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    1. Rose has expressed a wish to watch the film which is on TV this afternoon – The Sound of Music - and as it would never cross her menfolk’s minds to suggest otherwise and also as the weather has degenerated into an unpleasant blustery rain, we decide it would be rather nice to curl up in the warm and do just that


    2. I am really appreciating this chance to curl up with a 'nothing special, just one of the natives' type guy


    3. “Seriously, if you’d like to curl up next to me on the couch, we can put in another movie and chain smoke the night away


    4. dry in the melt of waking, I can curl sounds


    5. to the curl of water, the crown of sound,


    6. might seem, how long the paths that curl between


    7. curl by her face, a butterfly wing amid the chaos


    8. wet it in his mouth and curl it around her nipples


    9. His high forehead had just enough texture to show wisdom and dignity, his halo of greying wool neatly trimmed a curl and a half deep


    10. there was a wicked smile starting to curl the edges

    11. “Geez Carl (it sounded like Curl) that was quick, I owes ya,” the man said


    12. The edges of the bread are hard and starting to curl


    13. At night as the kid's would curl up on the floor to go to bed; He would tell her father of how it used to be back in the good old days; when he was a teenager


    14. She only continued to curl and uncurl her toes in the water


    15. It was too hot to curl around her, he just ran his finger down her cheek, down her throat and over her tit and nipple


    16. The tarmac black as night, glistening with heat started to curl and like a giant reel began to roll down the great southern route


    17. There was no sign of smiles or laughter - not even the smallest curl of the lip


    18. I wiped my face with my hand and it came away wet with cold sweat I didn’t think I could go over everything tonight because all I wanted to do was curl up in my pit and sleep for a week


    19. The next workout, you might target the biceps by doing a wave with the biceps curl and so on


    20. One part of him wanted to curl up and cry

    21. But what? She twirled a long blond curl around her finger as she watched her new owner


    22. I believe I'll curl up on


    23. Kay still felt as if she was in a daze, but she allowed herself to curl up at Em’s feet, to close her eyes, and to be lost for a while in another world


    24. Curling my fingers into fists at his infuriating habit of stating the bloody obvious, I resisted the urge to curl them around his throat


    25. Strands of my hair were escaping to curl around the sides of my face, and my cheeks had the first real flush that I’d seen in months


    26. Frank saw the man’s meaty hand curl into a fist and quickly laid his head back down on the metal floor again, not wanting to chance another punch to his kidneys


    27. Standing in front of the full length mirror in her long dressing gown, combing out her long, honey-golden hair, she wished it had more curl


    28. When confronted by an enemy fighter on their tail, they can’t curl up in a ball and hide in the fuselage


    29. It was one of those winds that made your hair curl and made your nerves leap and your skin prickle


    30. The very thought of what good it might do at this close range brought an involuntary upward curl to her lips

    31. Ludwig shook his head with no hint of good humor other than a slight curl of his lip


    32. He could still see the curl of his father’s lip and the disdainful arch of his eyebrow as he mouthed that awful word


    33. The question made her curl her toes and she set her teeth hard in her lip as to make sure no words came out


    34. The curl of his lip is cruel


    35. The feet of the youngest two girls was green, and their toe nails were so overgrown that they had begun to curl under their feet


    36. I feel the heft of a gun in my hand and curl my fingers around it, slipping my index finger over the trigger


    37. Jack’s lips curl with amusement


    38. I have to resist the urge to throw myself at him and brush my fingers over the curl of his lip and the crease in his cheek when he smiles and the hard line of his eyebrow and jaw


    39. Over the curl of her short waist


    40. And the curl of

    41. She thought about her home in England, and how every day when she got home from the hospital, she would make herself a hot cup of mint tea and curl up on the couch with it


    42. 20 And he said to her, How beautiful and pleasing are my words when I speak the praise of my God and his glory; and she said to him, How very beautiful is the hair of your head, note the golden comb which is in the house, take it I pray you, and curl the hair of your head


    43. ” I said and his low laugh made my toes curl and my spine tingle with heated anticipation


    44. Making my toes curl until they felt numb


    45. I want to surrender, to remain still, to curl up into a ball and sleep


    46. He glances at me and shakes his head while my lips curl up with delight


    47. own rules often enough that Trixie knew she could curl up and


    48. As I planned earlier, the corners of my lips curl to form a smile


    49. I force my lips to curl, trying to conceal my irritation


    50. When she looked over to see Rachel fingering a curl at Gabriel’s collar, she’d had enough











































    1. ” He’s curled up in a ball still


    2. She curled forward, clutching her stomach and bit her tongue


    3. Stu looked up into her eyes and there he saw reflected twin boys, curled up,


    4. Curled up in the middle of a bleak and hooded cell


    5. Wide-eyed, rocking back and forth, curled up into the smallest space that he


    6. Ava had been known to stay in bed with her toes curled the day after a sleep they spent together, a day he would go to the foundry


    7. Curled up in the middle of a bleak and hooded cell he waited for grains of shadow to float between the bars of a small arrow-slit window high above him


    8. Her gonads curled painfully within her as she imagined the deviant rites these people must practice


    9. The burnt ends flew and curled,


    10. curled into my shoulder,

    11. She sent Steve off to bed, and then she wrapped a blanket around herself and curled up in one of the big over stuffed chairs


    12. cast tangled shadows around his curled body


    13. On closer inspection, he was standing between her and a rattler, curled up tightly on the sidewalk


    14. She checked the box, “believe it or not, she’s curled up sound asleep


    15. He turned and saw that Kate was curled up, pressed to his side


    16. "Oh stop," she said, but a tiny smile curled her lips


    17. It shrieked and curled up, maybe it was still going to spring


    18. with sleep still curled in your arms,


    19. licking at a muzzle that curled and snarled


    20. At night sleep curled up around it

    21. “Of course Sarah,” he said as he took her gently in his arms and kissed her; then they climbed into bed, curled up next to each other and slept


    22. On his head, a gentleman's Italian 'Borsalino' hat with the brim curled over one eye


    23. The leaves are curled at the edges, frequently dotted with yellow or brown patches, the trunks scabbed with fungus suggesting rotten cores


    24. Elmore curled his lips in and leaned back with his hands clasped behind him


    25. The next morning James woke up curled around her


    26. James remembered Elizabeth curled up next to him when he woke


    27. Doc Paul was spent; he finally curled up on the cot in the birthing room and went to sleep


    28. Tarak awoke with a sense of well-being, curled about her protectively


    29. Tarak curled himself around her to give her the added warmth of his body heat


    30. It was curled up in a small box surrounded by the soft piece of coat she cut for it

    31. Later in the night, Tom awoke, curled up on the bed and still


    32. He put his hand over hers and her lips curled with a little less seriousness


    33. Huff curled into a ball at his back


    34. Salamander lay curled on his straw


    35. He was curled


    36. Their hair was piled and curled, and their heeled riding boots were barely visible beneath the full black Anabel skirts


    37. She was curled up in a foetal position, lying on the bed, apparently asleep


    38. Edge curled snapshots, photographs that have been bent back and forth so much that the polished gloss of the paper has cracked right across a face


    39. She curled a thin blue wrapskirt about her hips and headed for the garden


    40. Heather’s eyes squinted and her upper lip curled like a Rottweiler about to

    41. Beth was curled up in a chair next to her bed, intensely reading something


    42. warming their shoulders as the mist curled away into the


    43. She curled her arm around her waist and bowed at the middle, not from the pain of her ribs, but from the chill, his absence had created


    44. Luray seemed to be curled around Larneh now while Valla straddled Knume’s knee, but Luray didn’t seem the worse for it


    45. She knew once he promised, that he wouldn't try again, so she curled up against his chest and went to sleep, but not before he’d repeated the question


    46. Instead the child is curled in fetal position


    47. Crackling with power, the flames curled around the weapon’s hilt, retracting it back into his waiting hand


    48. "You wish to play games, Onk?" Energy curled outward from his lips as he spoke


    49. He sang a little song or two, of the sort he used to sing at his dinner-parties, curled himself up in the straw, and had an excellent night's rest and the pleasantest of dreams


    50. Her hair was dark blond, tightly curled and more than shoulder length














































    1. used to wash hair and there are blow driers, curling irons


    2. curling through laughter in the bars that we visited


    3. "Is it enough to earn me Noonsleep?" she asked while curling up in his arms


    4. Mya gave a short curtsy and turned around and returned to the pillow on the bed curling


    5. She put it over the cabinet handles and kissed him before curling up in his arms


    6. Maggie is on her third large brandy and she can feel the edges of her thoughts curling up like dry leaves


    7. With the grass between his toes he made long curling casts at the edge of some lilypads, hoping to entice a lazy fish into biting the threaded bug he used


    8. I swear that smoke was curling from my ears as I


    9. "Defenders, Brice?" Coba replied, energy curling from his mouth with every word


    10. lurched at his black hair, curling at its tips, and his muscular physique

    11. One charged at her, its curling tail held high above the ridgeline of its back


    12. My power spun around her curling through the air


    13. curling ferns and a type of mold growing at the base of an oak tree


    14. come -- or maybe it all was in her curling toes


    15. She saw the severed toes curling slowly


    16. “Yes …yes! ” Galmar’s approval bellowed forth in that gravelly voice, lips curling in a wild grin and baring gleaming teeth


    17. ” she began curling the ends of the bits of pasta closest to the napkin in a pattern that made them look like they were swirling into each other like water going down a narrow opening


    18. Sailing vessels were stopped on the main, the curling waves at their prows, frozen


    19. Martin looked down at a curling stream that darted in and out of vision with the twisted and graded portions of hills that made this part of the country so uninhabitable


    20. I now had the clump of trees in my view and I could see the merest hint of smoke curling up and drifting away

    21. as the axe still embedded in the armoury wall, shot out and, curling, planted itself against the cavern


    22. wood smoke curling up from the red bricked stack of The Pheasant


    23. Her long red hair flowed freely, hanging down her back and curling at the ends to frame her shoulders and waist


    24. He then tilted the lighter so it glinted revealing an intricately weaved pattern, lines curling and intersecting each other


    25. The way his relaxed body flowed like water curling along its course before it contracted into steel for a strike was mesmerizing


    26. This time, he pitched backward, hitting the street and curling onto his side


    27. The row of seats nearest him was on fire, flames flickering along the backs, heavy smoke curling into the air


    28. with an expression of divine sweetness, and his long, curling, blond


    29. He dreamed of curling up in a pouch, hearing a constant but strange sound


    30. Finally, curling his upper lip in contempt, he snapped, "You try my patience, badger!" The underlying threat was implicit in his tone

    31. " Curling the claws of one foot into the ground, Grindel smiled broadly


    32. His head began to pound as fresh gouts of blood flowed from his wound, curling downwards into the black depths, to be sucked up by the esprit below


    33. Curling my fingers into fists at his infuriating habit of stating the bloody obvious, I resisted the urge to curl them around his throat


    34. Every nerve sang in the wake of his cool touch, reaching so deep inside me that I whimpered, my hands curling into fists on the tabletop


    35. He lay with one hand behind his head, blue tinted smoke curling lazily from the cigarette held in his other between two long fingers


    36. He glared, curling his lip in disgust and displayed his middle finger to them while mouthing the words, ‘fuck you


    37. She screamed, her foot curling against the pain


    38. Stiffening, I crossed my arms over my breasts, curling my legs under me, even as I felt the tug that his presence always had on me


    39. Dorian’s hands on my back sent tendrils of heat curling through me even in my half-frozen state


    40. A dining area took up one section of the room, complete with a circular table with four chairs around it and a sideboard against the wall, and a corner by the windows boasted a sitting area with small sofa—a settee, really—and an overstuffed chair that was perfect for curling up with one of the throws that were scattered about

    41. However, every visitor can relax, resting curling up in whichever pond at the confluence of the two rivers


    42. Curling its antennae tightly, the moth finally launched itself upwards, its wings fluttering madly as it flew towards its destiny


    43. Smoke was curling up lazily from the electrical wiring


    44. She heated up some milk and made toast, curling up on the recliner before the fire


    45. Brendan stood, poking around in his gym bag, with smoke curling out of his nostrils


    46. He remembered a time when he had gone fishing with his grandfather, near a lake in the late summer when he was still a boy curling up in his mother’s bosom to sleep at night


    47. He snorted in appreciation before curling his parched tongue into the refreshingly cool water


    48. Then, for the first time, a thin wisp of smoke was seen in the distance, curling up in the early morning air


    49. But—he felt his mouth curling at the thought—I’ve had nothing but time, and have pretty well learned to speak in the parables of a supposedly meaningless dogma


    50. I stare at its tail curling around his earlobe for a moment, but then Christina starts running and I have to follow her










































    1. Jorma leaned on his elbow and looked over Venna's curls toward the dock, looking at the boats and listening to the charraspas buzzing in the noontime hangleaves


    2. Her arms were folded as she still lingered at the table, she frowned and slowly shook her soft blond curls, "And I don't think those ghosts can help you


    3. He was pressed close to a cute little dark girl with a billow of curls who questioned him at length about the life of someone his size


    4. She was a rich milk chocolate color with half-loosened curls that fell over her shoulders and were tied back with small pins behind her dainty ears


    5. ' A face appeared on his screen in creamy chocolate with a frame of loose curls


    6. She had big round brown eyes, thick reddish-dark brown curls and a round little chin and cheeks


    7. He flattered her a little about the richness of her pubic curls and gave her a quick tingle by running the backs of his fingers over them


    8. embracing our natural curls and seeking the


    9. in the breeze that curls through an inch of draught


    10. Newsprint curls in the gutters,

    11. Breath curls above thick scarves


    12. She listens amid coils and curls of hair


    13. "Desa is the one with the big brown curls isn't she, that one who's been hanging out with Byia?"


    14. He had a big forehead and a dome of light grey curls


    15. He tenderly smoothes the curls off my forehead and kisses the space he has cleared


    16. Her curls were briefly silhouetted in front of lighter rock


    17. She had a burst of dark red curls framing her round face, and a long thick knit that she was clutching around herself


    18. She was sleeping in minutes with her curls all the way down his arm


    19. In the dark, this was the only difference, Tdeshi had never had curls, Venna had billows of them


    20. Venna was lost in her mop of rowdy copper curls in his arms

    21. With that they set off to the hike city streets and her blob of orange curls was soon lost in the crowd


    22. Billy winces slightly as the coffee curls around the back of his tongue


    23. He feels wired, on caffeine overload, but it is better than the void, better than the numb impotence that curls around the edges of his world


    24. He could barely plow ahead and curls of water flowed into his cockpit from each side


    25. It opened and a cute, lightly-freckled face, framed in orange curls exclaimed, “Jorma!?” as he instantly went into shock when his addled brain finally recognized her as Venna


    26. Maybe the label was telling the truth for once, usually when they state ‘hardy’ the plant curls up its roots at the first hint of a frost


    27. “Who’s that?” he asked, but she turned and handed her bowl back to the cook and her sweet shape and billow of copper curls danced off down the path


    28. The only billow of black curls like that in these parts was Marcue


    29. She was an attractive young woman dressed only in a wrap-around skirt that didn’t wrap around anywhere near far enough around for it left a clear view of the soft brown curls tucked neatly between the tops of her thighs


    30. "I don't understand," she said, her finger momentarily snared in one of Whimly's curls

    31. Emily ducked, pulling Whimly down with her as the deer charged toward them, then, an instant before crushing them, the creature leapt, its hooves clipping several curls from Emily's head


    32. Her hair, radiant, glossy yellow curls, covered her face as she stopped tugging on her slacks and looked up at Alec with her twin pupils of white


    33. She had beautiful hips and thighs, a flat belly over a fine and soft patch of curls


    34. Her hair was a beautiful bronze on her head, flowed in golden waves over her shoulders and bounced in flaxen curls down her back


    35. She lifted her head, the curls of her hair were clumps of knots, and turned to find the freckled face of Tetloan grinning at her


    36. Are you safe?" Brice approached them and was reaching out, tucking his hand beneath Emily's curls to rest it upon her cheek


    37. For a moment, his gaunt face and her golden curls were lost to Emily's sight, covered by the swirling tattered cape of Solo Ki


    38. She sat at a round oak table, her slim fingers rapidly twisting a mass of dark curls, entwining the hair of the young girl sitting beside her


    39. Nathalia's white orbs rolled into her head while she shook her golden curls


    40. She looked to be a pure blooded Troll; large, dark and wide with shears for teeth, nipples as big as Shinvei's and lazy brown curls down to her large navel

    41. Within the halo of curls, Katrina could see the tips of her pointed ears and forced herself to keep her eyes on the child even as the girl's white orbs threatened to burrow into her soul


    42. He was very dark, almost charcoal dark, with tight, tight, curls and pink palms


    43. She turned, facing the backs of the children -- Tetloan's head of short-cut red hair and the lengthy dark curls of Emily -- as they looked out over the city


    44. She grabbed a fist-full of curls and stuffed it behind her ear


    45. A bushel of dark curls bounced on her back as she scurried through the garden


    46. Her dark curls writhed in the cyclone while she rose to her feet, drifting to a stand by the power of her will alone


    47. "I saw hundreds of curls I hoped were yours for the first two decades


    48. "Then we have Yhohonshu," a plush and tall creamy-pale woman with tight white curls who's robe clung well, "and Kiethying," a tall gaunt man with a little streak of charcoal left in his beard, very like Althart but more somber of visage with straighter hair and beard


    49. curls with which she tried to hide them


    50. A lot like his father, big, blond, and rugged but with Desa's curls and eyes













































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    Synonyms for "curl"

    curl lock ringlet whorl robert curl robert f. curl robert floyd curl jr. coil curlicue gyre roll scroll curve kink wave loop curl up draw in cylinder package spindle spiral twist bolt

    "curl" definitions

    a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)


    American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933)


    a strand or cluster of hair


    form a curl, curve, or kink


    shape one's body into a curl


    wind around something in coils or loops


    twist or roll into coils or ringlets


    play the Scottish game of curling