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    1. Tiny Robot Archimedes was unable to make calculations about the water's movement while he was sinking, though he did record the mating patterns of several kinds of fish


    2. It was like sinking into a flashing mist


    3. I could feel my heart sinking at the bitterness of final separation, but there was nothing else I could do


    4. Son was now waist deep in quicksand and sinking


    5. sinking in fits and starts down the outside of the bowl,


    6. as a result of the sinking


    7. the sinking of knees, the resting of elbows on hard,


    8. with a sinking tremor


    9. Naked, I tried to look confident but plodding along the shoreline sinking into sand was like waddling along a tight rope without any sense of balance


    10. The sun is sinking towards the horizon before we come in sight of the township where Berndt intends us to spend the night

    11. We must have hit another of those fallen trees … the first time had me in a flat panic believing the vessel was sinking! Boy, had I felt a fool!


    12. Underfoot, bits of rock crumbled and splashed into the water, sinking past fishes in the swaying seaweed to the greenness down beyond


    13. By the time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor and losing consciousness, his head and shoulders wrapped in an old bath towel that his step-mother had thrown over his head as she struck to soak up the inevitable streams of blood


    14. It is wonderful sinking back into the car seat as Alastair drives off


    15. time that he did make the connection he was sinking to the floor


    16. saw a small boat, sinking down into the water


    17. Once he did call in they would probably want to keep him talking just about constantly, what would he do then? With a sinking feeling he realized that the situation wasn’t going to respond to wishful thinking


    18. Joe began to scoot, sinking his fingers into the snow-covered ground,


    19. ’ There was a sinking feeling in


    20. This incident was leaving a sinking feeling in her guts

    21. anxious about his boat sinking under the combined weight


    22. I had a sinking feeling in the pit of my


    23. " And she put him in the sledge beside her, wrapped the fur round him, and he felt as though he were sinking in a bank of fresh white snow


    24. The effect of such regulations, however, is not near so durable in sinking the workman's wages below, as in raising them above their natural rate


    25. It was with a sinking heart that I reentered Holmes's bedroom


    26. It was slanted but it was not sinking lower


    27. Desperate, she gathered more power, increasing the force of her efforts, sinking her energy deeper into Whimly's twisted soul


    28. Diminish the real opulence either of Holland or of the territory of Genoa, while the number of their inhabitants remains the same ; diminish their power of supplying themselves from distant countries; and the price of corn, instead of sinking with that diminution in the quantity of their silver, which must necessarily accompany this declension, either as its cause or as its effect, will rise to the price of a famine


    29. She fell to the blackened earth, her long fingers sinking into the blood drenched soil


    30. The fact that his entire memory, all his most private experiences, had been distributed like a cheap rental movie was still sinking in

    31. The opinion, therefore, that silver is continually sinking in its value, seems not to be founded upon any good observations, either upon the prices of corn, or upon those of other provisions


    32. ; of the capital which the undertaker of a mine employs in sinking his shafts, in erecting engines for drawing out the water, in making roads and waggon-ways, etc


    33. I watched them plummet with a sinking heart


    34. It began to fold into my physical self by plying my skin and sinking through my pores, nourishing its hunger on my soul


    35. nothing to be found at the place of the sinking


    36. I burst forth as a panther, sinking my teeth into the Arch demon's feet and dragging until he fell backwards


    37. In Europe, for example, it is supposed, without much foundation, perhaps, that during the course of the present and preceding century, they have been constantly, but gradually, sinking in their value, on account of the continual importations from the Spanish West Indies


    38. in the pound land-tax, and what was annually borrowed of the sinking fund


    39. To dream that you are sinking in quicksand indicates feelings of insecurity


    40. But he could not fully dispel the nagging, sinking feeling

    41. Eventually, the crowd stopped growing and a sinking realization swept over me


    42. It amounted to more than ninety millions sterling, including not only the new debt which was contracted, but the two shillings in the pound additional land tax, and the sums which were every year borrowed from the sinking fund


    43. This policy, therefore, discourages agriculture in two different ways; first, by sinking the real value of its produce, and thereby lowering the rate of its profits; and, secondly, by raising the rate of profit in all other employments


    44. So great a revenue might certainly have afforded an augmentation of £680,000 in their annual payments ; and, at the same time, have left a large sinking fund, sufficient for the speedy reduction of their debt


    45. Kevin took a deep breath, looked at her for a moment and said, “We’re sinking aren’t we?”


    46. The ordinary revenue of Great Britain, for example, including not only what is necessary for defraying the current expense of the year, but for paying the interest of the public debts, and for sinking a part of the capital of those debts, amounts to upwards of ten millions a-year


    47. Had any considerable alteration been made in the standard of the money, either by sinking the same quantity of silver to a lower denomination, or by raising it to a higher ; had an ounce of silver, for example, instead of being coined into five shillings and two pence, been coined either into pieces which bore so low a denomination as two shillings and seven pence, or into pieces which bore so high a one as ten shillings and four pence, it would, in the one case, have hurt the revenue of the proprietor, in the other that of the sovereign


    48. This saving left a considerable surplus in the produce of the different taxes which had been accumulated into those funds, over and above what was necessary for paying the annuities which were now charged upon them, and laid the foundation of what has since been called the sinking fund


    49. , which reductions still further augmented the sinking fund


    50. A sinking fund, though instituted for the payment of old, facilitates very much the contracting of new debts












































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