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1. towards the front of his battered old car, and slammed shut the bonnet
2. I know very little about what goes on under the bonnet of a car and though I realise this is something I should rectify, I’ve never got round to it
3. With that he stubbed out his cigarette, walked away from the man in black towards the front of his battered old car, and slammed shut the bonnet
4. He can imagine Davina clocking off at the end of another twelve hour weekend shift and climbing into something electrically purple with lowered suspension and bright blue diodes fixed to fake air scoops on the bonnet
5. The car lurches and stalls as Billy's foot slips off the clutch, its bonnet buried in a thickly matted wall of hawthorn and beech
6. The lump under the bonnet of the Transit takes four twists of the ignition key to fire
7. bonnet of a car
8. She sat, dabbing her eyes and nose with what had been her bonnet and was now a makeshift handkerchief
9. Vasant stood on the bumper, laying himself across the bonnet, adding his considerable weight to the car
10. Cursing, Terry eased himself from the car, popping the bonnet to look at the engine
11. We had an interesting conversation in which their constable told me they were on their way to a suspect burglary and “who the f are we to f idle next to them whilst they were going so f hard that the vehicles f tappets were dancing on the bonnet in front of him!” I was sorely tempted to floor him but realised he was really frustrated with his lot
12. Dawn stared at the engine, one hand resting on the raised bonnet, bottom lip clenched between her teeth
13. “Do you think this is what he meant?” When there was no reply Dawn glanced up from under the bonnet at Sheena
14. Dawn closed the bonnet with a thump and turned to Sheena, who was still staring off into the trees
15. Its shiny bonnet together with the blinding headlights looked like the face of a greedy monster
16. The next instant it reared up above the bonnet which is seven feet of the ground and out of the way to strike against the big side windows where my knee would have been if the windows did not break the snake's teeth
17. Opening the armoured (read heavy) bonnet was easy enough for it lifted with air pressure
18. A strange, screaming, thumping, sort of sound issued from the engine compartment and I ducked as the bonnet shot high into the air, quickly followed by bits and pieces of the engine: pistons, tappets, valves and big-ends: filters, shafts, cogs and pulley-wheels, all cascading heavenwards in a shower of iridescent alloy
19. Patting the plane on the bonnet, which gobbed a lot of castor oil onto my glove, I told the Avro, “This is the new love interest you are going to have to contend with
20. Alec Davis, in her silk dress and beplumed bonnet, and kid gloves and gold chain looked the vulgar, coarse-souled woman she was
21. He reached for his comb and stroked his bonnet back into
22. Motors then were not the highly specialised power sources of today that require a degree in engineering to open the bonnet
23. I smashed into the back, flew over the top and landed on the bonnet before slithering onto the road
24. The Head’s got a bee in his bonnet about you two
25. Ron and Robert leaned over the opened bonnet while Bart scrambled underneath to see for himself where the hydraulic brake-pipe had been partially sawn through, allowing the precious fluid to escape
26. He made his way out and up to the car where the man was sat on the bonnet
27. The policeman was fumbling with the bonnet catch and seemed to be having trouble getting it open
28. Just as the bonnet started to lift, for some unknown reason, Chris switched his gaze to Ruth
29. A fire started under the bonnet and Chris could smell the smoke
30. she had an extremely lively bee in her bonnet!
31. bonnet that she had tied around his neck
32. The man leant on the bonnet of the Land Rover to steady his binoculars
33. had ceased to pump, and stood leaning on the bonnet of the car
34. the dust just where you would release the bonnet safety catch
35. himself flat, the bonnet flew up and he got a mouth full of bull
36. “Eh! What do you think? Sweet no!” He patted the bonnet
37. He gingerly sat the tea tray on the bonnet of the Escalade
38. Stede Bonnet and his crew in 1718
39. He walked between the vehicles and put his weight on the bonnet of his car then lit a cigarette and sat there studying her vehicle
40. The chauffer of one, dressed so fine, lounged against the bonnet, his cap at an angle, a cigarette drooping from his lips
41. The said Bonnet glanced briefly at the nine meter boat lashed to the weather deck of the cargo ship and nodded with satisfaction
42. The captain laughed briefly then and grinned to Bonnet
43. “Hey,” said Bonnet, a smile returning to his face, “one can be a merchant and businessman and still be a good Christian, even if that’s rare
44. The captain roared in laughter with Bonnet, then walked back on his ship to supervise the storing away of the cargo
45. Bonnet then passed his right arm around the waist of one of the women, a pretty brunette in her mid-twenties
46. As if he had heard him, Fernand Bonnet came as well to the table and, after whispering with Laplante, faced the clerk
47. Bonnet and Laplante then escorted Marie Renaud and Catherine Lorion up the access ramp, presenting them next to the four other members of their group
48. Next thing Catherine knew, Fernand Bonnet was walking down the access ramp, returning a few minutes later with the two newcomer girls
49. All of them, including Fernand Bonnet, then worked hard to clean the passengers quarters and make them as livable as possible, which was still not much
50. She found Fernand Bonnet, a
1. Driven by the stress of the situation to unfairness, he remembered with a kind of bitter affection those widows who had darkened his past so soothingly before his marriage, the emotional peace their bony dustiness, their bonneted dinginess had secured him
2. Melanie, bonneted and shawled, sedate in newly him
3. "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love
1. amongst the bonnets and bloody eruptions,
2. “Thirty enemy planes, all lined up in rows; with tarpaulins on the bonnets,” Dempsey said
3. A semi-circular gaggle of citizens, all dressed in their Easter Bonnets and finery stared down at him
4. They could see mechanics working under the bonnets of cars in the rear of the building
5. and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, 19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, 20 The bonnets, and the
6. 18 They shall have linen bonnets on their heads, and shall have linen breeches on their loins; they
7. 9 And you shall gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons
8. 13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats on them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets on them; as the Lord commanded Moses
9. bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be their's for a perpetual statute:
10. 13 And Moses brought Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the
11. They restricted themselves to an essential area, from Fernanda’s bedroom, where the charms of seden-tary love were visible, to the beginning of the porch, where Amaranta Úrsula would sit to sew bootees and bonnets for the newborn baby and Aureliano, would answer the occasional letters from the wise Catalonian
12. The Toyota sedan was waiting for them in the car park, they drove along the Federal Highway and after about fifteen kilometres they crossed the border into New South Wales on the Hume Highway, a further eighty kilometres and they arrived in Goulburn, Murray and Shirl then toured around town visiting car yards, looking under bonnets and kicking tyres as though they knew what they were doing, they eventually settled on a second hand two year old Range Rover and after they’d had a test drive, Murray finished the paperwork and in convoy, with Shirl driving the Rover, they headed south back to the Australian Capital Territory
13. The women were out of their seats, fleeing in their aprons and bonnets
14. The building spoke of genteel Victorian prosperity, of top hats and frock coats, and ladies with wasp waists in crinoline and bonnets
15. "Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh
16. He fled at once, and the minute it was well, "Up with the bonnets of bonnie Dundee," she slipped away to return no more till the young gentleman departed in high dudgeon
17. He tried not to let his attention be distracted, and not to spoil his impression by looking at the conductor in a white tie, waving his arms, which always disturbed his enjoyment of music so much, or the ladies in bonnets, with strings carefully tied over their ears, and all these people either thinking of nothing at all or thinking of all sorts of things except the music
18. ” Behind them streamed the merry cavalcade, girls cool in flowered cotton dresses, with light shawls, bonnets and mitts to protect their skins and little parasols held over their heads; elderly convalescents from the hospitals wedged in between stout chaperons and slender girls ladies placid and smiling amid the laughter and carriageto-carriage calls and jokes; who made great fuss and to-do over them; officers on horseback idling at snail’s pace beside the carriages—wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting
19. The ladies always Had he been less obviously masculine, his ability to recall details of dresses, bonnets felt a little odd when they besieged him with questions about styles, but they did it
20. He could and did notice details so dear to feminine hearts, and after each trip abroad he could be found in the higher, covering most of the top of the head, that plumes and not flowers were being center of a group of ladies, telling that bonnets were smaller this year and perched
21. And, as she took in the black velvet paletot, how short jackets are! And what a cunning hat! Bonnets top of the woman’s head like a stiffened pancake
22. She thought of the modest hoops of the war years and she felt a little darling little bonnets that were not really bonnets at all, but flat little affairs worn over one eye and laden with fruits and flowers, dancing plumes and fluttering ribbons! (If only Rhett had not been so silly and burned the false curls she bought to augment her knot of convent-made underwear! How lovely it was and how many sets she had! Chemises Indian-straight hair that peeked from the rear of these little hats!) And the delicate
23. drawn cotton bonnets with great flapping curtains to keep off the sun, and gloves to prevent their hands being wounded by the stubble
24. Well, sir, when you and your Mis'ess—so to name what she lawful is—when you two drove away, as I say, Retty and Marian put on their bonnets and went out; and as there is not much doing now, being New Year's Eve, and folks mops and brooms from what's inside 'em, nobody took much notice
25. And thus, as has been said, though the damp curtains of their bonnets flapped smartly into their faces, and their wrappers clung about them to wearisomeness, they lived all this afternoon in memories of green, sunny, romantic Talbothays
26. I saw it on the rick before you saw me—that tight pinaforething sets it off, and that wing-bonnet—you field-girls should never wear those bonnets if you wish to keep out of danger
27. Green bonnets of cotton peeked from the ridged dirt; soon they’d be the size of medicine balls
28. "We hear that he is ill, and has never stirred out of the house since the meeting on Thursday; but she was with her girls at church yesterday, and they had new Tuscan bonnets
29. So then came the hospice, a gently lit, cheerful place with paintings of women in bonnets and rolling hills of bounty, and snack machines, and small coffees
30. They covered themselves in the white suits, bonnets and overshoes before snapping on gloves
31. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your blessings and your pride, ah! good God, they will suffer hunger! What do you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go and come with necks all bare, and through the mire
32. In a minute I had my face under their bonnets, in contact first with Mary’s soft cheek, then with Diana’s flowing curls
33. 5: Ni talons rouges, ni bonnets rouges
34. I heard some of the women say: “If those men don’t stop singing those dry tunes we’ll take our bonnets and go home