lower, on a wide sloping rock
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building, since the house sat on a somewhat sloping hill and and
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The inner part of the tunnel must have collapsed recently, like in the caverns, and left this thin shell in the face of a steeply sloping seabed
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The T34 was at this stage immune to anti-tank shells that simply bounced off its thick sloping armour
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downward sloping curve was encountered that described less return with more risk
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Although he was already pretty much convinced, Jean hurried anyway to the skylight opening on the eastern side of the sloping roof of his house and opened wide the wooden panel covering it, putting in place a wooden stick to hold it open
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This gave him a sloping appearance and a loping run, which looked awkward, but indeed the Toral was very swift
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As he stepped out of the crack he saw the man lying on the rocks - head sloping down and face up
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His chubby little hands were attached to his fat little arms, and sloping down behind his waist protruded his fat butt
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As she watched the trees and sloping hills pass by, her thoughts turned to her kingdom
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After a few minutes, Rave turned off into the woods, following an almost invisible trail up a sloping hillside and down the other side
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The gentle sloping hills were covered in snow, but she was surprised to see splotches of bare earth between the white
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walkways through dense forests and sloping fields
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The large lot, separated from a sloping
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Nightfall quickly opened a lead and Edgar scurried to keep up, but he lost his hastened grip on the sloping scrabble and slid down several yards, raking at the rock with fingers sorely lacking claws
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Position the patient in sitting with their hips well forward and upper-back resting against the backrest of a chair with a sloping back
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Use a chair with a steeper sloping back
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• Using a footrest if required, thighs should be parallel to the floor, or sloping
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Andalusians are compact and impressive, having a convex head profile, a short and powerful neck, a short back, a sloping croup and a high degree of flexibility in the hind leg joints
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The water cascaded, then disappeared down the sloping hillside through trees and mossy rills, a watery choir of changing volumes, sounds, and moods that brought joy and peace to my heart
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Sometimes the path was narrow, and the trees shut out the sky; sometimes it led me into the hot sunshine of an open, forest-fringed space; once it took me along the side of a meadow sloping up on its distant side to more forest, with only a single row of great beeches between me and the heat and light dancing over the grass; and all the way I had squirrels for company, chattering and enjoying themselves as sensible squirrels living only in the present do; and larks over my head singing in careless ecstasy just because they had no idea they were probably bad larks with pasts; and lizards, down at my feet, motionless in the hot sun, quite unaware of how wicked it becomes to lie in the sun doing nothing directly you wear clothes and have consciences
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“Keep moving and I'll twitch,” wavered the shark, holding his now Mary-facing pistol at the downwards sloping brim of her hat
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It was a simple place, after the manner of attics, with a window in its sloping ceiling through which stars might be studied with great comfort as one lay in bed
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The crevice was narrow for about fifteen meters and was on a sloping angle, so it was difficult to edge their way through it
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Nothing could be seen in front of them - just the tunnel peacefully sloping away in a sweeping bend
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Distantly, I could hear voices, but what held my attention was what I saw — not a tunnel, but an expanse of black, craggy ground, sloping gently upwards toward a low hump that convulsively spewed white-hot fire
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I only remember waking up back in that passageway, the long sloping one, with Andreas and Tholstan dragging me along behind them
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Large multi-colored cloth tarps and tents were stretched out on poles all over the sloping, grassy field, with dozens upon dozens of men, women and children hawking food, clothing, specialized weapons and arrows, mementos, armor-adornments, charms, and whatever else they thought they could trade or sell
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Massive walls extended from the outer fortifications to the east and west, sloping down the hill and then veering south to eventually form a semi-circle
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Outside, a sloping trail led down the hill, away from the massive walls, and Aiden stopped, staring at the vast, rolling landscape before him
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There could not have been a greater surprise the very moment that D’ata hurtled from the rooftop, striking the gently sloping hillside, than the shock that confronted him as he stepped onto the beach just now
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I can't even stretch out my legs, I'm always bumping into some sloping cupboard