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1. Almost as though observing from a distance, I watch my other self flounder as doubts about my chances of concluding the quest with any degree of success become definite, bottomless failure; my perennial loneliness becomes an old age of isolation in a world slowly spiralling down into barrenness and desolation as I eek out my days, hated by those who remain here … the few who could not escape across … Berndt’s face stares at me, full of the loathing he feels for my failure
2. I flounder for some minutes trying to come up with a sensible reason while she stands there, arms akimbo almost daring me to give her a reply
3. An exquisite variety awaited them: shrimp, scallops, oysters-on-the-half-shell, clams, chowder and bisque and jambalaya, lobster thermadore, flounder
4. We flounder in vast waters, always uncertain and floating, tossed here and there
5. Jai watched her flounder, bemused, while holding his own breath for minutes at a time in perfect, long-practiced stillness
6. 15 Located between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, SC, Pawleys Island has the Atlantic Ocean on the east and on the west a salt marsh that has an almost limitless supply of flounder, oysters, and crabs
7. This peculiar sacredness hit Ambrosius like a slap in the face with a wet flounder, and he was dazed by it temporarily – he wanted to cry but he didn't know exactly why
8. His structural limitation made the business flounder in an area with a great demand for storage
9. And a thirst that could put a fried flounder to shame,
10. Then a feeling came over her that she was getting into those depths where persons with secrets begin to flounder as a preliminary to letting them out, and seized with panic she got up off the slab
11. If word got out that we'd released something sinister during one of our séances, our business could flounder
12. When money was involved, he most often seemed to flounder
13. Unlike my father or even Talaric, who when faced with this type of situation choose to doggedly press on, we on the other hand choose to dwell in our mistake and flounder about in self pity, with the repercussions of wasting our thought and imagination in the process
14. But as the visitor is constantly changed, the less experienced students are puzzled by the different methods advocated, and flounder hopelessly for want of a definite system to work on; although for a student already in possession of a good grounding there is much to be said for the system, as contact with the different masters widens their outlook
15. And he usually begins to flounder about, using his paint as much like chalk on paper as possible
16. immobility, Tom stared with horrific disbelief as he saw his brother flounder with each rise
17. Among bony fish, I noted grizzled wrasse unique to these seas, deep–water gilthead whose iris has a fiery gleam, one–meter croakers whose large mouths bristle with small teeth and which let out thin cries, black rudderfish like those I've already discussed, blue dorados accented with gold and silver, rainbow–hued parrotfish that can rival the loveliest tropical birds in coloring, banded blennies with triangular heads, bluish flounder without scales, toadfish covered with a crosswise yellow band in the shape of a Τ, swarms of little freckled gobies stippled with brown spots, lungfish with silver heads and yellow tails, various specimens of salmon, mullet with slim figures and a softly glowing radiance that Lacépède dedicated to the memory of his wife, and finally the American cavalla, a handsome fish decorated by every honorary order, bedizened with their every ribbon, frequenting the shores of this great nation where ribbons and orders are held in such low esteem
18. Lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead flounder, here's your old Bill Barley, bless your eyes
19. A pleasant land it is in sooth of murmuring waters, fishful streams where sport the gurnard, the plaice, the roach, the halibut, the gibbed haddock, the grilse, the dab, the brill, the flounder, the pollock, the mixed coarse fish generally and other denizens of the aqueous kingdom too numerous to be enumerated
20. Her hub fifty odd and a methodist but takes the sacrament and is to be seen any fair sabbath with a pair of his boys off Bullock harbour dapping on the sound with a heavybraked reel or in a punt he has trailing for flounder and pollock and catches a fine bag, I hear
21. "You do know, you dear thing," I replied; "only you haven't my dreadful boldness of mind, and you keep back, out of timidity and modesty and delicacy, even the impression that, in the past, when you had, without my aid, to flounder about in silence, most of all made you miserable
22. The slowly baked flounder has been very much appreciated by the restaurant’s international guests, who have also raised their eyebrows in surprise
23. They have obviously had flounder before, but never with such a pure flavor
24. There is no better fish than the wild-caught flounder fished in the cold northern seas
25. The flounder should be baked slowly, and there is a slightly moving story behind this:
26. A blonde bouillon or white wine sauce, and on the latter we might as well bestow the title ‘most magnificent sauce,’ which is why we add it to our serving of flounder
27. I awoke and stared at the ceiling as if it were about to plunge down at me, an immense whiteness of flesh, a madness of unblinking eye, a flounder of tail
28. There are too many people eyeing her, and now that Ambassador Miller has left, she could flounder around without any direction
29. Things had progressed to the point of his always looking pleased when I took my usual seat beside him when, unfortunately, I one day found it necessary to inform him that, before her death, my mother had besought my father never to allow us to enter for a government scholarship, as well as that I myself considered Crown students, no matter how clever, to be-“well, they are not GENTLEMEN,” I concluded, though beginning to flounder a little and grow red
1. She floundered on the sheet, her face buried as her balance went
2. Now that there was nothing left to delay the inevitable, I floundered
3. And talking about her own floundered relationship with Frank had helped her to reach for the empathy she felt she needed
4. Raven had floundered under the pressure and Kiri felt an enormous gratitude to him for the discomfort he was suffering for her
5. He floundered for a time and was about to give up when he silently said to no one in particular, “Flower, I hope you are well
6. He floundered against the pavement, leaned up for a second attempt and fell back again
7. Rochelle floundered in and out of consciousness a couple of days,
8. When I could stand I floundered to the rocks, hauled myself from the water and stared out through the howling darkness, willing my eyes to penetrate, to see him
9. When the apostles found a man or woman who floundered in indecision about entering the kingdom, they would send for Simon
10. They floundered and stumbled, hindered by their own numbers; they struck too quick or too soon, and cut only empty air
11. For an instant Khosatral floundered, smothered and blinded by the clinging stuff that resisted his strength as wood or steel could not have done, and in that instant Conan caught up his scimitar and shot out into the corridor
12. His profanity, as Balthus floundered after him, was lurid and impassioned
13. Italy had floundered everywhere, and the Germans were stalled on the Russian front
14. The moment he slipped below the surface and floundered about, she knew he was drowning
15. Consequently he left the floor and floundered wildly
16. Vincent floundered desperately before him, knowing full well what was coming after years of watching Clay-Man in action, but helpless to fend off his own execution
17. The armies that floundered nearly broken before the walls of House Alar blanched with new fear---they’d heard the stories, they knew what would follow
18. The man in her possession floundered and writhed
19. And she asks how could a man who floundered in his husbandly and fatherly duties be given authority to read and interpret scriptures to the family? That has cut me to the quick
20. had floundered in their freedom and not been able to
21. struggled to move in his armour and floundered like an
22. At least she never floundered in such a pitiable way
23. The end of his bed? The door handle? She floundered about, and her voice became high and strained
24. He floundered forward and found that he was dragging himself through liquid mud
25. They were soft, and they bulged and floundered on every bump
26. “A—a-mis—but, Rhett, she—” Scarlett floundered
27. 'With that the wretch floundered off into the flood
28. Often they floundered, stepping or falling hands-first into waters
29. The year 2009 was what William O’Neil himself called the most challenging year of his career, a career that spans over half a century! It was a year led by junk-off-the-bottom (JOB) stocks, while the more quality names often floundered
30. Technically, the stock floundered in 2009 after pulling back from an all time high in mid-2008
31. All this naked white human flesh, laughing and shrieking, floundered about in that dirty pool like carp stuffed into a watering can, and the suggestion of merriment in that floundering mass rendered it specially pathetic
32. By the time I lunged out of bed and floundered into my bathing trunks and trudged across the street, I was shuddering like someone in a snowstorm
33. "Gah!" I shrieked and flailed a final time, and floundered straight up, staring about, falling into the grave with the terrible meat, as the train ran over me and the rain showered into the tomb, with Crumley slapping me and a great gout of sour food jetting from my mouth
34. He floundered and struck something else and knew that it was Simmons, standing up in the rain, sneezing moisture, coughing and choking
35. He floundered his way through a sea of slush and foliage and came to a small hill
36. Born in Sweet Water, lived in Chicago, survived in New York, brooded in Detroit, floundered in lots of places, arrived here late, after living in libraries around the country all those years because I liked being alone, liked matching up in books what I'd seen on the roads
37. A few frogs lost their heads and floundered among the feet and got through and these were saved
38. But when they were close, three masked guns spouted flame; they fired only at one spot, and when they had done, the rudder of the Spanish ship hung in splinters and she floundered about in no control
39. They floundered in the mud and dug their wheels down until finally the drivers cut off the motors and sat still, looking into the headlight beams
40. So in the fall, Texas Air declined from its summer hysteria and floundered as Eastern beat its planned numbers for planes and revenues, then did not
41. And when I returned new drifts would have formed, through which I floundered, where the busy northwest wind had been depositing the powdery snow round a sharp angle in the road, and not a rabbit's track, nor even the fine print, the small type, of a meadow mouse was to be seen
42. The old black, not in any very high glee at having been previously roused from his warm hammock at a most unseasonable hour, came shambling along from his galley, for, like many old blacks, there was something the matter with his knee-pans, which he did not keep well scoured like his other pans; this old Fleece, as they called him, came shuffling and limping along, assisting his step with his tongs, which, after a clumsy fashion, were made of straightened iron hoops; this old Ebony floundered along, and in obedience to the word of command, came to a dead stop on the opposite side of Stubb's sideboard; when, with both hands folded before him, and resting on his two-legged cane, he bowed his arched back still further over, at the same time sideways inclining his head, so as to bring his best ear into play
43. But on this occasion the thought that I was covered with fluff contributed to my discomfiture so that, in fact, I floundered a little and dropped into being over-
44. Lillian wavered, now fairly in; then the sorrel floundered out, belly deep in the surge
1. A light went on in Harry's floundering dimness
2. It was only by good luck that I found the girl floundering a
3. felt himself floundering in the midst of it all, drowning in the cacophony of sound that filled the
4. Without thinking, Troy ran across the sand and dived into the sea, swimming out to the floundering man with strong strokes
5. We are still floundering in the water, getting hammered by the
6. Floundering in the sky like a fish
7. The helicopter crew prepared to drop a cradle (body) strap to the floundering vessel
8. We could hear them floundering
9. Just for a moment, I saw Zia floundering in the water, about twenty yards
10. Surely you are not the coward who could stand by on the seashore and watch a fellow man who could not swim perish! How much more of value is this man's soul floundering in darkness compared to his body drowning in water!"
11. He had crossed the Great Hall and entered the chambers beyond when he heard something moving ahead of him—something which gasped and panted, and moved with a strange, floundering, scrambling noise
12. For a short distance he heard it flopping and floundering after him, screaming with horrible laughter
13. The commanded raised his hand and interrupted the floundering sergeant, ‘Please do not concern yourself Sergeant
14. floundering?” is about all of us as Citizens protecting our Democratic way of life—with a
15. Another saying “he is like a fish out of water” meaning he is floundering in his
16. It certainly was interesting given that he had purchased a controlling interest in this club, which was floundering at a time when its reputation was not well regarded, and had quickly turned the fortunes of the establishment
17. He stood by Peg and trained his underwater camera on the Beetle as it rotated in the breeze, both doors hanging open like the pectoral fins on a floundering dolphin
18. was floundering there for a few years; she gave me permission to heed
19. "But you know what? Their disapproval will probably be less hard to bear than us floundering our way to third rate success in a field we weren’t cut out for and probably hate, wouldn't you say?"
20. With the water now less deep, I had relaxed my grip on the rope, and as I let me eyes wander above me, I must have moved out a little from behind Dog because, with my next step, I suddenly found myself in over my head, sinking into the fathoms, floundering for my life in a moment of panic
21. They work in close conjunction with the Founding Fathers who had become what Jasmine jokingly referred to as, the Floundering Fathers
22. Floundering sorcerers lead the way forward in
23. Volomite whinnied fearfully and reared, floundering his front hooves into the air
24. floundering ships will head for that beacon
25. If she could warn just a few of those people, then they wouldn’t be floundering to pay their mortgage next month
26. She was uselessly and chaotically floundering on the floor
27. Are you ready to focus totally on what you want from your business? Without being crystal clear, you will end up floundering and lost in a fog
28. He released Wrangler and went for Dewey’s dad again, who was floundering just below the surface
29. he intended to do, he was floundering around the floor in
30. In less than a minute the raging storm caused them to lose sight of the floundering ARK
31. Her floundering dress inhibited the rate of motion she sought and her wobbling feet did little for her balance
32. His people had installed the computer security software in the first place; so they were in a good position to provide some "top-up" training for the Auditors, who did seem to be floundering a bit occasionally
33. Michael had been floundering, just treading water for awhile now
34. Yet, he was forced to admit to himself, there had been occasions when Llewellyn had come up with a discerning judgement that had left him floundering
35. floundering of this convention
36. started floundering from the strain
37. ” He said floundering at a complete lack for words to say
38. In commencing a drawing, don't, as so many students do, start carelessly floundering about with your chalk or charcoal in the hope that something will turn up
39. A full year has now gone by since the day of the storm, with me floundering after daydreams and unavailing insights
40. The tempest lulls, the moon comes floundering through the drifts
41. We are floundering about in mere barbarism
42. Have you any idea how long we’ve been floundering out here? Hammered by one threat after the next! I’ll fall in behind her any day
43. The Finches spent their money foolishly (the Hotel we dined at was in Covent Garden), and the first Finch I saw when I had the honor of joining the Grove was Bentley Drummle, at that time floundering about town in a cab of his own, and doing a great deal of damage to the posts at the street corners
44. Big brutes of oceangoing steamers floundering along in the dark, lowing out like seacows
45. Possibly he had tried to find out the secret for himself, floundering up and down the antipodes and all that sort of thing and over and under, well, not exactly under, tempting the fates
46. Sitting up, he could just see the motor-car in the pond, nearly submerged; the gentlemen and the driver, encumbered by their long coats, were floundering helplessly in the water
47. “Although I probably am a bit closer to sane since Nahrmahn chewed me up one side and down the other for floundering in self-pity after the Canal Raid
48. My candle went out, and I found myself floundering about in utter and absolute darkness
49. In my office, when one of our businesses is floundering and the stock is getting pounded, my partners and I start to doubt the reasoned basis upon which we made the investment
50. While the NASDAQ was at least floundering its way higher in broken stair-step fashion, the Dow Jones Industrials were, by September 1999, making lower lows as they struggled to hold their 200-day moving average in October 1999, as Figure 3
1. Doing things the proper way may be fine until someone flounders and does it incorrectly
2. That fish, that drastic sturgeon, flounders and flips about all day in an ocean of silliness and frippery whilst the rest of the world toils hard for dinner and a roof over their head
3. The ship flounders in the rising tide as first light reveals the beach littered with dirty sleeping bodies
4. He slept so heavily that eight o'clock found the Professor and myself still at Glowe, breakfasting at a little table in the road before the house on flounders and hot gooseberry jam
5. The Professor was much calmer, quite composed in fact, and liked the flounders, which he said were as fresh as young love
6. 'We will enjoy the present, little cousin, and the admirable flounders
7. ' And he told me the story of the boastful man who had vaunted the loftiness of his rooms to a man poorer than himself except in wit; and the poorer man, weary of this talk of ceilings, was goaded at last to relate how in his own house the rooms were so low that the only things he could ever have for meals were flounders; and though I had heard the story before I took care to exhibit a decent mirth in the proper place, ending by laughing with all my heart only to see how the Professor laughed and wiped his eyes
8. 'Gone this very day--this very morning, gone at eight, at the self-same hour we wasted over those accursed flounders
9. Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them
10. Argonauts, they whispered, codlings, pollacks, houndfish, tautog, tench, sea elephant, they whispered, gillings, flounders, and beluga, the white whale, and grampus, the sea dog…always you thought how these must look from their deep-sounding names
11. That the Pleuronectidae are admirably adapted by their flattened and asymmetrical structure for their habits of life, is manifest from several species, such as soles, flounders, etc
12. And the crowds would go from tank to tank, looking in at us through the glass—with their mouths open, like half-witted flounders
13. So down there, some ten feet below the level of the deck, the poor harpooneer flounders about, half on the whale and half in the water, as the vast mass revolves like a tread-mill beneath him