He glanced up from his tankard as the tavern door swung open and a tall cloaked man entered. |
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Grunting, the youth swung wildly in a violent riposte, not caring what he hit. |
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Her basket no longer swung jauntily from its place at the crook of her elbow, nor did she bounce gaily on the springy moss beneath her feet. |
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The Flying Fangalis swung across the trapeze with curved blades, slashing the flailing woman across her mid-section. |
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After I ran out of breath, I sat down on the swing, and swung slowly as Alex sat on the sand and made sandcastles. |
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The Confederate frigate Halberd swung a wide arc around the freighter's stern and approached her docking port from aft. |
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Shaking his head at the stupidity of his thoughts, he pulled the sword from its sheath and swung the blade experimentally. |
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She swung herself easily from hold to hold, her lithe body moving almost joyfully up the rock. |
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Corrina swung open the large arched door, only to be greeted by Dean, Igby, and a girl Corrina didn't know by name but recognized from school. |
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As the game swung to the other end, the Hawks had a chance to demonstrate the little routine they do from most lineouts. |
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The door swung in to reveal a handsome young guard in the full dress black and tan livery of House Domi. |
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He had exposed the southern flank the previous afternoon when he had swung his panzers sharply westwards towards the English Channel. |
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I gave the stick a mighty heave and it swung out in a beautiful, soaring arc. |
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He swung his legs round, and slid slowly into the long grass, which came up to his knees. |
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After a minute of strained concentration, a small click sounded and the door swung open, revealing a very long set of marble stairs. |
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The upbeat mood swung wildly from the Tories to the Lib Dems as supporters scrutinised the ballot papers for clues. |
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There was something willowy in the way she swung her slender hips the slightest bit as she rounded a table. |
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Throughout the fight Cantwell swung wildly at the champion with round-arm swings which Petelo easily avoided. |
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Jerry swung the front door open, a big toothy smile spread across his face. |
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The heavy steel door swung open and Grimes lumbered awkwardly through the entrance, key ring bouncing from the ridges of fat around his waist. |
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The carriage door swung open, revealing a tall woman with sable hair and dressed in an azure gown, bringing out her gray-blue eyes. |
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Reynolds painted his florid, bald, ruddy countenance many times, and for decades less distinguished portraits swung outside countless taverns. |
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William's prestige soared and popular opinion once again swung behind the resistance movement. |
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Taking a few deep breaths to calm down, she swung her legs over the side of the cot and sat on the edge. |
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I stepped out, swung around, grabbed the other side of the ladder and placed my foot on the proper rung. |
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The game had swung back in their favour and they looked like assuming control. |
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It seemed to take no notice of them and swung onto a low branch above Katrina holding on only by its feet. |
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As soon as she was out of sight of the house, she swung her right leg up over to the other side to ride astride. |
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It swung open with a heavy metallic moan, and I was shoved inside the dark room. |
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There is little dignity in being washed, fed, or swung up in a hoist to be toileted. |
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Janet carefully swung one leg over the sill and rested her small foot on the narrow toehold as she shifted the rest of her through the opening. |
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While Kas's hands were busy trying to pry the stranglers off his neck, his legs swung free. |
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Just then, there was a short knock and the door swung open to reveal his mother, undoing her tight, business-like bun. |
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Jumping back from the dagger she swung her sword at the opening that she saw. |
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Incense of sandalwood swung from the thurible in his hand, smoking blue over font, chalice, and paten. |
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Some of them swung thuribles through the incense-laden air, while others picked scarlet grapes from the vines. |
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It's swung in from the right and Sol Campbell's unconvincing attempt at a clearance goes out for a Celta Vigo throw-in. |
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Whirling around, he swung hard with the Golden Axe, deflecting a flurry of knives that had been thrown in his direction. |
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Anyway, I was walking along a mall when a woman suddenly swung around and bashed into me. |
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Sometimes this tale of interrupted promise swung on pitifully threadbare evidence. |
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From her seat at the kitchen table, Miri took a small sip of her tea and swung one leg toward the housekeeper. |
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The starboard banks of oars dipped hard into the water, and the trading ship swung abruptly to the left and slowly glided to the dock. |
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He looked at Joe in astonishment, then threw back the bedcovers and swung his legs over the edge of the bed. |
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The young Spaniard swung at it and sent the ball screaming past the helpless Gianluigi Buffon and into the left-hand side of the Juve goal. |
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I swung my leg balletically up over the edge of the table to reveal that I was wearing orange fluorescent ankle socks. |
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As a dancer, he swung away from his axis to revolutionize the role of the male ballet dancer. |
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Dunstan had drawn his blade and swung round, the horses pulling the cart rolling their eyes in fright, drawing to a halt. |
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Vincent snorted, and turned the doorknob into molten slag once it had swung shut again. |
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Laughing she swung to the ground with the family dog yipping at the bottom. |
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The door was locked, but he rapped on it softly for several minutes and finally it swung open. |
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Once word of the network hit the papers, the telco and service provider lobby swung into action. |
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After fumbling a moment he unlatched the door and it swung slackly open, the quill between the bars following it out. |
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She reined in her horse at the gates and swung down, jamming one of the keys into the padlock on the gate. |
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I pushed the arms away from me and swung around, jamming my fist into the body of the person holding me. |
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With white he quickly swung his queen over to the kingside and proceeded to advance his pawns. |
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She was standing on the edge of the huge rock, teetering, and her reddish-brown hair swung about as she did. |
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The great doors swung open, and there upon an embalming slab lay her battered body. |
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And it was a relief when Jude swung the steel-hooked gaffing pole over the side, and hauled on board a solid, quivering muscle of a fish. |
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I grabbed her, picked her up, and swung her around like they do in the movies. |
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The unlucky bobble saw the ball hit Merris on the arm as he swung to clear and referee Phil Prosser pointed to the spot. |
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As he neared the boat house, he swung out away from the boathouse towards the edge of the trees, keeping as far away from the docks as possible. |
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The men swung axes and hammers into the aluminum skin on the tapering wings and fuselages. |
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All we remark upon is that the people of Australia, or Spain, or wherever, have swung to the right, or to the left. |
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As the march swung past Number 10 there was a cacophony of whistles, boos, jeers and insults. |
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The ball's swung out to the edge of the area on the left, where he decides to have a lash at goal. |
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In the white poplar, a broad shade tree in their grandparents' yard, Louise and Elizabeth climbed, swung, and hid. |
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After a single knock on the door, Amy swung it open, smiling widely at the two of us. |
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Sitting on the stern of the skiff I swung my legs into the boat then made myself comfortable in one of the padded seats. |
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I wiggled my toes before moving towards the door turning on the lights and then I swung it open. |
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I swung onto his back, and he strode away from the mounting block, pricking his ears hopefully towards the barn. |
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I stepped on the mounting block and Charlie held Rocket's bridle, while I swung my leg over the big horse. |
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I let out a blood-curdling scream as the bike swung round and smashed into the low wall in front of number fifteen. |
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The ramp began to slide back inside the side of the ship and the airlock door automatically swung shut. |
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The door was ajar and swung open without resistance, and with Tabitha at home that did not happen. |
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Anchor and killick went down, JOLLY ROSE swung to, and he fastened everything snug and tight. |
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She swung her legs over the side of the bed, and threw off her down blanket. |
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A branch from the tallest tree, the one at the top tier of the backyard, swung out almost over us. |
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The window suddenly swung open inside, the frame knocking him hard on the chin and sending him sprawling on his back. |
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Our scenic car, with its wrap-around windows, swung up to Birg at the junction of two, huge, mountain ridges. |
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She crouched, turned, and swung her blade in a wide arc, making a sharp, whistling sound. |
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Amaril held a palm up and sharply swung it sidewards, all of the rocks followed his arm, flying across the cavern. |
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Immediately, the doors swung open, and a soldier hurried out, carrying a lit lantern. |
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He stood panting hard, then yowled and drew his sword, wielding it like a bat as he swung. |
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We swung out of the bazaar, weaved through the rickshaws and donkey carts and the gaudily decorated buses and headed West. |
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They swung from the monkey bars and grinned from the hopscotch lines etched on the pavement. |
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He put it on, swung down from the sides the cheek-guards, fastened the metal latch tightly. |
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The sax and swung ride cymbal suggest sexuality, but the lyrics never make it explicit. |
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Having grabbed all the books she needed for the weekend, Melanie shut her locker door, zipped up her backpack, and swung it over her shoulder. |
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I watched quietly as the other boats in the anchorage swung on their moorings. |
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She kept up appearances but, on the inside, she reportedly swung between acceptance, resentfulness and despondency. |
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With a swift smooth move, one of the figures slid his sword out of the scabbard, and swung the blade at the drunk. |
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The door suddenly swung open and a tall man with short black hair and light brown eyes was staring at me. |
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The great hand-bell by lusty arm was deftly swung three times resoundingly. |
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In the process it swung in the tide and broke its back as it settled across its own previous scour in the seabed. |
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The door swung open before he could reach it, and he was forced to leap back to avoid having his nose broken for the second time. |
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An animatronic horse apparently malfunctioned and didn't pull the actor's head back as co-star Hiroyaki Sanada swung his sword. |
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The door swung open and Kata walked in, dragging herself across the room to flop down on the couch, exhaling loudly. |
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Michael twisted painfully out of the way and swung his sword left-handed in an awkward but powerful arc. |
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Just as I expected, Brand was ready with his witty retorts as I swung open the door. |
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The door swung open and a flurry of snow came in and quickly started to make pools on the floor. |
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So, I sat on the edge of the bath, swung my legs over the side, switched on the taps and reached for the shower head. |
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As the ship hauled out into the stream, her bow was swung by the tide downward, and her helm was put to the starboard. |
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I felt a rush of jitters, my arms swung apishly like pendulums and my legs seemed disconnected, lumbering stilts. |
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He swung her around, her white dress billowed out behind her, until they both ended up cuddling on the ground looking up at the sky. |
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One morning our door swung open, and the room was suddenly filled with a brigadier, two majors, and our own commanding officer. |
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The door swung open with a squeal of misaligned hinges and I squinted into glow of the lantern on the wall opposite. |
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Swung around the head by a string they produce quivering vibrations in the air and have particular significance for initiation rites. |
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So outraged he swung into action and summoned the former Baltimore Ravens running back to the NFL Vatican on Park Avenue. |
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I swung my car around and drove back in the direction I'd just come from. |
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Their stocky Indian driver, pigtailed and black-hatted, followed them astride a mule and quirted their hindquarters with a length of rope which he swung like a lariat. |
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The Bahamas' capital, with its large, sheltered harbour, has swung many times from boomtown to backwater and back again in its rather raffish past. |
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She jumped, shrieking as she quickly swung around to face her addresser. |
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A green light flashed over the small inner hatch and the door swung open as Terry Reeve and a makeshift team of medics stormed in and began to administer to the wounded. |
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Sheldon went for the fourth man and swung her leg at his stomach. |
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She inserted it in the keyhole, and it gave a small click and swung open. |
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Before she could think, Valerie had swung her leg and kicked as hard as she could at the wooden chair Dev sat on, sending him tumbling onto the ground. |
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She swung towards the raucous men, her raven hair streaming behind her. |
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However, just a few years later, the decision swung back around with the quota being raised to 121 days. |
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The giant bear flicked his ears and, with unmistakable restraint, swung away and disappeared into the trees. |
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We were watching Annie, another centre falconer, luring a young lanner through a pattern of stoops and dives after a pair of meat-garnished, dried wings swung on a long cord. |
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I sometimes think I'm not cut out for this whole technology lark, and today my faith in that belief has swung wildly from one extreme to the other. |
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So I selected a more resistive gear and swung into a steady rhythm. |
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But just as they came to the top, a big rig was coming towards them, and to save his own life, the driver in the truck swung back to the appropriate side. |
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Atapattu followed for nine in Pollock's next over, the ninth of the morning, after nicking a full-length delivery that swung away from the right-hander. |
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He rang the bell and a few seconds later the door slowly swung open. |
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The muscle is swung around and sutured to the caudal portion of the defect at the pectoralis major's origin and at the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle. |
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She swung around, tying the robe around her waist, giving him a glare. |
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She swung the blade in a wide arc, the edge tilted slightly. |
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The door swung open to admit Helga, a buxom barmaid bearing a loaded tray. |
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She swung it lazily and with ease, and roped the wild mustang. |
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I sighed, and swung my legs round, sitting up on the edge of the bed. |
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I stopped her and swung her round to give her a full on kiss. |
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The political pendulum swung back towards the crown in 1772 when an increasingly discredited system was overturned by Gustav III's remarkably popular royalist coup. |
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She swung up into the saddle, and nudged the chestnut into a fast lope. |
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His arms were aching in pain as he swung above the floor of the scaffold. |
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Behind him, the door swung open and a guard pushed a cart into the room. |
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Gone was the mercurial, tempestuous socialite who didn't know what she wanted, swung from mood to mood, loved childish games, or danced the night away. |
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I nodded, swung out the window, and scooched down the drainpipe. |
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Instead of a verge and foliot escapements they used a device called a balance wheel, which swung back and forth regulating the motion of the gears. |
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There has been a marked decrease in the number of dogs roaming loose on local roads and housing estates since the Dog Warden service swung back into action. |
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The ball then swung from side to side and in the 25th minute he should have opened the scoring, but he ballooned the ball over the crossbar from 10 metres. |
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My flickering flashlight swung across a bank of overhead stowage. |
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We sent boats with ropes and hawsers to the rocks, wound a rope round a rock, made a hawser fast to the rope, and swung to it with a length of hawser. |
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While Virginia has gone from solidly Republican to a swing state, southwestern Virginia has swung the other way. |
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A year ago, majorities across the country supported the initiative, but polls have swung decisively in the other direction since. |
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I think the pendulum has swung back on that because of books like The Blood Telegram. |
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She set her teeth and swung around, pointing the gun at his face. |
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I drove around the block, swung across the road in what I thought was impeccable style, and was just moving into position by the pavement, when a police car drew up beside me. |
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He held his breath and swung his arms out, but a fist buried itself in his belly, emptying his lungs, and when he sucked in air, he knew he was in terrible trouble. |
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Whilst standing on a traffic island waiting to cross the exit from a roundabout, one car entered the roundabout in the wrong lane, and swung off at the first exit. |
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Cora swung by them, dancing again with her lieutenant, and looking up trancedly into the gallant eyes of the triumphant and intoxicated young man. |
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From that she swung and caught hold of one of the set of looped vines and using them as trapezes she swung her way across to the flower in the middle. |
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Much of the debate swung around definitions of biography and memoir. |
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I shouldered past a junior officer and swung my lower body out the window. |
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Right as I was thinking that the door swung open and a small tubby woman came speeding through and sat down on the chair at the other side of the desk. |
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Both sets of defences were on high alert as play swung from side to side. |
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He swung the gun around, firing two sharp blasts at the other man. |
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The sleeves would ride up your arms when you swung, the shoulders were too tight, and we wound up taking the blasted things off when we had a shot that really mattered. |
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After a few minutes, the door swung open, and Neko blinked up at me. |
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He swung his bar-code reader like some kind of ray gun, the tiny machine bleeping and blooping as it scanned bar codes printed and pasted across the counter in front of him. |
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Running full speed into the door it swung open easily and I tumbled down the two steps onto a boarded floor, sending up a thick cloud of dust that grayed the air. |
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Andreas swung his arm emphatically with a little bobble of his head. |
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She swung the large slab of mahogany open to rest her eyes upon Marcus. |
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After powdering the faux sea duck, she swung high to make the make-believe mallard dinner. |
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Accompanied by William de Roches, his seneschal in Anjou, he swung his mercenary army rapidly south to protect her. |
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Grant Brebner swung a foot at it and missed before Kevin Thomson tried to sclaff the ball to safety. |
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The ship is swung, that is rotated about a fixed point while its heading is noted by alignment with fixed points on the shore. |
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Fly-half Andy Lee booted Saracens into the lead with a penalty but went on to rue four miskicks at goal which might have swung the match. |
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At his signal, a gate at the far end of the enclosure was swung open. |
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Paul Anderson swung in a corner and Loach made a feeble attempt to keep out a header from skipper Luke Chambers. |
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In politics, a dead man walking is someone still in power after public opinion has swung against him. |
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The tide was full and the dingey was off keel. The punt nosed the pebbly slope like a terrier, but her stern swung clear. |
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With a yo-heave-ho and a lusty yell they swung a beam and a side wall fell. |
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It wasn't long before the crowd's mood swung towards restless irritability. |
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The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise. |
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A hundred yards away a cluster of boys on the deck of a sturdy cabin-cruiser swung their caps and sent a hail across. |
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Upon learning the whereabouts of the Prussian army, the French swung westwards and crossed the Saale with overwhelming force. |
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A cut fastball kept sliding inside on Kotchman, but he swung anyway and the ball was actually fouled off his left hand. |
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He gripped his Stanley knife and swung open the door almost detaching it from its hinges. |
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Throughout this period the Lombard princes swung in allegiance from one party to another. |
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The English, however, employed Welsh longbowmen, who swung strategic superiority in their favour. |
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But the pendulum swung again and after Thermidor, the men who had endorsed the massacres were denounced as terrorists. |
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Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back. |
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This declaration resulted in a series of defections from the rebel movement, and the tide of the conflict swung in Henry's favour. |
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The Arctic is now suffering the fastest absolute temperature rises, but temperatures have naturally swung widely in history. |
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The clock chimed the hour and then audibly tocked as the pendulum swung behind the glass pane of the door. |
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Their rescuers swung into action after cargo ship Chengtu received their distress call. |
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He had swung round the circle of theories and systems in which his age abounded, without finding relief. |
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He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole. |
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In the subsequent forty years the seat swung between Conservative and Labour, but since 1945 it has been generally considered a Labour safe seat. |
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Rather, Moreau planned to cross the Rhine near Basel where the river swung to the north. |
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Then he created a modified dueling tree, featuring six steel targets that swung from one side of a central column to the other when shot. |
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Coming back after tea, England immediately lost two wickets to Shaun Tait, who used the cloud cover to good effect and swung the ball well. |
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Halleck nodded, heard the faint susurration and felt the air shift as a lockport swung open beside him. |
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The tour featured stage props including a giant phallus and a rope on which Jagger swung out over the audience. |
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After paying out chain, we swung clear, but our anchors were no doubt afoul of hers. |
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He tried to climb into the carriage, but he gripped the open door, which swung back, causing him to lose his grip. |
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Holding his stick double-handed, the man swung it around mid-height towards Henry's already bruised rib cage. |
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By the second half of the 20th century, the pendulum had swung back towards road transport. |
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It swung one way and then the other, with Kas and Lisicki turning a 3-0 deficit into a 6-3 lead only to see three set points go begging. |
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Mr Vince secured himself to the bridge railing and swung over the top then lifted the woman into the arms of a police officer. |
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Her padded and pearl-embroidered oversleeves swung free of her silken arms and might brush him as she passed. |
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Farmed pigs have few champions to match the outraged ecologists who swung the tide of public taste away from over-fished Chilean sea bass and orange roughy a decade ago. |
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Jane climbed a few more paces behind him and then peeped over the ridge. Just beyond began a shallow swale that deepened and widened into a valley, and then swung to the left. |
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When America had finally swung into war he offered himself as a supercook and was actually put in charge of the mess halls and kitchens of barracks. |
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With Holmes still pressed against the side of the carriage, the door, with Huskisson hanging on to it, swung out directly into the path of Rocket. |
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The pick was swung horizontally to a point beyond the top of their head. |
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When separation was complete, the southern part of Africa swung back to some extent, with the sediments in the Benue Trough compressed and folded. |
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I swung the bat, barely bipped the ball, and sent it spinning off into a neighbor's yard. That was the closest I'd come to hitting that thing all day. |
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Heavily outnumbered by Boedicker's four light cruisers, Chester was pounded before being relieved by Hood's heavy units, which swung westward for that purpose. |
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He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could. |
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On 26 October, the 3rd Canadian Division captured its objective at Wolf Copse, then swung back its northern flank to link with the adjacent division of the Fifth Army. |
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Over the next four years, neither Henry nor the barons were able to restore stability in England, and power swung back and forth between the different factions. |
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Unfortunately, the pendulum has swung way too far to the other end where the saying in the industry is is that if you could fog a mirror, you could get a loan. |
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Ponting narrowly survived being run out early on and this proved crucial in the context of the match as the momentum gradually swung in Australia's direction. |
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Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed. |
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I work nights so didn't see the event but it was heart warming to see the union flag being swung with vigour by the middle Englanders of Droitwich Spa. |
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Charles, who was wearing a navy blue beret, was sporting a purple bruise under his right eye caused by a car door which swung shut on him while parked on a slope. |
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David Capelin swung a sand wedge at his one-year-old bull mastiff-cross, Lucy, after discovering she had eaten his shopping and messed on the kitchen floor. |
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Lombard swung at the sweet pea he had dropped, caught it neatly with the toe of his shoe, and kited it upward with grim zest, as though doing that made him feel a lot better. |
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Emerging from swathes of red silk, Dhupia, who had poured herself into a glittering golden suit, swung her hips to Sheila Ki Jawani and Zor Ka Jhatka from Action Replayy. |
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The hosts pulled back level, but when Will Barrett converted a chance created by attackman Jonathan Aspinall, the momentum swung back to the visitors. |
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Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's cutback and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal. |
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He swung wildly at the guy's head, but ended up on the floor. |
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I don't know how long it might have gone on if Grandfather hadn't lost his temper. He swung the bridle up over his head and whanged it down across the buckskin's rump. |
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German reaction to the Revolution swung from favourable to antagonistic. |
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If he could only get away from the holes in the banks, he thought, there would be no more faces. He swung off the path and plunged into the untrodden places of the wood. |
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Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. |
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