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1. The resultant stretch and rumple brought FA and LA into contact with the those other lonely forces so that through the progress of a now diatonic ascension and descension of any octave, having its existence among other octaves of similar nature, the forces could at last realize the imperative of their separation, i
2. I rumple them up and dump them in the corner of the closet
3. So intent were the Federals in capturing young Meliorans they did not see a threat in the two old men or the rumple of blankets
4. Wopsle referred to me, he considered it a necessary part of such reference to rumple my hair and poke it into my eyes
5. Now, Mum, with respections to this boy!" And then he would rumple my hair the wrong way,—which from my earliest remembrance, as already hinted, I have in my soul denied the right of any fellow-creature to do,—and would hold me before him by the sleeve,—a spectacle of imbecility only to be equalled by himself
6. Scarlett wanted to respect and adore her mother like an idol and to rumple her hair and tease her too
7. Besides, he would tug at the ribbons of her bonnet and, no doubt, rumple her dress
8. On Sundays, Ralph and Betty would sometimes host a few expat Aussie thespians such as the great actor Leo McKern, who later became famous as Number Two in Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner and as Horace Rumple in Rumpole of the Bailey; Bill Kerr, who I knew as the innocent stooge to Sid James’s scheming spiv in Hancock’s Half Hour; and Shirley Abicair, who sang bewitching songs on the television, accompanied by the zither
9. Richard had seen them before, of course, but he’d never really seen them, their shambolic rumple and manifest travail (he was working his way through Faulkner at the time)
10. It was the third day in a row he’d worn this particular shirt, and the sweater-vest he’d been using to hide the rumples had itself begun to rumple
11. While she knitted and talked, Sammy tried vainly to stir some life into Rumple, who now occupied the best position by the hearth
1. Clothes drop to the floor, a rumpled hill of cotton and wool,
2. The fabric of the law of seven had to have been stretched and rumpled in order to become the diatonic law of octaves with which we are familiar here in our own universe
3. pals of the era remembered a guy who was a little rumpled, and
4. It was littered with vodka bottles, clothing, rumpled sheets, wet towels and spilling-over ashtrays
5. His hair was badly rumpled, his eyes bloodshot and his equilibrium wasn’t the best, but his dimpled genuine smile radiated a warm invitation to the comfort she always found with him
6. “Stu?” the rumpled old detective asked unable to hide the surprise in his voice
7. Raul had inherited from his grandfather dark good looks, typical of the family, and his share of Herrera charm, which he maintained with pride, feeling dirty and uncomfortable at the first sign of stubble or rumpled clothing
8. Even their rumpled clothing reflected their frantic condition, and the tension of knowing that they were walking a tightrope upon which the slightest misstep could well cost them their lives
9. He was dressed in rumpled working man’s attire, wearing a short overcoat with a slouch cap pulled down tight on his head
10. throwing the object into the pile of rumpled covers
11. ) My rumpled business attire and slurred, but educated speech must have impressed the low level city judge in West LA Police Court because, along with all the other more shabbily attired, smellier denizens of the drunk tank, I was sentenced to the customary “Two Days, Twenty Dollars, Suspended
12. They sleep in the first unused bedroom they happen upon, drop their rumpled clothing on the floor, take a fresh change from the closet when they leave in the morning, and spend much of their day attending entertainments without paying the admission
13. straighten his rumpled clothes
14. Blond and rumpled, Sally maintained her dazzling smile as she began waving to the troops
15. ) The passengers were rumpled and stiff
16. The bedcovers were rumpled as if slept in next morning, although we had not gone back into his room that night
17. It caught the doe by the neck and killed it with one powerful shake that lifted the smaller animal entirely up into the air before dropping it in a rumpled heap on the grassy forest floor
18. I took his hand and led him to the bed that was rumpled from our night’s rest, and I
19. mention Albert’s shock of white hair, his moustache and rumpled clothes
20. He wore jeans and a rumpled shirt with specks of
21. She is on the side of tidiness and cleanliness and not on the side of slovenly lassitude that leaves things jumbled and rumpled, scattered with no conscious care and placement
22. ” He sat up and ran his hands through his rumpled hair
23. His pen scribbled fervently on the rumpled paper
24. had a full head of rumpled white hair, ruddy Santa Claus
25. was a rumpled gray pin stripe he wore with a white
26. held a rumpled brown paper bag close to the top as if he
27. Removing this carefully, so as not to make the tape look too rumpled, she inserted the key into the desk
28. Accepting the assistance again, Terence arose and looked down at the sand that covered his tweed jacket and rumpled wool trousers
29. There was a brief pause during which time Feltus considered the possibility that Underwood, sensing the forces lining up against him, had already fled the scene of his foul deed, but his fears were laid to rest five seconds later when a rumpled and tired-looking Terence opened the door
30. simpleton even though he was quite brilliant with respect to his detection abilities in areas such a forensics, and his dress code—a plain cotton dress shirt buttoned to the top that was one size too large, khaki slacks that were rumpled and patched at the knees, and a dirty handkerchief sticking from his back pocket—further reiterated his stereotype
31. With some difficulty he managed to pull himself from the comfortable position he had maintained on his sofa and smoothed his jacket as though it was unpresentable in its rumpled condition
32. he found nothing but empty space and cool, rumpled sheets
33. bed was rumpled with duvets and cushions in a dark cave of a room, shuttered
34. point of the elbow before dropping a rumpled head to catch the words
35. ceiling, this rumpled, smelly bed
36. grin and shrug bare shoulders at his erection, hidden in the rumpled bedclothes
37. his eyes falling to the hastily scrawled title on the rumpled papers
38. Clegg was sipping champagne on the rumpled bed in a white towelling robe, seated with his back hard against the headboard
39. The man in the rumpled suit stumbled forward and opened the door for him
40. She opened the door to find a dark, unshaven young man in rumpled clothes that reeked of yesterday's sweat and several days’ worth of alcohol
41. The door slid open, admitting a doctor and a sour-looking mug in a rumpled flogger who could only have been a dick
42. It was rumpled and a bit worse for the wear
43. The Hologis suit creates a springy sensation whenever I move, and sensors embedded in the suit give it a rumpled texture
44. She was rubbing her hand over the rumpled sheets, as if I was still in there with her
45. The two rumpled guys in the battered van looked like the characters from the childhood comic strip “Mutt and Jeff
46. The stress of this idle maneuvering had reduced Freeman to a rumpled heap
47. Behrmann was a nutty professor type complete with rumpled
48. ” They all watched me, only me, and Andrei frowned behind them, hair rumpled
49. Having run forward towards him, it rumpled its feathers, spread its wings wide apart, and began to twitter loudly as if being indignant over something
50. The man’s rumpled, sandy-brown hair stuck out from beneath an old, ragged cap
1. It was the third day in a row he’d worn this particular shirt, and the sweater-vest he’d been using to hide the rumples had itself begun to rumple
1. He clings to the swell of her hip with his other hand, rumpling her robe to feel the silk beneath and the skin beneath that
2. “I truly am madam” he answered smiling, rumpling my hair
3. But though all this may very well be true--so Jacob thought and spoke-- so he crossed his legs--filled his pipe--sipped his whisky, and once looked at his pocket-book, rumpling his hair as he did so, there remains over something which can never be conveyed to a second person save by Jacob himself
4. “There’s no help for it, Will,” he said, rumpling his bright hair
5. ’ He felt the boy’s thin legs about his shoulders, the boy’s delicate fingers rumpling his hair
6. Farther east stretched cultivated fields, flowering fruit-orchards, a rumpling of gentle tree-crowned hills