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A circular rivet had been driven in with a screw to both overlap the nail and to hold it in place
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In the third chapter Amos uses a different method to rivet his hearers on what he is
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The super heating of the steel casing plates had already strained the rivet heads almost to breaking point, and the extra pressure tipped it over the edge
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I explored the walls with my hands, searching for a seam, a crack, or a rivet
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“Somewhere on the ship is a rivet that emits a noise when in the influence of a
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‘Even that minor attraction has a name to rivet upon, but this unique happening would remain a nameless memory,’ he sighed at that time
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are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British
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cabin was lined with steel and it felt as if a rivet had punctured his
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“Saw me putting a rivet into McGuire’s head when all's I was doing was putting him out of his misery
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Though he took the shield off me and looked at it long and deep, his dark eyes taking in every shape and rivet and line, every movement of the goddess, her white dress floating around her in a mist, her long white hair, and he looked at me, stunned maybe, as all the time he could not say anything…
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How many faces in a crowd are passed indifferently—there is no vitality in the impression they make on our mind; but suddenly a face will rivet our attention, and although it is gone in a flash, the memory of the impression will remain for some time
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The best of Holbein's portrait drawings give one the impression of having been seen in one of these flashes and rivet the attention in consequence
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The Hag is gone, apparently chasing the sound of the rivet hitting stone
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Without it I’m not sure I would have been able to stop myself from plunging down to join the rivet
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When our visitor had disappeared Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention
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The clangor of old-fashioned hammers and new-model pneumatic rivet guns was deafening, but it was scarcely the only sound assaulting his ears as he stood at dockside and gazed at the mammoth ship floating against the thick fenders
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Along the way, he and Sir Dustyn Olyvyr had invented entirely new construction techniques … and modified those techniques on the fly as still newer and better capabilities—like the rivet guns—became available
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Since the previous evening she had attached herself to Charles by those links of happiness which bind soul to soul; from henceforth suffering was to rivet them
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"You've done a fine job, Monsieur, haven't you? You've fallen deep in love with a mortal who'll never yield to you, only succeeding in driving a true rivet into her heart which her innocent husband won't fail to detect sooner or later
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When our visitor had disappeared, Sherlock Holmes's movements were such as to rivet our attention
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Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work
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He ordered the blacksmith to rivet securely iron shackles on my feet
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The under officer cried out again as he agitated his stick, but the second rivet snapped like the first
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President, when we look over the whole world known to us; when we particularly cast our eyes over that part of it with which we have the most intimate relations; when we see the rapid strides which despotism is making over the whole human race; when we observe the various and powerful means now in use to rivet its immovable dominion upon mankind; when we reflect that the Constitution of the United States now affords the only practical experiment upon the republican principle, and the only and last hope for the preservation and extension of the liberties of man; is it wonderful or alarming, that we should feel and express some partiality and even veneration for an instrument of so peculiar a character? or should even endeavor to teach others to venerate, to cherish, to support it? An instrument, whose provisions at least exempt us from the general scene of despotism, and may eventually extend their blessings to the whole human race? Or if, in dwelling upon the wisdom and importance of its provisions, we might pass over some possible defects from scrutinizing them with an hypercritical eye, might not the omission be indulged without producing animadversion or censure? Sir, we all venerate the republican principle
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Shall we then believe the one and not the other? Shall we frown and look big at England, while, with timid and abject submission, we crouch at the feet of France, and quietly rivet the chains prepared for us? Mr
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His eyes were riveted to the scene on the balcony and the sight of her moved him so deeply that it took great strength to keep his control
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Angry, loud, male voices riveted her brain, holding her suspended in place, with the mighty tongue-lashing taking place
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Nebuchadnezzar stood riveted to one spot, his arms at his sides
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The cats' eyes were riveted to them as they soon vanished from view
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As the black overcoat was removed, all eyes in the room were riveted to Cupid’s magnificent wings
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By travelling so very young, by spending in the most frivolous dissipation the most previous years of his life, at a distance from the inspection and controul of his parents and relations, every useful habit, which the earlier parts of his education might have had some tendency to form in him, instead of being riveted and confirmed, is almost
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His attention was riveted on her as he altered his course to stop at the table in front of her
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His eyes were riveted on Rita’s face which spoke of a thousand promises with the slow flutter of her long black lashes
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I remained riveted to the spot
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The professor stood riveted
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The man, whose eyes had been riveted to Herminia’s well-exposed cleavage, nevertheless noticed their appraising stares
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They did remind Truman of himself and Raul when they had been like brothers to each other, but what really riveted his attention was the insignia on the collar of the uniform his cousin wore and its matching shoulder patch
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As unseen hands shoved him numbly across the distance that separated them, the cousins’ eyes riveted
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She saw the knife, but her eyes were riveted to the cockroach tattoo
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46 And Shechem and his father Hamor heard the words of the sons of Jacob, and the thing pleased them exceedingly, and Shechem and his father Hamor hastened to do the wishes of the sons of Jacob, for Shechem was very fond of Dinah, and his soul was riveted to her
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My hand was firmly entwined with Brandon’s but my gaze couldn’t help but be riveted on the passing streets and buildings of New York
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which were riveted, added a lumbar support to
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I ate in the car while riveted to the radio
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46 And Shechem and his father Hamor heard the words of the sons of Jacob and the thing pleased them exceedingly and Shechem and his father Hamor hastened to do the wishes of the sons of Jacob for Shechem was very fond of Dinah and his soul was riveted to her
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To her right she noticed a boat overturned and broken, but it was the burning house before her that her gaze was soon riveted on
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” Morgan’s gaze became riveted on Leora as he continued on, “This is the doing of another for Tselel Legeon inhabits these regions
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Kirk was now staring at the Primagnon in disbelief, his attention riveted to the Leader’s arresting eyes
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Sutton heard rather than saw the attack from the side, his attention riveted on the drama at the head of the column
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In half a second, I held a shimmering bronze sword with a double-edged blade, a leather-wrapped grip, and a flat hilt riveted with gold studs
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Its gas tank had flames painted on it, and a shotgun holster riveted to either side, complete with shotguns
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I usually fell asleep but Max was riveted
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The bus driver, mouth hanging open skirted around James’ car and drove off – all eyes on the bus were riveted upon James and Marianne…someone whistled!…a few even clapped!
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She stared at him and saw the fear in his riveted gaze as she dressed
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All eyes in the room were now riveted on the Judge as he
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’’ Said calmly Nancy, her eyes riveted on the screen as the probe approached one of the crates to read the markings on it
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After about twenty minutes, Joan Stanley regretfully got up from the sofa, her eyes still riveted on the screen
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�� Echoed Sir Dill, his eyes riveted on the speeding tank
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Stalingrad had become a matter of personal prestige which riveted his attention, much to the joy of the Russian general staff
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Star was riveted to the spot in terror, as the flash had also singed her hair
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And here we come to the image that was riveted to
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Beastie's eyes were riveted on the gold
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The audience had now become riveted to the conversation between the Galaef and this stranger
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The woman stood up, dazzling the entire restaurant who had been riveted to the celebrity couple's conversation
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Brother Francis’ attention was riveted on the words of this enigmatic person
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He wanted to check out Mister Wu’s reaction but his eyes were riveted on the persona of David the Illusionist
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She was sitting on the edge of her chair, her attention riveted upon him
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As she failed to yield, he riveted near her to make her relent
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raging, turbulent river, the sound that riveted his attention even more was the
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To his surprise, Baldur’s eyes are riveted at the far end of the procession
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The crowd went silent, all of their gazes riveted to Aesa
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” AW glanced at S and then riveted their attention on Revenuluv
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Their attention riveted on the pianos, Joel and Falcon crossed over to the alcove, so they could better see and examine the instruments in awed reverence
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Greg’s tender smile, which he riveted directly in front of the old woman’s weary eyes, conveyed much more than mere words
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Sound glanced up for only a second, then riveted his eyes back on the screen
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Stephanie had been riveted by the latest news reports
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"That will come later," was all that Kennedy replied, his eyes riveted still on Carton
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His mind was still riveted on the dead animal in his bed
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riveted upon a minute figure by the mike, a figure whose voice
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were regularly riveted by the larger-than-life tales of master
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Pulp fiction was in its heyday and 30 million readers were regularly riveted by the larger-than-life tales of master storyteller L
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The jacket was embossed, with silver clasps and small metal plates riveted down either side of the breast, engraved with entwined animals
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After all, it would seem, from what he'd said, that his single glance had been one long, riveted stare
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Without turning around, he had a thought that riveted the class
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Simon stared at the metal riveted floor of the truck
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I have few good memories riveted with it
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The plain teaching of the Old Testament on this subject is endorsed by Jesus and His apostles; its truth is therefore, as it were, riveted
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Something had riveted me to where I sat and
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Sonia sat down, looked about her--at Lebeziatnikov, at the notes lying on the table and then again at Pyotr Petrovitch and her eyes remained riveted on him
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gaze riveted tens of thousands at a time,
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After five steps I encountered an iron wall made of riveted boilerplate
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The nation is riveted by his “Morning in America” commercials, which paint a patriotic picture of a country rising from the shambles Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter
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A half hour later, fed and packed, they stood in front of the riveted metal door of the Map Room
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Thomas reached in and pulled apart the curtains of ivy, then stared blankly at a square of metal riveted to the stone with words stamped across it in big capital letters
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Dantes' whole attention was riveted on a man who could thus forget his own misfortunes
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The Indians riveted their eyes on the rocks, and listened with an attention that seemed to turn them into stone
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Duncan ceased speaking; for while his eyes were riveted on those of Alice, who had turned toward him with the eagerness of filial affection, to catch his words, the same strong, horrid cry, as before, filled the air, and rendered him mute
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At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable precipice
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The action, and the choked utterance of Cora, spoke more impressively than any words, and quickly drew the attention of her companions on that spot where her own was riveted with an intenseness that nothing but the importance of the stake could create
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Then they drew warily back, keeping their eyes riveted on the ruin, as if they expected to see the apparitions of the dead issue from its silent walls, until, having reached the boundary of the area, they moved slowly into the thicket and disappeared
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It might have been ten minutes (it seemed an age) that the sisters had stood riveted to one spot, horror-stricken and nearly helpless
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More than one savage rushed toward them, thinking to rifle the unprotected sisters of their attire, and bear away their scalps; but when they found this strange and unmoved figure riveted to his post, they paused to listen
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Surprised at the immovable attitude of the young warrior, and curious to observe the manner in which he employed his faculties to obtain the desired information, Heyward advanced a few steps, and bent over the dark object on which he had kept his eye riveted
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The Indian gravely raised his paddle, and pointed in the direction in which his own steady look was riveted
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Chingachgook was probably better acquainted with the notions of white men, for he did not even cast a glance aside from the riveted look his eye maintained on the object by which he governed their course
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But tonight Owen was not to read of those things, for as soon as he opened the paper his attention was riveted by the staring headline of one of the principal columns:
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The looks of most of the warriors were riveted on the earth; though a few of the younger and less gifted of the party suffered their wild and glaring eyeballs to roll in the direction of a white-headed savage, who sat between two of the most venerated chiefs of the tribe
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As usual, every eye was riveted on his face
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But the moment the noise of the serpent was heard, he arose, and cast his looks on each side of him, bending his head low, and turning it inquiringly in every direction, until his keen eye rested on the shaggy monster, where it remained riveted, as though fixed by the power of a charm
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Occasionally an eye was raised from the earth, where the looks of most were riveted, and strayed toward a particular lodge, that was, however, in no manner distinguished from those around it, except in the peculiar care that had been taken to protect it against the assaults of the weather
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He met everywhere, with eyes riveted on his own, heads erect and nostrils expanded, as if each individual present felt himself able and willing, singly, to redress the wrongs of his race
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The latter seized the nerveless arm of the unresisting Delaware, and passed his knife into his bosom three several times, before his victim, still keeping his gaze riveted on his enemy, with a look of inextinguishable scorn, fell dead at his feet
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So riveted and intense had been that gaze, and so changeless his attitude, that a stranger might not have told the living from the dead, but for the occasional gleamings of a troubled spirit, that shot athwart the dark visage of one, and the deathlike calm that had forever settled on the lineaments of the other
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The lips of the Sagamore closed, and he remained silent in his seat, looking with his riveted eye and motionless form, like some creature that had been turned from the Almighty hand with the form but without the spirit of a man
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I myself felt; a strange kind of fascination at the sight of all this gold and all these bank-notes; it seemed to me that I was in a dream, and, as it always happens in a dream, I felt myself riveted to the spot
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I thought how one link of association had helped that identification in the theatre, and how such a link, wanting before, had been riveted for me now, when I had passed by a chance swift from Estella's name to the fingers with their knitting action, and the attentive eyes
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Here Haidee cast a significant glance at Monte Cristo, whose eyes had been riveted on her countenance during the whole course of her narrative
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The dying man's eyes were all the time riveted on the door, through which he hoped succor would arrive
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Danglars' riveted attention, Eugenie's composure, and the light and sprightly manner in which the baroness treated this important affair
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story had become so riveting that none of us wanted to sleep
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The guards were constantly yielding up these stories, riveting for their stark terror which would then circulate through the office until Sinclair show up again to loosen the resolve of the next headstrong individual, and there’d be a new rumor
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Riveting his eyes through the rear view mirror on the alley entrance, he hastily planned to grab for the rifle the instant she came into view
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Next, the public was treated to a riveting story about how an undercover (covert) agent of the CIA had been outed
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The women (Riveting Rosies) were a big part of the behemoth that produced in
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Straightening against the back of his chair and riveting Nick with a serene gaze, “In nineteen and feefty, Almozt zirty yearce ago,” He said it as though he expected the question and he pointed his finger upward as he said it
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And what made this palace so riveting was, it glittered and sparkled
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Captain Van Boskerck illuminated the honored motto and secured its place in naval history with his riveting lyrics and music (Krietemeyer, The Coast Guardsman"s Manual, pp
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The dome had been made by riveting huge curved steel plates together
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When combined with everything else you’ve developed, poise and manners create an aura that’s riveting to behold
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to read that I found riveting!
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It was always a riveting show
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When I arrived, she was standing by the tomato bin with those same pale, riveting eyes
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“Yeah, so, basically this thing's digestive system is just an intricate series of time travelling worm holes and the like that’ll send whole solar systems shootin’ diagonally, sideways, arching, skittering, riveting and spiraling through time and space
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All forms of intensity and passion are riveting, fascinating, envied
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Scott and Jeff found the conversation riveting, especially after a hash
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Hadaen eyed her and stepped back, riveting his gaze back out to the open land
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preoccupied with Costa's riveting story which I was soon to discover was very much the
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At length, he paused directly in front of Heyward, and riveting his eyes upon those of the other, he said, with a lip that quivered violently:
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The trial record he had just finished for the third time had been tedious in nearly all respects, except when it was riveting
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The temptation was certainly great: she was very fond of the exercise, and the gratification of riding on a fine horse, with Captain Lydgate, Sir Godwin's son, on another fine horse by her side, and of being met in this position by any one but her husband, was something as good as her dreams before marriage: moreover she was riveting the connection with the family at Quallingham, which must be a wise thing to do
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iron forged, heavy with rivets of rain,
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Not that there was anything much to see, just grey and white panels and rivets, not even any flashing symbols
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edges with rivets, very quaint, even the wood
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The edges cut into her hands, and her boots slipped off the smooth metal rivets
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Then place rivets in the front and in the
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Several of the solid oak trunks that made up the gate doors had been shattered, dislodged with their rivets sheared off, giving just enough space for some of the smaller creatures to swarm through and face the blades of the exhausted Tanarian garrison
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leather seat cushions with shiny brass rivets
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The stainless steel surface of the vessel was smooth apart from the rivets that held the steel plates together
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The ladder rested against the dome at a point just above the central band of rivets that encircled the dome
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The lines of rivets were the only blemishes on an otherwise entirely smooth, shiny outer surface
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He could hear the teeth grinding screeches of the metal sheets that formed the dome as they stretched and strained against the rivets to contain the heat and pressure inside
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This, coupled with the enormous surge of pressure, sheered the heads off the rivets holding the casing together
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There are cracks in the wings and some of the rivets
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Where the cylinder bolts to the hull, the holes were temporarily filled with imitation rivets of hard rubber
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The fuselage creaked and shuddered, the engines roared, and Midge watched in horror as one or two of the rivets that held the hand-rail in place, snapped off
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he still remembers the rivets, the little orange
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Onward he drove, watching the rivets in
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the rows of rivets in the soot-encrusted metal
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It is a combination of lines that instantly rivets the attention, and has probably a more powerful effect upon the mind—quite apart from anything symbolised by it—than any other simple combinations that could have been devised
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opening or a hatch, a "manhole," to use the official term; but the lines of rivets had been firmly driven into the sheet–iron joins and were straight and uniform
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Its plating can't give way; it's self–adhering and not dependent on the tightness of its rivets; and due to the perfect union of its materials, the solidarity of its construction allows it to defy the most violent
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“From what I could see, driven in with metal rivets
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I can pry the rivets out but my spear is useless for cutting the manacles off his arms
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The sleepers had never been removed, and the rails, fishplates and rivets were all ready, for we had taken them from a siding on the abandoned portion of the line
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Despite these alarms, I had become inconsolable when I saw a television news item about the scrapping of steam locomotives, with hammers and torches tearing out the rivets and cutting up the belly of a boiler to be thrown into the smelting furnace
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Packaging: Almost a quarter of aluminum is used to create aluminum wrap and foil, along with beverage cans and rivets
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He listened quietly to what the convicts had to say, declared that the task he gave them was to get off four rivets unbroken, and to demolish a good part of the barque
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The task was a considerable one, but, good heavens! how the convicts now went to work! Where now was their idleness, their want of skill? The hatchets soon began to dance, and soon the rivets were sprung
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Those who had no hatchets made use of thick sticks to push beneath the rivets, and thus in due time and in artistic fashion, they got them out
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The most awkward and least intelligent convict can saw through them, or break the rivets by hammering at them with a stone
