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    1. that second encounter was so significant in such a way


    2. ” The second thing that happens is the universe says, “Ooh, look at this, somebody woke up, somebody knows


    3. "We'll send you a card on our second century anniversary," she said


    4. This is my third life, though I was made from a copy of my second life, I didn't die


    5. They may come back again, you might have a second opportunity, but you will never have that first opportunity again


    6. Matt: 21:30: And he came to the second, and said likewise


    7. Hence it was their second last day, and their first trip to the beach


    8. Tom could feel the first impact and then hear a sharp snap as he hit the ground a second time


    9. What if you were to just do 30 second bursts of


    10. “Ruthie!” I pound on the door a second time

    11. The second hardest thing to be when achieving your goals is honest


    12. This is the second in The Best Scandal Ever series


    13. to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second


    14. "In the second decade I think


    15. On the second day, people started asking who he was


    16. Herndon was taking a second pass thru it, but they'd already made sure they'd examined every piece of paper in that box, a second time


    17. Grandchildren provide a second chance for us to do again what we may have lacked the first time with our children


    18. In the second stage one carries out an assessment of the problem and the possible solutions


    19. Second only to ants in instilling hate and fear in about 400 million years ago


    20. Gengee City was the second of the four main dams that kept the water in the current lake and not down in the cerrado where it once was

    21. Serpent could not believe that this slow-witted creature could be the ruler of all, second to the angelic choir


    22. One second it was thundering along chasing the sunset in the deepening darkness, the next it was accelerating at thirty-six feet per second per second from under her, its legs spread in all directions and at angles that looked pretty painful


    23. “It is most likely giving me a thirty second delay to enter the proper code to let the computer and the alarm monitoring station know that I have returned home to the house that I live in


    24. Her relief was blatant, "Herndon, oh good God, thank God it's you," she probably bleated these and a few more exclamations a few more times, maybe she did get a little hysterical for a second or few


    25. The catch is fiddly, but I manage it second time, and open the door


    26. She stood and stared at him at least a second


    27. Her interest is going to be more on that asteroid than on that shuttlecraft, and that comes in second in her attention to the crippled Christial starship she's trying to talk in


    28. You don't need to try and make the Starskater, though if you do, this says she was refitted in the second decade and Ebmiytn's in command, his reputation is good and he's been plying the lake since it was still rising


    29. Quite often they were level with second floor porches


    30. have for one second of the life

    31. John takes her hand, tries to hold on, but she is gone in another second


    32. second to come around back with me


    33. This is her, my second wife


    34. doostEr put the second bale on his side and popped it open, he tore into it


    35. He probably has the second biggest claim to being the rightful owner, but I don't think he will attempt to steal it, but he is one reason I wanted to keep this quiet


    36. After a minute, a second full moon begins to appear above the horizon


    37. John quietly watches the second moon as it rises


    38. It was a lot longer walking to the back shed where secure cargo was kept than it was riding on the second floor of a monster wagon


    39. Once the second decade went by with this, we figured it was here for long term storage


    40. The second noun ‘door’ (the action receiver) is the object governed by the verb ‘opens’

    41. "I won't," he said, unless they crossbow the kedas first and bust up the crate second


    42. ‘I could come and have a look …’ I said slowly, grateful to her for giving me a second chance


    43. An event so important that it was worth a permanent mark on the skin, first to assure success, second to commemorate once it had taken place


    44. STUDENT 3 sits on steps leading up to the second floor, cleans his toenails with a large knife


    45. A second passes


    46. The building was a rambling old hangleaf with a good second floor


    47. The second workman yawns, scratches his ass


    48. The second nods at the wall of the photo-ship building


    49. across the drive, acting as a second line of defence, a reserve trench, behind which he


    50. during the second test a high-powered X-ray apparatus with a mi-














































    1. “Me too!” another one seconded and the others agreed, probably because they wanted to oppose me


    2. Chloe seconded her observation and opened the Baedecker to read passages describing the island's history and attractions


    3. “It's about time,” said Belle and she was seconded by White Feathers


    4. Chloe welcomed the thought of showing off her daughter to her family and in-laws, which Harold seconded


    5. Nathaniel had been seconded from Marine Corps Alpha Company into embassy duty


    6. (When another person agrees with the motion, it is seconded


    7. A new Lieutenant had turned up he had been seconded to us to replace Walter Cole and should have arrived with the 125th Brigade but he had been ill in Egypt which didn’t bode well for here


    8. The clergy of each particular country might be considered as a particular detachment of that army, of which the operations could easily be supported and seconded by all the other detachments quartered in the different countries round about


    9. Standing there surveying us was Tommy Macy Elijah’s mate who had been seconded to the Second Battalion as an instructor and who was now a skater* his face broke into a big smile on seeing us


    10. As it was he had been seconded to the Battalion Aid Station as a stretcher bearer, I saw him and a L/cpl called Stanley who had the most untrustworthy face that I had ever seen but I could not get near him at this time

    11. ” The chiefs seconded this remark with a resonant cry of “Yeo! Yeo! Yeo!” - “Good! Good! Good!”


    12. “Professor Pakenham went missing Easter weekend, but he seems to have been consumed almost-whole,” seconded Barnes


    13. CDR Schroeder, THE uniformed ACO also attended and seconded John’s remarks


    14. The onerous task of checking each of these vehicles and their whereabouts on the night of the murder was given to a number of junior policemen seconded for this task


    15. We have called in a lot of resources to do this and have already seconded personnel from a number of other sources within the government including the Defence force who are assisting with some of the logistics in the form of providing transport to a number of sites under the guise of conducting exercises


    16. The task force was led by an Army commander who was there to handle the physical landing and provide the tactical requirements; the choppers were all seconded from the Army with their pilots


    17. The motion was seconded by the Secretary and passed


    18. The big company accounts were all handled by upstairs, although some of the bright up and coming adpersons were often seconded onto larger projects


    19. Initiation must be proposed and seconded by two of the higher members of


    20. ' He was seconded and a vote took place

    21. There was a store selling all kinds of groceries and hardware, a small bakery that seconded as a café


    22. Said the spokesman of the court: "Is this your son? and do we understand aright that he was born blind? If this is true, how is it that he can now see?" And then Josiah's father, seconded by his mother, answered: "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind, but how it is that he has come to see, or who it was that opened his eyes, we know not


    23. You have been seconded to them, reporting directly to Detective Superintendent Tom Demery, but you maintain a dotted reporting line directly to me, understand? I want you to ring me at the end of every shift with an update on all matters relating to the investigation you were working on under DI Morton, and anything that arises from the bomb incident


    24. Demery had organised a crew of officers from across the county to be seconded onto his investigation


    25. ‘But I’m seconded to WECTU,’ she said, ‘and it’s our investigation, nothing to do with Special Branch


    26. The motion was seconded and carried on a voice vote


    27. The motion was seconded and carried


    28. Admiral Dankese seconded the motion


    29. A voice from within the delegates seconded the motion by


    30. “It has been moved and seconded that a time certain be

    31. Texas moved to microphone number six and seconded the


    32. placed his name in nomination or seconded it


    33. As the chair collected her notebook together she announced, ‘The motion is proposed, seconded and overwhelmingly supported by the committee


    34. The motion was quickly seconded and passed


    35. Raymond eagerly seconded the idea


    36. In truth, the instructors of her flying club, affiliated like all other youth clubs in Germany to the Hitler’s Youths, were pilots seconded from the Luftwaffe


    37. “A motion has been made and duly seconded on the table,


    38. “‘Light at the end of the Tunnel” was seconded by Kletsova


    39. ” Imran nodded in approval and seconded the Jabran views


    40. All those persons in the conference hall seconded the suggestions of President Bashrove with open arms and wide clapping and so the meeting was over

    41. ZTA seconded MFP stand view point


    42. Charlie sat forward in anticipation, too anxious to eat or drink, “I suppose we should start at the beginning, Charlie,” said his father, seconded by a nodding Chef, who then said to Charlies father, “He has your journal!”


    43. No one seconded the motion


    44. Apparently they’d been invited to stay for a light supper, while they waited for the rest of their group to show up, even though it had been after one o’clock in the morning when they’d reached the ranch! According to her mother, Rusty and Kirby’s eyes had lit up at the offer of food, and the others had enthusiastically seconded their motion to accept her mother’s gracious invitation to partake in the homemade banquet she’d laid out for them to eat


    45. I shall also look into the possibility that you be seconded to a special team


    46. Theo seconded this request


    47. The other men seconded the motion


    48. Her media profile, with the talkshows fawning over her, the men’s magazines begging for photo spreads, the glamour mags demanding haircare tips, as well as no small amount of political pressure, meant that she had to be seconded to 1st for the visit


    49. seconds,” everybody seconded the motion so they didn't need an election, Tim


    50. The gigglers stopped giggling and now whimpered that we should go — which Happy Bulloks and Teet-sucker seconded and thirded





























    1. As for the matter of White Feathers seconding his 'dire need' argument, he was humbly grateful


    2. The words of MFP message were seconding in the hearts and minds of people


    3. ‘What she says is true,’ said Janaki, seconding Durgamma’s stance


    4. He seemed to have no strength, and he never once hit me hard, and he was always knocked down; but he would be up again in a moment, sponging himself or drinking out of the water-bottle, with the greatest satisfaction in seconding himself according to form, and then came at me with an air and a show that made me believe he really was going to do for me at last


    5. He would content himself with formally seconding Councillor Didlum's excellent proposition


    6. ) No private contractor paid his men for Bank Holidays, and why should the Corporation do so? He had much pleasure in seconding Councillor Rushton's resolution


    7. And manfully seconding Wade’s yell was the shrill piping of Beau


    8. He shook hands with each of them, saying in turn, "Lord Godalming, I had the honour of seconding your father at the Windham; I grieve to know, by your holding the title, that he is no more


    9. Smith of Maryland said, that in seconding the motion to strike out the first section of the bill, he had pursued a course which, in his opinion, was the most correct


    1. the afternoon, and twenty seconds in the evening to do ten push-ups at a time? One minute out of the twenty four hours you have in your day to do ten thousand nine hundred and fifty push-ups this year? Come on now,


    2. it’s just a matter of seconds to reach thousands of people that have asked to hear from you


    3. Mom was trying to call Millie every few seconds but the mermaids had removed the battery


    4. seconds controls all stages of the whitefly life cycle


    5. “But with the Super Chip plugged in, I am able to circumvent all security in a matter of seconds


    6. Seconds later they heard a rumble and saw another glint of sunlight on something shiny, now high above the horizon and coming toward them


    7. It approached rapidly, and in only a few seconds it thundered over them, almost a mile up and climbing rapidly


    8. It didn't seem to help much but he was able to keep above the water for a few seconds


    9. He turns off the radio, waits a couple of seconds, turns the radio back on again, listens with a growing look of shock and alarm


    10. He watches her for a few seconds

    11. doostEr let him mull a couple seconds


    12. John looks out the window for a few seconds, then turns and looks at the watch


    13. Within seconds, both are snoring as John and Russ look on


    14. This was like running one in 30 seconds


    15. I hear Liz coming through the front door and she appears seconds later in the lounge


    16. In seconds he had me by the right arm and the scruff of the neck


    17. After a couple of seconds the sound of the explosion reaches him


    18. After another few seconds, a man in military fatigues and toting an AK-47 walks over the small hill and finds John and Khalid together


    19. It was about fifteen seconds altogether until a voice connection was established and a slightly huskier and slower-talking version of Ava was in the room with them


    20. It was a few seconds before the hand was lifted, but no one spoke

    21. I swallow hard, unable to say anything for several seconds


    22. She continued to hold his arm, there were three minutes and some seconds now


    23. Several long seconds went by but the canny supervisor held his peace


    24. We sit there in silence for several seconds


    25. He spent those first seconds of knowing failure listening to the blood pump like crashing surf in his ears and waiting for the inevitable call from Horcheese in the cockpit


    26. After only a few seconds of silent flight with the debris field passing below, Burn’s voice spoke in his ear


    27. He only had to watch for a few seconds before wire-framed geometries appeared around the storage containers making them look like tiny, slow-rolling dice, tumbling over each other through the debris, accompanied by the product codes of the contents and range to the junk


    28. From where I am, I estimate they’ll be in small arms range of that junk in less than 60 seconds


    29. Next moment, he puts his finger in the dog's vagina and the animal writhes accordingly for a few seconds, while Alexander is looking at us with a mockingly


    30. The redsuits would be overrun in seconds and there was nothing he could do

    31. As it was he got a hard look and thunder rumbled ominously in the sky, echoing off the distant mountains for seconds


    32. Seconds later, the discharge was over


    33. It was like a waterfall and pumping blood and a drumbeat all at the same time and it drowned her out completely in a few seconds


    34. It took me a few seconds to recover from the effort of speaking


    35. After a few seconds he looked down at his boots and said, “Yeah, he’s a bit of a one for accidents


    36. For ten seconds or so, Tig tried to let it sink in, but it wouldn't


    37. "Thirty seconds to exposure," Tig said


    38. Then, she let out the kind of pre-verbal cry he’d only ever heard from animals and women in childbirth and he thought she’d have a seizure, but after a few more seconds, her squinting eyes opened


    39. With the junks and Tipperary and all the Lancers hurtling faster than light towards the Mizar system, it almost seemed for a moment as if they’d made it, as if they’d got away clean, but Jordo had been flying his fighter backwards for at least ten seconds now, staring at the transit’s opening onto the Algol system as it receded


    40. Burn got confirmation in her flight helmet a few seconds later that headless Audacity had obeyed her autopilot script and come to a stop behind them

    41. 63 seconds later, the cockpit module ripped out the hellmouth and entered regular space in the Mizar system along with the breaching ship and the junk


    42. "Squidy will exit the transit in… thirty-three seconds," Jordo said


    43. Knowing how thin the margin is between victory and defeat, Ram Devlin races to the Squidies' homeworld moon with a weapon of mass destruction that could end the war in seconds


    44. He pauses for several seconds


    45. For a brief moment I thought that we were all saved, that government forces had smashed into the apartment and would, in a few seconds, lead us hostages out through tear gas and back into the wintery sun of cold and forbidding England


    46. It took terrible seconds for my brain to switch into survival mode; long enough for Robbie to march forward and side swipe me with the butt of his rifle


    47. Obeying an irresistible urge, I bent over and kissed him passionately for a couple of magical seconds


    48. Therefore, it would be only a matter of seconds until some hideous demon materialized in that room, under the witch's commands


    49. For a couple of endless seconds, I watched the two spectral snakes stir as if they were coming to life; they slowly moved in opposite directions, separated and finally disappeared from sight


    50. "And how many seconds ago were you telling me you couldn't be stifled in a fundamentalist extremist relationship?"














































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    Synonyms for "second"

    second second base irregular second gear endorsement indorsement secondment arcsecond s sec instant minute moment bit mo back endorse indorse 2d 2nd secondly next another secondary every other subsequent subordinate twinkling flash wink trice jiffy

    "second" definitions

    1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites


    an indefinitely short time


    the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield


    a particular point in time


    following the first in an ordering or series


    a 60th part of a minute of arc


    the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match


    a speech seconding a motion


    the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle


    merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name


    give support or one's approval to


    transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment


    coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude


    a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first


    in the second place