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1. We stand watching a small group of ducks as they dabble in the water amongst the water lilies dotting the surface
2. “No, I have some real estate, do some advising, some scavenging, dabble in some cargo here and there, that kind of thing
3. You may or may not choose to dabble in any or all avenues open to you and never choose a single 'role,' as we have chosen---all anyone knows for certain is what the First Water did at the dawn of the First Orchard: they opened the realms of the One up to the seeding of Reason everywhere
4. But Ralph is a soldier, a regional Lord, or he was once, not so long ago; he is no mystic to dabble with meanings and magic
5. Women are scared to dabble in strength training, thinking that doing so will cause them to bulk up and lose their femininity
6. During moments of quiet solitude, he’d often dare to think that she could have possibly been a traveler from the future… something that, once upon time he used to dabble in imagining
7. ‘I might have had a dabble, why?’
8. We expect them not to dabble in fields that aren’t held
9. “I mean I use to dabble a little, but there was a lot of stress,” Brock said
10. I’ve been known to dabble in the prose before; it’s fun, but I’ve never written this much stuff
11. Why, luckily for men, the hard nuts to crack for the final favor are few and far between! But then, the harder the struggle to win women over, the sweeter would be the pleasure in having them, wouldn’t it be? Oh, what else draws a man to a woman than his desire to access her persona specifics? Won’t woman bare her veiled assets for her fancied man to dabble with her private accounts? But after a few jaunts of his to her favored joint, what would be left in her for her lover to explore, and for her to show him more? And thereafter, how could she cater to his innate need for variety and what else she could conjure up to sustain his enticement? Oh, the poor thing, seeing his interest in her wane in time, won’t she turn more so eager to keep him in good humor? Of course, the more she gives her man; even more she satiates him, doesn’t she? And it’s only time before she finds her paramour bypass her favors for lesser flavors
12. How man tends to imagine himself as the tracking object on others’ radars to justify his extravagance as but the dictates of his life’s circumstances! But then man fails to realize that but for a sleaze or a scandal, the world at large never bothers about him, whatever be his station, and so fails to fashion a purse-supportive lifestyle and allows himself to dabble with the delusions of grandeur
13. Her life, filled with the tragedy of her daughters dabble with drugs and her husbands drinking, now took on a positive track and she revelled in the role of organiser
14. The Islands that they live on have buildings and some of the citizens dabble in the arts and in a limited amount of science
15. that she went out of her way to dabble her toe in a similar social experiment just to see what it was like
16. I dabble a bit in sculpture in an adjoining workshop
17. All experiences of being ‘born again’ by New Age seekers who stupidly dabble in the supernatural are them being TAKEN OVER by undead spirits who then go on to control their entire lives and take over their persona and twist their lives as much as possible into committing the most evil and spreading as many evil twisted lies as possible
18. They should dabble in different products and markets
19. Dabble with higher-price and bigger-spread stocks
20. I would just dabble in a little ‘spree’ killing, then get away
21. The way to make good sculpture is to let the youth thumb and punch and dabble in wet clay, and see what he can make of it; and the way to make a painter is to give the boy now a burnt stick, and at another time a pin and a back of a looking-glass, and see what he can delineate with such materials as these and with all other materials with which a line can be drawn
1. At peace for the first time in days, she sat watching the land slowly passing by; ducks dabbled in and out of the reed beds bordering the river and here and there she spotted the long legged herons, poised like statues peering at the water intently as though hypnotising their prey
2. For someone who opposed the hunts, and opposed mating with outside women, it is quite ironic to find that you dabbled once and left a progeny behind
3. Roman dabbled with his food, taking slow, deliberate bites not because it
4. dabbled in leftovers as they waited at a checkout, but this was the first time she'd completely
5. He was an insurance broker who dabbled in the
6. He has dabbled in more experimental sorcery at his Martial Academy than we in Coermantyr
7. Some of their members have even dabbled in politics from time-to-time and have won local elections to office
8. Olmec came through the litter, looking like a ghoul with his naked massive shoulders splashed with blood, and his black beard dabbled in crimson
9. There was no sign of the murdered man's body; only yonder the tall lush grass was trampled and broken down and the sward was dabbled darkly and wetly
10. In a burst of red abysmal ferocity it was over, except for one wretch who fled screaming back the way the priests had come, pursued by a swarm of blood- dabbled shapes of horror which reached out their red-smeared hands for him
11. I had dabbled with God here and there but at that point, I was a
12. He had also dabbled in the magical arts
13. Anton Clegg had dabbled in her favours, but derived more pleasure from the control he had over his peers who coveted her acts of kindness
14. Shoop recal ed a case where some French Canadians had dabbled in a
15. production editor, and dabbled in
16. “I know the Federation has dabbled in trans-warp, but I’ve not heard of any
17. Most of the characters he played had a dark side, especially those that dabbled in magic
18. Born in a Vaishnav Vania orthodox Hindu family (he still visits the Shrinathji temple in Rajasthan’s Nathdwara at least twice a year), Shah had handled a successful family business in PVC pipes and had even dabbled in stockbroking like any financially sharp Gujarati
19. warnings from me, dabbled in the futures
20. dabbled with it and even visited mosks looking for an answers to life and
21. ‘The newspaper has always dabbled with criticisms of govern-
22. have dabbled in it and that Chase wanted to try it with me
23. But of all the avocations and pass-times in which he has dabbled, Eric is most captured by one
24. He dabbled in poetry and knew the suffocation of the
25. On Mars, over the years they had dabbled in currency and an
26. I have dabbled in the U
27. I have dabbled with this for many years and I some time ago I
28. Silas discovered Pedro dabbled in criminal activity, something he told Theron immediately
29. I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol
30. His hindpaws then scattered the sand: then his forepaws dabbled and delved
31. “She also dabbled in the stock market
32. His people had been long settled in Paris, where he had studied law, had dabbled in literature, had hoped now and then in moments of exaltation to become a poet like that other foreigner of Spanish blood, Jose Maria Heredia
33. They both dabbled in game theory
34. Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some staring up at the sky, some pulsating quickly, some contorted, some stretched out—all of them writhing in agony, except the fortunate ones whose tortures had ended during the night by the inability of nature to bear more
35. In the first few days after Mercer took over the management of her food supply, she’d dabbled with lesser degrees of aloofness—even once rubbing against his leg when he came in
36. Although some companies had dabbled in the issuance of digital currencies to their customers prior to Bitcoin (sometimes even currencies that exist only in a computer game), these actions didn’t attract the attention of governments or large financial institutions, except for some law enforcement actions
37. In Appendix A, we dabbled with JavaScript code that could perform some basic actions with a Bitcoin wallet by automating a preexisting wallet
38. Later on, when her hair, arranged in a romantically drooping fashion, began to grow gray, when the Magaera began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thenardier was nothing but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances
39. In the rich darkness above him he sensed but could not see his wife's frail, skelatinous weight seated on his chest while she dabbled and clenched tremblingly again and again at his neck
1. "My father dabbles in the sciences—biology and psychology mostly
2. she dabbles in witchcraft
1. ‘No, me neither … but I daresay our friend Gerisse has some useful associates who wouldn’t flinch at such activity … especially if he’s dabbling in the criminal underworld, as would appear to be the case
2. From what London has sent us, this Hartley-Jones bloke is a bit of a small time crook – nothing you can pin on him, but he’s been dabbling in several dicey operations
3. dabbling in a new technology that uses electromagnetic pulses to manipulate brain
4. Neither option, consulting or retiring, or a third, being semi-retired and dabbling in real estate, held much appeal
5. Facing the threat of hearing further dabbling
6. Presque’s attention circled back to the villagers' dabbling
7. Facing the threat of hearing further dabbling about magick, Joshua enjoyed his
8. Crowley dabbling nearly endlessly, how subtly he could be
9. “As I got famous, I started dabbling in a few drugs, then I would drink myself to sleep,” he said
10. She stands accused of dabbling in your minds with the secrets of the black arts, secrets that should have been driven from your country many generations ago
11. On Friday’s a true local sat up in the corner playing music into the evening dabbling on the momentum
12. Of course when our dabbling in conversation was finished, we both grew terribly
13. He was already dabbling in the whiskey trade, and he claimed he could combine that with trade in sugar from the islands and slaves from Africa
14. At this stage the armed rob case was drawing near and I was in one of the worst weed droughts I had ever been in, so bad most weed dealers were switching to dabbling in selling other products to stay afloat
15. “How did he get there? Is this yet another man dabbling with forbidden
16. was he dabbling with?”
17. Appreciation of those things which have manifested only serves the higher self as it is seen that you are not dabbling for the surface’s sake, not addressing a cause or issue simply for vanity or other impermanent reasons
18. Appreciation of those things which have manifested only serves the higher self as it is seen that you are not dabbling for the surface’s sake; not addressing a cause or issue simply for vanity or other impermanent reasons
19. Elizabeth Baret had warned Alice about dabbling with potions and muttering prayers in obscure languages
20. Had he known dabbling in such activates were currently
21. in Air as well as dabbling in the rest of variety of
22. Amy had been dabbling her hand in the water during the little pause that fell between them, and when she looked up, Laurie was leaning on his oars with an expression in his eyes that made her say hastily, merely for the sake of saying something
23. Dabbling in dangerous black arts, she experimented on many of the sidhe-seers in her care, most notably Danielle O’Malley
24. Rothschild; but as my motive in travelling to your capital would not have been for the pleasure of dabbling in stocks, I stayed away till some favorable chance should present itself of carrying my wish into execution
25. He rooted in the sand, dabbling, delving and stopped to listen to the air, scraped up the sand again with a fury of his claws, soon ceasing, a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach, vulturing the dead
26. They were dabbling in the sand with their spades and buckets, building castles as children do, or playing with their big coloured ball, happy as the day was long
27. At his age when dabbling in politics roughly some score of years previously when he hadbeen a quasi aspirant to parliamentary honours in the Buckshot Foster days he too recollected in retrospect (which was a source of keen satisfaction in itself) he had a sneaking regard for those same ultra ideas
28. when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of cabbage skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and grinning all over his big Dolly face like a wellwhipped childs botty didnt he look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been a spectacle on the stage imagine paying 5/- in the preserved seats for that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too when I sang Maritana with him at Freddy Mayers private opera he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit
29. Although the early September weather was sultry, her arm, from her dabbling in the curds, was as cold and damp to his mouth as a
30. But he’d sworn to keep his own dabbling secret, as if to deny that heroin had changed anything at all
31. She was known for dabbling very occasionally in the impure waters of true-crime journalism, but when she did, she got freakin’ righteous
32. This did not occur during April 1996, and by then I had been out of C-Cube for a few months and dabbling here and there with new stock ideas that were not altogether working too well
33. These were lessons he was learning loud and clear while dabbling in trading and reading stock-trader stories
34. Of late I had often recalled this saying and this incident; for during the past week scarcely a night had gone over my couch that had not brought with it a dream of an infant, which I sometimes hushed in my arms, sometimes dandled on my knee, sometimes watched playing with daisies on a lawn, or again, dabbling its hands in running water
