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Billie busied herself filling the kettle from an ancient faucet that jutted from the wall
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He busied himself loosening her boots, lifting one foot at a time to draw them off, all the time casting glances at her face as if measuring and assessing her state of mind
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She busied herself the rest of the day by wiping down the counters, and then mopped the kitchen floor
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' So I sat down and waited like a patient while he busied himself in the kitchen
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They shot each other glances and busied themselves stuffing their backpacks
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Lucy sat in silence at the kitchen table staring at the early morning news on the television while her mother busied herself with toast and tea, smoking the first cigarette of the day as if her life depended on it
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and busied themselves with their notes and their scores
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television while her mother busied herself with toast and tea,
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Mum – looking different with her hair long and unpermed – an older woman, an older version of Mum … it must have been one of the few times Gran came round before she moved in with them …hearing a conversation going on over her head as she busied herself with bricks on the carpet
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Taking a sausage from the nearly empty plate in the middle of the table, Chrissie busied herself making it look as though she was eating
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Chrissie looked at him sharply and busied herself with clearing the dishes
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I’d busied myself putting the phone down and tidying one or two papers on the heap … trying very hard to behave as though it was a perfectly normal occurrence for me to have phone conversations with men arranging dinner dates … I failed
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While Harry busied himself with a bit of construction, he set the ladies to prepping and painting the sides of the house
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Emma busied herself with little things for most the day, and when Alex returned around mid-night, he came with a full Bronco, and a bag Mike had packed for her
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Then she busied herself with mugs and tea and sugar
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The next evening when Theoton came into the nursery, Nerissa busied herself with
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Finally, she sighed and returned inside the house and busied herself with egg counting
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Rex busied himself in the important business of per-
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Angela busied herself with the
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While Jack busied himself in the kitchen, Maureen locked herself in the shower and wept
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Careful not to stare, she busied herself with pouring out the tea, ensuring that the mistress’ cup was not the first or the last, she hated weak tea almost as much as she despised strong tea
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Pouring himself a glass of wine from a decanter on the desk, Daltrez, the White Wizard then busied himself searching the lines of books that covered most of one wall behind the desk
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Very few slaves were visible and those that were covered with hoods or cowls and busied themselves away from the visitors as they progressed their tour
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Roy busied himself for a few more minutes, took some items out of the drawer and said
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I busied myself, sold a few items and
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We returned to the house and I busied myself in the bathroom, replacing the bad tiles and using the new grout
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Dawn watched as he busied himself adjusting something on the machine
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Christmas without their father, and had busied themselves for weeks in
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“Your friend didn’t have any juicy stories about me, did she?” She busied herself adjusting the pleat of her pants
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Instead, I busied myself
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They returned separately to their wicker chairs, first Truman who busied himself with a freshly prepared drink, rattling ice cubes in his glass
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Lesser officials busied themselves with arranging communiques, writing down orders and manifests and then calling for couriers or perhaps taking it upon themselves to forward the appropriate documents and even matériel to their intended recipients
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Sim busied himself getting a scrambled message off to Centralia
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As soon as she was on her feet, Mister busied himself round their group, wagging his tail with pleasure
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To quell his anxiety Truman busied himself preparing coffee, and was startled when from a darkened corner came the dry old voice of his grandfather
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He again slipped out from them as they busied themselves, and with another bark of attention, he hurriedly made a mark beside the very long one that went where the waters flowed
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The director busied himself with picking back and forth through various camera angles as the field moved off
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Mashu, looking a little embarrassed at such an open display of affection, busied himself with hanging his new hunter’s bow over the reconstructed lintel
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priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites
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A male technician busied himself at the computer
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Derek grabbed his clipboard and busied himself with the day’s
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likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires burnt the
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While Adrian busied himself downstairs, I rested, letting the warm water soothe
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I was surprised when a woman walked into the kitchen and busied herself there
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Jesse busied herself wiping the already clean counter as he passed on his way to the refrigerator
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sipped her tea as Ma busied herself in the compact kitchen area
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cement columns, members of the cast busied themselves with a cursory review of their most difficult lines
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He busied himself, turning on the immersion heater and stoking up the fire
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The elves followed him, still weeping, and as he busied himself with his brazier and a teapot Theramin had given him the night before
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36 Others likewise ascending after them whiles they were busied with them that were within burnt the towers and kindling fires burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates and having received in the rest of the army took the city 37 And killed Timotheus that was hid in a certain pit and Chereas his brother with Apollophanes
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The old woman who had busied herself with her herb preparations cut short any further
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Sam Waters busied himself with the
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"Where's the three one?" This busied them until Frankie decided the third one hid behind a tree
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Little else busied their minds for quite awhile
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' Natalie let her thoughts drift while Mark busied himself with the coffee
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And what would that be?” She busied herself moving the beddings behind and fiddling
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Closer to the city plaza, tradesmen busied themselves setting up their shops for whatever business arose during the day
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As he busied himself pretending to look for something on the chest of drawers
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“Music?” Marv replied looking puzzled, as his mind was busied counting a huge wad of cash, “…Oh yeah music
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He saw me approaching, pulled a worried frown and busied himself with an unnecessary straightening of brochures
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They busied themselves at the magazine racks,
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He grinned and busied himself putting his papers away
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The pilots busied themselves making the final preparations while the XO took one last
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She busied herself on the other side of the bed, removing the mask and turning off the cylinder
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The coffees arrived and they busied themselves with sugaring and stirring
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He busied himself with work, breathing a sigh of relief when finishing time rolled around
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She busied herself at night when the children had gone to bed, writing letters to all her family including her aunt Molly
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I busied myself by checking the reports from my previous meeting when I heard a knocking sound on my door
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And so Adrian busied himself reading over the work of Lucas Slaughter's, and to his utter and complete astonishment, the cat--as he so eloquently put it--turned out to be quite the writer
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So Adrian busied himself with writing a review for one of Lucas' horror stories
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wife busied herself by reading one of the many books on mental self-
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Glancing around, while she busied herself at the drinks and snacks trolley, a “piece” created by craftsmen on the Isle of Capri - in walnut and beautifully inlaid, he noticed a number of upper-echelon South African paintings adorning the walls
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” She busied herself with the Prince and Linz held his hand
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He returned in mere minutes carrying the requested items while Tegan busied himself with ordering hot water and meals brought to the bedroom
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3 As Martha busied herself with all these supposed duties, she was perturbed because Mary did nothing to help
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Knowing that he had been turned over to the Roman soldiers by Pilate, and that he was condemned to die, they busied themselves with their meeting in the temple, whereat they discussed what should be done with his followers
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Travis, suddenly feeling nervous and excited, busied himself by making a fresh pot of coffee, while Reed chatted to no one in particular
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Michelle hung up the phone and busied herself by dusting areas of the house that had no dust
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Then he walked away and busied himself with some or other non-job, only to return and pick up the same papers or file a few minutes later
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He gestured towards the key with his hand palm upwards indicating that she should take it, then busied himself with the paperwork on his desk
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Everyone busied themselves with the papers and notes before them
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Jane busied herself writing up the notes that she had to prepare for the incident file, and for the briefing she needed to give to DS John Burrows when she met him in London
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Limpy busied himself looking around the school yard
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” William busied himself for a short while and once he was satisfied that Sheba was comfortable, her arthritis was getting bad these days
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During the following days he busied himself destroying all trace of his passage through the world
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Around him his subordinates busied themselves with monitoring the advancement of the enemy, the ship’s weapons and the damage it was sustaining
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The four oldest children, who wore short pants in spite of the fact that they were on the threshold of adolescence, busied themselves with José Arcadio’s per-sonal appearance
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Carol busied herself organising the accommodation and
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busied himself putting his introduction together while Jim
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Everyone had busied themselves
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What ever it was, it was big, the two busied themselves
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Peter busied himself trying to trace cabling, looking for
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I busied myself with that
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Walker and I busied ourselves
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clearing, Walker and I busied ourselves preparing for the day
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We watched, as men throughout the camp busied themselves moving, and hauling – preparing
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Michael, after tutting at the state of Dave’s carving knife, busies himself with a steel, sharpening the offending article
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’ She said, her eyes on his back as he busies himself with mugs and spoons
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He busies himself with the keyboard again
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Nita busies herself at the counter, making sure the containers there are lined up, though they haven’t moved since we first came in
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Not sure that he has fooled the watchers of this planet he busies himself by cleaning the blood off Martin and dressing him in fresh clothes
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SHEENA BUSIES HERSELF WITH THE KETTLE AS WE HEAR CALUM KNOCKING
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Then his wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues scriveners, visits limbs of the law, follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, and that consoles her
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Devoting his life to works of the flesh, a man busies himself with actions depending on temporary causes outside himself
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you’re busy, but isn’t it possible to read ten pages when you wake up in the morning, you jump into your book to wake up your mind
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The kitchen could keep a staff of four busy and the table sat twenty
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Herndon was busy bringing the boat to dock
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While he was busy with that, Ava looked over the camp
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If she was busy, it’s entirely possible she didn’t see the person who shot her … she was shot from behind, you understand
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Email is the best way to communicate with your older, busy grandchildren
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They are able to attend to school requirements with each other’s help and assistance from elders, as the parents would be usually busy
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‘Surely, they weren’t seriously seeing you as the perpetrator?’ he asked glancing round at me as his hands are busy washing the dishes under the hot tap
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Telbule alley wasn't busy at the moment, getting into mid before-lunch
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"You had better be busy then
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He points across the busy street
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to come back to it… I became busy with other things…” She asked God
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As my hands busy themselves in the soapy water, my mind races over the evening
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I had to climb over a heap of black bags full of clothing to get to the phone … Molly and I have been busy
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I've had enough, fuck off out it Petrarkis, I'm a busy man
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"I know I've been busy and left you with the cherubs too much
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You've been busy studying the planet too, there's a lot to catch up on there
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"What is it Tom, I'm busy with this Sunnyvale stuff
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light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous
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They made excuses about how busy their lives had been
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She had not been on the yacht for three days when her backup was taken, but she didn't think he had either since they were both busy with departure at that time
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With their cuteness, tricks, tears, mischief, as well as with their endless demands, they manage to keep their parents always busy -especially their mother
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Ahmed kept him busy the next few days supporting many other meetings as different groups of important souls from the expedition argued this way and that regarding the world of Satan
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He’s probably busy catching up on his workload
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‘I never thought of that – it must have been a busy time
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Bahkmar was not so nonchalant about the lack of mothers but Enrico was busy for almost half an hour
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‘I was so busy in December I hadn’t noticed my period didn’t happen and I’d been lulled into a sense of security by the fact that I had a bit of a period in November … though it wasn’t anywhere near normal
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What's going on? The sonic war against me is getting more and more unbearable day by day and I just can't stand it any more! For some strange reason, I am surrounded by all kinds of noise pollution: Every morning, at 7:30 am, my father gets out to the yard and keeps himself busy with meaningless tinkering and hammering at pieces of wood or metal for hours! When I return from work at 4:00 in the afternoon and lie in bed so as to have a brief nap, dad goes upstairs, to Alice's half-built penthouse, and starts hammering at stuff again till 5:30 that I leave for the gym! He doesn't really repair anything, he just enjoys the noise! The yard and the penthouse are full of rusty tools, old dilapidated furniture and all kinds of junk dad finds on the road and carries home! I often complain about the noise and the piggery but he never listens; on the contrary, he swears like a trooper!
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Our time together passed in a flash, so busy were we with our conversation and our sharing of simple human contact
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Their order had been taking awhile and the place was not that busy today
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He gave up on business, spent hours writing hopeless paeans to her memory, and slowly the light in their eyes, these daughters of his with their busy lives and their boisterous men folk, ceased to burn for him
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Hauling her thoughts away from such matters, Kara looked around the busy high street with interest threaded with a certain amount of caution
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‘That’s him!’ she whispered to Iain, waving at the man in question now busy scanning the crowds
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goats which grazed in front of their house or got busy
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friends and was busy visiting their families in the
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Alone, with the busy slope of backpacks,
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It had been hard visiting Abery before but Joris hadn’t been there and she’d been able to withdraw into herself to some extent … and the European trip had been hectic, demanding her full attention … and in London afterwards she’d been occupied in achieving Joris’s purpose … and the trip across had kept her mind busy, first with JJ and then Iain … and even coming back, being at The Centre and travelling on the wasteg … that too had been manageable … but now … with no purpose to drive her, no solitude to enfold her and no Joris but only the shadow of his memory imprinted in JJ’s face and voice … she felt naked, vulnerable and viciously exposed to the scouring of her grief
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He was busy grooming Starlight – something they had argued about, until he had pointed out that if he couldn’t do something practical, he would go crazy and she had conceded the point – and she was perched on a hay bale watching him
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out what was keeping you busy
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Through streets busy with lives and kids and reasons to pay bills
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Victoria is busy with a predator/prey mass ratio, Glenelle is training wildlife species recognizers
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He is busy with the clowns
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Poopsie was busy in the Tavern; she was putting away the mugs
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Can’t have the house open to who knows what when we’re not here, can we?” He was busy making the pancakes while the sausage sizzled in another frying pan
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Desa was also pretty quiet both days, keeping herself busy foraging and with little things around the camp
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It's tentacles were busy all over the place, one swung a large bloodshot eye her way only inches from her face
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You and Steve have been very busy since we’ve been gone
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During that time they were very busy
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that crackles outwards from the busy centre of the universe
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Every receptacle and cubicle in the men's toilet at the airport was busy
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It was hot and busy and I groaned aloud when I heard that my 2230 flight was delayed by almost an hour
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In this busy place,
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She's trying to be busy and organised as usual but deep inside she is devastated
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While they were kept busy with this battle, a very large monstrous grizzly started up the mountain to the hatching grounds
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They are lined on each side by ships pulled up stern-to and most of them busy with cargo
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My old self would have pretended to be busy but the newer me smiled and tried to help
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There were so many streetcars you had to dodge them; and the many passengers hopping on and off at this busy circle
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She hadn't been in a place this busy while strobing in a long time
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Inside the trailer the students were busy comparing notes and feelings about what they just experienced
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‘Can you have a look around and see what else there is? Joris never travelled light when it came to clothes and I think I shall be busy here for a while yet
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Everyone was very busy in the camp
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For the busy housewife and mother who has little time to spare, these movements act as a time-saving beauty treatment, a toning up of nerves and muscles, and above all a means of relieving her internal disorders
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They went on with this thru the second half of her shift when it wasn't busy
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Over the next three or four days a succession of busy city types, who had invested in this run down part of the city in an attempt to make a killing on property prices in a rising market, brought around baskets full of striped shirts, frilly blouses and flimsy briefs to be ironed
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'He was a busy man
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"We can probably let him sleep in for the sail, but he'll be busy with the cargo when we dock
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“Is there anything else Daniel,” Jeffery asked them, “we are rather busy here right now
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The women would be very busy in the coming months preparing for the new arrivals
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Alexis licked some from his moustache and grinned, too busy now to speak
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The busy streets in the centre of the city were full of light and music and pretty young girls, and the soldier paid cash for a suite at the Ritz with room service on call twenty-four hours per day
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‘Things which are better not spoken in so busy a place, lady
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After that day the camp was a busy place
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Tiffany was escorted out of the shopping centre by the two big and burly police officers, put into the back of their patrol car and whisked off into the busy Saturday morning streets
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The roadway is busy here at the entry to what must count as docks … wagons piled high with all sorts of goods trundle heavily along, drawn by much sturdier ggs than my elegant Sefir
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'I'm very fortunate there's such a growing interest in art history - I'm a busy girl,' she gave Adrian a filthy look for jingling coins in his trouser pocket
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Jeffery would keep him busy most of the day with the maps
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Despite their busy hands working hard, the women appear happy … nothing like the pictures I have seen of factories in the Midlands
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The tall woman busy at the spinning wheel furthest from me, bows her head graciously and smiles as she hears her name
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At home in Cornwall, whenever things were quiet in the library, I'd pretend to busy myself in the Reference Section because from there I could see the waters of the harbour and if I raised my head a little I could just about see past the lighthouse to the distant horizon with its line of silver light
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’ Gilla explained, moving across to the looms where four women are busy concentrating on their work
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Jeffery was kept very busy for several months training these young men
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He always worked with zeal, with vigour and not without considerable skill and expertise, but the truth was that the television celebrity and his wife were too busy to see the merits of his arguments about the grand old oak tree
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He was being busy and I would have to wait - just as I did when we arrived in his van
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Ava had been claiming he was too busy with his signals, but she could just as well be driving this cherub as anyone
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It’s been a busy day
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"He was a busy boy in those days when he was stealing half our clock cycles, he detailed out all kinds of different societies
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'She is in this hi-fi PR job, so she is too busy to type a line?'
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I piled on more wood, trying to look busy
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It had been over a month hadn't it? He was busy with research, but that made it more vital to back up regularly so he didn't forget what he'd learned if he had to be restored
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Paras batted a catch towards Ali, whose hands were busy tightening the cords
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” She was busy with a screen no one else could see for a few more seconds
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She was busy helping the farms along the ridgeline in the reaping of their crops, and the farmers spoke of her in glowing terms
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Rayne kept busy helping where she could
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constantly busy storing information and keeping your
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'Busy? Never heard a bloke too busy to root, mate,' Roger said
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Then they all started honking their horns, apparently just for the fun of it … you should have seen the grin on Emanuele’s face as he joined in the cacophony! Getting out of Naples was slow work, it is a busy city and the road system appears to have been built piecemeal, so you may imagine how it was
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The hallway was filled with busy people on their own
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You’ll find him in the flower house, he’s busy cross-pollinating, experimenting again,” Rytal offered, a bit annoyed
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‘Come on Sally, tell all!’ she said as Sally, her face quite as red as the paintwork in my kitchen, tries to pretend she is busy doing something in the sink
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Over the next three or four days a succession of busy city types,
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I stare at the bag I am busying myself with, not daring to look her in the eye
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’ I told her, busying myself with the stuff on the dressing table in front of me but she is not fooled
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The receptionist, ostensibly busying herself with some papers, is obviously earwigging for all she is worth but she looks puzzled so probably doesn’t have a clue what we are talking about
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Busying himself with his recently applied bandages tied around his taught body by the nurse, who he would have normally tried to hit on, but now interestingly wasn’t an option, Levi burrowed his brows
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Levi looked down at his fingers, busying himself with his whitening knuckles
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I couldn’t hide the blood rushing to my face, so instead I turned away from him, busying myself with cleaning an area that was already spotless
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With the exception of today's request for an audience, Whitey had been quietly busying himself studying previous reports in his small office in the White House near the Situation Room
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Athene took her mind off things, busying herself by preparing the fireplace with logs stacked nearby; she craved warmth after her gallivanting about in this frozen wasteland
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that this young boy is busying his brain at
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They were busying themselves gawking at the surroundings of this demented abode, and may have fancied that I was simply looking for the right key
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the days since the loss of her love busying herself with affairs of
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The four figures in black that had been busying themselves
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A middle-aged woman was busying placing dirty laundry in canvas bags behind the counter
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I stall by busying myself with throwing
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At least while the others are busying fooling around with each other, none of them will think about making me their girlfriend
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Chef Luc said that he would fetch the van around to the front of the shop while the two boys said there farewells to Gabrielle who had been busying herself tending to customers, having now opened the shop for business
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The rest of the day was spent busying himself in the kitchen, but he still wondered where his cream cheese was
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His mother was busying herself preparing a hearty cooked breakfast
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While Tom was busying examining the suits, Kevin warily watched the hall
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It did however surprise Byron as he sat across from the actress in her trailer with no other person around, the door to the trailer shut, only a few crew outside, busying themselves with setting up for the early start
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The blondes exchanged looks, and I hid my smile by busying myself by the sink
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She took a surreptitious mouthful of air and released it slowly, busying herself with the mess of papers on her desk
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They tried continuing their normal activities; busying themselves with their market, but all the while, each kept one fearful eye on us, suddenly filled with horror at our presence yet trying not to let it show
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This was a crowd that was used to this; continuing with daily life, busying themselves, yet always insecure and waiting for something to happen
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One man looked at me, then at the hill, back and forth; until he saw me staring and then knelt over again, busying himself in the garden
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Several men seemed to be busying themselves at the back of the bank – one could hear them call out to each other
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With the team and Taksin busying themselves with their preparations
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Mark was busy or at least pretending to be busying, sifting aimlessly through the piles of unimportant memos, invoices and delivery notes that had accumulated on his desk at the Velvet Sun Factory
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She turned, busying herself, reaching for the flour sack that lay at the foot of the bed
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As Jessie set to work on his daily duties of: teeth, hair, cigarette and food; Will was busying himself making breakfast with a nice cup of tea to follow
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She watched Scott busying himself in the lounge, lost under whatever spell the idea of Ingrid having a baby had put her under
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Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer, he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded
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But where was his mind? Far and deep in its own region, busying itself, with preternatural activity, to marshal a
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Monygham, after busying himself with a little medicament box of polished wood on the seat of the landau, turned to old Giorgio and thrust into his big, trembling hand one of the glass-stoppered bottles out of the case
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We kept to our camp all day, therefore, Lord John busying himself, with such help as we could give him, in raising the height and thickness of the thorny walls which were our only defense
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Indeed, June was busying around the house when I walked in
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I hear my Nana busying herself in the kitchen, preparing a plate of tongue for my tea, followed by a bowl of tinned tangerines that curdles the Carnation milk poured over them
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In her father's absence Eugenie had the happiness of busying herself openly with her much-loved cousin, of spending upon him fearlessly the treasures of her pity,—woman's sublime superiority, the sole she desires to have recognized, the sole she pardons man for letting her assume
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Talley was busying herself while Mitch sat at the old Formica table with a couple of open Heinekens in front of him
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He was busying himself drawing giant cocks on all the photos
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About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying herself with the tiny establishment, set on the table a cold chicken, which Cosette, out of deference to her father, consented to glance at
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All is not there; the true All remains without; what is the use of busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the new-born babe is dying
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One after the other, through the port-holes, as he sped, he also caught flying glimpses of Stubb and Flask, busying themselves on deck among bundles of new irons and lances
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What is it to you if I'm late; if I'm late, you may be sure I have good reason,” muttered Agafya, busying herself about the stove, without a trace of anger or displeasure in her voice
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Apollon, who had already sat down to his work and put on his spectacles again, at first glanced askance at the money without speaking or putting down his needle; then, without paying the slightest attention to me or making any answer he went on busying himself with his needle, which he had not yet threaded
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“Micky tells me you are busying yourself with prison work
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The inspector was in the corridor, and, busying himself with some affair, had forgot to send for Bogodukhovskaia
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But by the time he was busying himself with the affairs of Kusminskoie he had forgotten it
