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smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience
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In all probability, he was late on purpose, so as to strain my impatience
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I struggled with the ever-present impatience of youth
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When they reached the end of the corridor a small man in a leather jerkin jumped out of the shadows and Danton’s voice boomed out, smothering the chill of morning in burning impatience
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Impatience takes away joy; it has you focusing on the long term instead of focusing on the current activity
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When impatience appears as it does, go to your written goal, take time and appreciate where you are now
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impatience by the time that a grinning Bram finally returned to his
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His impatience, left her feeling scatter brained
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was maintaining his impatience with a visible effort
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The elder snapped his fingers with impatience, so his escort didn’t pursue
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She chuckled at the hint of impatience in his tone
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But she did not stay on the path long – her impatience saw her cutting through the forested areas outside and around Solitude
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” The frustration and impatience were starting to show in his voice as it rose even higher
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Rather he maintained his stoic composure, though spoke with more than a hint of impatience
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Whatever pleasure he gained was moderated by a growing undercurrent of impatience, and whatever monies he won, when he won, was more than offset by the devastating impact that Mr Pinscher invariably had upon his larder
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“I can"t wait,” I said, my impatience showing
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They, and two civilian space-liners making up a fleet of five vessels, had left Earth at the same time as Vanguard but a combination of Vanguard’s greatly superior engine technology and Captain Novikov’s impatience had allowed Vanguard to arrive at their destination many hours ahead the rest of its fleet
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That last day as we crossed the Plain it was almost more than I could manage to harness my impatience
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I could tell Mother had to bring Beth into the conversation soon or she would burst with impatience
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proceed?” it asked again; and she thought she detected an undercurrent of impatience in the way it
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Soon the wizard would pay for his impatience, he thought, soon
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Sespian shifted his weight from one foot to the other, watching the process with ill-concealed impatience
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His impatience was obvious to those around him and they talked quietly, expectantly, their voices a soft drone in the background
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He waved her away with impatience
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I gave myself up to it even as I remembered the impatience of his mouth before, the hardness of it, the feel of his teeth on my neck…
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“Her handwriting is nice,” he noted, but I just shook my head in impatience
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For a deaf guy, listening to two conversations at once is the most frustrating thing, and it was easy to hear impatience in his voice as he argued with someone
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“What?” His voice carried the stress of impatience
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But perhaps it is better this way,” he said, giving Brendan a quick evaluation with no trace of the impatience he must surely have felt
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“I said sit,” he said fighting the impatience
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Then in disgust, he dumped it out unceremoniously on the bed through sheer impatience
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She stood there, arms crossed, her little foot tapping in impatience
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“A little too thick and heavy,” he pointed out in a reasonable tone, and she tried not to show any impatience
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Ethan asked bluntly, showing his impatience:
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James was sitting at his office, his shoulders tense with impatience
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ing, and it is usual y our impatience that causes us to abandon the ful-
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The irony in all this is that the initial conflict may well remain unresolved if my impatience and anger persist
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We can accept the present outcome with patience and seek wisdom for best handling it; or, we can respond with impatience and anger
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Various individuals stood around trying to fulfill their enthusiasm and impatience
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*Indicator that we are dodging waiting: Impatience
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discarded it from thought in his impatience to join his Captain
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Bob’s impatience so he delivered his results as best he could
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“Whatever” I said, waving my hand in exasperated impatience and trying to walk home for the third time that night
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Even in the freest of societies there is an undercurrent of despotism, of impatience with the goodness of freedom, a weariness of the effort required to maintain a free and open society
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impatience this moment; my anger is against Illusion and the millennia of wasted effort at its
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’Well,’ he said with impatience and total lack of tact
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sigh of anger and impatience
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Often the people in rebellion are those closest to the leader, those who have ‘his ear’, those he, perhaps, is training to take over from him one day but impatience and pride has got the better of them
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Blessed with great strength, a hot temper, impatience and an independent spirit, he brought the fear of God on all and sundry, wonderful for a soldier, but absolutely useless in a negotiator
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Impatience, fear and temper tend to chase people away and lose the deal
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responded with a slight show of impatience as he stood
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The town also was rapidly disgorging many of its residents as those, who had earlier been convinced of the real urgency, trudged steadily toward the multitude now milling around in its impatience to get started
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“No! My Lord!” Moshe fumed in his impatience
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His final command is addressed to Frankel and the boy, but both take some time to obey and he makes a gesture of impatience before they are at last sitting round the table, conspirators together for the future of their country
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Ralph’s expression was carefully neutral at this delay of his mission, but Simon could sense the jagged red and green of his impatience
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Simon had felt Ralph’s impatience with the new vision and meaning Annyeke had brought to them, and all the more so as Lord Tregannon was a soldier not a man for stories
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Shutting down all interference from outside—Isabella’s focus on the boy, Johan’s impatience mixed with compassion, the air’s bite, all the noise of the waking world—Simon concentrated entirely on sending what little peace he had out from his mind, through his body and into the boy’s struggling one, praying all the while that the physical contact would do what his debilitated power could not
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More than all, his sister’s impatience is strong and he hopes she hasn’t lost her faith in him
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“Really, my lord, nothing more than what is common to us all,” he began, but Ralph made a gesture of impatience and gripped his shoulder
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She smiled with a bit of impatience, probably knowing that
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of hiding the impatience in my voice, “Mikkel, this is all good and
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It wasn't impatience which
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Some haughtiness on her part, some resentment on his, her impatience for real money, for social stature, for fulfillment at work, for more and more show—all contributed
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earlier he waited with thinly veiled impatience until she finished drinking and then took her
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said, with growing anxiety and impatience, ‘Mi sey uuno fi hurry up!’ But this only made
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I was then fourteen years old - an awkward age, full of promises and short on delivery - all driven by curiosity and stitched together with impatience
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“What?” I heard impatience building in his voice
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His slight groan and flick of the reins betrayed his impatience
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“Now!” shouted Dawes, his croaky voice shrill with impatience
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When that didn’t work, he demanded with ill-concealed impatience if he could help me
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It seemed as if Leonardo’s head had been accumulating the fumes of his impatience towards my conduct and at this final act he had surpassed the limit of this virtue
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We love him and are sorry that Max"s impatience to get rich led to their splitting up
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The impatience is not easy to cope with
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The impatience which possesses him
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The only impatience should be in getting started
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In time, seeing Suresh’s impatience, the guruji asked Vidya to show his son how his dream had turned into reality in Shanti Sadan
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Jehungir Agha waited with growing impatience in his boat among the reeds
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Conan waited with some impatience while the Devi, for the first time in her pampered life, dressed herself
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They still sat about the pool, but were beginning to show evidences of an evil impatience
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While he fumed with nervous impatience, the high priest Gorulga announced that before any decision could be reached, the will of the gods must be ascertained concerning the proposed alliance with Zembabwei and the pledge of objects long held holy and inviolate
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He was fidgeting in nervous impatience before the chanting and bowing were over, but presently they rose and passed into the tunnel which opened behind the idol
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Volmana, flinging the attackers right and left in his savage impatience, came plowing through and hacked murderously at Conan's unprotected head
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His manner had changed; there was impatience in his tone, and a certain nervousness in his manner, though Conan did not think this attitude was in any way connected with himself
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Each day that carried him farther southward filled him with fiercer impatience
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Conan's heart beat quicker as he gazed at the grim black wedge that stood etched against the stars, and his impatience to close with Thutothmes in whatever conflict the meeting might mean was not unmixed with a fear of the unknown
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Garnet Reed was not ready to yield to such angry impatience
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Things have to happen fast or I get burned up with impatience and nervousness
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"The cavern," said Travis, his voice edged with impatience
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What about the Indian?‖ Skeets‘ impatience was gnawing at the edges as he signaled his silent cohort to do the ammonia thing again
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Ordering his robots into the cargo hold he waits the few minutes it takes them to enter the ship with impatience
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Tony called out for Preeti, she turned round, still feeling unsure of what to do, Rahul did his best to hide his impatience but couldn’t help giving his input when he took a glance at his watch
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He smirked with a slight bit of impatience for his daughter’s suddenly delicate ways
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Lezura watched with some impatience as Joey struggled to gather his thoughts about what to bring to the discussion
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Brackenberry looked at the others with some impatience
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It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight
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As she took another puff, impatience and irritation was illuminated on her face
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Impatience with the baby crying
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Panzer-Division ‘Reich’, grimaced with impatience: the order to recall all the men on leave and to have all the officers attend a snap divisional briefing had caught him in the middle of a technical inspection
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“I may add that your son Len is positively jumping with impatience in his chair
