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The noise dulled, but
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He nodded wordlessly, breathing heavily, his usually brilliant green eyes now dulled and half-closed with pain
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Her eyes, usually bright and hopeful, had been dulled by anguish
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She leaned against a rotting wooden fence, her eyes aglow with the reflections of the same lights - but at the same time dulled by sadness and contemplation
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The hospital, which predated the surrounding buildings by at least a hundred years, stood out from the turn-of-the-century warehouses and it's once sparkling granite facade was dulled by decades of grime
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As we arrived we could see that the rest of the lads were already there we were dressed in jumpers and trousers and our boots were dulled we had on balaclavas and had blackened our faces
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These ships were designed more for troop carrying or perhaps even show, and they lumbered at everything in a seemingly slow and dulled way that their actions were ill-defined
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The drinks in the bar had dulled his senses, and yet his environment – which initially seemed adverse and mildly intimidating – had taken on a beguiling quality, not least the girl asleep beside him
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The poison has dulled his faculties and is on its way to rendering him bedridden
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“You know,” he said in a conversational tone, “I could break this thing like a twig, but then the pain would only last a second or two before it dulled to a throb
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After he had dulled the fresh appearance of the numbers with a few light touches with an eraser, he congratulated himself on his work
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The cries of some unlucky few were dulled by the falling rain
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He heard dulled grunting noises and shouts from Nicole, as he felt a crushing pressure around his windpipe and blood rising up in his head and ears
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My memories of Tris, some of the most powerful memories I have, have dulled with time, as memories do, and they no longer sting as they used to
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The final words were dulled out as there came an explosion of
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The roar of the crowd dulled and the women, speaking into collar
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Congratulations were being offered by many hands from all sides, but the edge of victory dulled as they lifted him into the ambulance
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The Lord of the North’s Pillar of Fire by night and Hovering Cloud by day was nowhere to be seen that might have dulled or challenged Aten’s ascendancy
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day was nowhere to be seen that might have dulled or challenged Aten's ascendancy
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Pascal explained that as one became dulled with use, I was to switch to another
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His fatigue dulled his edge
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Tepeu turned and gave him a slit look, Kiyo dulled out, the pride in his face wiped out
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She also drank several cups of black coffee to stimulate her dulled
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dulled by the dredges of sleep, she closed her eyes again when she
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His wife Catherine was a petite auburn haired woman, whose accent although dulled by long residence in England was very familiar to Matthew
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But the edge of her fear was dulled, and, lulled by the monotony of motion, she passed into a quiet slumber
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They were dulled and dusty
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In his dulled ears sounded the louder beat of wings
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When one sense is dulled by continual laceration, I will discover a newer, more poignant pang
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Neither the skeleton at his feet nor the monster crouching below disturbed his mind or dulled the edge of his interest
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After a while, the stomach pains dulled to a mild cramp that I could ignore
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Still angry and defiant, Travis mustered a smile to demonstrate that the Chinese water drum had not dulled his spirits
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They dulled out the part of my brain that kept a running tab on my unhappiness
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been slightly dulled, probably the alcohol or the relaxed time he
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Worm’s armored dulled the blow, but the force was still enough to rupture the skin
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I laugh, but what do ye think the grog is to drive away? I drink all night so that in the day, when I sleep, those terrors will be dulled
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He fired shots into Redbolt’s shoulder but the animal’s thick hide stopped the rounds that were already dulled by its armor
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” The sorrow in his expression slowly dulled, only to be replaced with inquisitiveness at the suspicious line of questioning
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His arithmetic skills had dulled
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tired, and the past several hours in the saddle had dulled their senses
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intensely on Wickland and gave no indication of senility or dulled senses
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Living a life away from and separate from God we have had our senses dulled to what is a valid and normative sexual expression
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Each edge was dulled for tournament competition, and there was a little metal ball on the end where the point should have been
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If another ship were in the outspace at the position that they were coming out of hyperspace, if the pilot's sensitivity acuteness were dulled for some reason, if he was not quick enough on the hyperspace switch, then the fatal explosion would occur killing everybody on board both ships, no exceptions
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Gradually, the burning in her legs dulled to an electric blanket warm, and the wind rushing past her cooled her
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I thought about saying something clever about the weather, but all I could come up with were worn out clichés that would have just dulled the moment
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What he's saying is, don't come under any other influence that would cloud your thinking, your mind and ability to make decisions, whether it's drink, drugs or any other kind of thing; don't let your mind senses be dulled
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A thousand years ago, it was a tool of power and savage joy; but the idle centuries had dulled the blade and broken the menace
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“Maybe the bloodlust dulled his senses
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Fleurette had been a great support for Charlie, not wanting his passion or dreams to ever be dulled
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cyclical daily rhythm slowly dulled the pain
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His shoulders dropped down, and his eyes to became shadowed and pinched, dulled by his sense of rejection
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He felt oddly calm, as though the stress, grief and rage of the last two days had, if not dulled, been pushed back to a more manageable perspective
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Byron sat with the largest plate in front of him, assorted remains of things that used to have faces set indiscriminately on its dulled patterned surface
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The week of rest had dulled her temper and, gazing upon his current state, she felt awkward being angry when he was this calm
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I asked her to come away with me but she refused-” his voice cracked and the lids dropped on his dulled eyes
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When novelty is all that stimulates, amuses, or pleasures us, then the palate of our emotions has been dulled to gray and we are haunted by an ashen spiritscape that was scorched in the pursuit of conquering boredom
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the well-worn leather, dulled bronze cross of his
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Through his dulled senses, George knew that someone whom they both knew was attempting to
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Launched beyond the physical into infinite parallels, the endless experience dulled us to the stimuli we twitched, typed and twittered
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Whereas sharpening methods above are implemented to shave off dulled
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It had been bright when Hal had left home that morning, but now the sky had dulled to a miserable dark gray, and the fog had thickened
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The pain dulled somewhat and his
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" Harvey's expression was dulled from the Berries, but his eyes glinted when he talked, cruelty awakening him more than coffee ever could
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Rex had been on the Council for a while now, and had been living off Council rations and protection; Silas thought Washer’s survival instincts were dulled
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Flash tried goring and biting with his powerful hooked beak, but his speed was dulled, where Silas was fast
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The cold suddenness of the accident had dulled his brain and he could not know what monsters lurked in these
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night, and the fatigue only dulled her ability to
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He was weak and increasingly dulled
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I think my father may be mistaken too! I have prayed…” His dark eyes were bloodshot, his face gaunt, his hair dulled from the emotional anguish he so recently suffered
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Before fire our ancestors had no choice but to follow the clock of the Sun, their bodies were controlled and balanced by the natural circadian cycles of the seasons and eco-systems: but with fire, they could stay up longer, go to bed later… so they woke up groggy, with a dulled awareness
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One million years of going to sleep at the wrong time, and waking up at the wrong time gave them a permanently dulled awareness
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It dulled both their sleeping awareness and the waking-conscious awareness
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It allowed them to eat cooked food: which killed many delicate enzymes in their food… which made that food harder to digest, which forced their bodies to deplete themselves of enzymes in order to replace the missing enzymes in their food, which created an enzyme imbalance, an enzyme deficiency in their bodies… which ultimately dulled their life-energy, their awareness, their senses… so they became desensitized
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But it gave them the exact kind of dulled awareness necessary for making and using tools by training their awareness each night
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Until they grow up living for the rest of their lives in a state of bored, dulled, unaware dullness
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By keeping the ugly truths of civilization away from children: hiding them, so civilized children are raised inside a protected, unreal fantasy… their natural sense of Pure Wonder is systematically dulled, poisoned, stifled, stunted and destroyed
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You might be addicted merely to dulled sensations, which come from shallow breathing, and are incapable of doing any exercise merely because deeper breathing also unlocks deeper levels of pain in your body
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Look at what happened when electrostatic charges were found… they were put into Leyden jars… Jars, laden with an electrical charge that could jar you loose from your dulled deadened awareness by giving you a slight electric shock that is not harmful
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Because if it did: then parents would have to stop being consumers and stop gratifying their children’s slightest wishes, and raising them to become spoiled brats; stupid and slow, with dulled senses, and deadened minds… easy targets for rapists
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We threw away broken or dulled knives
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This makes them vulnerable to attack during the daytime also because their senses are dulled, their awareness is dulled from lack of sleep and exhaustion
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If this awareness is lost, then the long slide back into pure mechanical functioning and the dulled unawareness called normality is inevitable
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It dulled the pain when his mind was too blurry to focus, to confused to feel
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The walls along the hallway were still the same yellow they had been when we were kids; except now the color was dulled and looked more a brownish yellow
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The years have dulled your mind
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the ale had dulled his senses; Maguire smacked the boy’s face
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The fuzzheads were usually harmless—the obscura dulled the part of their minds that received thought waves, but it also fuzzed out any other coherent thought
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She didn’t need her reflexes dulled when the Shadowmere could be anywhere around her
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This will be of great value afterwards in freshening your memory when in the labour of the work the original impulse gets dulled
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backwards from the stage as the spotlight that followed him dulled
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Caleb's aura dulled and he grimaced at her
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His sapphire eyes had dulled to grey and were rimmed with red
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“Why am I in the basement?” My senses are dulled and I can’t seem to shift the fog that swirls in my head
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He was to leave the city by the Porta del Popolo, skirt the outer wall, and re-enter by the Porta San Giovanni; thus they would behold the Colosseum without finding their impressions dulled by first looking on the Capitol, the Forum, the Arch of Septimus Severus, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, and the Via Sacra
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The woman's lips seemed to move, as though she were talking; but because she merely spoke in an undertone, or my senses were dulled by sleep, I did not catch a word she uttered
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Dimmesdale had taken her in charge, the good grandam's chief earthly comfort—which, unless it had been likewise a heavenly comfort, could have been none at all—was to meet her pastor, whether casually, or of set purpose, and be refreshed with a word of warm, fragrant, heaven-breathing Gospel truth, from his beloved lips, into her dulled, but rapturously attentive ear
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For a long time I lay motionless, for those horrible fumes seemed to have loosened my joints and dulled my brain
