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1. Then they zig zagged the wire twelve feet in front and twelve feet behind to ground level using more angle irons the hammers we used and the tops of the pickets were muffled with rags to stop any noise
2. (Inipi) ceremony in Zig Zag Oregon
3. As I zig zagged both of us through the inferno, I forced myself to
4. imagine a guy screaming at the top of his lungs, dashing in a zig
5. That’s what I call “Barney Zig Sales Training
6. These stones appeared to be in a zig zag line
7. Zig Ziglar and Tom Hopkins are good writers to start with
8. Zig was one of the great ones
9. front of their headlights in a zig zag pattern as they pulled
10. Commodities tend to zig when the equity markets zag
11. “We can’t zig and zag around the moons of Delefad indefinitely, and when we’re back out in open space they’ll easily catch us
12. That is why Zig Zigglar once said, “There is plenty of room at the top”
13. "To answer your question, Zig — sorry, by the way
14. " Zig pronounced hard as haaard
15. "I know you and me haven't talked much,” Zig said, “More acquaintances than friends, as sorry as that sounds
16. “Now,” Zig went on, “you probably don't know this about me, Silas, but I'm not from New York
17. "Oh?" Silas didn't give a mite where Zig was from, but he didn't say so
18. “Thanks for asking,” Zig said wryly
19. Zig cleared his throat, settling into his perch for some marathon jabbering
20. " Zig gesture, as if the bodies were strewn all across the forest around them
21. "That's probably so," Zig said, nodding, "But we’re getting off my point
22. “I'm sorry, Zig
23. Zig stretched his wings out, encompassing everything he said
24. "Zig, that's terrible
25. “Just remember,” Zig said
26. The nerve of Zig, taking his time like that, then telling him, Silas, he was the one wasting time! Silas spread his wings, the underside of his wings skimming the forest floor; then he got lift, gaining altitude
27. Zig Chickadee had just told him about a homicidal beaver that destroyed his life in Maine
28. Silas wished he could have told Zig Chickadee that years ago, before he had lost everything to not taking action
29. Mind you, if it was you may well have laid him flat in mid zig or mid zag
30. Her eyebrows were doing a weird zig, the same way Helen’s did when she was upset
31. He and Zig had been best friends as cubs in the city room of the World-Telegram, where the bulk of the table had met
32. Like many a drunk, Zig was a lot of fun, right up to the point when he wasn’t
33. Instead of resigning to protest “the whole canard of journalistic objectivity,” as he liked to claim, Zig had been fired for fabricating stories, and some combination of that secret and a subsequent fistfight in which he’d broken Richard’s nose had caused the rift between them
34. ” Zig show, of a permanent shift to a symbolic economy, or a service economy—an economy based on anything other than measurable human production—but this struck Keith as the worst kind of eggheadery
35. That’s the year you two fell out, isn’t it?” It was odd: Richard had believed that his break with Zig Zigler, like its cause, was a secret
36. ” Zig Zigler, who when he wasn’t filling the airwaves with the depredations of the business class was now ranting about virgin sacrifice and the monsters in the Park
37. ” Zig was drinking again, it seemed
38. ” Zig now: it reminded him that he was comparatively sane
39. ” Zig in the shower
40. ” Zig Zigler never tired of pointing out) she’d crossed paths with a random mugger—he’d stopped buying it a while ago
41. ” Zig Zigler had been ranting about riots in the street, or their absence, and though Jenny knew first-hand the futility of civil disobedience, his weird case in point for low-probability events (why throw a banana at a wall?) seemed eloquently to evoke the odds of her ever being other than alone
42. ” Zig Zigler had been hectoring his listeners to reclaim their city, but to no effect—until today
43. Well, Richard and Zig Zigler
44. jeremiads Zig delivered with the same brio he’d brought to the poker table
45. But then again, what good had Zig done? His manic kibitzing about the dying girl and the Just City never ripened into specific demands
46. ” Zig Zigler is staring at a pair of sandhill cranes that have found their way onto the CC local
47. ” Zig Zigler, for reasons even he would have a hard time articulating, is fighting his way back to the cranes at the rear of the car
48. ” Zig this morning
49. But suffice it to say, many hours and blocks later, when I spot a light in the WLRC windows—don’t let anyone tell you Zig doesn’t put your needs first, New York—I’m instantly thinking, burglary
50. ’ Zig tense up
1. The stupid thing held it's burning tail up out of the water as it bounded across the stream screaming and ran zigzag into the night, howling so pitifully
2. For many floors now he'd been laboring up the zigzag stairs that had been planked up to what were once balconies
3. I grabbed my motorbike and started to speed in the direction of Namangan, The bike bumped on the road as many cracks had opened along the asphalt, and I was forced to zigzag around them so as not to fall or fall over
4. At some point during the inevitable zigzag course of our polite conversation, Phyllis learned that I had been a police officer
5. Tears begin to stream down the priest's forehead and zigzag their way between spindly tufts of white hair before dripping on to the stage floor
6. They brought with them a certain discipline and orderliness into his irregular and zigzag living
7. -Lightning Bolts: a jagged or zigzag line that sparkles and/or arcs over
8. Yaw: zigzag motion of a vessel carried off its heading by strong, overtaking seas
9. -Lightning Bolts: a jagged or zigzag line that sparkles and/or arcs over the field of vision; with the
10. The trail led me in a zigzag fashion, the way animals would clamber up
11. I ran with a zigzag movement that apparently confused them and running as I was, turned to look back from time to time to appreciate the distance that separated me from them
12. Nine of us and the dog set out on a zigzag stroll down through the trees to the bottom boundary
13. While the market moves in any direction not along a straight line but along a zigzag, the mutual placement of upper and bottom points of those zigzags permits to plot a line connecting the significant highs (peaks) or the significant lows (troughs) of an appropriate zigzag using technical tools of the computer program (See Figures 4
14. In single file they descended a steep zigzag track into the shadows, arriving ten minutes later at the edge of the clearing where a group of similarly lean and fit men were relaxing on boulders arranged in a circle around a fire
15. reflexes came to her rescue, causing her to zigzag through the
16. stronger side in a zigzag fashion
17. Let's call the police," cried Reed, still pushing the Alliford Bay through a tortuous zigzag course
18. His ability to see in minimal light came in handy as he floated a wide zigzag pattern away from the Odyssey
19. Marlene sported a zigzag part in her hair, tucking the lifeless strands behind her ears
20. Helm, start zigzag course
21. were flickering with zigzag patterns
22. he walked zigzag, in the path of the blind spots
23. The young German did another zigzag and blew air in relief
24. Having discussed in detail that tactic with Jesus last night, Ingrid made a tight turn to follow her leader, then, following the same general direction as him, started to zigzag, crossing repeatedly paths with Jesus but always passing just above him, while he always passed below her
25. With machinegun fire now chasing her, she ran in a zigzag pattern, performing short dashes followed by jumps to the ground and then by a few rolls down in the tall grass to put off the enemy’s aim
26. A zigzag course was the obvious answer, but time and fuel were against them
27. Merging with the enemy fleet, Konovalov’s interceptors multiplied lightning attack passes among the Morg ships, flying in zigzag like madmen while firing
28. The road was zigzag like the archway
29. She made Pegasus zigzag in order to avoid trampling any of the bodies, then urged it on to a fast trot, in a hurry to get away from this spot
30. I guess I got lost in your mesmerizing beauty,” David said with a look of flair, while noticing the zigzag pattern of her black stripes on her red mid-thigh dress
31. “I just wish I could have talked you into that pink and gray zigzag hoodie
32. The three friends plodded on in a zigzag pattern, trying to avoid the cruel dust devils
33. The black zigzag spine of the snake tail continues to the beast's back and contrasts with his golden reptile skin
34. He intended, he said, to go into Sassnitz that afternoon if Charlotte did not appear before then and make inquiries, and meanwhile he would walk a little with me; so we started very gaily down the same zigzag path up which I had crawled dripping a few hours before
35. Safely on land he climbs up a shadeless zigzag path which must be beautiful in June, for the cliffs are thickly covered with wild-rose bushes, and at the top finds himself among the lodging-houses of Lohme
36. to get there, they"d have to zigzag across twenty miles of some of the most rugged terrain in
37. I should’ve had you turn and zigzag the streets earlier
38. This illustrates how civilization represses, suppresses, stifles, denies, our healthy genetic yearnings… and turns them into sick-twisted yearnings… incoherent urges that are stifled and blocked so deeply: they only can surface in convoluted, distorted zigzag paths that destroy the pure intent of our blind healthy instinctive energy trying to get out of us
39. Great slab stairways from the town’s heyday zigzag crazily down the steep sides, forming what had once been a riverside promenade leading to the old square, (where Swithin Bell & Candle once operated) lined with the expected shoppes: an ice cream parlor, an antique store, a florist, the old bank where the local historical society is housed, a quilt shop, and even an old drug store that still has a soda fountain and still sells penny candy
40. Keeping close to the zigzag trail, “He is now running hard,” the Fife said, eyes
41. There were silences that caused wonderings, punishments that were not understood, prohibitions which built up timidities, over a long zigzag trail of unrest and fear through childhood up to maturity
42. " The October sunlight rested upon all these men and women sitting immobile; and little Johnnie Sturgeon took the chance to swing down the staircase, carrying his large mysterious parcel, and so dodging a zigzag course between the wheels he reached the pavement, started to whistle a tune and was soon out of sight--
43. After him freshfound the hue and cry zigzag gallops in hot pursuit of follow my leader: 65 C, 66 C, night watch, John Henry Menton, Wisdom Hely, V
44. Pursuing a zigzag course across the market-place, the child returned to her mother, and communicated what the mariner had said
45. At sixty he commenced a zigzag trek to the front porch, keeping low and to the side, never exposing himself full on to sightlines from the cabin’s front
46. Samantha began a rapid zigzag back to her apartment
47. one-half of the silent crowd, while the other half would move off in long files down the zigzag paths leading to the bottom of the gorge
48. The ingots packed in boxes of stiff ox-hide with plaited handles, small enough to be carried easily by two men, were brought down by the serenos of the mine walking in careful couples along the half-mile or so of steep, zigzag paths to the foot of the mountain
49. The zigzag paths resembled faint tracings scratched on the wall of a cyclopean blockhouse
50. Mahkgrudyr looked back at him for a moment, then nodded, and Sahmyrsyt started the climb up the observation tower’s steep zigzag stairs with his aide at his heels
1. Climbing straight up was rarely feasible so Chris zigzagged the group up, searching out the easiest climb
2. Ahead of her, the route zigzagged but eventually met up with an exterior wall
3. I kept the tumen fairly close together, so progress was slowed as we zigzagged across the valley
4. I just zigzagged across the hall at the sound of the bell
5. This track was steep and it zigzagged its way up the side of the natural ravine, the large flat areas along the track had originally been cut into the black rock face to provide passing points for wagons on route to the town
6. The streets were zigzagged and intersected at random points
7. People were screaming and panicking as the plane dropped and zigzagged for a while until the pilots’ regained control
8. Dave wasn’t completely sure if he should trust Kaibiak, but this was the end of their mission, the reason they had zigzagged all over the Galaxy in the first place
9. With loud beeps, electronic whistles and screams that they released from their zigzagged mouths they argued with each other about the methods they should take
10. morning in casual song as Ingwe zigzagged down the tumble of rocks towards her cub,
11. They zigzagged through the station, out to the platform, and boarded
12. double tracks that zigzagged across the desert badlands and disappeared over the
13. Our shoes barely made a sound on the tile floor as we zigzagged through a few aisles and finally made it to the horizontal window, then stopped to peer around
14. The tunnel leading to the cave was a long winding one that zigzagged back and forth without any passages leading off it
15. He zigzagged, and the shots that followed him
16. It zigzagged around trying to fool me, but I was not a human, limited by just sight and sound
17. Colin zigzagged gamely, trying to rescue the Frisbee before it hit the ground while hearing her call out, “I’m sorry!” Whenever she succeeded in making an accurate throw or catching the Frisbee, she reveled with almost childlike glee
18. The lower part of the face was exposed, and the surgeon saw a jagged cut which zigzagged along the border of the under lip
19. The machine did not go directly to Cloncurry, but zigzagged to and fro across the wastes of Central Australia, depositing
20. She zigzagged across the forecourt, a dozen fast steps to the right, another dozen to the left, pause, and a final two dozen steps to a third set of prints, where she froze, as if it were a land mine
1. I got as close as I could, zigzagging
2. Most often they would then be seen to be falling over themselves or scampering off in a frightened, zigzagging, chaotic getaway, with the shock of a huge and sudden adrenaline release causing them to lose total control of their wits and any semblance of rational behavior
3. We seemed to be zigzagging in the direction of matrimony, the very idea of which rattled my nerves
4. Oxholm and Drumtone traversed the zigzagging tunnels of The Spires
5. "Try zigzagging! Anything but a straight course," shouted Travis
6. Unconsciously, Garnet Reed was zigzagging towards the aerial machine skimming across the water
7. this way and that, zigzagging
8. Townsend could only look on helplessly as a German fighter dived on the frantically zigzagging British helicopter and fired a series of short cannon bursts at it
9. Zigzagging and jerking around crazily to avoid the German bombs, the BARRACUDA still received a direct hit between two of its shrouded propellers
10. The transporter held its course, zigzagging at speed
11. The three Japanese fighter pilots, having never seen that tactic before, assumed that Ingrid and Jesus were just attempting to avoid their fire by zigzagging
12. Doing everything that Ingrid did, he flipped his wings constantly, zigzagging just above the waves with his engine throttle pushed to the maximum
13. She started zigzagging at once to avoid the dense fire but the French pilots were much slower than her to react
14. She and Gifard were following a shallow communication trench zigzagging its way toward the north side of the perimeter when she saw a pair of heads pop up from inside the ruins of a burned down hut, less than fifteen meters away
15. The boat driver, showing nerves of steel, kept coming, zigzagging as well to render the Israeli aiming more difficult
16. cut, this time zigzagging in multiple directions
17. He continued on his way, zigzagging down several side streets before he entered a
18. Zigzagging through the big slabs of rock dotting the room, I threw a glance over my shoulder
19. She had no clue what the enemy intended until she saw that a few of them were laughing and swimming in zigzagging patterns under the boat
20. ” His index finger took on a zigzagging motion, searching for surrounding cities
21. “Thank heavens it’s a stationary tree and not a charging, zigzagging enemy bent on slaughtering us
22. The children walked for more than hour along the main tunnel which ended in a stone wall, then along a shorter off shoot which also came to a dead end, and finally down a long zigzagging passage that seemed familiar but which ended with a solid rock face as well
23. Without thinking Teller dived to his left and puller Brigit behind him up the path which steadily climbed the hill in a random zigzagging fashion
24. A zigzagging of the globe
25. To his right, how could it move so fast? Zigzagging, he did not
26. Jo heard Amy panting after her run, stamping her feet and blowing on her fingers as she tried to put her skates on, but Jo never turned and went slowly zigzagging down the river, taking a bitter, unhappy sort of satisfaction in her sister's troubles
27. The Griever rolled and clicked its way closer, zigzagging back and forth, moaning and whirring
28. Bursting through a gap at the intersection, still he pressed on, zigzagging around cars and using the bike lane when necessary
29. They left the cave and were soon zigzagging along the trails
30. The Abby Hotel was a peach-colored six-story Victorian building with white trim, a brown awning over the entrance, and a fire escape zigzagging up the front of the building
31. She had run from the cover of the administration building, zigzagging in a crouch toward the tower
32. A cold snap so early usually meant one of those zigzagging winters that saw everyone buried under snow one minute and going about without coats by Christmas, only to catch pneumonia at New Year
33. They watch with particular interest the flight of the extremely soft paper from the upper gallery, and take pleasure in watching its zigzagging journey down to the very stalls, where it infallibly settles on some head which is quite unprepared to receive it
1. She moved in zigzags, which did confound the beasts somewhat as they followed her
2. While the market moves in any direction not along a straight line but along a zigzag, the mutual placement of upper and bottom points of those zigzags permits to plot a line connecting the significant highs (peaks) or the significant lows (troughs) of an appropriate zigzag using technical tools of the computer program (See Figures 4
3. Joey looked at her and found that she was wearing a long, dark blue tunic with red hems and green zigzags all over, along with papery brown trousers
4. and another left, following the only street which zigzags up the hill
5. Amy zigzags through the flares that are falling down on the road
6. He tried to catch it, but the mouse ran to and fro in zigzags without leaving the bed, slipped between his fingers, ran over his hand and suddenly darted under the pillow
7. He glanced at the cloud of mayflies that were dancing their joyful zigzags near His skull
8. Petrified shrubs rambled here and there in sprawling zigzags
9. I saw only animal tracks—the soft zigzags of rabbits or the scampering triangles of what I supposed were porcupines or raccoons
10. He walks, runs, zigzags, gallops, lugs laid back
11. From where we sat, I could see the Pacific Wheel, the Carousel Building, and the red awnings over a paved walkway that zigzags down toward the pier and water
12. catch it, but the mouse ran to and fro in zigzags without leaving the bed, slipped between his fingers, ran over his hand and suddenly darted under the pillow
13. The colors were swirled all around, but I could have sworn I recognized our father’s face in the deep green, purple, and black shapes with striking white zigzags Harry was throwing onto the canvas
14. It rolled out of his pocket and over the blanket, where it pushed itself about in zigzags
15. CHAPTER I—THE ZIGZAGS OF
16. By the beaten paths, which indulge in a thousand teasing zigzags, it required a good quarter of an hour
17. He was wearing a coarse and patched coat, and was walking in zigzags, grumbling and swearing to himself
18. His fingers fumbled helplessly, and to complete his shame a green note escaped from the pocket-book, and fluttered in zigzags on to the carpet
19. A considerable part of the old painting is preserved; some of the ribs are painted with zigzags
