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1. Slough was to the west, just beyond the airport
2. in the absent slough of skin on skin,
3. Sooner or later, Homo Electronicus had to slough off the less advanced species in the niche
4. Every time he touched it, his skin would blister and slough off
5. They remembered the blackened wreck in Havana Harbour, and the sailor comrades sleeping in that foetid slough; they thought also of the women and children crying aloud for deliverance from starvation and despair, and of the ragged patriots fighting for liberty as their own fathers had fought
6. He probably had a slough of
7. they are about to be shocked – then they will slough off the whole thing and that’s it
8. Dragging myself out of the slough of despond I bought bread rolls, cheese, apples and mince
9. Alex stepped forward and used the base of his green, wood staff to slough away the last of the crimson paste
10. They were tired when they finally reached Slough station that morning
11. They lived in Windsor, a few miles from Slough and attended Mass at a church there
12. It was called Slough Trading Estate and covered several square miles
13. Many of them and others from that region settled in Slough and the
14. In a little over a week Brian got a job as such in a garage in Slough
15. There was no social outlet for them in Slough, save for the few pubs that Irish people frequented
16. Slowly but surely through them, their parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and friends a new budding community began to emerge in Slough and the surrounding
17. The O’Connor children felt very enclosed that summer, within the built up confines of Slough
18. It was a true measure of the Slough Irish community and it gave the O’Connor family a sense of belonging once more
19. It was one of those little shocks to the system of which he had many since arriving in Slough
20. In Slough they hardly knew it existed apart from some gatherings in the evening in the couple of pubs the Irish frequented there
21. They invited him to call to their house one Sunday to discuss the matter and so the seeds of an Irish Cultural forum were set in Slough
22. “When I started up here Chalvey was only a village, separate from Slough,” he said
23. He told her not to wait too long, because there were local elections coming up and the party was looking for a candidate to run for Slough North, where because of a
24. In no time she was a party member and with the help of Sean was put forward as the Labour candidate to contest the up and coming local elections in Slough
25. But to all their astonishment Bridget was elected as councillor for Slough North
26. She made it her priority to bring these facts that she learned on the doorsteps of Slough while campaigning before council meetings and resolve the issue as best she could
27. Council meetings could often drag on into the night but she would never be far from them as the Slough Borough Council offices were situated only a stones throw from where they lived
28. Both she and Joe as a couple, along with the Labour Party Member of Parliament and councillors of the area, were invited to a grand function that took place in Slough
29. She lived at the western end of Slough in an area known as Cippenham
30. She had an accent that he had only heard on a few occasions in Slough
31. It was a very pleasant place, not at all crowded like Slough
32. Back to the secure feeling of the normal teenage life he shared with his family and friends in busy Slough
33. It was the biggest food store in Slough and on weekends many students worked there
34. They lived in a big house in a much sought after suburb of Slough called Taplow
35. He was born in Upton Hospital in Slough, which was within walking distance from where they lived
36. Joseph’s in Slough
37. It was a couple of miles away from Slough but had the reputation of being an
38. On their days off that summer they would often meet up and go cycling around the local area or go swimming in the new large outdoor swimming pool in Slough called Bayliss
39. He conceded that it was a different world from dreary industrialized Slough and St
40. Matthew’s curiosity led him to buy a copy of The Bible he saw for sale in a bookshop in Slough
41. The trees that sheltered the view of the other houses in the O’Connor’s back garden lay bare again and the rows of frost covered roofs created an arched canopy of gleaming white that lit up the dark winter morning skies of Slough
42. She knew through Joe that there was plenty of work in Slough and that he would have relatives nearby, he never having been there before
43. He would go for a drink with some of the gang in Slough including Ivan sometimes, although Ivan was not a great drinker
44. Joseph’s, their old school in Slough
45. Her name was Susan McGinley and she lived at the far end of Slough
46. Matthew knew the point he was making, in that he and Ivan were cushioned by the fact that they were born and brought up in Slough
47. He began thinking of the distance it was from Slough, his family and friends and became more and more despondent about the idea
48. One day he confided in his Irish friend Marcus who was happily working in Slough
49. He then dedicated himself to looking for a job in Slough
50. advertisement in the local paper called the Slough Observer that he saw an
1. I sloughed over the way the villagers gossiped about me
2. She wrapped the blanket about herself and sloughed off the cot
3. the storm retreated, the bulk of the ash in the air had been sloughed
4. The Doc had noticed that her appetite had sloughed
5. He was apparently not worried when brand-new competitive boards started springing up in Scranton, making our boards look shamefully outdated, and when cigarette businesses started to appear on those boards, he sloughed it off
6. shock as he sloughed her off with a dismissive wave of his hand
7. When Alwyn, having sloughed off his witch’s weeds appeared as Duncan, he took over
8. The sense of release at having sloughed off responsibility for bringing Lance to justice, rendered him weightless
9. All the hair had sloughed off the surface of the cannon bone and there was a huge knot of calcium where the bones had fused together
10. He sloughed it off and continued brushing
11. sloughed cells from the mouth; and diminished saliva flow
12. Even after they have sloughed off their lower status, they still justify everything they do by typecasting themselves as victims
13. On Molly’s farm that night the straight-jacket of the city, and our youths, was sloughed off and our minds breathed, as if for the first time
14. In the process of his association and apprenticeship with his mentor, he had sloughed
15. I liked his explanation of a universal faith that had somehow sloughed of the
16. Mark’s Place who sloughed off all questions, I came to feel my own species of exasperated affection for these characters of hers, SG and DT and NC, sometimes called “Iggy
17. My parents, still not having sloughed off the cultural residue of the Age of Aquarius, sent me to a children’s yoga class at a local elementary school
18. The paint had begun to peel and Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner sections of it had sloughed off altogether
1. As if they weren’t horrid to begin with, now what little flesh they had was cooking and sloughing off of their bones
2. Instead of cells sloughing away from a tumor and penetrating the bloodstream, here it was a mystery molecule
3. Looks like it’s held the sand behind it from sloughing off better than the rest, he thought as he approached
4. Looks like it's held the sand behind it from sloughing off better than the rest, he thought as he
5. The other part is the internal part; the slow, painful sloughing away of self, layer by layer, piece by piece
6. The girl would never see the birds tippling at the puddles, but he liked to think that somewhere deep inside the shell of her body, she would feel the fresh cold air, hear the sounds of city buses sloughing past and the drug commerce from the park across the way and know she wasn’t missing anything
7. The school was an old two-story building with broken windows and dim, cobblestone hallways, patches of its Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner original dull yellow paint still showing between sloughing chunks of plaster
8. "Yes, baby!" he shouted over the wind, sloughing off twenty years of his life, "and when you want to stub out your cigarette, you can do it right on the road," he said
1. The river was still braided, but not so hectic, a main channel and some side sloughs
2. pul himself out of the sloughs of despondency
3. It was very flat with large trees on both sides and sloughs of dirty brown water on my right
4. The man who made it possible, a foreigner, lost his serenity forever, became involved in the sloughs of abjection and misery, and years later was cut to pieces by a train after he had fallen asleep on the tracks
5. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better
6. The right time is easy, fish the feeding grounds on the flats and oyster bars on the rising tide and till just after the tide turns and fish the hiding places in the troughs and sloughs on the ebb
7. The illusion wobbles and sloughs away
8. As I was leaving the Irishman's roof after the rain, bending my steps again to the pond, my haste to catch pickerel, wading in retired meadows, in sloughs and bog-holes, in forlorn and savage places, appeared for an instant trivial to me who had been sent to school and college; but as I ran down the hill toward the reddening west, with the rainbow over my shoulder, and some faint tinkling sounds borne to my ear through the cleansed air, from I know not what quarter, my Good Genius seemed to say—Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day—farther and wider—and rest thee by many brooks and hearth-sides without misgiving