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1. K perhaps half a notch above torpor wil
2. The volume rises a notch,
3. Two crewmembers, working nearby, stop what they are doing to watch and Joris, responding to the increased audience, cranks his antics up a notch
4. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders
5. Another approach is to kick it up a notch and turn your thoughts in a more empowering direction
6. top notch as you may think it to be
7. “Any boyfriends?” I asked and the tension increased a notch or two
8. There is a lump in his throat and his heart rate has jumped up a notch, but he hides it well
9. Something in the tone, some vague sense of timing and cadence overcomes her sense of displacement and turns the amplifier up a notch
10. The staff she worked with at RIS was top notch, side by side and humorous
11. There was plenty of greenery on it, growing from each notch
12. What will be your choice? Will you aim at a notch above your current position or will you prefer a static base?
13. Video products are once again another perceived notch up the scale in
14. could notch another arrow, Clemon gutted him
15. It was she who came on to me!” He sounded almost desperate and his voice rose higher a notch or two, his hands upturned in resignation because he knew it was his word against Nuska’s and women somehow distrusted men
16. “Don’t stall for time – tell me! Did you touch her?” she enquired adamantly, lifting her chin a notch higher, determination on her face
17. Their mistress had moved up a notch in their esteem; she was becoming a more modern girl
18. There is quite a bit of excitement in our little passengers and this excitement jumps up a notch when Missy shouts,
19. “Right,” Sebastian said, wisely masking his grin at seeing Rogan taken down a notch by a little red-head
20. And I don't know about you, but those women are Top Notch as far as I'm concerned
21. now sits on the top notch of my built-it-
22. Anyway, Hamp said he had a two by four with a notch cut in each end of it so he could put one end on his brake pedal and the other end under the seat so it couldn‘t fall out
23. One, with a ragged notch gained from fighting, lay pressed close to her head, the other stood erect, the hairs on its tip quivering
24. frowning at the notch he spied bitten into one
25. A notch away from the truth of battle they were
26. The moment the last notch of common sense reached Wardstones jelly brain he started fleeing for his
27. More recent erosion had carved a new notch
28. Could have made ten times the money by dropping down a notch in the social rankings, and if he did some actual work
29. Please note the notch
30. While my body moved in its own ways, in ways that Eileen was probably to thank for, I had all the time in the world to think about what had just happened, seeing as everything seemed to move barely a notch faster than a Jewish snail on a Sabbath
31. My estimation of Cooper as a police detective, which was already in the excellent range, had just gone up another notch
32. The greenery was still lush but it looked as if it had shrank a notch; the leaves were smaller and thinner while the stems resembled those in normal plants instead of the monstrously thick greens they were starting to get used to
33. Knew his notch on the
34. “Put everything you’ve got into it!” His voice had ratcheted up a notch as he saw a cloud of steamy-looking air rushing after the first huge gust
35. The guard threw a punch with his other fist aiming for Ethan’s face but it didn’t connect, as Ethan slid sideways just a notch and grabbed the rifle
36. challenging by lifting the bar one notch higher
37. The flame of fear grew another notch and she gasped for air when it for a second stole her breath
38. The firmament shifted a notch, and I knew differently
39. He’s proceeding with his plans to replace Terry and hire a top notch agent
40. drakapod was just about to notch up his 101st conquest but fate had dealt a cruel blow when suddenly, without warning, the huge and
41. This translated into another notch up the social status ladder as far as she was concerned
42. it is crucial that He takes us down a notch or two in
43. does not mind stepping up the pace a notch to
44. Leave a wee notch on each of the ends so that the cardboard dividers can interlock
45. I was intrigued by the possibility of knocking down his ego a notch or two
46. giving your body an interval jolt, it automatically – and somewhat unexpectedly – has to turn things up a notch
47. had been stacked notch to notch so that they fit snug
48. So he received top notch care and was about to be sent to either Pendleton Rehab in Mystic or a similarly great place, Gaylord in Wallingford, when someone from the Business Office came up and pissed all over those plans
49. more intense treatment, or moved my therapy up a notch, or
50. ” Talia explained as they flew over the last high notch of the pass
1. As was my habit, for luck and from routine, I bit off the smallest bit of the fletching of one of the flights, notched the arrow, drew back on the bow and aimed exactly at the spot he'd indicated
2. It seemed to be stone, sometimes fairly smooth, some places notched
3. He'd just notched up another point against his wayward colleague
4. The light of those swords and arrows would have made them stand out to other assassins hiding in towers with arrows notched to bowstrings or the ability to wield the Power
5. Bru whipped open the side door of the van, slung the quiver on his shoulder, and notched up an arrow
6. Climbing back up, he notched his left foot, propelled himself up another foot and a half
7. On an instinctive impulse, he reached over his shoulder and pulled out an arrow, and notched it to the string in cautious silence
8. I learned of the northern continent, a myth I had notched up as folk tales and the ravings of mad men
9. notched on the string ready to fly
10. They had cut, shaved and notched all the timbers so they
11. The next round had not yet been notched in the launching bows when Yigal sprang upright and
12. jagged ridges that notched the skyline
13. Thirty archers on the raised hillside behind silently notched arrows into bowstrings
14. No armour was visible and, although they both carried bows, no arrows had been notched
15. He had notched his second from last arrow when some movement caught his eye below
16. Before I could regain my balance, Zoe and Bianca had arrows notched, aimed at my chest
17. Darrell - On your website you mention your book "The Hanging Shed" has notched up some 50,000 sales, at £1 a time, in the Kindle eBooks charts, where it has consistently been in the top five
18. The cross beam notched into the top of the pole and ropes are tied around his waist and neck
19. Conan's breeks hung in blood-stained tatters; his girdle and sheath were gone, his sword, driven upright into the deck beside him, was notched and crusted with red
20. On legs wide-braced, hands gripping notched and dripping swords, blood trickling down their arms, they stared at one another across the mangled corpses of friends and foes
21. In the midst of the mêlée the slaves in the pen broke down the walls and came surging up on the decks, and with fifty blacks freed of their benches Conan abandoned his iron-hewing and bounded up on the bridge to add his notched ax to the bludgeons of his partisans
22. Glaring at Vaughn wasn’t accomplishing much as I straightened my shoulders and notched my chin high, stalling for time
23. castrated, have their tales sliced off, ears notched, and teeth
24. She cut the engine and let the car roll, slowly notched up the handbrake, took out her
25. Many of the animals killed for a plate have already been branded, de-horned, castrated, de-beaked, de-combed, ear notched, tail docked, and otherwise painfully injured on the farm
26. She’s dressed in a disheveled periwinkle day dress, with a notched collar and front-closing, princess seam bodice that pinches at her waist above a gathered skirt that looks it was slept in
27. He had notched an arrow and let it fly
28. As he did, several other young men and women, dressed similarly as he, stood up from the surrounding rocks, all armed with bows and arrows that were notched and ready to fire at a moment's notice
29. “Laeron!” he called out as his hands slipped off the notched scale that had held him
30. If the rambling structure was artless, the woodcraft was solid, notched with admirable precision and each joint miraculously fitted
31. His silence notched the worry up to panic
32. laid it aside as he notched the bare portion with a deep groove
33. Jaron took a third arrow and notched it
34. Jaron notched an arrow and spun, releasing the arrow in one movement
35. I picked up a bow by my side and notched an arrow only to let it fly seconds later
36. I left my sword sheathed and instead pulled the composite bow from my back and notched an arrow into it
37. I stumbled to Relentless and pulled my bow off the saddle and notched an arrow and brought it up so Raya was clearly in sight
38. notched an arrow, and lined the sites up to the enemy’s silhouette
39. notched his next arrow, Donovan prayed that Garock would come
40. positioned his Elven bow, notched an arrow and waited
41. The notched key fitted at once and unlocked it
42. There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield, wounded with many wounds, and his rent armour and notched axe were cast upon the floor
43. As Strider raised it they saw that near the end its edge was notched and the point was broken off
44. Frodo shuddered, remembering the cruel knife with notched blade that
45. The blade was notched
46. shaft was shot; their swords were notched, and their shields were riven
47. 'Alas! My axe is notched: the
48. A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair
49. She ended her career with more tournament victories than any other player, having notched up 112 wins since April 2000
50. The men’s team won a record 34 times (1959–2012), while the women have notched up 15 wins (1980–2008)
1. The posts on the headboard in his bedroom were becoming dangerously weak as he whittled them away to nearly nothing with his little morning notches and aide memoirs
2. notches and aide memoirs
3. The notches got smaller toward the corners, and the corners of the pyramid were a continuous expanse of well-worked stone
4. She’s a foreigner in Babylon; she has no rights, remember!” Zarko’s voice had risen a few notches
5. Though Tragus had risen a few notches to the point where citizens tolerated him, he was still considered a man of little worth
6. Felix went up a few notches in my estimation, as I would have figured Thomas to be
7. "Look at 'em, bleedin' cretins! Don't know 'ow the 'ell we ever managed ter win the war with that lot 'elping us!" Raising his voice a few notches, he continued: "Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery
8. “I know you’re not one to carve notches in your gun barrel
9. The Blondie was pretty hot and everything, but in light of the fact that she was a smoker, I had to knock her down a few notches on the hot list, if you know what I mean
10. Now my annoyance escalated by several notches: he was the one who’d so angered me at the braai
11. her down a couple of notches by the axioms of attractiveness in the Caucasian world
12. “I wish for my husband’s conceit to come down a few notches and for him to listen to me for a change
13. create new notches to hold them up, and a baggy shirt
14. The hammer would gain several more notches on its shaft after today
15. Without thought, question or doubt, E walked over to the still running car and hopped in, pulled it up a few notches and waited inside
16. I was following a warrior who slipped over to put a few white notches on his bow
17. Perhaps this incident would prove how frivolous her obsessions had been and bring her down several notches from the lofty position on which she considered herself
18. He made notches on the drawing for the different degrees, and then drew in a string attached to one end of the straw, anchored at the end by a washer
19. “Help! Help!” Henry squealed, as the man continued by cutting notches in his ears before flipping him around and snipping off his tail too
20. The feathers were thin, filmy pieces of bark, inserted in notches at the end of the wooden shaft
21. Brander nodded with a sharp exhale as his shoulders relaxed several notches
22. “Oh, so they could be here?” she asked, lowering her voice several notches, as her eyes again searched between the trees
23. Based on its color, he compared it to a brick with notches cut out so the tires had room to turn
24. holding rite for, whether it is fame or standing, I afraid are several notches higher than the person in your funeral procession
25. than her by several notches
26. first started to roam the Pugilist by several notches!
27. One must know that if his swiftness skill were stronger by a few notches, he
28. If his swiftness skill were weaker by several notches, he would have fallen into an earlier trap and not be trapped here too
29. Yinxue by several notches
30. Ge Zhonghai martial skills were really several notches higher than Mei
31. Did he want this again? Would take their relationship several notches up from a one-off shag
32. ” In France she’d shown me a religious picture of an ancient holy carving, depicting Kermes Twa holding a crescent-shaped horn that bore 13 notches
33. Then notches were rubbed at both ends of the bow
34. of his desire several more painful notches
35. Jacob sensed the tension level increase a couple of notches
36. The tumblers have notches that hook over the bolt to keep it locked in place
37. The key has notches which correspond to the notches on the tumblers
38. recording time using the notches of a palm branch, but she is most directly associated with time
39. notches, about 10 watts, in fact
40. thermostat up several notches
41. “You have no idea how much notches that raised my ego to,” he chuckled
42. Suddenly he remembered and realised that the big key with the deep notches, which was hanging there with the small keys could not possibly belong to the chest of drawers (on his last visit this had struck him), but to some strong box, and that everything perhaps was hidden in that box
43. Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbe Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Daedalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure
44. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it m payment of an account due to and received by J
45. A middle-aged man in a leather tunic was sitting at a table counting notches on a tally stick
46. Six notches under thrush nightingale
47. I didn’t put notches in the bedpost or anything
48. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor 's roaring flames
49. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick
50. Cut two notches into the fluke of a buttress spaced to the desired handle length (b to c)
1. Notching one to the bowstring, he put the bow aside; and then carefully shoved two arrows down the back of his coat-collar, inside of his coat, and into his left back pocket
2. I moved over to intercept it, notching an arrow as I went
3. Notching an arrow to the composite cavalry bow, Barrad’s horse slowly ambled towards the tree, the music grew louder and its tempo more excited
4. “This is better than Tribble base ball,” Carol shouted, notching another arrow
5. Notching the pieces so that they were well joined, he held them up, looked beyond the simple cross to see that it was acceptable, that it would respect the final resting place of his brother
6. They drew their weapons, Jaron and Theia notching arrows to their bows
7. Now John was effortlessly lifting the heavy bales of cloth while Dora counted them by notching a stick
8. The price will rebound falsely and then fall, so that the stop order to buy will establish a long position and the protective stop order to sell will shortly afterwards close the position for a small loss (but beware notching up too many whipsaw losses in this way)
9. When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge
10. “Mitch?” Dumond prompted again, the fear in his voice notching higher
11. Notching the ends of these gripper bars will stop the ropes from slipping