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1. plain, cream in colour, with just a hint of flow and swirl towards the hem
2. to the touch of hem and weave and seam
3. The Countess rose and walked over to the rustic, blue painted wardrobe and pulled from its hanger one of a number of simple cotton summer dresses, long and plain, cream in colour, with just a hint of flow and swirl towards the hem
4. A woman with an issue of blood says, “If I could just touch the hem of his garment…” She touches it and “immediately the fountain of her blood was dried up
5. tightly tied at the waste, the hem torn and frayed,
6. the hem of a perfect maid,
7. Hipolyta had indeed received a new skirt and made a point of waving the flouncing hem every few steps
8. Only to be reseated, a raised nail on the third step had caught the hem of her blouse
9. the hem of her skirt
10. clinging to the hem of His garment
11. She also needed to change from this peplos, because she’d stained its hem with blood when she’d knelt to check Tragus
12. The visitor nodded a polite acknowledgement upon seeing Mr Pinscher, and remained standing, restlessly fiddling with the tattered hem of his threadbare coat, as he waited his turn to speak
13. She wore a snow-white knee-length skirt and white silk blouse with blue-embroidered foxes on the cuffs and hem, pale blue silk stockings, and knee-high white leather boots worked with gold vertical lines
14. Pulling at the hem, she reached below her skirt and touched gingerly
15. Two, he dropped immediately by coming at them low and abruptly lifting the hem of their trousers
16. He hooked a finger under the hem of her panties and slid it along through her pubic hair and lightly grazing the side of her labia
17. She lifted her hips towards him for more as the finger found the hem of the other leg and tenderly brush the other side
18. He went through a rigmarole: wearing it buttoned, then unbuttoned, smoothing the coat over his trunk, feeling the hem, smoothing the coat over his hips
19. His eyebrows pull to the center of his forehead, and he grabs the hem of his T-shirt
20. ” I wipe my hands on the hem of my shirt as I inch toward the dresser
21. I am wiping my forehead with the hem of my shirt, standing on a branch, when I hear the sound
22. She tugs at the hem of her shirt, then clasps her hands in front of her
23. In the chaos, when everyone was shouting and the factionless were trying to push us toward the staircase, I curled my fingers in the hem of his shirt so I wouldn’t lose him
24. And instead of sitting next to me, he lingers at the foot of my bed, his fingers fumbling over the hem of his shirt
25. A caticornered rent in the skirt had been darned with scarlet tracing cotton and the hem had been let down, showing a bright strip of unfaded pink around the skirt
26. When she hadn’t been able to settle on anything, Nik chose one for her – a brown silk dress with a little flare at the bottom and white lace trim across the chest and hem
27. anytime I needed them, in case I wanted to learn how to bake a cake or stitch a hem,
28. “Adrian, can you smell me?” Raising the hem on her skirt, she offered a glimpse of her
29. 34 A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, on the hem of the robe round about
30. 25 And they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates on the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;
31. 26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses
32. (This term is literally a combination of folk—that is, people”—and hem, which means home
33. 33 And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue,
34. and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold
35. the hem of the robe round about
36. pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the
37. 26 A bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem
38. exposing herself in a way that was likely to arouse Joe even more, she hastily pulled the hem of her nightgown down over her hips
39. As she stretched up, the hem rose higher at the back to expose alluring glimpses of underwear
40. Her dress was also white, with similar gold trim around the floor-length hem and the cuffs of the sleeves, and he could readily believe that Nemia had labored many hours to produce such perfect simplicity
41. The sleeves flared from snug around her shoulders to swirling gracefully about her hands, as the dress flared from snug around mid-thigh to swirling loosely at the hem
42. A minute later he saw that Talia was standing in a slight crouch on Equemev’s back with one foot in front of the other and her hands out for balance, with the wildest grin he’d ever seen on her pretty face, her blond hair and the hem of her dress flying behind, her cheeks pinked by excitement, exertion, and the cool wind of their speed
43. pants, and tucked her thumbs into the hem at the waist, ready to
44. lines along the hem, I sat back on the bed and nodded at the
45. Only the hem of my dress and my shoes were wet
46. ” I felt myself being tugged by the hem of my pants
47. The boy was struggling so I-I stuffed the hem of his tunic into his mouth and sat on him
48. It had sunflowers sewn into the hem and looked very nice on me
49. He slipped his hand under the bottom hem of my tank top,
50. from beneath the hem
1. ‘But I can’t stand being hemmed in and fussed over like this
2. It was quite a treat sitting there in that small and intimate little room with the local men hemmed in elbow to elbow, making happiness
3. At the top of the incline that hemmed the road in
4. your imagination be hemmed in by the crowd
5. The sergeant called out, “About twenty-eight hundred pounds,” as everyone hemmed and hawed
6. She hemmed and hawed
7. To a farmer perhaps, where she would have the room to run around and not be cloistered with other creatures that made her feel hemmed in
8. hemmed in by a bus terminal and the theater district
9. The field, hemmed in by
10. traveling; god had hemmed us in
11. We were hemmed in by high snowcapped mountains on either side as well as in front of us in the distance
12. He also noticed that the northern coast of the Khakhanate was a little vague, and I explained that it was very difficult to map that area since the coast was hemmed in with ice most of the year and in the brief summer was plagued by swarms of mosquitoes
13. For a moment, the air between the two of them was silent, although the echoes of the explosion and small aftershocks still haunted Annyeke’s ears, and the cries and gasps of the crowd of women hemmed them in
14. No, the boy lived at the fifth hut, hemmed between those who used him now and those who would use him later
15. The other man’s body balanced between sky and the far-off earth, hemmed in only by air, he stretched out his hand
16. He only needed a few minutes to reorganize the three rear lines to extend the formation losing the depth of the ranks but covering the crumbling flank better, this would stop him from being totally outflanked and keep the Tanarians hemmed in by the jagged rocks that lined the wide track
17. “They"re hemmed in as much as we are,” Felix replied
18. But with the light snows and the hush to the air, the both of them were starting to feel hemmed in
19. She stared timidly at the ring of bearded faces that hemmed her in, and was grateful for the strong arm that clasped her possessively
20. Gomes smiled at the colonial architecture that was abundant in the city then noticed that they were hemmed in by high hills all around the city making expansion and development almost impossible
21. Giant trees hemmed in the small pool where her horse had just drunk
22. Now on the summit of the cliffs he looked down into the circular valley and wondered what plague, war, or superstition had driven the members of that ancient white race forth from their stronghold to mingle with and be absorbed by the black tribes that hemmed them in
23. Every time that Aureliano mentioned the matter, not only the proprietress but some people older than she would repudiate the myth of the workers hemmed in at the station and the train with two hundred cars loaded with dead people, and they would even insist that, after all, everything had been set forth in judicial documents and in primary-school textbooks: that the banana company had never existed
24. took a wide-eyed step back, hemmed in by the biscuits and salty snacks
25. At Okinawa twenty five thousand Japanese troops hemmed in by naval and air bombardment had held off American forces six times larger for one hundred days
26. are hemmed in by the constancy of things to be attended to: by the
27. are quickly being hemmed in by cars and trucks
28. I had expected sun, warmth, and a sea of sand hemmed in by water
29. ground nearby, hemmed in by maimed wolves, his hands and feet bound together with Rana’s
30. Stacie wore a white nurse’s shirt unbuttoned almost to her waist and white shorts hemmed so high they were barely wider than a belt
31. Thwarted by ignorance, he is hemmed in by time, action, and
32. Feeling hemmed in, Norah struggled to find patience and a rational argument that they’d accept
33. Norah requested their usuals, while Cecily and Christoff hemmed and hawed over what to try
34. And for an hour I gave the astonished lady, hemmed in on the sofa by the table and by my chair, the outlines of my views on ideals and conduct
35. "Perhaps," hemmed Ogleby, clearing his throat and looking at his watch ostentatiously,
36. An ordinary girl, I reasoned, with little knowledge of her rights or of the powers which she might call to her aid if she knew how to summon them, might she not be so hemmed in by the forces into whose hands she had fallen as to be practically held in bonds which she could not break?
37. He'd listed the addresses of a couple of old farmhouses that had progressively been hemmed in by new building subdivisions, but then the new building development ahead presented a better opportunity
38. All over the field they were hemmed in by our ring of horses
39. The greenness and freshness were at first restful to his weary eyes after the dust of the town and the huge houses that hemmed him in and weighed upon him
40. Hemmed in here by the massive thickness of walls and arches, the storm within the fortress and without was only audible to them in a dull, subdued way, as if the noise out of which they had come had almost destroyed their sense of hearing
41. Every stitch Daisy's patient little fingers had put into the handkerchiefs she hemmed was better than embroidery to Mrs
42. She got up and took from the chest of drawers the first pile of dusters to be hemmed
43. the palace, Saouy went in to the king, leaving Noureddin in the square, hemmed
44. "Oh, no, for when I had taken out the thread I required, I hemmed the edges over again
45. She had by this time recovered sufficiently to feel overwhelmed with shame and confusion before the crowd of strangers who hemmed her in on every side, and some of whom she could hear laughing and joking about her
46. " Nevertheless, a hackney-coachman, who seemed to have as many capes to his greasy great-coat as he was years old, packed me up in his coach and hemmed me in with a folding and jingling barrier of steps, as if he were going to take me fifty miles
47. This hemmed it in so narrowly, and stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky above, that, to Hester's mind, it imaged not amiss the moral wilderness in which she had so long been wandering
48. As a priest, the framework of his order inevitably hemmed him in
49. She folded her bony self into a booth, and let herself be hemmed in by Chang, who slid in next to her
50. As I rose from the examination of that singular mark and then looked round into the black shadows which hemmed me in, I must confess that I felt for a moment a most unpleasant sinking of my heart, and that, do what I could, the candle trembled in my outstretched hand
1. He had gone to Daniel for advice on how to approach her and also, after much hemming and hawing about, how to go about making love for the first time
2. As Dena was hemming and hawing over that little history, the Elf listened to the two new voices in her own mind
3. Paul just sort of stood there, hemming and hawing
4. I’m a mature man, I should be able to say what I mean without hemming and hawing
5. After a couple of weeks of hemming and hawing, I finally committed
6. He was hemming and hawing, clearing his throat, and very deferential
7. “It’s a family heirloom of some sort, been in the Hemming clan for the past two hundred years or so”
8. When I continued hemming and hawing, pleading the
9. guards surrounding them with swords and pikes hemming them
10. Riders in the caravan included Gerry Patrick Hemming, the Novo brothers, and a pilot named Pedro Diaz Lanz (and possibly more that she didn’t identify)
11. There was hemming and hawing
12. There was hemming and hawing as he fished for an
13. Captain Maxwell started to intervene, the Consulate was hemming and hawing,
14. The handmaidens worked on the costume for hours, sewing, cutting, hemming, and adjusting the gown so it would fit the princess perfectly
15. “Do you know anything about the Aesira Scrolls?” Lucia asked Nora, who was sitting in the corner on an old wooden stool, hemming a garment
16. After some further hemming and hawing and additional suggestions that were completely out of Cam’s power as a city representative, Cleese finally signed the petition
17. Hemming in human existence into a non-creative, non-changing pattern of non-questioning deadness and lack of wonder
18. Suddenly for no explainable reason: This cousin who loved his friend the Tsar and was his best friend and had been the best of friends all their lives… suddenly this fucking corrupt weak fear-filled ruler starts hemming and hawing: and begins invention flimsy excuses as to why the govt of England should not allow the Tsar to escape sure death at the hands of the revolutionaries and be given a small villa to live in
19. ” Her nerves couldn’t take much more of his hemming and hawing
20. They may be hemming and
21. The fact is, then, Senor Don Quixote, that though you see me seated in this chair, here in the middle of the kingdom of Aragon, and in the attire of a despised outcast duenna, I am from the Asturias of Oviedo, and of a family with which many of the best of the province are connected by blood; but my untoward fate and the improvidence of my parents, who, I know not how, were unseasonably reduced to poverty, brought me to the court of Madrid, where as a provision and to avoid greater misfortunes, my parents placed me as seamstress in the service of a lady of quality, and I would have you know that for hemming and sewing I have never been surpassed by any all my life
22. I may have unique sidhe-seer gifts and there’s no question that without my wraiths hemming me in I’m a seriously badass street fighter, but Barrons and his men are faster, stronger, and more ruthless
23. When, after some hemming and hawing, he confessed that he’d started to find his eye wandering (he couldn’t bring himself to be more specific than that), the priest recommended he talk to a professional
24. After his granddad had died, they’d taken in a boarder for the downstairs flat, hemming Carmine in, forcing him further inward
25. “Kathleen, Kathleen,” reporters yelled as they swamped our car at Logan, hemming us in to the curb
26. [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it is
27. No thinking, no hemming and hawing
28. And divers delusions have always stood before men, hemming in this path, and having for their object to demonstrate to them, that it was not necessary to do this, and that it was not necessary to live as they were living
29. Finally, out of the crowd, as the one oftenest with her, he saw Blair Hemming, the man of loose lips and good-natured eyes, to whom Blanche had bowed that morning on the beach
30. “After the way she’s been running about with this Hemming?”
31. So Blanche was under an obligation—such an obligation—to Hemming! He had not thought Hemming such a bad lot, but now—— Things Lillian had said crowded back to him
32. ” He looked at her sharply, but she showed no consciousness; only a smile, as though Hemming were something funny
33. “And how do you suppose Hemming likes my being under obligations to you?”
34. Hemming saw her bring Lillian out
35. “But Hemming said she was washed out of the saddle—and the tow took her out, and you went after her and got her!” He still came toward her
1. lined and thick, spill hems
2. The sharp spears almost touched her body, but she, with an air of disregard, remained calm and simply shook her skirt as if clearing the dust of the road from her hems
3. Helga proved to be a skilled seamstress, and she shortened the hems of the skirts to conform to the current style
4. Caleb helps me sit up and separates the hems of his two shirts, pulling the long-sleeved one over his head and offering it to me
5. She didn’t stand close to the door but messed with the hems of her short dress
6. 24 And they made on the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen
7. 24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and
8. Isabella does the same from the hems of her skirt
9. The conservatively cut blue dress with ruffled arm hems she wore brought out the
10. Yelkais wore a black frock coat over their uniforms, where the hems and collar had the color of their nation
11. The shirt was tightly fitted over his body, light blue colored with dark blue patches and with huge, yellow fluffs around the collar and hems
12. S’us got Joey and Lezura the cleanest clothes that she and the others had made; a silky brown shirt with dark brown hems and ropes tied across the neck to loosen or tighten the collar
13. Joey looked at her and found that she was wearing a long, dark blue tunic with red hems and green zigzags all over, along with papery brown trousers
14. The curtained burst open and Lezura stepped inside; hair tied into a bun at the back with a pink and white cloth, and wearing a cotton white blouse with brown hems and black leathery tights
15. Helms hems and haws and finally asks, “Can I think about it and get back to you?” Bush agrees, and Helms leaves
16. amazement as he somehow managed to roll the bunched up hems of her skirts
17. The jeans were well loved, with a few small tears around the hems and one knee patched
18. The uniforms were always faded with loose bits of cotton hanging from the hems
19. Abu-Obaydah Ibn-Al-Jar'rah entered the city of Hems in Syria, he made reconciliation with them on condition that they pay a tax for him, it is paid by the strong people not by older people, women, children, patients or the weak
20. When Abu-Obaydah heard that the Romans prepared big armies and he couldn’t defend the people of Hems, he called their leaders and said to them:
21. There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt,
22. Maria agreed with him and favoured him with demure nods and hems
23. She hesitated, unwilling to soil her Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning slippers and hems, and looked about in the shouting tangle of wagons, buggies and carriages for Miss Pittypat
24. What if, on the contrary, Hamlet was a kind of unreliable soliloquist, hiding from us—and perhaps from himself—the full range of his homicidal impulses? That is, what if Hamlet had gotten exactly what he wanted? The plot, far from being a farrago of hems and haws, might be seen as a series of wish-fulfillments
25. There were knights and squires, a dozen children, several old men, three septas in white robes and hoods…and one soft, fleshy lady of high birth, garbed in a gown of dark blue damask trimmed with Myrish lace, so long its hems were trailing in the dirt
26. I don’t want to worry about hidden wires in the cuffs or the hems
27. Grace had spent all summer catching her hems on things that stuck or stung, and trying not to look too closely into the branches of the trees, where alarmingly big crows had made their nests alarmingly close to head-height
28. They were already wet, lank and miserably laden by muddy hems
29. Without actual circling and sniffing their hems and cuffs, the reverend managed to make everyone in the room acutely aware of underwear and of ties that choked
30. He was too handsome in a hard, swaggering, black-mustachioed way; he exaggerated to offense the English style of easy dress; he wore a too devil-may-care Panama, a too obtrusive colored shirt and club tie; he wore no waistcoat, and the hems of his new flannel trousers, turned up six inches, disclosed a stretch of tan-colored silk socks, clocked with gold, matching overelegant tan shoes