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1. But he was rather amused when he heard the man reply to Haelga’s overture with a very droll utterance of, “You intrigue me…Divines know Dibella’s my favorite…
2. It was opened in the back with a deep overture, showing a section of the serpent she had tattooed in her body
3. This was the background Roger had to consider when, upon her return from China, Josie showed an almost convincing overture of her willingness “to start again” with him
4. there was the cue for the overture, a dance number with the Troy Devane Dancers
5. Just as we did in the previous chapter, head to the Keyword Selector Tool from Yahoo Search Marketing (Overture)
6. Step 3: Select Overture
7. The free way of doing this is to use the Overture search
8. Select the Overture checkbox and slide the slider up to 400 results
9. (Keep in mind when you used the Overture search tool earlier, it only gave you 100 keywords
10. To keep it simple for this example, we'll use the Overture search
11. We'll enter the keyword "keyword research" into Overture and
12. You can see that the Overture tool gives us a larger list of
13. but in this example, let's just use this small keyword list that the Overture Search Term suggestion tool created for us
14. In his present state he"d have jumped at the first friendly overture like an addict to a fix, so I pretended not to notice
15. indicate that it was searched for in Overture (Yahoo) 12,043 in one month, so probably 120,000 in
16. Can gritted his teeth and held his hand out to Elise but she ignored this overture preferring to crawl to a small bush to help herself up and ignored his grunted encouragement
17. “Or this?” The 1812 overture cut in
18. and then entered L’ Overture Park
19. I thought I knew what was coming and even though I fully intended to put a stop to whatever she thought this was, 'not having your shoes on the furniture' hardly classified as a sexual overture
20. Oh, and it was instantaneous, fireworks with musical overture and cannons and, well, it was magic
21. The music was the 1812 Overture and when the kid
22. it in his head, he heard it in real life, exploding like the 1812 Overture with full cannon accompaniment that nearly blew him off the stage
23. Your body, like all organized gravitational masses including Eartheart, literally thirsts for music to help organize it, an overture of all its various influences giving rise to an operating system that is your body in your world
24. The number in the left column is the number of times that each keyword was searched in the preceding month at Overture
25. That “100064” is a combination of all the searches that were done for “fashion models” and “fashion model” at Overture during the previous month
26. The most popular keywords have become quite expensive at Overture (now named Yahoo!
27. 10 per click required by Overture
28. At Overture, you'll be waiting 3-5 business days
29. Next you can use a website that tracks keyword usage (such as Word Tracker or Overture) to see
30. they are ready to resist any overture by the Federal
31. Joseph decided his initial overture to his dad would be a small one—so he asked if he might come join one of these coffee sessions
32. Wortley in a motor-car, was impatient lest they should miss the overture
33. Wortley, always urbane, always in time for the overture, buttoned his gloves, and admired Miss Clara
34. treasury of love: the rose-lip overture presenting the cockpit so fair, that
35. overture of, reserving, to feast myself with the surprise of it to him, in
36. The overture to the second act began; and, at the first sound of the leader's bow across his violin, Franz observed the sleeper slowly arise and approach the Greek girl, who turned around to say a few words to him, and then, leaning forward again on the railing of her box, she became as absorbed as before in what was going on
37. He resolved, therefore, to let things take their course without making any direct overture to the count
38. Stopped then by the bed, she took the fall she loved, and leaned to the most, gently backward upon it, still holding fast what she held, and taking care to give her clothes a convenient toss up, so that her thighs duly disclosed, and elevated, laid open all the outward prospect of the treasury of love: the rose-lipt overture presenting the cockpit so fair, that it was not in nature even for a natural to miss it
39. My fortune, you will please to observe, I had not entered upon any overture of, reserving, to feast myself with the surprise of it to him, in calmer instants
40. THAT YEAR, I wrote an overture called “The Edge of Ugly
41. Then, in December, Chip invited her family to his family’s Christmas party—an overture that felt like a sneak attack, in that the invitation, addressed to The Nguyens, came in the mail while she was still finishing exams upstate, and she didn’t have a chance to stop her father from opening it, from RSVPing enthusiastically and posthaste
42. It was in fact the very appropriate truth that she had ventured to criticize the propriety, to hint at the incongruity, of so close an alliance, and even to go so far on the subject as a frank overture to Miss Jessel
43. He "had" me indeed, and in a cleft stick; for who would ever absolve me, who would consent that I should go unhung, if, by the faintest tremor of an overture, I were the first to introduce into our perfect intercourse an element so dire? No, no: it was useless to attempt to convey to Mrs
44. The curtain had not yet risen and the overture was being played
45. Just then the last chords of the overture were heard and the conductor tapped with his
46. It started its overture, and Doc, still smiling, went to the kitchen and stirred the stew
47. Thinks I, Queequeg, under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are
48. In a word, the piece was played to the satisfaction of every one; not the least hostile criticism was passed—who, indeed, was there to criticise? The air, "Sieni moi Sieni," was played again by way of overture, and the curtain again went up
49. Another time, in the dormitory, he would act some indecent living picture, to the general applause, or he would play the overture to "Fra Diavolo" with his nose rather skilfully
50. Just then the last chords of the overture were heard and the conductor tapped with his stick
1. I find myself responding to his flirtatious overtures – but console myself with the thought that it would be a strange woman indeed who didn’t
2. “Well, has there been any contact with him? Any fruitful overtures?”
3. This precept holds true almost one hundred years later: Consider the current administration"s overtures to the Iranian Republic
4. This staunch anticommunist was vilified by communist sympathizers, fellow travelers, and useful idiots not to mention a number of Conservatives who, as his party‘s Elder Statesman, (properly) rejected his overtures to (Communist) China
5. This is the message Republicans should be sending; rather than engaging in awkward, half-hearted overtures that are oftentimes perceived as transparent and insincere
6. Without common cause united by common principles and where the organization‘s respective members remain ideologically polarized, such overtures should be reproved by sensible nations whose global mission should be promoting (world) peace and advancing the cause of Freedom
7. Such overtures, depending on the (underlying) designs of the speaker and the receptiveness of his audience, could be incendiary and volatile at times, not unlike (the) rhetorical expressions that pass for populism in our own times
8. Carter‘s endlessly quixotic ―peacekeeping‖ overtures to autocratic regimes throughout the Third World in a transparent attempt at redeeming his failed presidency; this is not to imply, however, that our ex-president does not (otherwise) share a certain sympathy with such leaders as evidenced by his fawning indifference to human and civil rights abuses routinely evident in many of those countries
9. Of course, I rejected their overtures
10. If they didn’t object, he would make progressive overtures
11. If none of his normal overtures worked out, he would fall back on his ever successful pick-up line, ‘You know, my wife never cares for me, she is only bothered about her job
12. Roger’s lack of preparation to cope adequately with the complexity of his current struggles, his inability to handle correctly Josie’s behavioral patterns and Robert’s psychological and mental needs, and his powerlessness to check the downhill drift of his financial condition clouded his mind to the point that he may have missed some of Josie’s veiled overtures towards “married calm”
13. It is my firm opinion that it would be totally inexcusable, indeed criminal, for a teacher or anyone in a position of responsibility or authority to initiate sexual behaviour with minors, or to respond sexually to their overtures
14. First, because their inferior position makes it almost impossible for the minor to say no, and the results can be catastrophically bad for them; and second, because overtures from kids are almost always innocent explorations in which the young person is discovering how to develop their social skills and learning how to charm and manipulate
15. ‘Opera overtures by Rossini
16. He returned when his overtures met with success and Cambodia became independent on November 9, 1953
17. What the piqued Lawman wanted was to be on his air-conditioned house boat on Lake Kissimmee, kicked back sipping a cool one while five Missouri minnows connected to five cane poles frantically avoided the hors d‘oeuvre-ish overtures of speckled perch
18. Samson‘s overtures were not exactly what the nail biting young officer had in mind so Skeets cautioned his buddy as he approached the young cop
19. It took us a week to track down the right person who could definitely say they had not made any overtures to your parents for their ships
20. The Swordsmen appeared to be ready to surrender and had made overtures to that effect
21. “Sneering at my overtures is not the best way to win my
22. Daylight was not yet on the horizon and it would be another hour before the overtures of the dawn chorus would shatter the stillness
23. In the wake of Muhammad’s refusal to their overtures, the Meccans decided to remove the Islamic thorn from their Bedouin flesh
24. Over the years, men in town had made overtures but she spurned their attentions and concentrated on her work and Nicole
25. She had made a couple of physical overtures towards Dominique, but she had made it clear she was not interested
26. While some students quietly complied and continued their studies uninhibited, some students from disciplined background detest and resist such overtures but not without bruises and agonising tales of anguish
27. “Other girls in the campus receive such overtures from many suitors but kept it to themselves until they see their ‘Mr
28. For two and a half years, he persisted in his ambition to win my heart and hand in marriage, and despite my repeated rejection of his overtures, he remained adamant
29. indecent overtures toward him, she hadn't even gotten sick
30. Basil meanwhile started romantic overtures
31. She knew she had a friend but not any more a potential lover because to her insinuating overtures I gently and mysteriously hinted that I was otherwise engaged, which, of course, was not true
32. It may seem petty but you trifled with my affections when I made overtures towards you and only now, when you are in need, do you deign to respond
33. Instead I’d been bound up with jealously over the overtures being made to my man
34. But He did appoint that if “man appointed himself a sinner” despite all the persuasion, all the warning, overtures, promises of life, and untold wealth of blessings, that the sinner should die
35. During my dance I had been vaguely conscious of the thunderous overtures and the
36. advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to make overtures to me; and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use violence
37. And that thou mayest clearly see this, say, Anselmo, hast thou not told me that I must force my suit upon a modest woman, decoy one that is virtuous, make overtures to one that is pure-minded, pay court to one that is prudent? Yes, thou hast told me so
38. It did not occur to Lothario that this man he had seen issuing at such an untimely hour from Anselmo's house could have entered it on Leonela's account, nor did he even remember there was such a person as Leonela; all he thought was that as Camilla had been light and yielding with him, so she had been with another; for this further penalty the erring woman's sin brings with it, that her honour is distrusted even by him to whose overtures and persuasions she has yielded; and he believes her to have surrendered more easily to others, and gives implicit credence to every suspicion that comes into his mind
39. Overtures sent to the solid out of the liquid,
40. Amy was much offended that her overtures of peace had been repulsed, and began to wish she had not humbled herself, to feel more injured than ever, and to plume herself on her superior virtue in a way which was particularly exasperating
41. She made the first overtures of reconciliation by offering to have the little girl, who could help her in the house, to live with her
42. overtures to me of, and which I was not to think such a violent
43. After an unsatisfactory conference of many minutes, a solitary individual was seen advancing from the side of the enemy, with such apparent haste, as to induce the belief he might be a messenger charged with pacific overtures
44. He made improper overtures to me to misconduct myself at half past four p
45. And the after-dinner overtures are nothing but an afterthought
46. Because she was too exhausted by her anger to do otherwise, Scarlett sulkily promised and went home, haughtily refusing any overtures of peace from her household
47. For comfort, he made overtures to the honeycolored cat which lay disturbances, switched his tail and spat softly
48. If someone else offered to buy the business from the CEO, how would that CEO respond? A truly passionate CEO would say the business is not for sale and would decline these overtures
49. condition was the sending of Lauriston to Kutuzov’s camp with overtures for peace
50. She is a suicidal, perhaps homicidal, babysitter whose flirtatious overtures to a war-damaged pilot (Widmark) have unexpected and near-deadly consequences