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They struck up conversation easily
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completed, one of the guards struck up a spark, and Jean
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struck up a conversation with a pilgrim returning home to
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” Every other Negro wished to shake hands, the women clapped their hands and shouted words of welcome, and the youngsters crowded round with their shrill little “Good hevenin, sah!” With the men who had been right to the front, the levies and others, a note of “bonne camaraderie” was at once struck up; but one very side there was a distinct and noticeable difference in the attitude of the people toward Europeans
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Blackshear told Snuffy Smith that he could back their truck up to a loading dock to the rear of the warehouse, and soon the three white men and the quartermaster troops were pushing the heavy containers into the Henschel
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While standing on the observation deck taking pictures, LP struck up a conversation with some young female backpackers
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struck up a casual conversation with him
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As Nic and I walked through her door, the band struck up its own version of the “Wedding March” (Here Comes the Bride)
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The little by-path wound around the marsh and then struck up the long wooded hill on the top of which Rosemary lived
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Signor Manzoni struck upon a novel idea
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struck up a conversation with the guard and then asked, “What kind
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One other “small touch of home” was the friendship that I struck up over the phone with a DJ at the university’s low powered FM station
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Three occasions come to mind: At Cornell, after bombing out with the Freshman Queen, I struck up a close relationship with another very popular and attractive coed who had a great sense of humor
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Korah, bringing up the rear, struck up a cadence although slower than he had done the day before
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Korah, bringing up the rear, struck up a cadence although slower than he had done the day
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slowly struck up a conversation
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Grover explained that he’d come across Gladiola in the woods and they’d struck up a conversation
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shortly after they began eating, the band struck up a soft
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They struck up what he regarded was a nice friendship
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As the great hands fell to his shoulders, he drew his saw-edged knife and struck upward with the same motion
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Aguero pushed the big truck up to around 80 kph on the tarmac
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Somewhere a thin whining music struck up, mingling with the hissing of the serpents, like an evil night-wind blowing through the empty sockets of a skull
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Then we struck upon the idea of hiding the gold under water
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While waiting for the bus, I struck up a conversation with a foreign
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John, who'd always had a strong interest in anthropodology, had struck up a conversation with Paul in the zoology section of the Natural History Museum in London
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As we sat in the terrace outside the café and I struck up a conversation with her
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Bernard’s old truck up the slippery slope
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loosening up, but she struck up a conversation
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truck up and down the veranda in the hope that his parents would let him stay
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Path Finder via his implant and struck up a conversation with Losira
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And I loved another woman, a woman who had struck up a worrying friendship with a rival George, but that didn’t matter, none of it did
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He struck up a little blues with his harmonica, filling the quiet recesses of his
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He had immediately got on well with Miller, too, and on their first meeting they quickly struck up a firm friendship
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The assassin grabbed his shades from the center console, and locked his truck up
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“No bumps,” Hiss responded, stopping the truck up against the gate
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carried the sound of bells flew into the hall and struck upon the top of a red wood chest
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As they exited the courtyard, both sisters were dumbstruck upon looking into the sky and seeing both the large moon hanging high, and the Dark Sister rising on the horizon
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Understanding what Joel wanted her to do, Henrietta sat down on the sofa beside Kathy, and struck up a conversation with her, hoping it would distract her college chum from what was taking place across the room
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This happens when Ulysses must pass alongside the vortex of Charybdis after he has been shipwrecked and lost his ship and all his companions, due to a storm that Zeus struck up while they were off the coast of the island of Thrinacia
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It was mortifying to think that an assistant suffragan had struck up a personal relationship with a duke
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Half way through the evening Graham struck up a conversation with a mixing engineer about Les Paul guitars
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Shortly after saying hello he excused himself and struck up a conversation across the room with Susannah
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Even when the awards came to an end and his group settled down and struck up conversation across the two tables, merging the parties into one, he remained elusive, sitting at the furthest point away from her
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With the matches still in his hand, he struck up another flame,
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struck up another match, then walked further into the chamber,
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I eventually sat next to her and we struck up a conversation and became friends
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Every now and then the hot air from the ground struck up in my face, and afterwards would come a cooler breath from the water
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Several couples had wandered in there to rest and, as the orchestra struck up something new that seemed to have the "punch" to its timeful measures, they gradually rejoined the dancers
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As the encore struck up again, a voice, almost as if it were in the little room alongside us, said, "Why, hello, Maty, why aren't you dancing?"
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She told us about a couple of older residents who struck up a friendship which developed into their marriage
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The three of them ate in silence, with Roger watching the pair intently, lest the two struck up an unwanted conversation
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The band, they struck up a four-count swing,
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A peculiar wind struck up and blew through the clearing, carrying the dust away into the night
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From somewhere off to the right of the crowd a band struck up a raucous tune and the crowd went wild again
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Tim arrived at work at 0650 and struck up a conversation with Jack
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empty seat and struck up small conversations
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I’d started the truck up in the rain one night to confirm whether the chips would work or not
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” I’d also filled the back of the truck up with heavy iron pieces, which added to our point of gravity and reduced the shock of us hitting something
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As he said the word, a blow was struck upon the door
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incoherently, some commented to the best of their ability on what had happened, others quarrelled and swore at one another, while others struck up a song
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He joined company with the Moriscoes who were going forth from other villages, for he knew their language very well, and on the voyage he struck up a friendship with my two uncles who were carrying me with them; for my father, like a wise and far-sighted man, as soon as he heard the first edict for our expulsion, quitted the village and departed in quest of some refuge for us abroad
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had struck up quite a friendship, fell ill, and presently died
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Linton Heathcliff, had she and I struck up an attachment, as her good nurse desired, and migrated together into the stirring atmosphere of the town!"
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The two struck up right where they left off
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All that he said, though, in the message was that he had struck upon a really good idea for my predicament
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Let's see, they'd suddenly appeared in this dragon after, they'd materialised in this drag, they'd sudd, they'd, they'd - they had struck up a conversation in the airport so naturally they had chosen to sit together on the plane, and he'd promised to show Jack Zweiblumen around when they got back to the States
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"Hist!" returned the attentive scout; "'tis man; even I can now tell his tread, poor as my senses are when compared to an Indian's! That Scampering Huron has fallen in with one of Montcalm's outlying parties, and they have struck upon our trail
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The departing guest was the recipient of a hearty ovation, many of those who were present being visibly moved when the select orchestra of Irish pipes struck up the wellknown strains of Come back to Erin , followed immediately by Rakoczsy's March
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And the minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and it just warmed you up and
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But finally, after I was riding a while, the cab driver and I sort of struck up a conversation
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Anyway, these two nuns were sitting next to me, and we sort of struck up a conversation
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He and I were sitting in the first two chairs outside the goddam infirmary, the day school opened, waiting for our physicals, and we sort of struck up this conversation about tennis
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He sauntered over, stuck out his hand, struck up a conversation, and finally confided what he had long kept secret from the other fellows—that he himself worked a late-night shift as janitor at the YMCA
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We sort of struck up a conversation while he was combing it, except that he wasn't
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As they clambered down from the train and formed columns with their teammates, another brass band struck up another Sousa march
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When I finally got to Amy’s table, I diplomatically struck up a conversation first with her mom, Leni, also a retired schoolteacher
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He told me that he phoned her, they talked, she admitted that she had struck up some sort of friendship with Scott Hipwell, but that she didn’t intend seeing him any longer, that she wouldn’t be hanging around anymore
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—I had already sealed this up when a fresh terror struck upon my soul
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My own rather pale and trembling appearance in the clip was a consequence of having spent the entire previous afternoon sampling single malts with a gentleman who had struck up a conversation with me in the hotel bar
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My berth was on the aisle, and the young American woman in the window seat obviously caught my unease at being airborne and struck up a conversation
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Well, as a last thought, he pulled out his fiddle as he runned, and struck up a jig, turning to the bull, and backing towards the corner
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The lodgers talked incoherently, some commented to the best of their ability on what had happened, others quarrelled and swore at one another, while others struck up a song
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After the story aired, Bianca and I struck up a friendship with Jason and his wife, Kori
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Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull
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The footmen began moving about, chairs scraped, the band struck up in the gallery, and the guests settled down in their places
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The band again struck up, the count and countess kissed, and the guests, leaving their seats, went up to ‘congratulate’ the countess, and reached across the table to clink glasses with the count, with the children, and with one another
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The band struck up the newly introduced mazurka
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Suddenly everybody stirred, began talking, and pressed forward and then back, and between the two rows, which separated, the Emperor entered to the sounds of music that had immediately struck up
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As they were nearing home she suddenly struck up the air of As ‘twas growing dark last night- the tune of which she had all the way been trying to get and had at last caught
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The cymbals and horns in the orchestra struck up more loudly, and this man with bare legs jumped very high and waved his feet about very rapidly
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snatched at and struck up the pistol Makar Alexeevich at last got his fingers on the trigger, there was a deafening report, and all were enveloped in a cloud of smoke
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Linton Heathcliff, had she and I struck up an attachment, as her good nurse desired, and migrated together into the stirring atmosphere of the town!’
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The two startled boys and girls jerked as if struck upon their shoulders by his cane
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The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, a potpourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called The Vestal; the trees shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by spectres
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"Yes, you have," said the old man, "or you wouldn't have driven your lightweight delivery truck up by the cemetery gate
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That afternoon, the thunder of the train subsiding in his body, Underhill struck up through town on his usual path home, newspaper tucked crisply under arm to prevent reading himself past the park
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A waiting ensemble struck up a tune with brio: “Un Ball per la meva Noia Jove,” “A Dance for My Young Girl
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As the band struck up a brisk canario, Josefina came stumping up to protest, “But, Melodía, why aren’t you wearing a mask?”
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Florentino Ariza was looking after his guests in the main salon of the ship, still redolent of fresh paint and tar, when there was a burst of applause on the docks, and the band struck up a triumphal march
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Cannon balls cried through the air and struck up clouds of dirt from the walls, but the defense held ground