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1. I sense Stephen stiffen as he sees them, though he is obviously determined not to let his fear of the animals show
2. She helped him up and when he put his arm around her waist he felt her stiffen; it was ever so slight, but he felt it
3. I feel Betta stiffen beside me
4. I peered at deceitful shadows right and left, almost willing something there to break the solitude, then I'd stiffen when the slightest rustle of scree surprised me
5. He tried not to stiffen
6. Was it some bad news?” He felt her stiffen against him for a moment
7. She was rewarded by feeling his body stiffen, stiffen even more and then jerk
8. As Elizabeth spoke in a whisper, Kurt could see her body stiffen
9. God! It didn't take long for life to stiffen! Only a short time ago this had been warm blood flowing through Rosemary's veins
10. When she had put her arm around Rosemary, she had felt her stiffen, just a little
11. I knew that I had already done enough to equal the other guy from the HHB’s, so I began to close my legs tighter and stiffen up my entire body
12. I stiffen, afraid for a moment that she will see me, but she looks only at Marcus
13. A pair of Dauntless traitors stand by the door to the dining hall, their guns in hand, and I stiffen
14. It’s been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen
15. Out of the corner of my eye I see Tris stiffen, chafing against the reminder that our lives have been on camera
16. Then it was her turn to stiffen
17. Joey felt Sally stiffen next to him
18. Even the High Police, still standing unmoving behind the gates, seemed to stiffen in anticipation
19. I slide my eyes shut, and my body begins to stiffen
20. My bones suddenly stiffen as he scowls at me
21. stiffen a bit, made them clear their throat and think very
22. If anything, the immigration authorities seemed to stiffen their resolve to keep the likes of me out of their country, much of it probably based on lack of comprehension
23. "The body starts to stiffen up at this age, I noticed it as of last year, little pains here and there, oh well"
24. might stiffen our spines a bit and prove to ourselves and others that we are
25. He did not stiffen but relaxed as my glamour compelled him
26. The bulldog‘s bite caused the snake to stiffen but still not loose its hold on Sam‘s arm
27. �We'd better put them in Barry's car before they stiffen up, I got some blankets we can cover them with until later
28. �Come on let�s get these fellas into the motor before they stiffen
29. Jamie could feel Billy stiffen each time the man spoke and Max’s steady growl made her wonder who this intruder really was
30. ” Jamie said watching Riz stiffen with that statement
31. Yeltsa smiled in Joey’s direction and saw him stiffen and tighten his lips
32. After two years on the job, my left wrist began to stiffen
33. He pulled the redhead in for one sweet embrace, and he smiled when Reno didn't stiffen at the touch but instead leaned back into it with a look of wonder
34. ’’ Replied calmly Ingrid, making Clement and Adams stiffen
35. of watching her body stiffen as her muscles contracted
36. That last order made Tregaskis stiffen with both surprise and skepticism: women on a bayonet assault against Japanese soldiers? That sounded totally preposterous, but the women present didn’t seem unsettled by that, taking out their bayonets and fixing them without hesitation to their carbines, their expressions resolute
37. He he saw her back stiffen with hairless hackles, her clawed hands lifting as
38. Troops were diverted when the city could so easily have been taken before Russian resistance could stiffen
39. Janet seemed to stiffen initially at the question but then relaxed
40. Kaprayon had the time to feel his spacesuit balloon and stiffen as the crew sphere decompressed and to see from the corner of one eye the decapitated and fuming shape of Diana Uniko slump down in her seat
41. I can feel Cherrie stiffen as I answer
42. however, he could feel his limbs stiffen, they threatened to cramp up and stop
43. A jolt of energy causes me to stiffen
44. stiffen to the point of break, reluctant to move, yet I will the board
45. I stiffen and curl my toes as the caffeine and heart
46. Still, the nature of the message now visible on the screen made him both stiffen and frown
47. The loud detonation made the guards and the prisoners alike stiffen, while the man Ingrid was interrogating shrieked involuntarily with terror and shock as the blast burned and ripped the groin area of his trousers, with the
48. When she gets up the knee joint will suddenly stiffen and she will only be able to walk with a limp
49. Sweeny watched his technicians to make sure that the entrance door was locked and the windows were covered, then looked back at Ingrid, only to stiffen and suck his breath in: Ingrid was now down to her panty and bra, which had been bought in the future and were quite revealing and sexy
50. Ever seen a kid throwing a tantrum? Don't you love it? There he is, on the ground, screaming and they stiffen and they scream and bellow until they get what they want see; shouting, stamping their feet
1. He rose with the pain of stiffened limbs and giddy with the shift of
2. Stiffened his neck and hardened his heart - 2 Chronicles 36:16 offers the tragic comment upon this attitude that Zedekiah possessed
3. I awoke to the sound of the door being unlocked and, although it was agony to move now that my limbs had stiffened after the beating, I managed to kneel and cover my nakedness with the bottom of my blood-spattered tee-shirt
4. He rose with the pain of stiffened limbs and giddy with the shift of blood in his veins
5. Being distracted like that, it was then that I surprised a mystical pomegranate tree, her bold round fruit already ripening amongst long, glossy leaves and she actually tried to trip me amongst her roots, lying like stiffened serpents around her base
6. The ‘Taks’ stiffened and raised their heads towards her
7. Suddenly she stiffened, realizing what she was doing and pushed herself away
8. about?’ he growled but stiffened, in shock, on
9. His legs, stiffened by terror, failed him as
10. gingerly on his stiffened joints
11. stiffened and looked at the young man in horror
12. She stiffened, and Alfred caught his breath
13. therefore, I stiffened a little more and lay still, waiting for the
14. I rained kisses along her neck and back to her lips, but when I moved my hand to caress her breast, she stiffened
15. The frigid air warred with my breathe to create a milky steam, while the hairs on the back of my arms stiffened
16. Penelope stiffened in the saddle, sitting DRAFTChapter 7 113
17. When she bit down, it felt like stiffened leather
18. It stiffened at once in her hand
19. First, she shuddered and stiffened repeatedly and then he felt as if his head was coming off
20. ” Saying this, she stiffened and drew up one leg as she felt the wild sensation of her orgasm
21. Aspen stiffened until she realized he wasn’t speaking about anything specific
22. Rex stiffened up, clicked his heels and said, “An
23. Rosemary stiffened at the touch
24. She stiffened, resisting an urge to tell him to remove his hand
25. She nodded, and then stiffened as Ed came out of the hills - riderless
26. He rolled over on top of me and started to hit me, when he stiffened slightly
27. He stiffened again, and this time I heard the report of the gun, a vague ‘pop’
28. Suddenly it stiffened, growling low in its throat, sensitive nose telling it that a female had passed this way
29. Yet they pushed out the hand and stiffened their necks
30. I approached them and they stiffened and saluted me, as I was adorned with medals that I had received
31. He closed the distance I had put between us, and I stiffened, but all he did was tilt my chin up with one hand to plant a brief kiss on my forehead
32. “Which one is Shannon?” she asked, and then stiffened in resentment as he laughed at her
33. " Joseph stiffened at the news, his thoughts turned to Ruby and how devastated she would be
34. They followed the narrow path through riverside thicket until, after about two hundred meters, Jorge stiffened, pulled off his baseball cap and slowed his pace to a relaxed stroll
35. AJ stiffened his upper lip and waved his hand down towards the ground and said, “We can take those guys
36. She crawled over to Laino and looked from his stiffened face up on Mevarn
37. Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God, but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning to the Lord God of
38. Manda took her hand and Darette stiffened
39. The cat’s claws dug into her shoulder and its whole body stiffened as Maggie slowly turned around
40. Virginia stiffened and pushed back from the laird
41. Gabriel’s face stiffened with resolve as he stared straight ahead
42. Instantly she stiffened with fear, then relaxed slightly as she realised he meant no harm and
43. Mark gasped and stiffened at the indescribable ecstasy of their touch, but it was gone in a moment
44. I stiffened as she looked at me with her sharp cold gaze
45. She was still standing but had stiffened
46. Then the boy’s body stiffened; Simon could feel the terror sifting through the boy like wheat, pouring itself upward through his hands and into his heart
47. 13:11-32 Because it is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven but to them it is not given because whoever has to him it shall be given back and he shall have greater abundance; but whoever has nothing from him it shall be taken away even that which he holds; therefore I speak to them in parables because they while looking see nothing and while hearing they do not listen neither do they understand; and through them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah who says: By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand and by seeing you all shall see and shall not perceive because this people’s heart is stiffened hard and their ears are deadened in hearing and their eyes they have closed in case at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and should understand with their heart and should be converted and I should heal them; but blessed are your eyes because they see and your ears because they hear; because truly I say to you that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which you see and have not seen them and to hear those things which you hear and have not heard them; therefore hear the parable of the sower: When any one hears the word of the Kingdom and does not understand it then the Wicked One comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart; This is he who received the seed by the way side; but he who received the seed in stony places he is the same who hears the word and oblivious with joy receives it; still he has no root in himself but endures for a while because when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word eventually he is offended
48. She stiffened and stared at me
49. They all stiffened to attention as Armstrong approached
50. A surge of electric shock crackled through him and he stiffened, hitting his head on the ceiling as he tried to withdraw himself but found he could not
1. As Ken and Eileen grew steadily into the trunk stiffening years of their mid-thirties, Ken, moved by an unconscious desire to nurture and grow, turned the back garden of their modest home into a vegetable grower’s delight, with rows of broad beans, green beans, carrots and parsnips swelling with each alternate kiss of the sun and caress of summer rain
2. By the time I get back to the flat, my legs are stiffening up
3. As Ken and Eileen grew steadily into the trunk stiffening years
4. She felt his member stiffening against her thigh
5. “I used to get quite a lot particularly from the groin wound and some stiffening in the leg but it’s not too bad now there is hardly a twinge”
6. Stiffening, I crossed my arms over my breasts, curling my legs under me, even as I felt the tug that his presence always had on me
7. But her muscles are contracting, stiffening
8. Moshe could see that Caleb had tried to make light of his lonely ordeal, but his stiffening posture as his recitation continued betrayed the fear that he must have felt as he had led the patrol away
9. Feeling an immediate stiffening of her body as he held her carefully close to him, he continued,
10. his lonely ordeal, but his stiffening posture as his recitation continued betrayed the fear that he
11. Like those spiders, the stiffening had already begun
12. Her impatient sigh was the audio equivalent of tightly pursed lips, stiffening neck tendons and a narrowing of impatient, glittering eyes
13. One of the officers of the law, with ready gun in one hand, flashed his lamp about until it shone upon the youth's stiffening body
14. I felt as if my body’s core was stiffening and dying bit by bit
15. He halted suddenly, stiffening
16. Puzzled, she swept the surrounding trees, stiffening as she caught a rustle in the emerald leaves that seemed not to be of the wind
17. So he pulled out the dagger" – Conan stooped and wrenched the identical weapon from the stiffening fingers, glanced at it and replaced it in his own girdle—"and shut the door
18. Back at his truck he dragged Jake‘s stiffening body to the lagoon and left it in the shallow water
19. She tried stiffening, but couldn’t stop the tremors
20. There was a sickening pallor to his features that were frozen in time by the stiffening of the muscles
21. As she was speaking, a group of young women walked out of the tent complex, stiffening and saluting as they saw the two admirals
22. Listening at the door for a moment there were no voices, and he lurched out onto the landing wearing nothing but a big smile, a rapidly stiffening penis and his wine glass
23. ‘I did? To you?’ And Cliff was suddenly wary, stiffening in his seat, his eyes dark
24. Larose was not the only one to be surprised by her answer, with Krulak stiffening in his chair
25. I can see Cherrie stiffening
26. She had been too tall, and the Doctor had helped fold the stiffening limbs and placed her on her side
27. The doctor has told me my back is stiffening, and by the age of 40 I would not be able to bend or move or twist at all, but he said I now am completely free
28. in the stiffening breeze
29. His body alternated between shuddering and stiffening
30. Her upper body stiffening yet further from the tension, she again cursed her own misjudgement in agreeing to Ryan’s suggestion of using the pickup
31. Last night,” Wyatt started, his shoulders stiffening
32. "Naturally you have not," said the Baroness, stiffening again
33. It was as if a heavy weight bore down on her shoulders and strong fingers pressed at her temples until a throbbing pulse crept down her body, stiffening joints and tensing muscles
34. "Wait," she says, her back stiffening
35. “If Elm had not been on the deck the Captain’s anger might not have flared up!” He retorted his body stiffening as his eyes bored into Elm
36. One, gingerly on her forehead and another directly on her stiffening lips
37. bolts snaking menacingly through the broad black clouded heavens, and a cold stiffening
38. Tracing it to its source, he discovered it to be caused by a sudden extraordinary rising and stiffening of all the risen and stiff hair on Mr
39. At last, stiffening himself against emotion, Homais gave two or three great cuts at random that left white patches amongst that beautiful black hair
40. After squeezing Thomas’s hand, then Chuck’s shoulder, she leaped off the edge, immediately stiffening her legs, with her arms by her sides
41. The sun had hid its warmth behind an impenetrable mass of vapor, and hundreds of human forms, which had blackened beneath the fierce heats of August, were stiffening in their deformity before the blasts of a premature November
42. We were used, by then, to the sudden stiffening of expressions, and an unspoken group courtesy meant that we each looked away until any potential tears subsided
43. The baby was lying with its head thrown back, stiffening itself in the nurse’s arms, and would not take the plump breast offered it; and it never ceased screaming in spite of the double hushing of the wet-nurse and the other nurse, who was bending over her
44. A sleepy mozo coming out of the bakery door took hold of the horse's bridle; the practicante endeavoured to conceal his guitar hastily; the girls, unabashed, stepped back smiling; and Charles Gould, on his way to the staircase, glanced into a dark corner of the patio at another group, a mortally wounded Cargador with a woman kneeling by his side; she mumbled prayers rapidly, trying at the same time to force a piece of orange between the stiffening lips of the dying man
45. “Oh… please,” I beg, and I pull my head back, my mouth open as I groan, my legs stiffening
46. Until morning light Tommy, pistols in cold hands, lay stiffening among the dead weeds in a vacant lot
47. She had never lacked animal courage and in the face of danger it flooded back hotly into her veins, stiffening her spine, narrowing her eyes
48. This being the year when all things South Pacific were in vogue, the perimeter had been marked off with rattan torches that puffed and guttered in a stiffening wind
49. The motel was so hard-up that they’d turned off the vacancy sign to save money, and beyond it she could just see Lake Erie, the wind stiffening the waves into peaks
50. There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered
1. A wet sounds as the man stiffens
2. My mother stiffens, her back arching
3. Tobias straightens and stiffens, like someone is training a gun at his chest instead of jeering at him
4. Her face stiffens
5. The queen similarly grabs Rapunzel's elbow as the girl stiffens and swallows thickly
6. He stiffens and holds her tighter, shutting his eyes against the pain in her voice
7. He stiffens at first, then eases against her touch
8. mouth, and grinds his teeth, and stiffens out (symptoms
9. My body stiffens as it hits me like a thunderbolt
10. Christian stiffens slightly but doesn’t move
11. “Will! Cate!” A half-block ahead, near a cataract of brakelight, Regan stiffens
12. Wisty stiffens and her cheeks flush red