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    1. Half way down the landing a recess in the left hand wall glowed


    2. Danton stopped abruptly as they approached the recess in the wall


    3. Half way down the landing a recess in the left hand wall glowed brightly under a spotlight


    4. Why hadn't Nikos taken control? Why hadn't he said something in my defence? I stumbled across the square and found a recess in a wall from where they could be watched in safety


    5. months until every kick at recess hit the row of pine trees in centerfield—the fourth


    6. “There’s a recess at the back


    7. He planted the sleeping mind-entity in a dark recess at the back of Jodie's mind


    8. But as the astronomer signed off an unwelcome thought popped up from the recess of his mind, something he should really have mentioned


    9. In annoyance he pushed himself away, momentum enough to slam into the side of the recess with some pain


    10. She was there, the suffering banished once more to its hidden recess

    11. box situated in a recess amid all the display graphics


    12. creating a recess about fifteen feet long and eight feet wide


    13. The game was in a recess in the


    14. The ‘what ifs’ could recess infinitely into the past


    15. Expertly he slipped a quarrel into the recess, which accepted it silently


    16. He probed the wall with the tip of his bow and found that a thin layer of dried lichen had covered the recess, inside lay a mounting cup, shaped to receive a round based object or globe


    17. The girls were watching Recess, a cartoon Helen had not seen nor was she interested to watch


    18. Next, four whirling brushes popped out of a recess in the wall and began scrubbing the animal vigorously from head to tail


    19. She had a slight advantage, she said with a wry, toothy grin: she knew the building intimately, having crawled through its every recess and been a life-long party to the tenant rumor mill, while the knowledge of the owner’s lawyer was limited to what little the skimming building superintendent had revealed and what was public record


    20. An answer had come back a few minutes later, telling us that the hardest part of their trials was probably over since the lawyers in Falconi’s disposal - after having obtained a cease & desist order - were forced to retreat for a recess because of the ‘non-government organization’ status of the Normal Bureau

    21. He turned the key, something a little awkward in its recess, and pushed it


    22. The man then made his way to the pier, up onto the crane, and lowered its cables for the woman to secure around the object hidden in the recess


    23. What was even more refreshing was the water the obelisk produced, a small recess in its base readily appearing as if a lever had been pulled, with an unnerving lack of sound


    24. Then he slapped his thigh, pulled a little phone out of some inner recess, and hit the ‘speed-dial’ button


    25. She got up, tucked the Beretta in one of her pockets and walked to a water basin on a wall recess near the church


    26. Congress was in recess and appointed him anyway


    27. But at recess time, I took her poem to the staff room


    28. At noon recess Faith encountered Dan in the little spruce plantation behind the school and Dan shouted once more,


    29. I removed one of the stone slabs on the stairway leading down to the cellar and dug out a recess large enough to hide the box in


    30. recess at the foot of Mount Nibel’s slowly-increasing gradient, its

    31. leading into an isolated mountainside recess, and the high


    32. specimen’s plight; He had taken the advantage of a recess to stay


    33. “The defendant, it is noted, has pleaded guilty to all charges, I move to dismiss the Jury and call a recess to consider the sentence


    34. And it had to be done before the August recess of Congress in the summer of 2009


    35. During the 2009 summer recess of Congress the Tea Party Express was organized


    36. When the Tea Parties attended town hall meetings during the summer recess of Congress in 2009 the fight against them in some cases turned from verbal to physical


    37. The ancient cemetery rests in a recess carved into the cliffs, roughly one hundred and fifty metres above sea level


    38. Williams’s case so I’m going to call an hour recess to think over my decision


    39. Raul”) several years later while working in my father’s business during a summer recess


    40. clothing in movement, which was coming from a recess in the

    41. In the gloom of the cave’s recess, logic told me I couldn’t be seen, but I almost died of fright when the bear let out a big


    42. For a moment the rear Uphrians just stared in shock at the hundred armed Tanarian’s crammed into the recess


    43. The bell rang for recess and when I stood up from my chair to leave


    44. ‘Hog trough! Hog trough!’ men would shout at us during recess as they drove by in


    45. details during recess, but I also couldn’t believe that Petrulyn had actually “done it”


    46. ‘till recess to hear all the details


    47. check up on Chantal during his school’s recess


    48. Before the man in the laneway had time to move forward he slipped out and using the van for cover between him and the watcher, crossed the road and slipped into a recess between two buildings


    49. She soon found a group she could hang out with during recess and free periods, and who’d


    50. The slot (recess) be-













































    1. A recessed button beside it, designed to activate the mechanism, was smashed beyond recognition and it would not work without electrical power anyway


    2. This revealed a black circle – a plastic infill with a recessed handle, simply a finger-sized hole, which lifted away like an old-fashioned bath plug


    3. She turned into the deeply recessed alcove of a dress shop that hadn’t yet opened for business and waited for Longleaf to join her


    4. In a few moments, he was outside the airlock, a pair of safety lines snapped onto sturdy, recessed stanchions outside the door


    5. He was an inch shorter than Jason, and his hairless head reflected the recessed lighting in his office


    6. Inside the house had a plank floor, but it was not fitted like ours had been, and there was no recessed area in the middle, but rather built up benches around the hearth


    7. That made a perfect 2:1 manhattan that I then poured into an empty Pepsi can that I hung from door in one of those cheap door beverage holders before the cars came with the recessed variety


    8. We didn’t like change, so it was white every time! We were bad drunks by then, and I shudder now (as did my secretary, Karen Olsen, when I described it) thinking of being on the top rungs of a 36-foot extendable ladder with a plastic cup of manhattans in a hanging cup holder (remember those before cars came with recessed cup holders?) and a one-half full can of paint, holding brushes in my teeth


    9. On that note, the session was recessed to be reconvened at the Bien Hoa Air Base


    10. his cheeks had recessed to a notable degree and his silvery hair

    11. The dust blows down into the recessed cavern


    12. You stand at the door of a cube sitting recessed in the heights


    13. Slowly he made progress until the recessed edges of the panel cover cleared the ship’s hull


    14. “When this body recessed an hour ago, nominations for


    15. In August 2013, the Congress recessed for a few days


    16. From this point, Feltus realized he had the most advantageous view of the entire hallway while maintaining an inconspicuous position in one of the recessed doorways


    17. � Her gun belt with her Glock 17 pistol was around her waist and also supported a sort of small box with recessed buttons and dials on its top side


    18. He brought them to a recessed area with a


    19. His eyes cold with dark circles that seemed to give them a recessed look, and though his face was tanned, he seemed to have a sickly pallor, perhaps from the stress of the events that had just unfolded and landed him here


    20. Nick eyed the camera slung under the roof overhang suspiciously, but it seemed to have no desire to follow his movements as he edged up to the security station recessed slightly into the bricks; outside one of the secondary entrances

    21. A pair of small windows recessed deeply in the wall provided a vista of the canyon, which now looked bottomless in the gathering darkness


    22. A monitor recessed into the wall gave them the illusion of a window which


    23. From there, you had to crawl under a long rock overhang that recessed about twenty feet into the sandstone face that formed its own shallow cave


    24. “All I see is that little door over there recessed into the hill, Colonel


    25. recessed box next to the kitchen


    26. light which was recessed into the bulkhead and inaccessible


    27. She took a few steps, walked into the club and stopped under a recessed light in the ceiling that lit her up like a porcelain doll


    28. Cara stepped over and pulled on a recessed hand hold and the door popped open with a hiss


    29. Recessed on the west side was an inconspicuous door


    30. Once outside he led me to the recessed doorway near the front castle wall and I pretended I’d never been through the hallway that ended at his personal quarters

    31. ” I anticipated viewing religious artwork, but the tunneled passageway at the bottom was lined on both sides with limestone and mortar; extending along the narrow sides were recessed vaults that housed coffins


    32. ’ I glanced around and made sure no one saw us, then pushed on a short recessed door near the back wall


    33. There were pegs across both walls and recessed areas for muddy, wet shoes


    34. The rounded front reminded me of my pregnancy with narrow side windows flanking the recessed front doorway


    35. I glanced around and made sure no one saw us, then pushed on a short recessed door near the back wall


    36. A recessed pull-ring on one side of the door, a bolt on the other edge, it just might work


    37. There appeared to be a tiny, shiny button slightly recessed in the rock


    38. He was joined by the others and it was not long before Simon who had not uttered a word since his ordeal with the creature in the other cavern located a recessed button similar to those beside the rocks on the surface


    39. A small button recessed in the middle of the wall at head height


    40. two sat on the recessed bench and had a pull from Ronan’s canteen

    41. Even before the university recessed in August, he left for England to see Iason


    42. It was an old recessed loading dock and the battered old doors were all locked


    43. Her fingers pass the cathedral steps—here an old man clips roses in a garden; here, beside the library, Crazy Harold Bazin murmurs to himself as he peers with his one eye into an empty wine bottle; here is the convent; here’s the restaurant Chez Chuche beside the fish market; here’s Number 4 rue Vauborel, its door slightly recessed, where downstairs Madame Manec kneels beside her bed, shoes off, rosary beads slipping through fingers, a prayer for practically every soul in the city


    44. He holds the model under the lamp and turns it so that its recessed front door faces him


    45. He found the first-class dining room, with its own orchestra balcony, cove lighting behind recessed windows to create the illusion of perpetual daylight, and round dining tables, each draped with an elegant tablecloth and carrying its own Louis Seize–style brass lamp, all arranged under a domed ceiling painted with murals of mythological scenes like the feast of the Bacchanalia


    46. THREE HUNDRED E-MAILS had collected in my in-box since court recessed for lunch


    47. She hurried down to the courtroom, hoping the trial had not been recessed for the day


    48. The recessed elevator buttons were ill-suited to paws


    49. His finger hovered over the buzzer, a recessed white button in the painted brick


    50. She was a nervous friend—smoked Harry’s recessed, filtered cigarettes but stubbed each one out only one-third smoked and lighted another, and she didn’t put them out, she crushed them, frayed the ends

    1. and somewhere in the darker recesses of his motor neurone system


    2. Windows and light wells brought light to the deepest recesses and highlighted the grandest artworks and architectural details


    3. deepest recesses of his mind, and filled up the


    4. The signal was launched into the deep recesses of Outer Space


    5. in the deepest recesses of his mind, before gradually


    6. 16“Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses


    7. Zachary who had more in door recesses then the


    8. ” Saying this, she seized his quivering cock, inserted the head of it into the recesses of her crotch and carefully, strangely, sat down upon it


    9. They went through the house and stowed family items deep into the recesses of the cellar with Elizabeth methodically marking each item and entering them into a small notebook


    10. This forest land and the savage inhabitants who dwell in its recesses, amid a chaos of slave-raiding and village-burning, which goes on ceaselessly in the wild country that lies between the north of the European colonies and the little-known Soudan, is indeed a place of weird and interesting memories, and weeks might be spent in exploring the forest and the hinterland beyond, finding fresh interest day by day in the study of the features of the country, both animal and vegetable

    11. Darkburst's vision was rapidly fading and, somewhere in the dim recesses of his mind, he realised that he only had a few brief moments left to him


    12. Soffen pushed the hurt and guilt into the deepest recesses of her mind


    13. After falling into his usual trance, where he stood amongst the familiar pathways, Brock witnessed a shimmering shadow emerging from the far recesses of his psyche


    14. As he lay in the undergrowth Brock's mind swirled wildly with the memories of what had happened to him over the past few moons– the pain in his back, forcing him to limp along with a shuffling gait; the growth on his head, now weeping a foul smelling pus; the voice constantly pursuing him into the furthest recesses of his mind


    15. He shone the light into the pool’s recesses, curious as to what he might see


    16. Crying, shivering, and convulsing with the revolting though that HIS cum was a living thing within her vagina, she sat under the spray and forced handfuls of cupped hot water up into the recesses of her body


    17. All those things hadn’t gone away, he’d just tucked them into recesses of his mind where they had festered


    18. “Yes, of course, Comrade,” answered Colling, taking out his wallet and showing the Russian first his Communist Party card, then pulling other cards from the recesses of the wallet and handing them over


    19. These and many other questions have nagged at me from the inner recesses of my mind, as time again seems to be passing me by, but still ever so slowly


    20. more recesses, and then this case goes into deliberation

    21. There were three entrances through the wall, but these were in the recesses and would be very hard to force


    22. Somewhere in the deep recesses of her mind, she thought she heard laughter


    23. I moved hesitantly towards it, even now I could smell his blood as it clung onto my nasal recesses


    24. This angel requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men; And this is the power of this oath, for it is powerful and strong, and he placed this oath Akee in the hand of Michael; And these are the secrets of this oath; And they are strong through his oath: And the Heaven was suspended before the world was created; and forever; And through it the Earth was founded on the water; And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters; From the creation of the world and to eternity; and through that oath the sea was created, and as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of its anger, and it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world to eternity; And through that oath are the depths are made secure, and abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity; And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course, and deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity; And through that oath the stars complete their course, and He calls them by their names; and they answer Him from eternity to eternity, and in like manner the spirits of the water, and of the winds, and of all zephyrs, and their paths from all the quarters of the winds, and there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of the lightnings; and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the chambers of the hoarfrost; And the chambers of the mist, and the chambers of the rain and the dew; And all these believe and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits, and glorify Him with all their power; And their food is in every act of thanksgiving; they thank and glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; And this oath is mighty over them and through it they are preserved and their paths are preserved; and their course is not destroyed; and there was great joy among them; and they blessed and glorified and extolled, because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed to them; and he sat on the throne of his glory, and the sum of judgement was given to the Son of Man; And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the Earth; And those who have led the world astray; with chains shall they be bound; And in their assemblage place of destruction shall they be imprisoned; And all their works vanish from the face of the Earth; And from now on there shall be nothing corruptible; For that Son of Man has appeared, and has seated himself on the throne of his glory, and all evil shall pass away before his face, and the word of that Son of Man shall go out and be strong before the Lord of Spirits


    25. They whisper to the inner recesses of our spirits


    26. Lieutenant Rymson had casually suggested prayer, and in this moment Ken probed the innermost recesses of the spirit to find words that would span the void to the Eternal


    27. This angel requested Michael to show him the hidden name that he might enunciate it in the oath so that those might quake before that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men; And this is the power of this oath for it is powerful and strong and he placed this oath Akee in the hand of Michael; And these are the secrets of this oath; And they are strong through his oath: And the Heaven was suspended before the world was created; and forever; And through it the Earth was founded on the water; And from the secret recesses of the mountains come beautiful waters; From the creation of the world and to eternity; and through that oath the sea was created and as its foundation He set for it the sand against the time of its anger and it dare not pass beyond it from the creation of the world to eternity; And through that oath are the depths are made secure and abide and stir not from their place from eternity to eternity; And through that oath the sun and moon complete their course and deviate not from their ordinance from eternity to eternity; And through that oath the stars complete their course and He calls them by their names; and they answer Him from eternity to eternity and in like manner the spirits of the water and of the winds and of all zephyrs and their paths from all the quarters of the winds and there are preserved the voices of the thunder and the light of the lightnings; and there are preserved the chambers of the hail and the chambers of the hoarfrost; And the chambers of the mist and the chambers of the rain and the dew; And all these believe and give thanks before the Lord of Spirits and glorify Him with all their power; And their food is in every act of thanksgiving; they thank and glorify and extol the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; And this oath is mighty over them and through it they are preserved and their paths are preserved; and their course is not destroyed; and there was great joy among them; and they blessed and glorified and extolled because the name of that Son of Man had been revealed to them; and he sat on the throne of his glory and the sum of judgement was given to the Son of Man; And he caused the sinners to pass away and be destroyed from off the face of the Earth; And those who have led the world astray; with chains shall they be bound; And in their assemblage place of destruction shall they be imprisoned; And all their works vanish from the face of the Earth; And from now on there shall be nothing corruptible; For that Son of Man has appeared and has seated himself on the throne of his glory and all evil shall pass away before his face and the word of that Son of Man shall go out and be strong before the Lord of Spirits


    28. With that he turned fading into the dark recesses of her mind


    29. The words faded into the recesses of his mind as he dropped into the waters of Salem


    30. 2 Therefore have I now taken away Zion so that I may the more speedily visit the world in its season; 3 Now therefore hold fast in your heart everything that I command you and seal it in the recesses of your mind; 4 And then I will show you the judgment of My might and My ways which are unsearchable

    31. Every word pierced the deepest recesses of my heart


    32. In the kitchen area, upon their entrance Frankel came hurrying out of the recesses


    33. Above the controls you have been using you will see two squares with recesses in them that look like mittens


    34. off the inner recesses of his skull; or he was bursting with fiery


    35. What was the sharp pain he’d felt within his head? He wasn’t sure what had happened during the examination, but felt somehow the sanctity, the private inner recesses of his soul had been violated


    36. The painful thoughts of the mauling and lacerations were indelibly imprinted on the darkest recesses of his mind, however with the use of the red crystals, treatment had now become much easier


    37. But how could he know this, only through his magic arts could he probe the recesses of her mind


    38. before classes, during recesses and after school


    39. Several warriors stood concealed in the shadowy recesses of the hold


    40. I continued to support Michael in his quest for freedom but this ―affaire du DD‖ gave birth to a lingering doubt in my mind that Michael may have been just a wee bit psychopathic and I had to keep this doubt banished to the farthest recesses of my mind to maintain my own sanity and sense of purpose for Michael's cause

    41. How did Lovern give his life so calmly? And the thought still niggled the very dark recesses of my mind: how did Donny do what he did?


    42. further into the darkest recesses of the circle of life with no circumference


    43. stops, dredging the recesses of my brain for tidbits of information


    44. He heard a blast somewhere in the recesses of the


    45. Where her eyes ought to have been were instead two round recesses in her countenance that were quite as out of place as holes in running water


    46. Yet in the far recesses of the cave, the sun is slow to penetrate


    47. Bubbled up from the recesses of my head


    48. The barn was lit by a solitary bulb that dangled from higher up in the recesses of the barn roof


    49. sought by the most profound being, by the inner-most recesses of the heart


    50. This was Shevatas, a thief among thieves, whose name was spoken with awe in the dives of the Maul and the dim shadowy recesses beneath the temples of Bel, and who lived in songs and myths for a thousand years












































    1. allow the recessing of the new pipes


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    Synonyms for "recess"

    break recess respite time out niche inlet corner recession deferral adjourn break up intermission pause interval lull nook notch indentation alcove hollow opening

    "recess" definitions

    a state of abeyance or suspended business


    a small concavity


    an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)


    an enclosure that is set back or indented


    a pause from doing something (as work)


    put into a recess


    make a recess in


    close at the end of a session