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1. ’ I assured her, thinking that it would have been kinder if Jack hadn’t lived to fade slowly away with emphysema – he’d not found life at all easy and it had cut me up terribly watching him degenerate into frail helplessness
2. Breaking and entering was not something that Archibald had studied with his tutors, and so it was with some difficulty and quite a lot of noise that he eventually managed to force a window at the back of the ramshackle and degenerate building
3. back of the ramshackle and degenerate building
4. When the greater part of the coin, however, was in this degenerate condition, forty four guineas and a-half, fresh from the mint, would purchase no more goods in the market than any other ordinary guineas; because, when they came into the coffers of the merchant, being confounded with other money, they could not afterwards be distinguished without more trouble than the difference was worth
5. could start to degenerate and order would
6. time to release the salts, which still bound him to this degenerate existence, was
7. a bunch of degenerate bed slaves speaks, to me, that some emotional and sexual
8. Dirty, degenerate, and hideously desecrated was this scene
9. This, coming from a degenerate who routinely abused his body (over the years) with drugs and alcohol and heaven knows what else
10. Their eyes are usually degenerate, which is only to be expected of an animal living in total darkness
11. Oh yeah, right! She’s always with guys younger even than himself, wops and now even a nigger, but he’s the one who gets called a degenerate for humping a white woman! So there she is screaming her feminist crap and telling him that he has to let both of the broads go while his dick just melts away
12. anticipates excitement and winning that only a degenerate gambler can know
13. flooded, nearly degenerate to the primitive society
14. 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate plant of a
15. She has always been somewhat degenerate and with her husband safely cremated, she now openly satisfies her whims as they occur
16. A list of the degenerate state of the land of Canaan follows in verses 21 to the
17. Hoover Institution research fellow Shelby Steele, a leading black commentator on current events, links this degenerate genre to the myth of what he refers to as the “Bad Ni--er” of the slavery era
18. This contact is degenerate in the sense that different collections of atoms may interact to produce the same or similar contact
19. distinct expressions typically communicate three distinct things, here the communication coincides, and in this sense, communication of 3 is degenerate
20. situations exist where we assume that the communication is determinate, but further exploration would reveal that our assumptions of determinacy were incorrect? Philosophers like Descartes have not recognized the benefit of degenerate communication, but rather have feared that our
21. It would not be difficult to contrive a story about why degenerate communication is good, for this sort of evolutionary story-
22. He smiled happily as he looked at his arsenal weapon that just ended the lives of three delinquents that were probably not worth the sperm their degenerate fathers squirted out
23. Without the accepted hierarchy and externally imposed discipline it could easily degenerate into anarchy
24. A drunken degenerate was attacking a slave girl on the public highway
25. His features, allowing for the strains and stains of battle and his hiding in the marshes, reflected that same untamed wildness, but they were neither evil nor degenerate
26. He pointed out that overmuch sympathy and pity may degenerate into serious emotional instability; that enthusiasm may drive on into fanaticism
27. Natala believed it to be the elixir described by Thalis, which lent vigor and vitality to the degenerate Xuthal
28. She has destroyed the ivory image of the goddess which these eastern Hyborians worship (and which, inferior as it is to the true religion of Mitra which we Western nations recognize, is still superior to the devil-worship of the Shemites) and filled the temple of Ishtar with obscene images of every imaginable sort—gods and goddesses of the night, portrayed in all the salacious and perverse poses and with all the revolting characteristics that a degenerate brain could conceive
29. In the gross emphasis of his attributes, in the leer of his satyr-countenance, was reflected the abominable cynicism of the degenerate cult which deified him
30. Jesus first walked around to near where this degenerate husband stood and wrote upon the sand a few words which caused him to depart in haste
31. How long it had stood here, not even its degenerate inhabitants knew
32. Those eyes and that smile contained all the cruel cynicism that seethes below the surface of a sophisticated and degenerate race, and for the first time in her life Valeria experienced fear of a man
33. Sironka was not overly surprised; he had heard many tales from the military regarding some of the degenerate behaviour of the ferals, and the Dravidiens in particular
34. It is not for God to obey the often misguided and degenerate laws of mankind
35. When it happened, he would turn the “unprovoked assault” into an interstellar war that the dissolute and degenerate Federation and their morally corrupt sycophants could not possibly win
36. ” He described African-American ministers this way: Large in proportion of the ministry, because of intellectual weakness and moral inefficiency, is unable to check the degenerate growth
37. Depending on the mindset of that civilization, such an encounter could degenerate into war
38. We stayed at Xocanti that day and when night began to fall Wedon took me aside and told me the affect the levies for Teotihuacan were having on the Tolteca in his immediate area, his report echoed what I had heard everywhere that we had travelled, the news was grim, the artisans and trades people were working into the night just to survive, the growers had forced another early harvest against their better judgement for they knew this practice would not allow the soil time to regenerate before the next planting, he could see his people slowly being stripped of the fruits of their labour, by the Teoti, the greedy and degenerate aristocracy of Teotihuacan, the worse part for Wedon was that he could see no way to solve the problem so had rightly brought it to me, I could offer no solution and told him it was the same complaint from all of the people I had met on my journey around the Toltec holdings, even my own village was struggling under the burden
39. stranger’s face, but he resisted the urge for the confrontation to degenerate
40. degenerate bastard, killing people and stealing drugs to support this hooker but it was
41. The pharmaceutical industry, government agencies, and other animal abusers have so much clout with the degenerate lawmakers of Washington, D
42. They painted Bob as a non-conforming degenerate preying on people’s weak minds and trusting hearts
43. So, with the remnants of the Hindu State yielding ground, first to the Sultanic Rule and then to the British Raj, the swadharma of various varnas began to degenerate into varied caste creeds to the hurt of the Indian social unity and purpose
44. But Man’s neglect of thinking of himself and of the signs which God created in this universe, and his occupation with food and drink and absorption in worldly concerns and earnings made him degenerate in this way and decline from that elevated rank
45. that develops when the linings of joints degenerate, leading to lipping and spurring of
46. He also said that in degenerate times he would appear in an
47. In this spiritually degenerate time there are five impurities
48. However, as charities themselves degenerate into bloated bureaucracies more concerned about perpetuating themselves than about assisting the downtrodden, those administering these organizations no longer view the giving public as the real heroes behind what use to be considered grassroots eleemosynary but rather as dimwitted cogs to be lectured as to how the acts once perceived as selfless are actually reactionary gestures undermining the progressive vision of their enlightened betters
49. “Just in case it isn’t a ghost, but some degenerate trying to mess with us
50. It created this degenerate
1. Rose has expressed a wish to watch the film which is on TV this afternoon – The Sound of Music - and as it would never cross her menfolk’s minds to suggest otherwise and also as the weather has degenerated into an unpleasant blustery rain, we decide it would be rather nice to curl up in the warm and do just that
2. So Victoria degenerated over there
3. The poorness of the pasture had, in his opinion, occasioned the degradation of their cattle, which degenerated sensibly from me generation to another
4. In ancient Italy, how much the cultivation of corn degenerated, how unprofitable it became to the master, when it fell under the management of slaves, is remarked both by Pliny and Columella
5. His marital duties as a responsible breadwinner had degenerated into a struggle to keep his family afloat financially, which brought about feelings of frustration and inadequacy that were always bubbling up inside him
6. His once blissful union based on the young couple’s high expectations of everlasting love had degenerated into an impersonal routine of convenience since it was easier for him and his wife to continue on their downward trajectory rather than go through a traumatic and painful process of separation
7. In some it is more, in others it is less worn, clipt, and otherwise degenerated from that standard
8. In a country where the expense of the coinage is defrayed by the government, the value of the coin, even when it contains its full standard weight of gold and silver, can never be much greater than that of an equal quantity of those metals uncoined, because it requires only the trouble of going to the mint, and the delay, perhaps, of a few weeks, to procure for any quantity of uncoined gold and silver an equal quantity of those metals in coin; but in every country the greater part of the current coin is almost always more or less worn, or otherwise degenerated from its standard
9. The civil came to predominate over the military character ; and the standing armies of Rome gradually degenerated into a corrupt, neglected
10. Seems a shame that he later degenerated into B class movies, and was killed in a plane crash
11. The Army first intervened in Angola to safeguard the large Ruacana-Calueque hydro-electric scheme just across the border when all pretensions of law and order disappeared after Portugal left and Angola degenerated into a civil war
12. The small, narrow path had degenerated into a granite crevice with pockmarks and surfaces of chipped rock that one had to climb using his hands as well as his feet
13. It has also been suggested that humans have degenerated due to sin
14. Democracy had degenerated into ochlocracy (rule of the mob)
15. The mission has degenerated from general and applied research to the control of the academic standards for great and proud institutions, such as ours and our sister university at Chapel Hill
16. gutted, but by then our relationship had degenerated and I’d suspected that she would have
17. He also told everyone that the proceedings of the conference had degenerated in to a ‘debating society’ suggesting that they were not going to achieve anything worthwhile
18. The race used to be very industrious and intelligent, but have since degenerated into a bunch of party animals without a care, who live for nothing but a good time
19. ―Well, at least it hasn‘t degenerated into a shooting war out there
20. Over time, the most degenerated and sorry excuses for what were once human
21. In the disorder of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated into a bloody rivalry of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility
22. ” She started an endless, stumbling, deep prayer that lasted more than two days, and that by Tuesday had degenerated into a hodgepodge of requests to God and bits of practical advice to stop the red ants from bringing the house down, to keep the lamp burning by Remedios’
23. Then she began to laugh with her lips tight together, without giving up the fight, but defending herself with false bites and deweaseling her body little by little until they both were conscious of being adversaries and accomplices at the same time and the affray degenerated into a conventional gambol and the attacks became caresses
24. As the debate in the CNN studios degenerated quickly into an exchange of hot words, Obama shook his head in frustration
25. The discussion quickly degenerated into an animated, excited exchange of comments and suggestions, prompting a smiling Boran Kern to call the Council to order with his gavel
26. You have learned that the focus of mankind throughout millions of years of development has always degenerated into destruction, violence, and greed
27. knew that the old Fa had degenerated, and they came to temper them-
28. Things were not bad at first, for I shall never forget the look on the wounded faces as I tended to them and read for them; those acts give a wholeness and richness to life that nothing else can, but the situation has gradually degenerated until I can hardly stand the pressure any longer; were it not for my unwavering faith in God—I can thank my father for that one thing—and the fear that I should be damned to eternal hellfires, I should surely take my own life, so bad are the circumstances
29. Another interesting facet of undue influence claims is that they can involve the degenerated mental state of the will maker without relating that state to the property or to whom it goes
30. That had quickly degenerated into a general bug out by a whole company that had opened a big hole in the American defensive network
31. Harris knew this from intelligence reports, but continued with his area bombing campaign, even though it had degenerated into the random killing of civilians
32. The result was that towards the end, the fighting degenerated into senseless destruction for the sake of merely continuing the struggle
33. How could things have degenerated over the years to this? They were so in love; they had been through so much together
34. between Germany, France and the United Kingdom quickly degenerated into trench warfare and bloody stalemate, with nobody having a good offensive strategy for overcoming the firepower of entrenched artillery and machine guns
35. Somehow, we’ve degenerated as a culture to the point where we
36. If only, their legitimate aspirations of political ascendancy were allowed to come to fruition under the Congress banner, the politics of the day would not have degenerated into caste combinations and communal permutations
37. What is more, unlike Mahatma Gandhi the Gujarati, whose ‘inclusive ideology’ degenerated into the Indian political expedient of Muslim appeasement, Modi’s redefinition of ‘secular ideology’ as ‘India first’ has begun to capture the middle-class Hindu imagination
38. “But of course! Greeg is merely a sort of classification for any species that has given up on progressing and evolving, and degenerated completely to the lowest possible rung on the ladder
39. With every word they spoke, their quarrel became worse and degenerated into a serious argument to the point where they were cursing and swearing at each other
40. degenerated into variations on a theme after that
41. People might live longer now, but they’re simply living longer while being overweight, crippled with degenerated joints, plagued with heart disease and cancers, and on and on
42. We are no longer pals; our friendship has degenerated to a rather chilly working relationship
43. When none of these crushing victories materialized: it quickly degenerated into what was coined a Trench War: since so many trenches were dug… not that they had planned it this way: it just happened
44. has degenerated to a point where even the Christians walk amongst
45. Dynasties and aristocracies which have disregarded the laws of nature have decreased in numbers and degenerated in stature; 'mariages de convenance' leave their enfeebling stamp on the offspring of them (King Lear)
46. But the majority of them in course of time degenerated into a class of mere wage earners, having no
47. She found her former ability to have degenerated to the production of a hollow rush of wind through the lips, and no clear note at all
48. IT REALLY TOOK HIM BACK, the old neighborhood, though it had changed—some would say degenerated
49. Everything has degenerated in this century, even the rascals
50. wit yesterday, but you have degenerated this morning
1. I hereby confess to failing to understand how these degenerates have been able to rise so far in American politics
2. degenerates never before encountered resistance
3. “A herd of beer swilling degenerates
4. It wasn’t the sort of place she would ever patronize on her own, crawling with whores and degenerates, but her spirits brightened with the old memories so, with a light, lively step she went in to enjoy a drink in the bar where it had all began
5. You loved putting the degenerates behind bars
6. „I was worried you might think I was queer! That I was one of those horrible degenerates everyone"s always warned me about
7. molesters and other degenerates? Why only some, I can’t see the pattern
8. Most of the people who lived there were moral degenerates
9. quickly everything else degenerates without electricity
10. Every one will have cataract sooner or later because the eye’s natural lens degenerates over time
11. there is abundance of divinity in the realm of the heart, the body is transmuted into a Dharmkshetr (field of dharm), but it degenerates into a
12. While the body ages and degenerates, those in-
13. And the manner? What more natural than to use the dope fiends and the degenerates of the Montmartre gang?"
14. Who, exactly, are the degenerates?
15. These idolized degenerates had been inter-marrying between each other for hundreds of years
16. reason for itself was persecuted and intimidated from every source by the instruments of brute degenerates, and has accomplished
17. from every source by the instruments of brute degenerates, and has accomplished just what these men anticipated—A
18. And even a mind with a tendency to reason for itself was persecuted and intimidated from every source by the instruments of brute degenerates, and has accomplished just what these men anticipated—A plane where the few do the thinking for the many
19. These Nazis degenerates have called our hell, the final solution, but without knowing that it is in fact our Final Salvation
20. Like iron that lying idle degenerates into a mass of useless rust, like water that in an unruffled pool sickens into a stagnant and corrupt state, so without action the spirit of men turns to a dead thing, loses its force, ceases prompting us to leave some trace of ourselves on this earth
21. "She degenerates into a mere slut! She is tired of trying to please me uncommonly early
22. not one of them is worthy of the philosophic nature, and hence that nature is warped and estranged;--as the exotic seed which is sown in a foreign land becomes denaturalized, and is wont to be overpowered and to lose itself in the new soil, even so this growth of philosophy, instead of persisting, degenerates and receives another character
23. broken-spirited degenerates cannot hope to lead humanity in its
24. He felt, in a sense, beheld; anyone who cared to look out a back window right now might have seen them, two degenerates hunched in a circle of light
25. If she tries to squeeze large profits out of this pattern by setting a large profit target, it is unlikely to work because the signal has no power that far out; the market degenerates into random noise a few bars after each occurrence of the signal—the profit target must respect this reality
26. ‘She degenerates into a mere slut! She is tired of trying to please me uncommonly early