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    1. While there are over several hundred varieties of termites in the world, only four live in the United States, subterranean, dry wood, damp wood and powder-post


    2. The wallpaper is hanging off in one corner, though closer inspection merely shows this to be old age, and not anything more sinister like rising damp or dry rot


    3. There are a number of issues, damp and the like, which will have a material


    4. He ran his fingers through damp hair


    5. Under a damp and billowing sky he towered over the accountant, hands on


    6. The mattress smelled of dust and damp earth and human sweat


    7. My still damp jeans and shorts lay at the foot of the bed and I put them in the bucket in a vain attempt to confine their ill-humours


    8. The mattress stained the air under my head with the faint aroma of damp soil when I turned over


    9. Remembrance Day, when it arrives, is cold, grey and damp (as Janet predicted) and casts an atmosphere of gloom over The Laurels


    10. Using Fred’s suggestion, we are packing the barrel with damp sand to hold the tree upright and in the hope that the dampness will stop it dropping quite as fast as they generally do; this, naturally, means we need a sheet of plastic to protect the floor … oh it just gets more complicated by the second! But between us we get it all sorted out

    11. Here in this damp little island, where the eyes of the masses dim with disappointment when still young, this man enjoyed the luxury of profession and vocation


    12. After about an hour the van drew to a halt and one by one the guards forced us to leave the van and kneel down in cold, damp mud


    13. There were too many Gnomes on the streets, reminding you that the cellars go down dozens of floors in that area, damp with seepage from the great canals above


    14. He stared out of the back of the Metro, stared down the long, straight highland road, and settled himself into a damp and steamy slump


    15. Lucy’s nostrils filled with the inevitable familiarity of the damp earth musk of the subterranean, of watered down piss pools, and the reek of old, decaying tobacco


    16. It could use it in there, as damp as it's been this week


    17. It had rained and thundered off and on thru Dusksleep and Nightday, it was still very damp


    18. Life itself upon, within and underneath the good, damp soil blew a fanfare to the heavens far beyond the measure of any single organism


    19. into the limp gray cloud of a damp, cold sky on another hopeful Tuesday


    20. which sits in a damp, rusty sulk at the bottom of the garden,

    21. but the walls are all damp,


    22. where he can lay again in cool, soft, damp mud,


    23. of the stack and the damp in his bones,


    24. slumped against a drip damp wall of cold red brick,


    25. There was damp soil made up of generations of dead leaves with soft sumaids carpeting the slate street now


    26. Just when she was noticing that the ground outside the old roadway was pretty damp and there were far too many chillettes in the air, she encountered a chuff


    27. the damp air pulling me down to the cold stone


    28. The first couples in the tent found it too damp for sleep, so Alan was beat when it was his first turn to stand watch


    29. Opposite the fireplace was a tap with a perky sweet little yellow that flowed cool from damp kegs


    30. A dreary mist had shrouded everything that morning in Sulis Min, it had tasted of damp and woodsmoke and loss

    31. stained with damp where dark moss creeps along


    32. Why on earth would you leave this place for damp old windy Cornwall?'


    33. People don’t have a bit of land where they can grow things, they are stuck in damp, high rise flats in deprived areas with no hope of escape


    34. All became still, except for the sound of a car engine being revved outside, followed by the squeal of tyres on damp tarmacadam


    35. Sadly, their condition by then was not very good due to damage from candle soot and expectedly, some areas had succumbed to damp, but I was amazed at the depth of the ochre, the rusts and the blues, all given life by the sunbeams streaming in through the apsidal windows


    36. A damp sticky sensation between my thighs gets my pulse racing … surely, we must have …


    37. ‘No wonder you are a bit damp then, come on, woman, I sweated blood wrestling with that tuna and preparing it for your sandwich


    38. It is a particular hate of mine that the sugar should get damp and clogged


    39. By the time that he found her the poor girl was completely cried out and she crumpled like a damp towel in his hands, lifeless and almost comatose


    40. But there was an edge to it, she missed it – she hated the damp winters here

    41. Ava had been caught up in it while it was happening, but while listening to it in words, it seemed a silly little walk thru a damp basement compared to the abandoned areas of Zhlindu or Yondure, or even the canyons of the Yakhan


    42. cried out and she crumpled like a damp towel in his hands, lifeless


    43. Just below his knees, where his trousers have brushed the sides of his Wellington boots, there are damp, muddy stains


    44. He can feel a trickle of perspiration running down his side, making the material of his shirt cling to his damp skin


    45. His clothes were still damp but that was good enough for him and he had eagerly put them on


    46. overpowered, and pinned her against the cold damp


    47. Vastly relieved, she quickly and quietly slipped into the room, put her damp towel to hang over the back of a chair and turned out the light before sliding under the covers careful not to disturb him


    48. She spent the afternoon sitting on a small patch of damp ground watching the bird she had noticed on her first day out here


    49. his head down, pressing his face into the damp


    50. In a dusty and damp cavern lit only by his own torch, he got down drawer after drawer of sample tickets and thumbed thru them in their thousands, one by one, starting on the first day of the decade when Enjteen was born so he was sure he didn’t miss any














































    1. Their conversation hushed, damped


    2. As each day passed, their excitement seemed rather to increase than their ardour to be damped by the weariness and discomforts to be endured


    3. Are damped by the


    4. To a damped oscil ation


    5. All the poles, quickly wedged against the bow of one and the stern of the other, damped a dangerous collision down to a more manageable thump with the two now becoming as one


    6. All the poles, quickly wedged against the bow of one and the stern of the other, damped


    7. Thus, the problems disappeared with their load of spite and sorrow going to hide, in a hurry, in any room where the noise is damped and not heard


    8. She damped the cloth and then gently wiped James’ aching soles, which gave him a bit of relief, for which he was thankful


    9. The fact that my parents just left me without a moment’s thought at a house has damped my curiosity


    10. Sweat formed dark blotches about his clothes and damped his hair

    11. Soon all that was left was the skeletal remains of a torso, a head and the intestines, all surrounded by soil damped with yellow blood


    12. The dust from the explosion had been quickly damped down by the mist of water in the air


    13. The pressure wave was colossal, but the sound inside US1 was heavily damped by the special skin surrounding the hull


    14. Distant popping sounds damped by bush, echoed high over head


    15. Something in the landlord's demeanour seemed to have damped his temper as he looked from the watch to Caesar, to Johnny


    16. " And he dried his sweat damped torso


    17. cruelly damped by melancholy reflections on my widowed state--widowed by the


    18. That trusty man had "his hands cruelly chafed with the rowing, but it never damped his spirits


    19. once more with human beings was somewhat damped at the thought of the


    20. damped by having to share the place with the bishop, who traditionally stayed there while visiting

    21. Caris, patting her forehead and cheeks with a rag damped with the fragrant liquid, praying for her to come round


    22. For an instant I caught a glimpse of those volcanic fires which he had damped down so long


    23. Owing to the action of the sun during the preceding day, the stone was warm and dry, in comforting contrast to the rough and chill grass around, which had damped her skirts and shoes


    24. And that mellowness had distilled itself down in a slow rain that damped his smoldering nerves and put the wilderness fires in every limb of him out


    25. He thought on it, and the very thought damped the ruinous blaze in his face


    26. This silence damped me


    27. The offices were closed and dark because of the holiday, and at the deserted dock there was only one ship, its boilers damped


    28. Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly


    29. Nastasia must have overheard both question and reply, but her vivacity was not in the least damped


    30. Varvara Petrovna understood that note, but her exaltation was not damped, quite the contrary

    1. At the kind of velocity that Torbin could only sense through closed eyes – and only allowed him to remain alive thanks to inertial damping – they swooped down to Zardino’s base


    2. Isabella is in the process of damping down the fire


    3. “Yes, and we had enough trouble then damping him down then


    4. To avoid affecting the sensitive electronics on the aircraft, the fuel rods were stripped down and packed in light weight, neutron damping layers for the long journey ahead


    5. Especially important to the design of the test rig is the bouncing feature (damping coefficient) when hitting a solid or elastic surface [6]


    6. So long as she kept him there she should, except breakfast, have all her meals in that one place: modest meals, meals damping to the spirits and surely in the long run lowering, the most inflaming dish provided by the tea-room being--it announced it on its wall--poached eggs


    7. tension such as stress, anxiety and depression and damping the chance of


    8. “No—I can’t!” she caused, her eyes damping with tears rather quicker than she had expected


    9. Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures


    1. And to avoid using the velvet cover, I’ll give her a spell that damps it’s ringing completely when the vibration spell is inactive


    2. hovering mists of endless forests, whose baleful damps agued their limbs, was


    3. He was enveloped in a cloak that might have been intended as a protection from the chilling damps of the woods, but which served equally well as a mantle to conceal his person


    4. At night, the utmost care had been taken of the captives, both to prevent injury from the damps of the woods and to guard against an escape


    5. The damps of the dew bathed the head of Villefort, and refreshed his memory


    6. Mr Clare, who had volunteered to help; then Tess, Marian, Izz Huett, and Retty; then Bill Lewell, Jonathan, and the married dairywomen— Beck Knibbs, with her wooly black hair and rolling eyes; and flaxen Frances, consumptive from the winter damps of the water-meads—who lived in their respective cottages


    7. His mouth tasted of night damps


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    Synonymes pour "damp"

    damp dampness moistness break dampen soften weaken deaden dull muffle mute tone down dampish moist moisture dankness fog humidity steam vapour wet raw dank sodden humid soggy check chill dejection depression discouragement moisten slow abate allay inhibit moderate restrain stifle extinguish suffocate