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fastening the front with a large brooch and a near-instinctive gesture
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Checking the fastening of his coat, Tom set off across the
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"Come in!" She demanded, fastening the snap at the top of her faded jeans
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She tucked her hair back, fastening it behind a pair of pointed ears
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Leather straps and belts intersected throughout his armor, fastening an arsenal of weapons to the man's body
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” she replied, and rolled her sleeve down once more, fastening it at the wrist
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” Elijah stood up fastening his kit and saying to me
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She pulled his top of, fumbled with his trouser fastening
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She did not wait long before belting on her sword and fastening the harness of her bow case over her breasts
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Adem grunted before buckling on his sword belt and fastening his bow case straps across his chest
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He completed fastening the gear on Hilderich, binding the ropes and setting the large leaf across Hilderich’s back, as a sort of cushioning to ease the friction without which he believed he’d be unable to move him more than a foot
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Little or no jewellery was needed except for my usual gold earrings, but I was still fastening a gold bracelet and struggling with the clasp, when a shadow appeared outside the frosted glass door
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and drew him to the catapelt: 10 To which binding him at his knees, and fastening them with iron fetters, they bent down his loins on
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We got in the car, fastening my seat belt
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Fastening the bolts on the inside proved to be an easier job, but she was glad when her aching fingers had finished turning the last screw
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” Fastening his gaze on Dryan he continued, “Me and Cody will walk at the back, you are our best tracker and the one who can spot things at a farther distance than the rest of us, so you will take the lead
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The first dog’s action is a signal for the others and they tear into him, cruel jaws fastening on arms, hair, body, whatever they can find
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9 As he said this the spear bearers bound him and drew him to the catapelt: 10 To which binding him at his knees and fastening them with iron fetters they bent down his loins on the wedge of the wheel; and his body was then dismembered scorpion-fashion
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One of the figures was fastening a garrote around her neck
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peg, he drove it into the slot of the rail, fastening it to the post
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I was still buttoning up my shirt and fastening my belt when the elevator doors sprung open in the downstairs lobby
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I felt quick hands on the fastening of my shorts and a giggle as they were pulled
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Walter turned to him as he was fastening his seat belt, “Have you ever heard of the Cayman Islands?”
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And how dangerous ambition can become when it is once wholly wedded to self-seeking and supremely motivated by sullen and long-suppressed vengeance! What a crushing thing is disappointment in the lives of those foolish persons who, in fastening their gaze on the shadowy and evanescent allurements of time, become blinded to the higher and more real achievements of the everlasting attainments of the eternal worlds of divine values and true spiritual realities
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He emerged just as he was fastening his suit jacket
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tape, fastening a loop of adhesive tape at the base of the U
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They helped him like a child, fastening his tickets and immi-gration documents to his pockets with safety pins, mak-ing him a detailed list of what he must do from the time he left Macondo until he landed in Barcelona, but nonetheless he threw away a pair of pants with half of his money in it without realizing it
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In a prompt manner he returned, fastening the latex condom to the base of his penis, before positioning himself on the bed
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He fastened Stazl's seat belt, then walked around the Scooter and entered from the driver's side, and after fastening his own seat belt, he turned the key
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She tied her trousers under the knees and at the ankles, then put on a pair of socks and straw sandals before slipping on her tatami do folding armor and fastening it
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fastening device and locked the head of his monster into the brace
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Now wearing only her bra on her torso, she got up from the gurney and draped her shirt over the shoulders of Ingrid, fastening the top buttons to hide her lover’s breasts, whose nipples stood hard and erect from the freezing temperature in the cold storage room, smiling as she did that
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I finished fastening the remaining bundles and climbed up into the lawn chair
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“Actually, no,” he said, fastening a metal clip to the top to hold the cloth in place
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The weight should be so positioned that the centre of gravity (CW) is higher than the point of fastening to the frame
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The Second Coming will involve fastening the dragon in his abyss like a burial in his birth place restricting his movements
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Mother eyed me, Annie and Andrew, as we loitered in the hall, both watching the drama unfold and fastening our boots as we prepared to make the very short trip into the town
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In this form of magic, knots represent social ties, and this magic relates to the fastening or unfastening of such ties
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leg fastening it so it would not move as he walked
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The Improved Clinch knot is used for fastening the leader to the fly
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The Fräulein looked up, and fastening her eyes on a point somewhere below the large girl's chin said, 'The wages are good
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In the nursery he was, when, yet unable to walk, he crawled to that spot on the carpet where stood my unsuspecting legs the while my eyes and hands were busy with the playthings on the table, and fastening his youthful teeth into them made holes in my flesh and also in my stockings, for which, when she saw them, my mother whipped me
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sole, with straps coveringtwo of the toes and fastening
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She, not realising what a German Christmas meant, had only a cigar-case for him; and when, her lap full of his presents and her wrist decorated with the bracelet in which he showed an honest pride, carefully explaining the trick of its fastening and assuring her it was real silver and that little women, he well knew, liked being hung with these barbaric splendours, she put her arm round his neck and apologised for her dreadful ignorance of custom and want of imagination and solitary, unsurprising, miserable cigar-case--when she did this, with her cheek laid on his furry head, he drew her very close to him and blessed her, blessed her his little wife and that greatest of gifts that she was
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Satisfied that she had really gone, he returned to the terrace and re-entered the library, fastening the window carefully and pulling down the blind
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The fastening to the ankle would be bothersome but he was free and the feeling was enormously exhilarating
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"I think Jacob will take you somewhere today," she said, fastening the hooks and eyes at the back of the dress
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She was just fastening the zip on her case when there was a knock at the door
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Coupling: That which connects together; uniting in couples; fastening or embracing
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He placed her on the table and began to slowly loosen the cords fastening her undergarments
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We had parted with a kiss at the entrance to her house, her mysterious house into which I was never invited, then I’d shuffled off towards the metro, in the midst of the blizzard, the snowflakes like down, innumerable and delicate, swirling vortexes, spinning out the back of the market stalls, the last vendors closing up for the night, pulling down the tarpaulins, fastening the doors and shutters, the others already gone, finding their way home to warm rooms, as I went on down the escalators of the metro, past the billboards and the advertising, the girl on the poster, sweet fifteen, with love on her lips, catching my eye every day for a month, on along to Komsomolskaya, spare change for legless soldiers who were singing for their supper, then through the doors at Prospect Mira, thinking of going back to Kurskaya and the Boar House for a little chicken and beer but knowing I was running late, that Svetlana was waiting, that the money was rolling in and that I wanted to roll with it
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Outside, the storm was full blown, williwaws blistering down the sides of houses, screeching winds fastening around all objects, tearing at joints and roots, clouds of snow flying on eddies in all directions, funnels of powder skirting the pavement, sticking to the shadows of filth, layer upon layer, deeper and deeper, as my feet sank into the white earth, destination known and unknown
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restraint around it, fastening it tightly
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As Dana is fastening her sneaker, Diane asks, "Dana why didn't you tell us that you were going to have your tubes tied so soon? Why didn't you say anything to us about it?" Dana does not respond
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After Dana finishes fastening her sneakers, she bends back up
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With amazement he gazed at himself and everything in the room around him, wondering how he could have come in the night before without fastening the door, and have flung himself on the sofa without undressing, without even taking his hat off
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It was almost morning, when Defarge's wine-shop parted with its last knot of customers, and Monsieur Defarge said to madame his wife, in husky tones, while fastening the door:
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The Doctor turned, with his hand upon the fastening of the window, and said, with a cool, bold smile:
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Earnshaw?" I did not relish the notion of deliberately fastening myself in with Heathcliff
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From the fish branch there were manta rays, enormous cartilaginous fish ten feet long and weighing 600 pounds, their pectoral fin triangular, their midback slightly arched, their eyes attached to the edges of the face at the front of the head; they floated like wreckage from a ship, sometimes fastening onto our windows like opaque shutters
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Ruth had just been putting the child to sleep and she stood up as they came in, hastily fastening the bodice of her dress as she did
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Through the opening an arm was passed to find the fastening, then a second; the window turned on its hinges, and a man entered
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I'm dressed and sitting on top of the bathroom vanity, hair dryer in hand while Luke stands in the bathroom door fastening his watch to his wrist
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Fastening their boat to a willow, the friends landed in this silent, silver kingdom, and patiently explored the hedges, the hollow trees, the runnels and their little culverts, the ditches and dry water-ways
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of fastening on the roof
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‘Yes, it’s much cleaner,’ said Vassenka, putting his fat leg on a chair, fastening the bottom hook, and smiling with simple-hearted good humor
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plunged in gloomy silence, kept up a conversation that never paused, glancing off one subject, fastening on another, and at times stinging one or the other to the quick
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I reciprocate, fastening my teeth over his top lip, teasing him, and he groans
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With amazement he gazed at himself and everything in the room around him, wondering how he could have come in the night before without fastening the
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Only half an hour before he had been fastening up her plaits for her, and talking the "little language" of affection, which Rosamond, though not returning it, accepted as if she had been a serene and lovely image, now and then miraculously dimpling towards her votary
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The band of reporters reassembled at the front gate, and I watched the attractive newscasters flipping their hair and fastening microphones to their collars, using the backdrop of the Dakota for their on-air reports
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New chains fastening the stout iron; the lock must have broken
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“I’m ready,” she said, fastening the last button
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The coastguard said the man must have tied up his own hands, fastening the knots with his teeth
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Then with a long, thin knife we pushed back the fastening of the sashes and opened the window
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The traveler, having packed his things with his practiced hands, began fastening his coat
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" He had only an old blue coat, and he never went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion of Honor
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As did we all, fastening our eyes first to STOP and then CONSIDER and then along to THINK and ending the tour with DO
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The men do not know it, but the sound they hear of the maul striking the coin's fastening nail is their sea-coffin lid being hammered flat shut
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An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said
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He looked at me: I happened to be near him, as I had been fastening the clasp of Mrs
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“Now, Carter, be on the alert,” he said to this last: “I give you but half-an-hour for dressing the wound, fastening the bandages, getting the patient downstairs and all
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She was just fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a brooch; I hurried from under her hands as soon as I could
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My work was fastening down the things on the deck so that nothing could roll about if the weather should grow rough when we got further from the land
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Alice said afterwards she had never seen such a fuss made about anything in all her life—the way those two bustled about—and the quantity of things they put on—and the trouble they gave her in tying strings and fastening buttons—'Really they'll be more like bundles of old clothes than anything else, by the time they're ready!' she said to herself, as she arranged a bolster round the neck of Tweedledee, 'to keep his head from being cut off,' as he said
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First: In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon
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Every keel a sunbeam! Hurrah!—Here we go like three tin kettles at the tail of a mad cougar! This puts me in mind of fastening to an elephant in a tilbury on a plain—makes the wheel-spokes fly, boys, when you fasten to him that way; and there's danger of being pitched out too, when you strike a hill
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With a terrific snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank
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everything in the room around him, wondering how he could have come in the night before without fastening the door, and have flung himself on the sofa without undressing, without even taking his hat off
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Yet one thing perplexes me to this day : how he, Lambert, succeeded in gaining admittance to, and fastening himself upon, such an unapproachable and superior personage as Anna Andreyevna