Instead, I wearily picked up a broom, each sweep of the brush accompanied by a muttered curse on all builders. |
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Sitting in her house full of the toys and clutter of three boisterous children, a mother shakes her head wearily. |
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He sighed, wearily, and looked up, to assure the person that he was fine, he bled like a pig every day. |
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Now he strode wearily and dispassionately through the enemy filth, cutting down those that stood in his path and ignoring all others. |
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Travellers are wearily familiar with the wrong kind of leaves or snow that presumptuously falls in the depths of winter. |
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We laid back wearily against the pillows and smiled, entwining our fingers together automatically. |
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Elizabeth sighed wearily as she was woken from her sleep by Joshua crying in his crib. |
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Sighing wearily, Isabella shifted her gaze to her mother with a wan smile on her lips. |
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Whistling a jaunty tune to herself, she watched the group of students file out of the lecture hall wearily. |
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I watched his back retreat before rubbing my eyes wearily and fingering the greasy money in my hand. |
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The prince wearily rose, the burden of almost single-handedly waging a war against shadows weighing him down. |
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She sniffed wearily at the smell of smoke, sweat and beery farts and opened the window. |
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A ragged pigeon with one scabby leg is slouching wearily on my window-sill. |
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Some reclined wearily on the couches, others leaned forward with excitement on the folding chairs. |
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As people left wearily after midnight, dragging their feet and looking stunned, the cliche of the previous week seemed suddenly full-bodied. |
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There was no surge of adrenalin, as Deidre turned around and wearily retraced her steps. |
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Many of the arguments have a wearily familiar ring, not least Huxley's assertion of the umbilical connection between religion and bloodshed. |
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One hand clenched into an agitated fist, Lain rubbed her temples wearily with the other. |
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Rising slightly from his awkward position, he seated himself wearily on the bed, then pulled her down next to him. |
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Roark wearily turned through sheaves of line drawings and pencil sketches spread on the table in front of them. |
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The hallway creaked, the rain beat the roof like the clip-clop of a horse's hooves, and beds squeaked as children climbed wearily into them. |
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The simple task of sealing the hole inexplicably drained him of energy and he leaned back against the rock wall of the cave and sighed wearily. |
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While his wife wearily cleaned countertops, Patrick nervously sat erect in the back seat of the limousine besides Tiffany Thomsby. |
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After just a couple of days, Ashdown notes wearily, the whole business feels as if it has been dragging on for weeks. |
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Donnie promptly looked at Steven, and then began moving up the stairs with Steven trailing wearily behind. |
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For those who sigh wearily at this impossible aspiration there are other solutions. |
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Grateful that the grooms from the other stables had taken care of their horses that day, they climbed wearily into their rooms in the hayloft. |
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He rubbed his hand over his eyes wearily and thought for a moment before replying. |
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Breakfast rooms across India display a vista of glazed eyes ploughing wearily through the turgid, circumlocutory language of the morning papers. |
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But if pushed, I would wearily point out that the inconstant luminosity was a statement about the haphazard nature of life, about how the world could be either light or dark. |
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The character is, by turns, explosively angry and wearily remorseful. |
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Near the foot of the nonfunctioning escalator, Kathryn Fogliano, who is due toward the end of June, leaned wearily against a column. |
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The cognoscenti wearily deride these shortcomings even while they acknowledge their importance. |
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He's more likely to be found wearily crestfallen or grimacing in alarm at the times than to be heard screaming with anger. |
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He stops on a corner and leans wearily against a telephone pole. |
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Smiling wearily and with heads bowed, the women were ushered into the airport hall before being taken to hospital for checks. |
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The European Union dingy is now wearily following a course of legal procedures. |
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As participants wearily waded through the final day of the ExCOPs, many spoke of their impression that the short meeting resembled a marathon. |
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Zainab Abdul Latif moves wearily between her three children, wiping their foreheads and propping them up in their wheelchairs. |
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This theme is found in Flavius Josephus when he evokes Moses sitting wearily on the edge of the well. |
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Weakened in the body, she wearily went through the rooms dragging her hurting legs. |
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A colleague once remarked wearily that NGOs were always at some sort of crossroads. |
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I sighed wearily as I went up to him, picked up the magnet and went to the blackboard with a piece of chalk. |
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Three months later we were wearily plodding through a day of colic with Olivia, or so we thought. |
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The Tudor period is well-trodden ground in historical fiction and I admit I picked this book up wearily, thinking I knew it all. |
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The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table. |
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He didn't want to have to deal with this now, but he had to, as a father, or even worse, as a spouse, so he scratched his balding pate and made his way upstairs wearily. |
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Carpenter crossed the carpeted floor of the Cathedral's dark interior and stopped only to genuflect wearily, and daub his fingers in the font once more. |
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As morning broke in the windowless Bedsit, Emma peered wearily out of the bed they'd shared as Michelle trumped loudly and proudly into the already stale air. |
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I poked my head around the corner, wearily eying the bustling servants. |
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The club's long-suffering supporters became wearily familiar with the annual ritual of the new boss being paraded outside the stadium each summer. |
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He wearily levered himself in and sat awhile watching the street. |
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Everyone asks her how autobiographical the book is, she says wearily. |
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Skyler awoke when the bus stopped and walked wearily from the bus. |
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I leaned wearily into MaryAnn's shoulder and sat for a moment, drying my tears and listening to the rain beat down on the roof and windows of the chapel. |
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I thrashed about and shook him until his eyes wearily opened. |
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I trailed wearily behind the group, just wanting to get inside. |
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All along the path to the park, we passed people wearily trudging back. |
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Marsalis simply smiles and shakes his wearily at the criticism that's followed him for most of his career. |
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The light from the moon was weak, peeking wearily through hazy clouds. |
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He wearily lowered his torch. His bag slid from his shoulder. |
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But the interest developed as the reprobate was brought in for questioning – he vulnerable, if infuriating, the officers solicitous, wearily patient, checking whether he'd eaten and had his methadone. |
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He wearily glided in the starry sky, looking for a place to rest. |
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Even when this is relaxed, as we hope it soon will be, she will be far from free as we are now wearily familiar with the array of wholly unjustified restrictions that the regime maintains on her freedom of movement. |
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I had spent the day wearily over books, and, simply to keep my mind occupied, went over some of the matters I had been examined in at Lincoln's Inn. |
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Instead the gleam faded, he sighed wearily and asked me to hail him a cab. |
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He wilfully invokes a subtext of incest, perhaps because he is speaking to Quentin or perhaps in the spirit of a wearily unshockable cynicism. |
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His volubility had left him at last, and he sank down wearily on my sofa. I felt that no words of condolence availed, and I let him lie there quietly. |
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