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    1. As soon as they were out onto the plaza atop that building, Yorthops turned east toward the basin and went to the far end and found a table among the lush pots of mushroom ferns they had in the corner


    2. Jerm threw up his hands and reached for his coat on the top of a clothes pile in the corner


    3. The ninja vault the counter and I back into a corner, slicing at them with the force and speed of a man not ready to die


    4. He noticed her staring out of the corner of his eye and looked directly at her, at which point she looked away


    5. Out of the corner of her eye, Sasha could see they were headed for the divider


    6. While group singing of 'bhajans' can be done in a suitable place like a temple or a hall in a manner and time that least disturbance is caused to those not involved in it, the individual prayer is necessarily a communion with God best performed in a quiet corner of the house


    7. It took all day to cross the tiny corner of North Lake between Zharvai and Sinbara


    8. It was her bed and a corner of her verandah


    9. Rose will be a housewife who dreams of being a child again, dancing with her friends in the studio across from the corner market


    10. She was still all scratched up from landing in the brush, some of the wounds should have been treated with more than a few dribbles of water and the corner of a tee shirt

    11. But when he rounded the corner, a shadow passed over his face


    12. Corner of Fifth and


    13. ’ My persistent daughter commented as she steers the empty buggy round a corner


    14. He forced himself to take another step, and another, until, rounding the corner of


    15. Bush strips off his jacket, tosses it in the corner, walks over to a refrigerator against the wall, opens it up, takes out a can of beer, pops the top and begins to chug-a-lug


    16. He thinks about it a minute, shrugs his shoulders, chugs some more until the beer is empty, tosses the can in the corner on top of his jacket


    17. "Wasn't that the guy from the boondoggle?" Estwig asked as soon as Tahlmute was around the corner


    18. The old Jeep rounds a corner, out of sight


    19. The wallpaper is hanging off in one corner, though closer inspection merely shows this to be old age, and not anything more sinister like rising damp or dry rot


    20. There are some fishing poles in a corner of the hut and a mountain bike against one wall

    21. The corner at the strong bridge was worse and more crowded than he remembered


    22. The pulled the rockasaur backwards around the corner


    23. Theo returned to his car, pulled out swiftly and with some sharp revs disappeared around the corner under the glare of Garda Thicke


    24. By the time I hear Stephen’s car on the gravel outside the house, I have covered the whole of the carpet and heaped up the bits of furniture in a pile in one corner


    25. Okay, so we’ll have to move them all out of the way to do that corner, but at least we can get on with the rest of it now


    26. Bolt snatches it away, retreats into a corner of the bus, face twitching wildly


    27. blares from one corner


    28. Out of the corner of his eye, he spies Hassan slowly putting his foot back on the table


    29. Frosty minted drinks of a golden nectar appeared on the glass table at the corner between their seats when they looked for them


    30. Hamo sits as at a corner desk in front of an oscillating fan that rustles papers, a calender on the wall, etc

    31. ‘Look, my office is only round the corner from where you are – fancy coming over and telling me about it? I can rustle up some coffee


    32. with their wives, those little old bewhiskered crones huddled in a corner chattering


    33. embrace he let himself be lead to the far corner of the olive grove


    34. Ricci watches Ali Ben Ali out of the corner of his eye to see what affect his words are having on him


    35. Ginger MacAvoy had a nice view from her corner window office on the fourth floor of the historical San Francisco edifice that housed the headquarters of World Weary Avengers, Incorporated


    36. that tree in the corner, whispering me to come up here and


    37. In the corner of his eye, a little boy was staring at him


    38. Tig didn’t have time to look away from his assigned sector off the ‘dragger’s right shoulder, but Parker must have hit something with those rounds because he caught a flash out the corner of his eye


    39. Out of the corner of my eye, through my own tears, I could just about see that he was sweating, that he too was breathing hard, that he was locked into the violence of the moment


    40. ’ He said quietly smiling as he leads me through a doorway into one of the back sections of the barn, ‘let’s find a quiet corner and spend some time together

    41. He takes me into the front bedroom which he’s got laid out as an office with bookshelves and a computer, as well as an easy chair and a music centre in one corner


    42. As we reach the corner of Nereid street, I show him where my apartment is


    43. Apollo slides down the corner of his cell with his palms pressed firmly against his ears, trying to stifle the girl's cries


    44. Apollo realizes he's sitting in a corner of the library at the Acropolis


    45. " They were in his lab, he had made that the inner door, there was a comfortable corner where they sat


    46. And instantly, Apollo's back in the corner of his cell


    47. " She is rather lanky and lounged back in the corner of the bench and put her legs over his


    48. Menachem told me later that as I pounced on Robbie, that as I drew back my fist to smash it into his face, The Man had simply turned and aimed his next kick at my head, sending me spinning into the corner of the room


    49. In the meanwhile, the witch had withdrawn to a corner and was enjoying herself to the fullest, as I was getting more and more desperate


    50. Minutes later, clutching their respective brews and a couple of pastries, the two women made their way towards a small table in the corner of the room












































    1. She knew that sooner or later she was going to be found out and get cornered by reporters


    2. His father, who had no tolerance for moping, cornered him while he was getting a dragon snack in the dragon kitchen


    3. of the billowing parachute in his rheumy cornered eye


    4. cornered mother with cubs,


    5. After a short but intense period of mourning, the soldier married the old chairman's daughter, which she liked very much because he made her Chief Executive Officer and together they cornered the world's markets in gold and oil, before retiring in their late thirties to live in Antibes and raise a gaggle of spoilt but happy children


    6. Could it be my foxy old aunt had cornered me into a decision? But just as I was about to put her off, she floored me with a question, 'So why don't you consider moving here?'


    7. made her Chief Executive Officer and together they cornered the


    8. Billy’s rage is the rage of a dumb animal, a cornered, wounded beast with young cubs to protect


    9. wild stare of a cornered doe


    10. The young man has that same cornered animal smell that Billy tried to wash away in the shower, something maleficent, somewhere between terror and desperate fury, only this stranger seems to be able to control of his emotions, to subjugate the primal

    11. "What!" He exclaimed, jumping back against the truck with his arms in the air, as if he’d been cornered by the local posse


    12. slow in that small parking lot, it was only a matter of time before they cornered


    13. They cornered Roman on


    14. They moved slowly, cautiously, confident that they had finally cornered their victims, but fully aware how dangerous trapped prey could be


    15. He cornered the


    16. They had a way of scrapping and lunging from the shadows like cornered beasts and even the most seasoned warriors could be caught unaware amid their carelessness


    17. “Yes sir,” and as quickly as the young officer turned, the conscript disappeared round a bend in the corridor and into the cabin she'd been edging toward when the Quartermaster cornered and accused her


    18. Several times a day, a frantic “come-save-me!” yip told me she’d cornered the dog


    19. They did move with haste after that; the Guardians looking in all directions, like cornered wolves ready to tear out the throat of any man that crossed their paths


    20. cornered and met his death and the news made public, there was

    21. And when they were cornered they (very unsporting in my view) grabbed the ropes


    22. At very close range, like in a room where you cornered the criminal or terrorist


    23. According to the newspapers, Strydom surrendered to a black taxi driver but I heard he was first cornered by the Flying Squad members who wanted to shoot him dead regardless of what he was doing


    24. The Liberation Movements were never highly rated as terrorists by the international experts but could put up a decent fight when cornered


    25. William realized that now he would be trapped if someone cornered him


    26. when she saw that Alex is already cornered by the tall man and Mike


    27. Actually, he hadn’t planned on Herminia’s presence either, but he rather enjoyed her company, particularly when she cornered the mighty R


    28. Mia cornered Freddy, who had stolen a scrap he had found near the bin


    29. Fortunately king cobras are shy and will avoid humans whenever possible, but they are fiercely aggressive when cornered


    30. She had once remarked to Rosemary that she would really like to have a talk with that Presbyterian minister at the Glen, to see if he could find a word to say to a woman when he was cornered

    31. But if I ever get Joe Vickers cornered somewhere I'll give him a talking to he won't forget in a hurry


    32. When I directed Kelly to stay with Dad while I helped Mom clear the lunch dishes, she cornered me in the kitchen and asked, “What’s wrong?”


    33. As I explained to you at the beginning, Akito was the guy who would become my teacher, and then attempt to kill me once the fox monster had us cornered


    34. Using my strongest voice, knowing that I needed to reach the tympanic membrane of an old woman holding a barking monster in the rain I let out a, “Rrrrrroooouuuuwww,” sound that cats make when they’re cornered and have to fight


    35. “He thinks a huge bear has cornered him and is eyeing him hungrily


    36. I was cornered and for the first time in my pre and post vampire life, I was stumped for words


    37. The gossamer idealist invariably shrieks, when cornered, that he is being attacked by far right extremists, by religious zealots, by corporate villains, by despoilers of the earth


    38. The room where he had the criminal cornered was the same room


    39. I will raise you up on the last day in the resurrection, along with every man who is of your seed; And after these words God made a three cornered seal, and sealed the tomb, so that no one should do anything to him in the six days, until his rib should return to him; And the beneficial God and the holy angels having laid him in his place, after the six days Eve also died; And while she lived she wept about her falling asleep, because she knew not where her body was to be laid


    40. So one night after he and I had been drinking, and he started back in taunting me, I cornered him in the third floor head, tried to slash his neck with the triangular business end of a church key, which proved difficult because he was 6’ 4,” I was maybe 5’ 8,” and he wouldn’t oblige me by bending over

    41. I advised the Corporation Commission which acted as a Public Service or Utility Commission and was catty cornered across an intersection from my office


    42. kitty cornered on the same lot as their


    43. felt very cornered, although she did not think of her


    44. I will raise you up on the last day in the resurrection along with every man who is of your seed; And after these words God made a three cornered seal and sealed the tomb so that no one should do anything to him in the six days until his rib should return to him; And the beneficial God and the holy angels having laid him in his place after the six days Eve also died; And while she lived she wept about her falling asleep because she knew not where her body was to be laid


    45. The hunt is over and the victim cornered


    46. The Ultra had cornered him into the lift


    47. Sheepishly a few of them got cornered as you overhear the size of the event


    48. Charly found herself cornered on the plant floor during break—not even allowed to relax for ten minutes


    49. They could easily get cornered


    50. She had been cornered on Half-Blood Hill













































    1. After chasing her around the yard, cornering her, and snatching her up, I would try to comfort her by stroking her feathers and holding her close to me


    2. The grabbing of the ropes made the PT Sergeant restart the fight and the cornering process began afresh


    3. His face was open now, friendly, and she could not help but smile at him although she felt he was cornering her with his questions


    4. She didn’t succeed even in cornering well-paying students and getting chances to teach


    5. cornering the visible supply


    6. Clearly in cornering Sabrina, she knew exactly what she was doing and who she was dealing with


    7. Not liking her attitude, Hossein got up on his feet and excused himself with Nancy before leading Qalibaf out of the lounge, cornering her in the hallway and speaking to her in a low, severe voice


    8. � Latham left the small lounge where they had searched the German and went directly to the infirmary�s reception desk, cornering the head nurse with an urgent plea


    9. Senior Sergeant Fedukin was the one who killed the last remaining ISIS fighter on the ship, cornering him in a dead-end passageway and then throwing a grenade in


    10. He would’ve told them that he was too dangerous for cornering; they

    11. And then they all came in, cornering her, cutting off all hope of escape


    12. Verily, the Pharaoh lustful y ebonyed his royalty beard, as he strol ed roundly cornering the pil ars of temple erection


    13. His mind was intrigued by tripping over itself and Urit momentarily was lost in the blue bank of the walls cornering in front of him


    14. Cornering her when the situation permitted, Sam


    15. cornering the world’s supply of


    16. "What-what are you-you doing?" she stammered when he stopped directly before her, cornering her against the counter


    17. “Oh really?” he murmured, cornering her and placing both of his arms on each side of her waist, against the top of the lower cupboard’s counter top


    18. It is possible to find historical examples of trends and show that, if you had pyramided aggressively and perfectly, you could have eventually ended up essentially cornering the market in some commodity or owning most of the float in a stock, even starting with a very small initial investment


    19. “It’s just,” she said, unable to hold her grin, “when you agreed to come with me—when I found you in that panic room—I’m pretty sure you had no idea it would lead to you cornering mobsters on subways


    20. "I'll teach that pig a lesson when the game is over," I remarked to my opponent; and, in effect, I had soon put away my cue, and, cornering the porker, fastened a piece of cord to his hind trotter

    21. After a month of continuous theater-going in London, however—from the Strand to Piccadilly Circus, and from Piccadilly Circus to Shaftesbury Avenue—I can’t help reflecting that if the syndicate or any syndicate had been let loose in London this year, with the option of cornering everything in sight, the fact remains that there is scarcely a production in London worth transplanting


    1. and Jen hurled themselves off the bed and ran to the opposite corners of the room,


    2. He corners her by the back door and, neatly forcing her to yield up the handful of wallpaper she is holding, dexterously pushes it down the back of her t-shirt as she squirms and squeals


    3. to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets,


    4. I felt rough fibres catching at the corners of my mouth as though I were being force fed a winding sheet, and then, as stars started to explode across my eyelids, I realised with a flood of relief that my head and shoulders were still covered by the sacking


    5. Through it all, as the jars and the jolts and the rolling corners sent jagged sparks circulating through my nerve endings, I groaned and tried to blot the world out by closing my eyes, by willing myself into coma


    6. I had experimented during the day by nicking my finger on one of sharp corners of the camp bed frame, but I never did master writing in blood


    7. and in the corners of his slack, cracked bottom lip


    8. crane their necks around corners


    9. where cobwebs hang with dew in the corners


    10. hang with dew in the corners of windows?

    11. the image away to dust coated corners as I break


    12. stems to the four corners of old empire dreams,


    13. reveal all but the most obscure corners,


    14. and translating the dread corners


    15. on the front cover, missing corners


    16. painting the tango into the corners


    17. The wind was sharpening now so I shoved my hands into my pockets and quickened my pace, darting about and skimming round the corners and making good headway till I turned a corner and almost ran into a large woman chopping wood right in my path


    18. She careened down the road, cutting corners and bends, tendrils of wet hair whipping at my face, my hands on her hips and my head in the clouds


    19. When the wise old publicist heard their story and thought about everything they had told him, he turned to them both and said, “Journey to the four corners of the world


    20. One by one he sent his armies out to the far corners of the

    21. Peter only turns on the lights that we’ll need, leaving pools of shadows in the corners


    22. It was all lit by torches in sconces on the pillars and walls, and by great braziers on the corners of the bull pen


    23. I’ve tried all sorts of tactics … turning it inside out and grabbing hold of the corners of the duvet through the cover and trying to get the wretched thing to turn itself back the right way; winding the cover back over my arms and then grabbing the duvet and shaking hard … nothing seems to work


    24. He has a couple of debts to pay, a couple of issues to resolve from the old days, but once everything is sorted he wants nothing more than a season ticket to Ibrox, and, anyway, things have a habit of turning down at the corners when Ken gets involved


    25. Jason … no … surely there must have been a reference to his existence at some point in her childhood … she casts her mind back, delving into the long neglected corners where she had secreted memories as a child


    26. “I'm glad you gave it some thought,” responded his elder companion, a faint smile playing at the corners of his eyes


    27. As Billy edges around the bed he can see tears at the corners of her eyes


    28. Then he placed each girl at opposite corners of the deck, and like Harry's 'frog work' in the gardens, they squatted and made large circular patterns with the blocks over the deck's surface


    29. A slight breeze hustles old crisp packets into the corners of vacant parking bays and there is enough of a chill in the air to make skin creep with goose bumps


    30. Contour formed brass balls for feet were fashioned onto the corners as added protection from idle scuffing and a brass locking latch was fitted to the front center

    31. The corners each had a tap of yellow, there was the same kegman there at the southwest corner that there had been twenty decades ago


    32. She stretches luxuriously, reaching her feet into the corners of the bed and smiles, it is fantastic having the bed to herself … doubly so as she also has her body to herself


    33. corners of her mouth in a long swipe, like a cowboy finishing his canteen after a


    34. He tried to follow her with the corners of his eyes only, she followed him with the corners of her eyes only


    35. tears washed away the blood that soaked his face in the corners and under his


    36. He edges into the barn, carefully checking the corners as he approaches the van


    37. illuminating its furthest corners


    38. from it and several bird nests occupied its outer corners


    39. Cameras were fixed into all four upper corners of the barn


    40. from time to time in the corners, hidden in the shadows, watching as his life passed

    41. the four corners of the bed dangled with shackles at the end of them


    42. four corners of the earth, Gog and


    43. nations that are at the four corners of


    44. Kaitlyn helped her to 'tidy up' the little niches and corners dedicated to this or that forebear


    45. 8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the


    46. The only evidence of the act was the blood on her teeth and corners of her


    47. temples, each one fell on the corners


    48. temple on each of the four corners of


    49. Chloe can sit quietly doing what appears to be the most routine of little tasks, with that ever-present hint of a smile playing at the corners of her eyes, for hours on end it seems


    50. Harry walked to me, that little smile he always has playing at the corners of his eyes














































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    Synonyms for "corner"

    corner street corner turning point quoin nook niche recess recession box tree indentation angle bend veer curve fork branch capture bottle trap collar trick fool

    "corner" definitions

    a place off to the side of an area


    the point where two lines meet or intersect


    an interior angle formed by two meeting walls


    the intersection of two streets


    the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect


    a small concavity


    a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade


    a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible


    a projecting part where two sides or edges meet


    a remote area


    (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone


    gain control over


    force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape


    turn a corner