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1. looked at the man standing in the doorway, whose head was illuminated by the slant
2. He looked at the man standing in the doorway, whose head was illuminated by the slant of battle grey that steepled down from the high set window
3. interest you and try to come with a similar slant
4. How did she feel about him from the perspective of this much time? Had the time with Rendrak been that much more passionate? Was it because Rendrak drew more social attention? Had there always been a little tension because she had her own slant on life? Had there ever been that tension with Alan? Since that time in the Lvinch patch, hadn't he always been there when she woke up?
5. From the main section of the keep came two smaller wings, and from the flat peak did the roof slant into them
6. The upward slant of her eyes seemed more acute than usual, and that, with her drained, alabaster-like complexion, gave her the appearance of a geisha
7. inquired of their name was really the USS Wachusett, and this put a different slant on the situation
8. The primary problem with socialist ideas being promulgated in economics classes is, of course that, barring intervention from those who have studied and absorbed the ideas of the classical economists or, a bit later, the Chicago School of Economics under Milton Friedman, such a slant tends to get handed down from generation to generation
9. It was slightly effeminate, not high pitched as such but one could feel a kind of feminine slant to it without it being obvious
10. Clippings from the national newspaper were shocking for their obvious lack of objectivity and racist slant, leaving would-be tourists with the conviction that only in Limon was there danger, black muggers lurking in alleys waiting to slice their throats
11. At every decision point I chose whichever road seemed to slant upwards most, thinking that the stair which we had descended would be high enough for my death
12. windowed hallways tipped to the sun's slant
13. A slant of orange light stretches across one of the rock walls
14. He went on and on about what happened, trying to slant it his way, but I already had all of the ―real‖ facts from a woman in Social Services, who I‘d contacted after Ma had told me of their arrest
15. Their mission was to present the facts of a story in a clear and concise manner, without slant or distortion and with the idea that their words were meant to inform, not to persuade
16. Negative slant - 58 stories
17. a slant of morning sun was leaking around the crease in the curtains
18. single slant of golden sunrise cutting the room in half
19. On the top, where the slant of the Tower is really noticeable, to the amazement and disbelief of all there, he performed a little dance
20. With Yigal in the lead position, they again hefted the load, which was shifted toward Moshe at the rear to account for the downward slant of the majority of their run
21. As they approached the last doorway, an old man appeared in it, shading his squinting eyes from the slant of the sun with his hand
22. "Parker, keep your eye on that chute in the trees," Travers yelled as he pushed over into the gun from a slant range barely outside the 12
23. the rear to account for the downward slant of the majority of their run
24. squinting eyes from the slant of the sun with his hand
25. Bloody religion, I shouldn’t have put such a slant on the killings
26. The sunrays were still slant
27. “Dad, give us your slant on this
28. He looked in to the cat’s eyes, the long slant of the pupil
29. 'The slant of the moon presaged evil for the king of Vendhya; the stars are in turmoil, the Serpent in the House of the Elephant
30. Then she clung to it as it seemed to be pitching at an impossible slant
31. angles as if each born on a different slant
32. same thing but with a slightly different slant?
33. Her mother’s eyes, green, like her own and wide, with a slight upward slant at the edges, even in the dusky light seemed sharper than she remembered, but there was a raw austerity in them that made her wary
34. found it difficult to stand; the world was on a huge slant
35. For me, I write stories that have a heavy emotional slant
36. Or sometimes the rip-off gives me a whole new slant on something completely different
37. A shaft of sunlight had managed to slip through the small gap in the wooden shutters, sending a slant of golden brightness perfectly across his face
38. Strange it may seem, won’t the socialistic slant negate the economic justice that it seeks to provide? After all, socialism, as per the COD, is a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the community as a whole should own and control the means of production, distribution and exchange
39. communities are portrayed in a negative slant in this metaphorical tale starring two mouse cousins
40. with a conservative slant, so his writing subject was whether the Constitution
41. And Priscilla explained how and why she had come by them; and though Lady Shuttleworth, remembering the order till now prevailing in the village and the lowness of the wages, could not help thinking that here was a girl more potent for mischief than any girl she had ever met, yet a feeble gleam of amusement did, as she listened, slant across the inky blackness of her soul
42. I have also here another glass plate in which the lines diverge each at a very slightly different angle--a typewriting protractor for measuring the slant of divergence of various letters that have become twisted, so to speak
43. When you form a sundial in concrete you would best slant the pointer, the gnomon, at the proper angle
44. She has seen this point in the road before—when, from far away, and atop a slant in the road, she looked upon the world and wondered just what it was—but whether or not it is significant of something she doesn’t know
45. impossible to tell considering the slant NNS tended
46. Their eyes were a dark blue with a catlike slant
47. Now I'm looking at the herd, not sideways on, but at a slant from behind; Randy is cursing, there's no clear target, nothing to aim at, and the cow is constantly hiding him
48. they published a newspaper with a revolutionary slant
49. reaching too high, causing this protrusion to slant to the side, the
50. the Souls took on another slant
1. As the rays slanted in to this table, he enjoyed the warmth
2. The two of them walked up the slanted ceiling of the stairwell, keeping their eyes on the dangerously, jagged steps above them
3. Colored sparkles of light slanted in from the enormous pictureglass windows that looked out across the Karedarzin plains
4. The room became a plotter's den slanted with plans and schemes
5. on the wane and the sun slanted uninterrupted across the
6. It was slanted but it was not sinking lower
7. Then he went on to tell of how much danger his father had put him in once again when he tried to shoot him with a paralysis dart when he was seventy feet above the stone floor and excrement pile of that abandoned area, clinging to a slanted roof
8. To the other side, a wall of the pyramid slanted up
9. Its forehead slanted backwards and was four times the length of a humans’
10. Both had their weapons drawn however, Wil’s axe glowing golden in the darkness, and Carl’s spear slanted at an angle
11. She seemed to want to keep her Battle Angels close at all times, even when there was no apparent danger, or perhaps it was Terese’s influence that made her keep the emerald bow slanted across her shoulders
12. ‘Miss Vanda,’ he said with a slanted smile, ‘that was the best show I have ever seen here, it was very exciting
13. Sunlight slanted down through the trees, and he could hear the tops of them thrashing around
14. The cabins were picked out in reds, yellows, blues and greens - swirling splashes of colour made vibrant under the sun that slanted down across the tops of the houses on the far bank
15. As Theresa opened her eyes again, a morning sun sent slanted rays down from the high chimney-hole onto cold, still lake waters
16. climbed the sharply slanted apron, and entered the depot
17. He looked up the slanted land
18. But in addition to this, the story was often slanted for a given effect
19. The roof was made of planks and slanted
20. On this average news day, what was printed here presented too much negative, too much doom and gloom, too slanted
21. so that all news and information could be slanted so that the
22. His comments were all slanted toward moving what I prided as my objectivity to a more liberal viewpoint
23. ” Sheramiv noted, indicating spaces on the ends of the hull where the taper of the ship made the floors curved and slanted
24. His gaze slanted a look at Morgan, with narrowed eyes he watched the prince until Morgan squirmed as he had when he was a young lad under the gaze
25. He and Whisenand wore dark suits, white shirts, and the distinctive slanted red and blue stripes of school ties
26. that were slanted tentlike together
27. through a slanted valley at the far end of which could be seen a small sparkle of blue as if from
28. slanted to the side in disappointment – or pity
29. You get to see how slanted news reporting can be
30. He was old but still had a chirpy look about him, he swayed with the rhythm of the music that he played; his eyes slightly slanted like the people Barrad had seen living in the Steppes
31. For the next level of sixty degrees I had to be going a bit faster and finally, at the vertical part, the centrifugal forces gave me the illusion of running on a slightly slanted normal road with the little table hanging vertically in mid-air
32. His arms came around my waist and I lifted on my toes and slanted my
33. Does the foregoing paragraph seem somewhat "slanted" to the reader? Consider the following:
34. into packs of domino tiles, slanted and piled atop each other
35. They finished by standing in a line in the shallow end of the pool, their upper bodies slanted and alternating sides, moving their arms up and down to the beat of Technotronicś Rockinóver the Beat
36. swung over their heads and onto the stall's slanted roof
37. An early moon had risen and its light slanted through the pierced dome which by some curious workmanship intensified the light
38. Outside, the moon had risen to a point where its light slanted dimly down the shaft
39. Avoid running on paths that are slanted
40. You need to be extra careful, when you are running on slanted paths
41. Thus, whenever you have a choice, avoid running on slanted paths, and prefer those that are flat
42. The floor slanted slightly downward and was worn smooth as by many feet
43. Protopopoff, a little man with a rosy egg-shaped head and a faint touch of slanted, oriental eyes, laughed as they undressed in the heavy, steamy environment and took sheets that resembled Roman togas
44. He held the oil lamp as high as he could and saw his passage was blocked completely by a small lake -- a subterranean lake! A few meters out, the cavern roof slanted down and disappeared under the black water
45. Of the properly slanted line
46. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
47. ‘Transformer, hey,’ he says with a slanted smile
48. Nonchalantly with his hands in his pockets and a slanted smile he looks at me
49. squad reached under the slanted top of the podium,
50. There was the same slanted channel made
1. With the rain slanting across the road and the windshield wipers sweeping
2. With the rain slanting across the road and the windshield wipers sweeping furiously across glass, the black Aston shimmied around a tight right hand bend, sliding out at the back
3. Then there was a couple acres surrounded by the slanting board fence he had tripped over late in Afternoonday
4. Landing upright, her feet quickly slide backwards down the slanting side and into the water
5. The sun was slanting in through the narrow clerestory
6. There is a large semi-circular balcony slanting down toward the stage and back up over the hallway to the fourth floor
7. ” He walked into the porch and as he did, he could see the rain slanting over the river
8. As we trudged along with the rain slanting down everyone noticed that if anything the build up for the new offensive had gotten even bigger with more supplies and men if that was possible
9. “And over there?” wondered Nibbles, who couldn’t make it out because of the shade under the trees and bushes, which still had some leaves to block the wan, slanting light
10. She had been mesmerized by droplets slanting over the roof of La Hacienda and falling into the abyss, missing the deck entirely
11. The sun was up and slanting into his eyes, but that was because he was high in the mountains
12. As the cars drew closer, it became worse because, in the slanting rays of an afternoon sun, they were each plainly visible
13. Maybe the bright light of the morning sun slanting across the rug could account for it
14. Mainstream Americans had simply grown tired of the deliberate slanting of events by the CMM and chose instead to tune in to the more accurate and balanced news outlets
15. In the early morning with the moon now slanting toward the western sky, a dark sinewy shadow snaked across their path, sparkles of reflected moonlight dappled its darkness
16. In the early morning with the moon now slanting toward the western sky, a dark sinewy
17. Soon all four were standing on the slanting deck
18. placing her hands on his shoulders and slanting her mouth across his
19. passionately, with his mouth slanting across mine and his tongue pushing in to be met by
20. “Just what I thought,” he teased, slanting his lips across mine and possessing my
21. Slanting his mouth over hers, the tip of his tongue flicked across her
22. Storm clouds in every conceivable shade of grey had heaped themselves along the coastline fifteen kilometres away, and slanting torrents of rain were already lashing seaside towns and suburbs
23. Closed windows left the house airless and stale, while sunlight slanting through recklessly askew venetian blinds, illuminated swathes of dust-spangled webs around the bookcase and under lounge-room chairs
24. Across grassy courts, up shimmering stairs, over the slanting roofs of fantastic towers, even along the broad coping of the walls, the giants fled, dripping blood at each step, harried by their merciless pursuers as by wolves
25. The flying weapon glanced singing from the slanting skull it should have crushed, and the king was hurled half-way across the chamber by the impact of the giant body
26. Yet after a while, after a period of time he had no way of estimating, a faint glow became apparent, a sort of slanting gray beam, by which Conan could see, vaguely, the bars of the door at his elbow, and even make out the skeleton of the other grille
27. He follows my look and a slanting smile curls about the corners of his mouth
28. a frown and she stood up straight, saluting her hand against the slanting sunlight
29. The other, narrow, slanting and slightly hooded
30. centuries–old Arabic blood, almond eyes, a slanting, aquiline nose above his meaty
31. The slanting late afternoon sun cast glints of light onto the water--in the distance, the flat stretches were as much gold as turquoise
32. The wire fence held by slanting poles drooped to the ground, the front gate slanted into the ground right before the causeway
33. like the cloud was seen carelessly slanting by the side
34. Mei Yinxue did not even move and remained slanting by the side of the
35. She was sitting inertly on her chair, holding her cup of coffee slanting, too much dejected to drink it
36. He had a vision of afternoon sun slanting in through a dusty window in a room where he was waiting for something with his mother, long ago…
37. every mag on the stands, slanting as
38. his eyes to see the car slanting forward and landing on its nose
39. Who work for professional corporations who are not slanting or censoring your news at all
40. If you place a ruler on the slanting line of the flag behind the horse's head to the right, you find it is exactly parallel to a diagonal drawn from the top right-hand corner to the lower left-hand corner
41. There was only the wind and the rain—slate-gray, slanting rain
42. He shook his head, slanting a grin my way
43. Exhale as you are slanting your head back and preparing to break the water surface place so that a lowest quantity of power and activity is needed to keep your head out of the regular water long enough to breathe in
44. A little kerchief was flung about her bare throat, but lay slanting on one side
45. The post for which she was waiting (strolling up Dods Hill while the random church bells swung a hymn tune about her head, the clock striking four straight through the circling notes; the glass purpling under a storm-cloud; and the two dozen houses of the village cowering, infinitely humble, in company under a leaf of shadow), the post, with all its variety of messages, envelopes addressed in bold hands, in slanting hands, stamped now with English stamps, again with Colonial stamps, or sometimes hastily dabbed with a yellow bar, the post was about to scatter a myriad messages over the world
46. Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it
47. A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing, Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight, She hers, he his, pursuing
48. The windows of the village were all on fire beneath the slanting rays of the sun sinking behind the field
49. Fore and aft stood two cupolas of moderate height, their sides slanting and partly inset with heavy biconvex glass, one reserved for the helmsman steering the Nautilus, the other for the brilliance of the powerful electric beacon lighting his way
50. Though that was what it seemed like—signs of the ball of furious fire nowhere to be seen, the slanting shadows of morning absent
1. where it slants quickly up into a point? It's completely inlaid with hammered gold
2. Xaltotun's mind was devious and full of unexpected slants
3. ” He slants a look at me
4. Josie slants me a scornful look
5. God, I dont know, hollows, indentations, slants, whatever