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1. Scar couldn’t tell how she was able to stick to the wall like that, but it mattered little
2. Some lizards and insects can live either way, but they can only stick to the walls
3. A big enough stick to use as a club
4. He'd always wanted to be a monster since he was little, but Peter had gotten his head beat with the reality stick one too many times (that's what Ma called her favorite cane) and he knew a panhandler was all he'd ever grow up to be
5. He watches while Bush racks the balls, takes up a stick and chalks the end of it
6. He points at the pool table with his stick
7. He walks over, lines up his stick on the cue ball, expertly sinks a shot
8. pitch was interesting but hardly your average bit of foreign cheese on a cocktail stick
9. "She popped it with a stick years ago, but don't tell her dad she said that, please
10. "You've been ringing around everyone in the fuckin' county to stick their nose into police business and what good has it done you? Nothin'
11. He had a thick and detailed metal stick strapped over his shoulders, shiny black low-calf boots and several shiny black canisters strapped to his upper thighs
12. Although nothing special really, and having seen some rather more striking ones since then, these still stick in my mind
13. microbe will be able to stick to me, for the Holy Spirit will kill it”
14. Looks like it like it’s a turd on a stick
15. He bends to pick up a long stick and starts beating idly at the nettles standing harmlessly along the fence line
16. ‘You idiot!’ he laughed, holding his stick out on a level with mine
17. ’ He assured me, taking a stick from my hand
18. stout wooden stick, slung his bag back over his shoulder and patted the oak tree,
19. Smith, in the madness of endless conjecture, decided to stick a virtual pin into the
20. He delighted in nudging me in the side as he helped me back from the shower, as though he were a five-year-old boy prodding a caged animal with a sharp stick
21. You have to be firm, have to stick to your guns, but you have to show respect
22. "Gentlemen," Vincef said as soon as they heard that the serving girls had left, "I think we need to stick together
23. I am tempted to stick my tongue out at him, but decide it would be too difficult explaining to Rose
24. You can afford to stick to things that you are very particular about
25. Some of them might be down here in the Gengee by accident, but many of the crew wanted to deny their origin entirely and stick with the identity Tahlmute gave them
26. But one thing did stick in his mind this time, he was even more sure where those papers must be
27. A stick whacked at a clump of waist high nettles, sending fragments of the sting-laden leaves scattering across the rough grassland at the edge of the meadow
28. Now stick out your tongue at your reflection
29. He woke with a start, hauled himself up on his stout wooden stick, slung his bag back over his shoulder and patted the oak tree, thanking it for it’s tolerance of a foolish old man
30. Birds were tweeting and chirping invisibly in the trees as she wandered along the lane towards the main road, it was that dead hour in the middle of the day when, in rural areas, any sensible person is inside enjoying a cup of something … it brought back memories of her childhood … she smiled at the thought … a dog barked somewhere in the distance … and a stick cracked as someone trod on it
31. ‘They know you’re not on your own now and the cottage at Blue Anchor is pretty easy to watch … strangers stick out around there
32. “But this stick had a magical effect
33. walking stick through the snow
34. Joe picked up his walking stick and headed towards the front
35. ’ He said, bending to pick up a stick and bashing absently at a shock of nettles growing beside the stone
36. Stick with me, because this gets really interesting really fast
37. used his stick to move some of the dung
38. Alan watched a long stick with a shattered-off piece of trunk on the end of it came out of the brush first, and then the leaves parted to reveal Luray
39. The pause gave him a chance to examine the stick she was carrying, which was pretty long and heavy, ugly with the broken off jagged piece of trunk
40. One stick had a strong branch curving out on each side, from which she had run a string to a nub on the main stick
41. On the end of the other stick she had folded a point of shiny paper and fastened it on with a rubber band
42. The tough and skinny one, the one with the huge claw, had a claw that looked suspiciously like a broken stick
43. The smaller claw he saw earlier was certainly real, that straight-edged point on the flying claw was certainly real, but what if this huge claw that one was holding was nothing more than a stick? That would even things up a little bit wouldn't it?
44. " Luray had broken off a long frond and stripped it, getting a curved stick over three feet long out of it
45. Then the water burst into spray and Desa shrieked as three loops of tentacle spun around the stick and yanked it from her hand
46. She found a pimia vine, their leaves are pretty clean and soft enough to stick to it
47. "Like you said, we need to stick together here in this wilderness
48. Since they had no cookpot, they needed things they could eat raw or toast on a stick or wrap in the coals
49. I stick my tongue out at him, making Joris splutter with laughter
50. All Alan could see was a distant dot on tiny stick legs, tiny and indistinct in the wavering distance
1. Everyone was focused on the fight except for Ackers, who turned his head and looked at the sword sticking out of the wall
2. She still has a couple strands of purple hair sticking out of her knuckles
3. The boy held out the paper in answer, his mouth still open as he looked at the weird gadget sticking out of the front door
4. ’ I said automatically, sticking on a smile
5. the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the
6. Ricci and Ahmed share a Jacuzzi, their heads sticking up out of a mountain of foam
7. The sticking point was native passage thru the territory
8. The pressure sensitive ones like his had little plastic bumps sticking out of the plank and the wood was well finished instead of rough-sawn
9. The driver of this last example of a long since fallen British automotive empire splashed disconsolately towards the rear of the vehicle, depressed the already sticking boot release with the heel of his right hand, and heaved at the tailgate with his left
10. He had to find some way to get her to understand that he wasn't sticking to Desa because he thought Desa was such a vastly superior person, it was because of the Christial monogamy conditioning
11. ears sticking through the slots, and this lined up the eyeholes
12. He grabbed long root sticking out of the side of the mountain
13. covered with sticking plaster,
14. We started searching near the shore but found nothing at all until I climbed onto a finger of land sticking out over the sea
15. ‘Not really thought about it,’ he said, sticking his head round the door
16. Sticking her head over the banister, she shakes her head and tells me that they are all in North Wales
17. to eye up the rather large bag of sweets sticking out of Little Red
18. Lastly she pushed a big white button sticking way out of the panel
19. it's probably a myth, but is entirely possible if judged on Mum's unerring ability for sticking her foot in her mouth
20. ‘You still here, Sarah?’ Dave asked, sticking his head round the door
21. The floor was dirt and very uneven with boulders sticking out of it
22. Hair gel sticking to a fat kid's podgy white fingers
23. The carpet in the downstairs bar area is dark and pock marked with cigarette burns and as Bex and Leona walk through the club they find their shoes sticking to the carpet
24. Huff’s head was sticking out of the
25. sticking out of the open flap
26. ‘How long before dinner, Chrissie?’ Ozzie asked, pushing one of the doors open and sticking his head through the gap into the kitchen
27. Stevie looks down at the ruined pair of jeans sticking to his legs, desperate in his desire for a moment in the shadows, for a moment out of the steady gaze of his interrogator
28. He nicks his top lip shaving beneath his nose and dabs at it with toilet tissue, tearing off a small dot and sticking it onto the cut
29. When I get home from work I grab a slice of toast to sustain me, then, after a quick shower, I change into my ‘recital’ dress which is a long black draped thing which not only has the advantage of looking seriously classical, but also enables me to breath properly without having to worry about my stomach sticking out
30. sticking out above the crowd, trying to make his way
31. “If he’s not sticking her a quickie,” Ava said
32. Oh bless! There’s some sturdy green points sticking up through the soil … you’d forgotten all about those bulbs
33. " he finished, sticking his head into the room she stepped out of
34. The last book he had worked on was still on the couch-like cushion where they left it yesterday, with the sheet full of letters sticking out of it
35. escaping from the buns and sticking to his fat cheeks
36. There were dozens of little pegs and hoses sticking out of it
37. “We were sticking ice picks in his balls and ended up having to castrate the
38. and his shirt was sticking to his back uncomfortably
39. I got on the end that had the three pieces of wood sticking out 2-foot from the bottom of the cabinet and we had a move it carefully
40. They had seen only part of the hill, and one of those tendrils sticking out when they had gone to visit Dencah and Kalaz in the beachwall
41. The crowd was waving cups and fists with thumbs sticking up before they even hit the chorus
42. And indeed, the dwarf left the head as it was – a foot of silver coated spike sticking out from between its eyes
43. woman, sticking her head out of the second storey
44. Everything that was peculiar and displeasing in them--that Kay knew how to imitate: and at such times all the people said, "The boy is certainly very clever!" But it was the glass he had got in his eye; the glass that was sticking in his heart, which made him tease even little Gerda, who loved him completely
45. Sticking out of the scabbards were a pair of silver, leaf shaped cross guards fixed to leather wrapped cherry wood handles
46. And he had one, stuck like a pig, his staff sticking through the things chest
47. Tetloan replied by sticking out his tongue
48. He also placed the extra villagers with their makeshift spears on the walls with instructions to stick anyone who came within sticking distance
49. That turned out to be a sticking point in Luray's plans but too bad
50. So you’re best off sticking to the kitchen at meal times
1. you don’t ever spark the match can you create fire? Yes, I get it, you can rub sticks together, but you’re still taking action when you’re rubbing the sticks together
2. She sticks her tongue out at me
3. Once she caught her breath she found some tiny sticks more by feel than sight
4. In this most affluent of cultures on this world, more than half the population cooks with the dead sticks that fall from the trees
5. He didn't say a thing, just kept tossing sticks he snapped off into the fire
6. He continued to throw sticks in while she got settled
7. " He continued to throw sticks in the fire
8. backtracks quickly, sticks his head inside the room
9. Dave sticks his head out the window
10. He takes off his hat, sticks his head inside the car abruptly as if to look around
11. Ajarn was one of the best there was and while he handled his mai sak and khem sak, the bamboo and metal ritual tattoo sticks, as though he were about to commit murder with them, the designs were as perfect and fine as medieval calligraphy
12. The door grates, then sticks half open against the marble
13. John sticks his head inside the limo, finds himself abruptly face to face with Teekra, who has pulled away her tattered veil
14. There would be no dead sticks from the quibrakes when Kortrax next saw this ground
15. sticks his weapon in Russ’ stomach, Russ deftly steps aside, grabs the barrel of the gun, gives the soldier a firm knee in the groin, snatches away the weapon, as the soldier collapses in a heap on the highway
16. The cockpit door burst open and the pilot sticks his head out, shouts something in Arabic to Khalid, ducks back inside
17. Russ shrugs, takes out his Redman, pulls out a chaw, sticks it in his jaw and calmly begins to chew
18. ‘It’s a game called Pooh Sticks
19. ‘We played Pooh Sticks, Mum
20. One of these days I’ll just up sticks and go
21. The contacts I noticed were few and they were all in the second story: a) I write and illustrate a scene where Sandra fights with gigong sticks
22. A few hours later Josef, my nephew, holds two similar sticks and acts as if he were fighting with them
23. So much of what we said was lost in the sheer exuberance of the moment, and of all the things that we probably chatted about only one subject sticks in my mind
24. hats, coats and walking sticks
25. They didn’t need walking sticks
26. They picked up their walking sticks and once again trudged
27. She was also wearing two sticks tied to her forearm with a spare sandal strap
28. There were plenty of dead sticks here, enough to keep a fire going all thru Nightday, with their props casting shadows on the arching leaves
29. Both Fred and Joe were using their sticks, which they had tucked
30. The other tasty one kept using sticks on the fire and it got bigger and bigger
31. The two old friends took out their walking sticks and proceeded
32. with grab sticks and the public purse upturned and empty,
33. "Well we better," Luray said, "I can hear those sticks again
34. It was just a sloppy ball of flesh, squirming like one big three hundred pound blob of fat, propped up on six curved sticks, each four and a half foot long, pulsating out of the bottom edge
35. Two or three long-haired senior men with grey, bushy moustaches, walking sticks and long boots sat outside at tables nodding towards sleep
36. Alastair sticks his head round the door, ‘Oh, there you are
37. Jo looks tired but happy and is just asking me about North Wales went when Ben sticks his head out the back door,
38. Rob sticks his head round the door, ‘You okay, Mum?’
39. Alastair sticks his tongue out at me
40. They cut across the hill and behind some wooden shacks and some more that were nothing more than woven sticks plastered with mud
41. He sticks his tongue out at me
42. A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticks
43. symbol that looked like a group of interlaced sticks
44. with pick-handles or sticks
45. Ken sticks out a thickly muscled arm and bars his way
46. The Coke sticks to his teeth and the sun is too bright, making him squint as he walks past the second hand car dealership at the bottom of the road where he lives
47. 'Long before all the tribes of the great plains came under the sway of the first great chief, far away in an open field beyond the distant mountains, two groups of young men from 'the people' armed themselves with spears, sticks, and bows and excited each other to the verge of a violent fight
48. eclectic collection of walking sticks, canes and hiking poles, and then
49. sticks were picked up off the riverbed, as the horizontal wave of soldiers ran closer
50. carried scythes and others stout sticks, and they were all
1. "When I unwrapped them this spring I found an aluminum stuck in the treads
2. She looks like she’s stuck in one paralyzing thought, like when a squirrel freezes up in the middle of the road
3. his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and
4. The principal stuck her head out of her office, “Johnny Clunker, I will see you now
5. Clunker, are you coming or not?” the principal asked again with an irritated voice as she stuck her head back out
6. “I would have known all about it if I wasn’t stuck in radio silence land,” he pouted with a completely straight face, something that only Ackers could do
7. I stuck it out for a good while, but it was making me ill … in the end, I let my house out and moved away
8. Silence landed on the wall and stuck to it, orientating herself and getting ready to pounce
9. They were stuck with each other at the time
10. Replace sticky mat when roaches are stuck on it
11. It was like a lump in his throat, and for a moment it got stuck and Ackers choked
12. "I'm glad you're not a jealous sister, and be glad you aren't stuck in a body as driven by its glands as this one
13. He had a big clotted goober stuck in his fuzz that doostEr finally took out with his knife
14. were a solid burned mush, they were literally stuck together!
15. What a relief! I had stuck him out and the game was still tied and we were coming to bat
16. She stared at Melinda, stuck out her tongue and gave a long lick in her direction
17. The poor kid was frozen, stuck to the kitchen chair
18. The road was just a country lane and as we got out of the car Jermaine pulled out a pistol and stuck it first up my left nostril and then into the back of my neck
19. co-conspirator’s severed head, which was stuck on a pole of silver metal
20. The bus was stuck in traffic on the bridge
21. It seemed to me as though all the other lads were off having adventures and there was me, stuck at home
22. Because it was ice, it was stuck together with something more than its gravity
23. The man leant back in his chair and made it obvious that he had an automatic pistol stuck in his belt
24. During the beating that I had taken that previous night, the words of Robbie’s boss stuck firmly in my head, words about Crusades and vengeance
25. “Bit of last night’s chicken stuck in my teeth
26. He was still stuck in confinement, he could not access any panels at all, not even his med panel, but at least he was out of that universe
27. There was a lot to like about the place, but it was slow and lazy and remarkably easy to get stuck in
28. He had even accepted the fact that a phone here has a small crystal ball stuck in the end of a long seed pod with holes in it
29. The bus had passed her within a few steps of the bus stop and she’d watched it as it continued down the road, reading the advertisement stuck on the back
30. really stuck in the mud
31. cannot see much, you are stuck in the muck, and you’ve been
32. Or maybe you are stuck in an argument with your
33. feel trapped, stuck in a cycle of struggling, working hard… this
34. ‘I’ve been careful, saved sensibly so I can retire when I want to … and Joris left me … some …’ The phrase stuck in her throat; concentrating her attention on the plate in front of her, she hauled herself back together again under cover of sharing condiments
35. According to the official news wires Marat had been given a hero’s funeral after his murder by the forces of true-blood reaction, but here Danton stood, unmoving in the candle glow, staring at his recently departed co-conspirator’s severed head, which was stuck on a pole of silver metal
36. mirroring his eyes, stuck fast in the light of roasting embers
37. die stuck in that wall” said Catwhiskers
38. One of the foul creatures stuck its head into the cave and sniffed
39. It’s sort of stuck
40. It stopped at the leese wallow and stuck it's snout in
41. We have stuck to the main road so far, trying to give the impression that we will be heading towards the talaiots, but I know we have to turn off somewhere in order to cut across country to the Naveta
42. Regardless of al the benefits vitamin C provides, one should note that it is important not to get stuck on just one antioxidant alone
43. Still she stuck to the limit, even though she went for the darkest green she could find during the last two dinners they stopped for
44. He hung his eyes at her while Nuran read the one about getting the inglethor stuck in your nose that Desa thought was gross anyway
45. He asked them if they were waiting for someone, but both of the children stuck fast to their promise not to talk to strangers
46. He gave me a tour of the photos he'd stuck on the walls in his kitchen
47. I can still see him now … his face was all wrinkled, and he was bald on top with white hair round the edges which was rather overlong and stuck out at all angles
48. You and I have not seen a soul since we left Ritterston this morning … if this were Earth, we would have gone through a dozen or so villages, and probably got stuck in a couple of traffic jams – everywhere on Earth you find signs of man and his works – and generally speaking not good signs
49. People don’t have a bit of land where they can grow things, they are stuck in damp, high rise flats in deprived areas with no hope of escape
50. “Do you think humanity should be stuck in that phase of evolution forever?”