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dilapidated structures, takes John to an equally decrepit home
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They never had to sink into decrepit old age
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Instead of growing old and decrepit from illnesses, the children of
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eighty years old if she was a day, alone and surely decrepit, an old maid who had
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the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this
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The estates in the mountains, the never visited, decrepit palazzos, everything
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Four bodies dumped in the dirt at an abandoned and decrepit farm somewhere in the nether reaches of this damnable, awful little island
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Unlike her mother, a poor and feeble creature tied to the old days, a woman who shimmered like a pallid ghost among the ruins of their estates in the mountains, a woman who wore the same, disgustingly stained gown throughout her long and decrepit life, this Countess had broken with those dusty traditions
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The estates in the mountains, the never visited, decrepit palazzos, everything that she could lay claim to was sold
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decrepit appearance, Sandini could tell that he was strong
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"Those things aren't books," she shuttered, thinking about the horrid things, "there something from the decrepit minds of, misguided people
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Two decrepit old tractors filled most of the front
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And for a being that seemed so decrepit, worn and weary, he was incredibly agile and quick
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hamlets – each one more decrepit than the last
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They spent one night in a decrepit little priory that
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He takes a slave, a decrepit old man called
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And why should she choose a decrepit old
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Then we received a pep talk from some decrepit Brigadier who informed us of what a smart bunch of chaps we were and that we were the pick of our town’s young men
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“Who was that decrepit old fart he looked half dead and surely the army should have put him out to pasture long ago?” I replied
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America should seriously reassess the decrepit condition of its rapidly decaying interstate highways, many of which have grown exhausted, if not (functionally) depleted from wear and tear; dysfunctional anachronisms that are seemingly unable to meet the commuter requirements of rapidly expanding populations
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There was risk in rest, so they pushed on, riding a diesel-belching, broken-down, old bus that coughed and sputtered its way along the nearly impassible road to Chisec, caught another, equally decrepit, to Xuctzul where Spanish wasn’t regularly spoken and the Native tongue Truman knew served only slightly better at communication, but was extremely more hospitably received: people who had claimed to know nothing of the area when questioned in Spanish, suddenly became fountains of useful information
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decrepit plain, dark silhouettes of collapsed buildings that
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I hadn't noticed before, but it suddenly hit me that headquarters was pretty old and decrepit
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The place seemed new and cool when I first arrived, but I suddenly realized it was just a decrepit house full of moody teens and their lame teacher
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The concept of a positive endogenous bodily source—that something within the body is generative, beneficial, restorative, persevering— is nearly foreign to medical science, isolated within the decrepit idea of vitamins, which again, derive their positive features only from absence
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Not even old or decrepit
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My housemates, some of whom I still keep in touch with, also remember the many parties we had there, with streamers and balloons all over to dress the decrepit old place up
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“Being this close to my body, even as decrepit as it is, I have the power to draw you all into my dream with me
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The decrepit structure, overgrown and ready to collapse, stood a stone's throw beyond Charly's property line
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was almost as decrepit as Ra, wearing nothing but a loincloth, sandals,
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“Follow me,” said the decrepit humanoid
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To him the country was primitive, the food inedible, transport antediluvian, the villages decrepit, and Istanbul when we eventually arrived, was smelly, dirty, overcrowded and backward
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After having revised superficially and have not found anything said to an old decrepit woman that came with him:
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She turns and hobbles off down the hallway, shuffling in her decrepit
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But, as the needs of life prevailed over the wants of his dreams, the dowry that Ruma fetched was consumed by their decrepit dwelling
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"It could be the hippies again," suggested John-Paul with a smile, and over fresh mugs of tea told how some years before, a decrepit old fishboat loaded with pot-smoking youngsters, successfully entered the Inlet and spent two days sitting outside John-Paul's place singing songs and blowing their minds
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The decrepit priest, who could no longer string ideas together and who was beginning to startle his parishioners with the wild interpretations he gave from the pulpit, appeared one afternoon at the house with the goblet in which he had prepared the ashes that Wednesday and he tried to anoint the whole family with them to show that they could be washed off with water
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When he saw her appear in a madapollam nightshirt and with her hair loose over her shoulders, the decrepit parish priest thought that it was a trick and sent the altar boy away
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The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were con-trolled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic
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It was as if she had stepped outside herself and seen not Grace the Princessa, but Grace the Poverina - the slut! Hatred for this newly decrepit self burned inside her
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The Ford sedan finally stopped in front of a long, rather decrepit wooden building
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Though he may be old and decrepit, he was certainly not ignorant or apathetic—his mind was still as sharp as a tack which would make dealing with him all the more interesting
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A decrepit, rotting witch, crazy gray hair astray, pointed her
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The decrepit, villa-style interior emitted a musty, unsanitary smell that mixed with the putrid aroma of urine and feces
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That night, Mitchell stood in front of a decrepit, motel room mirror, while applying the professional makeup Jose was to originally wear
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As he approached the counter, a decrepit silver-haired man finished
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The old, decrepit shop owner was not
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So, rather than argue with their leader the German generals who came into contact with Hitler chose to fall in line with his insane plans; despite being shocked at the decrepit extent of his physical decline
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The German generals, despite being shocked at the decrepit extent of their leader’s physical decline had little option other than to fall in line with his insane plans, thereby prolonging the agony
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She professed she had seen the inside of enough retirement villages to become an advisory to the aged and decrepit, as to where they could spend their final years
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The reader also knows that no department store, even a decrepit and dying one in the middle of small town America, carries anything like dinosaur eggs
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What the reader knows that the trolls didn’t was that the former sheriff’s horse was old and decrepit; she wasn’t in any shape to be running full tilt from anything, much less these bad smelling monsters who wanted to eat her
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Instead of a decrepit 1930's building built out of doo-doo
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Mobutu was far from being a stupid man and the full extent of the decrepit state of the economy and industries of his own African Union was becoming more evident to him every day, showing him the near impossibility of his task in making his continent great again
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Jeanne arrived soon at an old and decrepit apartment building where Rosette Sans-Soucis and her family were living
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Within ten minutes or so, five witches came galloping through, Maud at the front, cursing their decrepit donkey-men’s lack of speed
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Whatever it was, it was definitely leading them toward a rather large, decrepit, white, single-story, wooden frame house with a gray, leaf-covered roof and soaring six-foot wide oak tree proudly standing in front of it
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This place is so decrepit, you can’t even open the door even if you have the key
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Kevin and Miller’s attention was drawn to the back corner of the barn where the decrepit corpse of Raven levitated just above the ground, trapping Holly in the corner
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‘Jeremy’s customers aren’t as decrepit as that
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On the way, I imagined how this decrepit (in my imagination) old man, the chiropractor, having looked at mother, would tell her that everything is well with her, that this is a mistake, and she is healthy
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After these words, the very decrepit old woman who, up to this moment, had been dozing on the edge of a bench, unexpectedly squeaked, “Not an angel but an archangel
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As if fortuitously, the decrepit Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Sri Rama, which was neither a functional masjid nor a structured mandir, came in handy for them to bring it onto the national agenda as Ram Janma Bhoomi movement
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It’s time the Indian Musalmans contemplate whether they could hero-worship the marauders of the Hindu mandirs (Aurangazeb, the despoiler of the Kashi Viswanath temple, the next most revered after Somnath, has a Muslim approval rating of 39%) and in the same vein condemn those that pulled down the decrepit Babri masjid! Well, all this won’t be amusing to the Hindus; the mind-set of double standards is troublesome even in the majority community but it would be eminently unwise for the minorities to develop the proclivity of reading the Indian history from the Pakistani text books
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About a third of the houses seem to be very new, a third are old and decrepit, and a third look old but lovingly maintained
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Nocevento the pianist refuses to get off the ship that has become old and decrepit; he prefers to blow up with it
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As with all other streets throughout ShantyTown, this particular stretch was lined with monotonous, ramshackle hovels; crowded shoulder to shoulder like the lame and decrepit huddled in the food line
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I had come to trust the quiet,away from the screams that filled the hallways of this old decrepit building that had become my home
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Once we were out of the station we headed towards a big old, decrepit factory which I could see about 100 yards in front of us
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Melvin turned around to face an old decrepit homeless man wearing a blanket over his filthy grey hair and beard
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That same newspaper dispenser still stands on the corner of the street, decrepit from age and wounded by the local hoodlums’ baseball bats
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It is poignant and vain, decrepit but sane, modest in youth and agonizing in portrayal
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I work out on the decrepit machine
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Despite the commotion caused by my four shots, a decrepit old fox ventures into the clearing to investigate the two dead boar
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decrepit ship, and admitted that “had he not been … obligated to serve, he would
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A decrepit old man would not interest a young woman except for the sake of money but despite everything I have still not become a putana
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Even the name sounded decrepit
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It was in its infirm old age, as decrepit as its driver
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husband who just missed becoming her foster father, had cooperated with him to produce a heiress for the flat and now looked after some of her other needs that hubby"s decrepit and deteriorating physical condition was unable to satisfy
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It started at the Opera Square, a square with the Cairo opera, with the shopping centres, with the big department stores, crossed into a poorer section of workshops and souks and a few remaining, authentic, inhabited though decrepit buildings of Arab-Islamic
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His slammed against the metal push-handle, curiously modern in the decrepit surroundings
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Why had these Greek gods come to this decrepit hell hole of a city?
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He badly wanted to rattle the bag of bones at his feet, with his boot to remind her, of her own decrepit state, but he refrained rightly guessing what her reaction would be
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He said, "My Lord, how can I have a son, when my wife is barren, and I have become decrepit with old age?"
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counting the seconds of his last day in the captivity of a crippled and decrepit body
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Razumihin somehow discovered and proved that while Raskolnikov was at the university he had helped a poor consumptive fellow student and had spent his last penny on supporting him for six months, and when this student died, leaving a decrepit old father whom he had maintained almost from his thirteenth year, Raskolnikov had got the old man into a hospital and paid for his funeral when he died
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To give her pleasure Razumihin told her how Raskolnikov had looked after the poor student and his decrepit father and how a year ago he had been burnt and injured in rescuing two
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It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures-- on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens
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The same items that had been scattered around the house a dozen years ago were still there, amazingly, only now they were even more decrepit
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He had examined the equipment of the other American crews and found it heavy, shoddy, old, and decrepit
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In this case, looking at the bold, strong hand of the one, and the rather broken-backed appearance of the other, which still retains its legibility although the t's have begun to lose their crossing, we can say that the one was a young man and the other was advanced in years without being positively decrepit
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At the receptions—where the situation was saved by the presence of a very decrepit old lady (a relation of the Corbelans), quite deaf and motionless in an armchair—Antonia could hold her own in a discussion with two or three men at a time
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Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion
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Greyghor Whytmyn was neither ancient nor decrepit, but he was twelve years older than his wife
