| We sat through a lengthy peroration on the evils of the government's policies. |
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| So they laid her on a bier, and all seven of them sat down beside it and wept and wept for three whole days. |
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| Sheehy reunited with Felker after she finished Passages, which sat on the New York Times bestseller list for three whole years. |
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| Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible. |
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| His wife, Rosemary Hernandez, and his daughter, Becky Hernandez, sat in the hallway outside the courtroom. |
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| I got into my car and just sat there in the balmy London night replaying the events of the day in my mind. |
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| As the fighting raged we sat and baked in the sun waiting to be brought closer. |
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| Shawn sat up to say something, and he hauled off and backhanded her across the face. |
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| After her first audible prompt, which came shortly after the interval, the audience sat patiently. |
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| They made his clothes, sat at his feet while he ate, made love to him whenever he wished, did whatever he asked. |
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| I sat down with her the next day at the aroma Espresso Bar on West 72nd Street. |
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| Old Hawberk sat riveting the worn greaves of some ancient suit of armour, and the ting! |
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| She had been there as my mother and I sat with him around the clock, sleeping by his bedside, anxiously checking his vitals. |
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| Both Riki and Avigayel, who sat in the styling chair, were unemployed and spent a lot of time hanging out at Linda's salon. |
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| We sat on the grass, in the hot twilight, watching the fireworks burst in patriotic showers of light over Independence. |
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| In 1991, Hill sat in front of a panel of all male senators and told her story, as portrayed in the new documentary, Anita. |
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| Gabrielle Taper, 19, sat next to her two teenage friends and nibbled on crawfish and andouille, a type of sausage made from pork. |
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| They sat in on monthly conference calls with the State Department for families caught midstream in the adoptive process. |
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| Tom was blowing up again, so we sat him down and told him to chillax. |
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| On The Addams Family theme the guests sat at tables named after Morticia, Gomez, Pugsley and other characters from the quirky 1960s comedy. |
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| Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation sat under shelter. |
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| He got a custard danish that had sat around too long and a cup of builder's, ate the cake while he waited on hold for the bank. |
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| We sat quietly on the far side of the water as the chacmas treated us to a scene featuring a near-complete life cycle of activity. |
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| The ballplayers sat on the bench watching the rain, glumly working their chews. |
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| Opposite Winston there sat a man with a chinless, toothy face exactly like that of some large, harmless rodent. |
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| Susan Bennett sat rigid, smoothing her skirt round her chumpy thighs and fixing her gaze on the wall above Marissa Caldwell. |
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| Investigators also searched a shed behind the house that sat next to two automobiles on cinderblocks. |
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| In a first-class carriage of a train speeding Balkanward across the flat, green Hungarian plain, two Britons sat in friendly, fitful converse. |
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| Back home safely, I made a cuppa and sat for a good hour revelling in my favourite magazine. |
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| About twenty young men in varying states of dilapidation and dandification sat and sprawled around a table covered in green baize. |
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| And grandmother sat in her rocker before the fireplace, deaf as a doorpost and half-blind as well. |
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| They were hospitable and loved company We sat on a dhurrie under the open sky. |
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| And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. |
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| Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. |
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| When Blackburn called, I drug the telephone cord twenty feet out of the office and sat on the cord while I talked with him. |
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| A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years. |
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| Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles. |
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| Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again. |
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| Ezinma and her mother sat on a mat on the floor after their supper of yam foo-foo and bitter-leaf soup. |
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| On a sunny stone near a foresty bed of asparagus I sat down at last, tired, and a little dispirited. |
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| The two took a walk into the countryside, sat under a railway viaduct, and talked. |
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| She sat on a seat under the alders in the cricket ground, and fronted the evening. |
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| Will and the Duchess sat in the sunshine and shared an apple Will had nicked from a fruitmonger's stall. |
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| A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him. |
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| They sat eating gibanica and sardines and drinking some herbal grappa called kadulja. |
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| Francine sat in the glider on the porch, swinging lightly, her mind a thousand miles away. The chain squeaked a little, almost like a cricket. |
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| We sat out there with a bunch of other people, mostly white, and ate goatburgers and fries and beer. |
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| We sat out among the sidewalk tables, and I had a grilled cheese with bacon. |
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| As a crowning dissipation, they all sat down to play progressive halma, with milk chocolate for prizes. |
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| Grandpa sat on the front porch, hawking and wheezing, as he packed his pipe with cheap tobacco. |
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| She made them tell her everything, then had Ellis re-explain in layman's terms while I sat there mentally headdesking. |
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| They sat down and had a long-overdue heart to heart about the future of their relationship. |
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| I sat there, with tears in my eyes, and hiccoughed for breath, quite beside myself with feverish merriment. |
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| The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down. |
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| One united Parliament sat in Westminster, with 30 representatives from Scotland and 30 from Ireland joining the existing members from England. |
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| The girls all liked to hear him talk. They often gathered in a little circle while he sat on a bench, and held forth to them, laughing. |
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| After that I sat around in the apartment and drank too much hot toddy trying to crack the code in Geiger's blue indexed notebook. |
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| During regular sessions, the Emperor sat among the Senate body, speaking in turn. |
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| The soldiers sat on wooden boards with holes, which covered one big trench. |
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| The detective sat inconspicuously in her car, across the parking lot, pretending to read the newspaper. |
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| He sat down, and lighted a cigarette, casting about the while for an innocuous topic of conversation. |
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| After the stroke, Constance once again sat in an invalidish room that smelled of flannel sheets and dog. |
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| Cromwell was named a Justice of the Peace for Hampshire and sat on various county committees. |
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| The opening ceremony was considered a success and that evening 102 people sat down to a celebratory dinner at the Town Hall. |
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| He pulled on a pair of jogpants and sat in the dark of the living room taking long pulls at his cigarette. |
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| She came up to where Tilly was shaking me like a rag doll and, without a word, she king-hit Tilly Devine and then sat on her in the street. |
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| Bills supported by the monarch were often proposed by members of the Privy Council who sat in parliament. |
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| The Long Parliament was characterised by the growing number of critics of the king who sat in it. |
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| He could have lectured me on it, and I would have sat there and taken notes. |
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| Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough. |
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| As they sat together in small, separate knots, they discussed doctrinal and metaphysical points of belief. |
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| He sat looking at her with lack-lustre eyes. The light suddenly came back into them. |
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| Late in the evening, Mick left with a parishioner who asked for counseling, and I sat at the bar until last call. |
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| At the age of 16, he sat two examinations for university scholarships, and won both of them. |
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| Shortly before he completed his degree in 1921, he sat the entrance examination for St John's College, Cambridge. |
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| We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow. |
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| Then you can stay sat there like cheese at fourpence till Mrs Henshaw gets back with her lawyer. |
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| An internal combustion engine sat atop the reel housing and drove the wheels, usually through a belt. |
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| The donor of the games sat on a high platform in the stands alongside images of the gods, visible to all. |
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| Before him sat the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and ratsbane. |
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| He'd stuck his hands in his pockets as I came in, and he sat down lumpily in his chair. |
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| He draped himself grotesquely in his toweling bathrobe and a pink and white couch-cover, and sat lumpishly in a wing-chair. |
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| We sat in Maccy D's for a little while before she started work in the afternoon. |
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| She simply sat smiling her smile of bliss, nursing her husband's feet Madonnawise on her lap. |
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| The midwife, an old, thin, inscrutable Madrassi, came to the hall and sat on her haunches in a corner, smoking, silent, her eyes bright. |
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| We sat in the car for about ten minutes watching that strange magnesiumlike glow. It did not budge. |
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| We sat tensely in the courtroom while the mano-a-mano struggle ensued between the two skilled lawyers. |
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| I sat down at night upon my bedside, and resolved that I would not go to sleep till I had fixed its title. |
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| Rather than wait for a doctor, Percy sat her in a bath of ice to staunch the bleeding, an act the doctor later told him saved her life. |
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| The mother dressed matronly, in a bonnet and in black, always sat between her two big daughters, firm, directing, and repressed. |
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| The hair was curled, and the maid sent away, and Emma sat down to think and be miserable. |
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| The alliance then sat back and waited to see what sort of results the forerunners came up with. |
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| The kids sat there messing around with leaves and blades of grass because they were bored. |
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| I sat down on the wooden side of a mill-dam and thought over the past night and the strange adventure in the entrance-hall of Agnes' house. |
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| The early Cabinet, like that of today, included the Treasurer and other department heads who sat on the Treasury bench. |
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| Throughout the 19th century, governments led from the Lords had often suffered difficulties governing alongside ministers who sat in the Commons. |
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| He consequently sat as both president and prime minister until 1981, when Cesar Virata succeeded him to the latter office. |
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| I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling. |
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| Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise. |
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| I'd seen more life in a tramp's vest than I had in this lad, and he just sat on the bike totally unconcerned as I approached him on foot. |
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| A bull elephant gave tourists in Thailand more than they bargained for on Sunday when it sat on and rubbed itself along their cars. |
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| Bishops, abbots, and priors, of the Church of Scotland traditionally sat in the Parliament of Scotland. |
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| The Higher Maths exam sat by students in May 2015 was said to be far too difficult. |
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| Stoppard also sat for the sculptor and friend Angela Conner, and his bronze portrait bust is on display in the grounds of Chatsworth House. |
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| Hugh MacDiarmid sat for sculptor Alan Thornhill and a bronze was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. |
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| He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise. |
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| He entered the inn, and asking for dinner, unbuckled his wallet, and sat down to rest himself near the door. |
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| The Lord Lieutenant, when he sat on the throne, sat beneath a canopy of crimson velvet. |
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| Some birds of this age will occupy empty nests that they will aggressively defend if they have sat on them for two or three days. |
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| They were introduced in 1975 and sat in each local authority area under summary procedure only. |
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| Range Safety blew up the errant rocket while the first stage sat on the pad and burned. |
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| The pair sat at a piano and played for hours trying to come up with a good track. |
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| As most ordinary people sat on stools until the 1700s, an armchair conveyed status to a winning bard. |
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| That evening I sat at my spacious nonpink desk and made telephone calls on my nonpink phone. |
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| Later some historians postulate that the Roman fort of Varae sat on the site of the Cathedral. |
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| He made himself a cup of instant coffee in the nuker and sat at Cletus Berry's desk to drink it. |
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| Tucked under offramps of the Henry Hudson Parkway, it sat undisturbed, protected by the anonymity of its location. |
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| He attended Ysgol Maes Garmon, a Welsh language secondary school in Mold, Flintshire, where he sat his O levels and A levels. |
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| She sat there for more than three hours, as sheet after sheet became covered with her open-handed writing. |
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| In this parliament, apart from the nobles and military commanders, also sat the representatives of each township and village. |
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| Generally, the Court sits as full bench, but in the last fifteen years, it has on occasion sat as a chamber. |
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| He was named as one of the commissioners to try Mary, Queen of Scots but is not subsequently mentioned as one of those who sat on the trial. |
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| That November, Fisher sat his lieutenant's examination and passed with flying colours. |
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| Hitler sat in the same chair in which Marshal Ferdinand Foch had sat when he faced the defeated German representatives. |
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| Pliny sat down and could not get up even with assistance and was left behind. |
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| Each came in by this contrivance at his own door, and sat at an octagon table, at which, of course, there was no chief place or head. |
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| Dressed in a simple grey cotton sari, her head covered with the pallu, she sat on a platform behind a table with a microphone. |
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| In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch. |
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| Siberia sat near Euramerica, with the Khanty Ocean between the two continents. |
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| Emma sat with her rounded knees collected up to her ample chest and held her bottle of Passion Pop in her outstretched hand. |
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| They were not waving at him but sat passively as if waiting to hear if what he had to say would be derogatory to their previous relationship. |
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| Also in his favor may have been the influence of two of his brothers who sat on the King's Council. |
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| They sat across from each other on the blanket eating peanut butter and jellies and drinking pop. |
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| Quarter sessions generally sat in the seat of each county and county borough. |
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| The quarter sessions in each county were made up of two or more justices of the peace, presided over by a chairman, who sat with a jury. |
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| As I sat by the window and read, I caught sight of the mailman in my peripheral. |
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| May also sat for photographs that fall into the second major division of Cameron's works. |
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| Hoping to secure a career opportunity, he played the Harlem club circuit and sat in with various bands. |
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| Moments later, he briefly sat down on the drum riser before leaving the stage. |
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| The early milker device fit on top of a regular milk pail and sat on the floor under the cow. |
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| Her gods and goddesses sat on a yellow pitambar which covered a raised platform. |
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| The tradition where the Lords Spiritual and Temporal sat separately from the Commons began during the reign of Edward III in the 14th century. |
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| It was generally the legal members of the council who sat in the Kammergericht. |
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| He sat there, pointlessly tossing the ball into the air and letting it fall, over and over. |
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| A mile or so down the beach from the lighthouse I stopped by a big rock and told Nicky to pop a squat. She sat in total silence. |
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| And his wife sat there, inert as a porcelain doll, her enormous eyes wide open and fixed on me in perfectly unswerving contemplation. |
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| At a postpreview notes session last week, Mr. Schumacher sat surrounded by cast members in a semicircle, like a shepherd and his flock. |
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| Belching loudly, he sat back in his chair, letting his pot-belly protrude out so much that it touched the edge of his desk. |
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| The city sat at the center of the four suyu and served as the preeminent center of politics and religion. |
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| In the reign of Edward III, the Court found a fixed home at Westminster Hall, where it sat almost continually until its dissolution. |
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| The Master of the Rolls assisted the Court's judges in forming judgments, and regularly sat in place of the Lord Chancellor. |
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| The congregation sat at set tables to emphasise the meal aspect of the sacrament. |
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| As the central courts only sat for three months of the year, the rest of his time was spent on Assize when his work at All Souls permitted. |
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| Blackstone sat regularly as a judge, despite bouts of ill health, and also served on various circuit courts. |
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| The Court of Common Pleas, along with the other superior courts, sat in Westminster Hall from its creation. |
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| George sat down. Queenie got up. 'Could I have some money to buy a birthday present for somebody?' she asked. |
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| But while she was with the Morels she queened it. She sat and let Annie or Paul wait on her as if they were her servants. |
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| Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by. |
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| Bright sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to 1889, promoting free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. |
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| He sat as a Liberal allied to the Conservative and Liberal Unionist coalition government who had won the election. |
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| Those chosen by Scotland sat for a single term, and following each dissolution new Scottish peers were elected. |
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| Ireland was further represented in the House of Lords by four Lords Spiritual, who sat in rotation for terms lasting one session each. |
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| When they had red up the house, the Auld Licht lassies sat in the gloaming at their doors on three-legged stools, patiently knitting stockings. |
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| These mechanisms sat directly on the stage blinding the eyesight of the audience. |
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| Bunch lights are a cluster of burners that sat on a vertical base that was fueled directly from the gas line. |
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| In the House of Commons he often sat next to his friend, Samuel Whitbread, and supported his move for popular education. |
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| Bernard dogs were about and when we sat down came over to give our hands a lick just as if they wanted to say Hello too. |
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| Although Appleby was the county town of Westmorland, the former county council sat in Kendal, even though the Assize Courts were in Appleby. |
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| A troop shelter remains with wooden benches where soldiers sat to wait their turn for practice. |
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| After seeing to the shopping, cleaning and cooking, he finally sat down for some rest. |
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| With that, Mikhail sat down to place spools of thread on the serger, studying the directions and clearly dismissing her. |
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| I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang. |
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| The judges that sat upon the jail, and those that attended, sickened upon it and died. |
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| And the Excavators sat on these while they side-casted all the mud out of the center of the channel, it worked well. |
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| I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about. |
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| Predictably in the second half it was the Potters, who went searching for goals as Fulham sat back to defend their lead. |
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| Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me. |
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| Jordan sat tight against Mom's legs, the nightly position for her mandatory hundred strokes, because time, tide and snocksnarls wait for no man. |
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| So they went in to where Gudruda sat spinning in the hall, singing as she span. |
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| We all sat in stuffy classrooms and had men in tweedy sportscoats ruin our afternoons. |
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| Victor sat on a rock and tried to strip off his waders, his body shaking so much that he couldn't get a decent grip. |
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| Without any apparent regard for the suchness of her environment, she sat down. |
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| It sat by mutely while Jack Abramoff, the superlobbyist, spun schemes that eroded public trust, until prosecutors had to move in. |
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| The beast sat on its haunches and tearingly ate the hind quarters of a still-squealing little pig. |
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| Liz's vowels have sat in a few places and can still sound like a bit of a Tiki tour in a single sentence. |
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| They sat there, robed up to the tonsils, and made me feel so below a juvenile delinquent. |
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| Rufus sat on the low garden wall with his back to the house, and kicked his trainered heels against it in a steady rhythm. |
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| Alston now sat looking at photos of the boy he keeps in his phone. |
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| Most customers won't notice this trick of the trade, since the part is not sat upon. |
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| They sat down and had one of their old chummy talks until an unmentionably late hour. |
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| A glass of vodka sat next to the ashtray on his night table. |
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| So she sat almost motionless for hours in the drawing-room, going over the bitterness of every remembrance with an unwincing resolution. |
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| He and she sat side by side like two wax people while the waiter stretched across to unwrinkle the tablecloth and straighten the knives. |
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| I discussed Soviet movies with expatriates. I sat with uranists in the Deux Magots. I published tortuous essays in obscure journals. |
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| Miles of soviet era housing projects sat along on the ocean. |
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| Then she sat on the bank with her hands full of flowers, mostly golden water-blobs. |
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| Three or four women sat on their own, each with a thick layer of make-up and weapons-grade hairspray. |
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| He sat in a wheely chair just inside the door, spinning one way and the other, lifting up his knees to spin faster. |
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| So Michael sat all the afternoon on the window-seat telling her everything that occurred in the Lane. |
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| It matched for that matter her other elements, which were wontedly conspicuous as usual as she sat there suggestive of early tea. |
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| Players sat ashen-faced as their specially chartered Kiev-bound plane was thrown around at 2,000ft as thunder and lightning rumbled around them. |
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| Both cockpits were enclosed under a large canopy and both crew sat on zero-zero ejector seats. |
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| Then they sat down at the dinner table and ate with delight. |
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| A couple of summers ago I sat with Zamperini at a ballgame at Fenway Park. |
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| We sat in downtown Fallujah, in a barricaded city council meeting room. |
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| When Harry and I went to Central Australia, we met linguists in the Tanami desert who sat down with Warlpiri people to compile a dictionary. |
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| Kayani sat in basilisk silence during the parliamentary session. |
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| In the ominous water closet sat the body of a middle-aged man with his throat fatally cut from ear to ear. |
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| She sat on the edge of the pool, dangling her feet in the water. |
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| His students usually sat there in the classroom like zombies. |
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| We sat there waiting for him, fuming with anger at the delay. |
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| After they had sat down, the party remained abubble until the speaker rose. |
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| After checking the room for other alienesque creatures, she sat down on the edge of the bed and began to stare at the phone. |
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| We sat down in the central square and drank coffee and a man came up and spoke to us in American. |
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| Louisa sat in the car crying, until her foot fell asleep. She shook her foot violently, afraid the numbness would turn to frostbite. |
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| He enjoyed being hugged, backscratched, and tickled and sat quietly next to the examiner after testing while a parental interview was conducted. |
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| One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven. |
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| The Jester sat down on one of the marble balustrades and regarded Alvin with a curious intentness. |
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| The Town Mouse came, and they sat down to a dinner of barleycorns and roots, the latter of which had a distinctly earthy flavour. |
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| A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses. |
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| She started walking over to the trestle table and, about ten years later, sat down on one of the thirty-three bentwoods. |
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| To his right in an honored position sat an Egyptian general, conspicuous by his Turkish pantaloons, red cloak and tall betasseled fez. |
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| I sat in my chair, bored out of my mind... I wondered if I could bring out my Beyblade. |
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| She sat stuffed into a small chair and listened with an intense and very blinky sort of concentration. |
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| She... led a blissful life, unconscious of want, care, or bad weather, while she sat safe and happy in an imaginary world. |
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| He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected. |
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| Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings. |
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| Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen. |
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| I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life. |
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| In February 1851 he sat down to articulate his new thinking. |
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| Rith stayed where he was, watching the silhouette of the cat in the darkness. She sat perfectly still and watched him back. Then she meeped and looked at the stairs. |
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| She became known as the little girl who sat on the steps of the TB Block, darting inside whenever she saw authorities, then going back to await the return of her camp mother. |
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| After his turn with the baton he handed it over to conductor Hans Richter and sat in a large arm chair on the corner of the stage for the rest of each concert. |
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| A large Wisconsin family in tank tops sat at a picnic table eating boloney sandwiches and generic cheese doodles so they could afford a thousand-dollar day at Disney. |
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| At the top of the hill in the archway of the main house, an eyeless old man sat on a bucket, scratching at a two-stringed gourd, warbling weird melismas on a madman's text. |
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| I bought a tea and a potato vada, and sat under a banyan tree to eat. |
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| As a consequence, the Parliament of Scotland merged with the Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain, which sat at Westminster in London. |
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| They sat among the choiring clepsydras of the evening garden, time elapsing in a dozen ways, allowing their cigars to go out, keeping a companionable silence. |
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| He sat up straighter, all professional and clientworthy again. |
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| The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. |
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| I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed. |
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| Eurydice pointed to the cupboard, and sat down on the low divan with folded hands, and looked at the floor. She was quite white. Elsa made her drink a glass of vodka. |
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| Holding the Zhengtong Emperor in captivity was a useless bargaining chip for the Oirats as long as another sat on his throne, so they released him back into Ming China. |
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| In a decidedly petulant manner she sat with crossed arms and a frown. |
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| The basement was flooded and the couch was growing mildew, so we sat outdoors in the shadows of the trees in a screened tent with deerflies and mosquitoes buzzing outside. |
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| Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. |
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| The Bodhi tree is also the name given to the tree under which Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha, sat on the night he attained enlightenment. |
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| If we two poor wayfarers could have sat quietly beside each other and chatted in 'e dimpsey light, it would not have been a bit bad, but there was something eternally doing. |
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| Helen sat on the ground crumbling hard lumps of clay between her fingers, and tried to imagine the green place in the swamp where the dingleberries grew. |
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| The Chinese also gradually adopted the foreign concept of stools and chairs as seating, whereas the Chinese beforehand always sat on mats placed on the floor. |
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| We sat quietly down and discussed a cold fowl that we had brought with us. |
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| As we all climbed aboard, the little boat sat down low in the water. |
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| We built a fire in the huge fireplace, then sat around drinkling bootleg beer and whiskey, compliments of Joe himself, Valley High's greatest athlete. |
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| I sat through Congressman Wilbertson's droneathon to the very end. |
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| The ball scooted off the fairway and sat down in the thick rough. |
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| Elof sat with his eyes closed, still in the grip of the thought that he had just heard his eldfathers, all the way back to Adam, chanting at the table. |
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| When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill. |
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| After a decade of scorched-earth warfare, Louella Parsons had sat down to public lunch with her rival, Hedda Hopper. The entente cordiale did not last, of course. |
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| We sat down at a corner table and ordered a bottle of iced mousseux. |
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| When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail. |
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| A team of operators sat at a control booth on the ground below the machine, from which they could simulate weather conditions such as wind or cloud. |
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| The chairman sat on the report until the end of the legislative session. |
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| While my grandparents sat rocking with laughter in their deck chairs, I trundled down the catwalk in my cossie, holding a beach ball, bright red with shame. |
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| Paolo sat crosslegged on his bench, stitching away for dear life. |
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| Scott was ordained as an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Duddington and sat in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the burgh of Selkirk. |
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| I dined alone and sat after dinner in the smoking-room, for Odell never suggested the library, though I would have given a lot to fossick about that place. |
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| He sat there Friday night and built an entire model ship from scratch. |
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| The powder works sat on the floor or projected from the wall. |
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| After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver. |
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| However, beneath the Sapa Inca also sat the Inkap rantin, who was a confidant and assistant to the Sapa Inca, perhaps similar to a Prime Minister. |
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| He sat on the hearth rug and began prettying the dog's coat. |
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| With school out for the summer, Jason and Sarah sat down and mapped a strategy to find the geocaches at each of the state's seventy-two parks and recreation areas. |
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| Because the parliament of Scotland was unicameral, all members sat in the same chamber, as opposed to the separate English House of Lords and House of Commons. |
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| This would probably have been the case had Lord Carnarvon, who, as colonial minister, had sat at the cradle of the new Dominion, remained in office. |
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| The rolls of greige cloth sat on the factory floor waiting to be printed. |
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| There, on the plastic-covered couch, sat another candidate for groomship. |
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| The driver was a stalwart woman who sat at ease in the front seat and drove her car bareheaded. She left a cloud of dust and a trail of gasoline behind her. |
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| District courts were introduced in 1975 as a replacement for burgh police courts and sat in each local authority area under summary procedure only. |
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| To reduce the risk associated with failure to deliver on the trade on settlement date, a clearing agent or clearing house often sat between the trading parties. |
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| I sat still in the car and listened to the soft purr of the engine and my beating heart. Then slowly, and as silently as possible, I drove the car back to camp. |
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| Its judges sat in open court in the Great Hall of the king's Palace of Westminster, permanently except in the vacations between the four terms of the Legal year. |
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| Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat. |
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| The first Council had sat on 15 October 1980 and was composed of members of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives and the Belgian Senate elected in Wallonia. |
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| One can not help but wonder how the unnecessary death of 10 men sat on Fermont's conscience. From all appearances, he seemed nonplussed and never was remorseful or contrite. |
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| It meant that pallid houselings sat in the sunshine and got well. |
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| Potentilla and Ivory Daphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, there towered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite. |
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| An advance on the basic design was the iron Early mouldboards were basically wedges that sat inside the cut formed by the coulter, turning over the soil to the side. |
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| Until 1893, when the college joined the University of Wales as a founder member, students applying to Aberystwyth sat the University of London's entrance exams. |
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| The justices were assisted by a staff of over 50 officials, most of whom sat in Westminster Hall but also kept offices at the various Inns of Court. |
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| As well as attending the ceremony, he visited Buckingham Palace, where the Royal Family sat for him in order to complete the detail of the picture. |
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| During her competitive career she sat on the board of the National Disability Council, The Sports Council for Wales, the English Lottery Awards Panel and UK Sport. |
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| It sat from 1640 until 1648, when it was purged by the New Model Army. |
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| Charles sat in the chair of the Speaker of the House, William Lenthall. |
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| I sat through the sermon, and the offertory, and the recessional. |
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| As I sat and pushed down my jimjam pants, Sean came in to tuck me in. |
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| Charles Worsley, who sat for the city for only a year, was later appointed Major General for Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire during the Rule of the Major Generals. |
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| We sat in the back row of the theater and threw popcorn at the screen. |
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| In the back of the meetinghouse, on the same side as the defense, sat an old woman with a black kiddhoge over her head and a young woman holding a baby wrapped in a blanket. |
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| As he grew, he sat in the council of state, learning kingcraft, and showed there the hard-headed sense of fairness and justice that went with him through life. |
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| In ancient Ireland the ollave, or master-poet, sat next to the king at table and was privileged, as none else but the queen was, to wear six different colours in his clothes. |
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