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1. After a brief rest punctuated by peeks through the chinks of the shelter wall, we hired two porters to carry the sacks on the rest of the foot journey
2. strength, but you did find some chinks in their armor
3. Coiled in the bed of the wagon she'd seen nothing of the action through the few chinks unblocked by gear
4. I’m no linguist, but I’m not some asshole that thinks all chinks are the same
5. “Are there any chinks?” he raised his head to assess her assets
6. "You remember Kensington? Ports, Chinks and Yids
7. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru narrow chinks of his cavern
8. ‘’Look at all those Chinks, Sarge! There must be thousands of them!’’ Said in a low voice Corporal Steve Wright to his team leader while continuing to look through the scope of his sniper rifle, a Springfield 1903
9. Broken windows rattle and chinks of glass ring when they smack the ground
10. Smythe was trying to find chinks in Fielding’s argument but hoping not to
11. media, collectively convinced the masses that “niggers, Chinks and
12. The wind screams through their chinks as though somebody had caught it by the toes and was pinching it
13. But I think there must be chinks in them, for I find my mind is much hung about, after all, with Merivale
14. When these smells got through the window chinks she would shut her eyes and think hard of the scent of roses and pinks, and of that lovely orange scent of the orange-coloured lupin she had seen grown everywhere in the summer; but sooner or later her efforts, however valiant, ended in the creeping coldness, the icy perspiration, of sick faintness
15. The dust came in in clouds, and they were obliged to shut the windows, but it still came in through chinks and settled all over them and choked them, and even lay in the delicate details of Ingeborg's nose
16. LanCoste rode straight up to the pair and whoa’d the monster steed, the beast’s armor rattling briefly as the chinks found their resting places
17. There, as it had an abrupt turn in it, they came all at once in sight of three men, whose heads were bent down close together at the side of a door, and who were intently looking into the room to which the door belonged, through some chinks or holes in the wall
18. The darkness deepened and deepened, and they both lay quiet, until a light gleamed through the chinks in the wall
19. And between them and the white-haired man afar off, was the one small link, that they had once looked in at him through the chinks in the wall
20. But now in this hateful age of ours not one is safe, not though some new labyrinth like that of Crete conceal and surround her; even there the pestilence of gallantry will make its way to them through chinks or on the air by the zeal of its accursed importunity, and, despite of all seclusion, lead them to ruin
21. The poor man may retain honour, but not the vicious; poverty may cast a cloud over nobility, but cannot hide it altogether; and as virtue of itself sheds a certain light, even though it be through the straits and chinks of penury, it wins the esteem of lofty and noble spirits, and in consequence their protection
22. "Look ye, senor," said Sancho, "there's no enchantment here, nor anything of the sort, for between the bars and chinks of the cage I have seen the paw of a real lion, and judging by that I reckon the lion such a paw could belong to must be bigger than a mountain
23. A little light reaches it through some chinks or crevices, communicating with it and open to the surface of the earth
24. Coming down somewhat later than usual, I saw, by the sunbeams piercing the chinks of the shutters, Miss Catherine still seated near the fire-place
25. But the eye of love had already seen, even through the narrow chinks of the wooden palisades, the movement of the white robe,
26. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance
27. Cooks rats in your soup, he appetisingly added, the chinks does
28. Most of the time it had been empty, for the winter lasted long, and cold winds would blow through the chinks in the walls
29. It came through the chinks in the gate to hell, that laugh
30. His light, a little later, broke though chinks of cottage shutters, throwing stripes like red-hot pokers upon cupboards, chests of drawers, and other furniture within; and awakening harvesters who were not already astir
31. Chinks in her fortress of papers and books let through the cool morning light of the street
32. Waule's face, which was as neutral as her voice; having mere chinks for eyes, and lips that hardly moved in speaking
33. It must be Charles, she thought; he was so pale, so full of despair when she had seen him last,—could he have killed himself? She wrapped herself quickly in a loose garment,—a sort of pelisse with a hood,—and was about to leave the room when a bright light coming through the chinks of her door made her think of fire
34. The sun had just reached the angle of the ruined wall, so full of chinks, which no one, through a caprice of the mistress, was allowed to touch, though Cornoiller often remarked to his wife that "it would fall and crush somebody one of these days
35. He lay tossing and turning and listening fearfully to the stealthy night-noises: wind in chinks
36. The facade of the white clapboard church was slashed with a grotesque pattern of bullet holes and lead-colored chinks
37. They stuffed rags and old newspapers in the chinks in the walls to keep out the wind in winter
38. Tom and Huck rose up, weak but vastly relieved, and stared after them through the chinks between the logs of the house
39. Coming close to the tomb, he began to remove from the chinks
40. He cannot melt into thin air nor disappear through cracks or chinks or crannies
41. Coming down somewhat later than usual, I saw, by the sunbeams piercing the chinks of the shutters, Miss Catherine still seated near the fireplace
42. Jean lay in the warm water, locked in the little hut alone; the sunlight came in through little chinks in the woodwork and played on the water as she lay
43. Can a more striking instance of adaptation be given than that of a woodpecker for climbing trees and seizing insects in the chinks of the bark? Yet in North America there are woodpeckers which feed largely on fruit, and others with elongated wings which chase insects on the wing
44. Would the just-hatched young sometimes adhere to the feet of birds roosting on the ground and thus get transported? It occurred to me that land-shells, when hybernating and having a membranous diaphragm over the mouth of the shell, might be floated in chinks of drifted timber across moderately wide arms of the sea
45. When I began to have a fire at evening, before I plastered my house, the chimney carried smoke particularly well, because of the numerous chinks between the boards
46. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisher-man swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled
47. We kept looking at one another, wondering whether the inhabitants, not daring to show themselves in the streets, were spying at us through the chinks of the shutters
