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The smoothness of his transition depended on her getting as much right as she possibly could
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Hair - long, tangled, dark, hardly showing the dried blood staining it - wafted across the nearside rail, one moment draping the black-grey smoothness with deep brown tendrils, the next flying back whence it came, its roots firmly attached to the scalp that engendered it
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Lack-A-Bed framed his smoothness,
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in the smoothness of your skin wrapped around me,
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He noticed the elegant line of her jaw, the smoothness of her skin
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The lawns were of the lushest, velvet green and were matched for their smoothness only by the expensive Wilton carpets that lay in the sitting room
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were matched for their smoothness only by the expensive Wilton
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Marvelling in the soft smoothness of her skin
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The floor was made of light grey marble slabs polished to a high smoothness
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Where the tunnel entrances converged on the great cavern there was a glassy, black smoothness which broke up the irregular, organic look of the cavern walls
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as the smoothness and blemishlessness of the metal reflected, it could only have belonged to
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hands, and thinking about her hands made me think about her stroking the smoothness of
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The clearness and smoothness of the drop
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Simon knelt down, laying the cane across his knees and allowing his fingers to travel up its ebony smoothness to the silver glitter
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Moshe noted with quiet satisfaction that Marah and Pithios had just finished bringing the smaller barge into a dock on his left with something less than the smoothness they had accomplished
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Instead of the uneven surface pocked by destruction, the blight that has affected almost all of his once-loved home, Ralph sees the smoothness of the stone as it meets the glass
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It felt like parchment to her touch, with none of the smoothness she associated with her tree
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dock on his left with something less than the smoothness they had accomplished
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But then, as in a dream, someone came toward me with such grace and smoothness I questioned my weary eyes
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So whether it be feeling joy in our heart, feeling the embrace of another, or feeling the smoothness of an apple, God’s attribute of Feeling is what enables us to do this
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smoothness as he gently guided her legs open, slipped her clitoris into his mouth and let
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smoothness of the gown shimmered against her tempting contours
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lightly into the cavern of satin smoothness
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of the velvety smoothness of her face
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smoothness of her throat
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Aquana had to admit if smoothness was hereditary, then Aquana would love to swim in that gene pool
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The Irakzai lay where he had fallen, an ugly blotch on the glassy smoothness
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They were both delighted by the smoothness of the transition and the way the troops had responded to their responsibilities in guarding the new Reichstag
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It is the smoothness and slipperiness of his skin that protects from and adapts to high solar radiation
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You probably noticed a smoothness to his consonants you can hear in spite of the limited fidelity of our communications systems
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As the contours of her cheeks and jaw moved slowly, the smoothness of her brow and neck seemed to move in a gentle but agonizing rhythm
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It was indeed sour, but the sweetness in it and the drink’s smoothness made it bearable
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Her long green hair was blowing in the wind against the smoothness of the
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It wasn’t her words that affected Joey, but the smoothness behind them
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divine smoothness in the most superlative of marble, that sat
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All aspects between five and six degrees of exactitude show a no-nonsense practicality: "bending of outer factors to inner convenience; smoothness in the accomplishment of things
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He ran his hand up and down her back, relishing its smoothness and the dip at her waist rising to the round firm buttocks
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was running with professional smoothness; Captain Gorrie had organised
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smoothness underneath, but not al his burns were healed
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The smoothness and
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When you are chatting over tea or coffee, you and your friends brains are doing a series of associated tasks at such lighting speed and with such incredible efficiency and smoothness, no super-computer can ever begin to do such a piece of work
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Or it might simply have been the actress’s impromptu flash and the smoothness of her skin in Byron’s eyes
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He moved his arms about her, feeling the smoothness of her bared skin as they returned to the kiss
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The chocolaty smoothness of his voice be-
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awing over its smoothness
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the smoothness of a cocooned sleep
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I flip the envelope over, feeling its smoothness in my hands
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By comparison with the softness and smoothness of
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They were unadorned, smoothed out, black, she abundant in her smoothness, he spare in his; and they greeted Ingeborg with exactly the cordiality suitable to the reception of one's pastor's new wife, who ought to have been brought to call long ago but was not in any way responsible for those bygones which studded their memory so disagreeably in connection with her husband, a cordiality with the chill on
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The first step, the process of the actual removal from Kökensee to Berlin, from legality to illicitness, had in its smoothness been positively glib; and he had supposed that, once alone together, love-making, which was the very marrow of running away--else why run?--would follow with a similar glibness
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She scared me when she pulled out a rifle and filled it with ammunition with a learned smoothness
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smoothness on the other’s part
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He sets a finger to one of the glass bottles and traces its edge, marveling at the smoothness
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Ryan had seen some like it in a shop by the seaside, he had liked their smoothness and pastel colours, but dad had said they were a waste of money and he should buy a bucket and spade instead
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with the smoothness of their periods, because they look
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The water flow right behind the stone is not smooth simply because it hasn’t had enough time and distance to straighten itself out yet and return to its original linear smoothness
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as he put his hands up to his face and felt the smoothness of it, the faded green
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against her face feeling the smoothness of it
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and the speed, smoothness of gait, and training on the
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Leaving the questions for now, concentrating on the Stone instead, its smoothness
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In this way by degrees he acquires those ideas of roughness and smoothness, hardness and softness, solidity, &c
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Night found us wrapped in the protective cocoon of the bed, me resting my head on the marble smoothness of his chest
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Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness
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What talents lie wasted there! What genius thrust away into corners! What worth left neglected! Still it seems to me that translation from one language into another, if it be not from the queens of languages, the Greek and the Latin, is like looking at Flemish tapestries on the wrong side; for though the figures are visible, they are full of threads that make them indistinct, and they do not show with the smoothness and brightness of the right side; and translation from easy languages argues neither ingenuity nor command of words, any more than transcribing or copying out one document from another
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Paul looked at his father's thick, brownish hands all scarred, with broken nails, rubbing the fine smoothness of his sides, and the incongruity struck him
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immense height and the slippery smoothness of their slender trunks, I did not at
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by the delicacy of his complexion, the smoothness of his skin, and the
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reach? he touched her breasts, first lightly, when the glossy smoothness
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Franz, who had mutely interrogated the countess, and received from her a gracious smile in token that he would be welcome, sought not to retard the gratification of Albert's eager impatience, but began at once the tour of the house, closely followed by Albert, who availed himself of the few minutes required to reach the opposite side of the theatre to settle the height and smoothness of his collar, and to arrange the lappets of his coat
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The ocean stretched out in all directions in glossy smoothness, regarding the sky and reflecting its image in crystalline perfection
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Who could refrain from such provoking enticements in reach? he touched her breasts, first lightly, when the glossy smoothness of the skin eluded his hand, and made it slip along the surface; he pressed them, and the
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It was only from feeling himself nearer the ground and from the peculiar smoothness of his motion that Vronsky knew how greatly the mare had quickened her pace
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The heavily overcast sky deposited a steady, soaking rain on all and sundry, and the customary smoothness of the Imperial Charisian Navy’s ship-to-shore operations was even more conspicuously absent than Captain Ahbaht’s sense of humor
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The three Isabels, overshadowed and clear cut in a great smoothness confounding the
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Scarlett saw Melanie standing by her and, slight little person in black mourning dress, her riotous dark curls subdued to matronly smoothness and a loving smile of welcome and happiness on her heart-shaped face
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Long thatched sheds stretched round the enclosure, their slopes encrusted with vivid green moss, and their eaves supported by wooden posts rubbed to a glossy smoothness by the flanks of infinite cows and calves of bygone years, now passed to an oblivion almost inconceivable in its profundity
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When you look at this chart you see periods of smoothness in the day to day changes and periods of craziness as per July 2011
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The investment shown by the discounted-flows-of-cash calculation to be the cheapest is the one that the investor should purchase-irrespective of whether the business grows or doesn't, displays volatility or smoothness in its earnings, or carries a high price or low in relation to its current earnings and book value
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‘Because not everything happens as one expects or with the smoothness of a parade
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The water came in, blended the sandcastle circle by circle, mashing it down little by little into the original smoothness
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Less scrupulous managers may also prefer a high probability of positive returns so that they can accumulate large fees before a rare disaster materializes, especially since overstated smoothness of returns can boost the Sharpe ratio and attract larger AUM until the blowup occurs
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The first property is optimization space smoothness
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In the two-dimensional case, smoothness means absence of a large quantity of small local peaks making the surface “hilly
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The averaging method described in the preceding section takes into account the height (objective function value) and smoothness (robustness) of the optimal area, but the influence of the former characteristic is greater than that of the latter one
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Such transformation of optimization space takes into account both the altitude of the optimal area (numerator) and the smoothness of its relief (denominator)
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Again, price distortions can be detected by analyzing the smoothness of such a relationship
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One ill-fitting man can throw out the smoothness of operation
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The evening passed with external smoothness, though almost every mind was ruffled; and the music which Sir Thomas called for from his daughters helped to conceal the want of real harmony
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At last, however, the bumping of the road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, and the carriage came to a stand
