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...nerations.” He doesn’t talk, he lectures. “Back to our little business.” He ruffles through the assorted documents in the file. One of them s... ... “Well, go on, I haven’t got all day!” A sudden gust from the ventilation shaft ruffles the pages of a wall calendar behind his chair. July 19, ... ...e agents Lavon and Kennan from Israel.” “Agents?” Bauer twisted uneasily and ruffled through some papers on his desk. There was a long, incre...

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...sh, but someone not of the furry canine variety." Therese squatted down to ruffle the dog's coat, cupped his face between her hands and gave him a pec... ...ys! How was the parade?" Therese bent to hug her niece and reached over to ruffle her nephew's short curly fade. "Wet." Bari scoffed. "For the wet bla... ... night." Jamilah mimicked her sister-in-law, yawning and stretching as she ruffled each of her children's hair. Therese helped Kane clear off the tabl...

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...door behind him. I contemplate the wooden planks that stand between me and the hallway and ruffle the pages of my book. When I rise to fill my cup ...

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...g to do with you? You’re as hopeless a cause as any other I’ve seen.” She ruffled her fingers through his hair and kissed him soundly. Daniel... ..., Daniel’s eyes widened when he saw her bosom barely contained by the deep, ruffled neckline of the gown she had insisted Morgan wear. Daniel bl... ...e my nerve.” She bolted upright, shaking her skirt smooth and smashing the ruffles flat against her breasts, hiding what she had so charmingly disp... ... heart and rested there. Lightly, so she wouldn’t wake him, she traced the ruffles of gold in his hair, swirling a shiny tendril from his cheek wit... ...that trimmed the scalloped swags over the bustle, and a final fillip to the ruffles on the sleeves. Amazed at the vision she saw in the mirror, Morg... ... back and studied him warily. In a dress all fluttery with daffodil yellow ruffles, she looked like an enormous butterfly hovering around him. Ros... ...vation to master sounds and spoken words.” “But you don’t agree.” Daniel ruffled his fingers through Ronan’s bright curls. “You heard Lydia. He ... ...he stones of the hearth. Her hand slipped under his dressing gown, and she ruffled her fingers through his crinkly hair on his chest. Daniel clea...

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...ly what needs to be done to limit our population and improve our world will ruffle a lot of religious feathers and trample the ingrained traditions ...

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...pacing the ceiling if a homicidal Vampire dropped in for a visit and a panty ruffle at bedtime. Not me, but then again I never claimed to be anythin... ...’d hate to think my jilting him had permanently damaged his fragile ego. He ruffled his hair and scanned the crowd. “If I had to hazard a guess, I’...

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...dragging. Will the war never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for a day and a night. Then, stabbing us, came clarity, an... ... in scarlet, the very velvet of confidence—the robe quite long, ruffs and ruffles fresh, the jewels paying their worth: she walks, our Queen walks: ...

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...nsation because it hit the world press. But she was just one reporter who ruffled one or two corrupted feathers, but there are lots of trees full of ... ... —―Sorry Ray, but to try to get to what I think is the truth I will ruffle some feathers, just as you often do when converting people. You kno...

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...escape me I may repent hereafter? Doe I startle and quake? Doe I rage and ruffle with anger? For to tell thee true, these are the right signes of cho...

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...’s a word that people uses for — for — well, it’s ornamental. They don’t put ruffles on a shirt to keep a person warm, do they?” “Course they don’t.” ... ...es.” “ All right, then; that letter I wrote is a shirt, and the welkin’s the ruffle on it.” I judged that that would gravel Jim, and it did. “Now, Mar... ... more over, it’s sinful. You knows a letter ain’t no shirt, en dey ain’t no ruffles on it, nuther. Dey ain’t no place to put ‘em on; you can’t put em...

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...se the Holy Alliance to which it owes its independence. Our part is not to ruffle foreign courts; there are many foreigners here, Russians and English... ...ible girl; we have some little secrets between us, and I may tell you what ruffles my mind. Some difficulties have arisen since 1830 between the villa...

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...t, the interval of a round white arm that ap- peared between her glove and ruffle, the least part of her neck, each object increased the force of all ... ...rom Geneva was yet wearable, she only added a hat and some linen. I had no ruffles, nor would she give me any, not but I felt a great inclination for ... ... worn than old, which hung in tatters, a very fine but dirty shirt, frayed ruffles; a pair of splatterdashes so large that he could have put both legs... ...bing, although I recollect it perfectly well. I shall only remark that her ruffles and collar were edged with silk net- work ornamented with rose—colo... ...little box containing a waistcoat, embroi- dered with gold, a few pairs of ruffles, and six pairs of white silk stockings; nothing more. Upon a propos...

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...eton skirts of different shades of pink and cerise, reaching to the knees; ruffled bloomers of apple-green tarleton, the ruffles showing below the ski...

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... of that Till after she was gone— I knew her by the broad white hat, All ruffled, she had on. By the dear ruffles round her feet, By her small hand...

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...maid, yel- low as the parchment of a Parliament record, wrinkled as a lake ruffled by the wind, with gray eyes, large prominent teeth, and the hands o... ...hat they stood alone, and could hide her arms in those wadded sleeves with ruffles, from which the hand comes out like a pistil from a calyx, and coul... ...ht; she smiled to him, she waved her fan; the other hand, issuing from its ruffle of lace, fell white and pure on the heavy folds of her crimson velve...

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...lt con- sumed by a fierce desire to catch the bookseller by the throat, to ruffle the insolent composure of his cravat, to break the gold chain that g... ...in Spain do Alcaldes cling to their enormous sleeves and wear plaited lawn ruffles about the magisterial throat, a good half of an Alcalde’s business ...

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...ne Flanders lace was in terrible holes. Some gallants indeed there were to ruffle it as sprucely as ever, and there were a few who had taken service a... ...chamber, where she sat up in bed, with her best Flanders-lace nightcap and ruffles on, her coral rosary blessed by the Pope, her snuff-box with the Qu...

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...e spiral stairway. The odd- ity of his dress, the magnificence of his lace ruffles, the solid assurance of his deliberate step, led the youth to assum...

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...magnificence of which a queen might have envied, formed a series of yellow ruffles on his breast; but upon him the lace seemed rather a worthless rag ...

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... still with Aunt Margaret. The brown or chocolate-coloured silk gown, with ruffles of the same stuff at the elbow, within which are others of Mechlin ...