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1. Later that night, snuggled up to Berndt, I broach the question of Betta
2. Billy still has not worked out how to broach the subject of Ted Line
3. was going to broach the subject without having his limbs
4. At last the time had come to broach the subject I’d
5. Deciding at last to broach the subject, he asked in a gentle voice, “Helez, I saw you crying at the plain this morning
6. The fear of the unknown makes it more uncomfortable for people to broach the subject
7. But she wasn't sure how to broach the subject, not wanting her aunt to suspect that she had noticed an intimacy between them, that they appeared to hide under all their talk of committees and castle restorations
8. Whenever Jack dared to broach this subject
9. It occurred to her to prompt Alex on the phone, but how would she broach the subject? Besides, it would be best to see his face when they talked
10. I mentioned my lunch with Alice and asked the others for advice on how to broach the subject again
11. I tried to kick him in the nuts to shut him up before he would say anything to deteriorate the already tenuous atmosphere or broach subjects that would only lead to more questions; I failed though, wildly flailing my leg as if something horrible was chewing on it
12. He considered how he might broach the subject with Quarles, but decided that the matter was too sensitive to discuss
13. Hamish sat there thinking about his conversation with Jock for quite a while wondering how he would broach the subject with Chandelle, he didn't want to upset her any more than she was already, she had been through enough in her young life and he thought she was handling things but maybe Rachael's disappearance has been too much for her and he was to blame for all that, if it hadn't been for his temper and jealousy Rachael would still be here and Chandelle wouldn't be feeling so alone
14. Every time she tried to broach the subject of Serina, Tom would shut her out with, "Let’s not go there
15. Still puzzling over how to broach the power of her country’s myth, Annyeke imagined that allowing her companion to sense the words bond with the mind-cane, open yourself to the raven and then we’re ready weren’t likely to be welcome
16. He cannot understand what it will mean or how he can broach the subject with Simon, or even what, in Gathandria’s name, he might say, but he knows the enemy will fight harder
17. He didn‘t believe she didn‘t know who had raped her, but it was impossible to broach the subject without a screaming tantrum
18. Not wanting to seem too keen, Robert had waited until now to broach his two pressing problems
19. Connor had tried to broach the subject with Angel twice already, and both times Derek and Dana had stepped in once he’d been rebuffed
20. Her mother did not like to be interrupted when she was watching a show, so Doreen had to choose carefully the right time to broach the subject, if she wanted her mother to be receptive
21. Dreading this particular rendezvous he had palpitations from the anticipation of her arrival but didn‘t know how to broach the subject of ending the affair
22. blouse buttoned to the neck, a cameo broach pinned
23. He debated whether he should broach the subject, but feared that if he did, he would be rebuffed
24. broach the subject with Mullent, for Frank's background would not
25. It was soon after our first couple of battles that Gled said she would like a word with me in private, so I went outside with her and we began walking towards the lake, I knew what was on her mind but waited patiently for her to broach the subject
26. Usually the client is able to tell stories about the greedy children or relations of others, and that helps broach subjects that might otherwise be difficult to bring up
27. She had been wondering how she was going to broach the subject of sex with Max
28. When you broach the subject of minimalist landscape design the whole idea of it has to do with the concept that less is truly more
29. Not to mention, he was their commanding officer, so very few were willing to broach the subject with him
30. After a moment of thinking, he said, “Let’s see what else this Jack has to say before we broach that subject, Stevenson
31. He carefully weighed in his mind the best way to broach the
32. It was a dragonfly broach, wide as my little finger
33. I blew the candle out and put a sack of potatoes over the book, and we piled out with the broach hidden in my hand
34. “Well, is there anything magical about that broach?”
35. ‘I stole the broach
36. I took the broach up to Hoary’s room and thrust the thing under his nose
37. After her paddling she didn’t want anything more to do with her mother’s journal, and so four days later, during the new moon, she slipped the Dravadha broach into my apron pocket and ratted on me for stealing
38. She rapped me with her knuckles; the broach stuck out from her fingers and tore into my arm
39. He’d a closely trimmed black beard, and a roll of pipe-leaf between his teeth; and glinting between his thumb and finger was the Dravadha broach
40. “And I showed him a sketch of the broach I had drawn back in Milodygraig,” said Calragen, “and told him I may have found the thing
41. Before joining her, Calragen said to me, “Pity about that broach
42. Both men stared at him for the minute it took their eyes to move from his face to Andrei’s broach
43. “And it fits into that broach
44. Calragen’s jaw worked, his eyes moved from the broach to the lump in the bed across from me
45. I gave Nefer’s dragonfly broach to Emry (as the whole thing had started with her mother) before she disappeared back into the wild with Seacho and the others
46. “Just let me speak to your father first, Charlie” With a slight skip to her step, she quickly disappeared outside to tend to her garden, her mind now filled with ideas of how to broach this delicately with her husband
47. Was he still angry about how she’d left? She couldn’t undo that and she’d apologized, so what did he want from her? Because that was a conversation best left for in person, she didn’t try to broach the subject
48. She was brushing her hair in the mirror and wondering how she would broach the subject with her adoptive
49. inspecting the broach petals, and I quote: “The black flowers are for the
50. ” The broach daisy did not
1. Yet you never broached the subject, keeping its secret to yourself
2. It was then that Kaitlyn broached the subject of their own training and opened a new theater of conversation
3. At the following rehearsal, before the next weekly performance, Kaitlyn broached the subject to the Players, of how to dispose of the receipts from each engagement
4. Kennitch broached the subject of his visit
5. He had not broached the subject with Seth or any other members of the council yet
6. When I broached the subject of moving on to Joss, he was expecting it
7. He had not broached the subject because when he did ask the Pilgrim about things, even about relatively simple things like what they would eat or when would they stop for a break, the answers he received were nothing short of enigmatic, occluded by religious reverence and pious deference to God and his plan
8. Their boat was completed and launched two weeks after Zaminoski first broached his idea to Colling
9. He had never broached the subject during my apprenticeship
10. broached the subject, “Sir, I wish we knew more about
11. Ruffling his hands playfully in my hair every time I broached the topic by saying laughingly
12. They both ate silently for a moment then Mabila broached
13. I inferred finally that DOC would not send Mike to the halfway house when they broached the subject with me as to whether I, or another responsible adult, could serve as Mike’s “sponsor”, not in the AA sense, for the period between his “early release”, for both “good time” and because the State was emptying out and closing prisons
14. It was Alison who broached the subject
15. He must wait for the subject to be broached
16. Later, back in the house, Trask broached the subject over lunch
17. They ate mostly in silence, then Peter broached the subject
18. “How am I to know, guruji too never broached the topic,” she said in a way that sounded he might as well take up the issue with his father
19. Ah well, unless her mother brought up the subject, Alice would probably never know what her mother had discovered, since if she herself broached it, her mother would go straight online or to the radio to find out the worst
20. something special, was broached and they, including the monks and
21. It wasn't long before she broached the subject of a reading and I was most happy to accommodate her
22. On a particularly snotty day in many respects, I again broached the problem, and Jenny said she had decided that the cat was staying
23. At supper that evening after hearing about the Oxmesca elders plea and Mocal’s idea about giving them weapons, Coatl broached the subject of the death of Running Deer and his suspicion that we may have a traitor in Bo-elon, after going over the little we knew we all agreed that there was nothing we could do until we were sure there actually was a traitor, with that settled Coatl returned to Mocal’s suggestion about arming the other villages, we all agreed that it was a good idea
24. I haven’t broached that with him yet
25. We talked about everything but the reason for their visit, after a couple of hours I broached the subject of my friend Jodas’s health, the reaction I got stunned me for a moment
26. Realizing that he should not have broached that subject, Robert tried to dismiss it but Sylvia insisted, making him confess an event that had marked him years ago
27. In all their year of pseudo-witty banter Hank had never broached the subject of employment
28. 'But now that we have broached the subject, there is something I need you to do
29. For the briefest of moments, his thoughts broached Stazl, but he pushed them away
30. But time was running out, and the subject had to be broached
31. They had been fishing together for an hour in stubborn silence when Sebastian broached the subject of Melanie with his big brother
32. broached and the men had a wild, drunken party lasting two days
33. broached within The Bossy Church Lady’s Official Guide for God’s Newly
34. They enjoyed a good lunch and sat afterwards with a glass of port before Bill broached the object of their meeting
35. You launch forth into the world, perhaps, from quiet homes, where the primary truths of Christianity were never called in question for a moment, to hear all sorts of strange theories broached, and strange opinions advanced, which contradict the old principles which you have been taught to believe
36. And we shall need to include a representative nominated by the Taoiseach, at some stage, when you have broached the subject with him
37. attributes such that their Alert and Action Levels are infrequently broached
38. the problem then broached
39. It is for the third time now that Krishn has broached the subject of
40. Christina promptly broached the subject of why her dad hadn’t ridden home with her
41. A scream broached her lips before Bob stifled her with his slender hands
42. Anyway, I thought for sure he was gay and when I broached the subject, he literally freaked out
43. ‘You think there’s a link?’ Jack broached
44. broached Ant and a few of the other leaders with her
45. Serpent Tempter had first approached his woman and broached the subject of a hidden
46. Sensing my questions, he broached the answering of them in a friendly and forthright
47. When I broached the subject with him he casually explained that he could deal with the
48. Gurdgieff, who broached the subject of ac-
49. The canon gazed at him, wondering at the extraordinary nature of his madness, and that in all his remarks and replies he should show such excellent sense, and only lose his stirrups, as has been already said, when the subject of chivalry was broached
50. Owen, inwardly regretting that he had unintentionally broached so painful a subject, tried to think of some suitable reply, but had to content himself with murmuring some words of admiration of the work
1. beautiful rings, broaches, and necklaces in the hundreds of
2. Mary’s foot broaches the entrance to the threshold that separates this room from the endlessly-rotating spire she stands within
3. bangles and bracelets, while necklaces and pendants and broaches were pinned to thick
4. They called me Teresa at my baptism, a plain, simple name, without any additions or tags or fringes of Dons or Donas; Cascajo was my father's name, and as I am your wife, I am called Teresa Panza, though by right I ought to be called Teresa Cascajo; but 'kings go where laws like,' and I am content with this name without having the 'Don' put on top of it to make it so heavy that I cannot carry it; and I don't want to make people talk about me when they see me go dressed like a countess or governor's wife; for they will say at once, 'See what airs the slut gives herself! Only yesterday she was always spinning flax, and used to go to mass with the tail of her petticoat over her head instead of a mantle, and there she goes to-day in a hooped gown with her broaches and airs, as if we didn't know her!' If God keeps me in my seven senses, or five, or whatever number I have, I am not going to bring myself to such a pass; go you, brother, and be a government or an island man, and swagger as much as you like; for by the soul of my mother, neither my daughter nor I are going to stir a step from our village; a respectable woman should have a broken leg and keep at home; and to be busy at something is a virtuous damsel's holiday; be off to your adventures along with your Don Quixote, and leave us to our misadventures, for God will mend them for us according as we deserve it
5. "God help thee, what a lot of things thou hast strung together, one after the other, without head or tail! What have Cascajo, and the broaches and the proverbs and the airs, to do with what I say? Look here, fool and dolt (for so I may call you, when you don't understand my words, and run away from good fortune), if I had said that my daughter was to throw herself down from a tower, or go roaming the world, as the Infanta Dona Urraca wanted to do, you would be right in not giving way to my will; but if in an instant, in less than the twinkling of an eye, I put the 'Don' and 'my lady' on her back, and take her out of the stubble, and place her under a canopy, on a dais, and on a couch, with more velvet cushions than all the Almohades of Morocco ever had in their family, why won't you consent and fall in with my wishes?"
1. Concluding that there is no ‘tidy’ way of broaching the subject, I plough straight in
2. How are you coping without Sam?’ Simon asked cautiously as though broaching the subject would set me off
3. “Besides the response you offered about 'being,' I also thought about what you said about preparedness,” remarked the young man, broaching the conversation once again
4. quietly, broaching the subject as delicately as he could
5. But that was a non-issue with Jhordel; and he knew broaching that
6. He had thought about broaching all these matters to Hilderich, but he decided against that for now
7. “I know,” Sari began anew, with eyes downcast, broaching the subject that had isolated her socially from the other women of the hamlet, “that I, am unclean, and custom would have removed me farther than our circumstances have allowed
8. “I know,” Sari began anew, with eyes downcast, broaching the subject that had isolated her
9. And still it rose, reaching for the clouds, the pinnacle of the broaching mass fifty tails above the sea
10. Come to think of it, that was one subject we both avoided broaching when we were together as friends
11. She was anxious to cross the first hurdle - Jimmy - before broaching the tougher course - her parents
12. He inquired about it, all the while hoping he wasn�t broaching another taboo subject
13. They remained still for a moment before broaching the effort to get out
14. Among the talkers, was Stryver, of the King's Bench Bar, far on his way to state promotion, and, therefore, loud on the theme: broaching to Monseigneur, his devices for blowing the people up and
15. Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask
16. It was not till the evening, after family prayers, that Angel found opportunity of broaching to his father one or two subjects near his heart
17. I could see that he had something on his mind, which he wanted to say, but felt some hesitancy about broaching the subject
18. She hated the idea of it, everyone saw that; and she would probably have liked to quarrel about it with her parents, but pride and modesty prevented her from broaching the subject