I was falling, falling through a darkness as thick as the tears which dribbled from my gaping eyes. |
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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. |
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In that the mental, conceptual and technical voids were even more gaping and glaring than the physical ones in bombed-out cities. |
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Scrub the mussels and clams, discarding any whose shells are gaping open or seem lifeless when you squeeze them. |
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They made their way into the now gaping hole in the wall and looked around. |
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Can a sound future be built for a state, or a country, on the unhealed gaping wounds of thousands of its citizens? |
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He took great delight there to go to the bookbinders ' shops and lie gaping on maps. |
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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. |
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He said it was possible that weapons used in the prison break could have been introduced to the property through the gaping fence. |
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But the gaping holes in the U.S. stance are being largely papered over in news coverage. |
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Gwen felt as though half of her soul had been ripped away from her, leaving nothing but a gaping void. |
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On the center front of a garment, horizontal buttonholes are the most secure and help prevent the opening from gaping. |
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He hacked at a wall of vines, which fell and revealed a gaping, black hole. |
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Her people have beady round eyes and nubby, square teeth, and tend to look startled, with O-shaped mouths gaping wide. |
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Seven thousand African troops sent in to monitor the situation are just a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. |
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They leave the pundits gaping at their heedless disregard for the Governing Class. |
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There's a gaping hole in our organisation chart between them and the section of senior management responsible for the area. |
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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. |
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All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws. |
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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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Justin sat silhouetted against the river bank, gaping at a bunch of Naga sadhus smoking chillum. |
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She was well and truly dead with her head flopped in the water and the back of her neck was a gaping hole where she had been pecked. |
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Moonlight peeked in through the gaping hole in the roof and the stars winked down at them. |
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At a loss for words, the boy could only stare, gaping at his pendant that now lay suspended in the air before his very eyes. |
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The building narrative progresses through ill-omened and distorted imagery of horses ill in a hospital and gaping splits in reality. |
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Better a halting dialogue between the right and left hand, full of gaping pauses and impasses, I suggested, rather than a glib ambidextrousness. |
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She had laughed, so close to tears, so close to letting the hollow gaping wound surface and sweep her away in a wave of inexpressible rage. |
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When she opened the cupboard, Alvin saw the inch-high Tyrannosaurus erect and gaping pinkly among the mugs. |
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The inside centre skipped through a gaping hole in the Romanian midfield to give his team an ideal start with the fastest World Cup try. |
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It tore into the glass and metal, leaving a second gaping hole several storeys high from which a fireball of smoke and flame erupted. |
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He tossed the heavy iron grate aside and pointed into the gaping hole of darkness. |
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The Clippers never will amount to more than playoff wannabes until they plug the gaping holes in their interior defense. |
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We found people were willing to be encouraging while at the same time pointing out gaping flaws in our plans! |
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The wound in his chest had almost completely healed, a flesh wound was all that was left of the gaping hole. |
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I lied down between the gaping doorways and watched the openness of the world pass by, napping in the sunlight that flooded our car. |
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I froze, gaping for a second until the sound of the detonation, a sharp pop at that distance, shook me out of it. |
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But he fluffed his shot from close range, the ball then flying through the six-yard box where Speed and Stelios were unable to find a gaping net. |
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Spinning the young boy lunged at the mast pole, stifling a cry as he felt his feet lose footing as he was dangling over the dark gaping ocean. |
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His goalbound effort into a gaping goal struck the crossbar and rebounded to safety. |
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The other kids on the dance floor were gaping at him like he was a total freak, and a frightening idea filled his head. |
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Then the young man crumpled to the ground, with his eyes opened in shock, and his mouth gaping. |
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The disaster, crushing U.S consumer and business confidence, has also left a gaping hole in the world economy. |
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The large ships absorbed the damage even as gaping holes were ripped into their hides. |
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What are gaping emotional wounds if not fodder for tragic and pretty folk songs? |
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If you're really lucky a Central Line train will already be standing there waiting with its doors gaping open. |
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It has exposed gaping holes in the apparatus of government whose primary duty is to protect its citizens. |
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And I have looked, really I have, but nowhere can I find a gaping hole in my life. |
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Then turn an angle of the rock and advance a few paces, when your lights flash upon the gaping oyster-shell. |
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Still ahead, a gaping hole opened up in a passenger plane during an Alaska Airlines flight 26,000 feet in the air. |
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This award will serve the purpose of filling two gaping holes in the higher education landscape. |
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Called the Mouth of Truth, this carved face with gaping maw is a sort of primitive lie detector. |
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Tank tracks had torn up the pavement and there were gaping holes in several houses. |
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Their indignation is revealing, for it exposes a gaping hole in their original argument. |
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The frontal view is terrifying and mask-like, with wild staring eyes, a gaping mouth and savage teeth. |
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The door waits to be smashed open, the drawers to be pulled and left gaping. |
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Enter Currie whose craft on the left wing opened up gaping wounds in the home defence. |
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In the case of gapeworms the birds will be seen gaping after exertion and attempting to cough up the worms which are anchored in the windpipe. |
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While he stood around gaping, Teddy fired his last dart and hit his final target square on. |
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Everyone gasped as they caught their first glimpse of the gaping hole in the tower and the billowing smoke. |
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He took great delight there to go to the bookbinders' shops and lie gaping on maps. |
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Of course, they all wanted to know what he was gaping at and soon I had 10 eyes goggling at me. |
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These are all laudable proposals, but I feel you are attempting to use an Elastoplast to seal a gaping wound. |
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Behind me, the door had burst open, and another tall and handsome elfin boy, of about the same age was standing in the doorway, gaping at me. |
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Thick tarps, stretched gunwale to gunwale, deck three-quarters of the Brendan, but where the helmsman must stand there is a gaping hole. |
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At Odsal, 34-0 up, only Saints would want to kick that extra point just to rub salt into the gaping wound they had just opened up. |
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One second he is drawling and smirking and throwing cheap insults at me, the next, he's gaping like a dumbstruck fool. |
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The sergeant's jaw dropped and it looked as if he was trying to strike Manny dead with a lightning bolt from his gaping mouth. |
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She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore. |
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The sloop's rudder had dislodged, leaving a gaping hole below the waterline that could not be closed. |
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A film of water rainbowed around our blades, and there were gaping holes in the ice, lapped by wavelets. |
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Overhead power cables broke the fall of the crane as the jib of the machine tore a gaping hole in the roof of the single storey premises. |
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Waving, he jogged off down the hallway in the opposite direction, leaving me gaping like a fish. |
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Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface. |
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Like too many of this government's initiatives, as soon as you start to examine the details gaping holes emerge. |
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The whole scene is so primeval that we would stand gaping all afternoon if the westering arc of the sun didn't jog us on our way. |
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With her eyes bulged in terror, her face wet with perspiration, and her mouth gaping in a wide O, she didn't look very sultry at all. |
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More of the bullets seemed to be whistling past the gaping holes rather than creating any kind of impact with the afflicted target. |
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That was Ishmael's job, but he had that wild-eyed look fishermen get in the presence of slimy dead animals with gaping mouths. |
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He looked astounded at the question, gaping slightly before he recovered himself. |
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Rena was gaping like a fish, her mouth working furiously but she didn't emit a single word. |
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Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back. |
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In the gaping maw of publishing, the independents tend to be modest about their work. |
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She chuckled and glared at some girls who were staring at me with gaping expressions. |
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The land was no longer rich and green but desolate and parched, gaping with hard, dusty cracks splitting deep into the earth. |
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In the kayak, he is up to his waist in gravel and dirt, for a gaping hole has been ripped in the bottom. |
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His proud cruiser was listing badly to port, a gaping hole ripped out of her belly. |
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Byran opened the door again to reveal the gaping hole ripped in the wall that reached to the second hallway. |
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They turned into gaping holes in the final period when three Belfast goals in as many minutes ended the contest. |
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The spreading recession has exposed gaping holes in the safety net for workers and the poor. |
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As if it were magnetized, Robert felt his head turn toward the gaping window of his office. |
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The Pilgrims poured into the great gaping hole Nukurren was tearing in the Utuku center, ululating, their mantles blue and black. |
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Within days they were as gaping as they had ever been, and this exercise in futility simply amounts to a scandalous waste of money. |
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Near the end of the book with its empty gaping pages and neat writing was a verse scratched out with red pen. |
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The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows. |
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The brothers promptly swiped the exclusive license from the gaping maws of nearly a dozen major competitors. |
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Others present gaping maws surrounded by rows of shell-like tubes from which little tongues seem to project. |
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Some chunks of the concrete even lay on the ground below gaping maws where they used to reside. |
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Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition. |
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Staring back at her, by mouth gaping, a melange of confused emotions begin stewing up inside me. |
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The lice are parasites and are sucking off essential fluids, while leaving a gaping wound prone to infection. |
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Looking deep into a bearded dragon's gaping mouth is quite enough for this he-man's week. |
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After a scenic tour down to Zermatt, past towering seracs and gaping crevasses, we got another helicopter ride up to the ridge. |
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He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold. |
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Even at this late hour, torchlight and candlelight glowed brightly through the many gaping windows. |
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Pumping turn after exuberant turn, I drop to the south side of the mountain until I'm looking straight down into the gaping bergschrund. |
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A huge concourse of students, all but gaping with reverence, filled two rooms. |
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All too often, photographs, documents and stories are misplaced or lost and the memories of families or cultures are left with gaping holes. |
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This genetic difference is too gaping for one type of membrane biochemistry to have evolved from the other, Koga argues. |
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Twice the big Englishman was presented with a gaping goal and the perfect ball but twice he somehow contrived to miss the target. |
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It was carved in the shape of an open mouth, thick red lips stretched in a silent scream, white teeth showing beneath and a black gaping hole. |
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His was gaping desperately, taking in huge lungfuls of air, a sickening wheezing sound coming out through his mouth. |
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And yet the building is a monstrosity, a gaping hole in the middle of town, hostile to the needs of its neighbors and inhabitants alike. |
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Using its enormous head, the monstrous creature rammed a gaping hole in the wall. |
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Below the umbones, the shell margin is folded inward forming a deep lunula and gaping between both valves. |
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She gasped, her skin paled as she covered her gaping mouth and she backed away. |
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The gaping hole in the ship meant that much of the air was completely unbreathable so both men wore their helmets set to recycled air. |
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A gaping whole in the education of modern man has been this story. |
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He had a gaping hole in his abdomen where bone had torn his flesh away. |
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The summit must close the gaping holes that allow terrorists and international criminals to finance violence and launder their ill-gotten profits. |
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The central defining social fact of our world is gaping global inequality. |
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When she opened her eyes, a large, gaping maw of a cave awaited them. |
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If I hadn't, the two of us would've just stood there gaping at each other until Zachary finally realized what a dweeb I was being and ran away in horror. |
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It was being towed into the dock when the line parted and the bow swung round, hitting a wooden fender on the berth, leaving the vessel with a gaping gash on its forward end. |
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Why is it that we listen credulously with gaping mouths to environmentalists when they talk apocalyptic science-fiction, and ignore them when they are demonstrably right? |
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The papers focused relentlessly on the urban scene at a time when downsizing and centralizing corporate media had left a gaping vacuum in the local mediascape. |
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The tidal bore comes in faster than a galloping horse, but first wilful surging water fills gullies and gaping holes left by the last ebbing tide. |
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This leaves a gaping hole at the centre of the liberationist argument. |
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She gasped as he hit the tender parts and moaned as he dabbed it with something that stung at her wound like alcohol was being poured over the gaping flesh. |
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The residents echoed that there were gaping potholes on the roads. |
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She said she would do her best to bind the wounds of the association, which have been left gaping by the 40-plus members who signed the petition calling for her deselection. |
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The roof had caved in and trees were growing through the gaping hole. |
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United should have scored deep into stoppage time but player-manager John Taylor somehow managed to head wide from less than a yard and with the goal gaping. |
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The Muttiah Muralitharan circus has a ringmaster, enough clowns to fill a big top and a disbelieving audience gaping at each extraordinary swing from low point to low point. |
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Most of the planks had gaping holes in them or were completely gone, but the two main beams running from bank to bank looked sturdy enough to walk on. |
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By the end, players will find themselves skirting around gaping chasms and outracing avalanches while being battered senseless by Mother Nature's best. |
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However, there was suspicion he was murdered because one of his eyes was gouged out of its socket and he had a gaping wound in his skull when his body was brought home. |
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James could only stare at Ryouji with his jaw hinging like a gaping fish. |
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It was hissing, long sharp looking fangs hung out of its gaping mouth. |
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Passing through plumes of evil-smelling sulphurous smoke and steam, they finally encountered daylight, and emerged from the gaping maw of a volcanic cone. |
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Blood sprayed across the man and the woman collapsed at his feet, her whole body convulsed as blood drained from the gaping slash wound in her throat. |
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The gaping vacuum has resulted in violence, some of it targeted at women. |
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The roofs have collapsed, the ruined towers, the high gate unbarred, frost in the mortar, the ramparts gaping, rent, fallen, gnawed through by age. |
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Suddenly, he looks up to see a journalist and a photographer gaping at him though the glass and his moustached face breaks into a welcoming smile. |
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She caught a glimpse of hairless gray skin hanging loose from a thick neck, tiny yellow eyes squinting malevolently over a chinless, gaping mouth. |
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Exerting an absurd amount of force, I clamped my gaping mouth closed. |
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The company have done a distribution deal with various independent stores and paper shops, widening availability to plug several gaping holes in the network. |
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Don't try to compensate for a gaping shoe by tying the laces too tightly. |
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And it starts pecking and the mother then regurgitates half digested food into the gaping mouth of the chick, the chick swallows it and it's happy. |
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These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road. |
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In some pieces, he attached cardboard tubes or bolts of fabric that stand out a foot or more from the wall, and other times he left large gaping holes in the canvas. |
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But, you can still pick out a sexy patch to cover up the gaping hole in your head, which thank goodness was discovered after we dilated your eyes! |
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After years of exaggerating the snow-vocabulary of arctic peoples, suddenly journalists everywhere are obsessed with the allegedly gaping holes in northland lexicons. |
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When Ko reluctantly sat down in her new seat, the man next to her gave out a long, low whistle and grinned, exposing his six gaping teeth with a gold crown. |
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The gaping hole in the bill involves a concept known as off-balance sheet accounting. |
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The pedal of his bicycle tore into the calf of his leg and he required two operations, on Friday and Saturday, to clean and stitch the gaping wound. |
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A broad smile dribbled down from the bottom of his gaping lips. |
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A recent Pew Poll graphically likewise portrays the stark national divide, and the granular differences are gaping. |
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Remarkably, Americans have not risen in revolt against this gaping inequality. |
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The NRA forces lawmakers to gut a proposed law, leaving it with gaping loopholes. |
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My own first exposure would be 15 years later, gaping with a group of gauche friends at a third-generation video copy procured by an entrepreneurial older schoolboy. |
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The brand-spanking-new hardcore gym has filled a gaping hole on the Manhattan-Bronx borderlands, a neighborhood in need of a place to pump serious iron. |
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Let him smile, but not lickerishly or with too gaping an aspect. |
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A taxidermic bear stands almost six feet tall on his hind legs with his mouth gaping in a never-ending silent roar. |
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Although seemingly complete, even to the non-aviator the craft was blatantly not fly-worthy as parts of the fuselage carried gaping holes. |
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When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching. |
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I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it. |
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Additionally, the bottom of the skull presented a gaping hole, where a halberd had cut away and entered it. |
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The Pirana is a truly freaky mini-Jaws-looking lure with gaping mouth, teeth and gill slits where water and bubbles can exit. |
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Like the other passengers on the MV Columbia, I'm on deck, gaping at the Inside Passage. |
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His exquisite caramel toned hide hung mindlessly over the gaping wound like a Daliesque nighterror. |
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She entered the lab and stood gaping for a good ten minutes at the fantastic machinery at work all around her. |
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With gaping jaws, an eellike tail and sharp, jutting teeth, the Atlantic wolffish looks more like a feral canine than a marine fish. |
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Furthermore, even gaping wounds restore in such a way that the animal's body shape is restored, and infection of such large wounds seems rare. |
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Hissing, a typical reptilian sound, is mostly produced by larger species as part of a threat display, accompanying gaping jaws. |
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However, last week, he vamoosed off to Tasmania, leaving a gaping hole in the head teacher's life. |
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Graf, constricted by a light-gobbling, slenderizing black costume, looked slinky and vivacious but failed to fill up the gaping stage. |
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Croft touched down a few minutes later after a gaping hole opened up down Romania's left flank before Ashton completed his hat-trick following a lolloping run from Haskell. |
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The whale shark is a filter feeder which consumes plankton which they scoop up in their gaping mouths while swimming close to the water's surface. |
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The cuckoo, with its single gaping beak, cannot duplicate the visual pull of a throng of baby warbler beaks, so it tugs at the parents' other heartstring. |
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Cardiff's goalkeeper went to ground after colliding with Scott McDonald for Millwall's winning goal, the ball being headed into his gaping net from an inswinging corner. |
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The shop on the ground floor, Roneo Alcatel, an office machine suppliers, was clearly a write-off as flames belched from the gaping hole in the ground. |
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