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She passed her hands over his chin, natives either grew full length beards or had their facial hair genetically removed, so this roughness was something she seldom sensed and after the fifty Earth years since he'd left, it moved her in unexpected ways
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the roughness of a mole on your skin,
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I don’t know how long I stay there, at one with the roughness of the elements but, as the clouds gradually become darker and darker, portentous of worsening weather, I do the sensible thing and go below
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She can almost feel the roughness of the wooden cubes with faded paint … they belonged to her mum when she was a baby she remembered from somewhere
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Whatever happened to the roughness and
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“Because of the lack of communication and the roughness of the terrain there doesn’t seem to be anyone in overall command issuing the right orders and so Brigade has ordered us back”, there was a sick look on the Major’s face now as he continued
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sure they blasted light in the right place, shaved off just the right level of roughness at the edges of a chip, added gold contacts here, not there
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I went over and kissed Rosie on her now dry forehead that was hot and had the roughness of sandpaper about it I said
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Getting hit hard running out of bounds, and the refs tacked on another 15 for unnecessary roughness
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He cupped her cheek in his hand and she felt the roughness of his palm on her soft skin
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His hand had a dry, pleasant roughness when we shook
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Teri felt the roughness of a coarse blanket tossed round her bare shoulders
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It remained a mystery to Molo how the Pilgrim could remain unperturbed by the roughness of the terrain, the adverse conditions, and the unforgiving miles he had walked to get here in the first place
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Bearing down ever harder it finally shattered and the familiar taste was in her mouth, but so was the roughness of the shells
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In time, he described the roughness of the
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Before long, however, we had to abandon the river for the south bank because of roughness
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21 The fear of the Lord goes before the obtaining of authority, but roughness and pride is the losing of it
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He could already feel the roughness of a forest path under his feet
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Was she dreaming? Would she wake up disappointed? She reached out to feel the roughness of his cheek
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Finns were proud of the roughness of the country at such times
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“I have heard that there are those of every race who are affected that way, and that anyone might enjoy a bit of roughness and pain while in the throes of their strongest passion
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Beneath his cheek he felt the roughness of stones
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But such an act would tear the membrane of his mind, and already Simon could tell by the wild roughness of the sky and the bite of the sand that the man was unschooled in any meditation technique that could heal him
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overloaded carts over the roughness of the gravel terraces and the rock-strewn ground of the
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care taken to ease her through every roughness of the uneven gravel surface and around the
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He sees a wooden table, framed by a glimmer of moonlight, and feels the roughness of the cloths bundled underneath which serve for a makeshift bed
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He steps forward and his foot meets a mound of roughness
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He was handsome, his features kept perfect symmetry, his manners were noble and bold and if it wasn’t for the roughness of his treatment, I might consider him nice
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devastating effects of fear induced in children by roughness and cruelty; but
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He only knew the roughness of battles
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The faces along the bar had an edge, a dry roughness about
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I began to think that if they were this tired now, what were they going to feel like after the next two days? It gets much worst for them, an old man and five women, and one looked as if she were with child, for this was their first time going to Tarsus, and had maybe underestimated the roughness of the mountains
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The crystals are almost always crude, but notwithstanding their roughness, they are very desirable
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introduce errors and roughness in the final result
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For a certain roughness and abruptness of style I must apologize
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Smooth internal surfaces help to avoid roughness and crevices within
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finish should have an arithmetical average surface roughness of not greater than 0
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He taught people stinginess, greed, cunning, deception, debauchery, roughness, oppression and treason
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I always loved this first wild frolic of cold winds and catkins and hurriedly crimsoning pollards, of bleakness and promise, of roughness and sweetness--a blow on one cheek and a kiss on the other--before the spring has learned good manners, before it has left off being anything but a boisterous, naughty, charming _Backfisch_; but this year after having been ill so long it is more than love, it is passion
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Their cordiality, too, becomes more pronounced in proportion to the coldness and roughness of the water; and the water that day looked cold and was certainly rough, and I felt that there being only two of us in it it would be impossible to escape the advances of the other one
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She felt like she was challenging their roughness with her grace, and ultimately, she was winning
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“I apologise for the roughness of our greeting
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with a roughness you most could fear?
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When dry sand off the rest of the peels and sand the edges around the peeling to soften the roughness of the paint once this is done
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roughness of the sport
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In this way by degrees he acquires those ideas of roughness and smoothness, hardness and softness, solidity, &c
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But it is at the sacrifice of many beautiful qualities of form, as this roughness of surface does not lend itself readily to any finesse of modelling
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His mouth covered mine, hard and insistent, and I basked in its roughness
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There was little roughness in the sport, and much playfulness
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With this object they resolved to show themselves, and at the stir they made in getting upon their feet the fair damsel raised her head, and parting her hair from before her eyes with both hands, she looked to see who had made the noise, and the instant she perceived them she started to her feet, and without waiting to put on her shoes or gather up her hair, hastily snatched up a bundle as though of clothes that she had beside her, and, scared and alarmed, endeavoured to take flight; but before she had gone six paces she fell to the ground, her delicate feet being unable to bear the roughness of the stones; seeing which, the three hastened towards her, and the curate addressing her first said:
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For the roughness of the earth and of man encloses as much as the
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Don Quixote, feeling the roughness of the rope on his wrist, exclaimed,
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"If Roland was not a more graceful person than your worship has described," said the curate, "it is no wonder that the fair Lady Angelica rejected him and left him for the gaiety, liveliness, and grace of that budding-bearded little Moor to whom she surrendered herself; and she showed her sense in falling in love with the gentle softness of Medoro rather than the roughness of Roland
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A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness, though too stern for grace
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There he tore off the sleeve of Earnshaw's coat, and bound up the wound with brutal roughness; spitting and cursing during the operation as energetically as he had kicked before
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her at length with an air of roughness and vigour, relishing high of
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I heard its plating grind against the limestone roughness of that coral base
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The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, or some overhang suspended like a chandelier, which our lamps flecked with fiery sparks
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A roughness, as though something had been rubbed off
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her money imagine his poor wife or mother or whoever she is such a face youd run miles away from I couldnt rest easy till I bolted all the doors and windows to make sure but its worse again being locked up like in a prison or a madhouse they ought to be all shot or the cat of nine tails a big brute like that that would attack a poor old woman to murder her in her bed Id cut them off him so I would not that hed be much use still better than nothing the night I was sure I heard burglars in the kitchen and he went down in his shirt with a candle and a poker as if he was looking for a mouse as white as a sheet frightened out of his wits making as much noise as he possibly could for the burglars benefit there isnt much to steal indeed the Lord knows still its the feeling especially now with Milly away such an idea for him to send the girl down there to learn to take photographs on account of his grandfather instead of sending her to Skerrys academy where shed have to learn not like me getting all IS at school only hed do a thing like that all the same on account of me and Boylan thats why he did it Im certain the way he plots and plans everything out I couldnt turn round with her in the place lately unless I bolted the door first gave me the fidgets coming in without knocking first when I put the chair against the door just as I was washing myself there below with the glove get on your nerves then doing the loglady all day put her in a glasscase with two at a time to look at her if he knew she broke off the hand off that little gimcrack statue with her roughness and carelessness before she left that I got that little Italian boy to mend so that you cant see the join for 2 shillings wouldnt even teem the potatoes for you of course shes right not to ruin her hands I noticed he was always talking to her lately at the table explaining things in the paper and she pretending to understand sly of course that comes from his side of the house he cant say I pretend things can he Im too honest as a matter of fact and helping her into her coat but if there was anything wrong with her its me shed tell not him I suppose he thinks Im finished out and laid on the shelf well Im not no nor anything like it well see well see now shes well on for flirting too with Tom Devans two sons imitating me whistling with those romps of Murray girls calling for her can Milly come out please shes in great demand to pick what they can out of her round in Nelson street riding Harry Devans bicycle at night its as well he sent her where she is she was just getting out of bounds wanting to go on the skatingrink and smoking their cigarettes through their nose I smelt it off her dress when I was biting off the thread of the button I sewed on to the bottom of her jacket she couldnt hide much from me I tell you only I oughtnt to have stitched it and it on her it brings a parting and the last plumpudding too split in 2 halves see it comes out no matter what they say her tongue is a bit too long for my taste your blouse is open too low she says to me the pan calling the kettle blackbottom and I had to tell her not to cock her legs up like that on show on the windowsill before all the people passing they all look at her like me when I was her age of course any old rag looks well on you then a great touchmenot too in her own way at the Only Way in the Theatre royal take your foot away out of that I hate people touching me afraid of her life Id crush her skirt with the pleats a lot of that touching must go on in theatres in the crush in the dark theyre always trying to wiggle up to you that fellow in the pit at the Gaiety for Beerbohm Tree in Trilby the last time Ill ever go there to be squashed like that for any Trilby or her barebum every two minutes tipping me there and looking away hes a bit daft I
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He led her to the couch (nothing loth), on which he gave her the fall, and extended her at length with an air of roughness and vigour, relishing high of amorous eagerness and impatience
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This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible
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His supple nature was one which yielded to roughness far more readily than to entreaty
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Maybe you would," the doctor said, with a roughness of tone intended to hide the sinking of his heart and the faltering of his voice
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However, I hoped that the plate might not be carefully examined, or the roughness of the setting observed, until my task was done
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applied next for the less light, till, beginning with the dairy and poultry tendance that she liked best, she ended with the heavy and course pursuits which she liked least—work on arable land: work of such roughness, indeed, as she would never have deliberately voluteered for
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Her skull, shaved for surgery, reminded him of the soft skulls of infants, and he wanted badly, for a second, to bend down and smell her there where the bone had fused, to feel the roughness of hair coming back, to close his eyes and press his nose to this lineless pale scalp that hadn’t seen the sun in not twenty-two but eighteen years—as if she were his daughter, rather than his mistress
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Finally, he reached out and took her wrists with marvelous roughness
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Later in the evening, however, Raffles overtook him in the street, and appearing either to have forgotten the roughness of his former reception or to intend avenging it by a forgiving familiarity, greeted him jovially and walked by his side, remarking at first on the pleasantness of the town and neighborhood
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I only knew that at the end of, I suppose, a quarter of an hour, an odorous dampness and roughness, chilling and piercing my trouble, had made me understand that I must have thrown myself, on my face, on the ground and given way to a wildness of grief
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Violet flowers do the same for rhubarb as strawberries: they tone it down and soften, even out the acidity, and balance the roughness
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I loved kissing him, loved his touch, his gentleness, then his roughness, the simple fact that he was concerned about my pleasure as much as his own
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At midday on the twenty-second of October Pierre was going uphill along the muddy, slippery road, looking at his feet and at the roughness of the way
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A half-civilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire, but it was subdued; and his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness, though stern for grace
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There he tore off the sleeve of Earnshaw’s coat, and bound up the wound with brutal roughness; spitting and cursing during the operation as energetically as he had kicked before
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Madeleine with a look in which there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round
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A little roughness is good in cases of fear
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In order to base the selection of the optimal solution not only on the altitude mark, but on robustness as well, it is necessary to evaluate quantitatively the relief of the optimal area and the extent of its roughness
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my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries: but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease: I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced—
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She spoke good Spanish, with a certain roughness in the syntax, and her frequent slips heightened her charm
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Then imagine instead of the black or grey or chestnut back of the horse the soft roughness of golden fur, and the mane flying back in the wind
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There had remained only a general impression of roughness and loudness; and now he scarcely ever noticed her, but to make her the object of a coarse joke
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And, do you know, I all but went off to Paris, and should assuredly have shared his solitary exile with him; but, alas, our destinies were otherwise ordered! We parted, he to his island, where I am sure he thought of the weeping child who had embraced him so affectionately at parting in Moscow; and I was sent off to the cadet corps, where I found nothing but roughness and harsh discipline
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The well-nourished man has spent all his life in merry-making, with everything provided, has done nothing himself and does not know how hard every sort of work is, and so woe betide you if you jar upon his fat feelings by any sort of roughness; he'll never forgive you for that, he will always remember it and will gladly avenge it
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The high officers, instead of encouraging the roughness and cruelty of the soldiers, which befit their occupation, promote the diffusion of education among them, preach humanity, often sympathize with the socialistic ideas of the masses, and deny the utility of war