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1. It seemed that in this area there had been layers of this rough slate paving at one time
2. There was damp soil made up of generations of dead leaves with soft sumaids carpeting the slate street now
3. this lonely pile of brick and slate,
4. I remember the late summer clouds and us sitting on the shoreline picking out the best ones when he drew my attention to the water, 'See how the light from the sky colours the sea? The clouds are making the water grey, like slate
5. ‘Well, we looked round the slate mine – it’s a terrible place, no green at all, just the grey exposed slate … I hated the atmosphere of the place – it would have been a hard life working the slate
6. You know I had that bad dose of ‘flu recently? Well, it was stupid of me, but one day when I was running a pretty high temperature, I stubbornly insisted on climbing on the porch roof to fix a slate which had come out of position
7. and heavy slate roof that surrounded him
8. He has to know that Ken and Jock are history and that the slate is clean, or, if not clean, that at least the chalk marks are illegible
9. THE COLORS OF SLATE AND AQUAMARINE
10. Had some intrepid botanist trudged the weary path, he or she would have eventually reached the mount, and had the mist dispersed they would have spied in the mounts lee a large green hollow ringed with hedges and 'Dingles House' which its red brick and slate roof set in a substantial garden beautifully landscaped with all manner of tall trees, shrubs and lawns
11. You can never start over as a stranger would, a fresh slate
12. You will always start with me as a worn slate
13. Worn slate, worn shoe, coachman's assistant pud shoveler, I'll get my foot in that door
14. With only five city blocks remaining before he reached the city's end, he pulled himself onto a slate tiled rooftop and continued on, crossing it to where another span of boards lay, connecting that rooftop to the next
15. Then, about a third of the way to the far end, a bunch of brownstone turrets with pointed slate roofs erupted
16. He watched with amazement and confusion as it was replaced with that of a much younger dark-haired man, the same striking eyes of slate and tanned complexion
17. They twinkled amongst the grey, wrinkled slate of the hills
18. She did it so quickly that the poor little juror (it was Bill, the Lizard) could not make out at all what had become of it; so, after hunting all about for it, he was obliged to write with one finger for the rest of the day; and this was of very little use, as it left no mark on the slate
19. He usually uses a slate to write his thoughts
20. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his slate with
21. “Zacharias then took a piece of slate and wrote, „His name is John
22. The flowers were bright splotches of color against the green of the grass and the slate grey of the hills
23. Each house was three stories of blue stone with dark slate roofs and oak balconies and verandas
24. Raven looked at her, desperately wanting to accept, to take her in his arms and wipe the slate clean
25. Lifting the Globe of Riddalfen slowly onto the cup where its pulsating glow slowed almost immediately and it turned a slate grey
26. A broken piece of roof slate cut through the fuel line, spraying kerosene mix over the hot engine, and despite its high flash point, the fuel burst into flames, back-flashing to the fuel tanks
27. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted
28. A jagged piece of slate sliced through our mooring rope and I gulped as we suddenly found ourselves staring down at the rapidly receding ground
29. Despite a new name and a clean slate with the law Mike, after less than three months in the country, started in again
30. He’d laid out half-filled beer cans to attract the aliens, placing small pieces of broken slate over the cans after they slid inside
31. Slate Explainer estimated 350,000
32. And once all the stuff is in on Terry Bullock and his 22, and Ted Bullock and some of his businesses, you should be in a position to wipe a number of old and recent crimes off the slate
33. A dark color of slate grey, replaced the brilliant green scales
34. a round slate of green
35. My slate was clean with Saddie
36. and the slate is wiped clean until our next sinful action
37. “You are to be a clean slate
38. Were these “talents” or “loved activities”? Was this a way of taking a blank slate and grafting on to it a behavior that served the group? Such dedicated behavior had been described before in the biological realm, in bees, ants and termites
39. to stay a lot longer to figure out if the inhabitants of this place started as if they had a tabula rasa, a blank slate onto which their roles would be branded, or whether they had a choice in their eventual “vocation
40. Dan Reese kept drawing surreptitious pictures of girls, with pig or rooster heads, on his slate and holding them up for all to see
41. He’s not just Ganesh, a blank slate
42. Mostly though, I’d wanted to fuck her on the cold, slate floor in her front
43. Slate has become the most desired decorative product in architecture
44. At first, his eyes appeared blue before turning slate gray
45. slate as they say
46. A rece nt story in Slate covers the new “wearable tech” trend and offers a solution for those who want to get in on the action
47. The full Slate coverage is here
48. slate knife and a strip of copper metal to
49. steady the new slate instead of using nails up
50. The slate knife is used to easily remove the
1. It’s in the Kassikan files that Fenais does that, and Ava knew that a Fenais used a scholarship in the class Tdeshi was slated for
2. Jones was slated to begin the voyage in August
3. Addie was, after all, slated to go along on the
4. We were slated to head northwest; to land at our original field
5. The Christians, for all that they had done, apparently had not been slated for extermination also
6. onto the red slated roof
7. slated rooftops towards the party
8. over the slated rooftops of the houses, charring their sandstone
9. The Khan’s son, Theodore is slated to lead the five tumen at hand south to join the campaign
10. extension, capital gains were slated to rise to a high of 20% – something that may now occur in
11. The sun is bright, but setting slowly sending a cool breeze across fifty-feet of slated porch
12. was slated to play at the street dance on South Pine Street
13. Access to the city has been by way of submersible vessels up to this point and the access tube to the surface was slated to open this fall
14. He slated the Philistines with the axe of apostles
15. There was speculation that the facilities were slated to be Franklin D
16. They are protected property of the Universal Source, and I knew that the third of three incarnations was slated to come back to collectively form the consciousness that will bring the crappy ways of the world to an end
17. Most of his belongings are still here in London, since they were slated to go to the States by air after his departure
18. “Yes! Your friend Heracles was slated to be the hero Heracles
19. The next day, she met with Colonel Robert Maxwell, who was slated to be the initial commander of the so-called Women’s Division of the Army Air Corps, and with Jacqueline Cochran, who had also enlisted as a major and would become responsible for the running and administration of the female units engaged in training or aircraft ferrying in the United States
20. This operation is slated for the July or August period and will need all the air support it can get
21. They’re slated for a drone attack in the near
22. Western foreigners, Christians – and, slated for special notice – Jews
23. ‘’Your 10th Special Forces Group was only recently activated and was slated for service in Europe, General Collins
24. JSTARS was under development during the initial phases of operation 'Desert Shield', in 1991 and was not slated for deployment until 1993, at the earliest
25. From being at first a poor teenage girl looking for a better life in New France, Catherine Lorion was slated to become one of the true founding pioneers of Ville-Marie, later to be known as Montreal
26. Some of the Iroquois are slated to come tomorrow morning but we believe that they are trying to set a trap for us
27. Valley, filmed in front of German wine cognoscenti, Gerrie had slated one of
28. Reuters published a piece which publicly slated both NeXt and Jobs, in an overtly personal way
29. The wedding is slated for 7th June and needless to say, I need you here before the countdown commences
30. Still I hope you would spend some time with us before you leave,’ she told Ramu, and turning to Sathyam, she added, ‘Sandhya’s marriage is slated for 7th June
31. slated for advanced aerial training, and Gary, the chief flying
32. Slated to leave in March of 1946 from Hamburg, Germany, he
33. The other three people in the vision were the souls of the three children slated to come to us
34. the air and her next slated appearance scheduled for April 6, 2006 was cancelled
35. The wijacking released the slated webisode temporarily held captive by a momentary interlude of uncomfortable lucidity
36. It was the Germans who had been slated for slaughter by the Allies and their masters; the Jewish international bankers… not the Jews by the Nazis
37. events slated for the upcoming months, here are some enlightening facts
38. was his job to banish them any time a council member was slated to be
39. Bush was slated to give a speech in Austin, Texas
40. The men were slated for combat, but they hadn’t been told where they would serve
41. But on the night before the Bird was slated to return, the POWs were jarred from their sleep to hear him charging through camp in a driving rainstorm, yelling that it was a fire drill
42. Someone had heard that Naoetsu was slated to be bombed that night
43. He was slated to go from a major to lieutenant colonel
44. Four years later at the Royal Albert Hall, Sinatra’s performances were slated and critics suggested, not for the first or last time, that he was finished
45. The ringing seemed antique, somehow, prematurely quaint, like the carillon of a village church slated for demolition
46. In May 2010 Wilmington had hired an outside consultancy to review its loan book and to assist it with a full-scope regulatory exam slated to begin in late June
47. Mao got Wu Han’s play slated in a review and accused Wu of being a right-wing revisionist: A very serious accusation
48. He had that certainty in his work which is called authority and he was early slated to be a crew chief
49. The new headquarters was slated for a sale/leaseback
1. Roof slates lay smashed beneath the overhang of the main barn roof, and on the opposite side of the yard are the rib thin remains of pig units
2. These magical slates were in widespread use in Lyndesfarne, Tom
3. writing slates widely used in the world of Lyndesfarne
4. The twelve jurors were all writing very busily on slates
5. As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court
6. just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted: ‘UNimportant, your Majesty means, of course,’ he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke
7. ’ Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; ‘but it doesn’t matter a bit,’ she thought to herself
8. They were just beginning to write this down on their slates, when the White Rabbit interrupted: 'Unimportant, your Majesty means, of course,' he said in a very respectful tone, but frowning and making faces at him as he spoke
9. ' Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; 'but it doesn't matter a bit,' she thought to herself
10. The jury all wrote down on their slates, 'She doesn't believe there's an atom of meaning in it,' but none of them attempted to explain the paper
11. Just a slip of the memory serum in their morning coffee or their evening water, and they would be new people, clean slates, unblemished by history
12. firm grip of the slates, he slid down the side of the roof until he
13. white walls of sandstone, roofed by slates of blue tiling, although
14. It would not be hard to understand these basic fundamentals if we were operating with "clean slates"
15. nails up under the existing topmost slates
16. Roof slates fell into the centers of the lodges
17. On inspecting the loft, that was never insulated and the old slates, under which no felt had ever been put, he knew what the first job would entail
18. I settled to the floor and walked over to the fireplace, climbed the stone with claws and feet to perch upon the slates of the mantelpiece
19. Lights from a lamp showed him a narrow angle and from that little slice, he could see a couch, a desk piled with papers, vellums and slates
20. She was dressed in a cloak cunningly painted to look like the stones of the Tower and wore black gloves on her hands that stuck to the slates
21. “I get it now, Slates
22. All the women Victoria brings in are Slates, their eyes are dark and though they have curves of a woman, they move like metal-boned machines
23. The Slates stand for peace until they are attacked, then all calls are off
24. The shack was nothing more than rotting slates and a poor roof that was bowed with years of wind and rain
25. The slates were still warm under my feet
26. Ashamed of my tears, I scrambled over the slates, keeping in the shadows
27. all people act in self-interest, all people are sinners, tabula rasas (blank slates), manipulatable, self-designing, etc
28. „When the New Age arrives,' she said in earnest, „all the old slates will be wiped clean and
29. The slates threw straight down a heavy heat that gripped her temples, stifled her; she dragged herself to the closed garret-window
30. So protected, he had removed the slates from a section of the roof then tied the rope of the hoist to a timber
31. Marie-Laure stands on her tiptoes and presses her ear to the roofing beneath the slates
32. Could she capture some of it to drink? Punch a hole in the slates? Use it in some other way? Maybe to cover her noise?
33. West down a canyon of rubble, scrambling over bricks and wires and pieces of roof slates, many of them still hot, the streets apparently abandoned, though what eyes might track him from behind shattered windows, German or French or American or British, he cannot say
34. His feet made little noise on the slates
35. The house feels like it’s shaking, too, the wind screaming, tearing at the slates on the roof
36. "I followed him to the top of a very lofty stair, and there, right under the slates, were a couple of empty, dusty little rooms, uncarpeted and uncurtained, into which he led me
37. slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea
38. There were slates and bricks piled up on the roof preparatory to some repairs, and they would have me believe that the wind had toppled over one of these
39. “But I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over
40. Garth at certain hours was always in the kitchen, and this morning she was carrying on several occupations at once there— making her pies at the well-scoured deal table on one side of that airy room, observing Sally's movements at the oven and dough-tub through an open door, and giving lessons to her youngest boy and girl, who were standing opposite to her at the table with their books and slates before them
41. Avoid slates and softer rocks, and test others by banging them together
42. Use slates, tiles and bricks from other buildings to ensure that at least one building is sound
43. Not long ago, palaeontologists maintained that the whole class of birds came suddenly into existence during the eocene period; but now we know, on the authority of Professor Owen, that a bird certainly lived during the deposition of the upper greensand; and still more recently, that strange bird, the Archeopteryx, with a long lizard-like tail, bearing a pair of feathers on each joint, and with its wings furnished with two free claws, has been discovered in the oolitic slates of Solenhofen
44. She made such friends with the sparrows that when she stood upon the table, put her head and shoulders out of the attic window, and chirped, she heard almost immediately a flutter of wings and answering twitters, and a little flock of dingy town birds appeared and alighted on the slates to talk to her and make much of the crumbs she scattered
45. At least it seemed so to Sara, and nothing had ever been quite so beautiful to her as the things she saw as she stood on the table—her body half out of the skylight—the sparrows twittering with sunset softness on the slates
46. Then he salaamed once more and got through the skylight and across the slates again with as much agility as the monkey himself had displayed
47. The stillness had only been broken by the pattering of the rain upon the slates and the skylight
48. I slip across the slates and look at her many nights to see that she is safe
49. It was not on the slates, but on the stairs below, and it was Miss Minchin's angry voice
50. The truth was, however, that it was a sound which had called her back—a real sound—the click of the skylight as it fell in closing after a lithe white figure which slipped through it and crouched down close by upon the slates of the roof—just near enough to see what happened in the attic, but not near enough to be seen
1. folds, kept slating in above us; and as the sky filled, and the
2. into a detailed soliloquy slating this wine witnessed by his still running video camera
