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1. Act 2 starts with Jim and Molly in a clinch which, Andy informs me in a whispered aside, he is looking forward to rehearsing
2. She sets the scene and we all walk through the lines, then we have to do it properly … which, in this case, means Andy and I being in a clinch as the curtain goes up so that we can be surprised by other characters walking in on us
3. – feeling this would clinch the matter
4. "Conan!" She made a spasmodic effort to go into the usual clinch, but the chains hindered her
5. His mother joined the clinch and the three of them cried for several minutes not only for the sheer joy of reunification but also for Jack and Tom
6. It will keep you alive in the clinch
7. Star had kept Max between her and the native, hoping she could help when the two men were in a clinch
8. He then slammed the door in Ingrid’s face, making her clinch her teeth with anger, while Miniflick growled at the now closed door
9. caught her up, she was engaged in a far from regal clinch with Leofric, practically straddling the
10. Reoti Raman Singh asked the BJP MPs to meet his ‘leader’ the next morning to clinch the transaction
11. The Improved Clinch knot is used for fastening the leader to the fly
12. That seemed to clinch it
13. “They’re trying to clinch a playoff spot!” he says, as though that explains anything
14. And, this magic gives lovers the kick of their lives to clinch the attainable; expand the
15. Last, with a clinch knot, is the fly
16. managers are realizing that the old clinch about them - they are more
17. A tall brunette went into a clinch with a burly man and he was
18. When he said stuff like that I desperately wanted to confess my intricacy to him, to clinch everything and dissolve in my wants
19. From the bending curve and the clinch,
20. To draw and clinch your soul for once inseparably with mine,
21. "And to clinch the bargain," said Little Chandler, "we'll just have
22. O but the dark evening in the Appian way I nearly spoke to Mrs Clinch O thinking she was
23. Then, just to show you how crazy I am, when we were coming out of this big clinch, I told her I loved her and all
24. ALL KIDDING ASIDE, this was what seemed to clinch her loyalty, for Nicky
25. “We were in the neighborhood,” said Claire when we broke from our clinch
26. The ape was staggered, and what with the mortal wound in his side had almost collapsed, when, with one mighty effort he rallied for an instant—just long enough to enable him to wrest his arm free from Tarzan's grasp and close in a terrific clinch with his wiry opponent
27. Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction—a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the Muse
28. A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah
29. Little Flask was one of the wrought ones; made to clinch tight and last long
30. I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul
31. In this view are included the Blue Mountains, the North Mountains, the Allegheny, (properly so called) the Cumberland, Clinch, Iron, and Smoky mountains, together with a variety of smaller mountains, spurs, and ridges, all running parallel to each other, from the northeast to the southwest; and all, I believe I may say, covered with forests, and presenting to the eye of the naturalist a most interesting field for speculation and improvement
1. " he replied through clinched teeth
2. Heather stood with her fists clinched, ready to go to war with him
3. he had clinched the argument
4. man approvingly) clinched the matter
5. “I knew all along that you had taken a shining to me it must be my good looks and charm that clinched it
6. “I’ll buy,” I said, and that clinched the deal, not that he needed a free lunch
7. “Ahh!” He clinched his fists in frustration and slammed them on her desk
8. Even though I got drunk (what a surprise) and ripped the felt covering of Jonas’ billiards table, he said not to worry, we shook hands and I thought we had clinched the deal
9. hurt, she whispered through clinched teeth that Lucy
10. Always a fighter she had battled against male prejudices in the University for many years until a brilliant work on monoclonal antibodies had given her the world recognition which had clinched the job as Head of the School
11. The clown clinched his teeth
12. He could tell Zayn’s jaw was clinched tight
13. As for the ring, evidently it went clear through the wall and was clinched on the other side
14. If that wasn"t bad enough the two girls slowly approached each other with fists clinched
15. And his fists were clinched
16. Also, her fists were clinched, shoulders hunched
17. Afterwards, I clinched my two forepaws and then
18. I noticed that Sharon’s fists were clinched, her face was
19. clinched his fists, and then eyed her intently
20. What really clinched it for him was the dumb-‐shit witness
21. Throwing his hands in the air he said calmly with clinched teeth, "Why not?" That was when he heard the car coming his way
22. That should have just clinched it for you, the very title, the exact Title,
23. Mentally, there was no doubt that he just clinched this round
24. Paul clinched his eyes and began to stare in anger at his friend
25. Whether holding weights or with clinched
26. with clinched fists raise the arms along side the
27. clinched fists with your hands forward, lower the
28. Desiree' clinched her hands and gritted her teeth, realizing the whole story of what had occurred inside the bowels of the Nancy Cathedral wasn't going to be revealed
29. “ His teeth were clinched, but he kept all his emotions hidden deep inside, fearing an outburst would defeat the purpose of his being there
30. His teeth were clinched, but he kept all his emotions hidden deep inside, fearing an emotional outburst would defeat the purpose of his being there
31. Had it been a hint as to that which had finally clinched whatever it was that Kennedy had whispered to the Silent Boss that morning when we had seen him in his office?
32. only one solution; not God but his mother?s bosoms which had clinched his first fear when he
33. fists were clinched with impatience
34. They have - pardon the clinched - what money
35. “I"m not a child,” she said through clinched teeth
36. Villefort's brow darkened more and more, his white lips and clinched teeth filled Dantes with apprehension
37. Dantes hastened to his dungeon, where he found him standing in the middle of the room, pale as death, his forehead streaming with perspiration, and his hands clinched tightly together
38. He removed his seat into a corner of the room, where he himself would be in deep shadow, while the light would be fully thrown on the narrator; then, with head bent down and hands clasped, or rather clinched together, he prepared to give his whole attention to Caderousse, who seated himself on the little stool, exactly opposite to him
39. He had just expired, with clinched hands, his mouth in a spasm of agony, and
40. Oh, man, man—race of crocodiles," cried the count, extending his clinched hands towards the crowd, "how well do I recognize you there, and that at all times you are worthy of yourselves!" Meanwhile Andrea and the two executioners were struggling on the ground, and he kept exclaiming, "He ought to die!—he shall die!—I will not die alone!"
41. But he who was addressed stood there, stupefied, bewildered, stunned; his haggard eyes glanced around, as if in search of the traces of some terrible event, and with his clinched hands he seemed striving to shut out horrible recollections
42. There was one lying on the table; he endeavored to vain attempts to vomit; but the jaws were so clinched that the pen could not pass them
43. " Caderousse raised his clinched hands towards heaven
44. de Morcerf turned pale, and clinched his hands on the papers he held
45. But Monte Cristo, without rising, and leaning forward in his chair, merely stretched out his arm and, taking the damp, crushed glove from the clinched hand of the young man, "Sir," said he in a solemn tone, "I consider your glove thrown, and will return it to you wrapped around a bullet
46. "You know that we shall fight till one of us is dead," said the general, whose teeth were clinched with rage
47. Hall Pycroft shook his clinched hands in the air
48. When a moment later I saw your eyes wander away from the picture, I suspected that your mind had now turned to the Civil War, and when I observed that your lips set, your eyes sparkled, and your hands clinched, I was positive that you were indeed thinking of the gallantry which was shown by both
49. Finally, Armitage clinched all his arguments by telling me that he had actually heard the Creature—indeed, that anyone could hear it who remained long enough at the Gap
50. In a by-the-hour room with rain lashing the windows, with the ripe berry of her nipple in his mouth and her long legs clinched around his back in a sweet misery of barely moving, he’d wanted to be deceived
1. So that’s why there aren’t any handles or clinches
2. Triumphant, he told her, "This clinches it
3. He had been in steamy clinches with women before, but the professionals at
4. So you are down at Clinches
5. Really, I feel inclined to laugh when I try to picture you, after the life you have been leading in London, after the days you are living now at Clinches, attempting to arrange yourself on this perch of ours up here
6. This wire clinches it
1. an unexpected clinching Goal Kick out of nowhere, and wins
2. As he drove harder in her she balanced on one hand, the other clinching his ass
3. Annalise, panic-stricken lest she who possessed so many should be the next victim, poured out the tale of the missing money, of the plain motive for the murder, with a convincingness, a naked truth, that stabbed Priscilla to the heart with each clinching
4. Hanging high above them she held the best vantage for viewing the clinching of a
5. The engagement ring and the altered testimony were, as far as Derrick Tatton was concerned, the clinching evidence against her
6. She could go on about how horrible she looked, but the familiar clinching of her stomach caused her to make a run for her bathroom
7. "The abbe, the abbe!" murmured he, clinching his fists, and his teeth chattering
8. chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God