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poring over
1. the desk, poring over some papers with a fountain pen in his hand and
2. offices on the top floor of the old house, poring over reports, and
3. So he had appropriated the largest house in the village and now he and his three VPs were poring over a large ordnance survey map that had been unrolled and placed on the dining room table
4. their projects and poring over the deep books
5. Inside the van were two men in military uniform poring over a computer screen
6. Raiya had been in her office for six hours poring over reports online, many of them clearly spurious
7. Lately I was spending a lot of time poring over maps, in addition to all my other duties
8. At one time every trip started with a group of experts poring over maps, trying to plot the best series of jumps to clear various sections of space
9. found, a bunch of partisans poring over ballots with magnifying
10. Peering closer, he could see intricate scenes of men and women poring over books, examples of Gathandrian artwork, all of it framed by the trees these people seemed to love so well
11. When Lorna finally arrived in the departure lounge, she passed the next half hour poring over an array of lovely goods in the duty-free stores
12. She recognized buildings and landmarks from magazines that she had been poring over ever since she could read but never imagined that one day she would actually see it
13. But what of it? I could never endure to seclude myself in a golden tower, and spend the long hours staring into a crystal globe, mumbling over incantations written on serpent's skin in the blood of virgins, poring over musty volumes in forgotten languages
14. the small hours poring over some text or other on some aspect of book produc-
15. One hot noontime, while he was poring over the, manuscripts, he sensed that he was not alone in the room
16. We spent a while poring over the possibilities
17. (I think he rather fancies me, to tell the truth), but I really can’t come at the idea of him poring over poor Jacob’s diaries!”
18. When he arrived in his office where the lighting seemed abnormally low due probably to the weather conditions outside as well as the heavy drapes and only the sconces providing artificial illumination, Feltus delicately hung his hat on the stand and slowly massaged his forehead in an attempt to clear his clouded mind that was still poring over the developments in the case
19. In the meantime, dozens of scientists had been poring over the pictures taken inside the alien ship, with the medical specialists and biologists paying a lot of attention to the pictures of the anatomical charts seen in the alien infirmary
20. He studied stocks like a gambler poring over racing forms
21. When he got back to his office, Fielding and Comben were poring over a detailed map of the area
22. Robbie’s idea of studying was poring over bug books
23. Earl, the security guard, had cooperated with a composite artist skilled at high-tech computer sketches, but after a few hours of poring over hundreds of different eyes, noses, chins, mouths and hairlines, his brain was fried
24. A group of people were clustered around the large table, poring over maps
25. Duval sat at the table head, poring over some papers
26. Half the country had been poring over form guides, trainer's comments, and track and weather reports for a week, and he hadn't realised it was Cup Day
27. Bezart crossed to the small table where Armand and Daniel had spent their time poring over the papers and discussing the implications of what they discovered
28. If the only former hominids modern anthropologists can study were the unhappiest, the most unintelligent, the most ignorant ones… who lived for years, even generations…in the same place, in squalor, in caves… and if it is impossible for anthropologists to study the intelligent ones: because they were never so stupid as to create such filth-places that can be found and studied today: then what does this say of the entire sanctification of poring over these garbage dumps?
29. By segmenting things into dead pieces and then poring over the dead segments
30. Bounty mutiny? Historians poring over the logs and records, and interviewing as many survivors as they could were all baffled by the case
31. Bounty mutiny? Historians poring over the logs and records, and interviewing as many survivors as they could were baffled
32. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment
33. In short, he became so absorbed in his books that he spent his nights from sunset to sunrise, and his days from dawn to dark, poring over them; and what with little sleep and much reading his brains got so dry that he lost his wits
34. The niece said the same, and, more: "You must know, Master Nicholas"--for that was the name of the barber--"it was often my uncle's way to stay two days and nights together poring over these unholy books of misventures, after which he would fling the book away and snatch up his sword and fall to slashing the walls; and when he was tired out he would say he had killed four giants like four towers; and the sweat that flowed from him when he was weary he said was the blood of the wounds he had received in battle; and then he would drink a great jug of cold water and become calm and quiet, saying that this water was a most precious potion which the sage Esquife, a great magician and friend of his, had brought him
35. "I'm sure I am," echoed Amy, poring over the engraved copy of the Madonna and Child, which her mother had given her in a pretty frame
36. She was poring over the book, seemed absorbed in it, yet trembling lest she could not get at it
37. After wasting hours poring over yet another tattered, disintegrating volume we brought out of the Silvers with a title that translates roughly as The Fae Obscene, I busy myself dusting and polishing shelves and counters, then check on the weapons I’ve hidden around the store
38. The watchmaker, always poring over a little desk with a magnifying-glass at his eye, and always inspected by a group of smock-frocks poring over him through the glass of his shop-window, seemed to be about the only person in the High Street whose trade engaged his attention
39. Nearly every night he remained at the office until a late hour, poring over specifications and making out estimates
40. My head is buzzing after spending hours poring over a copy of the book that Ricketts used for her research, Winston’s Heirs: A Haunted House in the Hamptons, chronicling the Dahlquists from the time when Winston came to Long Island in the late 1700s until recent years, the many generations of Holdens
41. Later, after Joe was gone, as Judy and I sat together for all those many hours poring over photographs and letters and scrapbooks, she was able to help me fill in the gaps, particularly at those key points in the story, many of which her father or her mother had narrated to her over and over again during the course of a lifetime
42. In hours spent poring over the book, they shaped a plan
43. She was poring over the report when the third one landed
44. Then again, he already knows that, whatever this document is, he’s likely to sit up until dawn poring over it by candlelight
45. Poring over financial statements like buy-and-hold investors
46. Van Helsing sits in my study poring over the record prepared by the Harkers
47. Perhaps she thought that by poring over Christian Science books, she might discover a certain secret or fact and then finally she would be happy
48. And have I not tallied the whale, Ahab would mutter to himself, as after poring over his charts till long after midnight he would throw himself back in reveries—tallied him, and shall he escape? His broad fins are bored, and scalloped out like a lost sheep's ear! And here, his mad mind would run on in a breathless race; till a weariness and faintness of pondering came over him; and in the open air of the deck he would seek to recover his strength
49. How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely poring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood
50. His mother did not mind that and only wondered sometimes at seeing the boy stand for hours by the bookcase poring over a book instead of going to play
