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obliquely from her he could almost see long slender whiskers sweeping out from her
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The same exercise is repeated with the eyes looking obliquely
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eyes are obliquely lowered
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He hinted obliquely at a
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Side Planks – one of the few moves that focuses almost entirely on the obliques
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Secondly, the white Nationalists really felt that they had a Noblesse Oblique—or need to carry what Kipling’s referred to as the “white man’s burden” in Africa as they had witnessed first-hand (this cannot be denied) the complete disorder and atrocious dictatorships which came to power wherever the Colonial powers granted independence to its colonies in Africa
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But the position was far from comfortable, and it was a terrible ordeal to lie hour after hour, behind scanty cover, while a frontal, oblique, enfilade and cross fire was poured against the position, with seven-inch shells thumping over into the centre of the hill at intervals
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As more leaves came down on an oblique angle, freshets of soft, moist, autumn air caressed his face
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“Don’t let them put it on too big,” I told Howard-Smythe obliquely
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How do you feel about Gibbon’s ‘compilers’ of history?” I queried obliquely
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The rear view of a plane is all oblique angles
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“That was good shooting,” he said, rather obliquely
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His front end was all oblique angles
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Michael twisted his head about, sending her an oblique glance
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His exhilaration continued through an early tea, and when he asked obliquely about my sex life, I told him I had a date with someone at the opera that night
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The accomplice night was hiding the winged bodies and the clandestine faces of oblique look and bitter sneer, which were emerging from the depths of the calamitous forest, accomplice also, of the demons which pouring out from its womb had begun to stain the ground of malignancies; the Lord of the shadows already was ruling the land
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The pole intercepted to the lightning that was coming to smash irremediably against him, but before crashing with noise in the front of the house, hurt obliquely Americus in the head and threw him against the door, to few meters from which we were, remaining unconscious
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Their oblique eyes seemed to have a 180 degree view amounting to encompass the entire perimeter
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I still had not had a French boyfriend, so when at the local swimming pool a pleasant, ‘typically’ French young man smiled and invited me to his room near Place de la République, I accepted with alacrity
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As it swung inwards, he realized that this room always took his breath away with its circular design, the walls dripping with gold leaf and complex cream cornicing, vases, busts and art placed in every conceivable free space, all illuminated by a domed stained-glass window in the ceiling that shot out different tints of light at oblique angles over the masterpieces on the walls
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Xaltotun smote his hands together and two men entered, men often observed accompanying him—small, repulsively dark, with red, oblique eyes and pointed, rat-like teeth
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The repetitions of the level / oblique sounds is found in Tang po-
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stress, stress and level / oblique tones
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Half of the culture is already less self-responsible just on one issue I have addressed! Women’s decreased self-responsibility obliquely diffuses self-responsibility in men as well
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� The badge on her dark green beret consisted of a silver star on a red and green field divided by an oblique silver band
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From an oblique angle he resembled an out of work freezing worker in the white jump suit he’d been wearing since being apprehended in Sydney
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Jake Stennis watched closely as part of his workers, led by Pedro Montes, started drilling down an oblique tunnel from the level they were on
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The Ascendant is dragged along at the same rate in Oblique Ascension)
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She put her hand to the back of his shorts while her other one slid in front to the line of his hip, down along the rip of his sculpted abdominal obliques
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She pressed her hard nipples to his back and ran her hands down his perfectly developed obliques to the top of his jeans
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to their consternation it was running obliquely to their own
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Visitations are oblique and surreal, this world or the next came in tune with the
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think it’s one of the reasons why there are so many oblique references to the
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The second is a little more oblique
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The collision of two bodies is considered to be oblique when the absolute speeds of the
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An oblique blade lies between two upright posts, the head flies high when a supporting cord is released into the victim's neck lying below due to the high speed in a jet of blood
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Before that, I had only prayed after the mimicry oblique rote manner
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Position the patient in sitting with an object obliquely in front of them
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Position yourself sitting with an object obliquely in front of you
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Position the object further away and at a more oblique angle
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Position the patient in short sitting on a plinth with an object placed on a stool obliquely in front of them
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Position the patient in standing with their toes on a line and facing obliquely
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Instruct the patient to swivel on the balls of their feet to face obliquely in the opposite direction
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Position yourself standing with your toes on a line and facing obliquely
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Practice swivelling on the balls of your feet to face obliquely in the opposite direction
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You tell me roundly that I am selfish, and accuse me, not roundly because you are afraid it might be indecorous, but obliquely, in a mask of words that does not for an instant hide your meaning, of wearing Jaeger garments beneath my outer apparel
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Something in her tone told me she was making an oblique reference to the spirit or entity I had seen
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same plane and cut each other therefore are oblique to each other
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The crux of the anomaly lies in the phenomenon of obliqueness of
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Arthur led us in at an oblique angle, slicing through the thinnest side of them, where behind us on our rear flanks, left and right, came another two units and it was like ploughing down wicker-men that stood in a field to scare the crows
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It was the first and only oblique reference to my affair with Monette he ever
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It was oblique, and it hurt like a motherfucker, but I did it
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“And I haven’t been there once” he said obliquely, in good spirits
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Presently he strolled out of the promenade and stood a moment at the crossing, as if undecided whether to go and listen to the band in the Jardin Publique, or to wander along the beach toward Castle Hill
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The daylight coming through the plain glass windows falls obliquely upon the pews ranged along the walls, which are adorned here and there with a straw mat bearing beneath it the words in large letters, "Mr
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Big tears lay in the corner of the half-closed eyelids, through whose lashes one could see two pale sunken pupils; the plaster stuck on her cheek drew the skin obliquely
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He thought he saw a shadow behind the window in the room; but the curtain, sliding along the pole as though no one were touching it, slowly opened its long oblique folds that spread out with a single movement, and thus hung straight and motionless as a plaster wall
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Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets
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From time to time at the upper end a sacristan passed, making the oblique genuflexion of devout persons in a hurry
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Seen thus from above, the whole landscape looked immovable as a picture; the anchored ships were massed in one corner, the river curved round the foot of the green hills, and the isles, oblique in shape, lay on the water, like large, motionless, black fishes
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I mean, that you may look at a bed from different points of view, obliquely or directly or from any other point of view, and the bed will appear different, but there is no difference in reality
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obliquely, not only thwarted his admission, but giving a scream, as if he
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The sun's rays hit the surface of the waves at a fairly oblique angle, decomposing by refraction as though passing through a prism; and when this light came in contact with flowers, rocks, buds, seashells, and polyps, the edges of these objects were shaded with all seven hues of the solar spectrum
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These views were varied continuously by the sun's oblique rays, or were completely swallowed up by gray mists in the middle of blizzards
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A rapid and oblique glance at the moss on the trees, with an occasional upward gaze toward the setting sun, or a steady but passing look at the direction of the numerous water courses, through which he waded, were sufficient to determine his path, and remove his greatest difficulties
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I could barely glimpse the swift passing of longnose sharks, hammerhead sharks, spotted dogfish that frequent these waters, big eagle rays, swarms of seahorse looking like knights on a chessboard, eels quivering like fireworks serpents, armies of crab that fled obliquely by crossing their pincers over their carapaces, finally schools of porpoise that held contests of speed with the Nautilus
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Hawkeye was not mistaken; for when the Hurons found their course was likely to throw them behind their chase they rendered it less direct, until, by gradually bearing more and more obliquely, the two canoes were, ere long, gliding on parallel lines, within two hundred yards of each other
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The oblique staring expression in them
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” The authors obliquely reported that nine percent of their patients had died as a result of the surgery, and they did not mention which “bad” results affected the remaining fourteen percent
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Granddaughter Amanda Smith observed, while researching her book on Joe Kennedy, that during this time any mention of Rosemary ceased, “except obliquely in surviving family letters and papers
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Upholding the lid he (who?) gazed in the coffin (coffin?) at the oblique triple (piano!) wires
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The court-yard of this quarter is enclosed by enormous walls, over which the sun glances obliquely, when it deigns to penetrate into this gulf of moral and physical deformity
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When Sylvia walked through downtown Torrance with her family, she noticed oblique glances from passersby
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words, I sparing disclosed my thighs, so that he could just touch the cloven inlet with the tip of his instrument: but as he fatigued and toiled to get in, a twist of my body, so as to receive it obliquely, not only thwarted his admission, but giving a scream, as if he had pierced me to the heart, I shook him off me, with such violence that he could not with all his might to it, keep the saddle: vexed indeed at this he seemed, but not in the style of displeasure with me for my skittishness; on the contrary, I dare swear he held me the dearer, and hugged himself for the difficulties that even hurt his instant pleasure
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Found, gained entrance, and took several oblique photographs relatively useless to anyone save myself
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Salander looked again at the door across the street, to the extent that she could see anything from her oblique angle, and she noticed it opening
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But from several of his comments, some oblique enough it took Owl’s analysis to tease them out of the underbrush, he’d come around—slowly and unwillingly—to the belief that Chihiro was … significantly modifying Langhorne’s original plan
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All they knew at this point was that Khapahr had met with Mahrtyn Vahnwyk, Thirsk’s personal secretary, and Stywyrt Baiket, his flag captain, to quietly—and very obliquely—discuss the hypothetical possibility of “taking the earl’s daughters for a cruise” aboard one of the Dohlaran Navy’s galleons
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The steamer had struck the lighter obliquely, heeling her over till she was half swamped, starting some of her timbers, and swinging her head parallel to her own course with the force of the blow
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As if in answer to this thought, half of remorse and half of hope, with a soft flutter and oblique flight, a big owl, whose appalling cry: "Ya-acabo! Ya-acabo!—it is finished; it is finished"— announces calamity and death in the popular belief, drifted vaguely like a large dark ball across his path
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He sat in an attitude which to anyone else would have been one of extreme discomfort, askew in his upright armchair, with his book held high and obliquely to the light
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Regan liked to think of this as Daddy’s oblique apology to her and to William for the impending remarriage
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Instead, there was mostly an oblique thrill in his chest when, masturbating himself to sleep in Mansfield, he thought of her in her sorority house in Poughkeepsie
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Personal-sized tins of syrupy fruit cocktail jig across oblique eating trays
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That is the way with us when we have any uneasy jealousy in our disposition: if our talents are chiefly of the burrowing kind, our honey-sipping cousin (whom we have grave reasons for objecting to) is likely to have a secret contempt for us, and any one who admires him passes an oblique criticism on ourselves
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Silver plate sparkled in the jeweller's windows, and the light falling obliquely on the cathedral made mirrors of the corners of the grey stones ; a flock of birds fluttered in the grey sky round the trefoil bell-turrets; the square, resounding with cries, was fragrant with the flowers that bordered its pavement, roses, jasmines, pinks, narcissi, and tube-roses, unevenly spaced out between moist grasses, catmint, and chickweed for the birds; the fountains gurgled in the centre, and under large umbrellas, amidst melons, piled up in heaps, flower-women, bare-headed, were twisting paper round bunches of violets
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But the oblique view took in the back of the Ellsworth house, the brick patio, and a wedge of the garden where heads had been buried
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He ducked into shadows and approached the house obliquely by cutting through side yards, crouching at last in the lee of the privet hedge bordering the Boxer living room
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The Congo was one of few places with no nationalist movement in the 1950s, mainly because the dreaded Belgian colonial police force, the Force Publique, arrested anyone caught suggesting that life under Belgian rule wasn’t just what the doctor ordered
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But even the Force Publique couldn’t keep the Congo isolated from international opinion forever, and by the end of the 1950s a Congolese nationalist party was growing fast, led by a charismatic young leader called Patrice Lumumba
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He had a science- the theory of oblique movements deduced by him from the history of Frederick the Great’s wars, and all he came across in the history of more recent warfare seemed to him absurd and barbarous- monstrous collisions in which so many blunders were committed by both sides that these wars could not be called wars, they did not accord with the theory, and therefore could not serve as material for science
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In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat
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bread thief; il lansquine, it rains, a striking, ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: it rains halberds
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Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle deep, a fine head marked with a black star, a very long neck, strongly articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful crupper
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This hadn't seemed to cause undue concern among his rather oblique guests
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The meeting began casually and obliquely, as all meetings should
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All this came through in small, oblique spurts in his conversation
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The upper mandible is furnished on each side (in the specimen examined by me) with a row or comb formed of 188 thin, elastic lamellae, obliquely bevelled so as to be pointed, and placed transversely to the longer axis of the mouth
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At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae
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A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me in the whalemen's chapel; and here a gallows! and a pair of prodigious black pots too! Are these last throwing out oblique hints touching Tophet?