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against the faintest murmur of a grey-purple softening in the counter glow outside
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I steeled myself against the softening that Ash invoked in me and refused to give in
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” The Nord absently fidgeted with the bottle as he stared upward, his voice softening
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While I waited for the softening up process I delved inside my pack again and pulled out a tin of bully beef and a tin of Ticklers jam these were our dry rations
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Carter looked at them with his irritation softening
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‘Don’t go, stay, have some coffee, the water has just boiled,’ she said, her voice softening, almost pleading
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Once again, clouds of steam rolling from the shower invited visions of skin pampered with herbal body wash, a sudsy shampoo and a wonderfully softening application of conditioner when that dream was shattered by the telephone
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Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crime at its full severity
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The snow along the shore was softening, but no ground was yet visible
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He noted a mild softening of the darkness and thought, Over where the eastern horizon should be
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Now, softening his gaze, Moshe again spoke to the captain
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asked, this time softening his tone lest he push the Texan
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He noted a mild softening of the darkness and thought, Over where the eastern horizon should
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When Simon finished, it seemed as if all of him was light, and the glow from his body was shining outwards, softening the blankness around him and the crisp whiteness of the raven
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He smiled, his grey eyes softening
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After a quick lunch he started in on the storm windows, removing cracked panes, prying out the glazing points, softening old putty with a heat gun while chipping away
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‘Edgar, you are becoming metaphysical, and that’s as bad as softening of the brain,’ said Angus
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She could not hold his gaze and looked away as she replied, “Oh, spend more time in London, I don’t know…” Then softening she said, “We’re not going to fall out are we? Not tonight
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h4HANK YOU SO MUCHv *ANE SAID SOFTENING HER TONE h9OURE SO GREAT ) GUESS THATS WHY
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WHICH WAS NOT GOOD AT ALLv -ARK REPLIED SOFTENING HIS VOICE
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h!ND YOU KNOW WHATv HE CONTINUED SOFTENING HIS VOICE hAS ) TOOK CONTROL OVER MY
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' She could tell he was softening up
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8 This supper, with its tender episodes and softening touches, was Jesus' last appeal to the deserting Judas, but it was of no avail
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� Natalie says softening the hard words with a smile
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“Maybe,” he said, his tone softening
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carpets were softening the steps
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Softening eyes are subconscious female moves
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Release both legs, softening the groins, and see that the legs are angled
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Nancy stared down at him, her face softening a bit now
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Farah, like Mike, surveyed quickly the twelve children from the ECLIPSE, her expression softening gradually as she could see the fearful and disturbed expressions on their young faces
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softening as they listened
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down towards the farm, a pretty smile emerging and softening her taut face
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A transient peace had settled across the room, softening the lines of anxiety
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‘’I see!’’ Said Vandenberg, his tone visibly softening
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but visual y softening as his eyes locked with hers
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after such softening, that tool will be done and will need to be replaced
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Yet one may wonder, if not for this Sufi softening of the Islamic rigidity, how many outcastes, in spite of their ill-treatment by the caste Hindus, would have embraced Islam in the first place? Long live sanatana dharma sans swadharma
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Andrew continued, voice softening, “I mean, it’s not what you think
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looked at Henry, her expression softening as she caressed his hair
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Release both legs, softening the groins, and see that the legs are angled evenly
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“Do it,” he said, his eyes softening for a brief moment as he stared at my hand holding the knife
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“It makes no difference to me, either,” he said, his tone softening
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The vigorous action stimulates the blood flow to the skin and this is as important as the softening qualities of the cream itself
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They were not even linen,--how could they be for Fritzing's three hundred marks? And their newness had not yet been exposed to the softening influence of any wash-tub
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Silas chewed a wad of paper, a technique he learned off a traveling chimney swift, softening it into a mushy pulp, spitting it out, mashing it over the floor of the nest
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softening the command and increasing the listeners responsiveness and
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These past few months he's been blaming his softening on The Return of Eugene
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When your experience is bringing you more truth, there is a sense of opening, softening, relaxation, expansion, fulfillment, and satisfaction in the Heart
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So this opening, softening, and expansion is actually happening everywhere; we just sense it most clearly and directly in the center of the chest
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Clumps of gray slush fell off, speckled with crystals of rapidly softening ice
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I heard Jacob's chuckle and I pictured his handsome features softening with his smile
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He frowned down at her, his face not softening in the slightest
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Olin reviewed his plans in his own mind as he boiled water in the tin tube in preparation to soaking and softening wood planks for bench repairs
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“It’s okay,” he interrupted, his face softening, again, “You don’t have to pretend anymore, my love
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softening the uterine lining and helping with implantation after an egg is
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Unfortunately, my rigorous regimen started softening up again, and I started to gain weight once more a few pounds at a time
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The coordinator motions me with both hands, getting antsy that I'm not coming yet, but I can't just walk away when Emily's softening toward me
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Requiring very precise softening of the wood and hours of rubbing the bone tip on a piece of sandstone
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" She tried softening her voice, but
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she chimed, softening him more
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“Please,” he said, softening his tone
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absorbed into his skin, softening the hardness of recent turns
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Softening to his presence, he prayed for them to realise the
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softening the harsh lines of the rock face in an orange glow
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There was something about women that always had him softening a little
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“Amelia…” he muttered; his heart softening as she turned to him
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This woman was definitely trying to drive him crazy! He still could not believe how much she was softening his nature but he could not allow her to realize the intensity of the effect she had on him
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"As far as medical science in this region can understand," Dixon said, his tone softening
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Hopkins might behold it with ineffable joy and see his own glory diminish if the suffering of the lost should wane, but that type of heart has never been mellowed by the softening influences of the gospel
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"As far as medical science in this region can understand," he let on, his tone softening
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sure I noticed an instant softening of her facial features which gave me the added
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“Seriously, Randy,” her voice was softening as she was losing the battle to suppress her
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If your hemorrhoids are caused by constipation, you should not hesitate to use natural home remedies for stool softening and bowel stimulation
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It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old institution, very humanising and softening to behold in action; also, for extensive transactions in blood-money, another fragment of ancestral wisdom, systematically leading to the most frightful mercenary crimes that could be
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"Sancho, what's this? I think my head is softening, or my brains are melting, or I am sweating from head to foot! If I am sweating it is not indeed from fear
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The first part of his history had not yet reached him, for, had he read it, the amazement with which his words and deeds filled him would have vanished, as he would then have understood the nature of his madness; but knowing nothing of it, he took him to be rational one moment, and crazy the next, for what he said was sensible, elegant, and well expressed, and what he did, absurd, rash, and foolish; and said he to himself, "What could be madder than putting on a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that enchanters are softening one's skull; or what could be greater rashness and folly than wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?"
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I caught eagerly at these words, as giving me a faint hope of softening his wrath
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Who can weigh virtue, or even fortune against health, or moral and mental qualities against bodily? Who can measure probabilities against certainties? There has been some good as well as evil in the discipline of suffering; and there are diseases, such as consumption, which have exercised a refining and softening influence on the character
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softening of my sentiments: any other man would have been just the
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softening that superiority to; but, with this lad, I was more on the level
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The rain was softening
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"Is it to lead us prisoners to the woods, or do you contemplate even some greater evil? Is there no reward, no means of palliating the injury, and of softening your heart? At least, release my gentle sister, and pour out all your malice on me
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That humid and congenial atmosphere which commonly adorned the view, veiling its harshness, and softening its asperities, had disappeared, the northern air poured across the waste of water so harsh and unmingled, that nothing was left to be conjectured by the eye, or fashioned by the fancy
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She recognized the buttons for correcting red eye and softening lines, but the others were a mystery
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This might be pride, but was so like humility, that it produced all the softening influence of the latter quality on the public mind
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We ought never to despair of softening the heart of a mother who loves her child
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He wasn’t saying much, but she sensed he might be softening
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's loftier qualifications of birth, fortune and sense, laid me under a sort of subjection and constraint, that were far from making harmony in the concert of love; nor had he, perhaps, thought me worth softening that superiority to; but, with this lad, I was more on the level which love delights in
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When wet beriberi victims pressed on their swollen limbs, deep indentations would remain long after the pressure was removed, giving the men the unnerving impression that their bones were softening
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He’s not a man, but a machine, and a spiteful machine when he’s angry,’ she added, recalling Alexey Alexandrovitch as she spoke, with all the peculiarities of his figure and manner of speaking, and reckoning against him every defect she could find in him, softening nothing for the great wrong she herself was doing him
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‘Sure,’ I said, softening
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No doubt the initial action of Charles Gould had been helped at the beginning by a period of comparative peace which occurred just about that time; and also by the general softening of manners as compared with the epoch of civil wars whence had emerged the iron tyranny of Guzman Bento of fearful memory
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The sun was already high overhead, beating down on the anchorage and softening the pitch in the deck seams of His Most Imperial Majesty’s Ship Celestial Music, his fifty-six-gun flagship
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When the softening effect of the near approach of death had passed away, Alexey Alexandrovitch began to notice that Anna was afraid of him, ill at ease with him, and could not look him straight in the face
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His gentle, soothing words and smiles were as soothing and softening
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‘If you care to know my opinion,’ said Stepan Arkadyevitch with the same smile of softening, almond-oil tenderness with which he had been talking to Anna