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He gunned the V8 and spat stones against the crumbling dry stone wall that
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buried deep beneath the crumbling vaults of stone that formed the roof of the world
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Ridges of crumbling stone and cement bit into the thin skin covering my knees and I waited, letting the reality of this simple and basic reaction to the physical world wash through me
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the earth dry, above the crumbling concrete
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Above the crumbling banks of rivers,
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the sound of crumbling mortar falls
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Safe behind their crumbling castle walls, the family’s ancient lust for life dissipated, and the vitality of these new lives completely passed them by
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I tried staring into my surroundings without focusing on anything in particular and that helped a distant crumbling ruin to emerge from its orange terraced soil but the stillness made me feel I was being monitored or that something nasty was about to happen
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Armed with her father’s old address book, and after many disappointing telephone calls to old friends and distant relations, Annie eventually tracked down an ancient great-aunt who owned a crumbling Victorian villa that had been converted into bedsits
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This dungeon was rough stone rather than crumbling concrete, no plaster
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crumbling Victorian villa that had been converted into bedsits
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the crumbling roof and gaping holes in the walls
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into a sort of chasm between the crumbling walls
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I leant on the crumbling,
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Creatures scurried into the shadows as she entered, hiding within the crumbling walls and pieces of decaying furniture
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crumbling masonry and gaps in places where the mortar
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They were all cracked, crumbling, and for the most part, toppled
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Fortunately, a different vineyard spread along the slope uphill from the crumbling
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All she could see were the familiar blackened beams and crumbling interior of the former home
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I broke a piece of bread from the loaf, crumbling it into the stew
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We haven’t managed to do a single thing for him except offer Lead Arrows protection now, after their Temples are crumbling, which is partially our fault
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“Is there no way we can keep Mars’s Temples from crumbling?”
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Only, now, the walls were crumbling
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Edna reached out a trembling hand, her crumbling old joints making her cry out in agony at every movement
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Edgar had felt so close to a major success in his career that he could have almost touched it, but just then, at the point when the man’s resolve began crumbling, he’d been stabbed inside San Sebastian prison
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A natural deep-water harbour showed why the city was here, a small metropolis plopped right down into the midst of huge ruins, crumbling walls, and pagan temples brooding in the rarified air
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The structures showed signs of wear, corners were crumbling, in some instances footholds were chipped or missing
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The city was all of polished white stone, mostly crumbling, ancient and decayed
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more crumbling city, more factions, more of everything?”
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Nothing was left of the tree but its crumbling trunk out of which the ferns grew thickly, making a green roof and a lacy screen for the water
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Orphenn rushed with Cinder down the corridors of the crumbling palace,
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“Cinder, come on! The palace is crumbling all around us!” He urged her,
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vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not crumbling up; 16 To
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sky, the red flames of the crumbling Reactor lighting up the city
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emerged from beneath the base of the Plate, the crumbling
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began to climb the rim, wary as they scaled the crumbling path,
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shops on the square’s circumference, and the crumbling and
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Company could be on the brink of crumbling into chaos, and it
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The path was littered with crumbling statues, and there was even a large worn out shrine gate
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At 9:00 AM I arrived at the office of Axel Vandevere Investigations in a crumbling strip mall on the outskirts of an industrial park in National City
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We spent the afternoon clambering over crumbling rocks, and I accidentally tripped several times until the palms of my hands were scratched up and bleeding
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The walls were black and crumbling, and silence shrouded the yard
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As she was crumbling, Hades grabbed Elena’s falling body and she was still holding her heart in her hand
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Already crumbling buildings are pelted with projectiles and then torched, hastening their inevitable collapse
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We trudge through a crumbling city and a perishing planet
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At times, after work, he would drive around, miles away from Brea, to avoid facing the reality of his crumbling marriage and shattered dreams and hopes
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The very infrastructure is crumbling for want of
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He pushed the speed limit hoping to get over the crumbling
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Tired and hungry, she heated up a tin of soup in the kitchen, crumbling into it the stale bread which was the only other thing she could find
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crumbling of David’s natural reserve as they got to know each other better, he had also told her of his long expired besottedness with Stella, of the price she had
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crumbling it as it cooks
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They rumbled like the sound of mountains crumbling
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The ground is crumbling
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He scrambled up so his legs balanced precariously on the crumbling window ledge
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The negative forces on Earth are crumbling under the impact of the positive energies enlightened humans and others are projecting toward them
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Then the Romans disappeared, leaving nothing but crumbling ruins behind
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With a great heave, Simon rips some of the crumbling stonework from the wall and flings it with all his strength in their direction
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I think it sent her world crumbling
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A large slab of fake brick they laid down to protect the floor from hot coals, and with Carl's experienced help soon knocked crumbling mortar from the old chimney port, and assembled the stove pipe
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Supporting the chimney was a sandstone block of great age, while the rest of the basement showed only crumbling patches of concrete
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He only needed a few minutes to reorganize the three rear lines to extend the formation losing the depth of the ranks but covering the crumbling flank better, this would stop him from being totally outflanked and keep the Tanarians hemmed in by the jagged rocks that lined the wide track
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His marriage had suffered the most, short-lived as it had been before crumbling apart
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This is because these beliefs rarely bear even the most cursory examination without crumbling to dust
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When finally sliced with accompanying saucy expletives it rendered slabs of crumbling matter the consistency of dried cow manure
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His soothing words were totally lost on her while the emotional walls she had built around herself came crumbling down and lay at the priest's feet
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He flailed, clawing at his chest, then began to disintegrate-not like my mother, in a flash of golden light, but like crumbling sand, blown away in chunks by the wind, the same way Mrs
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Alledrial was balanced on a crumbling
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The crumbling trail of Chaos was now halfway to the golden cabinet
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against the crumbling room as chunks of the ceiling fel around her
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crumbling into the Sea of Chaos
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was already crumbling into the Sea of Chaos
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Many houses were unsafe long before the floods sent them crumbling
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She swung weakly for several seconds before her attacker nonchalantly raised a foot, sent her crumbling back to the floor, and wandered into the shadows
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‘Oasis power generators are no longer up to the task; most other services are run down; buildings are crumbling due to age and a series of minor earthquakes over the last year; malfunctioning negrav chutes are dropping people to their deaths; air-conditioning plants need an upgrade; there’s been a noticeable rise in average temperature and increased humidity and air pollution, with a corresponding increase in lung infections over the last two years
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witnessed in those last few days, of people dying, of their entire civilization crumbling under the
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Even when disaster loomed and their civilization began crumbling they couldn’t comprehend the notion that more than enough is too much, let alone translate that idea into actions that might have saved them
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First the house started to disappear, crumbling away into dust
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The house or rather what was left of it was a crumbling ruin
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She wanted to seem strong but everything was crumbling and she heard herself sob
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It was not plain dirt or soft crumbling chunks, but a powdery and damp substance that clung to everything it touched
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And in the midst of that plateau rose a long broad structure of crumbling greenish stone
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So they rode away, leaving the great city in ruins, and in his ivory-domed sepulcher great Thugra Khotan slept unmolested, while the lizards of desolation gnawed at the crumbling pillars, and the very river that watered his land in old times sank into the sands and ran dry
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From all sides except that toward the river, the jungle crept in, masking fallen columns and crumbling mounds with poisonous green
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Bêlit mocked at his superstitions and ordered the galley run inshore and tied to the crumbling wharfs
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And they were crumbling into dust before his eyes
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After about a half-an-hour, they turned off the main road on to a small road leading down to an abandoned beach, the vehicles parking on a crumbling cement stretch, that had once been a jetty
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Broken columns glimmered among the trees, the straggling lines of crumbling walls meandered off into the shadows, and under his feet were broad paves, cracked and bowed by roots growing beneath
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It was as if the crumbling lines had grown back into the structures they originally were
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Only the stumps of broken columns rose above crumbling walls and broken paves and shattered dome
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There was a sensation as of all sanity and stability crumbling and vanishing
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The men murmured, though they did not let their murmurings reach the ears of their implacable master, who tramped the poop day and night in gloomy majesty, or pored over ancient charts and time- yellowed maps, reading in tomes that were crumbling masses of worm-eaten parchment
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All about him he saw signs of an ancient civilization; marble fountains, voiceless and crumbling, stood in circles of slender trees whose patterns were too symmetrical to have been a chance of nature
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The chambers and halls he traversed were crumbling into ruin, but as he advanced the ravages of decay became less apparent
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I felt as if I were a thousand years old and crumbling to dust
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'Ah, gods, what is this? The river foams out of its channel, and the peaks are crumbling! The ground shakes and horses and riders in armor are overthrown! The cliffs! The cliffs are falling!'
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The Thurian civilization was crumbling; their armies were composed largely of barbarian mercenaries
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The city lawyer, reclining in the luxuriously cushioned seat, suddenly leaned forward and watched the rocky, sun-bleached island with its ancient ruins -- crumbling tributes to great deities, Hera, Apollo and the love goddess, Aphrodite
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Beyond the crumbling buildings a large industrial estate made of modern metal clad buildings greets his gaze
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“Sprinkle the salt,” I called to Vaughn as I turned to the west, scrambling to remember the rest of the psychic shield spell, crumbling cedar in my good hand
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surrounded by a crumbling pile of rock in the place where