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in another one of it’s recalcitrant moods I sat idling away a couple of minutes thinking
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He snaps his fingers authoritatively at two workers from the Subcontinent idling about nearby trying not to
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Davie can hear the Transit idling
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In the distance the tar ladling lorries with their battery of rollers chugged, idling back and forth as a black steaming liquid gushed behind each one
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shouted at a group of idling slaves to get the last crates sorted
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and others were just idling away, enjoying the ebullience of the
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The surreptitious idling around the Chester railway station or
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The idling of their engines was the only sound I could hear above the chattering of my teeth
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“I know,” he said, carrying me toward the second of the three long black Escalades that were idling on the dirt road
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“Well, what do you think?” he bellowed over the idling engine
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Just as I was about to head for the restaurant, I spotted Sammy Tolla idling along the dock checking faces
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I left it idling while I retrieved Langdon"s Sig Saur from the toilet tank and checked to see that seals of its protective series of zip-lock plastic bags were intact
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One of them was idling, with a puff of water vapour and black smoke coming out of the back end intermittently
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Her headlights hung on the man as she parked the car in front of him, engine idling
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Amelia saw Devin parked, engine idling
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congestion had the engine idling
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There were a number of smaller aircraft idling either to take off or land
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“What? Idling the plant for eight hours a day?” asked Gary
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Greg sat calmly, his brain in neutral and waited like a powerful machine with its engine idling
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Only the cabin heaters drew energy from the idling reactors
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Rose and the remainder of the crew would stand by on the ship with its engines idling in case it needed to escape quickly and leave the others behind
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and hurried back to his helicopter whose engine was idling
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One reactor was idling producing enough power for the small drain that the life support produced
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“If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it
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They eventually passed the idling taxi cabs, bell staff, and concierge to the front desk that was lined with computer monitors
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"Dad, it's Mitchell," he said, idling conspicuously in front of the hotel
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" They suddenly started for the doors and quickly identified another limo reading 'Island Hop Limousines', idling patiently outside
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with motors idling, it wasn’t five seconds when, from out of an alley to the right of us, a two-
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Above the noise of the idling engine and whirring rotors, Geoff Collins asked Max for a lift; it was imperative he returned straightaway because he was a diabetic and needed medication
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The police van prowled past on the road, idling along in first, sand and stone
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engine idling as they twisted back into the dark beyond the rear window
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Outside his idling limousine, the museum’s guests waited restlessly in the courtyard beyond the perimeter established by the police escort
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He washed his face at the mirrorless kitchen sink, strolled to his idling car, and drove westward
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I remained Managing Director of the now quietly idling
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He concluded that instead of poisoning their lungs with this disgusting thing and hanging around and idling, they should instead go in for sports, for example, Kung-fu
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Houses on either side of the street, some with smoke rising from the chimneys, others with idling cars in their driveways emitting exhaust out of their tailpipes, stood as silent witnesses to the drama unfolding in the street
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She approached the idling car, anxious and unexpectedly excited
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For the past ten, twenty minutes—had it been longer?—Carl had been sitting in his truck in the unplowed parking lot of the abandoned Chair City Manufacturing building, the engine idling, window rolled down, snow piling up on his arm draped over the door
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He bounded over, taking in the line of idling cars
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” I pointed at their eco-hearse idling at the curb
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to the car idling in the driveway
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For two hours, it sat idling as the
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around to the side of the now idling machine
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idling car and settled in for the moment
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"Into the sun!" exclaimed the Bishop, having for six mortal days observed her from windows horribly idling in it
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A train engine was idling just a few feet off the crossing
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I looked back to see the back of a hovercraft idling in the front of the mansion
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He left it idling
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“Yes it is,” said Maguire, still in the car with the motor idling
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They arrived at the small airstrip where a large helicopter waited with rotors idling
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A white Bell jet Ranger helicopter waited on the palace helicopter pad the next morning, with its rotors idling as it waited for its passenger, who stood well away from the rotors, and ignoring the constant waving of the pilot for him to board
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code named Foxbat by NATO was imposing as it sat with the engines idling
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Over in New Jersey, two fully-armed Apache gunships sat on the dock, engines idling, awaiting any hint of trouble
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The past two days they just visited his tomb, idling there
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The hands idling away in fantasy,
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directly beneath one of the idling engines
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When we reached the boat Evette had already started it and had it idling
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The first landfall was the tiny island of Jost van Dyke, a speck of land north of Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, where they tried to blend in with the fleet of sailboats on bareboat charters filled with idling Americans trading several thousand dollars for a week of sunshine and warm breezes, beach bars and snorkeling
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Slow speeds or idling in the water can cause (CO) gas to accumulate in the cockpit, cabin, bridge, and aft outdoor patio, even in a open area
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"It-can't-be," muttered Sydney Carton, retrospectively, and idling his glass (which fortunately was a small one) again
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So after idling away an hour, they drove home again, and having paid his respects to Mrs
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Yes, I said, he lives from day to day indulging the appetite of the hour; and sometimes he is lapped in drink and strains of the flute; then he becomes a water-drinker, and tries to get thin; then he takes a turn at gymnastics; sometimes idling and neglecting everything, then once more living the life of a philosopher; often he is busy with politics, and starts to his feet and says and does whatever comes into his head; and, if he is emulous of any one who is a warrior, off he is in that direction, or of men of business, once more in that
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have thought it idling with time and words, to have questioned me upon
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"Are you not ashamed to beg? Instead of idling about the roads,
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He did not succeed in catching anyone idling or smoking or talking
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Forty minutes later, Margolis rolled up to Colin’s car and pulled to a stop, his sedan idling in the road, the passenger window rolled down
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In the coaching launches idling in the water behind the shells, Al Ulbrickson and Ky Ebright were decidedly nervous
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He has been idling all this term, and he must look forward with dread to the examination
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” Behind them streamed the merry cavalcade, girls cool in flowered cotton dresses, with light shawls, bonnets and mitts to protect their skins and little parasols held over their heads; elderly convalescents from the hospitals wedged in between stout chaperons and slender girls ladies placid and smiling amid the laughter and carriageto-carriage calls and jokes; who made great fuss and to-do over them; officers on horseback idling at snail’s pace beside the carriages—wheels creaking, spurs jingling, gold braid gleaming, parasols gather greenery and have a picnic and melon cutting
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dairy-work at this time of year allowed a spare hour for idling
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But she had been observed almost immediately on her return by some people of scrupulous character and great influence: they had seen her idling in the churchyard, restoring as well as she could with a little trowel a baby's obliterated grave
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TO THE QUESTION of what he was doing in an idling van on the west side of Manhattan, the Prophet Charlie had no answer
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And then a week later a photo of that very house, the one they’d been idling in front of, had appeared on the corkboard above the wall-mounted phone in their kitchen
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The day’s last cigarette was all it took to separate those who had a reason to be idling there, at 3:55, at 4:10, from the loiterers, the drifters, the scarecrow homeless
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Then one afternoon they were idling near the nexus of two avenues and an expressway
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For all she knew, Sol’s van was out of the shop again, idling in the cul-de-sac outside, monitoring the batik curtains of her room
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A knot of several dozen young men has gathered on the corner, muscle-shirted, sort of Knights of Columbus, lit by idling cars
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I CRUISED BY THE idling patrol car at the end of Sea View Avenue, lifting my hand in greeting as I passed
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Then they cuffed him and stuffed him into the first of the two ambulances idling nearby, got in after him, and raced toward Roosevelt Hospital
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I guess she must have stepped from the space between two idling cars and started walking across the street, not even checking for traffic
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It had repeated and would repeat forever, until the universe was a smoothly idling engine of sterile perfection
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I drove the Torino up the hills of Los Altos, idling past estates with picture windows and silver lions guarding the wrought-iron gates, homes with cherub fountains lining the manicured walkways and no Ford Torinos in the driveways
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He should have stayed back, idling, erasing, his eyes gently half closed
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Seeing that he had put the car in the fast lane, he slowed to gradually move himself and his family through the banshee traffic until they were idling along at an almost reasonable fifty miles an hour
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On the fifteenth day of July, he found himself staring at some boys idling by on their bicycles, mouths full of Hershey bars that they were gulping and chewing
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CARL Ferris looked at the White House through the windows of his idling limousine
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She fell in love with the colors made by spilt gasoline in mud puddles, with exotic furniture in the store windows of Hurwitz Mintz, with antique shop displays of threadbare gilded chairs and lacquered square grand pianos and idling trucks belching white smoke from their upturned exhaust pipes and laughing mortals passing us on the narrow sidewalks carrying adorable babies, who twisted their little necks to peer at us- -and an old black man playing a tenor saxophone for money, which we gave him in abundance, and a hat-wearing hot dog vender from which Mona could not buy a hot dog now save to stare at it and sniff it and heave it into a trash bin, which gave her staggering pause-
