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1. rasp of wind though stubby heathers and grasses, and a slight, almost effeminate
2. Leona files her nails, filling time with the sound of voices in stereo on the flat panel LCD television and the rasp of glass paper on her cuticles
3. She lay on her side, panting in a rasp
4. "Why - got a problem with it?" Pong replies in a high-pitched rasp as the tears well in his eyes
5. Jodie had waited for the inevitable rasp of the can-pull
6. He could sense the rasp of its jagged edge along his own wrist
7. old woman’s rasp and a woman’s rich, chocolate tones
8. Not beyond a strained rasp could he manage, ‘Zolla, where the fuck are you?’
9. Like they’ve been filed with a heavy rasp,” Lee picked at some splinters
10. Small rasp like marks dotted the edge
11. He spoke with a rasp, his throat still too dry for comfort:
12. Lord Robert felt Evelyn’s hand on his shoulder and heard her rasp, “Do it!”
13. "Damn it, where are the Migs? Who called 'em?" a voice that sounded like Pintail Lead's called out in a testy rasp
14. No rasp, no catch
15. Berries – Black, Rasp, Blue, or Strawberries – This excellent natural fruits are great in a bowl by themselves or incorporated into a dessert favorite
16. 'Just before dawn I heard the creak of timbers and the rasp and clack of cordage and oars
17. A louder clash of steel, a sliding rasp, a choking cry—from the pirate horde a fierce yell split the morning as Conan's sword plunged through their captain's massive body
18. “Mallei and the kids?” I asked hopefully and it came out a weak rasp of breath
19. The first suspicion I had was when I heard a shaft rasp against a bow as it was pulled back
20. “Yes,” she hissed in a voice between the rasp of a snake and acid-dissolving metal
21. There was a rasp of metal against metal, and he heard the clink of tumblers, as if a key had been turned in the lock
22. He stared hard into the shadows of the squalid buildings, but saw nothing, though once he caught the faint rasp of cloth or leather against flesh
23. A boat was moving out into the bay! Gritting his teeth he increased his speed, but before he reached the beach he heard the rasp and creak of ropes, and the grind of the great sweep in its socket
24. the rasp of the hinge and the clack of the door’s catch, and he
25. There was a distinct rasp to the breathing that had become more forced as if gasping for air that apparently was not there
26. clenched teeth in a voice that seemed to hiss and rasp as it spoke
27. She could not reach to rasp the
28. heard her before he saw her, the rasp of her panting
29. " He said in a cold rasp
30. I hear the rasp of a squirrel’s feet as it climbs a limb, butterfly
31. I had barely managed a whisper and I had a horrible rasp
32. inward rasp, “There"s a woman who answered the ad you
33. That guttural growl, to the hair tingling rasp
34. “I had a bit of a fright though,” Lauren said in her normal voice, with just a hint of a rasp
35. “Darcy?” Hal said, his voice coming out as a rasp
36. I clouded her vision and all she saw was a hazy figure near the foot of the bed, but I heard Sher’s disguised voice rasp, “ Countess Nancy, Kermes Twa and Aequalis require your presence at their Holy Shrine
37. ” Her skin crawled when she heard the rasp of his voice
38. When he spoke it was in a hoarse rasp
39. “Petra?” Emory’s voice sounded something between a moan and a rasp
40. They opened their mouths, as though roaring, but the only sound was the rasp and slap of fern vines
41. I heard the rasp of my strained breathing
42. His face showed concern and he kept Elm steady as he continued to rasp for breath, his throat gurgling as it tried to function
43. Scott blinked down at the body as it pitched over next to the torch, then up at the savior who, despite the trembling in his hands and the rasp in his breath, was nodding at what he had done
44. Smooth each housing with a chisel or rasp
45. Newt got in his face and spoke in an angry rasp of a whisper
46. Mac draws up short to keep from slamming into Barrons, and her blond hair swings back over her shoulder, brushing his face as it does, and my hearing is so good I catch the rasp of it chafing the shadow stubble on his jaw, then one of his hands grazes her breast and his eyes narrow when he looks at what he touched in a hungry way I want a man to look at me like one day and, as they continue to recover from the near-collision, their bodies move in a graceful dance of impeccable awareness of precisely where the other is at all times that is unity, symbiosis, partnership I only dream of, wolves that chose to pack up and hunt together, soldiers who will always have each other’s backs no matter what, no sin, no transgression too great, ’cause don’t we all transgress sometimes and it fecking slays me, because once I got a little taste of what that was like, and it was heaven and they’re so beautiful standing there, the best of the best, the strongest of the strong, that they practically glow to me, on fire with all I ever wanted in my life—a place to belong and someone to belong there with
47. “What the hell is going on?” he asks, his voice little more than a rasp
48. His expression, absent, thoughtful, When she heard the rasp of his key in the lock, she threw on a wrapper and, going into changed to surprise when he saw her standing there
49. The quick-silvery glaze on the rivers and pools vanished; from broad mirrors of light they changed to lustreless sheets of lead, with a surface like a rasp
50. HAD THE RASP of the key in the lock brought William to the door—or had William been waiting inside on the futon, arms crossed, in the shiny blue kimono of judgment—and had he then demanded to know where the hell Mercer had been all night, Mercer might have been prepared to confront him straightaway about the heroin
1. With a voice hoarse from too many cruel cigarettes, he rasped over the growl of the engine as we headed up the mountain, 'Please, if there is one thing unique to this particular island and something no other Hellenic island can offer, it is this very village
2. “I’ve never told this story to anyone before,” he rasped, “But you
3. ‘Who then?’ rasped Henry
4. Clodius cleared his throat awkwardly and rasped, “As would I
5. ‘The Elusivers have been observing you,’ the man rasped
6. ‘So what if I do give in to it?’ he rasped, in a battle for reason
7. Hilderich rasped once more this time with more volume in his voice, making it sound rather unfittingly exasperated:
8. ‘This is the only place to be,’ he rasped, and slumped into his chair
9. Instantly, the computer screen showed a green ceiling, and the sound of gentle snoring rasped from the tinny computer speakers
10. ” He rasped, flattered by her concern
11. “What have we done?” he rasped
12. ” He rasped into my ear and I convulsed around him in a climax that went on and on
13. He smelled of the sea and his beard rasped against her face
14. He put his mouth next to my ear and rasped, “I could
15. "You’re here," Eva rasped
16. The whites of his eyes were brown, the skin pockmarked, and a baroque beard and moustache framed unpleasantly moist, full lips that rasped, “I want to fuck you
17. A sound of claws scratching on steel rasped from the door
18. After ensuring her phone was not in reach and they’d left nothing incriminating behind, they turned at the door and rasped, ‘Fuck it stinks in here! Makes me want to puke
19. ‘Yes?!…’ he rasped angrily
20. “Throat’s sore,” I rasped
21. Her shirt had been torn open in the struggle, and with cynical cruelty he rasped his thick beard across her bare breasts, bringing the blood to suffuse the fair skin, and fetching a cry of pain and outraged fury from her
22. We have no knowledge of Mister Kirke," she rasped quickly
23. "What's happening," she rasped
24. His mouth was dry and his labored breathing rasped his throat; how long could he continue with this mission, he wondered
25. The words rasped in his throat
26. ‘Found who?’ He rasped through teeth so tightly clenched that they felt as
27. Its aged joints rasped as he pried the chest"s jaws ajar
28. "Oh, my boy," the voice rasped within the walls, "this Mother never abandons her children
29. Shoulders slumping, she rasped out, “I’m tired
30. rasped a downtown address
31. His breathing rasped against her ears and her heart thudded
32. Whoever else is around,” he rasped
33. ” She rasped his name
34. ‘Hand me all you have,’ he rasped
35. “An animal… what?” Buck rasped a laugh, quickly turning into a cough
36. “Where are they?” he rasped
37. “What are you?” he rasped, clutching his broken ribs with one hand and rubbing his crushed neck with the other
38. You are the best! rasped Tina as the Mercedes swished along the macadamised road surface
39. "I can't come to you anymore," he rasped
40. horse's growing and wearing hooves need to be rasped flat-n-true
41. "So that," he rasped, "is what it's like to be able-bodied
42. The front door went up a step from off this rough pavement, where the feet of the passersby rasped and clattered
43. "So calculating?" she rasped
44. Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the kerb
45. The sky, too, cream, had seemed close above the green trees, but now the blue was high and rare, the sun slipped sooner to the west and, once there, foretold a touch of frost, As the wind freshened from the south, the red and yellow beech leaves rasped sinking slow and big and drowsy, crimson as the rose hips that covered the briar
46. The pained animal’s voice rasped on Scarlett’s nerves until she was tempted to
47. I rasped my way to the end of rehearsals, made my apologies, and suggested that perhaps it would be better if I didn’t sing at all, if it was going to ruin the evening
48. “That’s one word for it,” she rasped
49. “Fuck you!” I rasped, wishing I had something more effective
50. “I’m calling the cops,” I finally rasped
1. “Listen carefully, Big Nose”, said a thin, rasping voice
2. I heard the rasping breathing of the sick man
3. "What's the meaning of this?" I heard him say at last in a dry, rasping tone
4. “What about Arioch?” he asked in a rasping voice, a look of panic on his face
5. A dark, inhuman rasping voice echoed within Alistair’s brain
6. Slowly she got her breath back but it was rasping and short I said
7. It was a rasping, high-pitched shriek that came in quick bursts: Scree! Scree! Scree! Closer it came, closer
8. I took it to the box, opened it up, and found a dozen pistols with the numbers removed through what appeared to be filing or rasping
9. An intrepid bicycle delivery boy skidded out from a narrow street, tires rasping on sanded concrete
10. The sobs turned dry when all my tears were spent, my throat rasping with grief
11. Bending over, the creature inspected his damaged foot, it’s long tongue rasping at his torn skin
12. Fin’s thoughts were cut short when the creature slapped its mouth against his, the tooth covered tongue pushing its way down his throat with a rasping noise that vibrated throughout his head
13. High above him he could hear a rare corncrake making its rasping call
14. Rolling over, he laid there, hoarse breath rasping in his throat
15. Today, decades later and in a country where I haven't heard French for years, I can still hear her voice rasping "-e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent
16. Don’t you remember the rasping cough
17. in a deep rasping breath and then let it out in a long, long,
18. Lifting his head she listened to his breathing, the rasping and his lack of response to her probing told her that there was nothing that she could do for him
19. “On your feet, you poor imitation of the soldiers I trained!” He barked in the most rasping voice that he had ever heard himself use
20. Again, the same soldiers who had pinned him lurched toward him rasping in a dialect
21. “On your feet, you poor imitation of the soldiers I trained!” He barked in the most rasping voice
22. The soldiers from their lord’s new garrison have seen to that, and his fingers itch for the feel of the quill and the rasping of parchment as the ink stains the whiteness
23. " The voice was rasping and harsh
24. Then another voice came rasping through the farmyard, a raucous cry that sent the chickens scattering in panic, and made the colour drain from Jed’s ruddy face
25. Boglehob dangled the Key above Bryony, his wheezy chuckle warping into a deep rasping laugh
26. back, and, judging by his rasping voice and glowing red eyes, he was stil
27. They couldn’t hear the rasping laugh of Zeus
28. ‘You didn’t seriously imagine the boys you raped wouldn’t tell their fathers, did you?’ asked the engorged captor in a rasping croak
29. In rasping cadences she welcomed and invited them in
30. With a rasping screech of rusty hinges the gate moved ponderously inward, and Conan straightened and drew his sword
31. A rasping noise and a tick under the flooring jolted her
32. A deep rasping sound came from Ishan as the ancient vampire continued to hold on to his own life
33. From above him he hears a thin rasping voice
34. “Hello,” said the man in a hard rasping voice that sounded like
35. over again,” he said to me in his rasping whisper
36. He quickly hurried up the wide hall as another rasping barrage of knocks thwacked the entryway
37. Breathing was so difficult now, the rasping sound as he pulled air in was not as he remembered it, why the roar and the bubbles as he breathed out?
38. The squid’s long ribbon like tongue covered with hook like rasping teeth, tried frantically to eject the cylinders, but Max forced them in place
39. A purr, a rasping lick, and they drifted with the sultry air,
40. Suddenly, he was sure he could hear the noise of the approaching cart above the rasping sound of his own breath, and he began running at an uneven pace, skipping from tier to tier, treading as near to the tracks as he could in order to avoid another accident
41. Her lungs were rasping
42. By the Zorgs of Zozorstra, thought Ben, what's going on here? The cat emitted a loud rasping noise
43. animal sound rasping out of his throat, a precur-
44. The others were not so peaceful, and Hal could hear rasping breaths
45. The boy coughed a rasping: “Wake up, Wake up all of you
46. A rasping one trying to keep it low but at the same time doing all he could to convey the agitated message
47. Then his eyes became gritty which was a prelude to a persistent dry cough and rasping throat
48. Then I heard a strange, rasping noise behind me
49. "All right then," Zygmunt replied in a rasping, whispering voice, "you will hear all the horrid details of it
50. Oak merely nodded back still unable to force words through his battered throat, his rasping breaths were the only sound he could make
1. 'That's why you love me' thin rasps of her tone chimed in his imagination
2. 'But it rasps the soul to give up life without a struggle
3. "I do not believe you are a tourist, what is it you want?" rasps the old man
4. Redbolt foamed at the sides of his mouths, and his breath came in deep rasps
5. How far away am I? Do I dare look back? My breath came in short, shallow rasps as I glanced over my shoulder at the heaving prehistoric thing turning rogue
6. He was modulating his breathing to shallow rasps for air and instinctively I matched his breathing
7. But he looked as if he'd been running for years, his breaths coming in labored rasps
8. Meeting everywhere faces that he knew as friends, the savage grated his teeth together like rasps of iron, and swallowed his passion for want of a victim on whom to vent it
9. He handed him different old rasps and augers and chisels and files and mallets he’d brought over from England
10. Then a voice out of the darkness rasps, “Hey, you
11. When her breath came back, it was in jagged rasps, with a strange, almost erotic squeak at the end
