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1. He had pulled up as the tide stopped its flow, in a few hours it would start its ebb from this inlet
2. when the body lays at low ebb,
3. with the slowing of blood and the ebb of his temper,
4. You should notice that most often, they will ebb and flow like the
5. Jill, feeling herself to be at one with the ebb and flow of the
6. Jean, life was at its lowest ebb
7. At first light we would stand to this was done because an enemy would pick this time to attack as people vitality and vision are at their lowest ebb so for an hour at first light and an hour at last light we would be stood to
8. The moment she saw Khan’s life ebb away, she had felt immense guilt weighing down upon her
9. Kay looked out over the ocean, as she had been doing for the past hours, drawn into the ebb and flow of the waves
10. Once we were walking barefoot at the edge of the ocean, the sea water rushing over our feet as the flat waves trickled with the ebb and flow, did we dare to speak on the subject of his leaving again
11. The energies to ebb and flow
12. Moaning as she kissed his lips again and again, she felt his life ebb away and then, it was gone
13. The ancient agriculturists in the south of Akkad of old would have witnessed an insistent supplemental surge added to the regular tidal ebb and flow, which would have easily covered large tracts of the marshy delta lands at the mouths of their twin rivers
14. ejaculation and the ebb and flow of the Nile was attributed to the frequency of his ejaculations
15. For, ebb begins when the tide is
16. His reactions matched my ebb and flow
17. Luther, however, questioned Roman Catholic orthodoxy at a time when the prestige of the papacy was at low ebb and the German princes were open to any reason to justify arresting the flow of money to Rome
18. Once his strength began to ebb, the men became increasingly bold and moved in
19. Lucy’s sobs began to ebb off, and as she sat there
20. But balance can be tipped by nonfamily enablers who alter the normal ebb and flow of family relationships and lead to its dissolution
21. Here there is no time or ebb and flow of violence, but it all occurs at once and without respite
22. The tension had appeared to ebb as they had walked along
23. The narrow sea slowly rose as it accepted this enormous disgorgement from the north, disrupting its natural tidal ebb and flow
24. He did not pause to study his reactions to the great names, but he simply accepted the ebb and flow of emotion for what it was
25. to ebb as they had walked along
26. its natural tidal ebb and flow
27. finally lost in the ordinary tidal ebb and flow
28. Administrative functions sometimes appeared unmanageable, exacerbated by the ebb and flow of politics and pubic opinion, and the difficulty of affecting the supply and demand equation (Fuss, pp
29. It is a necessary part of the ebb and flow of energy
30. He was recruited by a woman he met in the Grand Casino in Melbourne when his finances were at a low ebb
31. Tomorrow’s solutions lie within the systemic ebb and flow of social interacting processes that create user satisfaction and community praise
32. everything in this universe is in a state of constant flux, ebb and flow
33. The reputation of Mahātmā sank to the lowest ebb
34. His self- esteem and confidence and purpose of life, were at the lowest ebb he had ever known
35. This Saturday night marked the time of the lowest ebb in the tide of popular regard for Jesus and his teachings
36. His astonished warriors saw Yar Afzal's eyes distend, the color ebb from his face
37. Jesus experienced that natural ebb and flow of feeling which is common to all human experience, and just now he was weary from work, exhausted from the long hours of strenuous labor and painful anxiety concerning the safety of his apostles
38. On the King's Altar, beside the ancient, carven stone, Xaltotun watched the steel tide ebb and flow
39. Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
40. Their attention seemed to ebb and flow with the ebb and
41. may have something to say, and the ebb in the flow of the conversation,
42. Without it being noticeable they made their way through the hellfire jelly by following the stakes we had driven into the ground, their progress was painfully slow, showing to any observer that the Toltec morale was at it’s lowest ebb
43. unnatural ebb of the conversation would seem to suggest otherwise to
44. It rolled about his skull on the ebb and flow of pain and settled only upon the mud banks of depression
45. “The current will rise to about 40 knots, cycling with the ebb and flow of the tide in both directions
46. They parked the battered Land Cruiser in a back street near the hotel with Anita resting on the back seat and mingled with the ebb and flow of people passing the hotel
47. His elation at the acquisition of fifty million dollars had not eroded the anxiety of being parted from his Stradivarius and at this darkest hour when his spirit was at its lowest ebb, and his head ached like crazy, his resolve could not have been stronger
48. They al started to relax a little as they got used to the ebb and flow of their
49. The ebb and flow of the soccer players going back and forth in waves on the TV screen lulled his mind into a more relaxed, less panicked state
50. Her mind began to ebb and flow with the surf
1. the flow of life ebbed and soaked into the cold stone sill
2. She stood amongst the bushes watching as the sea slowly ebbed and flowed, gradually releasing the land from its grasp; the tide went out leaving rocks shiny in the sunshine
3. She stopped walking for a while, took a sip of water and looked, once again, at the swirling mass of color that ebbed and flowed across the skies
4. That’s what they’d always done with sheep’s wounds once the swelling ebbed
5. The last remnants of life ebbed away and her coughs slowly ground to a halt
6. The commentator announced Millicent’s victory and the crowd’s elation ebbed away as every face in the hall turned to Raven
7. Moving from one to another in a futile chase for the easy jackpot, her stack of chips ebbed and flowed, eventually ebbing completely as she slipped her last into a slot
8. as the rabbit’s life-blood ebbed out onto the forest floor
9. The contest for the hearts and minds of all of the populations that flowed into the Christian belief system like a mighty river during those first three hundred years surged and ebbed for and against the apostolic version of the Word
10. Soon the ammunition ebbed and the trigger made a
11. Since that time downtown activity has ebbed and flowed with the fortunes and misfortunes of the city
12. Thereafter the party’s strength ebbed
13. What little light there had been ebbed away into a pink orange
14. The tide it rode ebbed for a moment slowing its progress; a growl escaped its mouth it had to get to the intruders before they made it to the mid-plane
15. Both its arms swung down at the little figure that stood before it in the moonlight, but the figure rolled through the snow between it’s astride legs, a silver blade grated into the beast’s groin and with its strength ebbed out it tried to turn but instead stumbled and crashed to the ground
16. Everything that was, everything that she was going to be, perished as her mother’s life ebbed away
17. Zia’s fire ebbed to a
18. At last the torrent ebbed away to leave me to my present now
19. What little courage remained to Natala ebbed away at sight of the Stygian standing limned in that weird glow, her beautiful face contorted with a passion that was no less than hellish
20. Curses ebbed fitfully from the man's lips
21. Her eyes were inhuman; with a more than human vitality she clung to the life that ebbed through the wound that split the crimson crescent on her ivory bosom
22. His right hand locked on something under his brown robe so desperately that the blood ebbed from that hand and left it white
23. In an instant the surge had ebbed back out of the gorge; there was a chaotic, confused swirl of fighting, horsemen wheeling and smiting singly and in clusters, and then the emir went down with a Kshatriya lance through his breast, and the riders in their spired helmets turned their horses down the valley, spurring like mad and seeking to slash a way through the swarms which had come upon them from the rear
24. I felt her shudder only a second beyond my release and the golden flush that slowly ebbed from my body drew out a cry from me that was almost the same music that she had sung and we harmonized our cries and it echoed in the small room as if we’d rung a chorus of bells
25. Beck didn’t hear the final words as his life ebbed away on the cold hard floor of the courtyard
26. The charge wavered and ebbed back
27. it ebbed as he looked around at the hundreds of faces pointed
28. When finally the flow of rage ebbed out of her, Susan found herself wandering on the foreshore
29. Slowly her waves ebbed and consciousness returned as he reduced the thrusting to a gentle probing
30. The highway stretched out as the built environment ebbed away from the last of the
31. Heat ebbed from the brick and out into the deepening sky, where
32. He waited as the strength ebbed back into him but with every second
33. Groans and rallying cheers ebbed and flowed as they continued their flight across the
34. resolve ebbed and flowed
35. Waves of motions curled in pockets as presences ebbed and flowed against the block long truck bays
36. When her sobbing ebbed some, Joel eased her away from his shoulder, and settled her into a more comfortable position in his arms
37. Anger seeded inside me once more as fear ebbed away and already I was adding these people to the list in my mind of those who would pay for what they had done to my horses, and to me
38. And the glow having ebbed out of her, the first glow of successfully getting away, and the succeeding glow of anger at her own conduct, she now felt most uncomfortably flat, cold, and miserable
39. My initial fright had ebbed away, however, leaving a nervous wonder in its place
40. It was about one o'clock in the morning that her courage, however, altogether ebbed at the prospect of going home
41. I could feel time running down, just as the year ebbed to the darkest night, the solstice
42. It ebbed and flowed, often leading me to believe that I had it under control
43. Mortified colour ebbed and flowed in her cheek
44. The smoke that ebbed from said grass drifted forward and before the creature’s vision, casting its eyes in shades of light so harsh and feeble that the children began to scream
45. Tyler’s eyes ebbed open and shut almost rhythmically
46. The conversation between the men ebbed and Captain Ca promised that when he returned to Cambodia he would visit his parents and inform Nguyen about his old family and maybe they could all meet, although he was not sure of what his fathers’ reaction would be, but maybe this would provide closure on his past life
47. His adrenaline had peaked and no matter how she fought and struggled her own strength betrayed her as it ebbed
48. But with the interruption the moment had gone, the great swell of her pleasure had ebbed and she felt bereft
49. The conversation ebbed and flowed; furtive glances and subtle innuendos stimulated imaginations and inflamed desires
50. But then something happened – a wave of strangeness flooded over him, filling his veins with masses of tiny eels, and the furious energy ebbed from his charge
1. of the ebbing legion tide hauls its way shoreward
2. commanding his ash cracked, ebbing warmth
3. In all of this, in the hurricane of press interest that engulfed the protagonists and in the quietly ebbing tide that followed as the story wound down onto the spools of microfiched newsprint, Miss Jones and the young man never actually met
4. Our memories came and went, ebbing and slowing with thoughts of our man
5. protagonists and in the quietly ebbing tide that followed as the
6. The storm lost its anger and moved across the desert, its strength rapidly ebbing
7. At least it would be a quick death, rather than a gradual ebbing away of whatever it is that now constituted life
8. Accumulation of experience of everything to deal with; stress, anxiety and just the day-by-day mundanity of life ebbing away at what had been so good
9. The room had only three soldiers in it, then two, then it was only her and the softly licking flames of the ebbing fire
10. Ebbing (Spiritual) Faith in the wake of Secular Assaults designed to sow doubt in the minds of Believers by eliminating (Public) Reminders that further undermine Spiritual Resolve!
11. Moving from one to another in a futile chase for the easy jackpot, her stack of chips ebbed and flowed, eventually ebbing completely as she slipped her last into a slot
12. Acron could see the confidence ebbing away from his valiant troops
13. Time is forever ebbing away
14. The eerie feeling of someone's life ebbing away was a shock to his system
15. Most amazingly—the children had to stare vigilantly to be sure what they were seeing—the miniature sea was ebbing slowly west to east
16. Philip and Jonathan stayed within the shade of night, hearing the noise of laughter and clanking plates to their left and the tranquility of the ebbing tide to their right
17. The sounds of the water ebbing to and fro gave them a feeling of tranquility and peacefulness for their advancing years
18. He knew that she was slowly ebbing away from him
19. The patient's life could not be stopped from ebbing
20. displays of ebbing tossed
21. ebbing) is likely to prompt many sorts of secondary reactions,
22. from their onslaught, he felt his strength ebbing from him, and he realised that this was not a
23. surface, but then drifting and then vacant as his life started ebbing away into
24. His head was spinning, and he felt tired and somehow weak, as if his strength was ebbing from him
25. The sun was warm, and he felt the tension ebbing away when, suddenly, he was awakened by a savage strike as a large fish took his lure
26. and strode into the ebbing cloud
27. They refused the opportunity to take a different strategic direction and negotiate and found their power ebbing away as the strike lengthened without any apparent prospect of victory for the union’s members
28. His life was slowly ebbing away and she had to decide to let him die or turn him into a vampire
29. Summoning the last of his ebbing strength he raised his pistol and aimed it at my face
30. The pain was ebbing away and then it was gone
31. She could not see what was happening because her life was ebbing away and she was already nearing a coma state
32. It went on and on slowly, dying, darkening, ebbing, melting
33. And now in our retirement, our friendship still has a pleasant, easy-going familiarity where the discussions of our life that is ebbing are full of memories and the present is even now enhanced with plans and activities that keep us going
34. Make them feel the life force ebbing from the dying chicken
35. The full moon showed the flood tide just ebbing, draining the water out to the nearby ocean
36. ebbing thunder reaching out the antipodes of its heavenly precincts
37. As I turned my eyes to the elder brother, I saw him looking down at this handsome boy whose life was ebbing out, as if he were a wounded bird, or hare, or rabbit; not at all as if he were a fellow-creature
38. It was the ebbing life-blood first that failed
39. There were many, many stages in the ebbing of her love for him, but it was always ebbing
40. To the south and east, heads of coral were already on display, left uncovered by the ebbing waters
41. For a few moments more I observed the dying man, whose life was ebbing little by little
42. When Fiver's urging had penetrated his dark, ebbing stupor, he had at first actually tried not to respond
43. How could this be the man who had been arguing with me just fifteen minutes earlier? How could someone so solid just be ebbing away in front of me?
44. New uniforms at the frontier, coffee and bread at the station buffet, people round us of Southern grace and gaiety; on again into the plains, conifers changing to vine and olive, a change of trains at Milan; garlic sausage, bread, and a flask of Orvieto bought from a trolley (we had spent all our money save for a few francs, in Paris); the sun mounted high and the country glowed with heat; the carriage filled with peasants, ebbing and flowing at each station, the smell of garlic was overwhelming in the hot carriage
45. No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which—and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness
46. I couldn’t speak and I couldn’t stop the flow of blood pulsing out of my body, ebbing into the cold water of the bay
47. Analysts high-flying finally-it's-timeto-bank-it estimates for 1996 were already ebbing lower-Smith Barney had moved from $0
48. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue
49. It had watched the third in tense silence—except that moiety of it ebbing and flowing through the clubhouse
1. Thankfulness floods through me as the chant ebbs and flows; how long we stand there, I have no idea … it doesn’t matter
2. He sees that in Power, it is not an island, but a long web that ebbs across unfathomable distances
3. But as I look at him, my anger ebbs away, like the changing of the tide
4. And still the darkness ebbs about your bed
5. But how come the unicellular onams could have multiplied into a wide variety multi-cellular species? And then, wherefrom did the plant life emerge? Well the ebbs would have retrieved into the high seas some onams that the tides could have washed ashore
6. With time the past slowly ebbs away,
7. With the last ebbs of her exhilaration, she
8. And as all the play and fun slowly ebbs out of their lives: so does all their creativity, spontaneity and happiness
9. � Change opens us to life because, as with the sea, life ebbs and flows
10. No doubt Bonnie danced in the moonlight to deal with the ebbs and flows of womanhood
11. Which takes me by surprise, but it smells heavenly, too, and the initial smarting pain soon ebbs away
12. A week later on July 15 the New York Times headlined: “Confidence Ebbs for Bank Sector and Stocks Fall—Lines Form at Lender
13. Once those guidelines are firmly in mind, you can use them as an anchor from which to drift with the market’s ebbs and flows
14. The importance of holding over the long-term through the “ebbs and flows” of the market is the key to long-term thinking and compounding investment success
15. It was a flood tide complicated with a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people adored both Napoleon and liberty
16. The tide goes out, the soul ebbs
17. In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over