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    1. John follows, pad and pencil in hand, clearly


    2. Travis didn't look convinced, but he took out a note pad and began to jot down a map with a Biro


    3. "Where's the lawn ornaments?" he asked, pointing with his chin at the performance pad


    4. reach for the control pad


    5. to waking, safe in knowing that a pad across carpet


    6. when he chooses the fall of his cat pad footsteps,


    7. The pad of these paws on frost grass verges,


    8. The sun is shining in through one of the portholes and glinting on the polished wood, stretching as I go, I pad barefooted across the floor to look out at the day


    9. burn red into blue, I hear one other sound; the pad of lightness


    10. So I will wait while you bring that pad for your head

    11. The mountain of the city was bigger than the pad of a thumb held at arm's length


    12. They all burst out with applause and shouts of ‘bravo!’ She turned beet red, and dropped her scouring pad, and stood with her mouth open


    13. On each shin pad the letter 'T' had been embroidered in genuine, full carat diamonds


    14. He had to pad


    15. Armed with a pad of paper and a couple of pens, we turn up at the vicarage just before eight


    16. There is a landing pad, and also a communications center


    17. Naria stepped onto the beaming pad and called the Saber


    18. I’ve got quite a list of questions on my pad by the time I draw up outside the sheltered housing complex where Bert Redfield lives


    19. ’ I invited, pen and pad ready


    20. I look up their number in my pad and pick up the phone

    21. ' I replied, scribbling this down on my pad


    22. She disappears out of the room while I unpack my pad and look around the room


    23. This woman is fascinating … but what is there about her that doesn’t quite add up? I refer to my pad where I have listed the topics I want to talk to her about


    24. I can pad that out to make it a reasonable length, then there’s the Italian years, a section on her life when she came back to look after her parents, the conversion of the house and setting up of the Foundation and the last section would be the last thirty years … I could even do a concluding section about the impact Danvers House has had on various women since it was set up


    25. What’s the name and address?” I asked, reaching for a pen and my order pad


    26. ’ She said, pad in hand


    27. Shaking his hand, and confirming that he is correct, I take a seat at the table and put my pad on the table


    28. Sitting up suddenly, she reaches for the lamp beside the bed and turns it, grabs the pad and pencil she knew would be there and quickly scrawls a note – Your name is Billy – and places it in an obvious place on the bedside table


    29. He jabbed at the little pad on the mobile which would open the message and held his breath


    30. ’ The policeman said stolidly, making yet another note on his pad

    31. He fell back on habit and reached into his pocket for his pad


    32. Silence while the policeman scribbled in his pad


    33. He had a dream that was of absolutely no consequence and has no relevance to the story whatsoever and is only being used by a desperate writer desperately trying to pad out the story with as many words as he or she can think of3; for


    34. along with a palm pad


    35. Freddy walked over to the counter, picked up a pad and pencil, and began


    36. " From here the mountain was about the size of the pad of your thumb held out at arm's length, about a week's sail on a lazy river


    37. From his car, I thought his apartment would be closer to a luxury condominium, but it was more of a modern bachelor pad


    38. name and college,” he said and tore off a sheet from his pad


    39. The deerskin that he used as a pad for sleeping, and the furs that were his


    40. He summoned his last departing reservoirs of strength and tried to pad toward the diamond-portal

    41. in front of him, the first pad was lit up with


    42. building sat motionless on the pad they had


    43. This pad had a yellowed plastic weatherproof covering


    44. now! Here on that pad out there, do it”


    45. the moon mining team prepare the base pad


    46. in motion the machinery to clear a pad for


    47. a pad of large paper sheets on a stand for presenting information


    48. The river gleamed in the mid-day sun as the Skimmer landed on a pad near the center of town


    49. They took sleeping bags into the empty waiting room next to the landing pad, in a few minutes both were asleep


    50. The building was on a bluff and a trail with overhead lights wound its way between pines to the landing pad by the river














































    1. After her bath she padded out to the front room of their bedchambers


    2. Outstretched, along the firmly padded hood of the


    3. My knees were freezing and I swore never to sniff at bikers in all their padded glory again


    4. Instead of answering a channel and giving a location, she stepped into his office, wearing a very stylish shimmering black suitcoat with a generously padded white fur collar that continued down the front


    5. They padded themselves with their


    6. “The drawers are for whatever you need to pack away that may be fragile,” said Titania, pulling one open to reveal a padded lining


    7. He padded his keys for awhile, then read and poked, read and poked


    8. He padded his fingertips together, meaning he was still thinking and would soon say more


    9. He padded his fingertips again, then turned to Klowa, "can you talk about this woman, with her here I mean?"


    10. “Well I got her for ten minutes and then she padded back to the water, I went down where the young swans are and I see what you meant, he's very protective about his area

    11. She slipped through the doorway, her padded feet resting at the head of the rousing demon


    12. With that the great ginger cat heaved himself to his feet and padded off into the meadows beyond


    13. If some had their way he’d be in a padded cell (a view he’d cultured ever since the media broadcast, when he’d declared the aliens’ existence)


    14. I padded the blanket up and used it to rest the rifle on we were in a small stand of bush at right angles to where I thought the sniper would appear


    15. that looked like the padded top of a vaulting


    16. her left, and at the padded trolley


    17. The medic led Jimmy into the main control centre: The Bridge, all silver-grey outlines, consoles fused to the floor before low padded upright chairs, as if elements of it were copied from a number of TV space operas


    18. He could smell the sweat and urine of its previous occupant, now permanently woven into the padded floor


    19. could muster a protest, pulled down the padded restraining bar to activate the unit, and stepped


    20. I had started the night in a warm, soft bed, and was now perched sideways on a hard padded plastic seat, trying not to bang my head

    21. Maldynado set down his saber and shrugged into a pristine padded vest and grabbed a monogrammed helmet


    22. They padded away and moved beyond the range of her ears


    23. “Then let’s go!” Bosco moved quietly from behind the crates and padded stealthily down a narrow ramp


    24. “Okay, this’ll be a bit big for you Dawn but the shoulder is padded for shooting


    25. warm clothes, with fur caps pulled over their ears, padded jackets,


    26. Trying to ignore the pounding noises all around her, she padded onwards, flinching as one monster actually passed right over the top of her, its hot breath scorching her fur


    27. Prepared speeches, soft songs, lulling you to sleep as you rest comfortably in your padded chairs, slowly fading into all this darkness in which you are so easily ensnared


    28. “I never really thought about it! But a padded cell has to have its own bathroom, otherwise the staff would always be running back and forth


    29. “Did they really put you in a padded cell?”


    30. “It’s not really padded,” he said

    31. Half an hour later, Theresa padded back to the cave, the wet, warm blood of a freshly killed, good-sized rabbit in her jaws


    32. We put the rear fuselage in a padded cradle


    33. The cat was strapped down in a padded cage in his stateroom


    34. It was a velvety, cheesy, lacy thing with heavily padded shoulders, quilted with vest-like appliqués in gold and purple thread


    35. As fast and soundlessly as possible, he stepped onto the deck and padded towards the man


    36. He wore a blue blazer, heavily padded in the shoulders, a cotton button-down shirt of powder blue with a conservative tie


    37. Her feet padded off in search of the elevator, the sound of her footfalls fading fast


    38. We padded along, kicking at leaves and bragging back and forth


    39. His mother had divided the contents of Cousin Jerry’s trunk into four cardboard cartons, distributing the garments evenly so that the other items in each box were padded by clothing


    40. charge padded the reward

    41. This is the box I have always used, padded around the needles; it is a sign of something sick inside me, or something brave


    42. “No, but wait…” Orphenn protested as they padded along the marble


    43. the knuckles standing out against the padded red leather


    44. mused, slumping into his padded throne


    45. When they had all passed by, the cat silently dropped from its place and padded after them


    46. He heaved Dr Hancox into the padded room and locked the door


    47. He has a favourite armchair and you will see quite a lot of references to chairs within the book, padded high backed ones are the best, coupled with a glass of port and a good leather bound book in front of the roaring fire


    48. The others leaned a bit closer, and the Flick crossed his heavily muscled arms, across his heavily padded girth, and flexing so the others could see the enormous strength he had, and in reserve, he sat back as far as his small chair would let him, and glared at the group


    49. The inspection moves along and with the exception of a grandmotherly type lady who is being padded down, everyone else including the suspicious looking man is boarding the plane


    50. lay back against the padded headrest and swung the view screen










































    1. And it was soft because I put some padding underneath the felt so it just worked out perfectly for me with my limited knowledge


    2. padding of shoes walking on the dirt of the arena floor


    3. Nestled in the foul padding, an eyeless doll stared outward, her silk stuffing oozing down her face like maggots from a corpse's skull


    4. Each evening she woke to the hermit’s padding step


    5. Her fingers felt sharp even through the padding of his HEPO


    6. ” she chuckled as she lowered herself gently into the comfy padding of her chair


    7. She leaned back until her shoulders touched the padding of the trolley


    8. armpits and pulled her back off the padding on to the concrete


    9. The walls were covered in thick padding to prevent self-damage, and sickening dark brown and yellow stains marked the material


    10. His hands roamed around, and in the darkness, rested upon a series of scratches in the padding

    11. Deep rifts where the material had been shredded and tufts of padding protruded


    12. Every time his fists connected with the walls they bounced off the padding, mocking him with their ineffectiveness


    13. Being nearer to the yelps than the girl’s shouts, the cat turned its attention to the puppy, stealthily padding towards it


    14. Padding down the corridor, Edna’s tea in hand, Shirley Dibs pushed open the bedroom door, her attention still on the latest news from Libya


    15. But Sacobie, with his head down and his round snowshoes padding!


    16. He began with bench presses, laying on the steel bench with its padding and black leatherette cover


    17. There were several seconds of padding, scuffling noises


    18. My waist was not merely smaller—the corset had a generous amount of padding that reshaped the lines of my hips and breasts


    19. We used a lot of sawhorses and a lot of pillows for padding under the wing


    20. “No helmets? Kevlar vests? Padding on the legs and shoulders? Any sort of protection or armor whatsoever?”

    21. Padding out in socks and underwear, he was reassured to hear the fridge door opening


    22. He may in fact be padding it out a little, if I know them guys


    23. She could hear Angie’s footsteps padding from one carpeted room into the next


    24. said “We’ll have to pull the padding out of that bathing suit


    25. I finally went over the brink in CT from traveling constantly, second and third chairing litigation my first seven years, and padding my expense account


    26. bottom of the mattress and slid them in under the padding


    27. never been that good” he said padding


    28. end, I decided to take the boughs and leaves that were padding


    29. She then turned to the mirror and resumed padding her


    30. "It's not too bad, but hot with the padding

    31. Caked in snow and freezing, his chainmail armour would be a death trap, even with the under-garment padding, the weight of the cold steel links forced the coldness closer to his body


    32. Standing on a deep blue carpet in the centre of the chamber was a heavily carved oval table, replete with candelabra, silver, crystal goblets and bowls of flowers, surrounded by thirteen padded chairs with elaborately carved backs, and two plain chairs devoid of either padding or decoration


    33. ‘No padding, cut to the chase


    34. Francis explained that the pool was private and we always skinny dipped, so if he didn’t mind… He didn’t and within a minute there was a heap of clothes on the patio and we were padding bare arsed down the sandy path through the trees to a stream that flows through a deep pool at the bottom of our property


    35. He was gaunt, but knots and cords of muscles stood out on his arms and legs, without that fleshy padding that presents a pleasing symmetry of contour


    36. I know I have heard stealthy footfalls padding about me – oh, Conan, take me away with you! Zargheba will kill me when I have served his purpose here—I know it! The priests, too, will kill me if they discover my deceit


    37. I am like a hunter who crouches by his small fire amid the forest, and hears stealthy feet padding in the darkness, and almost sees the glimmer of burning eyes


    38. The best type of swimsuits for smaller bust is the ones that have padding


    39. Padding around the empty house, she marveled at how well she felt, despite the tragedy of the day before


    40. over the top, but four of those socks now supplemented the padding on the broad

    41. They’ve packed in some more padding


    42. She wore just an armor vest and padding on her thighs


    43. She rubbed her face along the textured padding of the floor


    44. One hundred and fifty yards away from the Anchor Management, in the back of a cargo van, Jean-Louis Bertrand lay prone on a homemade sniper nest fashioned out of 2-by-4s and egg crate padding


    45. The cups that the headphone speakers were mounted in were made of metal and the padding completely sealed out over ninety percent of the outside sound


    46. When I described the battle with the two warriors, the children couldn’t get enough of the story, but a couple of warriors at the back, obviously thinking I was padding the story for the children’s benefit, began to shuffle their feet so I thought this an opportune moment to present my back pack, all heads craned forwards as I slowly and deliberately untied my treasures and spread the Mixtec weapons and regalia on the tables, not a sound escaped the crowd for an age, then they all started talking at the same time and everyone crowded around to look, feel, and wonder at such mighty trophies, Jodas stepped forward and took command, ordering lines to be formed to view the treasure, there was a respectful look in his eye as he bowed to Coatl, seeing him bow, all the village started to bow as they passed by Coatl, I could see Coatl was overcome with embarrassment, even so I detected that he enjoyed the notoriety, the warriors, as was right, kept an aloof air about them, they were not professional soldiers nevertheless they were quick and brave and were proud of the fighting skills needed in the defence of their village, when times were quiet they would be seen tending to their different trades, ready to fight when circumstances demanded, one of the warriors approached the priest and asked permission to see a demonstration of Coatl’s skill so that they may look and learn, I was horrified at this as I remembered the reaction that would be forthcoming from any implied threat to the white hairy man, I begged the priest to be cautious because Coatl did not yet know our language, the priest smiled and putting his arm about Coatl’s shoulder steered him through the crowd out into the square all the time talking to him in a low even voice, all the people turned to watch this strange man and their priest as they strolled to the centre of the plaza, both squatted and began making signs in the sandy floor, Wedon talked a moment longer, then returning to the table where the trophies were on display, he turned to the crowd of villagers and said


    47. Max pulled the outer clothes off the ‘perv’ and dressed in them, carefully folding torn linen as padding to simulate the man’s bulk


    48. Next, he implored them (still padding down the alley as fast as possible) with a finger to his lips, and as quiet a “shhh”


    49. bill had once been concealed underneath the cottony padding by his grand-


    50. ered under the cottony padding









































    1. We could build on Idi Amins efforts by having training centers for Afronauts and setting up launch pads along the equator where space craft can take off


    2. pads across the hoovered carpet


    3. its thick, leathery pads scudding


    4. He reached inside his jacket and pulled out a battered old pair of faded, blue ribbed shin pads


    5. "Do you see these, boy? These are magic shin pads and you know what that means don't you?"


    6. Terry continued to stand there, staring at the shin pads, his face displaying the mixed pleasures of vacant distrust and horror


    7. "He owned these shin pads, just like Mr


    8. Aye lad, when he was twelve he was rubbish, but once he started wearing these magic shin pads, well, the world was almost his oyster"


    9. The battered and bruised shin pads suddenly seemed to glow and to shine


    10. "I'll give these shin pads to you on one condition", said the old man

    11. "You can have these shin pads if you promise me you'll always love football more than anything else in the entire world"


    12. And so, with a flourish and a bow the old man gave Terry the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then told the dog to give the boy his ball back


    13. As soon as Terry started to kick his football around the park he could feel the magic in the shin pads start to course through his veins


    14. With his battered old shin pads tucked safely inside his knee length socks, he ran riot through every level of schoolboy and junior football, scoring record numbers of goals at every age


    15. Terry continued to dazzle on the playing field and without quite remembering why, he stood firmly by his old and battered shin pads, even though he was offered bright shiny new ones nearly every week


    16. In his hands he held a plush crimson velour cushion and on the cushion was a pair of brilliantly glittering shin pads


    17. "In the park, when you were what, eleven? The dog and me? Blue shin pads?" asked the old man, hopefully


    18. Do you remember what I told you about the shin pads?"


    19. I offer you these bright and shiny new shin pads in exchange for your tatty old ones


    20. A few seconds later, the old man exchanged the bright, sparkling, monogrammed shin pads for Terry's battered old blue ones

    21. They tutted and clucked, pressing their tongues against their cheeks, sucked in their breath and made notes on their judge’s pads


    22. 'Ish bhaiya, there is Ponting, in the pads


    23. He bent down to remove Ali's pads


    24. Thick pads of straw woven into long mats had been placed about the fire pit and piled high off the ground


    25. magic shin pads and you know what that means don't you?"


    26. Terry continued to stand there, staring at the shin pads, his face


    27. rubbish, but once he started wearing these magic shin pads, well,


    28. The battered and bruised shin pads suddenly seemed to glow and


    29. "I'll give these shin pads to you on one condition", said the old


    30. "You can have these shin pads if you promise me you'll always

    31. the shin pads, showed him how to tuck them into his socks and then


    32. could feel the magic in the shin pads start to course through his


    33. With his battered old shin pads tucked


    34. Terry and his magic shin pads were a phenomenon; they


    35. battered shin pads, even though he was offered bright shiny new


    36. Blue shin pads?" asked the old man, hopefully


    37. He pulls the light switch and pads across the landing in his sock feet


    38. opponents in full pads, Roman in only the clothes he’d put on that morning


    39. There were many kinds of plants resembling thick jumbles of purple above-ground lily pads with thick colorful leaves


    40. He'll still be whispering, but he'll be down to the pads soon now that Lurain and Fmaya have started

    41. Grab items with the pads of your fingers instead of the tips


    42. The pads of his feet were bloody and worn thin, and he was skin and bones, not to mention very dirty


    43. She brushed Gerrid's hair with her fingers, carefully avoiding the morass of sensor pads around his temples


    44. By Army Regulations, each soldier carries into action a first-aid dressing, the Esmarck bandage and two antiseptic pads


    45. Comfrey picked at a small flint that had become lodged between the pads of his foot and snorted


    46. He’d just had new brake pads and shoes put on


    47. It looked like one of those one time pads which he had read sometime in the past that the Russians had used for their communications


    48. Officers were sketched wearing one glove, knee pads, a bucket hat and, for the ladies, a short tie


    49. piles, calculators, scratch pads


    50. The ear pads were packed with BBs, and each contained a blasting cap










































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    Synonyms for "pad"

    pad diggings digs domiciliation lodgings launch area launch pad launching pad launchpad inking pad inkpad stamp pad pad of paper tablet bolster aggrandise aggrandize blow up dramatise dramatize embellish embroider lard fill out footslog plod slog tramp trudge mat pillow stuffing wadding filling padding matting paper notebook block memorandum parchment flat lodging room suite home soften stuff protect pack fill inflate increase expand enlarge amplify spread stretch

    "pad" definitions

    a number of sheets of paper fastened together along one edge


    the large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily)


    a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp


    a flat mass of soft material used for protection, stuffing, or comfort


    a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched


    temporary living quarters


    the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger


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    walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud


    line or stuff with soft material


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