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    1. · Remove throw rugs and tack down the edges of carpets to prevent falls


    2. I'll have to try a different tack


    3. The stabling and tack room was well-organised, there


    4. Chrissie had been inclined to stay, taking the tack that the devil of a boss she knew was better than the devil of unemployment, but her opinion changed when Masa had a go at her after the last show of the day


    5. He reflected upon his own request and attempted another go, but from a different tack


    6. This was more reach than tack now, but it wasn’t a very fair reach and the Balloon should be making about half his speed


    7. He would take a completely different tack, try to take her mind off the case and just learn about her for personal reasons


    8. The tack room had sufficient saddlery for all of the mounts


    9. The priest had loaded the hard tack first


    10. “Not the window Grimes, its the board above it I’m after, got to tack this banner up

    11. ‘So Monty old chap, this is it then?’ Alistair noted dryly, changing tack


    12. Mother was changing tack again


    13. ” He changed tack and told me


    14. Can we wonder, then, that these ignorant Negroes were demoralised at the sight of hard tack and bacon? They broke open the boxes and devoured the first square meal of three years, with so much gusto that certain gentlemen looked on with disgust and called them pigs, and energetic pressmen were speedily making copy on the “lazy Cubans' hate of work and love of eating


    15. He was always taking the opposite tack


    16. Annie Tack, who’d grown up in the Netherlands, had developed a technique which combined aspects of German lieder with those of Italian bel canto


    17. On the seventh day of the northwest tack, we crossed a large frozen river and turned due north for the next four days


    18. Jack took a different tack this time, lying was his forte; he had mastered it over the years with apparent conviction, much like politicians, especially the old bruisers


    19. It would be paid back when the returns came in, leaving the joint resources of the women in tack, just in case they were ever needed


    20. "Anyway, Russoo," I say, changing tack, "tell me about this picodust, this strange material that the Administrators and scientists placed all their faith in

    21. I would imagine that is the tack they would take,


    22. I spat out the piece of blue tack that had been in my mouth and smiled at my toothy reflection


    23. Appearing to take another tack, the Egyptian captain, lowering his voice a little as if in


    24. or lower it… and it would be hard to tack with, but… it would


    25. Plus medical equipment, and extra tack and fodder for the horses


    26. However if she could change her tack and engage him in a lasting conversation, he might actually start to see her as a person and not just his prisoner


    27. But instead changed tack by investigating his words further


    28. Adam picked up the tack for his horse and walked from the tack room


    29. Caroline ran to the deserted tack room


    30. " She told herself aloud and grabbed the tack for their horses

    31. In her rush, she didn’t notice the envelope falling from her pocket as she stepped out of the tack room


    32. Dave followed me into the barn and opened the wooden latch to a small tack room


    33. Company "accidently" invented a low tack, reusable adhesive


    34. As they couldn’t fall asleep, Clarity started playing tick, tack, toe with Lanai on the wall, using a metal spoon rescued from the sink to mark the squares


    35. A silken strand tethers you to the tack


    36. I could still see the place where the hay bin was, and on the wall there were hooks to hold the tack


    37. muddy the waters before I change tack once again


    38. ” They carried him into the barn and inside the tack room, placing him on the couch


    39. Sharp as a tack he is, very good mind


    40. Often, cruise ships will automatically tack on tips to

    41. As Siri continued to tack up their mounts, May Ling sagged in defeat


    42. Fishmael would change tack erratically, “following my nose,” so he said


    43. “The fish has changed tack – she's going with the current now, not against it


    44. tack the rule of Herod


    45. Though he may be old and decrepit, he was certainly not ignorant or apathetic—his mind was still as sharp as a tack which would make dealing with him all the more interesting


    46. Though he still wore his pinstripe jacket, his vest was completely unbuttoned and flapped rakishly as he moved, revealing his shiny gold tie tack that appropriately depicted the scales of justice


    47. I must admit that I was quite surprised by the sudden change of tack in


    48. pace on a northern tack


    49. We were on the same north-south tack, and I had no idea where we


    50. He continued on this tack for another hour










































    1. The balcony was tacked onto the side of the building and hung about two thousand feet in thin air above the sea


    2. It was late in the shift when Byia tacked to a different subject


    3. responsiveness, and a few new clauses tacked onto the forthcoming


    4. cover tacked to the partition


    5. We searched the neighborhood and, at Dad’s insistence, tacked signs on telephone poles and put an ad in the local newspaper


    6. Getting hit hard running out of bounds, and the refs tacked on another 15 for unnecessary roughness


    7. His tone didn’t change to suggest it was a question, and it wasn’t until he tacked on the last two words that Amaranthe realized it was a statement of disbelief


    8. my way out, I saw a white envelope tacked to the door with


    9. He tacked a cab, peeling off


    10. 31, 1517) Luther tacked to the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Wittenberg 95 academic theses ‘On the Power of Indulgences’…The point of his theses was that indulgences made sense only as release from temporal penalties imposed on the faithful by the priests; but if indulgences were understood as release from the temporal punishments of God or from pains…from guilt, they ran counter to the very spirit of the Christian religion which, Luther said, according to the teachings of Jesus, enjoins the believer to practice repentance throughout his whole life” (ibid

    11. Bruce studied the chart and briefly surveyed the other information tacked on the walls and ceiling of the boy’s bedroom


    12. And taxes tacked on everything, even the air and Sun


    13. on the walls that looked like it had been tacked up over lath and


    14. tacked the spread up over the big window


    15. As he explained while it floated in the air above them, it was heavily spelled, and could be sailed by one person at the tiller while it tacked and adjusted for the wind automatically, or it would even navigate itself to any port in the world on command, evading storms, rocks and other obstacles


    16. Most of the other boats were out sailing on the round lake, their colorful sails waving as they tacked in the warm breeze


    17. You move to the fridge, tacked to the side is what you are looking for, the most conspicuous place, it is clear the other team is still outside of your circle


    18. She tacked the rest of her hair beneath it


    19. expect to see a few dog pelts tacked up on the door of Howie's shed


    20. When Reuben arrived, Rachel had prints from scans intercepted from the tracking satellites tacked all over the walls and ceiling of the conference room

    21. The headquarters were a peculiar bricolage of different styles with bits tacked on willy-nilly as the company had grown over the years


    22. Little Davie’s kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station where they saw pictures tacked to a 72


    23. tacked and killed, which is the reason for his upbringing by his uncle


    24. “Where was I? Oh, yes! We had some lunch, then he noticed a couple shingles on the room that needed tacked down


    25. But the way Januarius was tacked on the end of the old Roman calendar, it begins about ten days after the beginning of the sun’s annual apparent northward journey


    26. numbers tacked to the boards, which indicate the skate size


    27. and, in doing so, stirring whatever isn’t tacked down—such as our


    28. tacked to the door


    29. This kind of a birth certificate has all the necessary ingredients upon which we could now phrase out the qualities that that we all possess but an appropriate modem upon which this cleavage has to rest has still got to be tacked and traced out as well by ùs`


    30. This kind of a birth certificate has all the necessary ingredients upon which we could now phrase out the qualities that that we all possess but an appropriate modem upon which this cleavage has to rest has still got to be tacked and traced out as well by `us`

    31. “Lhasa Hotel, Lhasa Hotel,” shouted the driver as he pulled in head first toward the curb in front of a very non-descript building that sported a tonka, about as heavy as a carpet, tacked over the doorway to keep the wind out


    32. The Symbol tacked on that telephone pole


    33. blue sheets at a department store and tacked them all over the


    34. is pretty clear even though it is tacked on as the end of a parable: "But those


    35. She tacked this last part on for good measure, even though she had no intention of following through with it


    36. They had tacked for an eternity and had landed at Greenwich on an outgoing tide


    37. It stretched almost to the ceiling, at least five feet in height, and was delicately stuffed and tacked with bright gold tacking


    38. slave shantytown that looked as if it were tacked on as an afterthought


    39. 2] amuró, has tacked


    40. The next morning, Ravan spoke to the giant as they tacked the horses out

    41. A blonde Swede brushed her teeth while studying the notices tacked to a decaying corkboard; a black backpacker with bright red braids kicked back reading a Lonely Planet guidebook; and a waif of a girl who looked like she couldn’t have been more than sixteen pecked out an e-mail at an aging computer terminal


    42. she led Granite, fully tacked, from the barn


    43. This will involve not only catching up your payments, but most companies will have a repossession fee that will be tacked on


    44. She continued up the ten posts tacked to the trunk and I followed, but with misgivings


    45. down…highness,’ the last word was tacked on with great effort


    46. Her bullets tick tacked off walls, railings, and the bodies of the enemy with brutal inefficiency that was still proving effective somehow


    47. The Celestia’s Prize hung over in the water as she tacked over to a head on course once more with the other two ships


    48. "What's the most secure part of any castle? Besides the dungeons," she tacked on, before he could suggest them


    49. And on their behalf he added that night a special prayer to the usual quarter of an hour's supplication before meat, and would have tacked another to the end of the grace, had not his young mistress broken in upon him with a hurried command that he must run down the road, and wherever Heathcliff had rambled, find and make him reenter directly!


    50. Thomas tacked up the picture of































    1. the deck of the Shenandoah, and as they were tacking about, they had no thought that a dangerous foe was in their midst


    2. "The wind allows what the wind allows, but I will be tacking northeast soon


    3. The ship sailed on westward, tacking all the way


    4. What effective thinking requires is tacking back and forth


    5. The oars were for use in tacking out of creeks and bays, and during calms


    6. To maintain his heading at an acute angle into the wind, Siri had to be constantly tacking, and it took two days and a night of constant wakefulness to reach the island of Mallorca


    7. As soon as he had finished tacking up the horses, he found some heavy-duty adhesive tape and, after taking Jai in her baby-sling, May Ling helped him to tape it securely against his chest


    8. They felt that by taking the path of least resistance, and tacking into the wind, so to speak, you


    9. lower rated bonds at the top of the business cycle would warrant tacking on four points


    10. how he was sailing with Flynn, tacking back and forth

    11. tacking impulses of the mind and the senses, the regulation of the incom-


    12. It stretched almost to the ceiling, at least five feet in height, and was delicately stuffed and tacked with bright gold tacking


    13. And so, pared down, we fit in here quite nicely, and after a day or two conceded to the suavities of life, such as the tacking up in appropriate places of muslin curtains and the tying of them with bows, I intend to buy a spade and a watering-pot and see what I can do with the garden


    14. Her father had built it a decade before; tacking it up around the Mulberry tree


    15. Jeff was tacking a new poster to his wall when Rich Runyon burst


    16. At home in the fleet of ice-boats, sailing with the rest and tacking, At home on the hills of Vermont or in the woods of Maine, or the


    17. He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier


    18. "Then why, instead of tacking so frequently, do you not sail nearer the wind?"


    19. Experience had taught him that a full frontal attack on this hill was liable to failure, so on this occasion he followed his usual plan of making diagonal movements, crossing the road repeatedly from right to left and left to right, after the fashion of a sailing ship tacking against the wind, and halting about every twenty yards to rest and take breath


    20. Meanwhile, JRA was still tacking on its beloved monthly service charge, which for some mysterious reason had been increased to $45 per

    21. Andrew West, the Hair Guy, was never there, of course, and she would have to punish herself by tacking the minutes she’d wasted onto the end of her workday


    22. ‘I’ll arrange it,’ and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off


    23. “I’ll arrange it,” and she rushed forward so that the maids who were tacking up her skirt could not move fast enough and a piece of gauze was torn off


    24. You find them, sir, tacking with every gale, displaying the colors of every party, and of all nations, steady only in one unalterable purpose: to steer, if possible, into the haven of power


    1. Caderl very kindly tacks up Sefir for me and, within the hour, we are setting out


    2. Jock gets down to the brass tacks


    3. “No, what I asked was how come you are here at this precise minute chasing my Harvest Festival poster around my window with a big hammer in your hand balancing on the top of an unstable ladder brandishing a political banner in the other hand, throwing tacks about


    4. While Wyll and Cheeryup were barely twelve years old, Dorro still valued their insights—both children were sharp as tacks and fine sleuths in their own right


    5. The admiral changed tacks


    6. Picking up the controller from on top of the applicator unit’s shrouding, Fred got down to brass tacks; and began to run the machine back and forth, around and around on the Wheatley’s extensive lawn


    7. Film canisters can be used to collect small items such as change, tacks and buttons


    8. bedspread and using a few tacks and one of Mick’s hammers she


    9. Crystal goblets in the richly ornamented mahogany cabinet, thick Persian carpets, burgundy red leather dining room chairs with brass tacks, silver candlesticks with hallmarks stamped underneath, oil paintings under diminutive wall lamps, paper-thin Meissen porcelain cups with real coffee and cream


    10. I'd been trying all sorts of tacks for years

    11. Taoist: The Sailor who skillfully tacks into the wind and uses the energy of opposites to effortlessly


    12. Arriving in front of Sheriff Tramell's office he stopped the horse and dismounted with a flyer, a small hammer and some tacks in his hand


    13. Nevertheless, getting down to brass tacks is different


    14. I was tired and I had a belly full of tacks


    15. However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him


    16. Werner tacks across the room and stirs the coals to life


    17. There was less work for the people to do, no outgate in the army for roving and idle spirits, and those who had tacks of the town lands complained of slack markets; indeed, in my own double vocation of the cloth shop and wine cellar, I had a taste and experience of the general declension that would of a necessity ensue, when the great outlay of government and the discharge from public employ drew more and more to an issue


    18. “Hands to sheets and tacks


    19. But sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of mine in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a time let one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see


    20. He takes another man's idea, tacks on to it its antithesis, and the epigram is made

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