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    1. But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals


    2. As more leaves came down on an oblique angle, freshets of soft, moist, autumn air caressed his face


    3. The rear view of a plane is all oblique angles


    4. His front end was all oblique angles


    5. Michael twisted his head about, sending her an oblique glance


    6. The accomplice night was hiding the winged bodies and the clandestine faces of oblique look and bitter sneer, which were emerging from the depths of the calamitous forest, accomplice also, of the demons which pouring out from its womb had begun to stain the ground of malignancies; the Lord of the shadows already was ruling the land


    7. Their oblique eyes seemed to have a 180 degree view amounting to encompass the entire perimeter


    8. As it swung inwards, he realized that this room always took his breath away with its circular design, the walls dripping with gold leaf and complex cream cornicing, vases, busts and art placed in every conceivable free space, all illuminated by a domed stained-glass window in the ceiling that shot out different tints of light at oblique angles over the masterpieces on the walls


    9. Xaltotun smote his hands together and two men entered, men often observed accompanying him—small, repulsively dark, with red, oblique eyes and pointed, rat-like teeth


    10. The repetitions of the level / oblique sounds is found in Tang po-

    11. stress, stress and level / oblique tones


    12. � The badge on her dark green beret consisted of a silver star on a red and green field divided by an oblique silver band


    13. From an oblique angle he resembled an out of work freezing worker in the white jump suit he’d been wearing since being apprehended in Sydney


    14. Jake Stennis watched closely as part of his workers, led by Pedro Montes, started drilling down an oblique tunnel from the level they were on


    15. The Ascendant is dragged along at the same rate in Oblique Ascension)


    16. Visitations are oblique and surreal, this world or the next came in tune with the


    17. think it’s one of the reasons why there are so many oblique references to the


    18. The second is a little more oblique


    19. The collision of two bodies is considered to be oblique when the absolute speeds of the


    20. An oblique blade lies between two upright posts, the head flies high when a supporting cord is released into the victim's neck lying below due to the high speed in a jet of blood

    21. Before that, I had only prayed after the mimicry oblique rote manner


    22. Position the object further away and at a more oblique angle


    23. Something in her tone told me she was making an oblique reference to the spirit or entity I had seen


    24. same plane and cut each other therefore are oblique to each other


    25. Arthur led us in at an oblique angle, slicing through the thinnest side of them, where behind us on our rear flanks, left and right, came another two units and it was like ploughing down wicker-men that stood in a field to scare the crows


    26. It was the first and only oblique reference to my affair with Monette he ever


    27. It was oblique, and it hurt like a motherfucker, but I did it


    28. He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique folds that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall


    29. From time to time at the upper end a sacristan passed, making the oblique genuflexion of devout persons in a hurry


    30. Seen thus from above, the whole landscape looked immovable as a picture; the anchored ships were massed in one corner, the river curved round the foot of the green hills, and the isles, oblique in shape, lay on the water, like large, motionless, black fishes

    31. The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum


    32. These views were varied continuously by the sun's oblique rays, or were completely swallowed up by gray mists in the middle of blizzards


    33. A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his greatest difficulties


    34. The oblique staring expression in them


    35. Upholding the lid he (who?) gazed in the coffin (coffin?) at the oblique triple (piano!) wires


    36. When Sylvia walked through downtown Torrance with her family, she noticed oblique glances from passersby


    37. Found, gained entrance, and took several oblique photographs relatively useless to anyone save myself


    38. Salander looked again at the door across the street, to the extent that she could see anything from her oblique angle, and she noticed it opening


    39. But from several of his comments, some oblique enough it took Owl’s analysis to tease them out of the underbrush, he’d come around—slowly and unwillingly—to the belief that Chihiro was … significantly modifying Langhorne’s original plan


    40. As if in answer to this thought, half of remorse and half of hope, with a soft flutter and oblique flight, a big owl, whose appalling cry: "Ya-acabo! Ya-acabo!—it is finished; it is finished"— announces calamity and death in the popular belief, drifted vaguely like a large dark ball across his path

    41. Regan liked to think of this as Daddy’s oblique apology to her and to William for the impending remarriage


    42. Instead, there was mostly an oblique thrill in his chest when, masturbating himself to sleep in Mansfield, he thought of her in her sorority house in Poughkeepsie


    43. Personal-sized tins of syrupy fruit cocktail jig across oblique eating trays


    44. That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves


    45. But the oblique view took in the back of the Ellsworth house, the brick patio, and a wedge of the garden where heads had been buried


    46. He had a science- the theory of oblique movements deduced by him from the history of Frederick the Great’s wars, and all he came across in the history of more recent warfare seemed to him absurd and barbarous- monstrous collisions in which so many blunders were committed by both sides that these wars could not be called wars, they did not accord with the theory, and therefore could not serve as material for science


    47. In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat


    48. bread thief; il lansquine, it rains, a striking, ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: it rains halberds


    49. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful crupper


    50. This hadn't seemed to cause undue concern among his rather oblique guests











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