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    1. Alan had explained that quirk of human evolution, the week was a day there, even shorter than here by a convenient amount


    2. Some realistic quirk of the sim? These days the realism of artificial reality allowed for inconsequential occurrences, minor coincidence, the general day to day happenstance that could sour a good mood


    3. But then as soon as contact could be established, if only for a test itself, it would immediately be detected by the system, and then adapt its defence with some unusual quirk


    4. Now they had learned of one unusual quirk the system had already employed; the ultimate communication block


    5. In this manner, an occasional (market) quirk or (uncertain) political event would seem to ―justify‖ bailing out; in turn spooking unsophisticated investors into selling off their own shares in order to cut their losses before their portfolios hit rock bottom thereby setting the table for savvier investors to acquire them on the cheap


    6. Brokin's heart lightened when he realised, that by some quirk of fate, he'd arrived at the precise moment that Cherva had decided to change his guards


    7. It was, in fact his boat, but he hadn’t taken her out in years, and Truman felt as one with her, knowing every quirk


    8. It was the second time a strange quirk had inexplicably come to his rescue


    9. Colling described the staged jeep accident, and the quirk of fate in his meeting Vitarelli that put him on the path to discover that she had not been killed


    10. With a quirk of his eyebrows, he bends and wraps an arm around my legs, throwing me over his shoulder

    11. Simon nods, a quirk still on his lips, and to Ralph’s surprise takes him by the arm and draws them both out into the chill of the corridor


    12. It was a quirk of mine to think of people in terms of which famous person they looked


    13. I propose that one’s soul is a spark of consciousness that leaps about the universe in quantum-sized instants—shall we call it a quark, a quirk, a snip or a snark? I’m open to suggestions


    14. He shrugged, rolled over, the light was extinguished and a minute later I was the only one awake – cursing my caution and revisiting the previous scene during which I'd noticed a quirk of physiology


    15. It is a quirk of the English language that the word for the ‗Self‘ (5) is the shortest word (the letter ‗I‘)


    16. Jimmy was a stutterer and Sammy Tiger was tolerant of this quirk since Jimmy was four years older but many years wiser in the ways of their world


    17. Quickly recognized the quirk


    18. By some quirk of fate he had gotten pulled into a political usurpation, which would probably result in his death


    19. personality quirk Garcia wanted to explore


    20. “Call it a professional quirk, Your Majesty

    21. Nothing personal, just a biological quirk


    22. This merely shifted the behavior of singing to another quirk


    23. The wily Quirk had anticipated the shot early and


    24. ‘By the quirk of fate,’ he said as if to put ideas into her head, ‘it seems, someone had missed so much in life


    25. Consigning his son’s body to the flames on the funeral pyre, Pathrudu felt the quirk of destiny, ‘How our roles have got reversed by fate!’, and as he saw Sathyam’s body engulfed in flames, thought Raja Rao, ‘How tragic it is that the triumph of love was snatched away by the hand of death!’


    26. Whatever, would the Hindus in India, or of the diaspora, breathing free after their thousand years’ history of slavery, savor a Sonia sarkar? Here is an Italian woman whom destiny made the daughter-in-law of a household that had a dynastic grip on the democratic India with the clasp of the Congress party; to achieve which, her mother-in-law, by then, had castrated the party men into enervation as family eunuchs, and it was the quirk of her fate that brought about the untimely death of Sanjay her brother-in-law, her mother-in-law’s chosen heir apparent to rule the country


    27. Cecily studied her with a quirk to her lips


    28. ” His lips quirk


    29. It was only by some strange quirk of fate which led them to meet again like this


    30. " She pulls herself from her awe enough to qualify the statement with a wry quirk to her lips

    31. I nodded and wondered if he had a so-called quirk himself


    32. Olin had an interest in the raising of vegetables and fruits because it sometimes happens that a quirk of nature can create a bounty and he believed that one should always be prepared to reap it


    33. Mathematics was a quirk of mine, much to my father"s disappointment and disapproval, who could not envisage its practical usefulness


    34. A quirk I loved


    35. “What are you thinking master?” she asked, with a curious quirk to her one eyebrow


    36. Utah was asleep on his side beside her and with a quirk of an eyebrow her eyes traced down his top arm to where his hand lay splayed across her bottom possessively


    37. Or is it me? Being married to a Jew had been a quirk, she realized, with very little downside to it


    38. ” She let her mouth quirk


    39. It seemed to be an unfortunate quirk of his brother’s genius that he did not always grasp the personal side of the equation


    40. The one quirk was that he sometimes asked to be slapped

    41. By what must seem a quirk to the outsider there are no formal requirements for being a security analyst


    42. She liked Judge Quirk


    43. Judge Quirk welcomed the jury and spent a little time giving them instructions and answering questions


    44. With a quirk of a smile and shrug for her alone, Jaume turned to face a youth wearing a harness that bore the Imperial badge: the stylized skull of a Tyrannosaurus imperator, gold on red


    45. Robbie Burns appears equally susceptible to this particular quirk


    1. He quirked a brow, and the dark eyes twinkled with the very devil


    2. He quirked a brow


    3. Maldynado snickered, and she quirked an eyebrow at him


    4. Kay’s mouth quirked into a smile


    5. The corner of Reese’s mouth quirked


    6. His mouth quirked in confused amusement, “Okay Dad, explain the ‘alpha’ thing to me


    7. One corner of Mama Pearl’s generous mouth quirked up


    8. Eyeing the woman sitting beside him in some amusement, Joel quirked an eyebrow at her, and wryly commented


    9. Her mouth quirked, and she raised an eyebrow


    10. “I felt as if I should play a role,” she confided as his head quirked sideways and an eyebrow rose in question and continued

    11. Krista’s eyebrows quirked up and a smile teased at the corners of her lips


    12. His lips quirked slightly upward in a smile as he said, “You liked that didn’t you?”


    13. She stared at me like she couldn’t believe I was serious, but when she saw I was one corner of her mouth quirked up slightly


    14. Her quirked up lips had made it to a full smile


    15. My eyebrows quirked up, “What kind of question is that?”


    16. Sienna quirked an eyebrow up at her and scowled


    17. He met her eyes and his lips quirked


    18. ” He quirked a bitter smile


    19. “Aunt Aeronwen was my—our, I suppose,” her lips quirked a smile “—father’s older sister


    20. His lips quirked under the muffler as he remembered the way Byrk Raimahn had applied that noun to him the previous April

    21. He was still new enough to the inner circle to feel a flicker of uneasiness talking to the fearsome Seijin Merlin through a medium all previous training and experience insisted had to be demonic, but his mouth quirked in a smile


    22. Ash’s mouth quirked into a smile and she continued on


    23. The corner of his mouth quirked


    24. A corner of Karyl’s mouth quirked up


    1. Leland drew his sword and saluted to her, his mouth quirking into a smile


    2. “Everyone had a place, Cora, not just women,” he said, his lips quirking in a sad kind of smile


    3. Okay - Okay…” Kathy grinningly amended, when she glanced over her shoulder at Joel, and found him quirking one of his eyebrows in patent -but- amused disbelief at her pronouncement


    4. "Why not? Is she overprotective?" Anthony asks, the edges of his lips quirking upward


    5. “You know I never act on hunch alone,” he says, doing this weird quirking thing he often does with his eyebrow


    6. Let us be happy without quibbling and quirking


    1. ” He quirks his eyebrows and adds, with a touch of melodrama, “To decide our fate


    2. Then there are the quirks of quarks


    3. “Yeah, its one of my quirks


    4. ” It is strange how one’s quirks can save a life


    5. She jumped slightly, but was used to her husband's little quirks and


    6. „As soon as I saw them I knew I liked them - so it was easy, thanks to you telling me about their little quirks


    7. He suspected the shrinks were much more bent in those directions themselves and actually enjoyed interrogating him in detail about his little quirks


    8. ” Another of her quirks, Tim had noticed, was that she never used the full name of anyone who was to be interrogated


    9. He also recorded the page set-up and all other editing quirks used by that obsessively neat letter writer


    10. So he remained shut In at the mercy of Santa Sofía de la Piedad’s loving eyes and Úrsula’s mental quirks, learning in the narrow world of the house whatever his grandmothers explained to him

    11. GTK+ has many quirks in usage but once you become comfortable, you can create


    12. More than a few had a few quirks but those quirks are normally not enough by themselves to make a person mean or evil


    13. It didn’t help matters that Garcia was linked to the real Deanna Troi by means of a psychic bond, which he was quite certain the Troi program accessed to update her own personality quirks


    14. “I didn’t hear a question, but it should function without quirks,” Sheaar said


    15. The second reason they will hesitate is that they have heard rumors of specific types of quirks where the ship jumps and people are left behind, or they arrive at their destination to find themselves melded into the machinery


    16. quirks associated with the trasnwarp travel is that all the Klingons pass out when we return to normal space, hence the need for the non Klingon crew members


    17. There weren’t any noticeable twitches or quirks that would have given him away as a liar


    18. Many of the mysteries, quirks and strangeness of the cosmic realms, earthly realms and quantum realms start to make sense when you realize that this so-called reality is a computer generated simulation


    19. That was kind of her pattern, though — go after someone, get hot and heavy quickly, and then have the whole thing collapse a few weeks or a month later, depending on how fast their quirks got on her nerves


    20. I needed another Englishman to laugh with about the quirks of Polish life and in among the bullshit I think I might have found the guy

    21. The children had been drawn closer together and the irritating quirks of the first few days had been overcome and the four were not firm friends who accepted each other’s differences and helped when a listening partner was needed


    22. I figured he had one of those so-called quirks, but the ability to cause flat tires was even quirkier than I’d imagined


    23. They talked about Sherlock's quirks and Doctor Watson's patience, the time period, restrictions and morality issues of the time


    24. He was fascinated with my quirks and inconsistencies


    25. Throughout your day, bring attention to your bad habits and quirks


    26. My handle of the many of Stanley's quirks after all of these years was pretty strong, but


    27. Phil was concerned that he’d never been in this plane and didn’t know its quirks


    28. His mouth quirks up, either amused or relieved


    29. His lip quirks up at me, and he shakes his head


    30. He stares at me and his mouth quirks up

    31. When I’m covered and respectable, he leans down and kisses me gently, his mouth quirks up in a smile


    32. When the faithful Nanon appeared in the market, many quips and quirks and complaints about the master whistled in her ears; but however loudly public opinion condemned Monsieur Grandet, the old servant defended him, for the honor of the family


    33. This may or may not be desirable behavior, and traders who use these bands must know how to adjust for these quirks


    34. The slow line is nothing more than a 16-period simple moving average of the fast line, so it has all of the quirks and idiosyncrasies of any moving average


    35. The market turns our cognitive tools and psychological quirks against us, making us our own enemy in the marketplace


    36. It is not possible to be completely free from these quirks, because they are part of the very fabric of our being; we are, and always will be, vulnerable to making certain kinds of mistakes in certain situations


    37. As to individual stocks, I would steer clear of reading too much into isolated put/call quirks


    38. Macourek leans over the seat and quirks an eyebrow


    39. “All our memories, all our emotions, all our quirks and virtues and flaws—all that information is stored in the connections between our brain cells, which create new links or alter the old ones whenever we learn or remember something


    40. Easily, with a few convulsive quirks, they give up their watery ghosts, like a mortal translated before his time to the thin air of heaven

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