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The law made no distinction for the number of clones, but Ava would be huge in lurid gossip back in the League they left
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Every newspaper and every television programme ran special editions and lurid news flashes
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most lurid of our newspapers a story of tragedy and heartbreak
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special editions and lurid news flashes
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A Transit painted in the lurid colours of the God Squad
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The flames of those kilns lit the chamber with a lurid glow which spilled out into the khume beyond
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Her life, the whole past, writ large in lurid colours; the voices of everyone intimate or even pressing when she brought them to mind
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Upper Street, two lurid green peaks above the
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The light flashed in lurid bursts as the man spoke
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'SPIDERMAN AND THE TRIP OF DEATH', it declared, in lurid green letters
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From time to time the wild scene was lit by lurid flashes from the horizon
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The stage act that everyone paid money to see was banned in Queensland, being classed as lurid
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in a lurid moment was reputed to have said, “All cats are the same in the dark
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Jason, of course, was unaware of the lurid lapses Bruce experienced during intimacies with Juliet
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They tested me by interviewing me over lunch during which they talked in a surprisingly matter of fact manner about the lurid and gross details of the client-kids’ injuries
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I peek out of my door to listen, and yes I hear them; the exaggerated tones and lurid laughs strangers do when they first meet
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Lurid stopped, listened, then howled, when the reply came back she knew who it was and when the breeze shifted she smelled him as well
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” Just as the words left his mouth something big jumped him from behind, Amori let out a scream, Ryan rolled around for awhile with whatever it was then stood, scratching the creature behind the ears he said, “This is my closest friend Lurid,” The wolf bowed to them, “Sorry if I scared you,” She smiled at least Amori thought it was a smile, “I would probably be easier for you if I was in my human form
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” Lurid looked at him questioningly
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” Lurid looked at Amori, “It was said that one will be tested, tried beyond measure, but would prove themselves worthy of bearing the mark
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Making it to the temple before the sun set they walked in, Lurid dawned a robe since she was a Priestess
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Standing at the altar Lurid turned to look at Dryan, “What is it that you need?”
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Lurid nodded then turned back to the book, opening it she flipped through a few pages till she came to where she wanted then began the chant,
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“She is the first,” The Heavenly turned to face Lurid eyes shining brighter than the sun, “She believes she is alone but she has more help than she knows…”
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When Amori opened her eyes she was standing beside Cody looking up just as Lurid was turning around…
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Lurid opened her eyes, turning around to face the others
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Perhaps because he was at heart a puritan and therefore obsessed with sex, Sean had read a great deal about decadent societies and regaled me with lurid tales of debauchery
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Then suddenly I felt—anew—a feeling very old and rank: the heaviness of ignorance that levels from its gross domain what lurid, selfish, loveless thoughts it conjures up to keep souls down
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Zeno recounted everything in unnecessarily lurid detail in a spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to shock his parents
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It is a foul and lurid place I dimly saw by crescent moon, entangled in a web of trees appearing more like wizened claws
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memories of Aunty Mary, lurid and precious but I wasn’t able to keep her as the
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The lurid unearthly glow still hovered in the shadowy chamber, lighting ghostlily the dead face of Thugra Khotan, which seemed to grin mirthlessly and cavernously at them
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Terrific convulsions shook the earth; the nights were lurid with spouting volcanoes that fringed the dark horizons with red pillars
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The glow was more lurid, the head more vividly limned
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Over the arch burned a lurid red cresset, and beside the door squatted a warrior with spear and shield
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In the flickering light of the cresset his features were shadowy, but a pair of lambent eyes shone surprizingly in the lurid glow
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His profanity, as Balthus floundered after him, was lurid and impassioned
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The scales along his back and flanks turned from rusty brown to a dull lurid red
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Conan crouched in the black mouth of the tunnel, staring at the walls reflecting the lurid glow of the torches
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Conan's gaze, following the curve of the arch that swept away from the ledge on which they stood, caught a glint of light that was not the lurid phosphorus of the cavern
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'It is the map of a world I do not know,' said Xaltotun softly, but Orastes did not miss the lurid fire of hate that flickered in his dark eyes
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The sun was setting; against a lurid red sky the two black figures fled
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A lurid nimbus played about his awful head
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He had performed his last scene, in the lurid melodrama of his life; and the curtain had fallen over his performance on the human stage
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I started into the LOTTO conspiracy and got through all the lurid details as well as all the recent happenings
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Even if it was only for depictions of outrageous characters in lurid colours
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The door was locked and bolted from the inside, barring any unwelcome visitors to the lurid crime scene, but the window in the parlour had been left unlatched, as if to invite the perpetrator of the crimes to once again make the daring journey into the lovely suite that had fallen victim to evil and treachery
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I’d settle for that,” Mysterieau said, oblivious to the effect of his lurid, over-lengthy, lavender costume
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As well as the bruise on his face he had another, bigger and more lurid, on
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bowing, winks and lurid jokes was the unstated
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Still later in the evening I gathered from certain remarks Charlotte made that she had lent the most lurid of her works, a pamphlet called _The Beast of Prey_, to the widow, who to judge from Charlotte's satisfaction was quite carried away by it
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” Keller walked over and turned off the lurid scenes flashing on the screen
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He finished with the day he stepped into her office—having skipped the lurid details of the county lock up
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At the hottest moment of the day he felt for a lurid instant as if it were not one choir-boy he was with but the entire choir having its summer treat and being taken by him single-handed for a long dog-day to the Crystal Palace; but that was after luncheon in the restaurant car, a luncheon that seemed to his fevered imagination to consist of bits of live cinder served in sulphur and eaten in a heaving, swaying lake of brimstone
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It felt itself at once raised to a position of lurid conspicuousness in the county, its name would be in every mouth, the papers, perhaps even the London papers, would talk about it
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His lurid career as the only living heir to the Bourbon dynasty gave him tremendous power
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She had a strange, lurid smile
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throng with lurid cries, ‘Predictions! Solving of omens! Curing
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The lurid meaning of the slaver’s slurred out statement broke the solitude of Krista’s grief over her kind hearted caretaker
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Their faces, leering at him with reptilian hostility, were lurid cubist sculptures under the harsh fluorescent light
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He was tempted to dally in a carriage full of secretary-clones with generous chests and frugal skirts, but he remembered the Office line-up with an uncomfortable shudder, and hurried on through soldiers on furlough, holidaymakers in lurid beach clothes, and exhibitionists who leered at him as he passed, disappointed by his gender but displaying their wares anyway
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place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by
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Albert Barnes in his commentary on Matthew 5:22: "The extreme loathsomeness of the place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by day and by night, made it one of the most appalling and terrific objects with which a Jew was ever acquainted
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In the painting of sunlight the latter method is much the more effective, a look of great brilliancy and light being produced, whereas in the earlier method, the scale being commenced from the light end, so much of the picture was dark that the impression of light and air was lost and a dark gloomy land took its place, a gloom accentuated rather than dispelled by the streaks of lurid light where the sun struck
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Albert Barnes in his commentary on Matthew 5:22 says, "The extreme loathsomeness of the place, and filth and putrefaction, the corruption of the atmosphere, and the lurid fires blazing by day and by night, made it one of the most appalling and terrific objects with which a Jew was ever acquainted
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Across the stage with pallor on her face, yet lurid passion,
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Oily brown shadows of faces with a lurid streak in the wrong place, meant Rembrandt
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It needed the lurid light of the engines of war to bring them out into full view, very simple, without worldly graces, organised now into a body of workers by the genius of one of themselves, who gave them a place and a voice in the social scheme; but in the main still apart in their homeless, childless generations, scattered in loyal groups over all the seas, giving faithful care to their ships and serving the nation, which, since they are seamen, can give them no reward but the supreme "Well Done
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National headlines ensued, with Carter coming across as somewhat lurid
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The magazine’s lurid headline promises that “Ronald Reagan’s Renegade Daughter” will tell all
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The lurid headline in the New York Daily News the next day read, “Teddy Escapes, Blonde Drowns
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From the woods, a little further to the south, rose numerous dark and lurid smokes, that were easily to be distinguished from the purer exhalations of the springs, and which the scout also showed to Heyward, as evidences that the enemy lay in force in that direction
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Here and there, a red and fiery star struggled through the drifting vapor, furnishing a lurid gleam of brightness to the dull aspect of the heavens
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Lydia seemed energized by the prospect of uncovering more lurid details, but Claire felt as though she was suffocating under the weight of every new revelation
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Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former's ball passed through the latter's hat) having detected a discrepancy between his name (assuming he was the person he represented himself to be and not sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q
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When the light of the glimmering lantern had faded quite away, the minister discovered, by the faintness which came over him, that the last few moments had been a crisis of terrible anxiety; although his mind had made an involuntary effort to relieve itself by a kind of lurid playfulness
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“Yea, woman, thou sayest truly!” cried old Roger Chillingworth, letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes
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“People of New England!” cried he, with a voice that rose over them, high, solemn, and majestic,—yet had always a tremor through it, and sometimes a shriek, struggling up out of a fathomless depth of remorse and woe,—“ye, that have loved me!—ye, that have deemed me holy!—behold me here, the one sinner of the world! At last!—at last!—I stand upon the spot where, seven years since, I should have stood; here, with this woman, whose arm, more than the little strength wherewith I have crept hitherward, sustains me, at this dreadful moment, from grovelling down upon my face! Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears! Ye have all shuddered at it! Wherever her walk hath been,—wherever, so miserably burdened, she may have hoped to find repose,—it hath cast a lurid gleam of awe and horrible repugnance round about her
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Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions seem essentially the same, except that one happens to be seen in a celestial radiance, and the other in a dusky and lurid glow
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In the lurid, flickering light, he sees that the airplane was not alone, that the sky teems with them, a dozen swooping back and forth, racing in all directions, and in a moment of disorientation, he feels that he’s looking not up but down, as though a spotlight has been shined into a wedge of bloodshot water, and the sky has become the sea, and the airplanes are hungry fish, harrying their prey in the dark
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Joining the crowd, Maria read through the EEOC charges, which spelled out all the lurid details
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'This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular and handsome Toad, the rich and hospitable Toad, the Toad so free and careless and debonair! How can I hope to be ever set at large again' (he said), 'who have been imprisoned so justly for stealing so handsome a motor-car in such an audacious manner, and for such lurid and imaginative cheek, bestowed upon such a number of fat, red-faced policemen!' (Here his sobs choked him
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The sky seemed as close as the tops of the trees, covered with still When Moneywort had gone, Bigwig sat in the mouth of the hole and sniffed cloud and flushed on the morning side with a lurid, foxy glow
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" He hesitated till his roaming eyes met Sir John's face upon which he fixed a lurid, sleepy glance; and the figure of the lately negotiated loan came into
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A lurid glow of strong convictions gave its peculiar aspect to the black figure
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He walked to and fro all the length of the room, stopping sometimes to gnaw the finger-tips of his right hand with a lurid sideways glare fixed on the floor; then, with a sullen, repelling glance all round, he would resume his tramping in savage aloofness
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I was also in a country where Rupert Murdoch had cut his poisoned teeth, so reports did not stint on lurid speculations or gruesome details
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The lurid presentment so powerfully affected her imagination in the silence of the sleeping house that her nightgown became damp with perspiration, and the bedstead shook with each throb of her heart
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Was it the cardigan he was allergic to? Its lurid flamestitch pattern seemed to fill the room
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She showed me the lurid lines on her wrists, like bracelets
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I had made her a receptacle of lurid things, but there was an odd recognition of my superiority—my accomplishments and my function—in her patience under my pain
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Still, I wasn’t prepared for the lurid procedures