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So for the remainder of Morningday he did nothing more than stump around the immediate area
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Alan jammed the stump of the club into it's mouth just ahead of her backside
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on a charred stump, absorbing the light
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“Johnny get this stump to the car,” Bobby said
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The fat man stood Joe up on his stump legs and held him
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He raised his left arm – which was a stump, ending several inches below his elbow – and sent blue flames pouring from the end of the amputated limb
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A stump of a hand stuck out from her white sleeve and rested on the table
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His left arm was a stump, ending several inches below his elbow
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His head spun away, blood spraying from both it and the bloody stump of the torso that crumpled to the ground
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It was a stump, of course
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Nerissa bent her knee and reached to touch the stump
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The blood that gushed out of her stump
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The partial stump spurted very dark ooze and blood and the creature finally collapsed, twitching even after it fell
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She would have told Eugenia to keep Eury far away, and Philemon to hold a heated iron ready to cauterize the stump
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“Sit down over there on that stump,” she ordered
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He walked over with hands raised and sat down on a stump with tiny branches of new growth at its base
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The stump was probably three feet across and a foot off the ground
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stump at the end of his grey arm
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The enormous stump with its buttresses and gnarled roots was afterwards set on fire, and when darkness fell on the capital the blazing fetish houses and heaps of rubbish, with the black bodies of the levies as they rushed hither and thither, demolishing walls and throwing fresh fuel on the blazing piles, made a weird and striking scene, that will be long imprinted on the minds of those who witnessed it
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In the dream he was a young cub again, playing around an old tree stump from which the middle had rotted away
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The stump was full of rainwater and the reflection shimmering in its depths fascinated him
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Looking around, Darkburst spotted the remains of an old tree stump on the top of the rise
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Staggering his way along the ridge, breathing heavily at every step, he headed towards the hollow and the tree stump
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I untied the leather belt from his trousers and tied it around the stump of his leg with the aid of a branch that I found alongside of me
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A torn stump pumped blood from where his arm should have been
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Belver, Acron and Ranger were gathered on an old tree stump, in the center of Tamworthia
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Acron rested his wings by settling on the edge of the stump
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The stump of that tree”
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He always tries to stump me
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But he didn’t say it here on his Park Stump, for fear of swerving off track
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Jeremiah held him down with a foot as if he were a hickory stump
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The latter suddenly crumpled up, sat down on a stump and began to cry
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And the stump knew
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He sat on a stump
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Tree Stump: Lack of faith; tenacious; to take a hard stand and not move; cut off from the life of Jesus; possibilities of hope or promise of
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Costs to care for a child is certainly an easy way to stump most guys that would pressure a girl for sex before marriage
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previously existed, nothing but a stump of neck protruded from
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She stood by the short stump of a tree, in that same blue frock, with her matted gray hair dangling like seaweed over her face
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Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots of it in the Earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender
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26 And whereas they commanded to leave the stump of the tree roots; your
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Derek clung desperately to the black stump and now saw that
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And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him
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Contrary to the old farmer’s advice, sometimes life is not easier when you try to plow around the stump
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Trying to save money on another acquisition, my father put a stump in the ground
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died off and is hanging on the stump only in small frazzles
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Resting with her back against a cut down tree stump Amori unwrapped the blanket, pulling it up to her chin she closed her eyes and was soon fast asleep
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The three of us stayed crouching around the stump,
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I looked again at the bloodied stump that had caught my
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space stood a stump in a pool of dazzling sunshine
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Standing on the stump was a
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He held the stump of a pipe in his teeth
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“I've anticipated Supreme Court interference and I think an old fashioned stump
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‘Let us not pretend that we are old friends Bellack, you have supplied me with enough information to get me interested enough to attend your home, but I have not forgotten the past,’ croaked Anak as he scratched instinctively at the leather capped stump that used to be his left hand
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He watched silently and invisible to detection, as his spirit eyes followed the shimmering trail of magic that leaked from the wounded stump of his severed hand
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His legs buckled and he collapsed against a nearby tree stump, pulling his cloak about him with the last of his energy, he fell instantly into a deep sleep
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He was not so fortunate with his second blade that came in low and cut through the guard’s leg below the knee, dropping the man to his back clutching at the stump
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sensory awareness would terminate at the stump If it was cut at the elbow,
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your sensory awareness would terminate at that stump
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Did I stump you? Yeah! It is true though
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The man staggered, staring at his bloody stump
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priest lit the flame, and then cauterized the wound, stroking the flame back and forth over the stump of
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The stump was covered by a neat white cloth
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The stump where the black hand had met its original arm grew into a hideous knot of bone, an elongated tumor, and finally a skull without eyes, ears, or a mouth
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A thin stream of liquid fire leaked out of the hand’s stump and trailed behind in its wake
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The hand of black bone in the Dangler’s back clenched its claws together, squeezing so hard that a spurt of glowing magma swelled up and shot out of its severed stump
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Unsinkable, the black hand emerged from a cloud of steam and lifted its severed stump like a wolf tasting the scent of its prey in the air
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“Not a General, I suppose? But then, I’m not truly a General in Luke’s forces, either," he said bitterly holding up the stump of his right arm
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Near that stump rose a heavy cross, and on that cross a man hung by spikes through his hands and feet
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Presently he got a huge front foot on the stump of the shaft and managed to tear the blade out
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Caution warned him on, but curiosity drove him to the tunnel, holding high the torch that was now little more than a stump
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Conan found no reply, but stood holding the stump of the torch, and trailing his great sword
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The ax fell in a devastating arch, and the Aquilonian cried out and went to his knees, grasping the severed stump of his right arm from which blood spouted
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“I saw only a few women, several in the fields and one sitting on a stump and holding a baby
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He really trusted only Stump and then only when not within smelling distance of a bitch
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Stump, oblivious to the gun blast, felt surrender and in a flash was off to find his master
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A glance confirmed that the running noise had been Stump who was pacing back and forth at the water‘s edge, snarling, always eyeing his master
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Stump had seen the crocodile and though hating the big reptiles, feared nothing and sensed a threat to his master
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Stump, loyal Stump, was flat out in the water with his powerful shoulders pumping like an oversized otter, blood smeared lips raised in a malevolent grin and ears flat to his head
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Stump and the croc were locked in and Bloodtooth was powerless
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Then, suddenly, the water roiled and Stump shot to the surface not 30 feet from the engaged Indian
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Joe Billie saw his indomitable Stump locked in the croc‘s deadly maw, still tearing at its face
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as he sat on the stump where my escape tree used to be and smoked
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Usually there were two yard dogs and since Joe Billie was home Stump should be burrowed in the sand under the porch savoring the coolness
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The fat man stopped and looked carefully for the merle colored hound as he for sure didn‘t want to stumble over the deaf Stump and risk some serious dog doings
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―Look Gypsy man, what got to hell early thanks to Stump
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Her capitulation and genuine interest in his feelings about Stump deeply impressed him
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Pulling on the bottle as he sat back on his heels, Joe Billie focused on the nurse and in a steady monotone told her about Stump
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He knew he had to get to the shack—he had to kill the turd-head rancher, killer of Stump and kill the turd- head‘s girlfriend before they could get away
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―Mother, I gave him the knife… Turd head… My Stump didn‘t have no knife
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Grandfather had been right because Joe Billie had saved his mother when he killed his father at the hog trap or was that the turd head rancher who had killed his Stump? As the thought of the deaf dog flitted through his memory, Joe Billie‘s face softened for the briefest
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If he thought he was going to stump me he was wrong
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this question will leave them stump
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Melissa and Ed spread their picnic lunch out on a nearby tree stump and enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air without a worry
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The women had wandered over to the old tree stump and seemed to be catching up on old times
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“That ship over there is dumber than a stump
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the shape of giant pears, without the stump
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“The thing is dumber than a stump, but Saul must have liked it that way
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For someone as smart as The Operator was supposed to be, Johnny’s simple comment had completely stumped him
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Alan let his foot heal as much as he could and stumped around on the crutch only enough to keep the campsite's air fresh
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When old Ted reported back to his employers they were quite stumped for an answer
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stumped for an answer
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When did you take them in without our noticing?” She challenged, stumped by the information
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He could wrap guides and strippers as well or better than most, and intermediates no longer stumped him with their mere three or four turns
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"So maybe it was just stumped?" he asked
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It was a perfect cloudless night so we were stumped as to where the sheet lightening was coming from
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‘So the B’tari computer has been stumped
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“Which Doctor referred you to us I don’t seem to have any notification of your appointment?” I was as stumped as her until I thought just a minute I was dressed in civvies and so I said
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William was stumped
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Paul could not solve this mystery; he was stumped
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I have to admit, I was stumped for a response to that one
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” For the moment, Brendan seemed to have stumped it
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When he told me that it was a good business and didn’t require any staff I was a little stumped for a reply
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they found out I was perfectly healthy, the doctors were stumped
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Nothing ever stumped HER
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I've stumped many a minister with that, girl
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“What’s got you stumped?” said Marcus
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I was cornered and for the first time in my pre and post vampire life, I was stumped for words
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While George stumped the country, preaching the new doctrine of the U
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There was one tongue, however, that had him completely stumped
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Dimarico looked stumped but then smiled
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New Orleans investigators are stumped when a young mother turns up beaten to death, and her son gravely injured
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was more stumped as to how she’d managed to get pregnant than I was shocked to know that
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I was stumped
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His wife had been up since dawn and at ten, after a quick peck on Sean’s cheek and a cautionary nod at me, she stumped up the stairs to the waiting taxi
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She shrugged and gave him a sympathetic look—she was as stumped as he was
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We’re stumped, unless…’
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He was stumped
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But, every few days he'd come and sit on the corner of my desk when he was really stumped
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You’d think with all of the books that I have read I’d have learned about something like this, but I was stumped
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" She could usually spot them--a survival skill for a New York city gal--but Ethan had her stumped
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guess, but this one had him stumped
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I’m left standing at the parking lot level, thoroughly stumped as to how
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To be stumped at this, the
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The lil bomber was stumped
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shrugged his shoulders like he was stumped
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stumped at the thought of “Well, what now?”
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Only, my talk with Jess this morning still had me stumped
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as the big Amazon stumped her way awkwardly over the grass in pursuit
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general mumbling to the effect that although this particular question had stumped them, they
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“Right; that’s what stumped me
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Fillegal was furious, flummoxed, seething and stumped, because Miggon had been the best tracker and couldn’t very well track himself down
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I shuddered, and stumped over to the double-bolted door, and Floy threw herself into my hands, chipping and trilling
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“Did you teach him that?” he asked me, and he stumped out, slamming the gate behind him
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Stumped for an answer, he stared numbly at his hands folded across his lap
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What am I missing? Credit was stumped
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Then his body stumped and he could forever not speak
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I see that money is indeed very important…” She stumped and with a
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Suddenly there was a stumped and the ship had hit land
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Rip and Wilx were genuinely stumped as to who could still be pursuing the cause of incarcerating those responsible for destroying a measly ship load of Obotron Crew Members, barely above Investment Bankers on the list of creatures that are cared about
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The Lootie looked a bit stumped
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But the simple problem of just getting home had her stumped!
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When sellers are totally stumped about the value of an item, they often try and use the “Cover Your Assets” strategy by creating a reserve auction
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Hans who was a brilliant virologist was stumped as much as anyone
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He shot me a stone-cold, glazed-over look that said in not so many words, “I want your brains…now!” The stupid thing seemed stumped as to why he couldn’t pass through the transparent glass wall
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“How about…” Kiera said, but was still stumped
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injury which had stumped his military career held back his dancing career as well
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The students were quiet, stumped for answers
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However, the killer T cells arrive too late, and they are stumped by
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Detroit was stumped; he hadn’t paid attention to what was in the hold
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Stumped there, Fred thought a moment
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With that he stumped off round the corner
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The Admiral was a singularly uncreative type and this stumped him for a moment
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He had me stumped, of course, but this was nothing new, so I humoured him
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‘What?’ he said, stumped by the stupidity of the question
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up midway through the project and stumped over how to proceed
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At this moment there shook out into the air a wavering, quavering, doleful lamentation which seemed to lack strength to unfold itself, and yet flagged on; at the sound of which doors in back streets burst sullenly open; workmen stumped forth
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Holy strawberries? In a jam? Even Barrons looks stumped
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So Tom was stumped
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Released at the far end of the double bridge, he stumped away through the suburbs without looking back
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And then you move to throw it in the garbage but you stop yourself because you realize if you put it in the trash you’re just creating more stuff to sift through to find your keys, and so you stand there with one hand in the garbage while you stare indecisively at the funnel cake, which has stumped you?
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My sister, Susan Avallon, read and reread the manuscript, offered invariably brilliant suggestions, and talked me through the places that had me stumped
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He limped in, stumped up the stairs, and found the fat and sleek Basilio on the point of turning off the lights in the sala
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He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices about him, he soon had undisputed possession of the field
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Even Gerald had aroused a little and stumped off across the furrowed fields, one hand on Pork’s arm and a coil of rope in the other
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Climbing awkwardly down from the wagon, he stumped toward her and, bending, kissed her cheek
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Tarleton twitched nervously but before she could act, Will stumped forward and “Friends,” he began in his flat voice, “maybe you think I’m gettin’ above myself, speakin’ first—me who never knew Mr
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There was male authority in his voice and the women stood suddenly silent, anger fading swiftly from their faces as he stumped across the room to the door
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stumped over to the door and flung it open
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“Hell to pay,” he said as he stumped down the hall to the back door
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“Well, I could, p’raps,” said Archie ungraciously and stumped off toward the cellar
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He was stumped for a moment when I said I was going to cut “Brown to Blue,” but when I reminded him of the melody, he picked it up right away and sang along with me
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She clicked long, coral nails on the counter and I hid my left hand, with its stumped finger, under my shotglass
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In the end Bilbo won the game, more by luck (as it seemed) than by wits; for he was stumped at last for a riddle to ask, and cried out, as his hand came upon the ring he lad picked up and forgotten: What haw I got in my pocket? This Gollum failed to answer, though he demanded three guesses
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laughing and talking and singing, while the Shirriffs stumped along trying
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“So either of them have the experience to shoot someone,” says Ciere, stumped
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I’m stumped on that one
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It‘s easier and much more efficient harvesting votes with sweeping gestures and deceptive promises rather than stumping for votes the old-fashioned way by kissing babies and all that other good stuff
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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
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Stumping off down the steps, he turned again
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As the rainy season progressed, one by one these operations took place until the animal was stumping around on four shortened legs, biting at its wounds
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done some stumping out front of this store, and them that has have
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what I would have done without this place for stumping!”
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A tall blackbearded figure, bent on a stick, stumping round the corner of
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“Enough for the taxes,” he answered and, stumping over to the fireplace, he leaned
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As the band struck up a brisk canario, Josefina came stumping up to protest, “But, Melodía, why aren’t you wearing a mask?”
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At the edge of the carnival midway, stumping the grass with their dead feet, Jim and Will paced friends who constantly retold the wondrous uses of darning-needle dragonflies
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Also remove any old tree stumps which you may have around as this may become host for the termites
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staking them out with cricket stumps,
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Then I notice that not only were both his legs horribly scarred with purple and red, burned tissue, but both his feet were missing, his shins just tapered into ragged, pointed stumps
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and exposed stumps of timber
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'Did you see the blackened tree stumps on your way up the mountain?'
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Look for breaks in the current such as stumps or logs; these are often the areas where you’ll find trout hovering in schools
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The institution was now up to thirty eight floors above these lumpy stumps, a single compound tree nearly four hundred feet high and the tallest structure before Eleknane center
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Stumps were common here and surrounded by brightly colored, slowly-breathing mushrooms
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gonna put him in there nice and slow, stumps first, so he can feel it
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It was already up on the trucks, huge pieces of wood themselves, carved out of selected stumps with roller-rings three feet across and a four foot yoke that was overhung by the log at the front
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The poor guy hit off his stumps at about three feet
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snapped - as if it were a sin not to have stumps instead of
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For when I looked the corpse of Dawson had risen onto its stumps and was dragging itself towards me with its arms wide open as though it wanted a hug
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All that was left was the stumps or shattered trunks of the trees leaving an eerie looking landscape that did not look very inviting
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There was blood on his shirt and gore from his lost arm and the earth where his stumps lay was soaked in blood I looked at his face which was also blackened and scorched but which otherwise wasn’t so bad
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The three bearded men who were the heads of the families sat smoking pipes with pints of cider, sitting on stumps beside their chairs
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“We have to look at maps of all the houses in the city and hope to find her name? Lokdon, there are a million people in Stumps
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“General Lakecrest,” he named the base commander for Fort Urgot, outside of Stumps
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“If you do not cease your manipulations—” she looked at Hollowcrest, “—and drop your assassination plans—” a look at Arbitan and Larocka, “—I will flood Stumps with this fake currency, and I will continue to make more until the entire monetary system of the empire is devalued
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The white snow covered everything--trees, stumps, roads, and
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“Her front teeth were all broken and her lips ripped apart on the stumps
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He rubbed, but nothing happened: they were as dead to this world as wooden stumps
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Trees had sprung up in many places, and except that wood was in short supply in Anahuac (many tree stumps dotted the area), I suspect the site would be a forest now
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They apparently used the slash-and-burn technique to clear the forest, as some of the clearings were still full of charred tree stumps
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wispy feather like trees with fat stumps that ascended into almost a fine point
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The great chief stood up on his gnarled stumps and clapped his
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His mom gave him the stumps
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He was out when he let the ball hit the stumps
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enormously swollen stumps at the end of thin arms, his feet
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Most fallen limbs and stumps proved wet and rotten, but he got decent firewood by cutting dead boughs still attached to trees
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The slopes of the valley were hewn with roughly-cut tree stumps, the timber from which was now employed deep within the mine shafts that lay beyond
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He would marvel at your health, your teeth, your longevity - his life expectancy was 30 years, his teeth were rotten stumps and people died all around him from disease and hunger
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half an acre of prairie grass and tree stumps by the end of a day
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On top of the hill, the grass withered and only dead tree stumps remain as silent witness to ancient horror
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„Empty house on wooden stumps, more than shouting distance from other houses
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Some of the stumps have sagged, but it"s sound
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They all cast a last look at the stumps of the river guardian’s white wings as if wondering what could have been
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When the last sounds of activity had died they ventured forth and, keeping to the fence-line, made their way to the Principal"s house, an old Queenslander on high stumps, accessed through a gate in the corner of the tennis court enclosure
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mouth, where a few jagged stumps of what were once teeth lay in wait
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There were cropped ears, slit noses, gaping eye-sockets, stumps of wrists—marks of the hangman as well as scars of battle
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I smelled deer and wolf, even bears and warned him away from the big brown beast that was busily uprooting tree stumps in search of grubs
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Taking her wrist like a truant schoolgirl, he led her around the hideous stumps that still looped and knotted on the floor
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Only the stumps of broken columns rose above crumbling walls and broken paves and shattered dome
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Once more the heavy machine gun rattled out its bullets into the heart of the wood where the soldiers cowered behind tree stumps and fallen trees
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The driver squinted as he eased along looking for landmarks while trying to avoid the steel hard lighter knots and stumps
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Huge charred tree stumps covered with swathes of ash over a sandy, desert floor surrounded the unseeing President
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Protruding from below the water line, the ruins had been reduced to stumps of concrete, topped with twisted branches of tangled, rusted steel from the upper floors
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The group sat on wooden stumps arranged in a circle on the earth floor of the Big House
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Out of it she took a bronze ring ten inches in diameter, and went over to one of the stumps that have been placed in the center of the field the previous night
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Its body was covered with rough hair, plagued with small ticks, and the skin was hardened with the scales of a remora fish, but unlike the priest’s description, its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man, for its hands were tense and agile, its eyes large and gloomy, and on its shoulder blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodsman’s ax
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For all I knew, he was blasting tree stumps or something
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That was a multi-headed beast fought by Heracles, who finally killed it by burning the stumps of the severed heads with a torch
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Monty watched Syd operating a battery driven machine resembling a backhoe, digging out the stumps of the trees they had felled along the river bank
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Fabricana kicks one of the stumps, says to me,
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She walks me around the chain-sawed stumps
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that evening, he should cautiously defend his wicket until stumps
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stumps as he took guard
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stumps near his position
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he swam out toward one of the busted stumps
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“The funny thing about pain,” Sledge said removing the chair’s remaining stumps from the back of his legs, “is that it’s only temporary
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The killer swung both stumps at his opponent’s head
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of a hand, both hands, a leg or both legs, the stumps being
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The house was perched on wooden stumps and steps from the veranda led to the undercroft below
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The stumps gave ample headroom and created a space where things could be stored
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The thrones had disappeared, but the gods and goddesses sat on tree stumps in the clearing in the same formation in which they had gathered at the hall on Mount Olympus
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All of the gods sat around them on their stumps, waiting
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The tree stumps had returned to elaborate thrones, and all of the gods were seated on them, except for Than, who held her in his arms
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All around them were sparse gum-trees interspersed heavily with freshly cut stumps and the dead-grey boughs of their ring-barked kin
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The horse slowed, picking his way along the narrow dirt track that skirted around rocks, stumps and trees until it came to a stream
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Four of the trees had foot high sections of their trunks disintegrate into vacant space due to the force of impact of the stones, and for a second the severed trees appeared to hang in space above the blasted stumps before the force of gravity caused them to drop straight downward
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stumps of brownish teeth that were cleaned only now and then
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with wood saws and the remaining stumps would be sharpened
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There will always be natural rocks and stumps and
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The question stumps me for a moment
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gentle hills, stumps of mountains long worn down by the
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was 30 years, his teeth were rotten stumps and people died all around
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very interesting orchids and native plants in pots and hollow logs and tree stumps, and
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The stumps stand thick round the clearing, the squatter strikes deep with his axe,
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The stumps of three masts, chopped off two feet above the deck, indicated a flooding ship that had been forced to sacrifice its masting
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While I stand there, pondering options, the Unseelie that Dani called “Papa Roach” stumps in, and I shiver with revulsion
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I passed old clear-cuts that were slowly coming back to life, great fields of stumps and roots and small green trees that stood no higher than me, where the trail became untenable in places, difficult to track among the litter of blown-down trees and branches
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I crossed into the Rogue River National Forest and walked beneath tremendous ancient trees before emerging into clear-cuts like those I’d seen a few weeks before, vast open spaces of stumps and tree roots that had been exposed by the logging of the dense forest
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At the bottom of the main street, the stumps of the bridge still stuck up out of the water, and next to them Merthin’ s ferry was crossing the water bearing a cart loaded with tree trunks
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As her thoughts continued to drift, she turned her attention to the island, noting the gnarled remnants of tree stumps, gray and salt-coated, their roots twisting like frayed yarn on a loosely twined ball
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He cut more hay, dug more ditches, dynamited more stumps, and spread more hot, black asphalt on Highway 101
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Charlie led Joe among the stumps and downed trees, teaching him how to understand what lay beneath the bark of the fallen logs
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But they seldom mentioned that around the Puget Sound acreage generally came with stumps—hundreds of stumps per acre—each of which had to be pulled or dug or dynamited out of the earth; nor did they mention that the underlying soil was glacial till, hard-packed clay interlaced with stones; nor that the climate was cool and gray, not suited for growing the kinds of crops that had long sustained the people of the American Midwest
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” Ralph lifted the cup in his left hand, showing the stumps of his three severed fingers
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Ralph also wore a mitten on his left hand, to conceal the tell-tale stumps of his three missing fingers
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'Stir your stumps, Toad, and look lively! We've got your house back for you, and you don't offer us so much as a sandwich
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Going along the narrow path to a little uncut meadow covered on one side with thick clumps of brilliant heart’s-ease among which stood up here and there tall, dark green tufts of hellebore, Levin settled his guests in the dense, cool shade of the young aspens on a bench and some stumps purposely put there for visitors to the bee house who might be afraid of the bees, and he went off himself
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Scarlett would have liked that title too, but it involved touching men crawling with lice, running fingers down throats of unconscious patients to see if they were choking on swallowed tobacco quids, bandaging stumps and picking maggots out of festering flesh
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Every now and then, after he’s sat still with his ear cocked listening for her, he jumps up suddenly and stumps out of the house and down to the burying ground
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The wine was delivered by the case, and the only time that Joel and I ever got into serious trouble was when I decided that three of the bottles would make excellent stumps while Joel tried to educate me in rules of indoor cricket during a rainstorm
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And gross black bellybutton stumps
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The lake is full of fish, and you’ll find some other rogues camped down by the stumps
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” The door closed with a solid thump behind her, before Dunk could even think to ask where he might find these stumps
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Only a ring of white stumps and a tangle of bone-pale roots remained to show where the trees had stood, when the children of the forest ruled in Westeros
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When I’d hold up the bloody stumps, she’d sigh and turn to her secret mental notebook on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings