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Blugar's Balloon was one of the newest lakerunners in service, one of the new semi-torpedo active-ballast twin hulls perfected by the Skater line that were setting rough-weather records on all the lakes
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’ The Inspector said in his usual semi-friendly manner: my stomach churns suddenly
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while others might be semi-organic, they all still rely on chemicals in one form or another
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Semi-detailed tattoos covered most of his face, neck and head
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There is a huge poster of a dragon on the wall – one of the semi-mythical ones set in a rugged landscape … it is all shades of green with the dragon a gorgeous greeny-bronze
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The two women gravitated towards the other side of the room where half a dozen semi-comfortable, rather scruffy chairs were grouped around a low table on which some tired-looking magazines had been heaped
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The second ambushee lay on the ground, groaning and semi-conscious, his attacker straightened himself and turned to Kara
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Last year, during the regional semi-finals, after a double fault, did he not slam his racket so hard on the ground it broke the frame? You were present at the match?
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He apologised but asked nonetheless for a three bedroom semi-detached house with a garden and a swing
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As soon as he walked through the door of her parent’s modest semi-detached, Tom knew that it had all gone terribly wrong, there being something about paisley carpet that he just couldn’t stand
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relative safety of the front room in their semi-detached home
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We took a semi-private room with seating on the clay floor
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'Ah!' Ish said in pain as he fell down, semi-conscious
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’ Anna said, apparently contemplating the ceiling from her semi-prone position on the sofa, ‘It was lovely having the men there
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three bedroom semi-detached house with a proper garden
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semi-detached, Tom knew that it had all gone terribly wrong, there
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He watches as I tentatively spoon a small quantity of the semi-frozen gloop into my mouth
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Then he walks round to the back of the barns and the milking parlour, treading carefully through pools of semi-liquid mud and loose gravel
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as well as a clutch of those semi-circular constructions Tom knew as
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The design of the house is a reflection of her own – in the style of semi-detached properties the world over
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I rolled down my window and threw the semi-used rubber out
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He parks up in front of a solid nineteen-thirties semi-detached house, its bow front belly and mock Tudor adornments standing proudly against the night sky, a cipher for deep suburban, middle-aged contentment
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Victorian villas and a row of doorstep cottages take over from the solid urbanity of the slightly more modern, semi-detached conformity where he parked
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He had been about to investigate any important and semi-important individuals at the Kassikan who’s bodies had failed them twenty decades ago
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He raised the tool aligned above the target hole and with his back held straight, dropped the digger's blades into the soil with force while simultaneously dropping into a semi-squat, with his feet more than shoulder width apart
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But then she’d been in a semi-clannish neighborhood a few hours hike from one of Dos’s outer northwestern centers
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She was dressed in a gauzy flowing robe, semi-transparent and tastefully adorned with tiny bits of embroidery
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his statue-like abs, and finally stopped at his semi-erect penis
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Strenhowell had said, “However should you find that it is insufficient, we will arrange for semi-annual appraisals of your contributions to this firm and amend your compensation accordingly
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There is a large semi-circular balcony slanting down toward the stage and back up over the hallway to the fourth floor
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He was still asleep halfway back in the balcony with dozens of other dozers and semi-dozers
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weather into a ritual of semi-daily rain showers and a constant climb in
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Semi-detected conversations mumbled and sometime in the journey Mingalle had become lost to another baited by her new dress
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Home of the Alps, vineyards and chic coastal resorts of Nice and Cannes, lots of wildlife lives here too: wild boar, roe and red deer, wolf, fox, brown bear, badger, ibex and chamois, plus semi-wild horses and lizards
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Bordered by Turkey, this is full of turquoise lakes, lush forests with bears and rocky highlands, and semi-desert flowers
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Wal is Island is semi-desert enclosed by a lagoon, whilst Futuna is the beach destination, with a volcano at its centre
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toe to the edge in a semi-determined sort of way, then
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Angmin saw most of the people who went thru there in a semi-skilled capacity
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" Then in an instant his sudden strength departed, and his talk droned away into the low, vague murmurings of a semi-delirious man
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The people who lived here were still urban but they lived in detached or semi-detached houses with little bits of ground behind them or on top of them where they might grow a few salad fixings and some spices and/or sit outdoors in the shade of a tree
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The thought that someone (something semi-human?) might still call that place home was almost too much for his stomach
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Mainly double barreled shotguns but also a smattering of hunting rifles and 22 rimfire semi-auto rifles
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semi-deities, heroes, etc, so that there is a chance for
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Here, the benches were arranged in a semi-circle around an open central ground
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At the wheel, bleeding and semi-conscious, was Jodie
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I parked the truck along the side of an old, half-collapsed semi-trailer and killed the engine
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Scott had been drifting in a semi-conscious state
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So rather than be tempted by the money he opted for a more research-based role in a semi-rural area, only having the occasional consultation if the patient – and they must qualify for that title – had a ‘genuine’ psychological condition
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The AI was still functioning on some level, situated on a white semi-circular desk in the grey and white lab
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Needless to say, that type of semi-autonomous AI was decommissioned forthwith, and an investigation held
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Torbin seemed to have been in a state of semi-consciousness for an indeterminate time when a figure appeared
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The danger of a semi-automated system was the sophistication of processing required
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It's former rural setting was slowly being gobbled up by rows of semi-detached middle income estates of two storied houses, pretending to blend into the countryside behind clumps of trees, that the developers in their wisdom had not obliterated, completely
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As he was semi-comatose it helped him to think about his life
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The chair he was sitting in was at an angle to the fire and Rosemary had chosen to sit at the table which was to his left and behind him so that to talk to her he would either have to stand and face her or twist in the chair, which was difficult, because of the semi-circular arms of the wickerwork
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Allow me to put it simply, so that a semi-literate can understand it
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Typically, this consists of the competitor’s heels together, toes pointed out at a forty-five degree angle, and lats semi-flared
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Devour the semi-defrosted turkey the day before Christmas Eve
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Once upon a time that would have been a feasible option even for him, the semi-professional gambler (or erstwhile semi-pro gambler to his wife); the number of hands dealt these days made it impossible to all, he reckoned, but the most unusually gifted memory man
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The kids were taken off their mothers and the dairy was semi-operational
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Neither option, consulting or retiring, or a third, being semi-retired and dabbling in real estate, held much appeal
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In a sweaty, smelly semi-circle, some kneeling and some standing with their rifles slung around their backs, our squad offered up all of the details that we could to the Intel Officer about another attack in the city of Hit, Iraq
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My brothers both have bought me meals (for no good reason, other than to rub it in my face later when I’m rich and semi-famous), they have given me work, loaned me money, and have helped me search for new jobs
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Emerging from a narrow tunnel-like waterway under the trees, which I had traversed for the last hour, winding in and out among the mangrove roots, amid the semi-darkness made by the dense foliage overhead, with its stifling, steam-like atmosphere, heavy with the foul smell of putrefying mud and rotting vegetation, I reached drier ground
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“If you know an address, or lot number, it’s a simple matter to find out who owns the property, what they paid for it and when, who owned it before, and all sorts of semi-interesting stuff
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He, being a semi-professional rider in his youth, cycled that distance every morning before work so it was no big deal for him
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They, on the other hand, had not been semi-professional riders in their youth since they were still in their youth, and it had been a big deal for them
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The water grew stale; the lack of exercise, and the foul air of the crowded holds in the fierce semi-tropical heat, soon affected the troops
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A semi-circular line of attack was thus formed, but owing to the dense undergrowth, the American fire could not be effectively maintained until a series of advances, in face of a hail of bullets, had brought the line to within 300 yards of the Spanish position
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A semi-circular cordon would thus entirely encompass the city
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Mitsy stopped at the edge of the semi-circle of bouncers
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When wagons were sent to the front, the semi-naked wounded were laid in rows upon the rough bottoms and jolted back to the hospital
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“He’s a semi-retired fisherman
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The winter was harsh and cold, and most badgers stayed semi-dormant in their snug sleeping chambers
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"Apples on sticks coated with semi-sweet chocolate and peanut butter candy coatings for a variation on an old classic
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Only two tunnels remained open– one facing the large semi-circular clearing between the front of the sett and the new earthworks, the other, a much smaller tunnel leading into the rear of the sett
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The earthworks laid out around the main entrance formed a complicated maze of corridors that had to be negotiated before gaining admittance to the large semi-circular clearing in front of the sett itself
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Speaking of which, while attending services this past Sunday, a semi-retired priest invited by our parish to say Mass, gave a sermon on family values
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Therefore the southern part of Angola was invaded and occupied with UNITA on a semi-permanent base
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Mush was real crazy on a motorcycle, although semi-retired now
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Nibbles caught the sound of water falling, and up ahead he saw a semi-circular formation
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Despite her initial reluctance, meeting George Dearling was becoming a semi-pleasant surprise
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“Somewhere in the world a ‘73 Volkswagon Super Beetle is missing its seat-covers,” he told Oberon’s companion, a semi-attractive female cop, with a little blonde pony tail hanging out of the back of her hat and thin wisps of hair falling out from under it
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Born a semi-functional hermaphrodite, Schwartzie had a vagina and a uterus
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This was a good, or at least semi-original idea
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To gain conviction against him, Edgar was fighting more than just a highly skilled defense lawyer: also to consider were corrupt judges and public attorneys, all of whom, even the semi-honest, succumbed to political pressure
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His arrival meant that she would be saddled with a man whose right hand was semi-paralyzed and suffering with chronic pain
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Dinner was a semi-formal, yet fun affair, complete with liveried servants, glittering silver-domed plates, and the usual mucking about with thirteen different knives, forks and spoons
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Brian crushed him in a bear hug with such force that Mike was only semi-conscious when he lifted him bodily from the floor, carried him to the door and dumped him on the sidewalk
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He considered bringing the matter to the attention of immigration officials, but with the level of corrupt influence he was obviously up against, some semi-plausible explanation would be proffered and he would be facing harassment charges
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George followed Leon up to his suite more to humor him than anything else, but once there, the sight of numerous payoff checks, in addition to a semi-cryptic receipt from a downtown bank for eleven million dollars in cash ‘Ed’ claimed he had just delivered, all of which appeared authentic, sobered him
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Her semi-naked body was discovered in a lane, just 50 yards from her front door
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I fell into a semi-conscious state of exhaustion as the squall
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A semi-circular gaggle of citizens, all dressed in their Easter Bonnets and finery stared down at him
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Eight hours later, he was still in bed, but in that cottony-soft world of the semi-conscious
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The Admiral Hrickletl was an Antarean, and they had evolved in a semi-aquatic environment that flooded routinely
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But then he leaned in closer, almost uncomfortably closer, and semi-whispered, “But I could make you one
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“He’s headed for another semi-extinct star
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His terseness and semi-hostile attitude made it difficult for Jenny and Fergus was saying nothing; after all, it wasn’t his ‘project’
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She would be arriving in Miami about now, he thought, and when she returned on Saturday, it would be on a semi-permanent basis