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1. The path she was used to taking turned off to the right outside the barracks and led down to the cove, a junction part way along leading off to the dig … but what if she went left outside the barracks? With one finger, she traced the route of the path as it wound through the marsh, concluding that it appeared to end up further along the coast at a stretch of beach shown on the map by a splash of yellow … at least she assumed that’s what it meant
2. At the De Crot House, I learned that a stretcher and bearers were imperative
3. I tried not to stare at Mia for any longer than thirty seconds at a stretch
4. He left a giant empty space as he strode across the clearing towards a group that sat a stretch away, and she stood back alone with all of her feelings
5. Ryato sat a stretch away wiping his sword with tuffs of grass
6. A squirrel sat a stretch away with his arms folded around his bushy tail and watched her with his head slightly tilted
7. I was able to fly for six hours at a stretch before hunger and fatigue dictated I rest
8. Then he moved out of the way so that a stretcher could go through the doorway
9. This went on for hours at a stretch
10. You must be able to expel 120 times at a stretch by cautious and gradual practice
11. Those who meditate for four or five hours at a stretch can have two meditative poses
12. finger at a stretch of trees on the outskirts of the Forest several miles distant
13. ‘Have I not been waiting for this day all my life? Oh, finally my destiny seems to have kept its date with him! I’ll make him mine even if it comes to raping him, won’t I? How we could indulge in lovemaking day and night for three days at a stretch
14. He soon found that he could cover great distances at a stretch, but
15. By that I mean the layer of soil that remains frozen for at least two years at a stretch
16. Something he tended to do when he took a car ride of over fifty miles at a stretch
17. "That he will," returned Sancho, "for he seems in a mood to bewail himself for a month at a stretch
18. When she danced at parties he used to stand for five hours at a stretch, gazing at her
19. As for the baby, he made no secret of his affection for the lodger, who nursed and played with him for hours at a stretch
20. Over and over and over again, we would make these journeys, and sometimes they would last as long as three hours at a stretch
21. Even his iron constitution, however, had broken down under the strain of an investigation which had extended over two months, during which period he had never worked less than fifteen hours a day, and had more than once, as he assured me, kept to his task for five days at a stretch
22. Sometimes for half an hour at a stretch he would sit silently gazing at the saffron-red, downy, wrinkled face of the sleeping baby, watching the movements of the frowning brows, and the fat little hands, with clenched fingers, that rubbed the little eyes and nose
23. ’ One may sit for several hours at a stretch with one’s legs crossed
24. But working Homicide means you don’t get neat nine-to-five shifts, and Conklin and I don’t mind sitting together for long hours at a stretch
25. The campagna of Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is to remain on the surface; all aspects of things are thoughts of God
26. For two succeeding years I was alone each winter for eight months at a stretch in the Sierra Nevada mountains on Lake Tahoe
27. For eight hundred years, he told me, he had watched these pumps which are used alternately a day each at a stretch, or a little over twenty-four and one-half Earth hours
28. I used to tell you fairytales later on, Sofia Andre3'evna ; you were very fond of fairy tales, you'd sit on my knee listening for two hours at a stretch
29. But to be a town councilor and discuss how many dustmen are needed, and how chimneys shall be constructed in the town in which I don't live—to serve on a jury and try a peasant who's stolen a flitch of bacon, and listen for six hours at a stretch to all sorts of jabber from the counsel for the defense and the prosecution, and the president cross-examining my old half-witted Alioshka, 'Do you admit, prisoner in the dock, the fact of the removal of the
30. Also, I could not but marvel at the way in which, for seven or eight hours at a stretch, she sat in that chair of hers, almost never leaving the table
31. Finally, he went so far as to say that they never rose from the table; they dined, supped, and had tea, for fifteen hours at a stretch
32. In the next room her younger sister lay on a wooden chest, sound asleep, with her mouth wide open; but the boy, Lebedeff’s son, had taken up his position close beside Colia and Hippolyte, his face lit up with interest in the conversation of his father and the rest, to which he would willingly have listened for ten hours at a stretch
33. He was generally summoned to listen to secret tête-à-tête readings of his novel; he would sit like a post for six hours at a stretch, perspiring and straining his utmost to keep awake and smile
34. “Well but you saw him alive for five years at a stretch,—I should have thought that was enough to contemplate his features in!” said Velchaninoff angrily and contemptuously
35. The latter's room was the same as before, but it was useless to look for him there, for, according to Maria Sisevna's report, he was now two or three days absent from home at a stretch, and was generally to be found with some friends in the Voznecensky
36. I had the patience to sit like a fool beside these people for four hours at a stretch, listening to them without knowing what to say to them or venturing to say a word
37. The writing instinct, which in the little old town on Manhattan would keep his hand traveling back and forth across the paper for days at a stretch, here languished and drowsed like some heavy-eyed, faintly smiling lotus eater