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1. "I'll try not to smother her, I'll try not to smother you either, but I do have an urge to…" he covered her lips with his
2. in case I smother unsuspecting passers by
3. I hear Findel smother a chuckle from behind me as he pulls up the gangplank
4. She wound her hands in his hair and tried to smother him between them until he stood up and took her in his arms
5. The captain insisted on one final caution during this process, and that was to have wet cloths readily available to smother sparks which could set the
6. About six o'clock it seemed as if the children would smother for lack
7. As my hiccupping grew softer, the shrouded silence of the empty apartments pressed down around me until I thought I would smother under its weight
8. He, among others, was so effective that in three hundred short years they were well on the way to overcoming the mighty Roman Empire that had tried to smother their movement with the hundreds of thousands of sacrifices that they’d had to endure during this time
9. Enilia had to smother a laugh with her head into the blanket; otherwise, she would have woken up the entire camp
10. Deep holes were appearing on the crust of Earth and roots of the trees were surfacing in the Realms and they spread to smother every other plant
11. As though to certify these attempts to smother democratic debate as the official policy of his administration, the President of the United States accuses the Tea Party people of “fear mongering
12. “He knows where we’re headed! We’d best keep moving as fast as we can or the flies will smother us
13. we're headed! We'd best keep moving as fast as we can or the flies will smother us
14. Since these new crystals had made an appearance, finding oil to smother the door with to produce a good burn had been a difficult task but in the end you can always rely on a blacksmith to have some and he had found a large vase of combustible oil down by the town forge
15. In the meantime, he’ll alert the State Department and smother the meeting with security
16. him longed to take her in his arms and smother her face with kisses
17. “So I’m,” your mother is slipping, she is surely going to smother you with a pillow soon
18. when together they start to smother each doest want to kill the other
19. I expect if our tame police cannot smother this, your descriptions will be
20. "They'd smother us with numbers," answered the Cimmerian
21. the warm smother of beating
22. Elsa used all her strength to smother my face against her breast
23. extinguish hope in others and smother creative sparks before they catch
24. Don't slaver butter thickly all over that whole grain bread or pumpkin, or smother your whole grain pasta in a cheese sauce
25. Now it seemed to gaze despairingly at the housing estates surrounding it as though threatening to creep up on its roots and smother it
26. With family there are emotional ties and that would smother me
27. The belt did generate new breathable air, but it still tasted stale, and the field had a tendency to close in with every inhale, as if someone was trying to smother 114
28. smell of ozone and an indication that a fire had burned briefly, before the force fields kicked in to smother it
29. He wants to smother you with shame
30. He wants to smother you with feelings of being put down
31. I groaned and tried to smother my face with the pil-
32. Andrew, the only person on that stage with even a modicum of common sense, had the presence of mind to run for the sand bucket to smother the flames before they spread too far
33. He almost chuckled when she tried to smother her cringe at the taste
34. doing his best to smother it
35. that threatened to come lower and eventually smother
36. chewed on it to smother a grin
37. “It’s a good thing he’ll have you around, Zach, to steer him right - for he has three older sisters - who from the sound of it, are going to smother him with sisterly love and devotion, so he’ll need someone to look out for him for protection and guidance from his sisters
38. Earlier they had seen the long, trailing branches dragging in the wind, but now they saw nothing; the fog pressed against the glass like it was trying to smother the house
39. Oh how I wanted to smother her
40. Petitions on behalf of another man, Bino, brave beyond words, who heroically had peeled the borrowed jacket from his shoulders to smother the flames, despite the serious burns received to his hands and face
41. Gabrysia and Jordon cupped their hands over their mouths to smother their laughter
42. the time when they could smother him with their weight,
43. The entire scene struck me as absurd and a bubble of laughter escaped, despite my best intentions to smother it
44. Dawit was lucky they didn’t let in him and then smother him in the middle of the forest
45. would questions scare? The force with which the authoritative layers attempted to smother
46. In the dining tent even the lovely smell of dinner can't smother the Skunk's Revenge
47. smother all intellectual publication on the grounds that it is not fitting their profile on science
48. They smother them with ‘no’s’ and rules and limits and control; ‘No! No! Don’t do that! You can’t do that! No! Don’t cross the street you might be killed! Huh? The child already crossed the street and was not killed
49. me that I had repeatedly picked women who would mother and smother me instead of
50. Can we continue this in the morning?” I yawned hugely, bringing a hand up to smother it, but I noticed that Harley and Teagan were drooping too
1. towards the south, heading slowly down from the smothered heights of the city
2. Brambles as tall as a shire horse smothered the
3. down from the ceiling, thick fronds and razor sharp leaves cut and smothered his
4. smothered, as the child,
5. are smothered beneath that
6. share too many interests, through the feeling of being smothered
7. desperate need to claw away the mists and cobwebs that smothered
8. large dollop of mashed carrot and swede, all smothered in a
9. The morning’s sunshine has been smothered by a blanket of grey clouds and a breeze is whipping-up stray chocolate bar wrappers in the courtyard
10. She is pinned to the harsh walls of the domestic mausoleum by creeping vines, smothered in the leaf mould decay covering the floor of the untamed land at her feet
11. He's got tasty vatted thin ones smothered in a thick bean sauce
12. To dream that you do not have enough oxygen suggests that you are feeling suffocated or smothered by a situation in your life
13. To come in contact with tear gas in your dream suggests that you are feeling suffocated and smothered by some relationship
14. ” Zarko smothered the rest of her reply with another kiss that went on for what seemed like an eternity
15. called to their parents or their nurses, their voices seemed smothered
16. She opened her mouth to say getting the men out of jail was ends enough but smothered the words
17. "Sharlie, Sharlie, let him go!" cried Nels, in a voice smothered with laughter
18. "Pecans, caramel smothered in melted chocolate -- it's turtle candy
19. The blankets smothered me in their covers of pity and shame while I wallowed in self-pity, sobbing my heart out
20. “Peter smothered the man’s wounds in kisses
21. The guards had moved onwards and the Moon was smothered with a thick layer of black clouds
22. After she had smothered him with kisses
23. Ingrid prepared a dinner of hot dogs, using fresh bread rolls smothered with tomato ketchup sauce
24. Was it her poor scratched body or had she relived the horror of being snatched away? Ea seemed to have never left Hilkea’s bosom, but Zoran thought he had also heard a whimper quickly smothered as his little son had slept
25. The startle response to that most accidental of touches was only barely smothered aborning, and now he began to loosen his other arm as he marveled at the depths to which her sleep of exhaustion must have taken her
26. I wish that I could have taken some justifiable satisfaction from this Roman disaster, but I was appalled by the tremendous suffering that all the people must have gone through who had been trapped and smothered in such a hellish burial
27. All she knew was that she felt as if she was being smothered in this room
28. Is it any wonder that the gift of the white stone (as described in chapter 17, The Revelation) looked more like the iridium layer that separated the dinosaurs from everything that came after? And the lamp stand of the Ephesians, as well as those around them, was knocked loose from its firm foundation so many times that it finally broke altogether in Constantinople’s collapse in 1453? And the gift of the Morning Star, the universality of the Christian Church so smothered by the pollution of the competing belief systems of Catholicism and the Protest that it refuses to shine through even today?
29. “Paybacks a bitch,” Brock said after I had smothered the smelly tong right in his nose
30. It also indicates the many times that a germ of crystalline inspiration seems to have been virtually smothered in Man’s attempt toward a simplification thought necessary to introduce it into his lesser capacity, a kind of “dumbing down,” rather than a “rising up
31. Man’s use of elaboration in his attempt to clarify what was almost impossible to translate into his human vernacular have many times so smothered any original revelation as to have hidden what was meant to have been opened
32. Spoon-fed pabulum smothered the sense of inquiry and closed the mind
33. – and it was all smothered in brown tasteless gravy
34. At least he didn’t just fall at his feet, Moshe thought as he smothered a smile of amusement
35. Riding into the shadow of the nearly vertical rock walls that overhung both sides of the pass left Moshe with an eerie feeling like that of being smothered by rock instead of sand
36. On and on they droned, much like the sound of a wounded bull, until the roar of movement was all but smothered by such a powerful chorus that it seemed to shake the very hills that echoed its thunderous calls
37. That the VC attacked at this open spot instead of further east where the vegetation all but smothered the road confirmed that the ambush had been prematurely sprung by Spears and Krocek
38. I selected a poppy seed bagel and smothered it in chocolate spread
39. They breathed in gasps and moans, smothered each others mouths and faces with their lips and tongues
40. At least he didn't just fall at his feet, Moshe thought as he smothered a smile of amusement
41. left Moshe with an eerie feeling like that of being smothered by rock instead of sand
42. the sound of a wounded bull, until the roar of movement was all but smothered by such a
43. After a while, remembering that she had promised not to stray too far, she blew a short blast on the whistle and Scorpion came crashing though the undergrowth, and smothered her face and hands in wet doggy kisses
44. are completely pacified, smothered into silence, and as the
45. She could feel the hardness of his erection pushing against her belly and was dizzily excited as he smothered with his warm, soft mouth
46. smothered my disappointment enough to laugh and chat with the girls and even take a few
47. Management practices of the past have smothered the individual and tried to contain and manage individual expression
48. As I stood at the flat top grill cooking an order of scattered, smothered, and
49. Bryony forced her head up, and saw the orb of the moon retreating behind a blanket of blackness that smothered the entire sky
50. It had kept me from feeling overwhelmed or smothered
1. smothering life and expectation under a blanket of grey cloud
2. The rain seemed to be easing off, although the sky remained low and smothering
3. The wolf spoke again, smothering the moment with his reek and the furnace
4. smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience
5. The heavens split wide open and I fell into a void, a pit of dense, black, smothering raven feathers
6. The wolf spoke again, smothering the moment with his reek and the furnace heat of his breath
7. When they reached the end of the corridor a small man in a leather jerkin jumped out of the shadows and Danton’s voice boomed out, smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience
8. smothering dented tins of matt
9. she had tried to break the bones of that smothering hand,
10. in the deep smothering mists,
11. ’ I replied, unsuccessfully smothering that thought as best as I can
12. started to blend into the pale corona of mist and smog smothering
13. “Oh?” she smiled and took his arm, smothering it in her ample flesh
14. He hits the main light switch, smothering the bed-sit in darkness and as his eyes adjust slowly, he fumbles for a lamp on top of the fridge, preferring soft shadows at this time of night
15. daughter and was smothering her in kisses
16. When they would miss each other dearly and run into each other’s arms, smothering the other with kisses and cuddles until they finally made love and fell asleep
17. As he walked, Op14 felt the stinging heat of their smothering presence
18. I crumpled his letter and threw it to the floor and held the pillow over my chest smothering my heart that was shattering into a million tiny pieces
19. Yet unaccountably, the smothering fatigue that had been my constant companion for the last five months was gone
20. Less than ten years after the revolt of AD 66–70, a sudden catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman resort cities, smothering them under more than a six-foot blanket of volcanic ash, deposited by a superheated pyroclastic flow from the mountain
21. You did an outstanding job up there today!” Quan gushed while smothering Mia with kisses to her little face
22. A strange, smothering smoke
23. Cira had come to inside the smothering darkness, and realized that this is
24. Elena took out the knife she had tucked under the belt she had smothering her waist
25. Society's struggles seem trivial, down here, in the smothering silence
26. “It must be from whatever it is that’s smothering the sun!” added the suddenly shrill voice of Azareel
27. I felt that it was smothering me
28. “It must be from whatever it is that's smothering the sun!” added the suddenly shrill voice of
29. She instinctively tried to cover her throat with her arms, but instead of fangs felt a warm tongue smothering her face in spittle
30. seemed to press up closer against my face, smothering me with
31. Tress acted quickly, dragging a nearby drape from the wall and smothering him in its folds to extinguish the last of the flames
32. She liked and respected her aunt but the woman's constant monitoring of her behavior felt quite smothering
33. Winded by the force of the bolt, Tress had managed to pull her cloak around herself as she fell backwards, instantly vanishing from sight and smothering her face in the rough fibres of her cloak
34. Corvus immediately threw himself on top of the man, his bulk easily smothering the smaller man
35. A thick green froth formed on the surface, smothering Bryony’s head
36. I told her she was smothering me, and to lay off and all that, but secretly, I was really, really glad to see her
37. ESP? When you were a child how did you know your favorite kitten would be dead before you walked into the room and peeked in the closet and saw its body stiff and flat, like the mother had (accidentally?) lain on it, smothering its 2-week-old life out of its tiny body
38. Stars dotted the sky which was now black as coal, smothering the lights of the Manhattan skyline far out in the distance
39. But I need to stop smothering them; they’re
40. smothering her face with doggy kisses with its slobbery tongue and
41. Somehow, this Elsa girl was smothering me with her relationship and love talk
42. The smothering cloak of gray dissolved till just a few milky thin clouds skirted the moon’s full laughing face
43. You just have to embrace it by smothering your sense of self enough to grasp its full significance
44. It’s the smothering type and never-say-die attitude of attraction that one feels for another that appears to be romantic love
45. Then she was in his arms smothering him with kisses
46. His brain instantly registered the disintegration of his torso, and the thick smothering blackness that closed in on him as he slowly sank towards hell itself
47. ’ Ariel backed off, smothering her face in the fluff of the leopard’s neck
48. Once in position on each side of the bed, one of the men made a sign with his head to his companion, then jumped on the bed, kneeling astride Edward and smothering the boy with his pillow
49. His accomplice was also stunned and fell off the bed, then the pillows smothering the two boys were hurriedly removed
50. He then understood with horror that the burning napalm had burned all the oxygen in the air around him, smothering his engines
1. The sky’s beauty smothers all the scenery
2. She smokes, lights a bit of the decorations on fire and waits while he smothers the flames
3. He was worth the price of admission and he was just as funny as he was when he appeared on the Smothers
4. This replacement of words by the Smothers Guys
5. miscellaneous thoughts by other comics, while the major part was monopolized by the Smothers Brothers,
6. David Bianculli – Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story Of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (2009: Simon & Schuster)
7. In and the Smothers Brothers, who introduced such stars as Glen Campbell, Pat Paulsen, John Hartford and Mason Williams on the Smothers Comedy
8. Here is only a partial list of entertainers who have contributed to change for the better through their music: Marion Anderson; Harry Bellafonte; Bono; Arlo Guthrie; Woody Guthrie; Joe Hill; Billie Holiday; Keb’ Mo’; Phil Ochs; Tom Paxton; Peter, Paul and Mary; Paul Robeson; Pete Seeger; Smothers Brothers
9. The greatest tragedy of humanity is that today religion smothers more questions than it was
10. How the past creeps when we close our eyes, how it spreads and smothers and kills our wings so that when we wake we can barely walk, how it intoxicates us, fuels our malevolence, separates us from spirit and ash, a justification, a summation, a definition which is only known to one and is poison to the soul
11. pretences to virginity not entirely apocryphal, smothers me with kisses,
12. It smothers crops, blocks transport routes and watercourses and, combined with toxic gases, can cause lung damage to the very young, old and those with respiratory problems