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...h cases has engaged her attention “Having landed on the island, she proceeded to the nearby shelter, where other passengers were seen moving in. Some sat on the benches, while the other few were sitting on the grassy patch of land around the structure. She chose to stroll there. As if from nowhere, a man was seen moving in her direction.” ………………. Back at their home, Ma...

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...d. ……… Having been frustrated by his former son-in-law's refusal to talk to him, Mr. Mahajan felt very sick and took an over-dose of whisky and sat down staring at Roshani. She felt scared and immediately gave him a hug and almost dragged him to bed. Inwardly she had no sympathy for him on this account, because she had already advised him not to see Manmeet keeping i...

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...c Pops Concert at the outdoor amphitheater in Scottsdale. Free .. but donations to the City Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Irving Fleming. Spectators sat on the grass, eating and drinking, musicians to the chapel. Hip, Hip! Hip, Hip! Hip, Hip! From the program: (God Bless America (he sings in unison) National Anthem (Smith / Buck) everyone raised toe, I sat that jerk dow...

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... just took off the stove. I remember realizing, after about thirty seconds, how much my foot hurt from a heavy pan being dropped right on it.” Rick sat in his chair, his mouth still gaping open after finishing his story. ...

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..."I hope you slept well." Harris looked up, it was Peters who was just putting a cup of coffee down in the table. Peters pulled out a chair and sat down. "I suppose you want some serious explanations today." said Peters. Harris deliberately took this time spreading the marmalade on his Mallory bread, he cut a small piece off and slowly eat it. Peters was patent an...

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...ds what looked like an important shopping centre. His feet were sore, his enthusiasm for adventure gone. Near exhaustion—both physical and mental, he sat on a bench under a couple of small trees near a drinking fountain and ate his biscuits. After a long drink of water he gazed around. Behind him was a sex shop advertising twenty-four hour videos, massage and a sauna. He f...

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...nto the sun filled garden. As usual a zillion thoughts jostled aside all attempts to attain a state of Zen-like relaxation. With an impatient sigh he sat up, dusted a few crumbs from the divan, rearranged the pillows then lay back with his hands at his side. Yogic breathing—that would do the trick. He managed to hold his mind still for at least three seconds before a large...

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... no one yet waiting. The afternoon sun was blazing the street, but fortunately the entrance was on the shady side. He heaved a sigh of relief and sat on the cool stone steps. He knew he was meeting someone here but the heat and his walk through the busy dusty streets had muddled up his mind and memory. He hoped that some rest in the shade would bring him back to hi...

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...ld wake her up, but she had not responded. In all of their meetings, she sat there and listened, answering mostly “yes” or “no.” She would work la... ...” he said cynically. He put the package down on her desk and left. Jay sat back in her chair, holding her chest, so the excitement wouldn’t spill ... ...ey chuckled and went over to Janet, Mark’s secretary, gave her a kiss and sat down to chat with her. Janet had been the chief editor’s secretary for... ...closed her eyes, trying to bring back that feeling of being loved. Jay sat in her office and watched a show from England, featuring Katherine John... ...s. She continued to draw Katharine Johnson talking about sadness. Jay sat in the hotel lobby, anxiously waiting for the press conference with Kat... ...ll sold brilliantly, be they newspapers, magazines or TV shows. Jay Banks sat in the hotel lobby and wasn’t sure if this was her “once in a lifetime”... ...portunity or maybe she should just run away as fast as she could. She had sat for three weeks with a list of questions. She had researched and chec... ...it was to thank Death. “What do you like doing?” asked Katherine as she sat on a grassy slope in the park and continued touching her body with her... ... the calories, close your eyes and tell me what you see?” Jay stopped and sat down on a bench. She slowly licked the ice cream and a wonderful tast...

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...is, “maybe somthing is rong with her, and it is hard for you to axept it” mom sat on the cher. she looked very sad. “Richard, somthing is defently r... ...os. The room was fool of lait and colorfool pilows and matching kertens. she sat on the carpet berfoot and her purple skert tached her legs gentli... .... evry person I met ignored me and talked to my mom and she ignored my mom and sat on the carpet. “I’m gesing you didn’t want to come today” she sed... ...n.” She sed and kept drowing flaooers on the kerly lain. I looked at mom, she sat there, lisening to us and smailing. I cood see in her eyes that s... ... mast sort the cards egein and egein?” “and?” I asked her. mom ceim closer and sat next to us on the carpet. “you find more pers when the cards stei... ... energy’.” I told mom and I cood see she was hapy to hir it. The day after, I sat in clas traying to disaid who was a streit lain and who was a ker... ...in clas traying to disaid who was a streit lain and who was a kerly lain. Peny sat in her cher with her cartoons and I cood imagen her on this lain ... ...ooked laik she espeshily clined it for us. She held the report in her hand and sat on the carpet egein. “Cam, sit hir, I want to sho you my concloog... ...the carpet egein. “Cam, sit hir, I want to sho you my concloogens” she sed and sat down with her legs folded. She had soft long heir and she looked ...

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... “Claire, did he hurt you?” “No,” I whispered. “I’ll be fine. I think.” I sat down on the bed and unpinned my hat. “My dress is ruined, though. ... ...t.” I could see there was no arguing with him, so I didn’t even try. I just sat there fiddling with the torn bodice of my dress, willing the fabric ... ...is. As you will.” I closed the door behind my cousin and locked it. I then sat on the bed and allowed my fear to show. I cried great, racking sobs... ...ak my pillow. It was thus that Erik found me when he returned. At first he sat down next to me, his weight causing the bed frame to creak. He strok... ...t for me to lace, Claire.” I did as he asked and he laced me up expertly. I sat down on a stool to don the stockings and slippers, but Erik knelt be... ...t we might clean our hands. While I did so, he went to the piano, where he sat down and played an air that was unfamiliar to me. I joined him at th... ... any way they can.” “But what about you, Erik?” I stepped into the boat and sat down to face him as he poled away from the dock. “You will just have ... ...er whilst unbuttoning my blouse. “Let me pleasure you again tonight.” 29 I sat down on the bed’s edge to remove my boots. Erik joined me, a trail o... ...iding slowly down its length until our bodies were completely connected. I sat erect, my hands tracing patterns on his flat-muscled belly while my ...

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...idge of his nose and gunned the engine. ***** Three blocks down, Julia sat in her car with her eyes closed and forehead against the steering wh... ... 13 Chapter Two This was a bad idea. Julia sat in silence beside Cade in front of his parents’ house. The very scen... ...quainted with most of the Taylor girls, including fifteen-year-old Carly who sat in sullen silence, her hair teased and died an outrageous burgundy a... ...l come by here again around five o’clock, okay?” “Sure.” Julia nodded and sat behind her desk. She pulled her glasses back to her nose and began ... ... “Ice Queen,” she muttered, moving farther away from him. “Excuse me?” He sat up and propped his elbows on his knees. “It’s just a thing,” she s... ... 27 plates and champagne glasses littered the tables. Cade sat alone with his back to the wall. His parents danced cheek-to-cheek o... ...danced cheek-to-cheek on the outskirts of a packed dance floor. His sisters sat with cousins giggling and laughing, Josie sat with his grandmother e... ...before she gathered her courage to come over to his table. All night she’d sat in the darkest corner of the library listening to him work. After a ... ...ook another week before she got the nerve to act on it. Now she practically sat on a table — a very large, wide, sturdy table — with Cade less than ...

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...price western meal at the airport. I guarantee it." He left the taxi and sat down meditating on the river flowing at a distance. Soon the anger dis... ... to sit down near this opposing peer. Jatupon crept near it and gradually sat on a mat. A minute later, after not being eaten, his confidence grew an... ... Kazem took a shower. The subject of his departure was forgotten. Kumpee sat on his case for a half hour eating his durian. Then when there seemed ... ...o a woman sitting within the park on a sheet on top of a grassy knoll. He sat on the sheet in front of her and before the spread of fortune telling c... ...om his new and more uncomfortable seat, which often lost its cushion as he sat there, he looked out of the window and tried to beat back the inferno o... ...lated to them by blood? He began to stare at the driver and a boy who sat near the front window in a padded hump that went over the gearshift. I... ... plastic red container of ice and water was on this pedestal where the boy sat and from it a straw stuck out of the lid and he drank and ate fish chip... ...lvation of compassion would not be forthcoming. This benign pastel family sat together on the slab of cement under the overpass while over them, on ... ...He swam to the opposite side of the pool and said hello to a foreigner who sat on a rock letting the force of the fall hit his feet. The foreigner ig...

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...hat has nothing to do with this." It has everything to do with it. Therese sat up now and glared at him, surprised when he didn't spontaneously combus... ...aught her breath, closed her eyes two seconds before he ended the kiss and sat back to stare at her, fingers playing in her hair. "It means..." If he ... ...self at her feet and whined in commiseration. She didn't know how long she sat there crying like a big baby and a woe-is-me-feeling-sorry-for-herself ... ... well," he said finally, releasing her hands as he dismounted her. Therese sat up, exaggeratedly rubbed her wrists for good measure and had a tiny fla... ...ieved that he had recovered from his earlier encounter with Genie-man. She sat up and tapped the mattress beside her. "C'mere boy..." The Rott popped ... ...use her emotions exactly mirrored his and he resented that this was so. He sat across from her now—actually at the opposite end of the long mahogany d... ...he putty cotton-twill sofa, Marsh stationing himself at her feet as Darius sat in the matching loveseat adjacent and leaned over the arm towards his g... ...long-lashed honey eyes, felt his curiosity. But instead of rushing her, he sat silently, waiting for her to come to a decision. One she wasn't even aw... ... right?" "What happened to me?" She gritted her teeth, closed her eyes and sat up against the sofa's camel back, feet firmly planted against the Persi...

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...k like, visit www.classheroes.com Prologue Sunday 12 June Samantha Blake sat up in her hospital bed. She tried to read the article about her... ...sister needed him and she, too, always seemed to know when he needed her. James sat up, removed his hat and ran a hand through his fair hair. James... ...y in her seat and behave. Which, temporarily and reluctantly, she did. Mr Stark sat back down next to Mrs Cutts, the PE teacher, and muttered somet... ...earby rooftop, with a grandstand view of the suffering and devastation, the girl sat filming the event below using her mobile phone. She smiled as s... ...we were on the coach, was it a bomb? What about Nina? Where’s Nina?” Her father sat down in the chair next to her. “Yes, sweetheart. There was a ca... .... Her father looked at her mother and then nodded. “He’s been in to see you. He sat with you yesterday, reading his guitar magazine out to you unti... ...oor Philip. James wondered if he could hear the furore around his bed. James had sat by Philip’s bed yesterday and tried talking to him, to see if h... ...undoubtedly the hero – or, more likely, heroes – had saved many lives. Samantha sat lost in thought. What did it mean? Should she tell anyone about... ...in the freedom of the skies. 47 Chapter 5 – Press Conference Jasmin Sharma sat in the hospital restaurant on the tenth floor, worried that her...

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...her, Doctor Arthur Forsythe, and all the mourners had left the Grange, except Sir Terence. Helen sat in the bay window seat, the skirt of her black ... ...to the mouth of the corpse to signify the passing of its soul. Finally he set the pyre alight and sat quietly watching the cremation. ‘This is one ... ... family,’ said Lady Agnes. Audrey Blankenhagen 38 Agnes pointed to another pyre where a woman sat some distance away from the preparations for c... ...ir one hundred times, a task she seldom missed, and then retired to her own suite of rooms, Helen sat for a while in the window seat of her bedroom,... ... inscribed in Persian script. There was a stone bench at one end, presumably where the prince had sat to contemplate his love’s resting place. Helen... ...rth and pulled the Audrey Blankenhagen 68 stirrup irons down before mounting lightly. Then she sat quietly in the saddle for a moment, before app... ...Helen, her hand resting lightly on Gavin’s arm, walked to the foot of the dais on which the Nawab sat cross-legged on the cushions of a magnificent ... ...r, the guests were asked to retire to the adjoining room, once again Moghul in its decor and they sat on low, cushioned divans placed around the roo... ... silent and furtive. Helen recognised Isabel de Silva. Helen gasped and staggered backwards. She sat down heavily on the edge of the bed and hid he...

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...am so sweaty!” Alex groaned. “My clothes are filled with sand and my back is aching.” She sat up and tried to stretch a little. “This has been one cr... ...and find their way into your un- derclothes,” she retorted. “Already done,” he said as he sat down. “Have I mentioned how much I hate Dustimaine?” ... ... as their water supplies dwindled. They had not meant to stay out so long. Finally, Alex sat down, exhausted. Her mood had darkened and she had grow... ...mysterious chest was freed from its long- hidden, desert-resting place. They fell back and sat in the sand, both staring dumb- founded at what they ha... ...hest so we have some things to study while we leave the rest with them,” Mitch said as he sat down again and made as accurate a copy as possible of ... ...e we’re right?” “Don’t get your hopes up, Alex,” Mitch said. “Too late!” she said as she sat down again. “We found that chest close enough to the S... ...y not have any favors left. We didn’t believe it ourselves at first. How could we?” Alex sat down, “Are you saying this is extra-terrestrial in orig... ...ing her. She felt her system going into shock. yyyyy Axiana awoke with a start, and sat straight up. She was covered in a cold sweat and was s... ... the Sands 49 Odai had the male lion, Amsara, with him. The lion was on a leash, and sat calmly by observing the crowd while his friend and car...

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...parity between dark and fair. Thus he fell in love and made her his only world. This woman sat by his side, adjacent to his azure pushcart, day in ... ...ders with a knitted woollen shawl. He tightened it, and then, her shivering hand in his, he sat his love among some cushions he prepared. She glance... ...ong the white curls on his denuded chest. My grandma concealed him in a tattered afghan and sat beside him, fingering a bracelet helplessly. One of ... ...They all eyed my father, the oldest and most experienced among them. But he kept mum. They sat there for a while. My father tore apart the shutters ... ...n't pierce the stubborn rainfall that swathed my windowpanes. Arrayed in heavy overcoat, I sat, a patchwork quilt of light and shade. Or fully dres... ...ry rags. All lights were on, tarring the wiry tree in the garden with juddering shadows. I sat in the corner, thinking about Sima, wondering if her... ...n uncertain hand and touched his shoulder. He shrank under her stroke, so she withdrew and sat up, tense, straddling the edge of a recliner. Thus, ... ...most of those present. Once I visited that warehouse of weathered books he called his home, sat on his monkish bed, played the effaced keys of his b... ...ory were all but forgotten. Return Redemption by Sam Vaknin My grandfather sat on a divan, back stiff and eyes tight-shut, when the...