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1. In despair I tried a new tactic to stave off suffocation
2. That was just enough to stave off the worst of the depression that cutting off yaag could bring, leaving her functioning but with a sad and quiet air
3. and to stave off the terrors that visit him
4. But this time, she could not stave off the DRAFT
5. “You…you really knew him…” She felt the painful twinge suddenly beset her eyes, and she cleared her throat in an effort to stave it off
6. After studying the map in the commander’s tent for a few more minutes in a vain effort to stave off boredom, he made his way to the firepit and took a seat
7. Hesper rushed forward with an iron stave
8. “Let me guess…” Maro shut his eyes as he rubbed his forehead, vainly trying to stave off fresh, stinging pain of his own
9. I cleaned and dressed the wound as if she were alive, bandaging it tightly in hopes to stave off an infection that would never happen now
10. Candles and gas lamps burned sporadically, but did little to stave off the depths of the winter night
11. Though Batista was mixed Black and Chinese, the almost entirely white Cuban elites accepted him as a way to stave off more radical reforms
12. And yet where her thighs were it would have taken a barrel stave to get around her
13. information in an attempt to stave off return
14. fairly sure that a bon fire in the front of the cave should stave off
15. (A stave is a pole of sorts
16. Although he was not able to stave off the destruction of the two cities, the confidence and trust God showed in Abraham helped cement their relationship
17. He then showed Shawn where to set his oxygen regulator (100 percent oxygen to help stave off motion sickness) and how to press the button on the throttle to talk on the intercom
18. signs if they want to learn to stave off the migraine
19. their period as well as the first few days of it can stave off a menstrual
20. intensity of an existing migraine and help stave them off
21. let them know a migraine is coming, white noise can help stave off a
22. coming, white noise can help stave off a headache
23. Fish oil pills with the right balance of omega-3 fatty acids are believed to lessen the intensity of an existing migraine and help stave them off
24. way to stave off the inevitable reciprocal movement of my past actions
25. And it is that Salome sang very badly, but this small inharmonious arbitrariness, known for her and for all those that knew her, never prevented her from singing the happiest and melodious songs; that in the absence of the stave notes study came out with the candid touch of an effusiveness without frontiers, and coated with the language of the soul, marched to delight the ears of the other souls that, without the intimidation of musical rules, listened recognizing in them their own language
26. After supper, to stave off boredom, they asked what I'd been doing
27. each other, they could somehow stave off death for themselves
28. the answer that would stave off fire
29. They captured the town of Vevi on 10th April and then were ordered to clear resistance from the Kleisoura Pass to the SW of Vevi where Greek and British Commonwealth forces fought bitterly to stave off the invasion
30. To stave off this infiltrating insanity
31. They had already used Jason's 401k money and cashed in their life insurance policies trying to stave off the mounting debt
32. There is no cheating and giving of more information in an attempt to stave off suicide in the next lifetime, for not much about the energy existence is at first readily available to you when you return
33. Lost all hands unfortunately, save for me, who clung to a floating stave o' wood
34. As the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to stave off inflation, the firm begins to pay off some of its old debt, attracting equity through its higher EPS
35. “A peripheral membrane protein,” I noted, trying to stave off her line of inquiry, “we are looking for something more integral
36. tection could only stave off the negative forces that were
37. Robert had showed him some flowers he could eat to stave off starvation
38. Jennings, to stave off defeat
39. He grabbed a broom for a stave and we began fencing, and then Andrei swung himself into my stall and shut the gate
40. The day before her coronation, Olav awoke her early and demanded she attend a sermon with Vilda in the Christian stave church
41. When Lucia arrived at the stave church, Bishop Peter greeted her and Vilda warmly
42. Rumors of Ailia’s curse still buzzed through Bergendal, and more recently she had even been branded a traitor for having attended a couple of meetings at the Christian stave church
43. Down by the lake, she saw Uncle Brander and Aunt Unni and also the town’s Bishop, Peter, standing by a Stave Church
44. The snow-white path led to a field, where the modest Bergendal stave church stood
45. “Over there is the Bergendal Stave Christian Church,” she said, pointing to it
46. Their old, creaky wagons found a home outside the Bergendal Stave Church, camped in a circle, enclosing a constantly blazing bonfire
47. She had decided that after she had met up with Soren and Lucia in the storyteller’s tent, she would take Soren to Bergendal Stave Church and open her heart to him, explaining who she really was
48. ” The only references she had to these Surtorians were from her maredreams and that one incident by the Bergendal Stave Church, and brushing shoulders with only a few of them had nearly shaken her to pieces
49. But thanks to the limited clientele in towns, the whores there can stave off the debilitating sexual burden their ilk in the cities have to bear, yet it’s the so-called call-girls that call the shots, more so, in metros; so all of them, being in the same calling are not on the same footing
50. He climbed shakily to his feet and reached out a trembling hand for the stave
1. He staved off thoughts of breaking free and blowing into space but he didn't feel safe again until his feet were firmly planted on the spaceport's ground and the airlock had sealed behind him
2. 'That flying devil has staved in the water-casks,' said Conan
3. Evil must be staved off
4. Above us, huddled among the brown weeds, there floated objects originating from all over: tree trunks ripped from the Rocky Mountains or the Andes and sent floating down the Amazon or the Mississippi, numerous pieces of wreckage, remnants of keels or undersides, bulwarks staved in and so weighed down with seashells and barnacles, they couldn't rise to the surface of the ocean
5. I saw in this the reason for my being staved off so long and the reason for my late guardian's declining to commit himself to the formal knowledge of such a scheme
6. A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in a grating and a porthole on the larboard side, and damaged the foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the Orion had run back to Toulon
7. To tear it from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a sort of horrible obedience,—all this had cost Marius but the time necessary to stoop and rise again; and now all, National Guards, Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the stones, his torch in his hand, his haughty face illuminated by a fatal resolution, drooping the flame of the torch towards that redoubtable pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving vent to that startling cry:—
8. Standing in the center of the way was a cask of wine with its head staved in, and a big, drunken man in crazy laces and a plumed hat strutted beside it
9. Glancing upwards, he saw Tashtego, Queequeg, and Daggoo, eagerly mounting to the three mast-heads; while the oarsmen were rocking in the two staved boats which had but just been hoisted to the side, and were busily at work in repairing them
1. George went into the storeroom of the shop through the back hallway, his son dogging his steps, and returned with a bundle of two foot staves which he stacked on the floor of the new room
2. Then he set them round with three bands of iron rod, roughly mimicking the the contour of the base, and proceeded to stand the numbered staves around its perimeter
3. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods
4. “And he took and put the into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the seat above upon the ark” (Exodus 40:20)
5. staves here in Whitehall
6. 43 And the Philistine said to David, Am I a dog, that you come to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods
7. 7 For the cherubims spread out their two wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubims covered the Ark and the staves of it
8. 8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
9. Ark of God on their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord
10. the cherubims spread out their wings over the place of the Ark, and the cherubims covered the Ark and the staves of it above
11. they drew out the staves of the Ark, that the ends of the staves were seen from the Ark before the oracle; but they were not seen
12. “The Seven have a way to block the wands; they seem to catch them with either their hands or their staves
13. We found out in our fights with them that not even staves can generate enough power to overcome this ability of theirs,” he replied
14. “Major, the writing on the wands and staves, do you ever see it elsewhere?” I asked
15. In his hand he held a staff, but one completely unlike the sleek black staves of the Magi
16. I will see what I can learn about crafting wands, staves, and other magical tools, as we will need to know how to make our own
17. 14 You did strike through with his staves
18. hand I will not deliver them; 7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock; And I took to me two staves; the
19. 14 And you shall put the staves into the rings by the sides of the Ark, that the Ark may be borne with them
20. 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the Ark: they shall not be taken from it
21. 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table
22. 6 And you shall make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass
23. 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be on the two sides of the altar, to bear it
24. 4 And two golden rings shall you make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, on the two sides of it shall you make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal
25. 12 The Ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
26. 13 The table, and his staves, and all his vessels, and the shewbread;
27. 15 And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
28. 16 The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
29. 4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold
30. 5 And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the Ark, to bear the Ark
31. 14 Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table
32. 15 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table
33. 27 And he made two rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it, on the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal
34. 28 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold
35. 5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves
36. 6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass
37. 7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards
38. 35 The Ark of the testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat,
39. 39 The brasen altar, and his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
40. 20 And he took and put the testimony into the Ark, and set the staves on the Ark, and put the mercy seat above on the Ark:
41. 6 And shall put thereon the covering of badgers' skins, and shall spread over it a cloth wholly of blue, and shall put in the staves thereof
42. 8 And they shall spread on them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves of it
43. 11 And on the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
44. 14 And they shall put on it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of it
45. 18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves
46. 14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the
47. 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it
48. (If certain people touch the ark without the staves, it would kill them
49. 27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear
50. 28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with
1. Regional (Presidential) Primaries may offer a partial solution in staving off the (disproportionate) influence of parochial designs on political candidates stumping the campaign trail by allowing them to carefully outline their positions on issues of national importance without undue pandering to special interest groups
2. But not accepting the pain, and staving it off until someone
3. By staving off bankruptcy costs and keeping the cost of capital low
4. On the one hand staving
5. And I've not even had time really to begin, for at first there was my own struggling to get out of the deep waters where I was drowning, and afterward it seemed to be nothing but a staving off, a writing about other things, a determined telling of little anecdotes, of talk about our neighbors, about people you don't know, about anything rather than your soul and my soul
6. With practiced ease, she tensed and relaxed her muscles again, staving off stiffness that might slow her down later
7. staving off the effects of crisis and trauma
8. Acting on this warning no one answered a word, but after we had gone a little ahead, and the vessel was now lying to leeward, suddenly they fired two guns, and apparently both loaded with chain-shot, for with one they cut our mast in half and brought down both it and the sail into the sea, and the other, discharged at the same moment, sent a ball into our vessel amidships, staving her in completely, but without doing any further damage
9. But there was no staving off the question, What was to be done?
10. The whole lot of ingots might have been concealed somewhere where they could have been got at for the purpose of staving off the dangers which were menacing the security of the Gould Concession
11. I was staving off other emotions
12. However, more recently scientists claimed that that Dimebon also was effective in staving off mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients for as long as 18 months
13. Seeing, now, that there were no curtains to the window, and that the street being very narrow, the house opposite commanded a plain view into the room, and observing more and more the indecorous figure that Queequeg made, staving about with little else but his hat and boots on; I begged him as well as I could, to accelerate his toilet somewhat, and particularly to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible
14. As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea
