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1. Instead of thick green leaves hanging from its branches, the ancient oak was covered in the large, round twig balls that made up a great city of rooks
2. large, round twig balls that made up a great city of rooks
3. A twig snapped at his feet and the deer's head shot up immediately
4. A twig broke behind him
5. You must have heard me step on a twig –
6. On his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat
7. Then he broke off the twig and took it with him
8. Arriving home, he gave his stepdaughters the things that they had asked for, and he gave Cinderella the twig from the hazel bush
9. "The relay's just a dead twig forty feet up in the small branches of a tree outside
10. tooth came in contact with a twig
11. As he spat out the twig,
12. With the hermit busy grinding another batch of salve, Nerissa used a twig to write these
13. He picked up a small twig and ran its sharp end across his hand
14. ” He said, bending and picking up a twig
15. I grabbed a twig lying nearby and used it to pick the gun up, placing it in my coat’s pocket
16. Within moments Mistress Twig had gathered me up and wrapped me in a blanket
17. Islandia asked me to think back to our first morning in the hut when Mistress Twig and Mistress Prism talked to us
18. She asked me if I remembered what Mistress Twig said about our apartments
19. I remembered that Twig had said that she was even going to move into Islandia’s apartment because it was a very nice place
20. I had forgotten the one thing that was very important to Islandia, and that is that Twig had also picked Islandia’s apartment because Islandia had a cat that would need caring for
21. I told Islandia that I did remember Twig saying that
22. Islandia then asked how many days Mistress Twig had been here with us since then
23. Twig had been with us all of the days
24. I mean, we had no information at all about who might be feeding Islandia’s cat, but we had been told it would be Twig, and it obviously was not Twig
25. It sort of bugged me that, while my fellow students probably ate as much pussy that week as I did, I did not ever see any other slave service Mistress Twig, and hers was the only cunt I was told to slurp
26. Mistress Prism and Mistress Twig arrived this day shortly after sunrise
27. I had no clue about whether my First Cock might possibly outrank either Prism or Twig
28. I did get the impression that Mistress Prism had a bit more authority than Mistress Twig, but that may simply be that Prism was specifically charged with our training, whereas Twig might simply be helping Prism with her charges
29. On the other hand, Twig definitely held a direct connection with Master Steven, and for some reason I considered him high within the Cleaver echelon
30. Mistress Prism and Mistress Twig did it so subtly
31. Mistress Prism, with her squeaky little voice barked out the commands while Mistress Twig circulated amongst us with her ever present riding crop just incase one of us might dare to rain disapproval and embarrassment upon her and Prism by doing the positions less than perfectly
32. Mistress Prism handed Mistress Twig a leash, and Twig snapped it onto Ivonia’s collar
33. Twig led Ivonia, with us all following, around the area in a large circle
34. Mistress Twig stood behind us
35. Mistress Twig followed us
36. Mistress Twig told us all to rest in the hut, and as they were leaving, Mistress Twig asked Mistress Prism if there was anything she could do to assist at the party tonight
37. Mistress Twig was already waiting for us, but instead of taking us to the slave star, our two trainers supervised us in setting up the picnic area
38. Twig had Islandia and I carrying meat to the grill when we saw the first of the iron spikes driven into the dirt between two of the four kneeling slaves at the slave star
39. When we had cleared a good deal of the mess, but not all of it, Mistress Twig told us to stop working and to get ourselves a nice plate of food
40. Another reason though that I wanted to move on was that while I was a slave I had been completely under the control of the squeaky Mistress Prism and my nemesis, Mistress Twig
41. Surely a girl like me should kneel before a big strong man rather than a female like either Twig or Prism
42. It was the voice of Mistress Twig
43. Locking his jaws around the badger's leg, Brokin threw his weight forward, twisting his head savagely, breaking the bone in the guard's leg, as though it was a twig
44. What the heck was that? Zipping up, he looked around and found a long twig
45. “You know,” he said in a conversational tone, “I could break this thing like a twig, but then the pain would only last a second or two before it dulled to a throb
46. I could feel his influence rolling over me, sweeping me up in it like a twig in a flood, but I pulled back, away from him
47. If Amonas was indeed mad, he would have probably gone berserk and snapped his neck like a twig in the best case scenario
48. The snap of a small twig would bring a startled look back toward where they had come from
49. Outside, she heard something, a step, and a twig snapping underfoot
50. She untangled a piece of twig and sat staring at it
1. Pin pricks of light glittered in the growing darkness, unusual clusters that had me confused until I twigged they were not stars at all but lights from mountain houses
2. Something twigged within Caesar but he held his tongue
3. planted to throw off anyone who might have twigged to the plot
4. When I said to Molly the man at the corner of Cuffe street was goodlooking, thought she might like, twigged at once he had a false arm
5. At last, he twigged me so smartly as to fetch blood in more than one lash: at sight of which he flung down the rod, flew to me, kissed away the starting drops, and sucking the wounds eased a good deal of my pain
6. I twigged it, knew it; had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it—for when I clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it
1. This notion that I was in some unspecified way gifted, based on me twigging who had stolen her
2. "There now's the old Mogul," soliloquized Stubb by the try-works, "he's been twigging it; and there goes Starbuck from the same, and both with faces which I should say might be somewhere within nine fathoms long
1. Decoction: This is made by simmering the part of the plant (usually roots, twigs and bark) in a nonmetal container, in boiling water, for 1/2 hr or more depending on the material(s) and its use
2. She put some small twigs on and soon had a few inches of flame springing up
3. By that token she should be more confident that she could survive on this planet, she'd owned a few properties during her meander to the north where one had to get a cook fire going with twigs for every hot meal
4. The animals made it thru the dark, one was chewing some of the smaller dead twigs
5. Twigs snapped under his heel and the black mulch of
6. Big bodies humphed and blumped in the darkness, snapping large twigs and stripping keltoid fronds with loud rips
7. I felt the twigs blown off the trees by the wind it made and besides that, I don't remember even telling you about it?"
8. It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell
9. unruly nest of twigs in a leafless tree
10. a few minutes walking the sound of cracking twigs
11. dried twigs and a rustle of leaves, the branches
12. I learned those acrobatics by picking up twigs from the yard for our winter kindling,” he offered
13. Then she stripped a few long thin twigs off of them
14. After pulling the twigs and sticks out of my clothes and skin, the front
15. couldn’t see them, we could hear them, the dry leaves and twigs snapping under
16. This time I found much employment, and very suitable also to the time, for I found great occasion for many things which I had no way to furnish myself with but by hard labour and constant application; particularly I tried many ways to make myself a basket, but all the twigs I could get for the purpose proved so brittle that they would do nothing
17. It proved of excellent advantage to me now, that when I was a boy, I used to take great delight in standing at a basket-maker’s, in the town where my father lived, to see them make their wicker-ware; and being, as boys usually are, very officious to help, and a great observer of the manner in which they worked those things, and sometimes lending a hand, I had by these means full knowledge of the methods of it, and I wanted nothing but the materials, when it came into my mind that the twigs of that tree from whence I cut my stakes that grew might possibly be as tough as the sallows, willows, and osiers in England, and I resolved to try
18. Accordingly, the next day I went to my country house, as I called it, and cutting some of the smaller twigs, I found them to my purpose as much as I could desire; whereupon I came the next time prepared with a hatchet to cut down a quantity, which I soon found, for there was great plenty of them
19. twigs and branches of the forest
20. Her arms were thin as twigs, hardly able to lift her own body-weight (which was approximate to an adolescent child)
21. A stomping and crushing of leaves and twigs was
22. His hair was tangled with so many thorns and twigs, it looked like a bird’s nest
23. ” She shooed me with hands that looked like the withered twigs of long dead trees
24. Her skin was like parchment and the yellow sheen made it look worse the hair that had been a lustrous blonde was now thin dull and lifeless she held her arms out to me and they were like twigs and her face looked like a skull
25. In the fading light, he heard more sounds in the vicinity, leaves crumping, twigs snapping, and a scratch, and a snort, followed by a low, growling sound
26. The nests were composed of twigs and fibre, with a cunningly made exit at the bottom of the carefully-woven chamber
27. nothing more nor less than the gathering up of the twigs and branches
28. after selling her bundle of sticks and twigs
29. Collecting dry twigs and leaves from around the edge of the mire, he placed these on top of the mud
30. It took him almost two hours, but finally he was able to ignite the small twigs and dried leaves he had gathered
31. He heard a noise like the crackling of twigs in a fire…he couldn’t breathe, and he couldn’t even see; beyond that last impression of hard ridges inside
32. He had stacked them so as to make a simple crude roof of sorts and then covered the simple skeleton with freshly snapped branches and twigs
33. Jade was striking a flint to a bunch of dried leaves and twigs
34. White Dove and Shadows-in-the-Grass dropped down on their knees and began to examine the animal as he and his little sisters went looking for long poles and cedar bark or willow twigs to use to carry the meat home
35. “No! No! It’s all right! You saved him! You have saved him!” Zoran crooned soothingly as he carefully cut away the twigs and thorns that had so cruelly gouged her slender body
36. It was not a forest, but a collection of millions of twigs, leaves, stems and flowers that each to themselves were unique and perfect, luminous beauties
37. From twigs she saw husks hanging
38. The turgor in the twigs
39. It isn’t your fault that your parents never had to hide in the brush living on leaves and twigs through much of their youth, followed by scrounging around trying to make a living off the rough unyielding soil of a mountainside, watching their parents age decades in years and die a miserable poverty-stricken death
40. Let the twigs snap and the leaves crunch
41. took the highest branch of the cedar: 4 He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a
42. highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on an
43. I couldn’t comprehend how Levi had made it to Ishvara so quickly, how my sight hadn’t caught him in his voyage to holding Ishvara on the ground, pinning him solidly on the earth, wrapped up in twigs and discarded leaves
44. I could see the strands of twigs attached to the end that stubbornly refused to yield to my brother’s insistence for a clean cut; I was able to study the weapon of choice for my brothers, the one that would ultimately end my life
45. He had twigs in his hand and went drumming the plates
46. This time, it was the game of collecting old plates and twigs and hurling at each other
47. In one of the cages, the yellow bird is stuck—its leg tangled in moss and thin twigs, and I’m thinking I can’t leave it like that; I have to set it free
48. Nyla stood up and brushed the dirt and twigs off her pants
49. “We let twigs and branches grow up to a meter long on the outside of the outer wall, to help it blend into the neighborhood a bit
50. “We let twigs and branches grow up to three feet long on the outside of the outer wall, to help it blend into the neighborhood a bit