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1. Then a slight electric shock passed between him and Jake, and slowly things stared to fall into place; the mists and cobwebs seemed to clear away and he slowly became aware
2. The boy blushes spectacularly and nearly runs off stage, only to be called back to clear away his props, and suddenly he loves it
3. “There that should set you up so get it down you and then you and Bert can go for a smoke while Mabel and I clear away the things and get some tidying up done
4. Without allocated space for fights, they had to clear away dinner tables and hold other prisoners back without ropes or barriers
5. It might be years before the city would be able to function as a city and clear away all the destruction and build new buildings
6. With that having being uttered they both broke down in hearty laughter, the strain of their situation and the accumulated fatigue almost vanishing as if washed clear away with one simple joke
7. He stared down at his crumpled sheets and blinked several times, trying to clear away the blurriness
8. His sweeping movement helped to clear away the dark swirls of smoke revealing that the magician had somehow vanished
9. They died trying to clear away the mess of chairs and obstacles Pellew had placed, and their bodies joined the debris
10. The polar bears were harmless and never made a move toward the children, as long as they stood clear away
11. The young waitress returned to check if they needed anything else, and started to clear away some of the debris from the table
12. The fire had burned most of my body clear away, and it’s only thanks to my
13. shook his head as if to clear away the cobwebs that Jeeves was knitting in his
14. He shook his head as if to clear away the cobwebs of disgruntlement from
15. I’d better clear away
16. He offered to help me clear away, but worried about breakages I
17. acting the roles of the children, two good boys who offered to help lay the table, clear away
18. Christine sighed deeply and began to clear away the leftovers
19. "I would love to feel the warms of the sun just to clear away the cobwebs that now consume my mind
20. Fists still raised high in the air, every muscle in its body straining from intense anger- the Oogie shook its head, trying to clear away the fogginess—and then he could hear the sounds of the children’s voices, but the haziness of his mind would still not let it make out what they were actually saying
21. 'Wouldn't you like me to read aloud to you a little while before you go back to bed?' she asked, when Lizzie came in to clear away the tea-things
22. The defendant knew ahead of the purchase, we are sure, that he would make use of young orphan boys, at a small cost of board and found to clear away the stones or to otherwise build them up into a stable platform suitable for foundations and roads
23. "Tell me about it!" Tracey said as she got up from her chair and started to clear away the plates
24. He had made copious notes and straightened up to clear away all the reference books and documents he had been studying
25. House slaves moved quickly to clear away the
26. Robert shook his head to clear away the dis-
27. She had only been attempting to clear away the rusting pieces of iron banisters that were leaning agianst the side of the house when one of them caught her by surprise and fell on her foot, causing her to drop to her knees to massage the pain away
28. Meg helped Jo clear away the remains of the feast, which took half the afternoon and left them so tired that they agreed to be contented with tea and toast for supper
29. It was a quarter to one; he could clear away
30. Besides, who else could dispute his ownership of this underwater property? What other, bolder pioneer would come, ax in hand, to clear away its dark underbrush?
31. They thought it was a beastly shame that those other bandits should be always raiding the town and getting clear away with such rich spoils
32. But wasn't Maria glad when the women had finished their tea and the cook and the dummy had begun to clear away the tea- things! She went into her little bedroom and, remembering that the next morning was a mass morning, changed the hand of the alarm from seven to six
33. When they had filled themselves up with the `cocoa-tea' and cakes and bread and jam, Elsie Linden and Nellie Newman helped to clear away the cups and saucers, and then Owen lit the candles on the Christmas tree and distributed the toys to the children, and a little while afterwards Philpot - who had got a funny-looking mask out of one of the bon-bons - started a fine game pretending to be a dreadful wild animal which he called a Pandroculus, and crawling about on all fours, rolled his goggle eyes and growled out he must have a little boy or girl to eat for his supper
34. Rushton felt rather sick over this affair, but he consoled himself by reflecting that he had got clear away with several valuable rose trees and other plants which he had stolen out of the garden, and that a ladder which had been discovered in the hayloft over the stable and taken - by his instructions - to the `yard' when the `job' was finished had not been missed
35. Bob knew he should clear away as
36. would have to clear away the snow from the door to prevent its
37. There his conduct as soldier was exemplary, till, watching his chance, he killed his colonel, and managed to get clear away
38. As the twilight drew on, they found themselves hanging about the neighborhood of the little isolated jail, perhaps with an undefined hope that something would happen that might clear away their difficulties
39. , there is because a Bourbon in Louis Philippe; both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in order to clear away universal insurrection, they must be combated; it must be done, France being always the one to begin
40. He picked up a paper from the top of a pile, but then couldn’t think of anywhere else to put it, so he but it“So there you have it,” said Slartibartfast, making a feeble and perfunctory attempt to clear away some of the appalling back on top of the original pile which promptly fell over
41. "Clear away the boats! Luff!" cried Ahab
42. In the same way we shall never cease to maintain that the house-porters who clear away the mud from the wooden pavement in the Viborgsky Side ought not to spatter the legs of passers-by, but should throw the mud up into heaps as is done in Europe," and so on, and so on
43. He stood still in alarm—in almost superstitious alarm, for a moment; then all mists seemed to clear away from his eyes; he was conscious of nothing but light and joy and ecstasy; his breath came and went; but the moment passed
44. Stepánych began to clear away the snow opposite Avdyéich's window
45. It might have been the desk of a man who did nothing; in fact, it was the desk of a man who had so much to do that his only hope of escape from being overwhelmed was to dispatch and clear away each matter the instant it was presented to him