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I wanted to go home, I craved a cigarette, but I could have neither, and the indignity of my sordid life made me wish for the ultimate release
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to bury the sordid remains of the beast
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remembered now as sordid history in words offered to those
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He should be able to pass on the benefit of his experience, but it seems so sordid
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No doubt the press will break the details about the tragic death of a teenage clubber before too long, and Carol will find out about more of the sordid details soon enough
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It sounded horribly sordid, like something from one of the more sensationalist soap operas to Andy’s ears as he stammered out his story
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Me – the other woman? Me - involved in a sordid, hole-in-the-corner affair? But it’s not like that … For the millionth time I try to justify the unjustifiable; to make sense of the illogical; to deny the undeniable
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needn’t have wasted our time listening to such a sordid story
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He’d done it not through her connections, but from the sordid testimony of a whoring slave
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I was terrified and if it were not for Darniil who came to my rescue, they might very well have succeeded with their sordid plan
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With the judges that were to determine the preference, this difference was perfectly decisive; and thus, for the gratification of the most childish, the meanest, and the most sordid of all vanities they gradually bartered their whole power and authority
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sordid gain, but with eagerness; nor yet as lording it over
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to the will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness
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families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid (vile) gain
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Did they think she was lying about the house? Obviously they thought there was something sordid to hide
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“I want to thank you for bringing this sordid story of woe up, Roger
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I wanted to blurt out my sad and pathetic life story to these strangers, but what would that help? They would get a juicy story to tell their friends and families and I would still have to face the same sordid hurt and pain
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Once I had relived the sordid story, the realisation that my life was in ruins hit me, and I was wrought with sadness
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Evil has its own inestimable manner of penetrating the hearts and minds of individuals who, although not evil themselves, unwittingly serve as conduits for a variety of sordid practices and assorted mischief
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Sordid is as sordid does, isn’t that what they say?”
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The potted palms at the patio’s edge stood motionless in the still of the late-night air as they hashed over the astonishing events of the day, and Beth related the whole sordid tale of her problems with the FBI
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He apologized to Hilderich saying that it was not an appropriate time for such a discussion, but promised him that he would be more than happy to introduce her to Hilderich when they both got back and had left this sordid affair behind them
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They had simply been unlucky and with a bitter smile to himself, Ethan thought that this whole sordid affair reeked of bad luck
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I was almost about to abandon the whole sordid business when I thought of George’s smirking face and realized that he would be the next Khan
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I quietly let him out of the front door thinking I'd got aware with my sordid liaison but out of the corner of my eye I saw my mum
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I don't want him thinking the football is some kind of cover-up for sordid sex sessions in the showers
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“He was ahead of me there, but then I was upset about my son’s involvement in the sordid business, and too distracted to question George’s version of the events
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Chapter 16 This is the sordid story of the maidservant Hagar, Abram, and Sarai,
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However, Minnie had allowed me to leave that sordid sexual
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Someone who was more base, more sordid than he’d ever
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aspirations, the sordid sexual fantasies, the doubt, the hate, the
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I pulled the photographs from his hand and discovered who was responsible for this sordid mess
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Charly shook her head as Trask finished the sordid tale
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This sordid affair left a bad taste in my mouth
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Bill: Perhaps I owe Michael a very belated apology for doubting his role in this sordid affair and then again maybe I don't owe Michael an apology
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No sordid details, though! I'm not that soft in the head
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Tina had recorded every sordid detail of their affair in it
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A few days of headlines and on to the next sordid scandal, leaving a trail of ruined lives
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Even books written by gays conform either to the stereotypical queer whose sole aim in life is to have as many graphically-described, sordid sexual encounters as possible, usually in a drug-crazed haze, or else they’re like Hollinghurst’s hedonistic packs of well-heeled wankers
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sordid behaviour before, even after twenty years on the police force
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That event determined the mobilization of all the accumulated hate, hurt, malice, prejudice, jealousy, and revenge of a lifetime, and he made up his mind to get even with he knew not whom; but he crystallized all the evil of his nature upon the one innocent person in all the sordid drama of his unfortunate life just because Jesus happened to be the chief actor in the episode which marked his passing from the progressive kingdom of light into that self-chosen domain of darkness
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13 When the sordid and sinful business was all over, this renegade mortal, who thought lightly of selling his friend for thirty pieces of silver to satisfy his long-nursed craving for revenge, rushed out and committed the final act in the drama of fleeing from the realities of mortal existence -- suicide
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‘Are rapes and murder the only issues on trial in this singular case? Was not Suresh the violator as well as a victim at the same time? What about those who blackened their faces in this sordid drama of human depravity? Are they any innocent? Well, it was as if the parents insensibly combined to collectively jeopardize their son’s life
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That’s the only saving grace of my sordid life
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Yet, the redeeming feature of that sordid episode was that the fathers of the victims felt emboldened to defy the Dirty Dozen at the Tihar
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17 Jesus replied: "Thomas, Thomas, how long before you will acquire the ability to listen with the ear of the spirit? How long will it be before you discern that this kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, and that my Father is also a spiritual being? Do you not understand that I am teaching you as spiritual children in the spirit family of heaven, of which the fatherhead is an infinite and eternal spirit? Will you not allow me to use the earth family as an illustration of divine relationships without so literally applying my teaching to material affairs? In your minds cannot you separate the spiritual realities of the kingdom from the material, social, economic, and political problems of the age? When I speak the language of the spirit, why do you insist on translating my meaning into the language of the flesh just because I presume to employ commonplace and literal relationships for purposes of illustration? My children, I implore that you cease to apply the teaching of the kingdom of the spirit to the sordid affairs of slavery, poverty, houses, and lands, and to the material problems of human equity and justice
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But the Master so managed the situation that the whole plot fell to pieces of its own sordid weight
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5 The Jewish leaders began the sordid business of supposedly getting rid of Jesus by offering bribes to the traitorous Judas, and now, when confronted with this embarrassing situation, instead of thinking of punishing the guards who deserted their post, they resorted to bribing these guards and the Roman soldiers
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Be patient! be not tempted to indulge in a lawless plunge into cheap and sordid adventure
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Though sordid minds with impious touch presume
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Jags was trying to get her head round this situation, all she could think about was what her father did, the sordid affair with her husband
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I loved your father, and I’m not about to turn my custody of you into something sordid and cheap
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their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by
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Contrary to what many believe, that sordid adventure had its origins a few years before the 1980s
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Though hoping to avoid any involvement, Lord Ashburn felt himself and Lady Jane being helplessly drawn into the sordid affair; it should be rather difficult not to say something given his staunch attitude towards proper conduct, but he would try tremendously to squelch his yearning to help the poor woman from her predicament
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I asked a porter if he had seen you, and he told me about the incident,” she replied firmly as if to end any further discussion of the sordid matter and to finally put to rest Faye’s obsessive suspicions about her “relationship” with Terence
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That Terence certainly was a cad for attempting such a sordid thing, especially since he knew absolutely nothing of the situation other than that which had been told to him secondhand and late at that
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Obviously, he had either underestimated these people and their civility or Terence and his enigmatic, multifaceted behaviour that had an overriding effect on the public and their lust for the sordid details of Faye’s misadventure
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Chance began nervously flipping the radio stations, in an attempt to abolish the sordid thoughts from his head
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was leading him openly, without hesitation or attempts of evasiveness, over the same ground he had assumed the suspect had walked in the sordid process of murdering his wife
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Perhaps once the matter was cleared, the storm itself would pass, and the original, appropriate atmosphere of this glorious hotel would return to the normal, vibrant tone it had possessed only a couple days ago before the sordid affair began
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His facial expressions were a combination of surprise and consternation as he puzzled over the latest twist in this entire sordid case and the ramifications it would undeniably have for his investigation
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How such a complex woman could become embroiled in this twisted double-murder case was a mystery in itself, but he had seen previously how innocent individuals were unwittingly dragged into these sordid affairs and forced to live under the suspicion and stigma until the matter was resolved
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It’s a curious relationship that you develop with these people; they’re trapped in the middle of this sordid affair, fearing for their lives and their property
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He saw the unmistakable fear in the eyes of the young man who had so dramatically and unwillingly been drawn into this sordid affair, only because of a shadow that he had seen in passing, and realized that no amount of words or guarantees would assuage those nervous tremblings that were only exacerbated by the strange, frantic search that had just been conducted
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The sweet aroma of the freshly cut flowers, mostly orange and pink roses, filled his nostrils as he inhaled and filled him with a sense of security and innocence, despite the story he had just been told about what had happened in here at the approximate time of the murder; the quiet room’s involvement in the sordid affair was difficult to visualize, given the bright light from the small crystal chandelier above the table and the sconces by each of the two doors to the ocean front suites and those two with western exposures, but forced Feltus to maintain his objectivity when considering the finer points of the ledge theory
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Yes, he had found out the entire sordid details of Lord Ashburn’s mission, more details perhaps than he had originally wished to know; though there had been no apparent connection between it and the murder, Terence Underwood could have obtained such sensitive information, but if he had, he would certainly have been eliminated prior to this, as Lord Ashburn had confessed, and probably in a much more simple fashion as was customary of governmental intelligence agencies
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Once that was done, an arrest would surely be imminent, as the suspects were limited and the guilt seemingly apparent on one individual, thus ending this sordid affair once and for all with very little damage to the hotel and its reputation
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One beer led to five and the rest of the sordid night passed in a blur
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sordid matter as soon as you can
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� Ask George about the sordid details
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� �You know as well as me that we will not be allowed to publicly tell the truth about this sordid affair
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No one had mentioned his sordid past in years, and it had taken
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slowly soaking into the hardwood and leaving a sordid mark forever
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Be assured however that he will learn about the sordid details of this affair from me
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and whatever sordid ulterior motives the man had
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And so came the turning point of the whole sordid affair in which
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Thankfully, such a sordid and protracted imbroglio could be avoided; however, it was questionable why a member of the local government would conduct business with an as-yet-unidentified individual at a rather secluded bed-and-breakfast
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You can ask Nancy later about the sordid details
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sabbatical that would divert my attention from the sordid underbelly of corporate
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merely another page in man’s sordid history
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Let�s get to the end of this sordid tale
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leave this sordid, sleazy world in a trice
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According to Krishn, hell is repeatedly falling into low, sordid births;
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After all but demanding the legal documents related to the sordid affair of Morton to prove I didn’t actually know anything underhanded was taking place
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This actually takes many of the complications away from the sordid mess of arresting a pregnant women and was a relief to him
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But together with the good news, Tadeo had also shown her the sordid and distressing side of a bad relationship
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The feeling of open space was liberating, exhilarating, fully unburdened of the sordid crush of a population packed so tightly in squalor
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listening to the sordid proof
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How is it that I, bereft of everything you think worth having, am so offensively cheerful? Your friends would call it a sordid existence, if they considered it with anything more lengthy than just a sniff
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I’d seen how he had cheated and broken the hearts of countless girls, and he always shared every sordid detail of his destroyed relationships with me
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' And now a series of sordid little pictures rises up before me and chokes my Amen
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I did get thrown into the gutter, and came near drowning in that sordid place
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She had supposed herself full of courage and common sense, and had liked to take it for granted that if occasion arose she wouldn't act less heroically than her famous forebears; and now occasion, entirely absent till then from her fortunate and padded life, had arisen, and it was in so sordid and mean a form, and in other people's eyes so certainly silly, that it seemed almost absurd to bring heroism to bear on it
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She is the hedge set between the precious flowers of the male intellect and the sun and dust of sordid worries
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Ingram had found a room in the village inn at Kökensee, a place so sordid, so entirely impossible as the next habitation after theirs for one who had been their guest, that the Baron and Baroness were concerned for what their servants must think when they heard him direct their coachman in the presence of their butler and footman, as he clambered nimbly into the dogcart, to take him to it
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The narrow gloom of the house, its unpiercedness on that north side by any but the coldest light, its abrupt ending almost at once in the kitchen and servant part, struck him as incredibly, preposterously sordid
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Was the simple life a sordid life as well? Did it only look simple from outside and far away? And was it, close, mere drudging? A fear came over her that her soul, her precious soul, for whose sake she had dared everything, instead of being able to spread its wings in the light of a glorious clear life was going to be choked out of existence by weeds just as completely as at Kunitz