The rifle recoiled as it fired, and the shell exploded about a foot short of the missile. |
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The quarks recoiled, and the small shockwave forced three neutrons out of the atom. |
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The young mistress, on her part, recoiled from the idea of having an old lover, and so she pulled out his white hairs. |
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The man glanced over at him, then recoiled with an oath, almost tipping over his tankard of beer. |
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The more demure ladies in the group recoiled in horror, but my fatso friends and I peered at this formidable dish in silent wonder. |
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Software makers, however, have recoiled at such an idea, knowing that customers will receive tremendous horsepower and need fewer processors. |
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The girl flinched and recoiled, but after a few seconds, she stared at the ground again. |
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But she had no sooner taken a few steps forward than she suddenly recoiled. |
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For some completely unknown reason I hadn't pulled away, or recoiled in disgust and horror. |
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Michael recoiled as if the laughter was directed at him and shot a disturbed look at the man behind him. |
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Only a few moments passed before the unicorn whinnied, and suddenly recoiled, as if jarred by an electric shock. |
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Instead I recoiled in horror, letting out a loud, involuntary gasp of disgust, and dropped them back where I'd found them. |
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The next morning, I reached down to stroke my sleek calves and recoiled in horror when my fingers encountered a disgusting prickliness. |
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Strands of the light whiplashed round the mindscape, and the blue flame recoiled. |
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I remembered picking up a rubber johnny as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror. |
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Some reviewers have recoiled in horror from the film, denouncing him as a misogynist, a fake, a show-off, an incompetent director, and worse. |
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Upon seeing such, I recoiled, remembering her delicate state of mind when it came to men. |
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Even hardened journalists and academics, long resigned to their toil among the ignorant, have recoiled before the feeble-mindedness of the man. |
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It recoiled, struggling to crawl away, and its features twisted into a brief expression of pain or rage. |
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Both came from mainstream ranching traditions and initially recoiled at the new philosophy. |
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The fierce rollers of the spumous sea broke and recoiled, foaming upon the sandy beach. |
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No more though, they began to cry for mercy as the school collectively recoiled from the piercing sound that had broken the silence. |
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When the enemy reached the middle of the open space, he fired, and the gun hardly recoiled at all. |
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One shot bellowed out, and his gun recoiled, jumping backwards from the force of the bullet ripping from its nozzle. |
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A torch was shown in her face and she recoiled back in pain hitting the wall of wood behind her, blinking hard to try and accustom her eyes to the sharp light. |
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Howling in agony, the monster recoiled and twisted away, flailing in fury. |
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Some reviewers have recoiled in horror from the film, denouncing von Trier as a misogynist, a fake, a show-off, an incompetent director, and worse. |
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They gave the game away last year when the Government suggested church schools educate more children who are in care, and they recoiled in horror. |
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I recoiled in complete astonishment, the accident was not my fault, I was just standing there inoffensively. |
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Breathe deeply and you recoiled as the stench hit the bottom of your brain, a reptile memory suddenly brought alive. |
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I leaned out of the window but recoiled with disgust, for the young man with the pasty face stood below in the churchyard. |
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Without thinking, she recoiled and said the foulest curse word she knew. |
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With the hose fully recoiled in the reel, remove the two most inner self-tapping screws locked on the tension ring. |
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Consequently, the genie of war in Mindanao has apparently recoiled back to its bottle. |
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Khalib recoiled, smoothed down his brown nightshirt, and politely answered three reporters, of whom I was one. |
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When I started to dip a hand into it, he recoiled as if my arm were a puff adder. |
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When Sarah uncovered Aissa's face, she almost recoiled at the appalling sight. |
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She recoiled from it, and, with a suddenly distorted face, full of rage, dashed past him as if to enter the tomb. |
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After cooling and passing through an exit accumulator, the coated sheet is recoiled and removed from the line. |
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The voice sounded inches away from her ear, and Kiriam recoiled sideways, immediately knocking into somebody else. |
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He reached out as if meaning to grasp my hand but recoiled suddenly. |
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He began to pull up his shirt and the children recoiled in horror. |
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Suddenly Fenton's face recoiled and his hand flew up to his nose. |
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It took me a couple of seconds to focus before I recoiled in horror. |
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Some editors have recoiled from the idea, finding it a bit unseemly. |
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The theory is that Fraser recoiled from the idea of blaming a widely revered figure, and fellow Westminster alumni, especially one who cannot now defend himself. |
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And while other housemates recoiled in horror at the thought of picking objects out of a bucket of sheep's eyes, he grabbed a handful and wolfed it down. |
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The gun recoiled, and I saw my shot fly forward and hit him in the chest. |
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The gun recoiled as the bolt left the gun and flew through the air. |
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Sighing she recoiled her rope and remounted Diego and slowly rode off. |
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I could smell the liquor on his breath, and I recoiled, disgusted. |
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Yet despite his claim that man ranks beneath the beasts, the artist may have recoiled from depicting a creature whose lower half is human but whose upper half is animal. |
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In fact, he recoiled in disgust, his contempt clearly showing on his face. |
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But we recoiled against the idea that the only way to secure them was to work hard enough and long enough to own them. |
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As a teenager, I recoiled from this image of my father as a violent mess, and I began to build a better version in my own mind. |
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I called Tony to thank him, but instead of accepting the thanks he recoiled. |
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But until very recently, even Western societies often recoiled when confronted with a powerful woman in a position of authority. |
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He recoiled at the thought of allowing his steady girlfriend, Ms Boyle, from taking up more permanent residence in his home, and they went separate ways earlier this year. |
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As I write, two propositions from which every mainstream Jew in the last millennium would have instantly recoiled have become legitimate options within Orthodox Judaism. |
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He recoiled revealing another who swung his gun into line with me. |
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These allow the tethers to be uncoiled and recoiled as required. |
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We all recoiled with horror some two months ago when in an unprecedented act of senseless barbarity, madmen unleashed chemical weapons on unsuspecting Tokyo commuters one early spring morning. |
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But among the DPJ's 340,000 rank-and-file, Mr Kan won about five times as many votes, as party members recoiled from Mr Ozawa's murky reputation, financial scandals and faction-based political style. |
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On the other hand, there is yet a desire to stress the merit of the people which had welcomed God's law in a spirit of trust and humble submission, while the other nations had recoiled when faced with its demands. |
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It is only just over six months since 11 September, when the whole world recoiled in horror at one of the worst attacks ever perpetrated against our civilisation. |
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The spring recoiled hose reel can be upgraded to motor drive. |
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They recoiled with horror, took to the streets and they stopped it. |
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The Third Army recoiled towards Verdun, pursued by the 5th Army and the Fourth Army retreated to Sedan and Stenay. |
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The Romans recoiled at first but then Germanicus initiated destructive campaigns against those Germans whom the Romans blamed for their defeat. |
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Property Description: Isolated dwelling and recoiled it build in the Chapels soon it follow á descended of Saint Vicente. 3 Rooms of bed being one of them in suite. |
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Conservative governments and Liberal governments alike have recoiled from the task of nurturing the proud principle of openness which both parties originally championed in bringing forward the Access to Information Act. |
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Many Anglo-Canadians worried too about the receding imperial connection, and they recoiled at St. Laurent's refusal to support Britain during the Suez Crisis. |
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Prentice, who seems to have been an intelligent and sympathetic man, recoiled from the story, and decided to print the collection as it had originally been conceived. |
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As the United States prepared to defend Chinese Nationalist forces in Formosa against Communist attack, Ottawa recoiled from the prospect of renewed conflict in Asia. |
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The spring recoiled wire with a length of up to 8.00 meters is easily pulled out of the drum to be attached to the tensioning device opposite on the other side. |
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But large investors recoiled from the plan, believing that Flint was receiving a big increase in pay while his job description remained unchanged. |
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Klementina recoiled in horror and ran back inside. |
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I recoiled in horror though enchanted by her assailing tone and vatic peroration. |
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The Panthers attracted the best of a generation of young black militants who recoiled at the crawling conciliationism of the mainstream pro-Democratic Party civil rights leaders. |
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Romanticism revered the traditionalism of rural life and recoiled against the upheavals caused by industrialization, urbanization and the wretchedness of the working classes. |
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But the prerogative of creating peerages rested with the king, who recoiled from so drastic a step and rejected the unanimous advice of his cabinet. |
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And this week millions of viewers witnessed this inspirational youngster's total lack of self pity as he impishly recoiled in horror when Nicole Scherzinger tried to kiss him. |
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The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud. |
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