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I’m staring at a rather sparse list of options when the phone rings
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They bedded down in a little copse of quibreaks out in the sparse wild theshes of the chaparral
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There was sparse habitation here
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He noticed what she heard, the lumins, sparse here but still present, had gone silent
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Following a polite if sparse cremation service held in the clean but anonymous halls of blonde wood and magnolia paint at the local crematorium, and with the memory of the pastor’s mistaken belief that his wife’s name was Aileen twitching behind his eyes, Ken carried out Eileen’s last wish, which was to have her ashes scattered on the garlic beds
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They were leaving the sparse mountainous area and headed towards a more temperate climate
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From the end she could look up a strap-up stairway, barely visible in the sparse candle light, and see there were seven levels to the planks that had been put up in here
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Other than Gunt, a sparse number of soldiers were present below
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To see a sparse, weed-infested garden suggests that you have neglected your spiritual needs
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This room had unequivocally become a prison: sparse and oppressive, that man her jailer
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His mustache was rather sparse, but it reached the beard on either side of his mouth
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A few mean-looking trees vied for the sparse moisture
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And yes: he was there, standing in this sparse, brightly-lit room
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The vegetation is sparse, but they manage to eat tufts of grass growing between rocks
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Then we rejoined the girls it was then that a small round man with sparse hair turned up he had bright dark button eyes like a birds seeing our uniforms and that we were closest he turned to us and said
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When using an eyebrow pencil to fill in sparse brows, use light and quick feathered motions
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And where is this? Just some sparse white room
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The leaves were small, with sparse hairs on top and white down underneath, the pale yellow flowers were tinged red
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Only dimly did I take in the rest of the room—the clusters of potted plants in the corners, the sparse pieces of elegant furniture, the chaise longue that had a sudden, ominous significance
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With the sparse population, and lots of lakes and swamps for air-to-ground gunnery practice, the Broads would be ideal
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Those of his fellow soldiers who were married seemed to universally complain about the effect that the sparse Army pay had on their wives
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It was also arranged and furnished in the same sparse and shabby manner, with the exception that the room seemed to be filled with luggage
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We had nearly been to the end of it, where it widened into another forest of conifers, this one more sparse and rocky than the one we left behind
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It is left to extra-biblical sources to interpret into the story the things that would have logically been said and done that would give meaning to the sparse words chosen to convey the message
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He felt her body slowly relax, as the spasms grew more faint and sparse
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How many weapons did he think she could have concealed on her in that sparse attire? The cloak, tunic, and the sweater were at her feet in a pile where she had dropped them
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Mohammed arose from out of nowhere, from among the Arabian Desert’s sparse Bedouin tribes of caravan raiders, to lead them from AD 625 to his death in AD 632
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Retractions, apologies, and follow-up information were sparse in the Main Media
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No longer seeing sparse bits of dry thorn bush on the gravel flats, I kept on going across featureless, trackless wasteland
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Though the rain was sparse, wind gusts and thunder held their interest for a while
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▪ Rebirth in a place where water and precious things are sparse
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The vegetation was sparse here, mostly a small kind of cypress tree
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The woman's sparse silvery hair blew gently in the wind, and her wrinkled face displayed the years
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And together, the pair gave a great concert that left the sparse audience there, spellbound
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Although we took him yesterday to the fishermen village, it was a sparse part that we went to
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that she’d be able to re-apply her sparse makeup and brush out her
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The movers picked up my sparse furnishings and stored them in Phoenix until I arrived by car from Tallahassee where I had spent the holidays with my parents
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the sparse furniture in their tiny home
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However, records from these times are sparse, and there may have been conflicts of which we are not aware
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But my father was putting it into his real estate parent company below the operating profit line, while maintenance costs continued and were included as operating expenses, thereby reducing an already sparse operating profit
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momentum carried it along the surprisingly sparse
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Everywhere she looked there was a sparse scattering of unicorns, and she realized that there were thousands of them in sight, perhaps tens of thousands
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As they traveled northward the grass on the side that adjoined the desert spread out a little wider each day of their journey, but grew more sparse on the path that they followed
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His sparse hair was brown shot through with streaks of gray
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At once she wrapped the net of her thoughts, sparse though it was in the heat and fire, around the boy’s mind and found Johan’s mind-net already there
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"God rot it, Bates, don't call me by my rank," the General, a sparse American, said
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A rabbit-fur hood covered most of Siv's sparse grey hair
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spread out a little wider each day of their journey, but grew more sparse on the path that they
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When they were all standing there in the sparse grass of the parkway, George could
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It was just as sparse as I’d thought it would be, and
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The sparse ground floor comprised of al manner of bots;
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Unfortunately, information about Gates was rather sparse
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Flakes spiraled down, small and sparse, as Trask drove up and down hills, around and past the many curves on his route home
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Zoe entered the room, which looked quite sparse --a desk sat in the middle with a solitary lamp on the left hand side
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the sparse hair of his legs as I gradually moved up his body
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The man rambled in the background moving dirt to and fro with a broom as sparse of
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one area to another in the faint luminosity of the sparse
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“The information you have delivered, as sparse as it may be, is helpful to our cause nonetheless
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spite of the relative space and accommodations, it was still a very sparse living arrangement for
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lot shorter than me and stooped, her hair sparse and thin above that
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In the sparse morning clouds above, blowing in from the Red Sea, he sees the face of his dear departed grandfather and guardian, ‘Abd al-Muttalib, floating lazily by—a reminder that Allah is everywhere, and only Allah is permanent
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The bushy white beard and hair was seemingly fighting for the sparse land on either end of his face, little white troops, marching slowly towards the goal of conquering the ultimate prize – a very red nose
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For a Sunday and such a beautiful day, the traffic was extremely sparse
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Connor had carried Tristan through the cold and over the sparse, rocky, uphill terrain for what seemed like days, and by the time he had recovered enough to know where he was they were in the tunnels
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If your depressive disorder manifests itself in winter, when days are short and daylight is sparse, you may effectively make use of phototherapy
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” He put on the sound system, its three-meter speakers rising in the solemn and sparse living room
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A work certificate at the age of fourteen relieved him of the miseries of his sparse learning; he left school with no trade in hand and the only jobs available were menial and with poor wages
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I drew the bar between my front legs, took off parallel to the land and flew just about ten feet above the sand dunes and sparse trees
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There are different types of mascaras available today, and one of them can help you add more volume to sparse lashes
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There were only a few sparse settlements on its shores, mostly real dyed-in-the-wool mountain men who weren’t afraid of either the Elassai or the lack of civilized contact with the Newlanders
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“A-okay,” is the sparse reply
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He looked out over the sparse, repetitive landscape with his unique eyes, but he saw nothing out of place or out of the ordinary
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Terri and Bill entered their sparse temporary office after
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It was very clean, white, and sparse in objects
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Bill went directly to the sparse temporary office located
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At one time the region had been thinly populated with Bisharin nomads, when they might have been able to get help but, with the increasing temperatures, life in the desert had become unsustainable, and both the sparse game and the people had been forced to move nearer to the Nile which surrounded the desert to both the north and east
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The furnishings were sparse and also transparent
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Traffic was not heavy but by the same token, not sparse
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But in this kind of scenario the houses couldn"t be too sparse otherwise it would be difficult to hide
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with faded or sparse reddish or brown on the back
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Jamie stepped over to one of the windows, the weather was beautiful, the moon overhead had the snow glistening on all the trees and a blanket of untouched snow surrounded the sparse bushes in the open field
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The conversation, as had been increasingly the case over the past few weeks, was sparse
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Silently Jerry took his place, scaling the mast with stringy muscles standing out from sparse flesh
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Only a few kilometers outside the lakeside city, the vegetation of the countryside not covered by snow became much more sparse and turned to a sickly yellowish tone
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An elderly Roman centurion was actually supervising the changing of the guards at the gate when Nancy and the two Miriam showed up, mixed in a sparse crowd of merchants and pilgrims
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The C-87 soon approached one of the two airfields, whose dirt and gravel strips were bordered by a sparse vegetation
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With his footsteps in the sparse gravel that failed miserably to stifle weeds breaking the tranquility only mildly, Feltus proceeded down the main path, scouring the various plots and markers, some long neglected despite their ancestral significance to the descendants, in search of one that could possibly match the description of that from Elizabeth’s vision
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� From there, 300 yards of sparse vegetation and low sand dunes separated them from the sea
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And not a single Greek girl or boy knelt for prayer; all stood like a sparse copse in a field of ground nuts
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And that was it, all the sparse evidence wrapped into a
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mossy log under the outstretched arms of a dark, sparse bush - a child, she could see
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As I looked across the narrow valley, I watched as the shimmers of the last heat escaped from the hot sand and sparse grass beneath it, the sun in its final stages of the day, but I was listening, awaiting instructions
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As Star cruised along by the river amongst the sparse traffic, looking for a suitable parking space, the car following them accelerated hard, swung out and pulled alongside
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‘’Well, even if the air activity over Indochina was very sparse after yesterday’s Soviet attack on our base, the electronic warfare operators aboard our EC-200R have detected and triangulated by radio what appears to be a number of enemy communications nets active during the night
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Grand Admiral Wa was studying the sparse telemetry data recorded and sent to Earth during the previous orbital battles around Mars when a bridge officer came to attention besides him
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Mammoths, of course, had always been sparse on the ground
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In any case, the former sheriff’s mare, old-in-the-tooth and a little mangy in the coat, stood before Schmoozeglutton, half-heartedly cropping the sparse grass behind his house