I could watch the last star fade as the sky lightened and birds began to chatter amongst themselves about the coming day. |
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Turning to Dimitri, her once stoic expression was shattered as a brief smirk lightened her face. |
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These notes, where not referential, would have lightened a text that is certainly not for the feeble-minded. |
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Her memories create a closeness to those she loved and as she reminisces, the heaviness in her heart is lightened. |
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Her face was withered from long years of struggle yet lightened with blissfulness from so many happy times. |
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For many, his indispensable contribution is to have lightened the gloom and moral bankruptcy of those years. |
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The plane was lightened a bit by removal of armor plate and some military systems but the airframe was essentially stock. |
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She had a high forehead and a widow's peak where her hair started out dark, then gradually lightened. |
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This tour is excruciatingly banal and juvenile, lightened only by the silly antics of his friend Joe. |
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For this dessert, we lightened a classic flan by using fat-free evaporated milk and a combination of whole eggs and egg whites. |
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The hexapod had to be considerably lightened and overhauled with a body made from carbon fiber instead of ABS plastic. |
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Her hair was fair, lightened by the sun and the sea, and her skin was tanned and freckled. |
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They are even being made now with special smoothed and lightened actions for the cowboy shooters wanting to score well. |
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The sky has lightened and the snow has stopped, but a menacing wall of clouds is heading our way fast. |
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Dropped dumplings are usually made using a protein or farinaceous mixture that is fortified and lightened. |
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When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea. |
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His expression lightened for a millisecond before it dropped back into the deepening gloom. |
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The teal stripe beneath each eye lightened to his skin color briefly before returning to their regular shade. |
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He inhaled with short, deep breathes, and the pigmentation of his skin lightened up to its previous color. |
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This conventional intermediate floor can be covered with a lightened concrete deck. |
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I hope by the end of this article to have lightened the gloom. |
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Suddenly, the mood lightened and the room echoed with laughter. |
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The atmosphere lightened when Mr. Kelly let 8-year-old Patrick Caprice Jr. do the honors. |
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At times, the mood lightened, the mix becoming vapory, but often the music contracted, with Mr. N'Dour's wails increasing its urgency. |
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We still are completing some of the NSBRI behavioral science but the pace of the schedule has noticeably lightened. |
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Blini, to be authentic, should be made from a batter of buckwheat flour leavened with yeast, and further lightened with beaten egg white and whipped cream. |
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This metal wristlet watch sets the stage for an impressive statement: the graphic rigour of the cube lightened by a domed surface. |
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The oversize body design has been accentuated, some parts have been lightened and the freewheel body is made entirely of light alloy. |
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The menu has been conceived along American or lightened Continental lines, and despite an occasional, surprising flaw, the food is generally well prepared. |
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Once lightened, the candle transforms itself into an unctuous body oil of massage with a sensual and greedy perfume. |
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The emotional travail evident in van Gogh's early work was marvelously lightened in the new aesthetic climate. |
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In my presence many of your ills will disappear, and you will feel your burden lightened. |
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The administrative load must be lightened, for example, by switching to the one fund' principle. |
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The preparations have been considerably lightened and we're finally moving away from the ritual pairing with sweet wines. |
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The perplexity which faces a woman whose husband has just died may be lightened by his thoughtful arrangement of his estate during his lifetime. |
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Business associations have also repeatedly stressed that they want to see the burden of statistics lightened. |
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Mitt Romney, the serious businessman known for his sober campaign style, has lightened up. |
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Lazily, Bren watched slumped backward into the cool, itching grass, hands entwined behind once bright hair that had been lightened by long hours under a summer sun. |
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Their responsibilities were lightened somewhat by the perfect conditions prevailing, with clear skies, slight seas and a moderate 10-knot southerly. |
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That is when the spirit rests, its regrets and sorrows are lightened, it enjoys itself by doing good, and rests loving its Creator and its brothers. |
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In Germany, such documentation deficiencies are always to the detriment of the physician, while the patient's burden of proof is lightened and may even result in its reversal. |
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Shifting is just as precise and smooth as that of the parent system, while the clutch, which is lightened and features softer springs than the FZ1, proves progressive and easy to use. |
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By doing this, we lightened the duties of the delegated departmental authority in these areas, which did not have the resources to handle the workload generated by cases pertaining to the Agency. |
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In sand, snow or with the camera facing the sun, the sensor can be fooled by all the surrounding light causing the subject to appear dark in the picture when it's not lightened up with the complementary light of the flash. |
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White Libertia lightened the sombre tones set by Dodonaea viscosa Purpurea, in second place to the hummocky forms of green Pittosporum. |
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But the global recession has since lightened government coffers and increased the popularity of taxes that appear to target chiefly the wealthy and unearned increases in property values. |
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Not quite Little becomes even less New democracy, old men The old chief and the new one Colombia's unreported refugees Re-enter Perez Electorumpus ReprintsThe president's diary is being lightened. |
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Back when it was announced in January, the restoration was met with concern from some experts, who argued that earlier restorations by the museum had lightened the master's paintings to an excessive degree. |
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However, a 40-percent drop in case referrals from 2001 lightened the Tribunal's caseload, making it difficult to genuinely assess the efficacy of the new system. |
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In the bright light, lightened and cooled in limb, he eyed carefully his black trousers, the ends, the knees, the houghs of the knees. |
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This lightened his palette, a change that initially did not find critical favor but helped establish his international reputation. |
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The Siamese peasantry, whose minds are hardly touched yet by Westernisation, and whose taxes have actually been lightened, seem to have been passive spectators. |
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Without it, reckons Euromonitor, arrivals would have been flat. As travel restrictions are lightened and the middle class rises, the importance of Chinese tourists is only going to increase. |
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The image of ascensus is exchanged for that of iter whose tiring weight is lightened and borne up by moments of light, which we may receive now and then. |
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As the rain lashed down, the main event was in danger of turning into the 4x100m freestyle but the skies above lightened and Bolt lightened the mood doing what Bolt always does. |
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They know that many times the pain is necessary, and therefore they drain the dregs with patience, only when it becomes unbearable do they beg for the weight of their cross to be lightened. |
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Read that as meaning that Frédéric Lô, JP Nataf and Jérémie Kisling, those modern-day kings of misery and slow, dark moods, were lightened up with jangling guitars. |
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Using the methods of calculation by finished elements, redundancies have been optimized, the structure lightened, by positioning the right materials at the right locations. |
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The rims of the clincher version have been lightened thanks to a new production procedure for the aluminium extrusions that makes it possible to eliminate all the excess material. |
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For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses. |
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It came at last. The sky lightened, the mist melted away, and then a long, low, far-off streak of pale yellow light floated on the eastern horizon. |
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Slave owners feared possible revolts if conditions were lightened. |
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