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I was falling, falling through a darkness as thick as the tears which dribbled from my gaping eyes.
Some people do not have the mental toughness to look at a gaping slash on their own body, see their own spurting blood and continue to attack.
In that the mental, conceptual and technical voids were even more gaping and glaring than the physical ones in bombed-out cities.
Scrub the mussels and clams, discarding any whose shells are gaping open or seem lifeless when you squeeze them.
They made their way into the now gaping hole in the wall and looked around.
Can a sound future be built for a state, or a country, on the unhealed gaping wounds of thousands of its citizens?
He took great delight there to go to the bookbinders ' shops and lie gaping on maps.
While this story is not entirely without gaping plot holes or rampant silliness, it should at least provoke a good supply of laughs and snickers.
He said it was possible that weapons used in the prison break could have been introduced to the property through the gaping fence.
But the gaping holes in the U.S. stance are being largely papered over in news coverage.
Gwen felt as though half of her soul had been ripped away from her, leaving nothing but a gaping void.
On the center front of a garment, horizontal buttonholes are the most secure and help prevent the opening from gaping.
He hacked at a wall of vines, which fell and revealed a gaping, black hole.
Her people have beady round eyes and nubby, square teeth, and tend to look startled, with O-shaped mouths gaping wide.
Seven thousand African troops sent in to monitor the situation are just a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
They leave the pundits gaping at their heedless disregard for the Governing Class.
There's a gaping hole in our organisation chart between them and the section of senior management responsible for the area.
Thieves broke chains cemented into the ground to gain access to the machine, before driving through the side of the hut leaving a gaping hole.
All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws.
There we stood like two sumphs, gaping and staring at each other with a look which said, why did not you shoot?
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Now it was my turn for the gaping and eye-popping act while Ferraro pulled himself together.
He gave one look at the fixer and at the gaping countenances all about him.
But Arisuga suspected that they were close behind the fusuma listening with staring eyes and gaping mouths.
Meantime his long-legged, towheaded son had come from within and stood gaping behind his father.
Here he might be the director, but on ancient Earth he would be only one more gaping, lead-footed yokel.
They stood about, gaping at each other, unable to realise what had happened to them.
The parched earth had split open everywhere in gaping cracks that intersected and made patterns in the garden like a crazy quilt.
Lewis rose, with some kind of warning and inhibiting gesture to Remnant, who, he was conscious was gaping at him in astonishment.
One of my arms was free and I struck with my fist at the gaping, upended mouth.
Across the doubletree behind them hung the limp form of their driver, a great, gaping wound in his head.
One whisk from the swinged tail of an avalanche would hurl us, like a fly, into the ruin of the gaping gorge.
The camlet cloak still shrouded the body, and its gaping but bloodless wounds.
At the end of ten minutes he would be gaping across the table, and wondering what they were doing at the howff.
I walked out to the street, gaping at the entry in the bankbook he'd handed me.
He was carried joggling and gaping through the twilight, marvelling beyond measure.
Roddy raced to the sound and saw in the wall a gaping, black hole.
Ellis bent over and looked into the gaping jaws of Fafnir the Dragon.
The nose was but a gaping orifice above a deformed and twisted mouth.
Why, they are the deadheads, the drones in the great hive, the street crowds that lounge about, gaping at those who are working.
The twisted limbs, the gaping mouths, the staring lustreless eyes, fascinated him.
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