As he looked right at me, cigarette teetering on his lower lip with his mouth slightly open, he didn't flinch. |
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The House on the Rock is an architectural mishmash, patched together, built into the rock in places and teetering way out over it in another. |
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He talks in a soft Glasgow accent that sometimes seems to be teetering on the brink of a mid-Atlantic twang. |
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To those walking past his room he was like any other frail old man teetering at his walking frame like a branch swaying in a cruel breeze. |
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Despite the enormous accumulation of wealth by the wealthiest, the economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. |
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This season's styles range from sandals with barely a lift and lower heels, to teetering spikes that can do some serious damage. |
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I stood there a moment longer, teetering on my heels, my stomach lurching and twisting, waiting for him to turn around and see me. |
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Kate Sheedy is a very pretty, intelligent and articulate girl teetering on the brink of womanhood. |
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A tulip-shaped skirt, a blouse with enormous sleeves belted at the waist, teetering platform courts and matt tights in white, black or grey. |
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General clutter seems to reign supreme, culminating in a teetering mountain of disgustingly neglected pots and pans. |
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You can distinguish the female of the species by her exposed cleavage and teetering walk. |
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I found this a satisfying device, teetering on archness, but successful in maintaining a playful tone. |
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Bruno restored the balance from teetering totally towards the canvas by his ascent to a brief reign as holder of a version of the world title. |
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Who will triumph in teetering stilettos and who will fall flat on her fake-tanned bake? |
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His performance here finds him teetering precariously between majesty and ludicrousness. |
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The US economy is teetering between recession and growth, and if it sneezes we all catch a cold. |
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Molly looked at Aaron in surprise as he pulled himself up onto his feet, teetering unsteadily for a second. |
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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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So far it seems to be going rather well, notwithstanding my teetering healthfulness and total lack of income. |
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It's going to place a financial strain on everyone and those already teetering on the edge could find themselves going over. |
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The corporate sector is already teetering on the edge of a profits crisis, as the next chart shows. |
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The bolt jiggled and slowly raised, the heavy screw in it slowly coming undone, until it was almost teetering out. |
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Blue-chip shares were left teetering at the 4000 mark yesterday as nervy investors continued to fret over the global economy. |
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But, after teetering at the edge of the precipice, he woke up one morning feeling miraculously restored. |
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The perplexed liberal democracies in Central and Western Europe are increasingly egoistical, and are now teetering along an uncertain course. |
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Angelo proceeds Socratically with Isabella, teetering between forensic and deliberative styles. |
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Here is an amazingly prolific young songwriter who is teetering on the brink of worldwide recognition. |
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The train derails and chugs right off the side of the mountain, over the rusty iron rails and teetering wooden supports. |
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A burning ember becomes a surreptitious reference to a tense nation teetering on collapse. |
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Except while you are teetering on the precipice of your next upchuck, the only thing you crave is to be distracted. |
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Ana stood with the assistance of the bed, teetering unsteadily, smirk on her face, bottle in hand. |
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Despite teetering on the edge of overexposure, Winnie the Pooh remains one of Disney's most endearing characters. |
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The desktop itself was lost beneath teetering stacks of leather-bound volumes and slim folios that formed a parapet around the edges of the desk. |
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Her brown boots with their outsized 12 cm heels are just too cool for her to worry about details like being able to walk without teetering. |
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Trying to patch together a tour teetering on the brink of disaster is what he should be concerning himself with. |
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Santorini ranks among the most stylish Greek islands, its classic whitewashed, blue-domed Cycladic houses teetering atop steepling cliffs. |
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Many of them had a young baby girl smiling while sitting on her bottom in the tall grass or while teetering across a bridge or on a sidewalk. |
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Right in the middle of the room was Vince, his eyes were only partially open and his body was teetering back and forth. |
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She ran her hands through her hair in a gesture of aggravation and stood, teetering on unsteady legs. |
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Africa's mountain bongo antelopes are teetering on the brink of extinction because of deforestation and poaching. |
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In Kenya, meanwhile, the bongo antelopes, victims of deforestation and poaching, are teetering on the brink of extinction. |
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The existing two-bladed, semi-rigid, teetering rotor system is replaced with a four-bladed, hingeless, bearingless rotor system. |
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He pushed them both into the fountain while they were still teetering off balance. |
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My umbrella was worryingly teetering halfway between inside-out and not-inside-out. |
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Is the federal government not teetering on the edge of a slippery slope here and at risk of losing its balance because of this special agreement? |
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It spotlights the 23-year-old Bob teetering on the cusp of acoustic folk music and the mind-expanding new horizons offered by acid, free verse and electricity. |
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Bigger than ever, the sport is at a crossroads, teetering between reverence for its healing past and fear of a pain-filled future. |
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Tipper maintains that, when used as a guiding principle, survival of the fittest has led us teetering towards the edge of moral bankruptcy. |
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What you miss is tautness, and the tingling sense of teetering on the precipice, which might have been achieved with some cuts and tighter editing. |
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My legs, which I was already teetering on with dubious balance, seemed to give out and I collapsed, curling into a miserable ball under the glass. |
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No one would imagine listening to this debate that we are teetering on the edge of a massive European financial crisis. |
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Our city skylines are brimming with teetering towers of phallic ambition, endlessly choked with competing monuments to the male member. |
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When the government was leading us and teetering into recession, did it put the money out the door more expeditiously? |
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The sad reality of that scenario playing out is many of these families are already teetering on the brink of bankruptcy or beyond. |
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We have had three quarters of negative economic growth and our economy is teetering, but it did not have to be that way. |
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The R22 is the smallest helicopter in its class and both models incorporate a unique cyclic control and teetering rotor system. |
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His personality, teetering on the brink of madness, is atypical, fascinating. |
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Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Agriculture has utterly failed to deliver assistance to tobacco farmers, teetering on the brink of disaster. |
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Despite all these alarming facts, the Commission has unfortunately only dared to take one teetering step forward. |
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We can't read or watch the news these days without a story about the teetering economy, declining sales and corporate cutbacks. |
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The harbour workers and ancillary staff who rely on the white fish fleet for a living are now teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. |
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A global village which has been hit by an earthquake and all its buildings, both large and small, strong and weak, are teetering. |
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But the suckerfish and the coho salmon are teetering on the brink of extinction and both are afforded protection under the Endangered Species Act. |
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I heard heavy footsteps on the porch steps and glanced over as the guy almost fell but grabbed the railing, teetering to the left unsteadily with a quiet laugh. |
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He was swaying dangerously, teetering near the edge of the house. |
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Hidden debt not on balance sheets led many investors to believe companies were healthy when in fact they were teetering on the edge of insolvency. |
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But the challenge of Europe is to accept a connection to a millstone that has the financial world teetering. |
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Washington is in panic mode and your mutual fund is teetering on the brink. |
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And, unless you are adept at teetering in mules, wearing shoes without tights is uncomfortable, especially if you have to walk more than a few yards. |
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It is impossible to escape the notion that the club is teetering on a ledge of uncertainty, a long, ungraceful fall on one side, a firm, solid footing on the other. |
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The lack of natural checks and balances from top predators and browsers has led to some species teetering on the brink of extinction, while others spread like plagues. |
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The baker's union took a lot of heat for refusing to renegotiate its contracts, even as the company was obviously teetering. |
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Meanwhile, songs like Peut-Être pack a powerful emotional punch, lovers promising each other the world while teetering on the knife-edge of uncertainty. |
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Authorities discovered a silver Jeep Cherokee teetering atop the fence near Yuma, Arizona just after midnight Tuesday. |
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Set teetering at the edge of a cliff facing the village of Le Castellet, La Cadière d'Azur is an ancient medieval village, proffering sumptuous panoramic views stretching all the way to Med! |
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The Bell 212 has a teetering semi-rigid rotor system. |
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On teetering semi-rigid rotor systems, the flapping angle is restrained to specific limits: on the Bell 212, a static stop on the blade yoke limits flapping by contacting the surface of the rotor mast. |
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Mr. Speaker, two years ago, the government inherited the strongest economy in the G-8 and now the Conservative government has Canada teetering on the edge of a deficit. |
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How is it that no Vorondadek Son has ever wavered in loyalty to Michael, while some of his brightest Lanonandeks find themselves teetering on the brink of rebellious self assertion? |
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The eurozone is teetering on the brink of a possible third recession, with high unemployment, falling growth and the real risk of falling prices too. |
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The boulder was teetering on the lip of the plateau. |
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Peering closer at a teetering sculpture made from a chair base, model airplane fuselages, a drawer and a model train station, a reporter tripped over a gewgaw at its base. |
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Taken altogether this rather Ptolemaic bill of epicyclical changes left my scansion teetering at the edge of bankruptcy. |
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The model emerged from her apartment in New York City on Friday wearing the low-necked, high-waisted pajama set of our most confusing dreams, along with some teetering white boots. |
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Rescue teams used cherrypickers to help terrified tourists down from the teetering cable cars. |
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But before long we realized that snapping turtles at the Pinery were teetering on the brink of disaster, and the project quickly turned into a hands-on conservation job. |
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The researchers ruled out effects of anxiety associated with being tied up by repeating the tests on people who stood on a teetering balance board. |
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Despite appearances, the firm was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. |
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One report after another, in true multifariousness, has been persuasively arguing that we are teetering on a cliff before climatic catastrophes send us over. |
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Then I was teetering between Goblet of Fire and Triwizard Tournament. |
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