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light that shone almost below the visible spectrum, Smith heard a plaintive howling
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I try to bring her round, she resists, I emphasize I will come all the way from Glyfada, while she will only have to walk some metres; she grumbles a little more and finally she says in a plaintive voice: “Alright, Yvonne, I will come
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On the wall, half way along and to her right a security light shone weakly from behind its cage, singing a song of light as plaintive as the lark held captive beneath a towering sky
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Out at the edge of an insignificantly flat spiral galaxy, by a minute speck of light that shone almost below the visible spectrum, Smith heard a plaintive howling
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We were there, together, late that night in a mountain kafeneion, half of us strangers, seduced by plaintive melodies and angry clashes of Arabic, Turkish and Slavic themes until it fired our blood and led us deeper into ourselves than anything had before
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women held it to her lips and sang a plaintive
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The sound of her plaintive howl echoed in her ears, and then he was there, holding her, wrapping her in musk and warmth and shelter and tenderness, holding her tightly against him, soothing her
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Might it not be better if we rested them there overnight?” The question had ended on an almost plaintive note
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"You mean now, Sir?" he asked in a suddenly plaintive voice from his upside down position behind the screen
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in a rather plaintive wail, cried
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rested them there overnight?” The question had ended on an almost plaintive note
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His words were slow, plaintive, “For those of you who
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Plaintive for Earth; but rather turn and run
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"Well…" His voice dropped to a plaintive mumble
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Shortly after midnight the plaintive wail of the air raid sirens threw us out of our bunks and we took refuge in the bomb shelter in the Phoenix tire factory across the street which, at least to us, appeared to be more secure than the one under the railroad station itself
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So using the plaintive tone that women use when wishing to obtain any concession from masculine gender, I moved my long and lush eyelashes, I showed the most famous of my smiles adorned with the exquisite pearl necklace which were my teeth, and took my time to convince the Genie to accompany me
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Upon the thinking of this thought a large and sparkling globe emerged out of the fog in front of me whence came a plaintive melody
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The Devil, of course, heard Albert’s plaintive cry very clearly,
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As soon as the three ladies had entered the P I ship’s crew quarters, Avi turned to the others and asked, “Ladies, so I don’t shoot myself in the foot here, what is your relationship with Greg?” Her tone had a plaintive quality the others had not heard before
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And again, a plaintive meow and
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face, her plaintive chirps shivering the air
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Instead of a plaintive cry, he said, “Hey guys, watch this!” Then, as he held on to fistfuls of the mastodon’s long reddish hair, he raised himself up to a sitting position on the back of the mighty beast
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“What do you mean, it’ll cost me?” Thane asked the Watcher, trying to blank out the plaintive
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at all…” Her plaintive call went unanswered for several minutes
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” As he finished his explanation, another plaintive voice was heard by the
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The last song she’d heard on the radio before leaving the car had been “Meet Me on the Equinox” by Death Cab for Cutie, and its plaintive, drawn out chorus—“everything, everything ends…everything, everything ends”—kept replaying in her head
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He couldn’t listen, so he left the egg on the table and went to his room, ignoring, as he did so, to plaintive cries form behind him — ’aren’t you going to eat the egg, I made it specially for you
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The plaintive but soulful song reached Swami Vivekananda’s ears
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Head darting out of the car again, in a voice that is plaintive rather than angry, Amy says, “I am not a whore!”
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It was late when the troubadours ended the evening with a plaintive, yearning song that left the hall quiet
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It came out plaintive, under the sar-
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The air was split again, a plaintive
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she is all alone in the world, with no one in plaintive sight to care for her-that is, if one were to
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surprised look and said in a somewhat plaintive voice, “Bev!” This caused
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Sue said verbally with a plaintive edge to her voice,
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A long, plaintive wail echoed through the air, followed by a chorus of defiant howls
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The muddy roads, the soaked forest, the plaintive patter of the rain, were wiped out of existence between a sleeping and a waking
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Anyhow I don't know what you would be at; do you wish me to turn up my nose at my surroundings? And do you see any good that it would do? And the details you go into! That coffee-pot you saw and are so plaintive about came to grief only the day before your visit, and will, in due season, be replaced by another
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The boy was asleep, and my plaintive cry went past him over the golden ripples towards Lauterbach
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And she had gradually acquired the sofa look, and was now very definitely a slightly plaintive but persistently patient Christian lady
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Bullivant with the plaintive determination of one who considers it the least she may expect as a sofa-ridden mother to be allowed to finish her sentences, "so much
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“Jesus, what"s in hell"s going on back there?” Joseph asked, cringing at the plaintive
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Those who know the faintness of hunger at this stage will also know the pathos that steals into the voice of the sufferer when he is unwillingly made to speak; it becomes plaintive, melodious with yearning, the yearning for food
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A cat on heat, meowing in that typical plaintive and demanding way, suddenly ran across the street in front of the horses – it was the first creature here in this village which obviously didn’t mind being seen by Nacho and his men
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It was such a plaintive, naked question that hearing it took some of the absurdity out of the situation
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let me die?” His voice held the plaintive note of a child in pain
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"I have to pee," Benjamin said in a low plaintive voice
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Viswava stifled a plaintive screech as he saluted by pressing fist to shoulder before exiting
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And she looked at me with her plaintive little
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He would ask everyone he met, in a plaintive voice, "Where is the gold?"
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nation of the period, in the main stern andmartial, but sometimes tender and plaintive
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I would scold the culprit with my loud, plaintive voice and my effeminate gestures would bring a smile to their faces but the lesson would rarely go unheeded
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Then the plaintive brainwashed boy utters the last part of his statement which is a belated apology, and a complete reversal of the actual hidden truth
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It was plaintive, and there was hurt and fear in it
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The plaintive tone of her compassion merged into the less musical voice of the Judge, as he said something fiercely: "Answer the questions put to you, and make no remark upon them
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A fly flew up suddenly and struck the window pane with a plaintive buzz
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"Love her? Of course!" said Sonia with plaintive emphasis, and she clasped her hands in distress
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The plaintive sobbing of the widowed dove,
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And as the encamisados came along they muttered to themselves in a low plaintive tone
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knight-errantry, we now enjoy in this age of ours, so poor in light entertainment, not only the charm of his veracious history, but also of the tales and episodes contained in it which are, in a measure, no less pleasing, ingenious, and truthful, than the history itself; which, resuming its thread, carded, spun, and wound, relates that just as the curate was going to offer consolation to Cardenio, he was interrupted by a voice that fell upon his ear saying in plaintive tones:
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Don Quixote recognised him, and taking his hand he turned to those present and said: "That your worships may see how important it is to have knights-errant to redress the wrongs and injuries done by tyrannical and wicked men in this world, I may tell you that some days ago passing through a wood, I heard cries and piteous complaints as of a person in pain and distress; I immediately hastened, impelled by my bounden duty, to the quarter whence the plaintive accents seemed to me to proceed, and I found tied to an oak this lad who now stands before you, which in my heart I rejoice at, for his testimony will not permit me to depart from the truth in any particular
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recognised him, with a prolonged plaintive cry drawn from the depths of her heart, she fell backwards fainting, and but for the barber being close by to catch her in his arms, she would have fallen completely to the ground
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For, come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: 'Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;' and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared
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The plaintive wail which succeeded the passionate roar went to Meg's heart, and she ran up to say beseechingly
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It was evident that his mind was not in working order yet, and his ideas needed clarifying, for often in the middle of a plaintive strain, he would find himself humming a dancing tune that vividly recalled the Christmas ball at Nice, especially the stout Frenchman, and put an effectual stop to tragic composition for the time being
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"Why, there's a ballad that says they put King Rodrigo alive into a tomb full of toads, and adders, and lizards, and that two days afterwards the king, in a plaintive, feeble voice, cried out from within the tomb--
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Then he became plaintive
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Still the Sultan saw no one, till he heard a plaintive cry, and a voice which said,
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"Why, what time is it?" The murmur came plaintive and helpless
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His father rose from the couch as he entered, saying in a plaintive way:
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When this recital of events was ended, his voice once more changed, and became plaintive and even musical, in its low guttural sounds
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But as they regarded the fatal accuracy of an aim which had dared to immolate an enemy at so much hazard to a friend, the name of "La Longue Carabine" burst simultaneously from every lip, and was succeeded by a wild and a sort of plaintive howl
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While they were talking the baby was sleeping restlessly, occasionally uttering plaintive little cries
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While his lips were yet in the act of parting, a low but fearful sound arose from the forest, and was immediately succeeded by a high, shrill yell, that was drawn out, until it equaled the longest and most plaintive howl of the wolf
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Their plaintive and terrific cry, which was intended to represent equally the wailings of the dead and the triumph to the victors, had entirely ceased
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The squaw gave a loud and plaintive yell, dashed the torch to the earth, and buried everything in darkness
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The women and children, who lingered around the entrance, took up the words in an echo, which was succeeded by another shrill and plaintive howl
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The notes were in the extremes of human sounds; being sometimes melancholy and exquisitely plaintive, even rivaling the melody of birds—and then, by sudden and startling transitions, causing the auditors to tremble by their depth and energy
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The voice, made plaintive by distance and by the singer's hoarseness,
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A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse
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And the talk, the wonderful talk flowed on—or was it speech entirely, or did it pass at times into song—chanty of the sailors weighing the dripping anchor, sonorous hum of the shrouds in a tearing North-Easter, ballad of the fisherman hauling his nets at sundown against an apricot sky, chords of guitar and mandoline from gondola or caique? Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail? All these sounds the spell-bound listener seemed to hear, and with them the hungry complaint of the gulls and the sea-mews, the soft thunder of the breaking wave, the cry of the protesting shingle
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His only other solace was running, slogging through the sand around the Kahuku runway, thinking of the 1944 Olympics, trying to forget Harry Brooks’s plaintive face
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As I addressed the envelope I could hear the plaintive sound of Number Seven’s accordion
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Very brown and wooden, in goatskin breeches with the hair outside, he sat near the tail of his own smart mule, his great hat turned against the sun, an expression of blissful vacancy on his long face, humming day after day a love-song in a plaintive key, or, without a change of expression, letting out a yell at his small tropilla in front
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When Anna came in in her hat and cape, and her lovely hand rapidly swinging her parasol, and stood beside him, it was with a feeling of relief that Vronsky broke away from the plaintive eyes of Golenishtchev which fastened persistently upon him, and with a fresh rush of love looked at his charming companion, full of life and happiness
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A second question from us failed to elicit any answer at all, save a plaintive bleat from his wife to the effect that her husband was in a very violent temper already, and that she hoped we would do nothing to make it worse
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We had hardly closed the thornbush door of our zareba, clasped each other's hands, and thrown ourselves panting upon the ground beside our spring, when we heard a patter of feet and then a gentle, plaintive crying from outside our entrance
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He had just gone into the drawing room, when suddenly a plaintive moan sounded from the bedroom, smothered instantly
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The mockingbirds and the jays, engaged in their old feud for possession of the mockers sweet voiced and plaintive
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Uncle Peter’s voice came as from a far distance, plaintive, placating
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nosed through the sidecanals and the boatman uttered his plaintive musical bird-cry of warning; on other days with the speed-boat bouncing over the lagoon in a stream of sunlit foam; it left a confused memory of fierce sunlight on the sands and cool, marble interiors; of water everywhere, lapping on smooth stone, reflected in a dapple of light
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Robert delivered his incredibly plaintive vocal in just a few takes, undercutting any piety in the subject matter with a running commentary of jokes
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I mentioned to someone at Columbia Records that a plaintive trumpet might be the ideal solo instrument, thinking that perhaps someone there still had Miles Davis’s phone number lying around, although I didn’t dare say that out loud
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And then her cooing voice, plaintive in expostulation, disturbed the darkness, the velvet touch of her lips passed over his brow, and he could distinguish in the air the warmth of her breath
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For a while they rode along without talking, listening to the plaintive cries of birds
