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    1. K perhaps half a notch above torpor wil


    2. The volume rises a notch,


    3. Two crewmembers, working nearby, stop what they are doing to watch and Joris, responding to the increased audience, cranks his antics up a notch


    4. The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders


    5. Another approach is to kick it up a notch and turn your thoughts in a more empowering direction


    6. top notch as you may think it to be


    7. “Any boyfriends?” I asked and the tension increased a notch or two


    8. There is a lump in his throat and his heart rate has jumped up a notch, but he hides it well


    9. Something in the tone, some vague sense of timing and cadence overcomes her sense of displacement and turns the amplifier up a notch


    10. The staff she worked with at RIS was top notch, side by side and humorous

    11. There was plenty of greenery on it, growing from each notch


    12. What will be your choice? Will you aim at a notch above your current position or will you prefer a static base?


    13. Video products are once again another perceived notch up the scale in


    14. could notch another arrow, Clemon gutted him


    15. It was she who came on to me!” He sounded almost desperate and his voice rose higher a notch or two, his hands upturned in resignation because he knew it was his word against Nuska’s and women somehow distrusted men


    16. “Don’t stall for time – tell me! Did you touch her?” she enquired adamantly, lifting her chin a notch higher, determination on her face


    17. Their mistress had moved up a notch in their esteem; she was becoming a more modern girl


    18. There is quite a bit of excitement in our little passengers and this excitement jumps up a notch when Missy shouts,


    19. “Right,” Sebastian said, wisely masking his grin at seeing Rogan taken down a notch by a little red-head


    20. And I don't know about you, but those women are Top Notch as far as I'm concerned

    21. now sits on the top notch of my built-it-


    22. Anyway, Hamp said he had a two by four with a notch cut in each end of it so he could put one end on his brake pedal and the other end under the seat so it couldn‘t fall out


    23. One, with a ragged notch gained from fighting, lay pressed close to her head, the other stood erect, the hairs on its tip quivering


    24. frowning at the notch he spied bitten into one


    25. A notch away from the truth of battle they were


    26. The moment the last notch of common sense reached Wardstones jelly brain he started fleeing for his


    27. More recent erosion had carved a new notch


    28. Could have made ten times the money by dropping down a notch in the social rankings, and if he did some actual work


    29. Please note the notch


    30. While my body moved in its own ways, in ways that Eileen was probably to thank for, I had all the time in the world to think about what had just happened, seeing as everything seemed to move barely a notch faster than a Jewish snail on a Sabbath

    31. My estimation of Cooper as a police detective, which was already in the excellent range, had just gone up another notch


    32. The greenery was still lush but it looked as if it had shrank a notch; the leaves were smaller and thinner while the stems resembled those in normal plants instead of the monstrously thick greens they were starting to get used to


    33. Knew his notch on the


    34. “Put everything you’ve got into it!” His voice had ratcheted up a notch as he saw a cloud of steamy-looking air rushing after the first huge gust


    35. The guard threw a punch with his other fist aiming for Ethan’s face but it didn’t connect, as Ethan slid sideways just a notch and grabbed the rifle


    36. challenging by lifting the bar one notch higher


    37. The flame of fear grew another notch and she gasped for air when it for a second stole her breath


    38. The firmament shifted a notch, and I knew differently


    39. He’s proceeding with his plans to replace Terry and hire a top notch agent


    40. drakapod was just about to notch up his 101st conquest but fate had dealt a cruel blow when suddenly, without warning, the huge and

    41. This translated into another notch up the social status ladder as far as she was concerned


    42. it is crucial that He takes us down a notch or two in


    43. does not mind stepping up the pace a notch to


    44. Leave a wee notch on each of the ends so that the cardboard dividers can interlock


    45. I was intrigued by the possibility of knocking down his ego a notch or two


    46. giving your body an interval jolt, it automatically – and somewhat unexpectedly – has to turn things up a notch


    47. had been stacked notch to notch so that they fit snug


    48. So he received top notch care and was about to be sent to either Pendleton Rehab in Mystic or a similarly great place, Gaylord in Wallingford, when someone from the Business Office came up and pissed all over those plans


    49. more intense treatment, or moved my therapy up a notch, or


    50. ” Talia explained as they flew over the last high notch of the pass












































    1. As was my habit, for luck and from routine, I bit off the smallest bit of the fletching of one of the flights, notched the arrow, drew back on the bow and aimed exactly at the spot he'd indicated


    2. It seemed to be stone, sometimes fairly smooth, some places notched


    3. He'd just notched up another point against his wayward colleague


    4. The light of those swords and arrows would have made them stand out to other assassins hiding in towers with arrows notched to bowstrings or the ability to wield the Power


    5. Bru whipped open the side door of the van, slung the quiver on his shoulder, and notched up an arrow


    6. Climbing back up, he notched his left foot, propelled himself up another foot and a half


    7. On an instinctive impulse, he reached over his shoulder and pulled out an arrow, and notched it to the string in cautious silence


    8. I learned of the northern continent, a myth I had notched up as folk tales and the ravings of mad men


    9. notched on the string ready to fly


    10. They had cut, shaved and notched all the timbers so they

    11. The next round had not yet been notched in the launching bows when Yigal sprang upright and


    12. jagged ridges that notched the skyline


    13. Thirty archers on the raised hillside behind silently notched arrows into bowstrings


    14. No armour was visible and, although they both carried bows, no arrows had been notched


    15. He had notched his second from last arrow when some movement caught his eye below


    16. Before I could regain my balance, Zoe and Bianca had arrows notched, aimed at my chest


    17. Darrell - On your website you mention your book "The Hanging Shed" has notched up some 50,000 sales, at £1 a time, in the Kindle eBooks charts, where it has consistently been in the top five


    18. The cross beam notched into the top of the pole and ropes are tied around his waist and neck


    19. Conan's breeks hung in blood-stained tatters; his girdle and sheath were gone, his sword, driven upright into the deck beside him, was notched and crusted with red


    20. On legs wide-braced, hands gripping notched and dripping swords, blood trickling down their arms, they stared at one another across the mangled corpses of friends and foes

    21. In the midst of the mêlée the slaves in the pen broke down the walls and came surging up on the decks, and with fifty blacks freed of their benches Conan abandoned his iron-hewing and bounded up on the bridge to add his notched ax to the bludgeons of his partisans


    22. Glaring at Vaughn wasn’t accomplishing much as I straightened my shoulders and notched my chin high, stalling for time


    23. castrated, have their tales sliced off, ears notched, and teeth


    24. She cut the engine and let the car roll, slowly notched up the handbrake, took out her


    25. Many of the animals killed for a plate have already been branded, de-horned, castrated, de-beaked, de-combed, ear notched, tail docked, and otherwise painfully injured on the farm


    26. She’s dressed in a disheveled periwinkle day dress, with a notched collar and front-closing, princess seam bodice that pinches at her waist above a gathered skirt that looks it was slept in


    27. He had notched an arrow and let it fly


    28. As he did, several other young men and women, dressed similarly as he, stood up from the surrounding rocks, all armed with bows and arrows that were notched and ready to fire at a moment's notice


    29. “Laeron!” he called out as his hands slipped off the notched scale that had held him


    30. If the rambling structure was artless, the woodcraft was solid, notched with admirable precision and each joint miraculously fitted

    31. His silence notched the worry up to panic


    32. laid it aside as he notched the bare portion with a deep groove


    33. Jaron took a third arrow and notched it


    34. Jaron notched an arrow and spun, releasing the arrow in one movement


    35. I picked up a bow by my side and notched an arrow only to let it fly seconds later


    36. I left my sword sheathed and instead pulled the composite bow from my back and notched an arrow into it


    37. I stumbled to Relentless and pulled my bow off the saddle and notched an arrow and brought it up so Raya was clearly in sight


    38. notched an arrow, and lined the sites up to the enemy’s silhouette


    39. notched his next arrow, Donovan prayed that Garock would come


    40. positioned his Elven bow, notched an arrow and waited

    41. The notched key fitted at once and unlocked it


    42. There indeed lay Thorin Oakenshield, wounded with many wounds, and his rent armour and notched axe were cast upon the floor


    43. As Strider raised it they saw that near the end its edge was notched and the point was broken off


    44. Frodo shuddered, remembering the cruel knife with notched blade that


    45. The blade was notched


    46. shaft was shot; their swords were notched, and their shields were riven


    47. 'Alas! My axe is notched: the


    48. A notched and broken sword lay by him, as if he had hewn at the rock in his last despair


    49. She ended her career with more tournament victories than any other player, having notched up 112 wins since April 2000


    50. The men’s team won a record 34 times (1959–2012), while the women have notched up 15 wins (1980–2008)










    1. The posts on the headboard in his bedroom were becoming dangerously weak as he whittled them away to nearly nothing with his little morning notches and aide memoirs


    2. notches and aide memoirs


    3. The notches got smaller toward the corners, and the corners of the pyramid were a continuous expanse of well-worked stone


    4. She’s a foreigner in Babylon; she has no rights, remember!” Zarko’s voice had risen a few notches


    5. Though Tragus had risen a few notches to the point where citizens tolerated him, he was still considered a man of little worth


    6. Felix went up a few notches in my estimation, as I would have figured Thomas to be


    7. "Look at 'em, bleedin' cretins! Don't know 'ow the 'ell we ever managed ter win the war with that lot 'elping us!" Raising his voice a few notches, he continued: "Couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery


    8. “I know you’re not one to carve notches in your gun barrel


    9. The Blondie was pretty hot and everything, but in light of the fact that she was a smoker, I had to knock her down a few notches on the hot list, if you know what I mean


    10. Now my annoyance escalated by several notches: he was the one who’d so angered me at the braai

    11. her down a couple of notches by the axioms of attractiveness in the Caucasian world


    12. “I wish for my husband’s conceit to come down a few notches and for him to listen to me for a change


    13. create new notches to hold them up, and a baggy shirt


    14. The hammer would gain several more notches on its shaft after today


    15. Without thought, question or doubt, E walked over to the still running car and hopped in, pulled it up a few notches and waited inside


    16. I was following a warrior who slipped over to put a few white notches on his bow


    17. Perhaps this incident would prove how frivolous her obsessions had been and bring her down several notches from the lofty position on which she considered herself


    18. He made notches on the drawing for the different degrees, and then drew in a string attached to one end of the straw, anchored at the end by a washer


    19. “Help! Help!” Henry squealed, as the man continued by cutting notches in his ears before flipping him around and snipping off his tail too


    20. The feathers were thin, filmy pieces of bark, inserted in notches at the end of the wooden shaft

    21. Brander nodded with a sharp exhale as his shoulders relaxed several notches


    22. “Oh, so they could be here?” she asked, lowering her voice several notches, as her eyes again searched between the trees


    23. Based on its color, he compared it to a brick with notches cut out so the tires had room to turn


    24. holding rite for, whether it is fame or standing, I afraid are several notches higher than the person in your funeral procession


    25. than her by several notches


    26. first started to roam the Pugilist by several notches!


    27. One must know that if his swiftness skill were stronger by a few notches, he


    28. If his swiftness skill were weaker by several notches, he would have fallen into an earlier trap and not be trapped here too


    29. Yinxue by several notches


    30. Ge Zhonghai martial skills were really several notches higher than Mei

    31. Did he want this again? Would take their relationship several notches up from a one-off shag


    32. ” In France she’d shown me a religious picture of an ancient holy carving, depicting Kermes Twa holding a crescent-shaped horn that bore 13 notches


    33. Then notches were rubbed at both ends of the bow


    34. of his desire several more painful notches


    35. Jacob sensed the tension level increase a couple of notches


    36. The tumblers have notches that hook over the bolt to keep it locked in place


    37. The key has notches which correspond to the notches on the tumblers


    38. recording time using the notches of a palm branch, but she is most directly associated with time


    39. notches, about 10 watts, in fact


    40. thermostat up several notches

    41. “You have no idea how much notches that raised my ego to,” he chuckled


    42. Suddenly he remembered and realised that the big key with the deep notches, which was hanging there with the small keys could not possibly belong to the chest of drawers (on his last visit this had struck him), but to some strong box, and that everything perhaps was hidden in that box


    43. Then following the clew that, in the hands of the Abbe Faria, had been so skilfully used to guide him through the Daedalian labyrinth of probabilities, he thought that the Cardinal Spada, anxious not to be watched, had entered the creek, concealed his little barque, followed the line marked by the notches in the rock, and at the end of it had buried his treasure


    44. The imprevidibility of the future: once in the summer of 1898 he (Bloom) had marked a florin (2/-) with three notches on the milled edge and tendered it m payment of an account due to and received by J


    45. A middle-aged man in a leather tunic was sitting at a table counting notches on a tally stick


    46. Six notches under thrush nightingale


    47. I didn’t put notches in the bedpost or anything


    48. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor 's roaring flames


    49. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick


    50. Cut two notches into the fluke of a buttress spaced to the desired handle length (b to c)





    1. Notching one to the bowstring, he put the bow aside; and then carefully shoved two arrows down the back of his coat-collar, inside of his coat, and into his left back pocket


    2. I moved over to intercept it, notching an arrow as I went


    3. Notching an arrow to the composite cavalry bow, Barrad’s horse slowly ambled towards the tree, the music grew louder and its tempo more excited


    4. “This is better than Tribble base ball,” Carol shouted, notching another arrow


    5. Notching the pieces so that they were well joined, he held them up, looked beyond the simple cross to see that it was acceptable, that it would respect the final resting place of his brother


    6. They drew their weapons, Jaron and Theia notching arrows to their bows


    7. Now John was effortlessly lifting the heavy bales of cloth while Dora counted them by notching a stick


    8. The price will rebound falsely and then fall, so that the stop order to buy will establish a long position and the protective stop order to sell will shortly afterwards close the position for a small loss (but beware notching up too many whipsaw losses in this way)


    9. When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge


    10. “Mitch?” Dumond prompted again, the fear in his voice notching higher

    11. Notching the ends of these gripper bars will stop the ropes from slipping


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    Synonyms for "notch"

    nick notch snick mountain pass pass mill indent score denticulate jag indentation gash indenture

    "notch" definitions

    a V-shaped indentation


    the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks


    a V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface


    a small cut


    cut or make a notch into


    notch a surface to record something