Beneath the all important religious divisions lurked anxieties about nationhood and ethnicity. |
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A blue damselfly lurked, wings swept back, then flashed out to hawk the beck. |
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A big pufferfish lurked in there and I took its portrait before making my way up to the superstructure, still in the lee of the current. |
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Anemones, bubble corals, soft tree corals, sea cucumbers and cushion stars harboured tiny shrimps and crabs, while seahorses lurked among algae. |
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I know Dean's lurked here at least a little, so on the off chance he's reading this, take care matey. |
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Drake's eyes made a quick scan of the alley to ensure that no other threat lurked nearby, then his gaze returned to the man. |
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We lurked on the email discussion list, posting pointed questions at opportune moments. |
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Towards the centre of the pier pipefish, mussels galore, conger and common eels, ballan wrasse and cuttlefish lurked. |
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I have to admit that when I first eyed the title of Walker's memoir a measurable amount of suspicion lurked in my heart. |
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A grove of crotons became a magical jungle where snakes and other exotic creatures lurked, waiting to pounce. |
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The light didn't quite reach the high ceiling where carved figures lurked in the shadows of a graceful groin vault. |
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One man was out washing his car but the remaining residents lurked inside behind twitching net curtains. |
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The hull was covered in green algae in which pairs of brown lizardfish lurked. |
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Two Weddell seals lay on the beach and a leopard seal lurked just offshore. |
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When Bates took control, the board had gone some way to mitigating that position, and yet disaster still lurked. |
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It lurked in air like a poisonous cloud, making everyone feel uneasy and uptight. |
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Beneath that formal newsreader exterior, who could have guessed that there lurked the spirit of a dance music diva? |
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Among pendant black coral lurked those photographers' delights, tiny orange and red long-nosed hawkfish. |
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We sat along the banks of the Rappahannock River downstream of Fredericksburg for some time while the enemy lurked opposite us. |
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Shadows lurked beyond the flickering firelight, blending in with the darkness. |
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Ramirez bowed his head in reverence, seeing once more the profound mind that lurked beneath Rakael's veneer of bickering and hauteur. |
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The mammals swam in tight circles to create a defensive barrier as the great white lurked under the surface. |
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I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat. |
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Underneath the velveteen upholstery lurked thick foam cushions into which my aching body sank blissfully. |
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Either way, evil lurked within to snare the unwitting and unwatchful until brave souls rose up to cleanse it. |
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It was all too easy to imagine one saw the gleam of metal as Rim troops lurked in ambush. |
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For in the dense tropical forests surrounding the region, lurked large numbers of angry young rebels known as Naxalites. |
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The film has unmasked Norman, and now he unmasks himself, to reveal the leering monster that lurked beneath all his personae. |
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Their reason was in the main the doubt that lurked behind many death sentences about the unerringness of the justice meted out. |
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First, she had to ride through the slums, where most of the cutthroat murderers and thieves lurked in the shadows. |
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She wasn't about to disturb the eight crow-size poults that lurked in the leaf litter behind their protective mother. |
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And with the coffee I am treated to a combative side of him I had suspected lurked beneath his benign surface but never thought to witness. |
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I've always suspected that underneath a woman of such gentlene perkiness lurked the heart of a tigress. |
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He still had a mysterious air about him and I was afraid of the possessive beast that lurked just below the surface. |
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Beneath the beetle brow and the thinning combover, however, lurked a singular songwriting talent. |
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Ghosts, ghouls, and spirits floated about and chatted with old friends, vampires lurked frighteningly close, and werewolves paced from along the walls. |
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The implications of map theory, game theory, topology, the fractals of chaos theory, have all lurked in ornament, awaiting their elevation to science. |
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Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict areas near the main highway leading west toward the embattled town of Fallujah. |
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To call him a character would be an understatement, but beneath the eccentric exterior lurked a diver with levels of discipline and skill I have rarely seen on my travels. |
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Beneath his military exterior, a gentler character had lurked, who loved music, painting and poetry and who knitted socks while under German fire. |
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Trading standards officers visited seven dealerships and found that beneath the cars' highly-polished paintwork lurked multiple breaches of safety regulations. |
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Eyes lurked in the shadows waiting for the right moment to strike. |
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Again the men were coerced under once more, and made to endure yet another rake along the keel of the ship, where lurked the treacherous gatherings of barnacles. |
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But in the dark places of the city silent figures lurked and flitted from shadow to deeper shadow as the Pharaoh's men clumped noisily by. |
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But in among the weeds of an overlong speech lurked some bold, potentially transformative ideas. |
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Only on closer inspection did we see, like the sci-fi classic V, that underneath the suave human exterior lurked a hideous reptilian monster. |
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Covered by a trail of new names, false claims, and new marital arrangements, deserters and bigamists often lurked just beyond the reach of the law. |
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My griottine crème brûlée was a bog-standard burnt cream in which lurked three maraschino cherries. |
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By the end of the 1980s, the powers waiting to relieve the socialist system of Eastern Europe lurked in the shadows. |
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A few Creek Indians, allied to the British Crown, lurked in the swamps around the town's perimeter. |
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In addition, the Netherlands must be congratulated for escaping from a group where Brazil, Gambia and Qatar also lurked. |
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Although the Crau de ma Mère had a fine fruity nose, in the mouth lurked harder tannins. |
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Long after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, rebels lurked in the jungles of Ratanakiri, a province in northeast Cambodia. |
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He kept toward the centre of the street-like corridors and avoided getting too close to the alleys, who knew what predator lurked in the darkness? |
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Better to think of it as the creative force that has lurked behind the last 999 of them. |
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As a Hollywood character actor he made his name in gangster movies, surrounded by brooding middle-aged hoodlums who cracked their knuckles and lurked sullenly at his shoulder. |
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This Service is one of the skeletons which are now emerging from the closet of the Treaty of Lisbon, having lurked in the darkness for years while the ratification process was incomplete. |
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The scene around them was currently plunged into gloom. Dark mists swirled round them and elephantine shapes lurked indistinctly in the shadows. |
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There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. |
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The glance was politely unnoting, but in it there yet lurked, far back, the unmistakable quality of a caress. |
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Now, at any rate, his wife and children would know the fate that lurked in the cloud that had hung over his household ever since he returned from the taiga. |
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Crocodiles lurked during times of flooding. |
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In contrast to the dangers that lurked in Asia, the prospects for peace and stability in Europe seemed more hopeful in 1955 than they had for a long time. |
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His client's lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words. |
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One problem that can follow transplant surgery is the unexpected reawakening of viruses that have lurked inactive in the patient or donor for years. |
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The theme of the marina is the life and adventures of the notorious pirate Peter Easton, who lurked in the waters near Harbour Grace and built his fort in Harbour Grace in the 17th century. |
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She glanced around suspiciously, as if the cold lurked, some icier confederate of it, somewhere nearby. |
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In the retelling a neighbor's cat that often lurked outside a window became a piglike ghoul that peered redly into the house at night and left cloven hoof prints in the snow. |
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While unemployed women often resorted to demeaning work as domestic servants, single unemployed men lurked in the streets and represented, to the government, a grave social danger. |
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Meanwhile, houses that are preserved as reverent shrines to the genius that once lurked within — with books left open on a leather-topped desk, bathed in green-shaded lamplight — can be equally off-putting in their own way. |
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All around in shadow lurked the shapes of trunks, wooden boxes, furniture, disused and broken. |
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Behind the Daffy Duck smile and customary tennis net veil, there lurked a greedy, bossy, old crabstick. |
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Even then, ruthlessness and outright quackery lurked behind the façade. |
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Thus, there, in that delectable mansion, accompanied with his beauties, he lurked in secrecy for the Grail Knights in order to drag them into concupiscence, which inevitably conduces people towards the infernal worlds. |
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If someone had warned them accurately of what lurked beyond their proposals, he or she would have been laughed out of their company as a fear-monger. |
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My attention now wandered to the swamp below me, the swamp where the grass was lush and green, and where I could distinguish bubbles as fish lurked in the deeper pools. |
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In these back streets lurked violence and sudden death, as well. |
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Roman Eremenko provided a hint of the danger which lurked, when he bent a pass inside Martin Demichelis with his right outstep, allowing Musa to race onto it and shoot wide. |
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The BBC TV reported that a Nile crocodile that has lurked a long time underwater to catch prey builds up a large oxygen debt. |
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I probably only lurked a couple months myself. |
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The centre console was where the aforementioned kaput sound system lurked, beside the heating and vent controls that tended to be too low down for my liking. |
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His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary. |
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