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It was an aching desert, the gravel was a dirty brown, the noon breeze was still stifling
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In my head I tried to sing snatches of songs from my childhood, but the stifling emptiness of this demonic and industrial womb-space drove the shapes and sounds of words and melodies into a frantic jumble of static
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"I don't know why that worries you so? If he's that stifling you should move on
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the stifling air and tension inside
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“Do you need some help with that?” Tipene asked, stifling a giggle
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That was too much for her nerves, she jumped and tossed it in the air; stifling a scream
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struggling with the stifling heat
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The beating of a drum, vibrating her insides, hammering at her chest, stifling the sound of her own voice with the pounding of her heart
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The second day after the operation was a stifling thirty-
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Stifling her laughter in the cup of one hand while pointing with the other, Emily let her globes dissipate
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He's told me about wars because of religious fundamentalism and the stifling, stifling, stifling, laws against anything people somewhere, somehow, might enjoy
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The air above was clouded in darkness and smoke, stifling the light of a thousand fires burning in the very sky itself
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The air was hot, stifling their efforts to breathe
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I still wake every day stifling a scream, fresh from abandoning my brother yet again
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"Indeed he does," Mr Snickerty agreed, making great theatre of stifling a yawn
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These considerations alone were a pain, were stifling to his creativity
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' She sat up and cocked an ear, stifling her giggles
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The inmates huddled closer, cutting off his air supply, stifling him
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Emerging from a narrow tunnel-like waterway under the trees, which I had traversed for the last hour, winding in and out among the mangrove roots, amid the semi-darkness made by the dense foliage overhead, with its stifling, steam-like atmosphere, heavy with the foul smell of putrefying mud and rotting vegetation, I reached drier ground
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She stepped closer to the bed, hand covering her mouth, stifling a not yet formed scream
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She sniffed a little as if stifling her tears
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“You no unnerstan,” she answered, stifling her laughter as she reached to touch Beth’s hand
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Up and down the street, not a thing was in motion, not so much as the wind to stir the stifling heat
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Ruby gasped, stifling a small noise
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He walked out of the airport terminal into a stifling sticky heat wave
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The vacuum of space is the perfect insulator, and our own body temperature will soon make it stifling hot in here
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Pain rushes through my body in sharp bursts, but I try to ignore it, stifling a groan
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Despite the stifling heat of the room, he wears a long-sleeved shirt that buttons at the wrists—he must have been distracted when he dressed this morning
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A wave of stifling heat bore
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The dark was stifling but not as much as the temperature, as he
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If he thought that the atmosphere was stifling in the Yemeni
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Sometimes the concern was stifling, but at the end of the day, I loved having him around
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After I had strolled in from the ice cold air of the environment into the stifling heat of the hospital’s heater through the sliding doors, my nerves went crazy
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I held up my hands “I have nothing to do with this” I said stifling a chuckle
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“No” I said, Jesse was stifling a laugh when I glared at him “You’re loving this, aren’t you?” I asked
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I nodded stifling a shudder of my own from remembering Jesse’s face when he told me this “Thanks for telling me mom” I said, “I’ll be careful,” I added
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” She called out to me, barely stifling her own laugh, I saw red
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And this stifling State, it did so spread,
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“After increasingly stifling his research, the government fired him in 1989
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The silence stifling, Morgan looked to the direction from which they had come
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to be too stifling for humid Southeast Asia
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With that, Thomas spat on the rock floor, causing the night-woman to cry out before stifling her cries with her hand
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And, as he stumbled forward, fighting to keep his balance even though he could scarcely breathe and the whiteness was stifling him, he knew who was in reach and whom he should try
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He tried to cry out but his teeth were full of rocks, slivers of them fighting their way up from his throat, over his gums and through his lips into the stifling air
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Stifling a gasp, she glanced down
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D said, stifling a yawn
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Therefore when she snuggled into bed one night, nuzzling my neck, caressing the cods, and stifling sobs I felt cheated
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It was beyond their wits to estimate how far they had already risen in the stifling chasm
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The mountain quaked and the walls crumbled in and collapsed, but the inseparable pair continued to navigate the stifling labyrinth with unparalleled speed and surety
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If only you could release your bonds of captivity and end this stifling boredom
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He had a suspicion that she was one of those women who was so stifling and refined in the world’s view that she was a demoness in bed
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The trick will be to keep them safe without stunting or stifling their development
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The instant the Cimmerian's back was turned, Thalis, with a pantherish quickness almost incredible, clapped her hand over Natala's mouth, stifling the cry she tried to give
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Taramis felt as if a stifling net of bewilderment were being drawn about her
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Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared
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Silence hung like a stifling pall
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An hysterical giggle rose to Sancha's lips, and Conan quickly clapped his hand over her mouth, stifling the sound before it could betray them
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He tried to bend to them, but the chain was too short; almost suffocated by the mad pounding of his heart, he slipped one foot from its sandal, and gripped them with his toes; drawing his foot up, he grasped them fiercely, barely stifling the yell of ferocious exultation that rose instinctively to his lips
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I removed it because the temperature was balmy, almost hot and the furs stifling
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It was stifling in the room
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She believes that she somehow gets less of the the latter than some students probably get, and that may be because her modus operendi is to get along and be polite, stifling her own anger and critical voice, withholding her true responses for the sake of getting by and getting along
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already stifling in the house, another long hot, humid summer
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He knew the Bloodtooth kid would hit first because coach wanted him to go against the best hurlers, especially with the three well-heeled alumni hanging by their thick fingers on the sagging chain link backstop, laughing and telling jokes as the boys trod through the stifling heat to their positions; none in the shade
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He knew nothing of this stifling wildness; less about his new-found sense of smell
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Laughing, the amused man turned toward the weakening western sky, his tight lips stifling the laughter
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Away from the scent stifling Melaleuca trees Samson inhaled a chest full of night air and was overjoyed at the return of the exotic smells to which he was becoming accustomed
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The heat was stifling
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had begun to feel stifling and oppressive
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hand cover my mouth, stifling the words before I could speak
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and the smoke were stifling the atmosphere above the roof
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The heat in the kitchen became stifling
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In fact, she had to unlearn most of his stifling teachings
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Waking up in a hurry, he grabbed the receiver and answered, stifling a yawn
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The only things the peasants and merchants see from the French are taxes and stifling regulations, while they get precious little back in terms of public services and infrastructure improvements
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By the time Wickland arrived at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center just after nine o’clock, the temperature had already swelled to over ninety degrees and the humidity seemed stifling in the absence of any breeze from the ocean
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Their ramshackle stone house was freezing in the winter and stifling in the summer, but Andiette was not one to complain
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She was stifling a yawn when she picked up the phone
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rejecting aspects of ourselves, or by stifling them
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The patent system wastes billions of dollars stifling competition while costing consumers billions more by virtue of product monopolies for companies that may well not have been the true inventors and
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He hit the floor like a damp rag and Shoop was on him, stifling
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"Hey Julia, what are you up to girl?" He said cupping his hand over his mouth and stifling a laugh
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and Logan got out of the plane into the stifling hot night air, both holding their luggage bags, where they were greeted by a very overweight, older but
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went outside, the hut was stifling
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Halfshaft watched her go, stifling the urge to call her back
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She shrugged, stifling a grin
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He continued tracing with one light fingertip over every part of her behind, both sides, while she chewed on the bedspread, stifling moans
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Before she could answer his sensuous lips were against her own again, stifling her words and sending thrills coursing down through her body that threatened to set her on fire
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He hoped he wasn’t crushing her; stifling her
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The air itself was almost stifling from the effects of fire, dust, and death
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At last, he landed in Perth, and although it was not yet mid-day, the heat was stifling
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It had taken a huge effort on his part to first suggest that they should meet outside the cramped and stifling conditions of the office
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Oil thus stifling that country’s economy
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Soft rain fell out of grey skies and brought respite to the stifling low pressure system that had built up through several hot, sailing, swimming and sweating days
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Al of the Dalai Lama’s bad points – his origins in the stifling
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Stifling heat and the
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Lama’s bad points – his origins in the stifling medievalism of
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and stifling as it was, he nevertheless knew that it corresponded to his traveling
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dreams were stifling and oppressive, and a total waste