Sparrows huddled together, perfectly still, like stone cherubs with their numb fingers thrust under their armpits. |
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The effect of this long anticipated encounter reminded her of that light, numb feeling often experienced in dreams. |
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Stick out the full 20 minutes and you will emerge sensually numb and eager to disengage with emotional conflict. |
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Almost all of my torso and lower body had been numb in the first place, so the result was merely a dull ache. |
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I mean, really, what would you love to do in this situation if you aren't left numb from the toxic encounter? |
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Mix a shot of vodka or tequila into a glass of water and gargle to help numb a sore throat or eliminate tooth pain. |
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She now slugged the remainder of her drink back in an attempt to numb her irritation. |
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A woman lies trapped in an upturned station wagon, numb from the impact of a car smash. |
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He spends his days stealing beer and cigarettes to numb the boredom of life in the miniscule, snowbound village he has grown up in. |
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I squirmed on the uncomfortable seat, trying to work some feeling back into my numb tailbone. |
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You're standing beside a beer cooler on the bank of a frozen Siberian river, and your nose is numb with cold. |
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My hands were getting numb with the cold and I'd got blood all down the side of my head where the oxygen bottle had hit me. |
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I awoke to find this numb sensation in my left arm, and a horrible headache. |
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He tried to move his left leg, to free it from the snow, but it was too tightly wedged, and beginning to go numb with cold. |
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I lay there still in a numb daze from the shock of Mike's mysterious and sudden death. |
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I still felt numb and unfeeling, as if nothing that was happening was real. |
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His narration is intrusive and surplus to requirements but mercifully his lips soon go numb with the cold and he has to stop for a while. |
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I could feel the cold starting to numb my ears and cheeks, and a few stray rainspecks hit my skin. |
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As it was the dozen tries that Boroughmuir scored in the first half was enough to numb the senses of even the most fanatical supporter. |
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Putting ice on your heel or rolling your foot over a can of frozen juice will numb the pain, he says. |
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The effect of the brew was to stupefy the convict to the point of pseudo-coma and to numb his physical sensations. |
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She drank three small glasses of hard liquor first to numb the pain, he said. |
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I feel so numb that if someone where to beat me around the head with a 5 kilo codfish I wouldn't notice. |
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Laughing gas is used by doctors and dentists as an anaesthetic or analgesic to numb pain, sedate and allay anxiety. |
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Perhaps, though, they were just drinking to numb the pain of being rich and famous. |
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The growth of drug abuse testifies to the increasing numbers of people wanting to escape their reality, or at least numb its pain. |
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He could still smell the stink, but his nose was sort of numb now and he didn't care. |
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They sniff glue to heal the pain of homelessness and numb the fear of police abuse. |
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Although I am numb and heartbroken, it is a pleasure to be with him and his courage has taught me never to fear anything that life throws at me. |
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Fire seemed to surge through my right arm, creating a strange numb sensation. |
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But even as the winners seemed to compete for the crowns of dumb and dumber, the barrage of overhype left everyone numb and number. |
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She noticed that her teeth chattered and that her whole body was nearly numb with cold, but she tried hard not to let it show. |
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My nose is going to be red and sniffly and my eyes are going to be watery and my teeth are going to be chattery and I won't be numb at all. |
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His parents say they were numb and in shock while doctors fought to save Connor and are overjoyed by his recovery. |
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Her muscles felt cramped from non use and unable to cooperate with her numb body. |
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It was four blocks before he caught up with her, and he saw with numb amazement that she was running at nearly forty miles an hour. |
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I was pretty numb when dad died, but the sheer crumminess of it all sort of dawns on you slowly. |
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Shouts and cries and screams filled the room, creating a wave of noise that crashed down on James' ears, leaving him feeling numb and deaf. |
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I was an adolescent numb to yuletide cheer, a glutton for material sustenance, mainly of the toy variety. |
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He points out that there is evidence that electric eels were used to numb an area of pain, or to anaesthetize it for medical treatment. |
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Leon's so emotionally numb that all he seems capable of feeling is guilt and rage. |
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With numb feet, aching limbs and the crack of gunfire ringing in our ears, a few hundred metres more seemed like a long way. |
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What everyone wants to know is when we'll be able to get to work without hat hair and a numb face. |
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I lay still, listening with a numb feeling as my small island of stability eroded away from beneath me. |
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Some kids don't mind it, and others use a cream anesthetic or freezy spray (ethyl chloride) to numb the skin. |
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We use it to comfort ourselves, quell anxiety and fear, and numb those feelings of self-doubt. |
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His hands and feet, victims of Raynaud's disease, grow cold easily and are sometimes numb in the frigid northern winters. |
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His estranged wife was recently killed in a car crash, leaving him numb and vulnerable. |
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He slowly willed his numb limbs to rearrange themselves into an upright position. |
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And I found that I hated having a numb mind and I was rebelling against that and writing. |
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Why is my right hand so numb that I cannot get the winder into the slot without letting go of the mast with my left. |
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Her legs were numb and her knees knocked together as she stumbled on the uneven ground. |
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I at least had the satisfaction of startling the idiot out of his numb trance before I knuckled down to the task at hand. |
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Jane awakens again later in the afternoon, faint with hunger and still numb from emotion. |
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My legs had gone numb and my heart was slamming against my ribcage, threatening to pop right out of my chest. |
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He turned, his numb and shaking legs turning his retreat into a disordered rout. |
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I felt like a part of my brain was numb or asleep, but at the same time liberated. |
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I remember feeling numb as I watched it, with cold shivers running up and down my body. |
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Rose's fingers were numb from the cold, white with sharply marked red tips, and they stung bitterly as she dug them into his scratchy coat. |
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Exhausted out of reason and numb with pain, Rose pushed and the most beautiful sound in the world reached her ears. |
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He reached to grab the rifle but could not because his forearm felt numb and dead. |
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Rae dropped his sword from tired, numb fingers, and he saw the Guardian's blade sail through the air as it was thrust at his chest. |
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When she came to, her body was numb from the shock of the lightning bolt and although she hadn't received a direct hit, every nerve and sinew tingled like a spectacular case of pins and needles. |
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Call me a philistine, but I have small patience for Samuel Beckett, can tolerate only small doses of serial atonality, and am bored numb by recitative. |
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Her long legs were going numb already, cramped from the tight space. |
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Insiders worry that the troubled star may turn his back on his recovery and hit the drugs to numb his pain over the end of the two-month relationship. |
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She was inconsolable, hypersensitive to her loss and numb to the world. |
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The various band members found different ways to numb the pain. |
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I shivered in the cold air, my feet numb from the wet grass. |
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Will it induce compassion fatigue, making us numb to the violence? |
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Probably they have become numb to the monstrousness of their actions. |
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In a tobacco tin after capture, the umber yellow mature newts lost their leopard spots, lay grounded as numb as scrolls of candied grapefruit peel. |
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But a fleeting impression suggests that rap has a tendency rather to numb as, for all I know, narcotics might. |
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People are able to deceive themselves and numb their pain through denial. |
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Gasping, Joshua stumbled into the driving snow, slogging through the drifts downslope toward the forest and the Dogs, his legs already numb with the chill. |
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My mind was foggy and my body was numb and aching from the cold. |
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The newly-diagnosed disease causes fingers to turn white and numb as a result of using hand-held vibrating tools such as pneumatic drills and jigger picks. |
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I had saline mixed with Lidocaine pumped into my face to constrict my blood vessels and numb me so I could endure the zapping. |
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I am feeling numb from the top of my head to the aching soles of my feet. |
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It isn't really about revealing, you know, the true state of things, it is partly about selling us things that keep us comfortably numb in the matrix. |
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A local anesthetic is injected into your groin to numb the area. |
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It's amazing how numb your mouth can be when they freeze it. |
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But now that his marriage has broken up, he feels numb again. |
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Neubauer says that she was numb and disoriented and scared to talk to the police. |
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I was too numb to feel the cool touch of the aloe to my skin. |
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Because supplies were scarce, doctors did not have anesthetic to numb this patient before lancing a boil that had been causing him problems for more than a year. |
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Before starting the arthroscopy, the surgeon tests the cannula sites with a needle to see if the areas are numb or if additional local anesthetic is needed. |
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So tonight we all get to sit through a really long and boring event, stifling yawns and clapping dutifully as our bums go numb on hard wooden chairs. |
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Have I got shot up with painkillers and Xylocaine and different things to numb areas so I can play? |
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The fake sky went dark and he sang in a numb and dire auto-tune tenor. |
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Larek's wet clothing stuck to his skin and offered no warmth at all, and quickly he found his toes going numb and his skin breaking out in goose pimples. |
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When the door opened and she said hello, I nearly went numb with shock. |
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I was going to go into the types of medication one can take to numb their emotions and fill their empty husk with medical happiness, but I'm far too depressed for that now. |
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The tree's bright green foliage contrasted with the swing, whose wood had long perished, cut off from its source of life, and was now numb to the world. |
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The dentist gave me novocaine to numb my tooth before drilling, thank goodness. |
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Their fauxs are woven between two cotton base cloths with acrylic and modacrylic fibres to numb the flashpoint. |
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People are numb to these comments because of the Phil Robertson uproar. |
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The camel spider is as big as a human fist, can jump several feet in the air and will numb an arm or leg with one bite. |
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The side of my face was still numb an hour after the surgery. |
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The trouble is, in this account of a gambler seeking shelter from the storm in the numbness of cardplay, the prose is similarly, symptomatically numb. |
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I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak. |
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I obey, numb and foggy headed as the flivver straightens itself. |
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Before public appearances he would have up to eight injections of procaine in his back to numb the agonising pain and often got about on crutches. |
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Numb chin syndrome as the presenting symptom of carcinomatous meningitis. |
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Hallmarks like Numb and Glory Box are superb in their new settings, and the DVD also includes all the band's videos and an audaciously acoustic Wandering Star. |
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Old favourites Mysterons, Glory Box, Numb and Cowboys were always going to be received rapturously, but new single Machine Gun was thumpingly good. |
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