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1. The heat of Noonsleep and Afternoonday was only a tiny bit blunted as they descended into the Gengee, but they had lost only a few hundred feet of altitude, just enough for him to notice
2. thousand and more crew who had died in it, thought of their screams, blunted by the sudden
3. Judging by the blunted ends of metal rods, it used to have railings, but it doesn’t anymore
4. Buey Dan could tell by the sounds of firing and lack of satchel explosions that the attack was being badly blunted
5. ‘Tempting, but your thick head would just have just blunted my axe,’ he smiled then immediately followed his humour with a chilling tone
6. His new bandages were neat, flat and covered with a pair of her cotton gloves that blunted his sense of touch
7. My father had it but his had been softened and blunted by his years in the Newlands
8. Their children, two girls, were totally devoted to Marti and the rancher‘s paternal instincts had long since been blunted by the total female presence
9. Their weapons are chipped and blunted; their shields
10. I couldn't get mad at Murray; not after nearly forty years had blunted
11. That was a bitter blow to MacArthur, who had fervently hoped that his aviation could have blunted the Japanese invasion
12. The point of Stephi’s plan – Ariel as boy-bait – was blunted by the passing days
13. still have our animal bodies, but we’ve civilized ourselves and blunted
14. It was one thing to avert a scandal and another to reconcile to the oddity; while it brought to the fore our own liaison in the wake of our spouses’ demise, yet their offence offended even our blunted sense of righteousness
15. Byron had noted the dull stings on his body but hadn’t realise they had been bullets striking him and falling to the floor, looking at his feet the ground was becoming littered with blunted ammunition
16. The boy struggled against himself to understand why the blunted bullets rebounded back at him like feasting ants as they peppered his leg and thigh
17. Is he getting too old for the job at hand, did he get too complaisant? Had the easy life in Arrowhead blunted his ability to function properly as a law-man? Maybe if they had called the Millers sooner and he had gone with Brad, three lives would have been spared and that savage monster would already be back in custody where he belongs
18. Was it that she had been out of things for so many years? Had she then become a specialist? As the weeks passed and the first sheer delight in just being well was blunted by repetition, she began to be puzzled
19. blunted by hours of battle
20. Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose
21. I have heard it said too that the arrows of Love are blunted and robbed of their points by maidenly modesty and reserve; but with this Altisidora it seems they are sharpened rather than blunted
22. And have we not a right to say in his defence, that the true lover of knowledge is always striving after being--that is his nature; he will not rest in the multiplicity of individuals which is an appearance only, but will go on--the keen edge will not be blunted, nor the force of his desire abate until he have attained the knowledge of the true nature of every essence by a sympathetic and kindred power in the soul, and by that power drawing near and mingling and becoming incorporate with very being, having begotten mind and truth, he will have knowledge and will live and grow truly, and then, and not till then, will he cease from his travail
23. Nor was it till after a few enjoyments had numbed and blunted the
24. blunted all the stings of pleasure, whilst a voluptuous languor possets,
25. "It's just that I soon realized why my harpoon got blunted and
26. This attack is easily blunted by a track record of accomplishments which should focus on the Peking and Moscow Summits and a carefully paced follow-up program of improved relations with both the Soviets and Chinese
27. "By heaven!" cried Caderousse, drawing from his waistcoat an open knife, and striking the count in the breast, "you shall disclose nothing, reverend sir!" To Caderousse's great astonishment, the knife, instead of piercing the count's breast, flew back blunted
28. The new way I’d been aware of my body since beginning my hike had blunted the old ways
29. It was just that a long absence had blunted the edge of her resentment
30. The passage of time had blunted the edge of their mutual hostility, but there was still a resentful tilt to Alice’s head when she said hello
31. Chiming then to me, with exquisite consent, as I melted away, his oily balsamic injection, mixing deliciously with the sluices in flow from me, sheathed and blunted all the stings of pleasure, whilst a voluptuous languor possest, and still maintained us motionless, and fast locked in one another's arms
32. Her weapons of scorn, She was helpless before his calm smile and his drawling remarks, for she had never coldness and abuse blunted in her hands, for nothing she could say would shame him
33. Farebrother, her sharpness blunted for the moment by her confidence in maternal judgments
34. motor activation is blunted after 3 weeks but not 24 h of withdrawal from repeated
35. markedly blunted in cocaine dependence and predictive of the choice to self-administer
36. have demonstrated a blunted dopamine response to a psychostimulant when much
37. release rather than a blunted effect
38. appears to be a blunted dopaminergic response
39. dopamine neuronal injury, such that blunted dopamine release would be expected in
40. blunted in cocaine dependence and predictive of the choice to self-administer cocaine
41. The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula
42. Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it
43. His senses must have been blunted and atrophied with money and the getting of it
44. She would not voluntarily give unnecessary pain to any one, and though I may deceive myself, I cannot but think that for me, for my feelings, she would—Hers are faults of principle, Fanny; of blunted delicacy and a corrupted, vitiated mind
45. Then, with the maul, after repeatedly smiting the upper end of this iron rod, he placed the blunted needle endwise on the top of it, and less strongly hammered that, several times, the mate still holding the rod as before
46. Besides, I cannot be sure of my memory as to all I saw in these last years, for the faculty seems blunted as regards the later compared with the earlier period of my imprisonment, there is a good deal I am sure I have quite forgotten
47. These were the helpless people, blunted by constant oppression and temptation, like that boy with the mats, and hundreds of others whom Nekhludoff saw both in and out of prison, and the conditions of those whose lives systematically drove them to the necessity of committing those acts which are called crimes
48. The men of the higher dominating classes whose conscience is naturally not sensitive or has become blunted, if they don't suffer through conscience, suffer from fear and hatred
49. Canning will probably be much surprised at this limitation; and conceive hostility more pointed than he had anticipated; some of the points may, however, be a little blunted by including France, the most operating and unmanageable of her enemies
50. Is it a wonder that the women of a slave race lost their womanly instincts; that the moral nature was blunted and marred; that the mind became impoverished, the heart a waste place for poisonous weeds to grow?