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With all of his panic and desperation behind it, the horn blue loud and true
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Keeping moving, I’d started on the bathroom, dealing with the bath, hand basin and loo in turn and ending up scrubbing the bathroom floor with an energy driven by desperation not to fall apart
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’ He said urgently, more than a tinge of desperation showing in his voice ‘You’ve got to, Liz
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dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for
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I was only feeling a deep grief growing fast inside me, turning into a dark ocean of self-pity and desperation
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He looked down upon the bright and savage earth for the first time in countless measures of eternity and there Smith saw something quite unexpected; the utterly familiar shape of loneliness embodied in the outlandish shell of the hairless ape who dared to contemplate creation, baying at the stars, calling out in utter desperation for the companionship that comes with that first sparkling moment of harmony within the song of songs
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In these years of lonely desperation, when men came and went,
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There was a general air of desperation
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In desperation the first lady finally consulted one of her
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I remember when we read it at Lowther Park I was struck by the desperation she must have felt
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“There are degrees of desperation
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Billy sees the look of desperation in Ted's eyes
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’ Chrissie said, desperation beginning to fringe her tones
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Jarvis detected the air of desperation appearing down the telephone line with satisfaction
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Jean was torn between curiosity and desperation
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From what he’d just told her, she should be able to understand his desperation, how alone he was
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He couldn't shake free from her grip, her strength being fueled by the desperation in her eyes
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Looking about in desperation, he sighted a horse tethered
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"In desperation, to preserve what it perceives as its own life
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It seemed that the entity had left itself exposed in its desperation to fix its hack
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combination of desperation and annoyance
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And she couldn’t even blame it on desperation
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He looked into her tear-filled eyes and saw the heartache and desperation lurking under the surface, naked in their honesty
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Immediately his mind berated him for even thinking that! How could he just leave her in this state without even trying? He brushed his hand through his hair, desperation setting in
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All the while, there was a desperation in his eyes
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Zarko sighed out of desperation and brushed his hand through his hair
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He imagined the spoiled, gilded residents in panic, screaming and running in desperation for their very lives - in undiluted terror
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When the rain was not enough to dispel the insects, the rawest desperation found him tripping down the stairway to the lower level and tumbling into the waters below
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“Oh,” he moaned, shaking his head in desperation
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She recalled before the wild-eyed look of desperation in his face – the man with too many dark experiences
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Garrett sputtered in desperation
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In desperation he said to the facing display: ‘Increase field power
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desperation, Maffitt sailed to Cuba and there, he, too, was
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” I held her with desperation and whispered back
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Finally, in desperation, I bolted up from my hand-crocheted cave ready to boot the cat all the way back to the Humane Society from whence he came
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He looked her in the eyes and saw desperation behind her arrogance
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” She saw the desperation in his handsome brown eyes and sighed
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President Ivanov was someone who had been democratically elected – though could there have been a more stark illustration of the flawed nature of democracy? In centuries past, people voted for the radical alternative seemingly out of desperation, for whoever seemed convincing enough that they alone held the key to a better future
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He saw the desperation in her eyes and realised this must be hard for her too
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“But I have to keep seeing you,” he said with desperation
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Alexia stood facing him, eyes wide with desperation and tears streaming from red eyes
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He ran with desperation; a number of times he saw vampires feeding on servants or soldiers, but they were not Jean; they were not his heart, so he kept running
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It was desperation that fuelled him
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’ The desperation probably evident in her voice
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Raven called out in desperation, begging for the cat to stop, but it wouldn't
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Hope leapt into Raven’s heart and his eyes widened in desperation
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Renewed with courage born of desperation, she met his gaze steadily
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The defense intercepted an Atlanta desperation pass on 4th down and it was over
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“There’s not much to tell really,” said Millin with grave desperation
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anxiously about, her sense of desperation reflected in the faces of the others
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But he knew that was just desperation
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She tried to thrash free, all sense of strategy forgotten in pure desperation
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The blade snapped at the hilt, but the damage was done and Manna looked in desperation as his life force vanished quickly
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Sure, it had been out of desperation, but she could hardly start carrying a sword and then later be surprised it could cut someone
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“No,” she wailed, tears streaming down her face, her bloody hands tugging at the stubborn material in desperation
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The compulsion to breathe was so overpowering now that he began thrashing about in desperation, heart hammering as he rolled onto his back and began scrabbling at the roof in a desperate search for air
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In desperation, Brock turned to the powers of the Dark Healing
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Brock's desperation outweighed his common sense, but he was far too guilty over the deaths of his sister and friends, and now the old Custodian, to pay any heed to that now
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In desperation the young badger sat back on his haunches and began tugging at it with strong lunges
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In the cool fading light of a new moon, he looked about in desperation, searching for some small hope, even though he knew there was none
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He shook his head in desperation, knowing that if he fainted now, he was dead
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"What is it? What do you want? Why won't you help me?" he shouted, voice cracking with desperation
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Out of this came a new form of corruption called "detente" which was an utter failure borne out of desperation by weak men
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In desperation he called in the Council rodent exterminators, then the Health people, and finally the Sewage Department
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Groaning for the tenth time, I clutched at my stomach in desperation
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A momentary desperation ploy
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The desperation in her voice was obvious and Frank wondered what she was on
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Out of desperation, she told him it was Leon, your friend’s brother who told her
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I thought of the madness that had come over me that night, the recklessness, my willingness to let everything go—and my desperation to live
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And the strange desperation twisted into a kind of exulting fulfillment
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The memories of hospitals and desperation faded as they were replaced with ones of Christmas lights and spirit
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Much to her amusement, he clutched at the saddle in desperation when his feet found earth and his wobbly legs would barely hold him
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“Wait! Slow down!” his voice called in interrupted bursts with such desperation that it almost cost her self-control
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It sounded like a convincing cry of desperation, when she reenacted the scene
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debt, desperation and the need to accumulate
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In desperation she threw herself against it over and over again, making it squeak its slow way across the linoleum, millimetre by millimetre
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“What happen, Beth?” she asked, fear and desperation in her voice
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of desperation while man and beast splashed into the stream
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He reached out in desperation with a clutching hand
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’ He lived in poverty and desperation
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Such heretic lies had never been uttered before and never would be again, their venomous treachery so base that the Castigator himself is said to have cried in desperation, for he had never thought a dearly loved brother like Shan could fall from grace like a star falls from the night sky
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Eyes wide, he shushed the doctor before he could speak, and leaned over the bed in desperation
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His phone rang and he stabbed a claw-like finger in desperation at the button
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This curious explanation has about it more than a touch of desperation
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The rock and horror seemed far away, I felt it was her and I alone again, as we made love in the bottom of the boat, her hand guiding Argyl into me, her clutching at me as we made love, her joy at seeing my joy, her desperation to pull me away and save me, as if her love would be enough to break me free of masters and slaves, make me whole
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But then, he met her, and somehow scraped up either the courage or the desperation to speak to her
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“Mmmmmm!” He heard a muffled sound full of desperation as another part of the brown flew up and then down, covering the bare part
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Suddenly Nisaba, in a desperation marked by the anticipated loss that was etched upon her features, leaped across the narrow divide, throwing herself into the surprised arms of Nimrud, hugging him with an intensity that caused him to stagger back a step
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Someone cried? Filled with desperation and powerlessness
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He remembered all the things that he’d tried in the desperation of those earlier times
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She had lost all of her grace and style and he had seemed to take on what she had so easily cast aside in her desperation
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She remembered the bruise on her thigh, and imagined the desperation that it had implied
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Amidst the desperation to be released and get away from him, came that little tickling in her stomach and send sparks out into her whole body
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There was the longing, the sorrow, the desperation, and he smiled to it
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Junya had a look of desperation on his
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She now called loudly for him in desperation
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His use of beyond all reasonable doubt has to me an element of desperation about it
