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    1. " Most women today are juggling a lot of obligations, with few breaks, and feeling the strain


    2. · Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration, which places added strain on the kidneys and can impair mental function


    3. Strain before use


    4. Strain if you need to


    5. Strain into container


    6. Strain thru gardener’s cheesecloth


    7. However, Yoga practice can be maintained at the same intensity as the nature of exercise is without strain


    8. Bark: Allow bark to dry on sun tray, then grind bark to powder, place in panty hose, tie into ball and add to container of water and allow to soak for 24 hrs, strain through filter


    9. Detaching the tongue is a heavy job by itself, carrying it along while the kedas turn around was a strain for the three of them


    10. ‘She didn’t survive infancy though – there was a nasty strain of measles going the rounds and she caught it

    11. In all probability, he was late on purpose, so as to strain my impatience


    12. The emotional strain of the last month is taking its toll of me now that I don’t have to pretend any more; I feel I could sleep for a year


    13. ‘How long have you known, Kate?’ he asked, the strain in his voice clear


    14. It helped to take the strain off his right side


    15. Does a tree strain to bear fruit? Does a plant have to wake up in the morning and remind itself that it needs to make seed? It is a natural process that the tree and plant were made to do


    16. greatest care as there is great strain on the back of the neck and


    17. To the adventurous among you who attempt it I would say please go carefully and do not strain any of your muscles


    18. You will feel considerable pressure on your hip joints so please be careful not to strain yourself


    19. Simmer them slowly for about an hour and then strain through a fine sieve or cloth


    20. I imagined the life there, far from towns, with the faintest strain of music floating in the air and the echo of modest family voices

    21. That artificial sugars must be broken down by the digestive tract into simple sugars before they can be utilized by the body, and thus they put an undue strain upon the system


    22. Your eye movements should follow the movements of your head but on no account should you experience any strain


    23. The eyes should never be subjected to strain of any kind, and all possible care should be taken to protect them from this


    24. He brought in extra help in the kitchen, and wouldn’t let her lift a thing saying he didn’t want her to strain anything


    25. It is quiet in the cottage, nicely so after the noise and emotional strain of the evening


    26. She’s coped brilliantly over the past weeks but there is the occasional look of strain around her eyes


    27. You have to respect her for that – hope she’s not putting too much strain on herself


    28. had to strain my ears to hear his voice on the horrible line


    29. However, Jake weathers the comments without obvious signs of strain and Abi does what she can to suppress Ben


    30. rope cattle, which puts a lot of strain on the horse’s

    31. The fact that he was under strain was represented to her soul by vibrations in those hands


    32. You, the strain of my soul, the outpouring of what I am


    33. “I thought you said it was too much strain on Tometahin?”


    34. ” It was still such a strain not saying ‘you’ and ‘your’ to her, but he did it


    35. Once he is out of the cab in the fresh air, with the bustle of wire baskets under full strain all around him, he pays the driver and decides to walk back to the house


    36. Jorma and Venna both had to strain to keep from laughing over that


    37. strain of the day took their toll and he drifted off into a


    38. tried to minimise the strain by taking frequent rest stops


    39. He dropped into a forward roll over it, without letting go of it and flung it over his head as he rose out of it, using his momentum to lift it but putting immense strain on his shoulders in so doing


    40. "Its Poltice the Fourth so I've been told" said the frail one whose arms were shaking at the strain of the heavy silver set

    41. stumbling under the strain, he again lifted his pack onto


    42. She gave him water and paracetemol and they started to walk, but Janice could see that the young soldier was taking immense strain


    43. For Anon, he should have been relatively weak, but Imorbis had infected him with the pure strain


    44. I am curious to see how the powers of the pure strain compare to this new infection


    45. As the strain was becoming a tad too much,


    46. Zarko was aware of the strain this had brought on queen Amyitis


    47. In the course of their reasonings, however, the lands, houses, and consumable goods, seem to slip out of their memory; and the strain of their argument frequently supposes that all wealth consists in gold and silver, and that to multiply those metals is the great object of national industry and commerce


    48. But I feel the strain of waiting, too


    49. "It is indeed a strain on the public purse," Mr Snickerty agreed


    50. To be aware of the moment does not mean to strain or force present-moment awareness













































    1. Most of these can be made into a decoction, strained and added to water to be sprayed


    2. Big Petey strained all his muscles and then pulled


    3. thread strained and writhed as the inner plastic of the shop-window mannequin


    4. Their relationship became a little strained after that


    5. In profile he had a slightly aquiline nose, slightly ridged in the middle, and I couldn’t help noticing that his shirt strained a little around his mid-riff


    6. I strained at the chain, desperate to try and reach the door


    7. Although Menachem continued to laugh and joke, although he strained so hard to contrive new amusements, the sudden and utter futility of my life was all that I could comprehend


    8. His shoulders hunched a little, his arms strained thinner


    9. ,' her voice was strained, thin and shrill


    10. He strained hard to look at the bowler

    11. Many had grown daughters, and it seemed to Ava it was up to the daughter, with some strained advice from the father, whether or not the daughter would share her bed with one of the soldiers


    12. “What!” There was a moment of strained silence and then Alexei erupted


    13. Eye to eye contact between the two was strained for a moment, and then Duncan smiled


    14. “How many people live here,” Ava grunted as they strained at the oars


    15. “My Queen,” Boras answered in a strained voice as he bowed from the landing, “I… I suddenly felt ill


    16. I was moving toward her and Cordra’s strained face was shaking


    17. They howled and strained against their


    18. Carol tries to smile, but her eyes are strained and the effect is thin and reedy


    19. There was a moment’s strained silence and then – as if on


    20. Harry and the young ladies sipped their tea, and strained to hear something of the conference, but to no avail

    21. Belle gathered her strained wits about her and calmly explained that their son Henry was, this day in fact, “


    22. Once back at Knume’s she washed some clothes she would be taking, while they soaked, she squeezed and strained the lvinch, filling three big skins with the juice


    23. watched the man she had come to love fight for both their lives? Heather strained


    24. The foredecks were awash and the cargo lashings strained


    25. strained to look over his shoulder


    26. ’ There was another strained silence, until he


    27. to his knees in exhaustion, his breathing strained and his


    28. It strained against the chains that bound it within me and raged when it could not be freed


    29. Above the hail’s drumming from outside, we strained to hear the sound of beasts or snakes, but could detect no danger


    30. Their relationship was strained

    31. Initially there was some strained interaction between the two sisters, but that dissipated gradually as the day wore on


    32. The haunting calls to battle, strained voices of Tullius and others flooded back into her ears


    33. And acknowledging the newly strained non-relationship he bore with the Guild, it would have to be a delicate process of extraction


    34. Doris had a small orgasm from this and when it happened, she held his head with her hands, a look of wild passion on her strained, pretty face


    35. His right arm, the one caught by Fletcher, was sore, the muscles were strained and he could feel a lack of strength in its movement


    36. The angle of the cliff was more in his favour until the overhang, but his strained arm was beginning to weaken and the cold was starting to numb his fingers


    37. Possibly the worse thing he could do with a strained shoulder was dangle over a cliff some ten metres above rocks


    38. ” announced Susan, as she leant forward through the open panel and strained to see where Debbie was shining the torch


    39. He climbed further until his feet were on the last rung and then he pulled himself up the last bit, hurting his strained arm again in the process


    40. ’ Its voice was reedy but male, throaty and strained

    41. ’ She said his name in such a strained and desperate way that he knew something to be very wrong


    42. “Then it"s strained to remove all impurities


    43. While they all strained to move it, Felix did his best to also visually check the dinghy for signs on damage


    44. “Mary, what shall we do?” His voice was strained


    45. ‘Yes,’ she said in a strained voice


    46. His voice was so low, I strained to hear every word


    47. She strained her ears


    48. ” We strained our eyes as we looked out into the dark and shadows of No Man’s Land for this is the direction in which they would come


    49. He strained his ears, but he could hear nothing, only the silence


    50. strained tones of ‘Walking in the Air’ drifted through to him, Jack












































    1. He noticed that he was still clutching the door knob with a straining hand


    2. straining under the covers


    3. amid a wail of ebrased rubber and straining chassis bolts, until, with the hills and the


    4. The feeling of exhilaration after a good thirty minutes straining and sweating and driving your body beyond its customary lethargy becomes addictive


    5. I knelt, tethered, at the end of my chain, straining to hear the sound of a carbine loosing its deathly payload


    6. straining to see the swans as they merge into the melting air


    7. Wiesse would certainly not be amused by that sort of inattentiveness … as a result I find myself watching the path carefully, straining my eyes for any such rut


    8. The Princess began screeching and straining and banging against the quayside


    9. until you can see the flame without straining and without any


    10. Onlookers clung to the rooftops, on window ledges and every available vantage point straining for a better view

    11. Then we turned out of the narrow alleyway into the square where, to my complete amazement, I saw it absolutely crammed with hundreds of pilgrims who had flocked there for the next part of the festival, all craning and straining to see what they could of the annual procession and the ritual on the plateia


    12. Between us - Hilary taking over the straining of the vegetables, me prising the Yorkshire puddings out of their beds and Dave lifting the roast potatoes carefully out of the oven, we get the meal served up


    13. Billy tries to stay calm, straining the boundaries of his own voice now


    14. The trousers undone, he lifted himself off the bed and stepped out of them, his erection straining against his grimy underpants


    15. The cannon crews redoubled their efforts, straining against the


    16. He turns to Ted and unzips his fleece to reveal straining shirt buttons barely containing the enthusiastic expanse of his belly


    17. Not that I’ll drown you – not with your voice – but I don’t want you straining


    18. A yellow sun was straining through the


    19. Then the roar of the bulldozers could be heard, straining and groaning, thunderous as the revs climbed up


    20. With Father straining at the helm to keep their ship from smashing against sheer walls of granite, Nerissa flung stone after stone

    21. He couldn’t help but notice with appreciation that the cool air was making its magic with her nipples, which had become hard and erect and were straining against the thin material


    22. Let us return briefly to our hero, straining against his burden


    23. If you are mindful of the moment, you are free of the past and not straining to see into the future


    24. A man stood at the rear entrance to the tunnel, almost blocking it with his seven-foot mass, his broad shoulders rippling with muscles straining under a white shirt


    25. ” grunted Kate, straining on the rope


    26. ” said Richard, straining to broaden the tear in the metal door with his hands


    27. He stayed motionless for a moment, not even breathing, straining to hear some trace of the sound he had heard before, but he could not


    28. I stared at the straining backs of the Sappers and the thought sprang into my head that if it was a fish then it was a whopper and would feed most of the Company


    29. She waited breathlessly, straining to hear the least noise


    30. He heard his heart, a great thumping engine in the cavern of his chest, straining against

    31. Ears straining, she listened for footfalls or breathing


    32. I stood with my head against the window, straining to keep focused on the plane until it was no longer possible


    33. Striking upwards, his muscles straining with the effort, Thesa reached the surface, gasping for breath, the numbing coldness of the water sucking the air from his lungs and stinging his eyes


    34. The crowd murmured softly, shifting about, straining for a better view as Sergeant Shooter manoeuvred his upper body through the window of the police car, while Grunt sat inside, holding onto Shooter's legs


    35. Straining my ears above the din of the engine and the wind-whipped noise coming through the large doorless opening in the side of the helicopter, I tried to listen in on the conversation going on between the winch-man and Detective Inspector Grunt


    36. For those quickly approaching retirement age with minimal household expenses, many can oftentimes stay the course without unduly straining their financial sources


    37. Straining to hear each other above the wind, it was hard to believe in the secluded world down below where quiet lamplight illuminated the others playing cards


    38. Gulping back her tears, Macey listened, straining her ears to hear the smallest sound


    39. “Any losses?” I asked, holding my breath on the phone and straining to hear him over the static on the line


    40. She then spent her morning as was her usual routine nowdays: brooming and cleaning the house as much as her straining back allowed

    41. " The younger Wood Sprites leaned in, straining to hear the story, fascinated by the powerful Fox


    42. Beth lashed her arms over the bigger man’s shoulders and around his back, straining to reach her adversary’s flesh


    43. Yet, the straining of muscles under a baking sun brought with it a desperately needed release


    44. Straining to wrestle huge bundles from the overhead racks, they collided, cursed and shoved


    45. The fence, brown-rusted and stained, seemed to be straining to hold back the encroaching jungle, omnipresent in the quiet, steaming night


    46. Looking round the best he could, straining his neck, and starting to sweat, Vince is looking directly into Bob's face, "You'll need to get this trained monkey off me first?"


    47. Charles is straining his eyes, "That looks like Harry & Vince, does it look like them to you?"


    48. Ludwig could not stop himself from asking, straining his voice to be heard over the roar of the diesel engine


    49. Colling took up a post on the bow, straining to see anything that looked as if it might pose an obstacle to their progress


    50. Hands wrap around my arms and shoulders and chest, forming a cage of flesh and bone, but I keep straining toward her









































    1. But in the long term insects develop resistance to the super-tomatoes, leaving farmers scrambling to find ever newer strains of protective bacteria


    2. Over the public address system there came the first strains of a waltz,


    3. I hold the tureens as he strains the veg over the sink and then carry them through to the lounge as we fill them


    4. Listening to the night-dead creaking of the building and to the faint strains of a television playing further down the hall in the room where the guards brewed our tea and relaxed when not on duty, I wondered again about this friendship


    5. Fifteen is a dangerous time to come into contact with a new set of bacteria either on Earth or here on Errd, and you had no defences against the strains which are common here


    6. and you hear faint strains of music,


    7. On the road down to the harbour with its lights and the village life, the faint strains of bouzouki floated through the air from a shop nearby


    8. It is a long drag out of the town and the gg pulling the wagon strains as it hauls us up the hill


    9. In fact, under the strains of the moment and the inevitable riot of questions and counselling in the immediate aftermath of the alleged attack, they had never even spoken with one another


    10. Across from where I sat one of them flopped onto the bench, breathless, sipping a fizzy diet drink from a can, panting beneath the weight of her robes and fighting in vain to keep her eyes open and to keep her mouth from drooping but her personal enthusiasm cowed before the pressures and the stresses and the strains

    11. 'Oh dear, the stresses and strains of modern goat herding,' teased Alessandra


    12. Ken found company difficult, preferring the routines of parenthood, work and horticulture to the efforts and strains inherent in the pursuit of conviviality and social exchange with his peers


    13. strains of the moment and the inevitable riot of questions and


    14. parenthood, work and horticulture to the efforts and strains inherent


    15. in his muscles to ease the mental strains he had barely realised he


    16. The strains of rock music reached her ears … looked as though Chas had set up his music system


    17. Billy can hear the first strains of the melody begin in his head again


    18. He strains again to see the world as it should be, but staggers backwards, hitting the brick wall of the barn with his head as he falls


    19. All the stresses and strains of the fast-approaching wedding finally took their toll on her and she suddenly felt tired to the bone


    20. And who would deny him sustenance, either of body or mind? Being both the first and final arbiter of whom should receive financial assistance from the state, was a responsibility that was not without its stresses and strains, and Mr Rudolph Snickerty's contribution to society had not escaped recognition

    21. Occurrence of thermal strains in concrete probably not only at its external heating, but also as a result of a self-heating due to exothermic reaction of hydration


    22. the time the opening orchestra strains were heard, she


    23. The strains of a band could be heard in the distance, the regular roll of the approaching drums was unmistakable - it was the white troops at last


    24. When in SA and you feel those symptoms within six months of coming back please test for Malaria and tell your doctor where you were for there are different strains of Malaria which is treated differently


    25. Every muscle in my body strains toward him, but I hold myself back


    26. The Celtic strains of McKennett rose magically as if out of a mist


    27. Because inside me is a beast that snarls, and growls, and strains toward freedom, toward Tobias, and, above all, toward life


    28. The familiar strains of Yesterday floated across the camp


    29. Noah slipped a CD into the drive and the moaning, sleep-inducing strains of Enya filled the car


    30. Rock stars have tremendous strains placed on their relationships

    31. Its strains had gone deeply into her and come up as something wild, something she couldn’t control, something that was at once beautiful and so foreign it frightened her


    32. in mournful strains, again to help them speedily


    33. Just sit back and chill out as the recording works with you to eliminate your stresses and strains,


    34. So I doubt you will be asked for your advice very often, for fear that you will morally obligate us to further strains upon our treasuries!”


    35. 25 The Jews breathless with momentary suspense stretched out their hands and prayed the Greatest God in mournful strains again to help them speedily


    36. The melancholy strains of Yesterday came over his earphones from the AFVN station he had tuned on his ADF


    37. The air reverberated with the clashing of the strains; the ground shook with the tramping of


    38. Collectively, they developed five separate strains of an


    39. ’ Strains credulity! Shelby Steele9 wrote “There was a summary indictment of America that emerged in the 1960s by a convergence of many social protest movements –


    40. I listened recently to the beautiful strains of Ferde Grofe’s musical description of a sunset

    41. Saznack and Bellack had both retired quietly to their chambers exhausted, feeling the strains of the day they both desperately needed to recuperate


    42. The six-year old boy strains to lift the weights attached to a rope strung around his nape


    43. The strains of the song washed over her as she leaned against the windowsill


    44. of the bed in soft, perfumed candlelight, with romantic strains of John Waite singing


    45. These strains commenced to undulate


    46. thinking about breeding new strains of trees and plants that can adapt to the local conditions


    47. the planet liveable, much as tiny bacteria strains had done the same for Terra billions of years


    48. enormously helpful in building a stronger, more flexible back that is better able to cope with the stresses and strains of life


    49. Before he could give it any more thought the organ pounded out the strains of the Wedding March that enabled him to breath properly again


    50. The heritability of aggression has been observed in many animal strains after noting that some strains of birds, dogs, fish, and mice seem to be more aggressive than other strains












































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    Sinónimos para "strain"

    song strain straining nisus pains striving tenor air line melodic line melodic phrase melody tune breed stock form var. variant mental strain nervous strain stress tense tense up deform distort reach strive extend puree filter filter out filtrate separate out sieve sift try twist sprain bruise wrench exertion force pressure species ancestry race descent extraction family hint trace streak tension tauten tighten labour endeavour injure impair tear weaken over-exert refine purify screen percolate