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draughts
1. I sucked in deep draughts of air
2. out of the sky, felt cold draughts catch
3. He is suddenly aware of an echo, as if the world around him is breathing in shallow draughts of air slightly out of time with his own inhalation
4. Experience, I believe, soon convinced them that this method of raising money was by much too slow to answer their purpose; and that coffers which originally were so ill filled, and which emptied themselves so very fast, could be replenished by no other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing bills upon London, and when they became due, paying them by other draughts on the same place, with accumulated interest and commission
5. After hearty draughts, they both sighed contentedly, staring ahead at the rippling waters
6. He wondered to himself what the infantrymen were saying now, what private knowledge they were letting slip in between draughts and patrol shifts
7. This must have been so they could sluice them out after they had transported the cattle however for us they posed the problem of letting draughts blow up through them
8. We countered this by spreading our groundsheets over the floor thus cutting the draughts down to a minimum
9. He had rested under blankets all day, sleeping quietly and taking occasional draughts of fresh water, while Capt
10. The planks on the walls were tightly overlapped to keep out draughts
11. elephants were, when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense, to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews
12. merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense, came early to the palace to certify the kind of it
13. They both drank deep draughts of the heavy Burgundy
14. These five hundred elephants were when infuriated by the copious draughts of frankincense to be led up to the execution of death upon the Jews
15. 10 Then Hermon who had filled his merciless elephants with copious draughts of mingled wine and frankincense came early to the palace to certify the kind of it
16. Old but very comfortable and certainly without the damp and draughts for which these old places are known
17. It took but one circuit of a nearby park to reach the conclusion that I was an aimless drifter of no particular talent, content to be wafted along on the draughts of chance as long as I was independent and on stage
18. either nursed the last of their draughts, or slipped bills into
19. When the game of love is played like a game of chess or draughts, And heartache often follows, or love can turn to hate?
20. He collapsed on his back pulling in deep draughts of clean fresh
21. could not open it, so he smashed the pane with his fist, drew in draughts of fine fresh air, and had a
22. He strained his ears and tuned them to the everyday sounds of the house; clocks ticking, timbers creaking, draughts whining
23. deep draughts of the fresh air as they surged forward
24. draughts of fresh air
25. And, as he drains his draughts of Rhenish down,
26. Paul suggested a game of draughts
27. The two men ate sweets, and began another game of draughts
28. But, alas! how could I offend a man who was charitable enough to sit at my bedside a good hour, and talk on some other subject than pills and draughts, blisters and leeches?
29. And as unskilful players of draughts are at last shut up by their more skilful adversaries and have no piece to move, so they too find themselves shut up at last; for they have nothing to say in this new game of which words are the counters; and yet all the time they are in the right
30. Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts of
31. A few tapestries covered the walls, depicting biblical scenes and keeping out the draughts, but overall the decor was dull and unimaginative – rather like the late Anthony
32. They transgressed, without fear or scruple, the rules of behavior that were binding on all others; smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing, at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket-flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them
33. Giddy and intoxicated as I was with such satiating draughts ofpleasure, I still lay on the couch, supinely stretched out, in a delicious languor diffused over all my limbs, hugging myself for being thus revenged to my heart's content, and that in a manner so precisely alike, and on the identical spot in which I had received the supposed injury
34. posture, just lifted up my upper thigh, and ascertaining the right opening, soon drove it up to the farthest: satisfied with which, and solacing himself with lying so close in those parts, he suspended motion, and thus steeped in pleasure, kept me lying on my side, into him, spoon-fashion, as he termed it, from the snug indent of the back part of my thighs, and all upwards, into the space of the bending between his thighs and belly; till, after some time, that restless and turbulent inmate, impatient by nature of longer quiet, urged him to action, which now prosecuting with all the usual train of toying, kissing, and the like, ended at length in the liquid proof on both sides, that we had not exhausted, or at less were quickly recruited of last night's draughts of pleasure in us
35. At scarce thirty he had already reduced his strength of appetite down to a wretched dependance on forced provocatives, very little seconded by the natural power of a body jaded, and racked off to the less by constant repeated over draughts of pleasure, which had done the work of sixty winters on his springs of live: leaving him at the same time all the fire and head of youth in his imagination, which served at once to torment and spur him down the precipice
36. The whole enormous ruined barrack of a place, unfinished, without ceilings under its lofty roof, was pervaded by the smoke swaying to and fro in the faint cross draughts playing in the obscurity of many lofty rooms and barnlike passages
37. small Greek traders came and played draughts and listened to the wireless
38. Mawmsey that it must lower the character of practitioners, and be a constant injury to the public, if their only mode of getting paid for their work was by their making out long bills for draughts, boluses, and mixtures
39. The drink was like water, indeed very like the taste of the draughts they had drunk from the Entwash near, the borders of the forest, and yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe: it was
40. songs have been sung of the draughts of Fangorn
41. For Kutuzov this was mathematically clear, as it is that if when playing draughts I have one man less and go on exchanging, I shall certainly lose, and therefore should not exchange
42. But, alas! how could I offend a man who was charitable enough to sit at my bedside a good hour, and talk on some other subject than pills and draughts, blisters and leeches? This is quite an easy interval
43. The Beast stood inhaling great draughts of air, obviously full of champagne and forgetfulness
44. draughts, as there are under the bridges
45. This is a danger in igloos especially if draughts are sealed
46. Block all draughts and avoid opening the door unnecessarily
47. When he was sober he used to be fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would make me his representative both with the servants and with the tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite master of the house
48. But this small village, germ of something more, why did it fail while Concord keeps its ground? Were there no natural advantages—no water privileges, forsooth? Ay, the deep Walden Pond and cool Brister's Spring—privilege to drink long and healthy draughts at these, all unimproved by these men but to dilute their glass
49. George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; bearing all this in mind, it will not appear altogether incompatible with the sacred legend and the ancientest draughts of the scene, to hold this so-called dragon no other than the great Leviathan himself
50. When he had passed out of the gate Nekhludoff took a deep breath and long continued to breathe in deep draughts of frosty air
